The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-04-16
anIy a Few More Than zoe.
Empty Coal Cars In
Region
NRgD VEN POINT
What They Have to Say at
Grafton About Car
Shortage.

Fbe Baltimore and Ohio will not
Ss1Se 800 cars east from the Fairmont
toal region as per the new agreement
49, day for the good and suff1ctent
feason that there are but 786 eupttes
here, and 60 OF them are for coke load
Coal Notes.
Tomorrow the weekly lunch OF the
6osl cfrb will be held and that COM
Idfttea appointed to map out plan
3or club activities probably will get an
opnortBnity to report.
9TlSe matter OF the selling price Tor
ne Fairmont region is still hung up
Washington. The expert e1amina-
ION Of the cost sheets submitted by
the local operators was completed
I1any days ego and the whoie matter
e al the point where DR.. Garfield can
pass upon 1t at any time, out ever
Thing IS at standstin just at present
5FhiIe the fight over the assigned car
sgstern and the price for railway fuel
S. being fought out.
The showing which the miners are
1alcing in the Liberty bond campaign
~ remarkable when the unsarisfac-
tory character Of their employment is
Considered.
n At the meeting Of The Executive
committee OF the coal operators held
yesterday It was decided that the way
fteB- & o. ICES up TO its latest agree.
oent about car supplies and load
46ndling should be kept under obser-
4 V1tion for another week before any
new steps are taken in the car supply
The Railroad AIibi.
= GRAFTON, ". va, April 16.-
SGEaftop is a railroad town Just as
Fatrmont is coal town. just at
GlarksburS was gas town in the days
when natural gas was planttful. Graf
ton has extensive coal interests
through the mines in the immediate
vicinity but it is primarily railroad
town. Fairmont and Weston have
raiIroad shops where light repairing
IS done and both cities are railroad
Headquarters to an extent but do not
deserve classification as railroad
towns any more than Grafton deserves
classification as coal town.
Being a railroad town. Grafton
looks at things from a railroad stand
point. It figures in extra time" train
conditions, engines and cars instead
Of in met or gross tons" orders. pro-
dbetion, railroad fuel" and car supply
- they do at Fairmont. Railroa6ing
AaS engrossed Grafton to such an ex
lent that the Court House is little
bore than caboose and the trains a.
doSt pass through the leading hote' 50
hat there is no sleep for anyone but
nsupoad folks who cannot be disturbed
b. the ringing OF bells, footing Of
Eh1stles and the emission of steam on
tbe part Of locomotives, which is mu-
sic to their ears.
Il.
meters from a railroad standpoint. l.
rfd1cuIes the charges that the rail
roads have deliberately laid GoIn
when the country is in war and lead.
1ng citizens are chuck full of GrSU-
mentS which are CONVINCING ]. V.
Oineen, superintendent OF the Monon-
sah division. Gail Fishback. who is /:
charge Of car distribution for that di-
Vision and other railroad people are
1nRtlling to grant that any line of aE-
deaFor IS more Jealous in the coLn
4rgs interest than the railroads and
point out that the railroads have been
6anaicapped but being refused the IN.
creases in freight rates sought which
would have made possible improve
ments along the lines and advances OF
vases TO employees. Railroad folks
are Winins to admit that the railroads
7lAeSIS AOG 0SSa GASHI Up " CQS kO4C1L GA
eG1Geny that they should have been
but claim that everything humanity
pe6sibl0 has been done on the restrict
Cd earnings.
Railroad men point out that Wills
he capacity OF the coal mines OF the
z1fmont district could readily be
1iIt up to 1900 cars a day the actue:
loadtag capacity at the present time
: OILY about 1000 cars. The capacity
Z = gwen at. 1000 in rating sheets but
that they say is the retical capacity.
The actual loading capacity is about
500 cars. which has made the car
supply only a little under fifty per-
cent, even in the terrible weather
hIch interteTed so much with trans
portation last winter. It is cited that
the largest week the Nodongah divis-
Jon has ever known was an average OF
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