The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-20
INDUSTRIAL TOPICS!

railroad, was shipped from the Potts.
vile repair shops Tuesday,
The Weatherly bicycle factory is
about completed and the company will
begin operations on Jan. |. The new
concern will employ about fifty hands.
Beginning Tuesday the employees of
the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Bal
tlmore railroad shops in Wilmington
Were placed on nine hours a day time,
an increase of an hour per day.
Important changes will be made at
the Johnson Company's Steel works at
Johnstown soon, giving employment to
many more men. Congressman Tom
l.. Johnson is directing the changes.
The coal shipments over the Reading
railroad in the week ending Dec 10
were 290,327 tons, a decrease Of 2O99l
tons as compared with last year. Since
Dec THE shipments have been 5l4,0lS
tons, a decrease of S6,9S7 tons from last
year.
Philadelphia Stakeholder: "Over-
jealous friends of John Wanamaker,
parading him for either the Lehlgh
Valley or the Reading presidency, tend
to place him in an embarrassing posi-
ton, owing to the fact that it is too late
to elect him to either Office
The Elliott Washington Cold-Rolled
Steel company, of New Castle, p, has
planned to SO largely increase its plant
as to give work night and day to five
times as many men as at present. with
four sets of large rolls and a first-class
mill in general. A large open-hearth
furnace is soon to be added.
Philadelphia Record: "The mines in
the Wyoming and Lackawanna regions
will shut down on Saturday next for
the rest of the year; but the brief sea-
son of enforced idleness will cast no
shadow on the miners Christmas
hearths, since it will be but the pre-
with the new year"
The Monarch Coal company will open
up an extensive stripping where the
slate banks are being removed at No.
Honey Brook. A valuable vein of coal
underlies the slate banks there and as
fast as the banks are removed and pre-
pared at the washery, the clay will be
taken off the new vein of coal. The
stripping will start in a few weeks.
Mine Inspector John NJ. Lewis says
that his report for 1894, like those Of all
other inspectors, will not be ready UNI
til some time in January but he recent
ly informed a Hazleton reporter that
during the last eleven months of the
present year there was in the Fifth
Anthracite district 14O accidents, of
which SO We're fatal, leaving q widows
and Ga orphans.
Considerable surprise is manifested
according to the Wilkes Barre Record
that Calvin Pardee should take the
presidency of the Lehigh Navigation
company He has so many interests
and is so busy that an additional re-
sponsibility, and a serious one at that
would seem to be rather unwelcome
But, of course, he means to take uI
the burden and no doubt will make a
good many substantial improvements
in the affairs of the company.
coal trade is quiet, with no change in
conditions The demand is light owne 2
| to continued mild weather. From now
| on it will be a weather market almost
exclusively. Sentiment in the trade Is
in favor of radical restriction during
January and February. 1t is customary
in January to reduce prices, but it is
ii. I,
made next month. The regular monthly
| meeting of the sales agents will be held
between Christmas and New Years"
Ex-Postmaster General John Wana.
maker, who has been requested by
Henry Clews of New York, represent.
| ing q number of dissatisfied Reading
railroad stockholders, to permit the
use of his name as q candidate for the
presidency of the company in opposl
| tion to Joseph S. Harris, has not as yet
replied to Mr.. Clews' communication
He says he expected to give Mr.. Clews
an answer in day or so, but beyond
! that he absolutely declined to discus!
| the subject further or to even hint as
to the course he will take.
The drag-net canvass for proxies tha
| is being made by the Reading manage
ment surpasses in its attention to detail
| anything that has been known In thi!
| line since Mr.. Gowen's famous battle
with the McCalmonts. Not conten
with mailing blank proxies to every
stockholder, the company's agents have
|
whose holding was as small as twelve
shares. And yet in spite of these eX
traordnary efforts the present prospcc
| is that Mr.. Harris will poll smaller
vote than he did a year ago. Person
ally Mr.. Harris IS popular and he !:
| universally. esteemed for his scientific
attainments and his strict personal in
tegrity, but he is weighted down b!
the fact that he has indorsed the Olcot
| plan OF reorganization. The agents o
the company, who have come in contac
| with the stockholders, all report tina
this plan is very unpopular.
A Bethlehem dispatch says: A ban
quet which President Linderman, o
| she Bethlehem Iron company, tendereI
to Russian dignitaries on a. visit to thi
vicinity in May, 1898, is now said t
have been the main incident which in
fluenced the royal guests in procuring
for the iron company the now famous
contract Ito make 1900 tons of stee
armor plate for the cZar's new war
ships, at a cost of about $40O0,0 00O
In May the officers of the Russian
fleet were in New York to participate II
the Columbian naval celebration. Whel
the Russian and Austrian vessels visit
ed Philadelphia they left one morning
under the escort of Charles II. Cramp
lread of the shipbuilding firm, for Beth
lehem, when they witnessed a test a
Redington and were afterward splen
didly entertained by President Lindel
man and other officers of the company
In that parity were his Imperial High
ness, Grand Duke Alexander, cousiI
of the present cZar, and Admiral Kaz
nlakoff This royal banquet opened tn
way to the subsequent satisfactor.
tests Of armor plate in the visitor.
presence, and to the later sending o
Lieutenant Meigs to ST. Petersburg Il