The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-21
INDUSTRIAL TOPICS.

The Philadelphia and Reading is re-
ceiving bids for 1000 new coal cars
The Missouri, Kansas and Texas has
ordered seventeen new locomotives and
will give a contract for nine more
sometime this month.
Business Is booming at the Pennsyl-
vania Steel works, where every de-
partment is running full time to the
limit of it's capacity
The Boston and Maine railroad Is
asking for bids for 600 new cars, in
Guiding 200 bar cars, 200 platform cars
and 200 coal cars of the Pratt patent.
The employees of the Salem Wire Nail
company and the Findlay company at
Findlay, O., have had their wages In
creased 10 per cent. There are 5000
men employed.
The Warwick Iron company at Potts.
town, Pa, has notified its employees,
about $50 in number of an Increase
in their wages of 10 cents day, to go
into effect on June /.
The authorities of Long Island City,
N. Y, have begun civil suit against the
Long Island railroad for violating the
city ordinance forbidding the use OF
soft coal in locomotives.
The Trilby craze has struck the rail-
roads. The Rock Island and Peoria has
put in service passenger train be-
tween Peoria and Rock Island, which
will be called 1.-THE Trilby."
The Norristown Woolen company,
employing nearly 400 hands, has made
an increase in wages Of 10 per cent, to
go into effect at once. The mill Is COM
PEELED to run on double turn to fill or
ders.
The American Tube and Iron COM
pany at Youngstown, o., notified their
employees of an increase Of wages in
all the departments Of from 1OA to 10
per cent. to take effect at once. The
firm employees over 300 men.
Traffic Is so heavy with the Pitts
burg. Fort Wayne and Chicago that ev-
cry one of the company's engines is in
service, and some are being transferred
from other divisions of the Pennsylva-
mia system. There has been a great
improvement in both freigth and pas
senger business with that line.
Railroad earnings make a decided
ly better showing. The returns of so
roads for the first week of May COM
piled by the Financial Chronicle, show
gross earnings of $6,236,972, an increase
of s241,26 or 400 per cent. compared
with the same week last year. Only
10 roads out of the 80 reported de-
creases, and in one of these the Norfolk
and Western, the falling off is due to a
strike.
Shipments of iron ore from the Lake
Superior mines in 1894 amounted to
7,74S,932 gross tons, against 6,06O,49
tons In 1893. Imports of iron ore In 1894
amounted to 1877, ,307, against 1851 tons
in 1898, decrease of 359,644 tons. The
imports in 1894 were the smallest
since 1878. The production of pig
iron in the United States in
1894 was 6,657,3SS, decrease
of 467,114 tons as compared with 1S93
The production of Bessemer steel ingots
in the United States in 1894 was $751;
313 gross tons, an increase of 355,627
tons as compared with 1893. The pro-
duction of all kinds Of rails in the
United States in 1894 was 1,O21,772 tons,
a decrease of 114,6SS tons.
Hazleton Sentinel: The first electric
road in America was started at Scran-
ton. Fifteen years ago there were only
horse car roads in the cities. Today,
however, there are eleven street rail-
way systems in the anthracite coal re-
gions and they have a mileage Of PIG
miles of track, almost enough to cross
the state. The amount Of money in
vested in the roads reaches $2.l57 993-
and the amount paid out in wages in
one year reached $1,157,S33l3 There
are 3.416 men employed. The longest
system is the Wilkes-Barre Traction
company's. 1t has firty-one miles in
operation. The Shamokin street rail-
way is the shortest-in length as we'll
as receipts. 1t fell behind $513. 1t op-
crates three miles of road. The Scran-
ton Traction company has thirty miles
of track, and the Lehigh Traction COM
pany has twenty-eight miles of track
and the Schuylkill Traction twenty-five
miles. 1t Is not improbable that by
1898 there will be a continuous line from
Shamokin to Carbondale and from Eas-
ton to Hazleton and Pottsville via Ia
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