The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-02-22
NEW ROAD WILL DO
MUCH FOR DUNMORE
INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENT
THoRNE, OF THE D. v. 4 X.
TO the Same Extent That the E. &
W. v. r. r. Will Be Extended the
Plant at Dunmore Will Be En-
larged-stories About Sweeping
Changes in ofRcials and Curtail-
ment Of Authority Are without
Foundation-Ready to Let Con-
tracts Next Week.

What the Lackawanna company has
done for Scranton during the past year
the expanded Erie and Wyoming prom
ises to do for Dunmore when the plars
which the management now has under
way are complete.
Such was the statement. without the
comparison. made to q Tribune re-
porter last evening by W. v. S. Thorne.
of New York, vice-president Of the Erie
and Wyoming and Pennsylvania Coal
company and president of the new
Delaware Valley and Kingston road.
I'VE do not propose to make any
sweeping changes in the officials Of the
road. as some paper here. / am told.
has stated" said Mr.. Thorne. NOR has
there been anything done or contem-
plated that should tend to give out the
impression that Mr.. Smith has had his
authority abridged and Is to be dis.
placed. What has been done is simply
this: The work Of the railway depart
nent will be doubled by the extension
to tidewater and Mr.. Smith has been
given some help on that end Of his
work. He still continues as president
Of the Erie and Wyoming and general
superintendent Of the Pennsylvania
Coal company. with the same authority
that he always had.
ARRANGEMENTS BEING MADE.
General Manager Slade and Super
intendent Davis are now engaged In
arrangements that will place the road
In readiness to become part of the
through line to tidewa,er. Chief En-
gineer Webster, who is with me here
today, tells us that he has the final
location of the entire route about COM
plete, and If the railroad commissions s
sanction was Forthcoming at once we
could begin to let contracts next week."
Mr. Thorne expressed himself as con.
fident that the New York state COM
missioners will sanction the new road
and that the sanction will be given
promptly at the close of the hearings
now in progress. Five hearings have
already taken place and another is
scheduled for March IS. 1t is expecte d
the case will be finished at this hear
ing.
"Ninety-nine per cent. of the res.
dents of the territory through which
the new road is to be built are in favor
! of it," Mr.. Thorne said, land I have
| every cause to believe the people of this
place are in favor of it. We want them
to be with us. They will not regret it.
Our road by reason of it's natural adj
| vantages and consequent cheapness of
construction and operation. can carry
coal to New York at much less figure
than it is now being carried for. This
means better possibilities OF competing
against bituminous; better profits for
the operator and better times in gem
eral in this region.
RENEFIT TO DUNMORE.
"Dunmore will be especially bene-
| fitted by the opening of the new road.
I can not now tell you in detail what
we propose to do there. but let it suf-
fee to say that 1t will be the head
quarters for construction and repairs.
and that in the same degree that the
road is extended the Dunmore plant
will be extended. We will make things
boom around Dunmore."
Mr. Thorne and the local officials
spent yesterday in consultation at the
Pennsylvania company's offices in Dun
more and last evening he and Chial
Engineer Webster had a conference al
the Jermyn. Mr.. Thorne. Chief En-
gineer Webster, General Manager Sla lc
and Superintendent Davis will start out
this morning to make a trip by car.
riage over the entire length of the new
road between Hawley and Kingston.