The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-09-22

81 OO per ton, with freights to many
New England ports at 90 cents per ton
alongside.
Says the Philadelphia Press: "The
foolish story which was printed in this
city some weeks ago that President
Wilbur, Of the Lehigh Valley, would
resign and would bs succeeded by Mr..
Pattison or Mr.. McLsod. has reap
peared in Wilkes-Barre with the addi-
tional fable that Judge Asa Packers
will will bs contested on the ground
that it creates a perpstuity. This lat
ter story originated in New York.
There is another rumor which has been
circulated for the first time this week
to the effect that legal proceedings will
be begun by Joseph II. Choate, the
great New York lawyer, against Judge
Packers will at the suit of some dis
gtuntled Lehigh Valley stockholders,
who think the executors have no right
to vote the estates stock. All these
stories are absolutely denied by Lshigh
Valley officials who should know the
facts Some Of them are absurd on
their face"
The Lebanon News says: &c W. Nc
Kinney, general uperintendent, II.
Wehrum, engineer, and ALFRED Ernst,
of the Lackawanna Iron and Steel
company, arrived from Scranton Wod-
nesday evening and registered at the
Eagle hotel. David Baker, late super
intendent Of furnaces at Sparrows
Point, Nd, and formerly in the EN-.
ploy of the Pennsylvania steel COM
pany at Steelton, who will have
charge of the furnaces in this city and
Cornwall. also arrived here Wsdnes.
day afternoon and registered at the
Eagle hotel. Thursday morning the
entire party paid visit to Colebrook
furnaces and arrangements were made
to begin the work of rebuilding and en-
larging furnace No. @ which will be
done under the supervision of Mr..
Ernst, who will remain in charge. In
the afternoon Messrs. Mckinney,
Wohrum and Baker left in tho 80
train from Scranton. The work of re-
building and enlarging furnacs No. 2,
will be pushed forward as rapidly as
possible. After its completion the
furnace will be put in blast, which will
give additional employment for Il
number of our people. many of whom
have been out of work for long time. /"
The United States cruisers on duty
in the Bsring sea want anthracite
coal, 1t is announced, and it will be
probable that next year a supply will
be sent them from Philadelphia Coal
that gives no smoke is what they need,
because when soft coal is used the
smoke aseends high in the atmosphere,
and the poaching vessels are enabled
to discern the cruisers position long
before they are sighted by the warships.
Many tests of go called smokeless Goals
have been made on the Pacific coast,
with unsatisfactory results. and Penn.
sylvania hard coal is agreed by the ex-
perts to be the best suited in every
way.
The 700 employees in the American
Manufacturing com Dany's jute mills
at Green Point N. Y. have received
notice from the company that as bag
ging can now be imported from India,
Germany and Scotland, where wages
are 10 cents. 80 cents AMI 45 cents per
day, it may not be possible to continue
the business here. II it is continued it
must be at lower wages A decision
will be reached by Nov /, the COM
pany hopes. and meanwhile present
wages will continue. The mill is the
largest jute bagCing concern in the
country, and nearly all the employees
are women
General Manager Henderson, Of the
Reading Coal and Iron company, ridi.
cules the report that the Lackawanna,
Jersey Central and the Delaware and
Hudson companies are com bining
against the Reading in the anthracite
coal trade. Discussing the matter with
q representative of the Philadelphia
Stakeholder, he said: "A combination
of the three companies named is not re-
quired to injure the Reading; any one
Of them could be as effective Us all
three. Even the L9hiSh Valley could
seriously ipjure us All that is neces-
slry would be cut in prices in our
territory. If the Lehigh Valley. for ex
ample. offered its coal here in Phila-
delphia % cents a ton below our fig
ures what would be the result2 Would
our customers continue to pay US the
higher figure? Certainly not. We
would have to meet the cut or lose the
trade. A combination against us,
therefore. is unnecessary. But no
such combination exists, nor has it
been contemplated. The whole trouble
is in the matter of production. Each
OF US wants TO get all the business we
can, yet all of us know it is dangerous
to let the supply exceed the de-
mand. So long as present con-
ditions exist we cannot restrict
the output to the allotments de.
cided upon from month to month.
Why? Simply because the companies
which originally agreed to the percent
age of output are trying to retain that
percentage. The result is, that instead
Of the total percentage being 100, it is
from 800 to 1870, because five or six ne W
companies are now in the field, and
their output usually represents the ok
cess above the monthly allotments. If
percentages could be satisfactorily re-
adjusted it is possible restriction could
be followed more closely, and the mar
ket would naturally be benefited. .
Aye, there's the rub.
Here is another economy that robs
the steel rail industry to certain ex-
tent: Steel rails wear out pretty even
ly in railroad use, and the best OF the
WORKOUT rails are selected for the pur-
pose of constructing bridges. The
spans of the bridge are made to con
form to the length Of the rails used,
and can be spliced If required to be
done. Many old rails can be utilized in
this way. with the effect Of reducing
very materially the cost of bridge con
struction. as 1t is cheaper to use up the
old material in this way than to pur-
chase entire new material, with the
price obtained for old rails Besides
which, it is said, the steel rail bridges
are very streng and durable.