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dom And wha, he adds exhibits tha,
he 10 iaboring under n sense Of buiIo
cation from tac vitia;cd Official a,mos
phcrc which he was then breathing.
One thing I have gained by my Gus
tom house cSpcr!cncc-to know poll
,'riRn. want nothing to do with
them. Their hearts withcr away and
dic out OF their bodies. Taolr con
scicncos are turned TO india rubber OF
to something ns black as that and
which will stretch as much. when
quit this earthly cavern whore M,
now buried This Office was In tho
basement Of the old Custom House in
Custom Houzc street. still standing
thcrc). men will not perceive. I trust;
by my look or the tenor Of my
thoughts and feelings. that have
been n Custom House ofiicer!' Else
where he refers to what he evidently
looks upon as II It were an invoiun'
tary place OF detention in these graph
ic words: My darksomc dungeon
into which dismal region never
comes any bird of paradise The of
fetal records cited arc always avail
able for public inspection"
watered stock is the kind you &c,
nj most wct.yoods emporiumH
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Whitelaw Reid. Xenia, o.
John d. Rockefeller. Richford. N. Y.
s. 8. Mcclure. County Antrim. Ire.
land.
Andrew Carnegie. Dunfcrmline. Scot.
land.
James C. Carter. Lancaster. Mass.
Henry Clews. Staffordshire. Enc.
land.
Daniel s. Lamont, Cortlandville.
N. Y.
Henry NJ. Fiagier. Canandaigua
N. Y.
Charles r. Flint. Thomaston. Nc.
d. o. Mills. North Salem. N. Y.
Frank A. Munsey. Mercer. Me.
Adolph s. Ochs. Cincinnati. o.
w. II. Hearst. San Francisco.
Charles Dana Gibson. Roxbury.
Mass.
George Harvey. Peacham. Vt.
John BrIsben Walker. western Penn.
sylvania.
Bishop Potter. Schenectady. N. Y.
George q. Williams. East Haddam.
Conn.
Horace White. Colebrook. N. II.
Lewis Nixon. Leesburs. Va.
Nicholas Murray Butler. Elizabeth.
N. J.
Henry n. Allen. Mt. Tabor. W.
Maurice Grau. Brunn. Austria.
Morris X. Jesup. westport. Conn.
Herman Oelrichs. Baltimore.
Samuel Sloan. Ireland.
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RARE COLLECTION OF BIBLES.
Dean HoHman's Costly Gift to the
General Theological Seminary.

One Of the many gifts of the late
Rev. Eugene A. Hoffman to the Cen
crai. Theological Seminary, Of which
institution he was head. was the spe.
cial collection of rare old Latin Bi-
bies. This collection is said to be
the rarest in the world. SURPRISING In
number of editions even that OF the
British museum in London and the
Bibliotheque Rationale in Paris. Tho
collection was started by Cornelius
Vanderbilt about eight years ago.
when he donated the splendid Copin-
gor library. Since then Dean Hon.
man has added from time to time
many rare and valuable additions.
spending many thousands of dollars
in his Efforts to make the library the
most complete in existence. By all
odds the most important book In the
great library of the seminary Is the
Gutenberg Bible. 1t was sold In 1881
for sl9.5OO in London to Quaritch.
who sold IL in turn to the Rev. VIII.
liam Mackellar of Edinburgh. In 1898
1t again fell into the possession Of
Quaritch, who paid for 1t at that time
s14.750. Later he sold 1t to Dean
Hoffman for $4,000. who presented
Il to the General Theological Sem
mary.
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How He Saw IL.

Uncle 81 tagriculturisD-I've hearn
the New York ZOO is great.
Uncle 10 tcountryside jo!ier)-Wal.
| guess! They've got the unmitigated
ass. and money sharks. and country
suckers. and Chicago Holsters, and
Wall street bulls, and stock exchange
bears, and peacocks o. fashion, and
monkey-faced dudes, and society apes,
and old hen reformers. and gawkies.
and snipes, and snakes of vice, and
Tammany tigers. and owl cars, and
Standard Oil hogs. and doves of peace.
and dogs of war. an -
Uncle Silas-Say, 10. want gallon
of that same cider.--Life.
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1rue sueeesa In Life.

There are scores of living men who
might be mentioned who have at
tanned to all that goes to make up
success as it is commonly estimated,
says the San Francisco Chronicle.
They have wealth, social and political
influence and popularity; they have
everything that heart can wish, and
yet the man OF the world of the aver
age sort would not for moment adj
nit that his success is to be COM
pared with that of the man who has
lost everything yet has served his
country as patriot. has made the
foundation of the state little strong
er. the life of a common people lit
tie sweeter and happier. has given to
his family and his friends an example
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GLASS YOU CANNOT BREAK
May Be Nodded Into Any Form and
Used a. a Hammer.

SbGo s8 tNdTVU1CFs
Louis Kauffeld. European glass.
worker. makes extraordinary claims
for n new kind of glass he has just dis.
covered. 1t is glass OF such nature
that will not break. that can be mold.
ed into any desired form. that can bo
hammered without catastrophe-in
short. n glass that will be as mallea.
bic rs lead or any other metal. With
an ordinary goblet made OF his new
material he can hammer nail into a
tough board. He can bore a hole in
q glass pane, and then patch It with
another piece of the same kind Of
glass. Coffee pots and tea kettles can
be made of the new substance. and
will no more crack. even under the
most intense heat. than would steel.
While Kauffeld's process Is un.
known to anybody except himself he
recently volunteered the information
that the lime and lead that are used
in the manufacture of ordinary glass
do not enter into the composition OF
this. THE secret les" he said, "in
the chemicals that are used in max.
ing this glass and the proportions in
which these chemicals are put into it. -
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METAPHORS FROM THE seA.
nueh Nautical Language Used .
Ordinary Conversation.


Let nc put In my oar" said gen.
tlomnn as he Joined three of his nc-
quaintnnccs In tho Waldorf-ABtorln
cafe the other night and took n seat
ut n table with them.
THAT IL about the twentieth meta
phor OF that sort that I have heard
tonight" answered one of the others.
'and II seems very strange that We
should borrow SO many OF our figures
from the sen. never thought OF II
before. br; Il In curious.
II have never been closely nssoci.
ntcd with the water. and I don't be-
l!oyc that any OF you have. and yet
we arc using sea terms nil OF tho
time. They nrc wonderfully express
sIvc. too. and I don't know what wo
would do without them.
You wanted to put In your oar.
n moment ago some one talked about
being all adrift.' and I admitted that
was n, sea- We tnik about our
weather cyc.' being 'spliccd.' our
'mainstny' and all that sort of stuff.
anchor to windward.' to back and
fill.' to steer through. to be taken
aback' and TO have the wind taken
out of our sails
I'VE spin n yarn try the other
tack launch enterprises. get them
under full sail and often wreck
them. We cry for amy port in n
Storm take In a. reef get to our
ropes end run before the wind.
and sometimes keel over. So 1t goes
on until I believe We can talk about
almost everything in the language OF
the sea."-New York Herald.
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when they seemed sure of their prey
All, my dear girl. the honors are pret
| ty nearly even, It seems to mo! We
belong to each other. and Heaven give
me the power to make your life hap
py!"
"Oh. Charlie! doubt can never enter
l could not live without your love!
am only contented with you
They spent a happy half hour.
Then Charlie remembered that hs
bore message.
"Aleck and your father arc below.
They met In the strangest way during
the hre: II certainly looks as though
the hand OF fate was In It. At any
rate. they are both anxious to see you. )"
ho said.
Capt. Brand claimed his daughter.
and this time there could be no mis-.
taking the genuine thrill that awoks
In Ariine's heart when she saw his 20.
nial face and heard his voice. which
While the great metropolis was
wrapped In mourning on that sad St.
Patrick's evening. happy group dined
In the Other MOTEL.
Capt. Brand related many OF his ad.
ventures In a modest way, entirely DIFF.
ferent from the braggadocio Of the i'm.
postor.
Again and again his eyes rested
tenderiy and proudly on his lovely
daughter: she had been In his thoughts
for years while he secured the deserts
with the wild Arab tribe with whom
he had been associated: and he had
hard work indeed to believe II was not
q dream.
manly. and Charlie felt sure he had a
grand future before him. Tho foliies
OF the past would serve as guideposts.
directing him to the straight and mar.
row road that leads to happiness.
As for Charlie. peace had come
upon him such rs only the mariner
knows when nt last his storm.tossed
barquc slips into n safe harbor. where
love and home await his coming.
He looked into her beautiful face.
where the iovciIsht and glow OF happi.
ness dweit forever more. and thanked
Heaven for the bountiful morcies that
OF hro to such peace and hope.
No cloud dimmcd their Joy on this
night OF thanksgiving. savo tho pity
they felt for those who had lost loved
ones In tho awful calamity.
The shock r,ust for long time hang
upon thcm-it could hardly be other
wise: but young hearts recover from
such things by and by. and NJ length
II would only hc n sad memory. to
arouse n sigh or plying tear.
Through Ariino's ready hand n mum.
bcr Of those who suffered In the firc
found temporary relief: her purse was
open to any reasonable demand: and
when. romc months later. she sailed
for England with her husband. many
grateful heart brcathed prayers for
her safety upon the deep.
THE END.
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Tho life story of Luther Shear. who
by far Is the greatest criminal Of the
century. Is one that reads like . ro-
nance. Natural shrewdness and bust.
moss ability. coupled with . pleasing
and almost irresistible personality.
were the main factors of his success
as criminal. His talents were direct
Cd into crooked channel At an carly
age. and II is expected that he will
die In Sing Sing without suffering any
compunctions OF conscience for the
widespread misery and ruin that his
criminal propensities wrought. In
brief. the following is q history Of the
iifo OF Luther Shear:
Born ................... 1888
Divinity student 1853
Union soldier ................. .1S6l
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Divorce in the Family.

A curious instance Of the spread OF
divorce. us viewed in a single family.
is related by the Independence Beige.
few days ago. at Brussels, proceed.
ings were begun in n case In which a
wife sought divorce. which has since
been granted. During the evidence 1t
transpired that the divorced woman
had had two sisters already divorced.
their father is n divorced husband.
and they have a brother whose case Is
pending.
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Record Head Of Hair.

A Mexican lady. by name Mercedes
Lopez. claims to possess tho longest
head Of hair in the world. She is only
fivc feet in height. but when standing
erect her tresses trail on the ground
n distance Of four feet eight inches.
It is. moreover. SO think that she can
hide herself in its folds. So quickly
does It grow that she is able to cut on
large trcsses and sell them from time
to time, since her husbands position
is only that of poor shepherd.
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pitercnt wav to exprcss n.

Sir Henry CampbellBannerman. tho
English liberal leader. was announced
to deliver speech in the commons
en- one occasion. A newspaper man
sent a note asking how long he In
tended to speak. Sir Henry replied:
Il don't think intend is the proper
word. hut | fear about an hour"
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Too Good n Liar

A young man from Banffshirc was
spending his holidays in Aberdeen.
While walking on "the green in COM
pany with his uncle, he was surprised
to see so many kites flying. Observing
one far higher than the rcst. he called
his unclc's attention and asked II ever
he had seen kite flying as high be.
fore. Did ever I see anc rs high
aforc7 Man. jamie. that's naething.
for hae seen some o. them clean DOT
O. sicht."-Scottish American.
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owns Miles Of scotch Land.

One of the richest titled men in
Great Britain is the Duke of Buc-
cleuch. who owns. chiefly in Scotland,
his native place. some 100000 acres of
land. bringing an annual rental of
over s1,o0o,000. Ground rents of near
ly the same amount are his and he in
herited nearly s5,O00.00O from his
father. The outgo in connection with
his various places of residence Is also
very great, for the duke Is free liver.
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For cuarrelsome Women.

The mayor OF Steubenville, Ohio
has hit upon novel plan to settle
petty "clothesiine" quarrels between
women. He, It is said. has establish.
ed lighting room" in which he
locks the women who quarrel over
back yard fences. After an hours
abuse OF each other they run down
like clocks. Then they become recon
ciled.
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of unspotted rcctitude. and In doing
these things has missed personal al
vancemcnt and pleasure.
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Newspaper proprietor ...........1S17
Convict. Sing Sing. nvc years. .lss3
Successful merchant at Atlanta,
Georgia .lsSs
Convict. Albany Pcnitcntinry. two
years ................... 1899
Convict Auburn Prison. two years.lSos
General Manager Building and
Loan Company. Syracuse. .lSo6
Convict. West Virginia Pcnitcn.
uary. is mcnths. s............. 1901
Convict. Sing Sing. four years. 1909
Wasted honest and dishonest
money. chiefly the latter. =. $3.50. 900
Luther Shear was born In Albany.
n. V. and In 1858 located In New York
city on East foustccnth street
The youth was taught by tutors and
went TO the then nriA;ocratic academy
of ". II. Reid. nt Ncwburg. n. V. In
1858. In 1859 he went to the Thcolosi.
cal College Of Amherst and Hubsc.
qucntiy to Dartmouth. but on tho
breaking cut OF the civil war he re-
turned homo and put aside the idea OF
the church for that OF arms and en-.
listed with the Ninth n. Y. s. n. q.
for three months. He rc-cnliatcd for
tho war in the Eighth regiment
He took part in the cavalry duel be.
tween the br!Eadcs Of Fitzhugh Leo
and Avcriii Mt Kciiy's Ford. and was
wounded In three plnccs-thc head.
groin and ankic-nnd was mustered
out. This event practically ended
Shears honorable career. Upon tho
claim made by his family that tho
wound on the head made him insane
he escaped the gaiiows. to which no
had been condemned for the murder
Of two guards while he was In prison
awaiting trial for dcscrtion.
His sentence OF death wa5 commut.
cd TO ten years Imprisonment. but m
unsuspectcd visitor brought him
money and files. and releasing himself
from his chain by night. he cut tun.
mel leading down four feet. then an In.
cline sixteen feet under the wall. and
then upward seven feet. II was win.
ter time. and TO cut the frozen earth
he fastened candles to his wash basin
and melted the crust over him. Their
he showed his pillow out OF the hole. SO
that any watchful guard might shoot
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enemy bursting out from the windowa
near tho basement.
Some other plan. then. was needed.
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II man gets too fresh he deserves
to find himself In pickle.
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A small boys ideal memorial win.
dow is the front one In candy store.
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A WARRIOR BOLD.
~ ST. GEORGE RATHnoRNE.

lsfAsr s/ "Llfsis xiss Niiions." "1As Spissvs
Wss." ""Dv. Jsek's HTdow'." "kiss cspstss." stA
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watercd stock is the kind you gc
at most wct.goods emporiums.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-25
WOMAN EDITOR ON TRIAL.
MRS ELIZA ". HEATH SUED BY MAMAR-
oNEcK TEACHER FOR $4,000 LIBEL
DAMAGES

Trial OF the criminal libel suit which has set
Mamaroneck agog was begun before Judge Plat
IN the westchester County Court. AT White Plains
yesterday. Mrs. Eliza West Heath. Editor or The
Mamaroneck Democrat" a social reform paper,
and president of the Mamaroneck Vigilance Com
mittee. was charged with having circulated re-
ports derogatory to Miss Anna l. Lynch. a school
teacher; with having written to her telling her
resign to escape legal proceedings. and with hav-
ing written to the School Board demanding Miss
Lynch's discharge. Two factions have been formed
In Mamaroneck. one UNFOLDING Mrs Heath; the
other saying that her action was caused by anger
at receiving letter telling her that her children.
not having attended school. were violating the
Truant law
Mrs. Susan NJ. Hurlbert testified that she had
seen Miss Lynch. while driving with her sister and
DR.. Adolph Hoerr. a married man. sit on the doc
tors lap and laugh boisterously.'
George D. Andrews Miss Lynchs counsel said
that the buggy was only wide enough for two Mrs.
Hurloert also said that she had seen Dr. Hoerr at
Miss Iynch's home lat IL o'clock at night--sorne-
times even later"
Richard OGorrnan, ex-president OF the Mararo-
neck school Board, told OF Mrs Heath's letter
and added that the board considered the charges
Mrs. Heath said that she wrote the letter be-
Lynch.
DR., Hoerr and Miss Lynch both denied that there
ndu peen any improper conduct their drive. DIT
aoerr SAID he was the Lynches family physician
Lynch said she had never sat on DR.. Hoerr's lap
she Is suing for $4,000 damages
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-25
a TRIUMPH FOR ARBITRATION.9
PROFESSOR GUNToN so CHARAcTERIzEs
THE COAL STRIKES A. BRIGGS DE-
FENDs RIGHT TO WORK.

The thirty-eighth dinner of the New-Yorl Univer-
salist Club was held last night the ST Denis Ho-
tel Professor George Ciunton was the speaker OF
the evening At the close of his speech some Of
those present took exception TO some of his points
He spoke on Capital, Labor and Sense" saying in
part:
President Roosevelt feels compelled to recommend
against trusts / do not think he does This becalse
ne thinks they should be egislated against but
thinks know more about this matter Pe fhan & d aoe Sc
alo because the great mass Of people preJud.oed
In the late coal strike President Baer. showed
with the claim Of beIne parfn tl win 5 r5 up
mighty and that God left matters to him it was
stimulate the belief that capital cannot safely con-
socialistic propaganda, with Bryan and free SILVER
You all know how Mr.; Mitchell went back to the
mn miners. and how they STRUCK The result has been
coHsuc propaganda ME owner said Nothing 10
arbltrate, and now everything is being arbitrated
showed in The stsei strike there So5id a. SCp@
neea any any coal strike That strike has been tri-
The speaker said that, as rule, in difficulties
more to blame because of the greater opportunities
OF the operators to learn and understand the GEN
At the close OF Professor ciGntcn's lecture 8
BTg s jum T4Tids6 to his tb feet ana said
arolthce shouI9 listen TO a man OF supposedly so
out taking exception to his remarks The real G,:es
ton Of the late coal strike whether man had
"t-S.4 nc piSaSS' VI not NflelAeI
his cidre5 caiid en- ~ ecaoI 81 ana whetaer
without being dynamited The second question was
whether worthless men should have the same pay
as faithful workingmen. Whether man shall
have right TO hire the men he wishes or not that
the third question
Why should we be dictated to by Mr. Mtcel. who
receives SO 600 year from the men
Only three weeks ago I wanted ditch dug IN my
yard: walking delegate called the men of. and
no ditch was dug. There IS case Of walking dele
gate for you!
Professor Gunton denied many Of Mr Brigrs's
assertions.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-25
DOCTORS ACT ON CORONER QUESTION.
APPOINT COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE MOVE
AIENT FOR ABoILsHdENT OF THE OFFICE

APPOINT COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE MOVE
MENT FOR ADJUSTMENT OF THE OFFICE.
At the meeting Of the County Medical Society
last evening. at the Academy Of Medicine, mo
ton passed directing the appointment Of a
committee to inquire into the movement for the
reorganization or abolition Of the coroner's office
to report in December. DR.. Van Fleet the retir-
ing president. who made the motion. said he had
no opinion to offer the subject himself but
prominent layman had asked him to introduce the
resolution. ana he thought that an investigation
could do no harm The committee appointed is
composed of Drs William NJ Polk. John w Bran
nan and Frank Van Fleet
Dr. Van Fleet made an address in which he
urged that all physicians should be organized into
one body. The District Attorneys Office he said
announced raid with a blare of trumpets lust
because an idiot or two loses some inherited money
on the turn Of card, but when some svindlers
under the guise Of religion spread deadly contagion
through a community, the officers of the law ap-
pear to be powerless. He hoped to see all schools
~ ISdl medicine united, and an immediate step
IN mat direction he hoped to the two regular
otsdLlzatIons-the State Society State
Asssoclauon and their county branches-brought to-
The new president DR.. Charles N DoUd called
tkoHaI Guard he recalled figures of the Snanisb-
ffaIetlSan war, showing that a dozen men died
T5o a., Slssase lot every one killed by the enemy
uIu not critcise the army surgeons but tie
~ vogue, and re drew lesson for
oS tbe rd.ts opinion, based recent Generations
~ ~sauoAal Guard on strike that
sh4ther war should occur. a Similar uSesss siiaI II
49, &c &c "ouIo result At his suggestion a Commit
SationsI 4p o11ted 70 confer with surgeons of the
i5iish n Fark, Louis X. Nef George q We
1 AAosit r. bresman were appointed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-25
THE INDEPENDENTS ARRIVE.
THEY WILL TRY TO CONFER WITH THE
COAL PRESIDENTS TO-DAY.

A. committee of independent operators which
left Scranton yesterday afternoon to try 10 con-
fer with the coal presidents to-day as 10 no"
the independent operators would fare IN the
proposed settlement between the operators ana
the anthracite miners arrived in this city last
evening Among the members of the commit
tee who came were DR.. J. NJ Rice of Pittston,
Penn: J. L. Cake of the Clear Spring Coal
Company and the Raub Coal Company Of
Pittstown: H B Reynolds, of the Wyoming
Coal and Land Company, Scranton; c. D. Slmp-
son, of the West End Coal Company. of Scran-
ton. and c. W Wissner. They held confer
ence late last night in the Hotel Imperial out
refused to say what conclusions they mad
reached or what time they would see the coal
presidents to-day.
President Fowler of the New-York, Ontario
and Western Railroad was seen yesterday re-
garding a report that the coal presidents had
had an informal conference early in the day
about the position of the Independent operators.
He said he knew Of no such conference and
also knew Of no arrangements for conference
with a committee of independent operators.
It was learned that the Independent operators
are anxious to know how they will stand in the
proposed plan of raising the freight rates The
independent operators depend on the railroad
companies TO carry their coal, and if they have
to nav an increase Of wages and at the same
panies in selling coal their profit will be dimin-
ished, unless some special arrangement is made
President Baer Of the Philadelphia and Read
ing Railroad is expected to be in this city at II
q. m. to-day, when he will inform the other
coal presidents that the usual Tuesday after
noon meeting Of the Temple Coal and Iron Com
pany viii be held at the Office Of the Central
Railroad of New-Jersey. The coal presidents
are directors of this company. and after the
meeting the coal situation will be discussed.
The committee of independent operators, il was
said last night. would try to see the coal presi-
dents before the meeting of the Temple Coal
and Iron Company.
John Markle one Of the independent coal
operators. went TO the offices of several presi-
dents of coal roads yesterday. and there was a
report that he was trying to arrange for the
conference of the presidents with the independ-
ent operators. He would not talk about it.
Some Of the operators said that anthracite
coal was arriving in the city the rate of
10000 tons daily and that since the strike
ended early 100000 tons had been shipped
here Dealers are charging 81 and 81 50 a ton,
retail. yesterday and not everybody who want
ed coal could get it at that price