The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-10-14
coal /. COMEAIGH
all I WINTER LONG [ ! ]
Settlement Of Strike Now Will
Not Affect Prices Much.
CHURCHES IN PREDIcAmENI
Nearly All Short in Supply Of Fuel. and
Cold Houses Of Worship Arc Exc
pected IL Not Actually Closed.
Prices Again Go Up.

The people Of Richmond had Just aS
veil ret their minds screwed up 70 the
point OF being willing to pay hlsh prices
for fuel through all the cold weather to
come.
The Richmond Coal Dealers Associa-
,ion Yesterday again raised the prices or
coal. They stand now as follows:
Anthracite, 81. and practically none
< splint and New River Lump. 3.
Steam, 81. Ets
Oak wood, sawed, -.
Pine wood, sawed, 81.
Mr. Landerktn, president OF the asso-
station, was seen by a Times writer late
Yesterday afternoon and asked for
statement regarding the situation.
He said that not a great deal OF SOFT
coal was coming in. His hrm, the Rlch-3
mend Ice Company, received Two car.
loads Yesterday He thought that none OF
the thirty-f1ye carloads which came to
Richmond Sunday by the Chesapeake and
Ohio stopped here, but went on through
to Newport News. Very little came mere
Yesterday via the Norfolk and Western
and Southern.
MI. Landerkin was asked II he thouent
that if the strike was settled in the next
Two weeks the prices Of coal would come
down very much before the end OF winter.
He replied that he did not. He thought
that soft coal would possibly be lower II
the West could get hard coal. as the I'M
rnense demand for soft coal now in the
great Northwest was due to the scare
ity of hard coal.
Some excitement was caused yesterday
by tip coming over a private exchange
wire that the strike had been settled.
Stocks felt the report going up point
or two. II had not been confirmed at the
time Of the closing of the exchange.
The predicament the churches OF the
city find themselves in is causing no end
Of worry. Soft coal. which alone IS oo-
tainable. cannot be used in the furnaces
Of many Of the churches What will be
done to heat the large auditoriums IS inn
possible to say. But two churches of the
city, so far as learned, are well fixed u
matters pertaining to coal They are t
C1ay-Street Methodist and the First b ,
fist The Clay Street Church has twer
four tons on hand and the First Cht en-
fifteen tons.
SITUATION AT A GLANCE.
Here is a table, correct so far as 1om-5
plete, and it should be borne in mir that
it takes about eighteen tons on this aver
age for church during winter:
Clay-Street Methodist Church.. tons
First Baptist Church. --........ ID tons
Second Baptist Church........ IL tons
| Grove-Avenue Baptist Church. ton
|Venable-Street Baptist Church none
Barton Heights Baptist Church none
| First Pres. Church. about. tone
| Second Presbyterian Church.. tons
Monumental Episcopal Church 1-2 tons
BROAD Street NJ. E. Church.... tons
Centenary NJ. E. Church....... ton
Methodist Institute (sofD...... 3 tons
The Clay-Street Church may be called
upon to be the host Of the Virginia Con-
ference which meets in this city about
| the middle of November:
The Monte Maria Academy, a Catholic
school for girls, on Church Hill. is with
out coal for the winter, and will be put to
| considerable Inconvenience in getting a
rev supply.
In New York the scarcity Of coal has
! considerably affected the sale OF dwell
i ings, the people dreading the Immense
coal bills for the winter, and are flock
! ing to the apartment houses. Inquiry
| snlong the real estate agents here yester-
1 day ELECTED the information that no such
trouble had been felt here. But there are
no apartment houses here for the people
! to rush to.