The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-01
INDUSTRIAL TOPICS.

The trunk lines are beginning to realize
that the immigrant business Is on the
wane, and are disposing of their second
class coaches. 1t Is stated that 40 per
cent. fewer immigrants were handled by
the trunk lines in 1894 than in 1898, and this
year that class of travel is even lighter.
1t is said that the Lackawanna Iron and
Steel company has made u contract to de-
liver II 900 tons of steel rails to a California
railroad at $22.75 per ton alongside of ship
in Jersey City. The negotiations for this
contract have been under way for some
time and there has been much competition
for 1t. 1t was thought the foreigners
would get the order but they were finally
barred out because they could not deliver
the rails in time.
The Jersey Central railroads statement
of earnings for February makes the fol-
lowing comparison with the same month
last year: Gross earnings. $793,735; in
crease, $29,074; expenses, S572 03l decrease,
s9,Oi9; net earnings, 1921 ,7N; increase, $685.
1873 For the months of January and Feb
ruary the gross earnings are sl,6fG,16S, a
decrease of s2,sOi; expenses, $l177,S29, a
decrease of s25,376, and net earnings, $685.
$685. an increase of S22772
In preparing to handle the Worlds fair
built 800 cars called excursion cars and so
constructed that after their use for that
purpose they could be constructed into
gondola cars. These cars Were equipped
with good seats, but not highly uphol-
stored, and many of them were never used.
Now the company Is selling these seats.
which cost $40 or more, for 81 and con-
verting the cars into gondola cars, they
being OF a very substantial build
The coke trade Is keeping up its boom.
Last weeks production in the Connells-
Vile region increased several thousand
tons, but was still 1853 tons less than the
shipments, that amount of stock coke be-
ing removed. There are now 1928 ovens
in blast and 2,5SG idle. Nearly every plant
in the region made six full days. The de-
mand for coke Is taxing the ability of the
ovens to produce 1t and the railroads to
haul It, 1t Is said the natural demand for
coke has advanced 20 per cent. since the
first of the year by the starting up of idle
furnaces.
The statement of shipments of anthra-
cite coal approximately for the week
ended March g. 1895, does not differ mate.
rally from those issued for the previous
weeks of the month. The most striking
feature of the statement Is that which
output. This fact has been apparent from
the first week in the month, as there has
been a falling off in production i'm each
successive week. In the first two days OF
March the shipments amounted to about
| 275, ,S74 tons; in the week ended March
| they were 70,59S tons; week ended March
| 16, S49, 1856 tons, and last week they were
| S04, ,022 tons. This makes the total for the
| first twenty-three days of March 2,770,'
| $40 tons, or an average of 79 tons. AS
| indicating the restriction. 1t may be SAID
| that the average for the first sixteen days
of March was PATIO tons, so that tn,
average for last week was less than the
preceding week by 1900 tons. II the dali,
average of 12l. .734 tons Is continued to tho
| end of the month the total production fol
March will amount to 8, ,773 754 tons, or 27S
| 75i tons in excess of the output agreed
upon by the sales agents at their meet
ing in February. While last week,
shipments were about $4,000 tons less thar
| the preceding week, they were neverthe
| less, 259, 298 tons more than for the CORE
spending week last year. Last week,
| restriction was confined entirely to tn,
Wyoming and Lehigh regions, both o
| which produced considerably less Goa
| than they did in the preceding week. Will,
the SchuyllSlll produced about 800, 600 tom
more. The Stakeholder thinks that thes
figures would be important were 1t no
| for the fact that the agreed output 70
March was largely in excess OF the mar
ket's requirements