The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1897-07-14
PLENTY ANTHRACITE
New York Has No Fears of
a Fuel Famine.
cITR NOT AFFECTED BY THE STRIKE
thracfte Regions. New York
Would Suffer.
c,r4 NOT AFFECTED BY THE STRIKE
,,lwi YoRk. july 1s.-Tbe Tribune

NV YoRK, July 13.-The Tribune
says.
nnmper of prominent coaldealers in this
c;tv md its vicinity is to the effect that
there is no danger of a coal famine. The
vards and docks are well supplied with
coal and the present stock is sufficient to
1ast ior long time. The strike is at
nyasent confined to the bituminous coal
regioEs' ana tne use OF SOIL coai Is COM
paratiVely limited in this city. Should
the strike spread among the anthracite
co.t,,finers there would undoubtedly be
GOOD cause for alarm.
One%hing in favor of the ordinary con-
SINNER .s that little coal is required at
this season OF the year. OF course, the
railroad, companies, factories and oth9
laroa nj, ,sumers, are in far different
positiau. They use large quantities of
coal at ali seasons of the year. In this
CITY. howeyer, they are prevented from
usino bitu ,ninous coal by law, and con-
seouentIv the strike as yet has not put
them tn ann Inconvenience, as it has in
Chica0o and other Western cities. Com
parativeIv little bituminous coal is used
in Brooklvns A few large factories there
use il. as do the trolley roads at there
power-housesi A movement has been
started to COMPEL the latter to give up
its use.
The great rsilroad lines that reach this
citv are wen stOeked with coal at present,
the majority o. them now burn anthra-
cite coal in thef passenger locomotives.
The bituminieus coal, however, is
used almost exclusively on freight loco
motives. -
Superb .s.ldsnt Brooks, of the Penn
sylvania road, 1aid the road had stock
of coal on hand sufficient to last it
month. The locomotives of passenger
trains, he said, burned anthracite coal
almost exclusively, as did some of the
locomotives OF 'he fast freight trains.
Should it becoue necessary, all the loco
motives, including those which draw
freight trains, cculd burn anthracite coal.
The Pennsylvania is a large carrier of
coal including tie bituminous Goals, and
should the strike continue, it would feel
the loss of these freights. Other rail-
roads carrying lage quantities of coal
Ire the Philadelphia & Reading, which
runs to Jersey Cty over the New Jersey
central tracks; tie Lehigh Valley and
Delaware Lackaw.nna & Western. The
Philadelphia & R,ading Coal Company
and the Lehigh Valley both operate coal
mines of their ogn. These companies
report good supplies OF coal on hand at
present.
The Manhattai Elevated Railroad
Company burns Only anthracite coal in
it's engines, consequently it is not affect
ed by the strike. Even owners of river
craft are not as yet worried, as anthra-
cite coal is almost exclusively consumed
on the boats of all cases.
The time is drawitg nigh for the deal
ers to lay in their winter stocks of fuel,
and should the strike continue it will
cause some delay, at east, so far as BIZ
luminous coal is concerned.
A director of one ofthe Ohio soft-coal
roads said:
"We have evidence from the West
that the soft-coal strike is really going
to be the salvation of the transportation