The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-05-31

Scranton Is now entertaining within
her gates over one hundred Of the rep
resentative retail coal dealers of ,the
middle west, all members of the In
diana and Michigan Retail Coal Deal
ers association, an organization with
membership of over $50, which, to
use a trite phrase, cuts lceI several
feet thick" in the handling Of anthra-
cite coal in that part Of the country.
The association members have long
had a wish to visit this region and
see for themselves the modus operandi
OF mining anthracite coal. their stock
in trade. This year this desire took
well defined form and became an ac-
tual fact. Excursion rates from De-
troit, where the annual convention was
held on Monday, to this city were Sc
cured, and by contributions to the ex-
cursion fund from several honorary
members of the association, the cost
was reduced to a little more than 80
per head, which Is certainly remark
ably low.
The party left Detroit at IL o'clock
Tuesday night on a special train on
the Michigan Central railroad. They
arrived in Buffalo at 7.3o o'clock yes
$50 o'clock arriving here al $50 o'clock
yesterday afternoon, tired and bedrag-
gled somewhat. but happy neverthe-
less. 1t was thought at first that they
would not arrive until 1890 o'clock
| last night, SO that the arrangements
! of the board Of trade reception COM
mittee we-e somewhat set at naught.
The committee arose to the occasion,
HA.V a nf H. ty,Ii tot In a
members chartered special cars last
night and took the visitors to various
| parts of the city. This city Is cer-
tainly revelation to me-" said one
of the dealers last night. "I expected
to find dirty, sooty, dingy town, with
coal, coal everywhere. II stead 1 find
a neat, clean, bustling, up-to-date,
progressive city. l can't get over 1t"
This morning at $50 o'clock seventy
five of the visitors will board a special
train on the Lackawanna and be taken
to the Bellevue mines and escorted
through the workings of that colliery
by Superintendent E. f. Loomls. At
the same time another party Of twen-
ty-five will be taken through one OF
the Pennsylvania Coal company's Dun
more mines by Thomas H. Dale. This
afternoon the visitors will be taken
through the International Correspond
enc4 Schools and the steel mills by
the reception committe They leave the
city tonight and will spend tomorrow
in Buffalo.
Tho following association members
were registered last night at the Jer-
myn, where the official headquarters
are located: George T. Calvert and
wife, e. j. Corbett, w. T. Bowen
James Couzens, A. j. Nebc, r. L. Ayl.
ward, John F. Koenig, Charles Schuk.
necht, James 7. Eaman, H. E. Schu.
macker, E. F. Besurcon and Walter
Robinson, of Detroit; F. C. Wenkler
w. w. Lautz F. A. Senoger, George
Waldsmith, Walter Miller. Harvey
Balding, F. ]. Loughran and Loui.
C. Belstein, of South Bend, Indiana.
H. w. Godfred, w. f. Swengod, r
r. Beardsley, William Brunaman anC
William Kegennis, of Elkhardt, Ind.
T. A. Board, C. H. Clark, of Buffalo
j. w. Ryder, Of Kalamazoo; c. A
Slayton and wife, Of Tecumsic Mich
o. ]. Pond and H. A. Chaffin. of Chi
cago; H. l.. Bevis and George Gordon
Of Cleveland; F. NJ. Miller and S. T
Convin, of Pontiac, Mich; Karl B
Brundage and L. NJ. Breeder. of To
ledo; C. e. Aiken, Of Edwardsvllle
Mich; E. d. Hiscock, Henry Richard
and e. w. Stoebler, of Ann Arbor
Mich.
George II. Krundop and ]. NJ. Wode
well, Of Fort Wayne, Indiana: ]. H
Chilcote and wife, Of Wapanee, Ind.
j. r. Cook and wife, of Sturgis, Mich.
c. c. Reemer and wife, Of Saginaw
Mich; A. H. West and e. w. Morris
of Lansing, Mich: G. w. Kuhn, o
Mishawakee, Ind; f. NJ. Mulvaney an,
wife and Earl Goldsmith and wife, o
Bellevue. Mich.