The daily Republican., 1902-10-27
AS TO CITY'S
COAL SUPPLY.
Dealers Not Yet Ready to
Promise Fuel for
Everybody.
TO FILL ORDERS SOON.
Companies Are Deluged With
Orders for Anthracite in
From One to Ten
TonLots.

| Local coal dealers will not make
predictions as to when Wilmington
families will get all the coal they
need for the winter, but three
woeks is put down as outside time.
One official said that most of the
coal shipped from the collieries
since the end of the strike was blast
ell and cut before and during the
strike, and that in most of the
workings it will take a week to ten
days for the miner to get every
thing in readiness to bring his daily
output up to the average.
So far as cars and motive power
are concerned, the coal carrying
roads can handle with ease all the
coal mined. Orders placed first will
be filled first by the Reading, with
the one exception of those from
schools and charitable institutions.
Dealers, largo and small. are
making every effort to get coal at an
early moment. The wholesale deal
ers have contracts calling for the de-
livery of thousands of tons. aud as
they were taken at 4 price lower
than now prevails there will be little
profit tor them. But, they say, any
loss In this direction Mll be compen-
sated bv thefami'ytr a de.
DELUGED WITH SMALL ORDERS
One of the largest dealers in the
CITY said this morning that his firm
was delused with orders for coal IN
small lots, from ore 10 ten tons.
"There are hundreds OF families
10 the city, he said. "who ave not
a pound Of coal in their bins, and
now. as winter approaches. they are
pleading for coal. We can't make
any promises, but we hope 10 begin
to fill these orders within two or
three weeks.
Many factories and stores have big
stocks of ofbituminoIs coal on hand and
dealers say this fact will be of great
benefit to the small consumer, because
the large consumer will not be ready
to burn anthracite until the soft coal
IS exhausted.
Small dealers whose business is
confined to the family trade will have
'he hardest time to get coal, but sew
,ral OF these said this morning that
jhey would begin to fill orders in
couple Of weeks.
THOUGHTS ON COAL STRIKE
A consumer" writes The DAILY
2EPU ELICAN; as follows:
"Now that the threatning storm
which has been raging for nearly
1aIf d year between labor and Ca pital
with The coal fields as its c=Lvie has
Il t2ea sure spcot its fury so
ar as human foresight can penetrate
he Indications are that there will
olow a great calm' In the nom.
,nts OF calm are the moments when
vondrous achievements may be con.
animated. BY calm thought and
Eighty determination the world
" at least that part CT humanity
bat wants to get rich al the ex-
ense Of the rest, or live In luxury by
he sweat of the ''other man s.
row, may be turned "upside down"
During the strike storm. every body
as learned something. They have
earned that capital and labor are
twin brothers, or "Siamese twins"
you please. The one cannot live
'ithou: the other. They have learn
d the art OF economy with fuel.
hey have earned that not one cert
or ton more has been charged for
)al at the mines for a whole year.
hey have learned that the railroads
ave not advanced their fre eight on
oll by the carload one cent. They
ave learned that there is a Wilderness
the price Of coal out Of all propor-
on between lh: Mine and the range
r heater
"They have learned that coal when
leaves the mines AMI before TIL,
)nsu ner can use it, isrun through,
)t coal breaker, but a sort OF coal
AMI about two to four
ices is charged for it. They have
armed that the same spirit that all
ave condemned in owner and striE.
:, is about tenfoid worse in
e distributor of the stuff
lied coal, aud little men
ith big pock etbooks set the figures
consumers.
hey must pay, or co without it,
hey have lea rncd enough to know
is is not right, and good hearty
rikc of the CONSUMERS will be inaug-
a,el to ore X up these coal mon.
olies in the cities. And they are
termincd to know who it is that
IS these large differences and WHY
ey are made to suffer because of it,
These questions worked out on the
lie Of equity and justice will smash
the hitherto coal combines in
ilmington or elsewhere in u short
time than the strike has been on.
It some man or men with brains,
tin capital and human heart un-
rLake The distribution OF coal from
g mines to The coal bins in Will
|ngtCn and fortune is sure to bin
d II crown of blessing upon his head
II come from tens Of thousands Of
yerlng humanity in the days to
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