The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-01-03
E. & W. Y. TRACKS
WILL NOT BE USED
COAL DELIVERED AT YATES.
WILLIE AND CARBoNDALE.
From Yatesville the Parent Erie
Company Will Take the Coal Via
the w. B. g. E. and the N. Y.
S. g. w.-From Carbondale 1t Will
Go Over the jefferson Branch-Erie
Company, for Some Reason, Is Not
to Avail Itself of Its E. & w. ".
Trackage Privilege.

For some reason best known to New
York. Lake Erie and Western officials
they will not use the Erie and Wyom-
ing Valley railroad--at least not at
present-in fulfilling their coal-carry-
ing contract with the Delaware and
Hudson company.
The Delaware and Hudson coal will
be delivered to the parent Erie COM
pany at Yatesville and Carbonate.
From Yatesville it will be carried over
the Wilkes-Barre and Eastern and the
New York, Susquehanna and Western
roads. which are controlled by the Erie.
At Carbondale the coal will be switched
to the tracks of the Erie's Jefferson
branch, which connects with the main
| line at Nineveh IN. " Junction.
The foregoing information comes to
The Tribune from Delaware and Hud-
son source which is eminently authori-
| tative as far as the facts related are
concerned. This authority does not
| profess to know why the Erie road does
not propose to avail itself of its track
| age privileges over the Erie and Wyom-
ing Valley nor is this authority re-
| ferred to able to state whether fuse will
| bV maui VI tlllS anu w SlilillS
| trackage later. 1t is only known that
the Delaware and Hudson company has
been notified to deliver at Yatesville
and Carbondale until otherwise di-
rected.
WILL BEGIN TODAY.
The carrying contract between the
two companies went into effect yester-
day, but no coal was shipped, as work
was abandoned for the day at all the
Delaware and Hudson collieries, the
date being observed as New Years
| Day.
Yesterday the new order Of things
went into effect on the Delaware and
Hudsons gravity system between Car
bondale and Honesdale. For the first
time since the gravity between the two
towns began to operate-and that was
many years ago-the planes between
Carbondale and Farview and between
Waymart and Honesdale were idle and
only those between Farview and Way
mart We're used.
Beginning yesterday, no coal will be
transported over the system. Trains
for passengers and freight will be
operated the motive power is furnished
by locomtives between Carbondale and
Farview and between Waymart and
Honesdale, the latter town and Carbon
dale being the lowest points on either
end of the gravity grades.
Some trite observations on the new
policy of the Delaware and Hudson are
offered by w. Williams, of Carbondale
He is poet and justice of the peace,
and very light holder of the com.
pany's stock. A few years ago he at.
fFasNa
New York city and expressing to the
company officials few opinions or
how the road should be operated.
5 MIR. WILLIAMS LETTER.
In letter to The Tribune dated yes
2 terday Mr.. Williams writes:
Now that the poor old Delaware and
Hudson gravity Is nearing its end, a kick
or two more and it is gone 1t is only
right that an obituary of such an old and
= respected neighbOr should be written thai
q the young folks of her sect may profit
h from her good and her weak points.
Now she came into existence in 1928
y but some historians say she was not quite
\ here before 1929. Mr.. Vents, superntend
e ent, followed by James Archibald, two
brainy men of their time, conceived tn,
d originality of the plan of taking coal ovel
a the mountains. Then came the late Mr.
| DlCkSOn as nTeSluell. vi course OtlCe'
| always increase to put her favored young
: sters forward. Wen, sir, he was a very
q kind and far seeing person-that is. lik,
C many people who can see better far away
than they can close by with glasses s.
h he looked up into the woods of New
York and built and leased railways anC
built the jefferson branch for the Fri
company instead OF for the Delaware ant
Hudson company, of whom he was tn
head and receiving a good salary. Ant
, what Is the consequence?
The Erie has paid for the road by let
ting the Delaware and Hudson trains pas
over il, and now that the gravity road i
in the last thrOes of the grim monste
s. the company is bottled up tighter tha
'. the Spanish fleet by Sampson which vii
- be a very hard task to escape. Her bunk
n ers here became very much depleted a
:. the cost of about four millions per al
mum. Like the Christmas turkey, ther
is but little of the cid skeleton left. lie
l. us see: In 1887 the net earnings was
/ fraction over ll5s per cent, and in 1896
lie had fell to n trihe over per cent. an
s it is often wondered by those who hav
seen how the old carcas has been picke
that there is any utility left in her.
DEPRECIATION OF STOCK.
Ten years ago the stock was selling a
W one hundred and seventy-five; a fe'
:, weeks ago less than ninety dollars pc
: share, while scores of innocent lamt
" have been shorn of its wool, so that I'll
S, week ending December TO- 1895, over thi
d, teen thousand five hundred share
Of changed hands.
T. Now, sir what is the most feasible
=, make the most of the remains of the Cl
- fahrick? We suggest that the stool
III holders at the next annual meeting
10 May attend and vote so that a large pc
centage of new blood up to date may
- infused into the directorate who will loo
after the stockholders interest so as
make the most Of the old skeleton f
their interest by sailing down the leeche
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