New-York tribune., 1920-05-20

passing something to the fellows out
there. When the railroad company
learns about it it will discharge some
Of them, and believe me, they need it,"
This official declared the situation was
hopeless.
The situation in the railroad ter
minals is equally bad, due to the un-
authorized strike. There are constant
encounters between the strikers and
the strike breakers and guards.
The following examples of the delays
in transit were obtained yesterdays: On
March 20, two cars loaded with struc-
tnral steel for building material left
Youngstown This material was for
b9i'@ings beng erected at Long Island
men have been idle for several days.
The two ears reached Altoona on March
2d and left there on Engine No. 147l
al 6:20 p. NJ, March 90, for West Nor
risville They were stored at Van
Dyke, Pa, until April 8. They left
the latter place for Mifflin, Pa, April
IS, and went thence to Morrsville on
Engine No. 4162 at s a. NJ, May 2.
They left Morrisville on engine 1884
at 7:1o p. m. May 4 for South Amboy.
From the latter place they left on
were lost, as far as the, official rec
ords were concerned, until yesterday,
when they we're located at Waverly,
n. J.
Another shipment of building ma
terial left Pea Argyle, Pa, for New
Hyde Park, L. l., a distance of eighty
five miles, and was delivered yesterday,
forty-five days after shipment. This
material was needed to finish twenty
five houses at Garden City
Building Materials Held Up
One car of house tiles shipped from
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, on April % has
reached Shop Mills, west Of Morris
Vile, according to latest advices. Two
cars of steel which left South Amboy
on April 7 for Newark were delivered
yesterday after the yard officials had
been presented with 'little gift
-Four cars of lumber for Long Island
building operations which left North
tcrday at Cape Charles, Pa, because
the railroad officials could not handle
Them
Some consignees are seeking relief
by having their freight turned into ex>
press matter. If the cars are suitable
and the yardmasters are properly ap-
preached this can be done, and the
shipment is attached to passenger
trains and sent through the tunnels to
the city, it was learned.
According to Sydney A. Hale. editor
of The Coal Trade Journal" who has
just finished survey of the situation,
the scarcity of coal in other sections
OF the country is more pronounced
than it is here and only the most
heroic measures can avert wholesale
shut t-downs. In every case, he said, the
complaint is a shortage o. cars.
The Southern Illinois res, he said,
are receiving only oneth,rd to one
thirteenth of the cars they require for
their operations. In April the supply
was only SO per cent Of normal. while
age. Operators contend that to con-
tinue under present conditions will
drive them into bankruptcy, as the
mines are working only two days a
week and overhead costs are going
steadily on.
Local manufacturers, says Mr.. Hale
having given up trying to get stuff
through regular channels, have sent
personal representatives to the mines
to buy whatever coal they can get and
have it shipped into the city by trucks
With respect to bitumincus coal, con-
sumers are arriving at the fields in in
creasing numbers and are personally
buying up the quantities at higher
prices, to the exclusion of the regular
dealers, whose offer OF reasonabl
prices for the coal are practically
ignored
Philadelphia Suffering
The coal situation In Philadelphia
, he says, is frightful, with hardly any
bituminous coal to be had at any of the
| piers or yards. The dealers there are
being told that the mipes can get only
one days supply to them week unit
conditions become better and more cars
to haul the commodity are available a
the mines. They are paying a much
as 81 ton for bituminous coal in tht
| Quaker City.
In Baltimore, says Mr.. Hale, it is re
ported that the Baltimore & Ohio. the
Pennsylvania and Western Maryland
lines are furnishing not more than 81
to 40 per cent of the normal amount O.
coal. Boston is in equally bad shape
while Buffalo manufacturers have rep
resentatives at the mines bidding
against one another for the produc
which they hope to get to their fac
tories in some way not yet made clear
The industries in the last named cit.