The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-11-22
TERSELY TOLD.
Topics Of the Times Abbreviated for
HaSty PeruSal.

The spirited condition Of the coal trade
is having an iuvigorating effect upon
business ia general in this region It is
to be deplored that the prosperous period
cannot remain with us always. II is evil
dent that the market will be blocked I'm
the course Of three or four weeks, when |
we may expect to see another big chop off
in the working schedules of the collieries. |
The present facilities for producing coal |
in the anthracite region are too great to
insure full time for any length OF time, !
and as a restriction of production is nee
essary from time to time to keep up prices
the miner must suffer Ii is regretted
that the coal combination went out of ex-
istence. It was not the best thing the
miner could wish for, but it kept the
prices of coal to a standard o more justice
to the miner than he can expect from the
20 s.you-please system.
The Shamokin Valley Telephone Com
pauy has been formed by people of North.
cumberland county in opposition to the
Pennsylvania Telephone Company, which
has raised its rentals to 800 per year. The
new line win be extended from Mt. Car
mel to Suuhury. Instruments will be fur
nished at half the rate asked by the old
company and as the number of instru-
ments is increased the price will be re-
duced. Exchanges will be established mt
| Shamokiu, Mt Carmel and Sunbury. The
system under which the line operates will
enable each subscriber to use his telephone
at night after the exchanges have closed,
! by the means of a switch board which
will be attached to each one.
! The weather of the present is most
favorable to the men engaged in the con-
struction of the public water works and
those in charge should take advantage Of
it by pushing the operations as much as
possible, so as to have the works com
pleted before the hard winter season sets
iu The task of laying pipe when snow is
upon the sround is an arduous che and
will entail great expense to the borough
if it does not result in a postponement Of
the completion. This should not be lost
to sight.
As the holidays approach the business
houses begin to assume gala attire that
attract much attention. In no other
manner, unless it be by advertising in the
newspapers, can merchant better com
mand patronage than by making a
tasteful display of his wares.
The number of comparatively very
young people that roam the streets after
night.fall is astonishing. Parents are
committing a grievous offense against
domestic and moral laws by permitting
their children to indulge in this practice
at will and tramp about the streets until
ten o'clock at night or later. Study or
indoor amusement would be a much better
program upon which to base q hope for
the future.
There is needed at the Lehigh Valley
, depot an officer whose duty should be to
, act as informant for the patrons of the
road. Trains arrive and depart very fre
uuently and strangers obliged to make
transfers are frequently puzzled as tc
J what train they shall, or shall not take
J The mistake of getting on the wrong
train frequently happens and escapes
e from being left occur just as often. As d
p rule the train hands are too busy attend
ing to alighting and outgoing passengers
I to pay much attention to inquiries, anC
e strangers who depend upon information
$ from bystanders are frequently misled
+ Pottsville has station masters Why mo-
% adopt the system here ?