The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-31
INDUSTRIAL TOPICS.

A new telegraphic typewriting machine,
In use in Baltimore, is capable of tele-
graphing 200 words a minute.
The Coleraine collery, which has been
idle for some time. has resumed operations
on orders sufficient to keep it active for
some months.
Tho city Of Schuyler, Neb., has levied an
occupation tax of $25 per year on telegraph
companies, SIS on telephone and $40 on eX-
press companies.
DR.. Talmage. of Brooklyn, has already
upwards of sixty lecture engagements
with Chautauqua summer assemblies, at
from $500 to $500 lecture.
An importanat recent invention is what
Is known as the magazine loom. Hitherto
one man has been required to operate six
looms, but 1t Is claimed that sixteen looms
can be managed by one man by use of this
invention.
The Bethlehem Iron company made n
record within the week ended Monday
when ITS No blast furnace made an out
put of 1,0S0 tons of pig iron. Three-eighths
coke was used In the manufacture. This
Is the biggest run of pig iron ever made
by any furnace in the Lehigh valley.
The Lehigh Valley Coal company, which
operates the Jeanesville collieries. have
ordered two new steam shovels for their
strippingS. The company Intends to do an
enormous amount of stripping there this
summer. The new arrangement will fur
nish employment for Il large number of
men,
1t Is alleged by the Central Iron works
of Harrisburg and others that the Penn
sylvania Railroad company carries coal
from points in the soft coal regions through
Harrisburg to Philadelphia and Greenwich
pier at rate of from $l.lO to $l.a per ton,
xyhilp rh n ba la arrisbIirfr nj e.
ers $1i6 to $l.S6 per ton.
l.. II. Parker, engineer, representing the
General Electric company in the construc
tion of the Baltimore Belt Line railroad,
says that the first electric locomotive to
be used In hauling freight and passenger
trains over this road has been successfully
tested and will be shipped to Baltimore in
n few days. This locomotive is the first
of its kind ever built, and Is expected to
haul passenger trains at q minimum rate
of thirty miles per hour. The electrical
system will probably be in actual opera
tion on this road about June Is.
During the nine months ending April 1
the United Kingdom was our largest GUS
toner in several of the most important
lines of manufactures, and one of the
largest in all. out of a total of $7,9S9,000
of exported American cottons, England
took $i7S,OOO, or more than all the rest of
Europe and twice as much as Mexico. ont
of the total of S3,262, 600 exported n.anufac-
lures of iron and steel, England took $780,
O00-twico as much as Mexico, the Argen~
tine republic or Brazil, which have been
supposedly our best customers for such
goods.
The Lehigh Valley railroad has taken
firm stand for an increased percentage in
the through west-bound freight pool. The
r,n, nd.
ago and the company is now carrying q
much larger proportion of the business
than it did then, owing to the completion
of its Buffalo extension. Vice President
Garrett said yesterday that the company
was ready to sign the new agreement
based on the present business of the COM
pany, but it was not willing to sign an
agreement that would compel it to pay n
money penalty for all the tonnage carried
in excess of its old percentage. President
Wilbur has approved this position, and the
matter will come up at the next meeting
of the Trunk Line association.
The Readings statement of earnings for
April shows an increase in gross and net
earnings The railroad secured an in
creased share of the coal business and its
receipts from this source We're, therefore,
large, the company's gross receipts show
ing an increase of $l737n and the net an
increase of $157,926. Owing to the low
price of coal the showing of the Coal and
Iron company is not as favorable, the net
being $l2,2H more than year ago. But
taking the two companies together and
in the outlays for extraordinary
and allowing for fixed
charges OF both, the net result is an i'm
provement of $376S6 over last year. For
the five months of the fiscal year the COM
pany has come nearer to earning It's ac-
crued charges by sol, ,5ii than it did last
year and $59,5S1 nearer than it did in 1893.