The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-12-18
PLENTY OF HARD COAL
ONE RAILROAD LINE HAS so, 600
TONS PILED UP.

Waiting to Get 1t TrnnsPorted for Com
eumers-COaI Coming t" New Haven
Railroad VIII Rush Ii Along as Fast
as POssible-stamford Factory Shares
ItsSoft toaI with Its Wen at Low Price.
No coal lows arrived in the harbor
yesterday, although several were ex-
pected. The wind was blowing hard
from the southwest all day and heavy
weather was reported on Long Island
sound. Two heavy lows of soft coal ar
rived here during Tuesday night.
There is considerable coal on the way
to this city from Perth Amboy and 9TH
er leading ports. The tows are held up
in different ports west of this city, how
ever, and may not get in for week.
The entire plant of the New Haven
Iron and Steel company was closed last
week because it was out of coal, but is
running again. The company has re-
ceived coal enough to keep it going for
some time.
The Consolidated road will do it's ut
most to forward coal by all rail route
and this city will get the benefit as we'll
as other places.
Vice President Merrill of the Consol-
idated railroad says that coal is being
forwarded north from here as fast as
the rush Of boats to the city will permit.
Coal is being given preference over
merchandise. Cars are rushing along
at double quick speed. Most of the hard
coal that was here for Springfield has
been sent there and that city will have
to rely on coal from the mines for the
immediate future.
The Yale & Towne Manufacturing
company, Stamford, made known to it's
employees yesterday a piece of news
which was hailed with joy. 1t was the
announcement that the company's sup
ply of coal, so far as possible, would
be placed at the disposal of the employ
es. There Is about two months supply
Of coal on the factory premises Most
of this Is of the bituminous variety.
This the company will share with its
employees selling it to them at $3.50 per
ton each family to get one ton.
A New York press dispatch says:
There is no reason for any further
panicl1y feeling about the supply of
coal. There Is plenty of anthracite at
hand. and the only difficulty exper-
fenced now is in conveying it, and deliv-
ering it to consumers. The fact is that
coal is heaping UP at Perth Amboy, N.
J., twenty miles from this city, and any
New Yorker who wants coal can get it
at that point. The Lehigh Valley rail-
road company will welcome any one
who will take coal off it's piers, for it
has more than $4,000 tons of anthracite
OH it's tracks and in it's stock bins which
it cannot get transported to this city.
Coal is arriving there daily at the rate
of 10000 tons, and to keep the tracks
clear and get the cars back to the mines
it has been found necessary to dump for
storage.
Large gangs of men were busy yes
terday on the Perth Amboy piers dump
ing coal into boats, barges and steam
ers or anything that would float coal to
this city and Boston. A large fleet of
vessels carrying from 1000 to 5000 tons
each, is at anchor in the sound awaiting
a chance to get under the coal chutes.
The col comes in frozen solid in the
cars, and sometimes it takes an hour
to dump one car, the coal having to be
broken out with picks.
The company from now on will have
two shifts of men at work and the
dumping of coal will continue day and
night Last week the men worked sew
enteen hours a day. From now on
work will continue the twenty-four
hours, seven days week.
MINES FLOODED, BUT HIN
ORANGE WILL BE SHORT.
A New York dispatch last night says:
'Dispatches from Pennsylvania say
that twelve mines in the SchuyllSill re-
sion have been forced to suspend oper-
atoms, and officials fear that fully half
the colieries in the anthracite region
will be forced to close down on account
of the freshets.
cat the office of Burns Brothers to-
day it was said that no coal had been
received from the mines to-day"
Another dispatch last night says the
above story is much exaggerated, and
that the delay in mining will be but of
very brief duration.