New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-05-20
EFFECTS OF THE FUEL FAMINE.
THE NETWORK CENTRAL nORRows ANTHRA
CITE LOCOMOTIVES IRON AND STEEL
PRODUCING INDUSTRIES ALMOST
PARArYZED

PARAI.NIbD
RuraIo y Y Nav ls-Wl;h every day that the
strike in the s)ft-coal regions continues the siiuA-
ton becomes gravtr. Should {, continue another
month the suffering among the non-combainn's
will be fully as great among those actively on
strike. The only coal which reaches here now u
from a few small mines In the Reynolisv'he as
tric,. which have managed 10 keep running on short
time In this district the miners are not well or
ganIyed and IN all previous strikes they have been
SLOW 10 20 out The amount OF coal received from
this source is only drop In the bucket ana mas
nit,e influence the genera! situation
on the railroads. with the exception Of the Grand
Trunk. the coal famine has not ye, made Itself
distinctly felt bu, they all preparing Tor inc
worst The New-York Central has made arrange
nents 10 borrow from the Lackawanna loo iocomo-
lives burning hard coal for IN rs fasi service
The Lackawanna can lend the engines OWING 10
the depressed state OF freghis on the soN-coa'
lines AMI by borrowing engines from the roalS
uslng anthracite hopes 10 be able to keep running
An effort is apparently being made by the mine
owners In the Pennsylvania neds to replace the
striking miners with Italians An Italian fal'oh-
keeper politician and Interpreter IS said 70 nave
contracted with agent OF the w J. KalneS ''h'
and Coke Company. whose mines are In "eSthofT p
land County Penn 10 furnish 100 Italians 10 be
put into the mines An Italian who Knows M Mune
feeling among his countrymcn said to-day thar TWO
h.d sr.n a dozen of the leaders" or who
generally organize gangs OF Italian laborers IN B9I
offered
ing 90 men TO 20 20 Pennsylyana. Probably Go or
7Oj Italians in Buffalo have had little WORK IN the
last wear and would be glad 20 get cmpioynlrh |,
but they are afraid 10 20 to the mines AhV,.heI
are by no means slow 70 see the Opportunity or
ferei and demand good wages Ii was sald to-nh\
thai the agents had promised R day and poaId al
81 a week Many Of the Italians demanded Y ~
day and rent free preferring 10 board themselves
IL is said that far the agents have secured ohY
about seventy-nve men who are willing 10 leave
Buffalo for the mines 60. 49,, III,
teenth-si mill. employing l,00 men. VIII smut GOWN
the FIRST OF next week In all departments. on ac,,
count ~ the fuel famine Tho embarrassment oi
the iron and steel producing interests py raso,i .,
the strlke IN now general. II Is reliably stated
that the only two concerns making steer DlltiS III
this region at least H. quantities. worth cohsluer
ing are Jones & Laughlin and the carnegie steer
Company. The small mills are havlnG srea' 1,
to obtain bllets Those operating with gas for rlel
are equally hampered because the MUS ana ~, =,
naces operated with coal and coke cannot furnisn
the raw material The situation now Is NO coal
no iron steel ,,., -. II, -,
owing 10 the strike the Pittsburg Wire Works az
Rraddock have closed. throwing 40 men out or
work Furnaces II. and B Of the Carnegis psn, plsam,
banked on Tuesday. were blown ous yrnse'rS yd,o r.
lack Of coal also closed the Dnquesne forgc' al
Rankin. and 2o men are Idle there. ..a.,
Berlin Mills, Ne. May l9-Therc is much uneasi- ,in
ness here and at all lumber points over the qucs-
ton whether the Grand Trunk order TO accept only
perlshabe freight is 10 apply 20 local hs WEI, az a.
through freight II to local freight. then strous
blow will lie struck at the lumber Interests IL
would be out OF the question for the lumber OPP
rators "a 20 on without an outlet for their manu-
facturcd product, and the sum total Is very ihrH"
II is estimated that fully 1000 men would be a,
feced II the local freight service on ne II is
hoped that the general order 10 the receivers oi
freight for the Grand Trunk system Will be con
sirued to apply only to through freight