The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-01
AS TO ANTHRACITE COUNTY

From the Philadelphia Press.
Our esteemed contemporary, the Car
Dondale Daily Anthracite, Is as busily en-
gagged as anybody could expect to be in
these rather dull times manufacturing a
brand new county. 1t Is a very popular
sort or enterprise with a considerable
number OF the newspapers in different
parts or the state, and there Is no reason
on earth why our sprightly Carbondale
contemporary should not have a share in
1t. There isn't much else worth bother
ing about Just now.
This new county project contemplates
taking strip from Lackawanna county
considerable chunk of Wayne and quite
large bite out of Susquehanna in order
| TO make up the necessary 400 square miles
| or territory and satisfy our contempo-
rarys craving for a new county, which is
| to be called Anthracite county in honor
OF the newspaper which has invented the
| scheme. There Is no news from Wayne
and Susquehanna that the people In those
| counties are sitting up nights and tear
ing around i'm the day time to advance
! this new county movement, but 1t Is pos
sible they will catch on in the course of a
| few hundred years and accommodate
| themselves to the vociferous demands
that Carbondale shall be made the county
seat of something or other.
Nobody Will blame Carbondale-which
| Is n fine town with most of the modern
| improvements excepting "a court house -
| for wanting the great distinction OF be-
Ing county town. 1t could not be ex-
pected to stand unconcernedly by and see
| Hazleton. SO nc ar its own size, moving
gaily and uninterruptedly forward to be-
come the dazzling center of the new Quay
county. And yet Carbondale Is not ex-
| tgavagantly excited over the alluring
| prospect. Whether 1t Is of q less eXuber-
ant nature than HaZleton or IL merely
| playing a deeper game we cannot pretend
to say, but it Is certain that Carbondale
| has not yet been aroused to that degree OF
intensity which hourly convulses Hazle-
ton, and which impels every public-spir-
tied Hahletonian to keep his ear near the
| end of a telegraph wire to intercept the
| first news from Harrisburg. Nor does
the country round about show that eager
| appetite for a new county which jim
| Sweeney has SO successfully stirred up IN
the vicinity of Hazleton
These things may come in time, how
| ever, though we fear that Carbondale IL
! laboring under some disadvantages. The
chief among these is the proposed namo
| for the new county. Nobody could be eX-
| pected to get much excited over Anthra-
cite county. There was no particular in
terest in HaZleton's project as long as the
! intention was to call II HaZle county, but
now that 1t Is to be Quay county every
body Is enthusiastic ana all join in de-
manding it. That was a loong-headed
proposition and there is no longer any
doubt that Quay county will go through
Hazleton will have a nice new court house
and a full outfit of county officers all to
itself.
Our contemporary. which is fighting this
new county battle all alone should reflect
| uDOn this vital DOint. Brother Mooney
could get some very valuable tips from
Brother Jim Sweeney about how new
counties are made, and in the present
condition of the Anthracite county move
ment the quicker he gets such tips the
| better.