San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-07-13
THE GENERAL CONCENSUS OF
OPINION is. TO THAT
EFFECT.
A Railroad Official Says The Strike
Is A Good Thing, As II Will
Bring Back The Old Money
Making Business For
The Article.

New York, July 13.-The Tribune
this morning says:
The consensus of opinion among a
number, of prominent dealers in this
city and it's vicinity, is to the effect,
that there is no danger of a coal fam
inc. The yards and docks are well
equipped with coal and the present
stock is sufficient to last for a long.
time. The strike is at present con-
fined to the bituminous coal regions
and the use of soft coal is comparative
ly limited in this city. Should the
strike spread among the anthracite
coal miners there would undoubtedly
be good cause for alarm. One thing
in favor of the ordinary consumer is
that little coal is required at this sea-
son of the year. OF course, the rail-
way companies, factories and other
large Consumers are in a far different
position. They use. large quantities
of coal at all seasons of the year. In
this city, however, they are prevented
from using bituminous coal by law and
consequently the strike as yet has not
put them to any inconvenience, as it
has in Chicago and other western cit
les. Comparatively little bituminous
coal is used IN Brooklyn, A few large
factories there use it, as do the troll
ley roads at their power houses. A
movement has been started to compel
the latter to give up it's use.
The great railroad lines that reach
this city are we'll stocked with coal at
the present time. The majority of
them now burn anthracite coal in their
passenger locomotives. The bituminous
coal, however, is used almost exclusive
ly on freight locomotives.
Superintendent Brooks, Of the Penn
sylvania road, said that his railroad
had stock of coal on hand sufficient
to last a month. The locomotives of
the passenger trains, he declared burn
ed anthracite almost exclusively, as did
some of the locomotives of the fast
freight trains. And, should it become
necessary, all the locomotives, includ-
ing those which draw the freight trains
could burn anthracite coal.
The Pennsylvania is a larger carrier
of coal, including the bituminous Goals,
and should the strike continue 1t would
feel the loss of these freights.
Other railroads carrying large guam
titles of coal are the Philadelphia and
Reading, which runs to Jersey City
over the New Jersey Central tracks;
the Lehigh Valley and the Delaware,
Lackawana and Western. The Phila-
delphia and Reading company and the
Lehigh Valley both operate coal mines
- MICS
port good supplies of coal on hand at
The present time.
The Manhattan Elevated Railroad
company burns only anthracite coal
in its engines, consequently it is not
affected by the strike. Even the own
ers of river craft are not much wor-
ried as anthracite coal is almost ex-
clusively consumed on the boats of all
classes.
The time is drawing nigh for the
dealers to lay in their winter stock Of
coal and should the strike continue it
will delay this, at least so far as BIZ
luminous coal is concerned.
A director of one of the Ohio soft
coal roads said: 1--WE have evidence
from the west that the soft coal strike
is really going to be the salvation Of
the transportation companies of that
district, because it will harmonize diff
ferences and ultimately get the price
Of soft coal to point where there will
be money in hauling il as well as in
mining it. 1t may be called outrag-
eous that soft coal should be selling
in east st. Louis at sixty cents ton.
1t used to sell there at 81 a ton. At
the latter price there was money in
handling ii for everyone connected
with it. At sixty cents tonNshere is
ruin. The railroads are hauling it |
at less than a mil q ton mile |
which does not pay for simply the wear |
and tear of rolling stock. Everyone |
is glad that the strike is so general |
and has excited such widespread atten- |
ton from the public. This very fact |
will pave the way to an easier and lar
ger advance in price Of coal than could |
be otherwise attained"