Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-18
RAILROAD CARS
HELD FROM MINES
Nearly 10000 Tons of Coal
Tied Up, Georges Creek
Company Complains.

Declaring that no coal cars have
been sent to twenty of It's mines IN
the last two days. the Georges Creek
Coal Co., Inc, operating in the Cum
Maryland, has lodged with the rait-
road administration complaints OF in
adequate service and has telegrAphed
a statement of conditions to the SEN
ators from Maryland, West Virginia
and Pennsylvania. to the Maryland
influential members of Congress.
The company declared that at the
present time it has between 700 and
loo cars of coal, totalliDg between
$500 and 10000 tons, tied up some
where between it's mines and tide
water piers. and that this coal can
not be disposed of except on railroad
administration permits. so that the
cars cannot be unloaded and returned
to the mines for reloading.
Text Of COmpnny's Telegram.
The coal company's telegram was
addressed to Senators Frelinghuysen.
John Walter Smith. Joseph I. France.
Howard Sutherland. Davis Elkins. p.
C.. Knox. Boies Penrose and Oscar
Underwood. and to Representatives.
Linthicum. Benson, Zihlman. Coady.
Mudd and Kendall. The message fol-
lows:
Cumberland. Md. Dec. Il. 1919.
No railroad cars yesterday or today
at approximately twenty mines con-
trolled by our company, and for which
our companies are agents. We have
standing and en- route to various tide
water piers between 700 and 1000
cars of coal. The director general of
railroads will not allow US to dis
pose of this coal except on permits.
This prevents us from disposng OF
the coal and congests the terminals
of permits as used by the railroads is
a nuisance and outrage. Mines can
not operate at the Maryland price of
S2.75 and Pennsylvania price of $2.95
under these conditions. The rail-
roads use approximate one-th1rd OF
the sof. coal output of the country
and it does not appear to US fair for
the director general of railroads to
set the price and regulate the ship
ments of a commodity of which he
uses one-third. From our standpoint
it is an untenable position and the
coal business appears at this time to
be in biased hands.
GEORGES CREEK COAL CO. INC.
W. +. Coale, General Manager.
other Messages Sent.
Dispatches of practically the same
import have been sent to members OF
Congress by J. w. I. Somerville. rep
resentinG the Midland Coal Company
of Allegany county. Md. the Moscow
Georges Creek Coal Company and the
Georges Creek-Parker Coal Company.
Car shortage at the mines was one
of the prime sources of dissatisfaction
among the miners prior to the recent
strike, and steps to remedy this con-
dition and remove the cause OF COM
plant were deemed to be among the
most urgently necessary measures for
bringing about a settlement of the
trouble.
Announcement was made today by
l. W. Baldwin, regional fuel director,
that, effective December 20 the
broadway limited" the twenty-hour
train over the Pennsylvania railroad
between New York and Chicago,
would be restored. The train was
withdrawn December 10 for the first
time, for any reason. since II was first
! nut on. The announcement of the
regional fuel director says the train
will run on the schedule effective be-
fore it was withdrawn. . =, ..