New-York tribune., 1900-09-19
NEW PRICES FOR COAL.
ADVANCE OF 25 CENTS YESTERDAY
ID. AND H. SALES AGENTS ADVISE
DISTRIBUTION OF SUPPLY.

At the Office OF Curtis & BaisdelI. No. 12a Lib
erty-st. It learned yesterday afternoon that
the retail coal dealers Of the East Side at meet
ing yesterday afternoon had decided serve their
customers with anthracite coal at the following
rates until further notice.
WRi,s WSis 81. all sa an Ss[s sdeMss 3 g faT qS m
White hsh, pockets -
Rsd ;5d @sR ssS 10 10 FAMILIES fa@es 3 3
This is said to be virtually raise of twenty-five
cents ton within The last twenty-four hours.
Dealers stocks In this city are said to be no
heavier than usual although there has been a pre-
monitiOn OF the strike for the last four weeks.
Many OF tho orders being received now are from
well TO do people, whose custom, was solicited last
summer before they went away TO the country.
Now they only too anxious to get the coal, and
are chagrined the sharp advance In price The
dealers not filing large orCers with as much
alacrity usual. They show a disposition to
make their stocks so far possible.
The word passed around yesterday that the
Reading Railroad, Of the largest producers of
anthracite in position TO supply about 90
per cent of the city demand for at least two
months. the Reading mines are nearly all WORK
ing. The men employed by the Reading work on a
sliding scale to large extent. so that when the
company gets for It's coal the miners get
more for taking It out of the ground.
President Robert NJ Olyphant Of the Delaware
and Hudson Canal Company, whose twenty-eight
cOllierles idle account of the strike in the
anthracite coal regions said yesterday that the
payroll Of the striking employees amounted to $780,
900 a month.
And the remarkable thing about it is that the
men themselves want to work" said Mr. Olyphant
I'm addition TO the employees OF the mines and
breakers the train crews employed in hauling
the coal. These men compelled 10 suffer with
the rest. The last eight months have been more
prosperous for the miners and laborers in the an
thracte coal fields than any similar eight months
In the last fifteen years" continued Mr.. Olyphant
1T is rather astonishing fact that this strike
ordered by people living entirely outside the coal
regions. 1t engineered by two or three people,
| understand. who receiving salaries of $3.50 a
week from the treasury of the miners central body.
The strike leaders boast that they ST. 900 in
the treasury. That would pay the strikers about
one-half days wages each. Our men do not hesi-
tate say that they don't like the idea of strik-
ing. but the other hand they don't like 10 be
called scabs.' and therefore they go out with the
rest, Our company operates about twenty-eight
coieries."
1T has been suggested by some of the operators
that politics had something to do with the ordering
OF the strike. Do you take that vew?' Mr.. Oily
phant was asked.
u have reason to suspect that that is true but
have no proof of it, will not say II Till know II
is true" said Mr. Olyphant. Mr.. Bryan has
Iainly given the worklngmen of this country a cue
II they are unwise enough to believe all he says.
notice that Mr.. Mitchell sne of the strike leaders,
denies that politics have any bearing on the situa
ton hardly know what 70 make Of the strike
steady. Perhaps il was too much prosperity Our
supefintendent told me four months ago that dur
discomfort among the men, and he said that if the
times were hard there would probably be no strike
John Kerr general counsel Of the ontaTi9 , and
terday that the company had just made an In
ana found that in one the miners had been recev-
ing So month and in the other s5s month, with
about hours work Jay
All thirteen collieries operated by the Ontario
snGe s% bef1 ar5 ad ana off e coal "
President Fowler of the Ontario and Western said
company had gone out largely on account of SYM
pathy. He derlorcd the strike and said that moth
WjIaJa " S Thorne Vice president of the Penn
9G AND veserday made
pubAtsaN statement of earnings of the men which
payrOls of the company. It showed that the eight
thousand men employed by the company earned on
the men'5s WorE Of twenty days The miners
laborers who rank as assistants; IS; earned 8 % "a a
Of their collieries still at work, and that
fully 50 per cent OF their men wanted 10 go back,
Word was received Yesterday afternoon at the
general offices OF the Delaware and Hudson Canal
Iuzrrne' washery had been attacked by strikers on
Monday night. because he would not strike with
r. F. Torrey. sales agent of the Delaware and
Hudson company, issued the following circular TO
we regret to have to announce that the strike
suspension OF operations at our mines This has
been brought on by the efforts OF professional agi
lators a large number OF whom have been at work
for several months fomenting the present state Of
affairs
so far as our own employees are concerned, we
have never had from them any expression of dis
satisfaction request for change in existing
conditions We have reason to believe that the
conservative among them do not sycnpa; ;tlize with
the strike and that their influence will eventually
prevail ana work be resumed
ut seems proper for producers and dealers in coal
to carefully distribute the coal i'm stock
that the general public may not be Inconyenienced
We expect to make every possible effort in this
direction, and hope that all OF our customers will
cooperate with US"
The firm CT Leonard G. Youngmar. of No Broad.
WAY: said that there was nc coal TO be had
wholesale Just now. The retailers II was declared
had formed corner and were likely make the
most of their opportunity Practically the same
statement made by J. K. Wells. another coal
operator In the same building Mr.. Wells said that
he would not be surprised TO see the retailers ad-
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