The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-01-29

Lead company, at New Kensington,
will build an addition to the works al
ready erected The plant, when COM
pIeted. will give employment to 500
men. The resumption Of work in fac
tory P of the United States Glass COM
pany, Pittsburg. is scheduled to take
place during the early part of the
week. There is reason to believe that
Moorehead'S Sharpsburg mill will soon
start M. The mills of Melville Gam
brille & Co, at Baldwin Banks. Cecil
county. Md. which has been closei
Iown for the past six months, will
start on full time today. BY the start
ing up of this mill over sixty hands
will be given employment. The L.
mokin Car works have received con-
tract for forty electric cars for
the Philadelphia Traction company.
They also have contracts for other
roads that will keen them in operation
all summer The $50 weavers Of Hoyle,
Harrison & Kay's carpet mill, Fourth
and Lehign avenue. Philadelphia, who
were thrown out of employment about
two weeks ago BY the reduction of the
force OF workmen Of the mill, were
notified to report for work this morn
ing. The works of the Standard silk
company, at Tobyhanna, has resumed
work. The mill has besn undergoing
repairs. L! has been reported that the
Missouri iron furnace in Carondolet.
which supplies the Belleyille concern
with pig iron, will resume The Mis-
souri, furnace, when in operation. gives
employment to about 200 men. The
Chesapeake Nail works. at Harris
burg. which have been idle several
months, will resume operations toiay
A large number of men will be given
employment. The Hollsndville Woolen
mills in Limerick. Me-, which have
been closed for three months past, will
start on full time on Feb |.
1t cost the coal syndicate, headed by
7. II. and J. N. Jones. $G3, 500 to gel
possession of the Ronaldson coal tract
near Pottsville. The deal WAS closed
Friday. The tract comprises 1877 acres.
Extensive improvements will be made
at once. The Alder RuuCoi COMPANY,
Il Clearfield county enterprise, capital
lied at $50. 600. has Just been granted
charter. keystone and Erie collieries,
Cdrbondale. will not resume until Feb.
l. No work was done in Powderly
mine, Carbondsle, last week, bsclus4
of an accident to the machinery. Six
Delaware and Hudson crews have been
idle on the Pennsylvania division tn
past week, owing to slackness in trans.
portation. Erie employs, too, share
in the depression The Mauch Chunk
Daily News dubs Scranton the Iron
City. 1T is complained by an aIthet-
ical neighbOring press that the names
of the stations on the new Panther
Creek route are lacking in euphony an
appropriateness. Where, they ask. is
the poetry in 'Rinker's Switch,
"Stauff RS" "Tannersville, and the
lil1e?- Erie shops will not, until fur
ther orders, exceed the eight-hour
limit. The magnificent New York
Cen tral, world. beating 1899" locomo.
tive will pull special Wagner vesti
bule train out to the California mid
winter exposition at Frisco.
1t will interest Scrantonians to know
that despite the shrinkage in business
circles during the past few months I
shrinkage which has borne especially
hard upon steam and electric transpor-
tation companies of all kinds-th the
Scranton Traction com pany. under the
management of II. II. Arcner, has
been enabled to report an increase in
gross earnings for 1893 averaging 25
per cent. Tue expenses havs naturally
been heavy, on account Of the new
lines opened up and new connections
planned; but the showing made at the
annual meeting of the stockhold ars was
very unusual one, in comparison with
the declines that have been 80 general
in traction circles in other cities. It is
expected this years business, sweIlsd
by a vastly increased suburban patron
age, will place the company ia the
very front rank of traction investments.
At the annual meeting Of the stock
holders of the Delaware, Lackawanna
g. Western railroad on Feb. 10 the
names of Frank Work. H. Mex Twom
bley and II G. Fahnestock will be pre-
sented to the stockholders for election
rs managers in the places of w. II
Appleton Bobsrt f. BAllantyne and A..
H, McClintock Samuel Sloan will, OF
course, be re- elected president.
Iu the opinion of the Philad slphia
Times "the beneficial effects OF the
Anthracite Coal Operators association
are already being felt in the coal trade
1t allows each producing interest to
take as basis its maximum produc.
tion OF any one month within a certain
time. 1t seems that this organic ltion
was instrumental in establishing a
standard OF production on whicn all
interests we're to bass their restrictive
policy, and this has always been u
weak point and the cause Of much dis
sension." Asa matter Of fact, no busi-
ness in the country exhibits better
managerial tact and skill than does the
anthracite coal trade at this moment.
II some of the debt burdened, r..
ceivership railroads had equally caro-
full management, the business situation
would quickly brighten,
Talking of cuts. the Boston and
Maine railroad holds the record Il
has Just slasbei off 900 miles of passen
ger traffic aud 400 miles Of freight, saw.
ing the road $g,389 daily. Engineers
have been reduced to tiremen, and fifty
firemen have been discharged Della
ware and Hudson Engineer r. T. Aus
tin, Of Oneonta. has just been granted
u patent on his com bined spark ar
restor and injector 1t is said the man
ugement Of the road contem plate put
ting his invention upon all the loco
motives Of the road. Fifteen fremer
on the Delaware division of the Eri,
have been laid off as tribute to gen.
eral depression.
A report has been current for tn,
past day or two to the effect that nsgo
tiations have been pending for som,
time between the Lehigh Valley and