The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-01-09

on Jan. Is. No deduction will be made

| however, tfldt IlOuiiiiiS eAOepb oii iiiioi
NAL discussion of the situation will take
place. Little progress has yet been
made in the direction of preparing a
plan for the improvement of the coal
trade.
| A meeting of the Trunk Lines associa-
ton and the Central Transportation as
sociation will be held in Chicago to dis
cuss the passenger situation. This
meeting is ito take action on the work
recently done in New York by the for
| mer association.
The Lehigh Valley collieries which be-
| gan work on Jan. 2 aftera week suspen-
sion are getting in from seven to eight
hours every day now. 1t is expected
| that a further cessation of work will
take place toward the last of the month
rendered necessary by thecutting down,
under agreement, of the amount to be
| produced.
| A new method of dealing with en-
| ployes in regard to carrying them over
the road has been introduced by the
| New Jersey Central. Instead of issuing
| quarterly passes mileage book of 1000
| miles is issued to them on remittance
of So, good on all their lines. The new
method is looked upon with favor by
the employees in general for it equalizes
| them and gives each and every one an
opportunity of obtaining cheap rates.
| Philadelphia, Jan. S.-The committee
recently appointed to investigate and
report upon the question of the ''natu-
raj and proper distribution" of anthra-
cite coal tonnage between the various
| nrp1Iiain,- narrNyinI nj ipS
have appointed the following sub-com-
mittee: General Manager Henderson,
of the Reading Railroad company;
General Manager Sayre, of the Legign
Valley Coal company, and General
Sales Agent Torrey, of the Delaware
and Hudson Railroad and Canal COM
pany The subcommittee will prepare
| data to serve as basis for the deliber-
ations of the committee as whole.
| The Manufacturers Record in refer
| ring to the increase in southern rail-
| road mileage, says "The railroad
mileage of the south from 1880 to 1894
| has increased from 20,612 miles to nearly
| 47,0OO miles. In the same period the
| south has quintupled its coal produc-
| tion from 100000 to 30,000,000 tons; in
creased its pig iron production from
100000 tons year to nearly 100000
| tons; the capital invested in cotton
mills increased from $2l ,9OO,O 900 to $lO7,
100000; spindles increased from 667 900
to 3,000,000: capital invested in cotton
oil mills from $3,5OO,000 to $3O,OOO,OO0;
| capital invested in manufacturing in
terests advanced from $257 ,OOO,O 900 to
$500, 900; the value of manufactured
products turned out has risen from
$457 100000 to at least $l,O00,O00,OOO
| Wilkes-Barre Times: "Rumors of
| the Jersey Centrals consideration as
to the building of their new Tamanend
branch have been in circulation for the
past few days. Knowing ones say that
the company is computing the cost of
constructing a new link from Penn
Haven to Audenried, to form a connec-
ton with a Tresckow branch. If the
reports are true the new link surveyed
between Tamanend and Silver Brook
| will be abandoned as the new route
| will serve for all traffic. 1t is known
that a corps of surveyors have sur
veyed part of the new route and on
their report, satisfactory or otherwise
will depend the development of the
plans just proposed. The exact distance
of the route is not known. This would
make shorter route to haul the pro-
duct of the Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre
collieries, and when completed it may
cause the line to be extended to Halle
| ton"
In the course of long article narrat-
ting the destitution which is said to
| aviSt ha in in nj
Wilkes-Barre, a dispatch to the Phila-
delphia Press says: AS there is a
light demand for coal and there is a
big stock in market, the operators have
been unable to increase the work and in
order to make it as general as possible
have divided it among all their EN-.
ployes instead of laying off a certain
number This, of course, while it was
the best thing to do, resulted in the
crowding of the mines on the days
when there was work with such mum
Der of men that it was impossible tC
supply them with enough cars. Thus Q
great many of them were obliged tC
stay in the mine all day and only fiji
one car. A committee waited on Presi
dent Edwards, of the Kingston Goa
| company, tiiC olitl uShtu lbl
some relief and he issued an order al
lowing the miners to work without la
borers. This is a great aid to the min
ers, but it throws their assistants en-
tirely out of work.
Another change has apparently beer
made in the Lehigh Valley stockhold
ers' committee, as circulars bearing tn,
name of Evans r. Dick as chairman
have appeared. John N. Hutchinson
was the original chairman of the com
mittee but has occupied the office onl,
nominally since disagreement aros
in the committee as result of th
| stockholders meeting week ago Tn
, names of William A. Dick, John n
Hutchinson and S. Holland Hacket
have also figured as attorneys for receiv
/ ing and voting proxies against the man
agement since the resignation of Georg
d. McCreary. Now proxies are bein,
asked in the names of Evans r. Dicl,
c. Fl. r. Triebels and Howard NJ. Val
Court, the committee appointed at tn
stockholders meeting for special pur
2 pose. The circular referred to reflects
2 to an extent, the address mads by Ev
ans r. Dick at the stockholders meet
= ing, in which a comparison was draw
l between the condition of the Lehig
= Valley and the other dividend-payin