The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-05-17

Shipments Of coal over the Reading rail
road last week aggregated 2Ji Ogj tons,
decrease. as compared with the same pc
riod last year, Of 1855 tons For the year
shipments aggregate 4,s7g, l39 tons de.
CT ease Of S4g, 1j3 tons.
The new tunnel Of the New York. Sus-
quehanua and Western railroad through
the Palisades was formally opened for
traffic Tuesday.
In the absence OF any thing more inter.
estiug to talk about. says the StOckholder
brokers and operators In the stock market
have been putting two and two together
aud announce that they make four This
In CONNECTION with the attitude OF the
Vanderbits toward the Delaware and
Hudson. As result OF their calculations
they Sssert that the latter will In due
course be- leased to the New York Central.
and that the stockholders will be- guAran-
teed s per cent. dividends for numbsr Of
years. Basing their opinion upon this con.
tingency they predict sharp advance for
Delaware aud Hudson, which now pays :
per cent. dividends, besides having an enoT.
nous treasury balance behind 1t.
piece Of news has been received at the
Delaware aud Hudson collieries In this
vicinity says the Wilkes Barre Record. in
the form Of au order that on aud after
Tuesday the mines OF that company will
go on three-quarter time until further no.
tice. The new order OF things IL undoubt-
edly brought about by the continued aud
extensive strike Of coal miners west of
Pittsburg which has caused scarcity OF
soft coal and corresponding demand for
anthracite The Lehgh Valley Coal com.
pany and Lehigh and Wilkes.Barre has
also put It's mines on better time this
week, about three-qunrter time.
The New York Central has scarcely
enough coal on hand to supply It's engines
FOR three or four days at the most, and
fuel must be secured from some other
source, Owing to the scarcity OF fuel the
company has issued orders to carry moth.
ing but perishRble freight.
The gravity railroad employees have re-
ceived notice that that department of the
Delaware and Hudson companys industry
will go on full time after today for an in.
definite period
According to the Easton Express there
Ia railroad rumor ailoat to the effect tn at
the Central company IS arranging to run
express trains between Jersey City and
Buffalo via Hampton junction 10 Wash
ingten and from there over the Delaware,
LackawannR and Western railroad. 1t is
also said that a couple Of new passenger
trains will be put on. The close relations
between the Central and the Delaware
Lackawanna and Western prompts this
traffic arrangement.
A reduction OF the cost Of casting steel
and iron by 80 per cent; great saving
in time the production of castings free
from oxidization and blow holes, and
most important of all, the production of
pig iron in mountainous and remote dis
tricts having water power and ore but no
coal-all these things may result from the
application of electricity according to o
new process described in report to the
department Of state by United States Con.
sui Frank Mason, at Frankfort, Germany.
The process Is known as the Taussig
process and provides for smelling and
casting metals by electric heat, under the
influence OF rarihed air. An air tight
furnace lined with glazed fire brick has Is
| hearth connected with molds into which
the fused metal flows by gravitation. The
firebrick lining forms an efficient tnsula-
tion and the electricity is sent through the
charge directly without the use of any
fuel or temperament of carbon electrodes.
Thereby the fused metal is nearly pure
and free from carbon. and the continued
exhaustion OF the air and gases produced
increases the huidity Of the molten mate