The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-25
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

After months of investigation into the
feasibility Of increasing the coal carry
ing capacity of its cars the Pennsylvania
railroad has definitely decided upon the
plan. a contract has been awarded the
Schoen Pressed Steel company to man.
ufacture 1000 steel CO RS Tor the road, with
a capacity of 100000 pounds each. The
total cash value of the Contract-onC "f
the largest made in this branch Of rail-
road manufacturers in the neighborhood
of 81, 900 900. Notwithstanding the great
ness of the outlay the expenditure is in
the line of the striCtest economy, which
comes high at first when interests Of a
magnitude like those of the Pennsylvania
railroad are to be dealt with. The pro
posed employment of ears Of such inl-
mense capacity is a radical departure in
freight transportation. 1t has been long
under consideration by the officials of tho
road, for, while the change was obviously
desirable, it's feasibility remained to be
assured. Hitherto capacity of $4,000
pounds has been regarded as the maxi
mum size of coal cars.
Wilkes Barre is promised n large SILK
ribbon mill says the Record of that city
The firm has three large plants in the
east, all of them being successfully Oper-
ated, and the idea is to move one of these
plants to Wilkes-Barre, in order to take
advantage Of the Cheapness Of fuel, of a
new quality of labor, and for other rca-
sons which may not yet be mentioned.
The site selected is on South Empire
street. IL begins at the intersection of
Hillside and Northampton streets and
runs along South Empire to Market
street. The site is unoccupied and COM
prises nine acres. The property is at
present owned by the Lehigh and Wilkes
Barre Coal company, 1t is located on the
Nanticoke branch of the Central Railroad
of New Jersey and the railroad shipping
I facilities are satisfactory. Building OPP
eratOns will be begun as soon as poss
BILE. The first building will be $50 feet
long and 45 deep and will be Of brick, four
stories in height. other buildings will
| follow. When the plant is in full opera
tion it will employ about a thousand
hands, mostly girls, although quite a
number of men will also find employment,
and the outlay in wages will amount 10
about $5O0,OOO year.
Work on the Delaware Valley, Hudson
and Lehigh railroad, to run from Port
Jervis to Saylorsburg, will be commenced
| within sixty days and probaDly within
| half that time. At the present time tlNre
| is nothing that will prevent the cOnslruc-
| tion of the railroad which has long been
| in contemplation, up the Delaware valley.
IL Is rumored that the Capouse colliery,
| or Briggs mines, owned and operated by
| NllS l@dChhNAlHe ilbli anu oNNtl CUM
pany, will be working again June /, af-
ter a months ideness.
| Four eieht-hour days last week and
| three OF four This week will be the sched-
| ule for the few mines that will be in op-
! Grafton in West Scranton,
The mules were brought outside from
the Bellevue and Hampton mines yester-
| day. This means a shut down until the
| first of June at least.
Building contractors In West Scranton
seem to have a good deal OF work on
hand, Many new buildings, especially on
the Lincoln Heights, Fairview and Tripp
| Land companies tracts, are being erect
ed. All fine looking and modern struc-
| lures. Here and there, all over West
Scranton improvements, remodelling and
| the like, is going on.
SAINTS Iron works, on Jackson street
Is finding IL hard to keep up with their
orders; even with "A continuous running
night and day. The main output Of the
works is iron fences, but all sorts of fine
iron work is done.
During this week II Is likely that the
Dodge, Hyde Park, Continental and PynC
mines will be the only Delaware, Lacka-
wanna and Western company colieries
working.
An order Issued by Superintendent Jas
Donnelly, of the Lehigh Valley railroad
makes employees who hazard life or limt
by mounting or dismounting moving
trians liable to summary discharge.