Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-21

sending coal to the markets The Delaware.
Lackawanna and Western Is now using
freight cars. but this is the only road wn .sa
has seen fit to use cars other tnan the
regulation car for this purpose.
Empty Cars in the Yards.
1t seems reasonable to suppose that big
road like the Erie could be able to handle
all the coal it can mine. if 1t wanted TO. In
the freight yards of this company are hum
dreds of empty freight and fiat cars Coai
can be carried easily in these cars IL the
Erie really desires to relieve the coai
famine.
The miners of this wealthy corporation,
even in this abnormal period OF the coai
industry, are unable to earn a fair hVlng.
At Avoca and Pittston many OF the miners ers
did not succeed last week In getting more
than six cars out during the entire week;
At the Coalbrook colliery. Carponoaie,
the miners local in a meeting passeo the
following resolutions:
that exists in eastern and seaboard clties
and we are aware that 1t IS que TO ths
shortage of COAL but you can rest assured
at Coalbrook colliery dhe largest in the
districD are not making more than haii
time. The men are at work every Gay anu
spend most of the time waiting for cars.
The first three days of the past week we
made one shift We got one car Monday,
one car Tuesday and four cars Wednesday.
Therefore. be it
Resolved. That we extend our sincere
sympathy to those who are suffering 1of
want of anthracite coal.
Resolved. That we stand ready to CO.
operate with our employers to increase the
output
miners and found them anxious to make
an affidavit as to the truth Of their asSer-
tons if The Star desired it.
In the Lackawanna District.
Another railroad which operates in this
part of the region is the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna and Western. With this road an
entirely different condition exists. This
company operates twenty-six collieries and
last month produced $4,000 tons. In the
collierieS of the Lackawanna the miners
are getting out from five to ten cars day.
In three collieries of this company, the
Mount Pleasant. the Sloan and the Cayuga.
the miners are working from 6 o clock in
the morning until 10 and II o'clock at night
and getting out on an average ten cars
a day. 1t does not actually require all this
time for the miner to send his ten cars to
the surface. He has to wait so long for each
car. however that the hours soon fly by.
In the majority of the collieries of the
Lackawanna the miners are not able to get
more than five or six cars.
On Saturday night this road tried new
plan Of working the collieries at night. It
proved highly successful, but 1t cannot be
expected that the same miners who work
In the day can also work through the night
without any sleep. The night shift has not
been continued so far this week. The min
ers, however, will probably put in twenty
two hour day again next Saturday. AS
sistant Superintendent Tobey of this COM
pany was asked today why the Lackawan-
ma did not have two shifts one for the day
and the other for the night.
No Extra Miners, Says Mr.. Tobey.
because there are no extra miners to be
had in this city,"
The company might be able to make up a
good sized working force if it wanted to
give employment to some of the idle miners
who live in small towns less than ten miles
from this city.
This road. however. deserves great credit
for the efforts it has made to rush coal TO
the markets. The coal speculator has been
ignored and the company has not held it.
self to any fantastic ideas about refusing
to ship coal in anything but the regulation
gondola car-as the other companies have
done
district. the Central Railroad of New Jersey
and the Lehigh Valley, are not doing any
better than the other companies in trying
to get coal to the big cities. AS regards the
Central Railroad of New Jersey and prob
ably the Lehigh Valley, there is the same
trouble of lack of cars. These roads as
long as they confine themselves to the regu-.
lat1on gondolas. cannot expect to carry all
the coal which is produced in a rushed per-
iod and until they deem it proper to turn
freight and fiat cars into coal cars they
will be still unable to relieve the coal fam
inc.
In the other two districts are the collier
les of the Philadelphia and Reading, the
Lehigh Valley. Pennsylvania Railroad, the
Lehigh Valley Coal and Navigation CON-
pany and big independent operators like G.
Is Markle & Co.. A. Pardee &, Co. and the
Coke Brothers. The Star correspondent did
not succeed in visiting this part of the re-
gfon today.