The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-22
INDUSTRIAL TOPICS.

The Tresckow Last Chance washery
has resumed, after brief suspension.
During the last six years the known
losses through labor strikes in this
country aggregate S9S, ,556,S59.
President Il. Z. Wilbur of the Lehigh
Valley Railroad compan, has reached
home from Savannah. Ga. where he
has been spending several weeks.
At Halle Brook the old No. l slope
is TO be re-opened and at Minersville
the strippings that have been idle all
winter will be started up again as soon
as the warm weather arrives. The strip
pings a: Lattimer, which have been
idle since December, will also resume
and at least 500 men will be given work.
\ new factory to manufacture Il
newly-patented typewriter will soon
be built at Washington, Pa, The pat
ent upon which it will work will pro-
duce u machine that can, 1t is claimed,
be made at one-third the cost of those
now in use. and will do better work.
The proposed factory will employ about
thirty hands at first.
For the balance of the month the col
lieries of the Reading Coal and Iron
company will be operated six days a
week on three-Quarter time instead of
three days. The storms of the early
part of the month have made this extra
time necessary in order to mine the full
percentage allotted the company The
officials say the change has no other
significance.
The Pennsylvania railroad reports
hA NJ nf nAl la
originating on and carried over its lines
east of Pittsburg and Erie for the year
thus far has been 23l0,3 tons, COM
pared with 1,772,595 tons in the corre-
spending period of 1894 an increase of
| 537, I0S tons, of which ,669. .44S tons were
coal an increase of 242,52l tons, and
| $40, S55 tons coke, an increase of 295 1877
| tons.
Hazleton Standard: An official of the
| Conlack Coal company arrived here
from Wilkes-Barre on Saturday and
madeO special examination of the
| Tresckow washery owned by that firm,
and which has been idle nearly all win
| ter. 1t is the purpose of the company
| he said, to make a radical change in
| the machinery of that washery. The
rollers at present in use will be replaced
| with another set that will grind the
| coal much finer. The largest size that
| will be made will be pea coal The
| change, he said, would enable the plant
| to operate steadily, as there is always
a great demand for the smaller sizes of
| coal. The company calculates to make
| the improvement at once and the plant
will resume operations not later than
| March 4, II expectations materlalize.
According to the Hazleton Standard
| Charles McShea, OF Audenried. is an
| inventor OF promising ability. It says
he has no less than half dozen patents
! almost perfected, which are the finest
! that ever came under its notice. The
| most valuable of the collection Is an ap-
| piance which prevents all possibilities
| OF on accident in a slope, such as allow
| Ing the car to descend chainless or by
the rope breaking, after the car reaches
! the apex. His method Is operated sole
| ly by the rope and from once the car
Is landed until another Is safely on the
| chain nothing can go over the apex. An
! other patent of his Is n door lock made
| Of steel, which doesn't weigh more than
a few ounces and can be attached on
| the door from the inside so that II Is
| utterly impossible to enter without
breaking the door. Still another inven-
tion of Mr. McShea's Is a can-opener
tack puller, glass cutter and table knife
combined. His patent slope protector
Is q marvellous affair, and If once
adopted and put in use by coal compa.
| nies would save thousands of dollars
annually as well as the precious lives
Of many workmen.
Philadelphia Inquirer: The state
ment of the Lehigh Coal and Naviga-
tion company for 1894 Is In lire with
that OF the other anthracite compa.
MES that have so far reported. Al
| though the company reduced its dlvi-
dend last fall and so paid but AZ per
cent. for the year, II appears that
this reduced dividend was not earned
by $9,602, Notwithstanding the company
made no deduction from income for the
depreciation of coal lands or for the
coal land sinking fund, as has been It's
custom for years. This latter charge
of 800, 1855 was made against the profit
and loss account. The reason for the
company's Indifferent showing Is the
falling OFF I'm the rental from the Lehigl
and Susquehanna railroad, which
brought in only sl,4144OO dhe minimum
amount guaranteed under the lease) as
against $l,7432 26S in 1893. The cause OF
this decreased revenue Is the reduction
I'm the rates on coal. In 1898 the rail.
road carried 6,6O7 900 tons of COAL and
the gross receipts of the railroad from
coal were $3,S30,SS7. Vast year the road
carried 5164. 900 tons OF coal and earned
for so doing s2,931,05S. That Is. the
receipts were 631 cents per ton In
1893 and 5G.7 cents last year. 1t must
be remembered that this Is the aver
age rate on the whole quantity of Goa
carried. 1t was only upon coal car
rled through to tldewater that Q
reduction was made; upon coal destined
for local points no change was made.
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