The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1902-11-05
TOUR OF COAL FIELDS.
Arbitrators Making Inspection
Of Miners Work.

Erie Harbor-Trying to Settle French
Coal strike-Four Men Suffoeated
In sewer-coIombian Rebels Sur.
render-lmperiaI Cable.
The anthracite coal commissioners
appointed by the president have made
a tour Of the extreme upper coal field
and seen every step taken in the pro-
auction OF coal from the time 1t is
blasted from the ground up to the point
where it is sent to market ready for
use.
After the party had been rigged out
with rubber overshoes, oyeralls, Jump
ers and mine caps and provided with
miners lamps, which they either car.
ried In their hands or fastened to their
caps, the descent of the 100 foot shaft
was made.
The arbitrators had an interesting
time at the Coalbrook breaker at Car.
bondale. They went to the top of the
great black building and inspected all
the machinery down to the ground
Then they were escorted to the chute
where the coal, fresh out of the mine,
is sent to the breaker by means Of
"conveyor,' an endless chain arrange
ment OF scrapers.
II is here that one Of the principal
bones of contention between the EN-.
ployes and employer is found. The
miners maintain they are often unjust.
ly docked by the docking boss for
the amount of slate, honey or other
refuse found in the coal. The com.
missloners watched the work of boss
closely and saw him dock several min.
ers because, in his judgment, there was
too much foreign matter in the car OF
coal.
Trade Indications Promising.
Bradstreets says of the state Of
trade:
Confidence in the outlook for next
years business is notable feature in
the trade situation. The volume of or.
ders booked for next springs delivery
is large for this season of the year,
and is explained partly by the excep-
tionally good business done on fall
and winter account and the large
crop yields of the year and also by
the good position of the winter wheat
crop as cold weather approaches.
The absence of killing frosts at the
South has allowed OF the maturing Of
a considerable top crop of cotton.
At the East the retail trade needs
steady cold weather to stimulate de-
mand, but jobbing business feels the
effect of the lifting of the coal en-
barge.
Woolen goods. strengthened more
by higher cost of raw wool than by
current demand, are tending up; yarns
have already advanced. Spring trade
indications are promising.
Business failures for the week end
Ing Thursday, Oct. 30, number 1874, as
against 1874 last week, 172 in this week
last year, 165 in 1900, ia in 1899 and
1873 in 1898.
New Lake Erie Harbor.
II. C. Frick, A. W. Mellon and R. B
Mellon of Plttsburg; A. ]. Cassatt
president OF the Pennsylvania, and the
board of directors and other officials
Of the Pennsylvania held a conference
in Erie which may consummate one of
the most important deals recently |
made by the Pennsylvania railroad.
On Oct 90 a deal was completed in |
PittsbGrg whereby A. w. Mellon and |
r. b. Mellon became possessors of one
of the most valuable sites on Lake
Erie for a harbor, a railroad charter |
and a land company with options on
land near the mouth of Elk creek. The
interest of II. C. Frick in the plan has
been kept secret heretofore.
This land lies only a short distance
from the lines Of the Erie and Pitts
burg division of the Pennsylvania rail.
road and is the only available harbor
site left in Pennsylvania.
The conference between the Pitts
burg men and the Pennsylvania Off.
cials, II Is understood, was for making
an agreement whereby the Pennsyl-
vania railroad can build a branch from
the Erie and Pittsburg division to
reach this new harbor.
End Of Long Strike.
The Hudson Valley railroad strike
has been settled by unanimous vote
Of the striking employees, the company
accepting a proposition made by the
men, who returned TO work Monday
The union is not recognized.
The terms upon which the strike is
settled are as follows:
Men who had been receiving 16
cents an hour will receive II cents and
men who had been receiving 1Sh
cents will hereafter be paid 10 cents.
Instead of having inspectors on the
Saltwater division who are paid 25 and
Is cents. that work will be done at
night by men from the main Offices.
All the former employees will be re.
instated in their old positions except
those who are under Indictment
Trying to Settle Strike.
President Loubet Of France Is fol
lowing the example set by Presi
dent Roosevelt and is taking an active
part in settling the French coal miners
strike. He held an extended confer
ence with NJ. Vincent, prefect Of the
department Du Nord, who has been
acting as intermediary between the
strikers and the mine owners in that
department. The mine owners have
given the prefect the names of four
persons who are to represent them in
conference with an equal number OF
strikers. In a semi-oficial statement