The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-04-24
INDUSTRIAL JoTTINGs.

This morning fourteen Scranton car
pcnters will leave for Long Island, where
they have secured situations.
S. W. Roberts, Of this city, and John
Simons, until few months ago one of
the propretors Of the Hotel Columbia at
Lake Ariel, have purchased the Sweater
Manufacturing company of Hawley.
The manufacturers OF automatic mine
doors located at Terre Haurte, Ind, are
anxious to locate here and an effort is
being made to move the plant to this
city. S. Nj. Reynolds, of Terre Haute,
former rcsiuent of Scranton, is the
president of the company
Duffy Brothers, who represent a silk
manufacturing company at Paterson, N.
j., were in the city on Saturday, look
ing for a site to locate here. They called
on several land owners who have sites
to give factories, but It is not known
what success they met with.
Between thirty and forty men employed
| in the Delaware, Lackawanna and
| Western machine shops in this city were
suspended Saturday. AS soon as the
work of moving the Kingston and Blooms
burg shops TO this city Is completed it is
probable they will be reinstated.
Foreman Smith, of tho boiler shop ut
! the Cliff works, has returned to Provi-
dence, r. I. Walter Brown, recently of
Paterson, n. J., has taken Mr.. Smith $
place. Mr.. Brown is assisted by his faith
er, Andrew Brown, who was foreman at
| the old Penn avenue boiler shop thirty
years ago.
a. Hazlett, the undertaken, has be-
| come interested with Scranton and New
York capitalists in the natural and min
eral resources of Puerto Principe Cuba.
Preliminary operations have been begun
| on ten-acre tract Of land The grow
| ing of cocOanuts, lemons and oranges
will also be engaged in.
Announcement is made of the fact that
| the Forest Mining company operating at
| Archibald, has cancelled all options held
against 1t for purchase and that the coll
| liery will not change hands 1t will be
recalled that this is one of the individual
| concerns which the Temple Iron COM
pany was negotiating to purchase.
"There is reason to believe that consid-
| cradle progress has been made with the
plans for the mammoth steel consolida-
| tion," says the Philadelphia Stakeholder
| 1.-THE pool, as now contemplated, i'll
| cludeS the Federal Steel company the
| National Steel company and the Ameri-
can Steel Hoop company 1t is proposa ed
to combine these in company, the cap
| italiZatiOn of which will be something
| over three hundred million dollars. EX-
| Governor Flower is the dominant sEirit in
! the enterprise, and in this connection the
| persistent buying during last week OF
| Federal Steel stocks by the Flower inter
| est strengthens belief that a consumma,
| ton Of the deal is near at hand. with
| these vast interests gathered into Il single
| organization, the latter could on its owr
| terms absorb tho remaining steel com.
| panies of the country, the only interest
which would be in position to stand
| out being tho Carnegie Steel company
Among the details leaking cut is the re.
puted connection of ex-Speaker Thomas
b. Reed with the combination; it is said
| that he goes to New York virtually under
engagement as the chief legal adviser Ct
| the new company"