New-York tribune., 1902-06-20
AGAIN BURNING HARDCOAL
ALL ELEVATED ENGINES TO USE IT To-
DAY.
sr-PpI.y PURCHASED WILL, LAST ONLY UN-
TIL NEXT TUESDAY-NO MORE
IN SIGHT.

SUPPLY PURCHASED WILL LAST ONLY UN-
TIL NEXT TUEsDAY-NO MORE
IN SIGHT.
The Manhattan Railway Company made the
formal announcement yesterday that it would
begin the exclusive use of hard coal on its lines
this morning and continue using hard coal as
long as it could get a supply. This announce
ment was made through Charles a. Gardner
attorney for the company, at a hearing at lhe
Office of the Health Board ir the afternoon
President Lederle had served notice on the
company that the hearing was to decide II lhe
Health Board would declare that the company
was maintaining public nuisance by the use OF
soft COAL and order that the company be pun
ished accordingly.
When DR.. Lederle ready to proceed Will
the hearing, he had beside him District Attor-
ney Jerome. Assistant District Attorney Train
and Assistant Corporation Counsel Stele, Whlle
Mr. Gardiner was accompanied by Sylvester u
Smith assistant general superintendent OF 'e
Manhattan Railway Company. and e. IL F1ei-
bert of the firm that buys coal for the corhpdhS-
Mr.. Gardiner offered the record of the hearing
before Magistrate ZelIer on the summons which
Mr.. Jerome had obtained. Then he said:
am authorized by the Manhattan Railway
Company to make the following statement;
Since the hearing before MAGISTRATE r ZeiIef bae on
purchased every pound Of brokea IHTnace or sIT ny
one This Statement is made without any reserva-
ton whateTer The total amount so ong 3
tons have been delivered date and are now IN
The Balance of this purchase 1916 tons. is located
in different parts OF the country and is 9 now II!
Three hundred tons on Friday morning 30 tons on on
Saturday. 300 tons on Monday and SO tons on
am further authorized by the Manhattan Rail; Raj;
Ta-, VAT will hnri n
coal on all its lines tomorrow. Friday mornlns ana
use of soft coal The anthracite coal nov purchased
and to be deIIVerec s o+6Ge VII - f -
be able. 10 secure further quantities OF broken
i possible. the exclusive use q anthfacIte coat,
r. hoTereT al m e9T4s AL @ II IS NH fbs1
Of eoi coal The companv mas sent sDeeiai agents
had in those markets, It has also cabled 70 Eng;
land in the hope Of SECURING Welsh anthrao lite coal
OF suitable character No effort or expense IS being
hard coal FOR use on its engines.
wish to deny with parJcularity that the Man
eae l,5 s b1 4Fad Is @ 5e ~ = caS17g
use, from Messrs. Meeker & Co, \. L. Stokes,
Aessrs Meyer. Denker & Hoering. Messrs Hetlner
corporation, firm or individual.
Mr.. Smith then took the witness chair. and
said that the three hundred locomotives on the
elevated roads used between seven hundred and
eight hundred tons Of coal a day. The grats
bars OF their furnaces were fve-eighths of an
inch apart, and fine coal could not be burned in
them. The fire boxes were too shallow for the
exclusive use Of egg coal. They were made to
burn broken anthracite coal. Soft coal could
be burned. because it made bed for itself in
burning Coke could be used. because It
would fuse the CRATES and would not generate
the steam necessary to make speed. Expert
ments with pea coal and buckwheat coal mixed
with other grades had been tried on Tuesday
night, Mr.. Smith said but the trains ran behind
time, and after going short distance the steam
failed.
n. L. Stokes testified that he had offered 1000
tons OF hard coal to the company Monday
at 81 % ton, and Wednesday had told Mr..
Herbert that he had options on $50 tons of
broken coal and 800 tons Of egg coal which
the company could have at IS a ton.
What reply did you get?" asked DR.. Lederle.
MI Herbert said he could get coal at 81
ton"
The witness declined to tell where the coal on
which he had options was stored, saying that
options We're obtained from relatives. and he
had no permission TO use their names
Harry Z. Taylor, a coal dealer of Fifty fifth
ST and the East River, said that he had been
trying to sell to the company an anthracite
coal called Burmese for three weeks. but could
not get the company to buy any Of it. He said
that he had tried it on the locomotives Of the
Long Island Railroad in run from Long Island
City TO Men tauk. and that II worked vel and
the train arrived schedule time He said
that he did not care to take the stand, because
he hoped 10 sell some of his coal to the
pany and If he took the stand he could not.
He said he could furnish fifty tons Of his coal
a day unless the miners went out on strike.
Mr.. Herbert, being recalled. denied the offer
alleged TO have been made to him by Mr.. Stokes,
and declared that the coal offered by Taylor
was semi -bituminous, and not suitable for the
elevated road engines. Mr.. Gardiner said, how
ever that II would have trial.
DR.. Lederle said he did not what kind of
coal used in the engines If the smoke
nuisance was abated. AS other coal dealers ex-
pected were not present, the hearing was ad-
journed 10 a. m. to-day.
Locomotives a elevated
continued to burn hard coal yesterday and
there was comfort in the cars On the Ninth
ave. line the locomotives burned soft coal but
there were fewer trains than usual The Ninth
ave. trains made longer by the addition of
extra cars, however, that they not
crowded more than usual