The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-09-03

was made with force of ninety men,
| nearly all of them former employees at
this collery.
The Marvine Is situated in the north
| ern part of the city, skirting Main ave-
nue., Just before 1t enters Dickson City.
1t was announced in the papers that
preparations were being made to start
the Marvine and that the start would
| likely be attempted yesterday. Not
withstanding this there were less than
Fhalf a hundred strikers about the place
| when the men were assembling to go
| to work. and not even the semblance
| of an effort was made to molest the
| workren.
| The company counted on starting
| with about sixty or seventy men, 1T
was agreeably surprised to find that
number of its old employees, who had
served no notice of an intention to re-
| turn to work, came around with their
dinner pals and took their old places.
one hundred cars of coal were hoisted.
The company expects to double the out
put today.
This makes two collieries and three
| washeries the Delaware and Hudson
| company has in operation.
The Bliss coliery of the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western company, at
| Nanticoke, which started up Monday,
continued to work, yesterday, without
| melting any bother Chief Adamson
and squad of his officers were on
| hand during the morning to quell any
possible disturbance, but found nothing
| to engage their attention:
| A conference of coal superintendentS
was held yesterday at the office of the
Temple Iron company in the Board of
| Trade building. There were present r.
T.. Loomis, general manager of the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
| coal department.: w. A. May general
manager of the Erie coal department.:
S. Is. Warriner, superintendent of the
| Lehigh Valley Coal company: w. j.
Richards, superintendent of the Lehigh
and Wilkes Barre Coal company, and
S. b. Thorne, general manager of the
Temple Iron company. These men
compose the executive committee OF
the board of directors of the Temple
Iron company, which is the "round
table of all the coal companies. Presi-
dent Baer, of the Reading, is president
of the company and all the other coal
road presidents are directors. The coal
presidents meet in New York to trans
act the executive end of the coal busi-
| ness. and the local superntendents
| meet here to discuss the administrative
end. What was done at the meeting
was not disclosed further than that the
situation was carefully discussed and an
informal report prepared for presenta-
tion to the executive end of the 'round
| table," General Manager Loomis. of
the Delaware, Lackawanna and West
elT company, afterwards had a confer-
ence with Superintendent Phillips, AS
sistant Superintendent Tobey and the
district superintendent of the Della
| ware, Lackawanna and Western COM
pany
NOT A FAILURE.
AS yet the city of Scranton has not
experienced Il single business failure as
! result of the strike. In fact, accord
ing to w. III. Logan, general manager
of Dun's agency, and Secretary &. S.
Seamans. of the board of trade. there
has not been business failure of any
kind, attributable to any cause, since
the strike began. The fear is expressed
on all sides, however, that if the strike
, continues much longer the grocerymen
in the suburbs and possibly some store
Keepers in the central city will be in
| danger of financial collapse.
The National washery of the North
American Coal company resumed yes
terday after being idle Labor Day.
Manager Sharkey stated last evening
that he laid off five men because of
an overplus of help.
Twenty additional men We're yester-
day put to work at the Oxford Man
aSer Crawford reports that the output
is now exceeding the 400-ton mark and
that If he had ii few more experienced
runners he could get out 700 tons a
day. The running of cars is a difficult
and dangerous occupation, requiring
fearless and active young men. Old
men can do the work, but not with
anything approaching the success that
lively youths can do it,
The force of successful runners, he
says, is being gradually augmented,
and when it reaches proper proportions,
! the mine will be in shape to turn out
its full capacity.
Owing to the scarcity of work con-
sequent upon the strike, the Delaware.
l.ackawanna and Wes,ern repair shops
started on II nine hour shift yesterday.
The fact that the cars We're, for the
most part, idle, impelled the company
to give its rolling stock IL general over
hauling. The overhauling process has
now been completed and from this
time on until the strike ends, a short
age of work in the repair department
, can be looked for.
CALLED THEM SCABS.
was arralgned before Alderman Kas-