New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-09-17
THE PASSING TIIRONG.

rx-rn,tod States Senator Mitchell. Of oregon Is
., tho Marlborough with his daughter VINO re-
turned from Paris on the 81 LOUIS
,NT1-INPER- Yesterday THE people OF oregon
IALIsTS are eXp"hs'onis'S 90 senator
prZZLE man" said the former senator
OREGONIANS "and we've reason 10 oe' we ,"
regiment Of twelve hundred
or,,.or have ONT 10 the Philippines, and sixty
tbrse ~ them died there fighting for their couh-
ivy As a poonle We do not believe IN reHhqulsn-
ING what # cost so much human suffering 10 oo-
tain The operations Of the brains ana co"So'e"'e'
Of the people in the East who profess TO ""Ne "
desire 10 hand the Philippines over 10 Asuia'Uo
arc not at all understood by our people on the
Pacific Coast ! am out Of politics now ana AZ
tending strictly 10 the law business. but sincerely
hone and believe the Administration VIII WHIP muse
Fuipinos into subsection within the next SIX Hon's
The Pacific Coast IS prosperous but we nav"
felt the clean-cut benefits Of the business reNl'd
as you have In the East It's thns mat "d'el'
from the Atlantic to the Pacific We are just be-
ginning 70 feel IT, and we believe It has come to stay
We've been in The habit OF senuns utaIlSt az
money to you people in me has Tor racbinery and
steel and iron Factories are springlng up on lne
cast nov w 5 SHa we W ERR the deveo1ment Of he
Philippinos there IS fine future for the facinc
yy0 0 co SiI' gS All Of the SIX Hewneand states
It and still have about one-thlrd OF tn. ar w.
or "A section almost as large as the state OF sew"
York II oregon were populated as thicKY as
Belgium we would have fOr;yeight mlInons OF 20
pie So you see, we've got plenty OF IoOi u" 10y,
in Oregon is permanently I'm the RepuDlcah COZ
unn Of States POpulism is dying out me faNoidole
business conditions having robbed II or us N'dHH
why don't you write something about coal
laundries?" asked G. C. White. Of Scranton, OF a
Tribune reporter at the Fifth Az
ANTHRACITE enue Hotel last night. The coal
COAL laundries are one OF the FEATURES
LAUNDRIES. Of the anthracite coal region now
and they afford Of the most
striking illustrations of the tendency TO utilize
waste products Thirty years ago chestnut coal
was the smallest size that had any ready market
That being the case. everything below that size
was dumped with the slate and dust. This went
on until the culm dumps between WikeshaIre ana
Carbonate contained millions OF tons Of good coal
About six or eight years ago young man with a
new idea turned mp in the ncighborhood Of ScIah-
ton. He contracted with one Of the old companies
for all the coal I'm a certain big culm dump at %
cents ton The company was glad 20 sell IT. The
vol7g man with new idea turned stream Of
water from the hillside into pipe ana SCI eoiik
a lot Of elevator pockets, the same as the gram
the water washed away the dust leaving a Ia' Re
amount of mcrch autdblc coal of the pea ana DUCK
wheat sizes OF to-day Pretty soon inc young man
took several OF the OLD cCmpanys customers away
and tlen the utility and value ~ the new idea was
appreciated. Now all the old dumps are 40 a pre-
MUM The Delaware and III Gs0n and Delaware
Ia kawanna and Western companies viii not sell
them at all. Thousands OF tons OF pea ana uuck-
wheat coal such as you see dumped through ne
furnaces are being turned out oy me washerles
or "laundrics.' as they are Called Pre- black
water loade with dust. is In many cases turned
into abandoned mine workings, ana the me aust
foated I'm this manner fills the ola workings almost
solid That's the newest kind OF a laundry in the
coal regions. What do YOU think Of them