The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-09-27
COMPANIES PREPARING


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the coal continues to arrive and cause
concern To everybody; the Mine Work
ers' officials because they said it would
not come in; the miners, because they
placed every reliance on this promise;
the operators, because IL means en-
croochments on their markets. and the
public at large, because of the hurt
that these encroachments will do the
community.
No change occurred in the tie-up,
conditions remaining exactly the same
as on the previous day. The Della
ware, Lackawanna and Western COM
pany's quartette of big washeries and
the Columbus companys washery con-
tinued to operate full handed, al
| though at some of them the company
| officials were called upon to doff their
coats and turn in to help fill out the
quota necessary to run the places.
Business is very dead, and some es-
Establishments are beginning to very
seriously feel the blight that follows
such general idleness as now prevails.
SO few are the commercial men visit
ing this region that Hotel Jermyn,
which is generally crowded to the gar
ret with them, has some days only two
or three, and the day n half dozen of
them register is considered exceptional.
The lobby, which is usually crowded
every evening, is now as lonesome a
place as one would want to encounter
when in a sociable mood.
Thirteenth regiment men were kept
in a continued state of suspense yes
terday by the announcement that
Sheriff Harvey. of Luzerne. had made
requisition for troops and that the
Ninth and Thirteenth regiments would
be picked upon to Join their fellows
of the Third brigade in the lower dis
tricts. No word came from Harris
burg to relieve their anxiety, further
than a dispatch to the effect that Gov
ernor Stone would not honor Sheriff
Harvey's requisition until there was
more evidence of the necessity of addi-
tional troops. Colonel Watres has his
men on waiting orders, all the camp
baggage is packed and ready for ship
ment, and inside of three hours after
the blast furnace gong toots the call
to arms, he can have his command
under way. Sheriff Harvey's CALL ac-
| cording to yesterdays dispatches. had
| the effect of discouraging strikers
marches, and the probabilities are the
Thirteenth will be spared the unpleas-
ant experience it had in 1897, follow
ing the Lattimer trouble.
The Delaware, T.ackaWanna and
Western companY's coal department
yesterday issued the following notice:
The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Rail.
road Company.
Coal Mining Department.
+. +. Looms, superintendent
The men strike at the following mines will
be paid as below. Regular monthly men and
| Others still at work will be paid at about their
usual time:
Scranton. Pa, Sept 90, 1900
Bri,bin mines, S a. M, Friday, sept IS.
Cayrga mines, a. M. Friday, Sept 2S.
Hyde Park mines, 1870 a. m, Friday, Sept.
| 2S
Continental mines, 1880 a. m, Friday, Sept.
| 2S.
Taylor mines, a. m. Saturday. Sept 90.
Holden Mines a.. M, Saturday, Sept 90
lIlllstcad mines, II a. m, saturday, Sept. 90.
Pync mines. 4. m. saturday, Sept. -.
Avondale mines, I p. M, Saturday, sept. %.
PliNS mines p. M, Saturday, Sept. o.
The men At the remaining mines will he paid
| early next week.
Superintendent Loomis said yester-
day this does not mean that the men
are to consider themselves discharged
or anything of that kind. A large num-
Der of men We're constantly coming in,
asking for their pay, and as it could
be taken for granted that all would be
glad to get what was coming to them
| Just as soon as possible, the company
decided to advance the pay day to the
| earliest date on which the pay-rolls
could be made ready.
The action of Superintendent Loomis
in directing the accountants not to
take out the rental of company houses
from the short wages of this month
| was commented upon very generally
by the newspapers throughout the
county, yesterday, and one and all
characterized it as a very graceful act.