Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-11-25
100000 BUSHELS
OF COAL HAVE BEEN SENT SOUTH
IN SPITE OF THE STRIKE OF
THE MARINE ENGINEERS.
BUT A NUMBER OF ToWBoATs
Have Been Unable to Get Out on Acc
count OF the Lack of Engineers.
Twice az Much Coal Would Have
Been Sent But for This Trouble.
The Men Will stand Firm-Other
River News of Local Interest.

coal boat stage of ten feet Is ex-
pected at the Davis Island dam to-day,
and it is said number of the larger tow
boats will be started south with big fleets
of coal. The strike of the marine en-
gineers has greatly interfered with the
original plans of the association, but $780,
900 bushels of the 30,0O00o0 bushels loaded
have been sent south on the present rise.
The engineers claim that the towboats
Voyage, Sam Clark, Iron Age, Defender.
Jim Wood Ed. Roberts, Pacific No. Q,
Tom Dodsworth, I. j. Woods, Wilmot and
j. B. Finley are unable to move from the
pools on account of being unable to Sc
cure engineers. but the Monongahela Riv-
er Coal and Coke Company deny this
statement
The boats that left Pittsburg Friday,
according to the engineers, are proceed
ing down stream with but one engineer.
The officials of the coal combination deny
this statement and say that there are but
three or four boats with one engineer.
The empty lows are being abandoned by
the engineers as fast as they reach Pitts
burg.
The officials of the river coal combine
still declare that the wage scale of the en-
gineers will not be signed and that all the
coal booked for shipment on the present
water will be sent. out The combine fur
Their claims to have offered to meet the
engineers half way in settlement of the
strike by paying the men the wages de-
manded without signing the wage scale.
The proposition was refused, and as a re-
suit thousands of boatmen are idle with
an excellent barge stage in the Ohio and
more water coming. The engineers are
more confident than ever of winning
A director of the Monongahea River
Consolidated Coal and Coke Company gave
out this statement: 1--WE had, previous to
the rise, AIS loaded barges, and $50 of this
number have been shipped. Some of our
boats are in port. we admit but the De-
fender and Tom Dodsworth will get out
to-day and the Finley will go tomorrow
We have really done better than we ex-
pected and the run of 100000 bushels up
TO noon to-day was beyond our expecta-
ton"
President George H. Uhler, of the Ma
tional Marine Engineers Association, gave
out the following: WThe men are standing
firm. The boats proceeding down the
river only have one engineer The en-
gineers will hold out until the scale is
signed. We do not ask anything unrea-
sonable. The company has agreed to pay
the wages, and if they are willing to do so,
why don't they put their signature to the
agreement? Some of these men only work
five and six months in the year, and they
do not earn fortune"
The James Moren stuck six barges at
Brunots Island last night in trying to get
around the Joseph Walton, but the craft
was f7oated to-day. If the trouble had not
been precipitated among the engineers
100000 bushels of coal would have been
moved but what coal has been sent will
supply the lower markets for some weeks
TO come.