The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-09-04

promoted to be superintendent OF mo-
tive power of the Erie and Wyoming
Valley railroad. He will assume his
new position today. 1t will also require
Mr.. King to change his residence from
Wsat Pittston. as his headquarters
will be at Dunmore. His successor at
Piltston has not been named.
W, F. Stalsy, Of Pittston, inspector
Of watches for the Wyoming division
of the Lshigh Valley railroad, has re-
csived notice that all watches OF the
men employed on the road must be In
spected this coming week. This IS tne
annual order and every watch. In
order to stand the temperature OF the
cold weather, must go through a
thorough inspection by the proper per-
son.
A typical announcement is made IN a
Rochester contemporary when it sRys:
"The directors of the Rochester and
Glen Haven railroad have Just deter
mined that next season they will run
their trains by electricity and abandon
the locomotive. No change will be
made until the close OF this season. As
the track is of the same gauge as that
of the ordinary street ears it will be an
easy matter when the trolley wires are
up to run cars from any part Of the
city to Glen Haven" Coming events
cast their shadows before.
The new dock of the L,high Valley
transportation company at West Su
perior, Wis, is creating considerable
stir among the coal men. Considerable
OF the iron and steel to be used In the
construction OF the dock has been
brought up bv steamer from Buffalo
and next week $50 skilled men from
Minneapolis and st. P&ul will be put
to work erecting the supsrstrusture Of
the new dock. The Dodge Coal Stor-
age company have the contract for the
plant and are pushing work. The
dock will store 100. 600 tons of soft and
a like amount OF hard coal. The build
ings will be two in number and will
have a diameter of $50 feet and will be
100 feet high. They will be the largest
OF the kind ever erected. The coal
will all be received by vessel from
lower lake ports and be delivered by
means of automatic buckets having a
capacity of about two tons each. The
coal is then formed into conical piles in
the large building in such a way as to
prevent any serious breakage. The
plan Of reloading the coal into cars, il
successful, will revolutionizs the coal
trade A tunuel is located under each
of the structures into which the coal
will flow. being conveyed through the
tunnel up suitable incline by convey
ors, At the delivery point of the con-
veyor-just before passing into the
cars-the coal is run through rotary
screens insuring the delivery of clean
coal. The screenings are elevated and
removed to storage buildings especially
designed for their reception. The gen.
eral shape Of the roof of the large stor-
age buildings is parabolic. A very
complete arrangement Of tracks and
scales and buildings will be provided
and the dock will be one Of the best
equipped at the head of the lake.
MINOR INDUSTRIAL NOTES:
Women tend railroad switches in Hol-
land.
Average daily wages in Mexico are 27
cents.
There are 90 0J0 colored teachers in the
south.
There are over 46. 600 professional tramps
in this country.
The Salt Lick Gas and Coal company
have leased 8. 00O acres of land near Bel.
ford, Clearfeld county. Surface indica-
tions are that oil and natural gas will be
found in abundance. The company at
once awarded the contract for drilling
wells, and operations will begin immedl.
ately, working day and night.
The rivalry between the Blue Mountain
Railroad company and the Midland Rail-
road company for the possession of the
old South Mountain route, forty.tbree
miles of which have been graded, is be.
coming very active. Agents of both roads
are out upon the line endeavoring to SO.
cure the right of way. The original fran
chises Of the road have been lapsed and
the land reverted to the original owners.
Connellsville coke showed decided gain
week before last over the production of
the previous week; there was an increase
Of nearly $4,000 tons. The report of the
operation aud output of the region for the
week ended on Saturday, Aug. 20, shows
1903 active and 4,8ll idle ovens, with
total estimated production of 12l, ,065 tons.
The shipments for the week aggregated
6,S2l cars. Compared with the shipments
of the previous week this was a net in
crease Of 800 cars.
The Baltimore and Ohio is experiment
ing with three new ideas that promise to
make locomotives both noiseless and
smokeless The steam exhausts through
group Of small pipes and passes out OF the
stack noiselessly, not making the noisy
puff locomotives now do. 1t is said its
operations lessons the quantity of coal
consumed, and q new smoke burner has
been patented which promises to make To-
comotives smokeless. The smoke burner
is the invention Of the master mechanic of
the road.
The electric brake, which Is being pro-
NOTED by the st. Louis Electric Brake
company, has been in use on q car Of the
Suburban railroad, of st. Louis, for sew
eral months, and seems to be satisfactory.
The principle Of it is hollow magnet,
made of coiled copper wire; in the middle
and free to move lengthwise, are two
pieces Of soft iron, the opposite ends of
which are connected with the brake
levers. When the current Of electricity
passes through the coiled wire, the two
soft iron cores are moved toward each
other and the brakes are applied. 1t is
claimed that the brakes may be applied
with full force at first, and let off grad
ually as the car stops.
Poor Me.
The custom of pinning papers on the