The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-10-05

up the price Of coal. It is believed
by operators will have much to do
With softening the high prices Of
coal. Although the movement is
in It's infancy, 1t appears to have
already had some good moral eff
feet, because a softening has been
felt for almost q week In line ship
1nents, which, however, have al
ways been lower than export
prices. The Fair Practices move
ment is chiseled in sincerity and
every company must subscribe to
the resolutions adopted by signing
their names personally. The COM
mfttee Is today sending these reso-
luuons out to the operators Of
Northern West Virginia The vast
majority Of operators realize that
a runaway market or continued
high price market for commercial
coal will mean resumption OF
federal prosecution.
At the meeting yesterday COM
mittee created two new districts
in reference to tho consumers OF
the state Of West Virginia. One OF
the districts includes Hancock,
Ohio, Brooke, Marshall, Wetzel
and the second consists Of Tyler,
Peasants, Wood, Writ and Richie
counties.
The members of the Fair Prac-
tices committee are Everett Dren-
men, chairman; Douglas German,
John L. Hatfield, c. II. jenkins, ].
C. Mckinley and A. Lisle White,
George T. Bell is secretary and
treasurer and Gibbs L. Baker, OF
Washington. is counsel.
Daily Car Supply.
There is 4 splendid run OF emp
ties on the Monongah division of
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
today. There are 1,47 cars, with
an early morning placement Of
1,404. The cars today are classi-
fed as follows: Open, 1916; coke,
80; blink, rs; MVT, 40. Cars left
over from the previous day were
326. The mines today ordered
1874 cars, Of which 80 were for
coke loading.
Along the Monongahela railway
today there is a placement of 307
in the West Virginia district, with
377 in the Pennsylvania district.
OF the cars in West Virginia today
there are so cars assigned for rail-
roads and public utilities, rather
smaller than usual. A fair run OF
empties is expected for Wednes-
days loading.
Mines along the Helen's Run
and Wyatt-Bingamon branches of
the Western Maryland railway to-
day total 200. Cars on the West
ern Maryland this week are run
ming fine.
Officers Promoted
Everett bremen, EIklns. presl,
dent of the West Virginia Coal and
Coke Company today announced
made general superintendent Of the
little Lanawha division Of that COM
pany and C. L. Chapman, Elkins,
has been made general superin--
tendent OF the Norton division OF
the concern.
Mr.. MacSweeney Here
]. ]. MacSweeney, Baltimore, gen
eral traffic manager OF the New
England Fuel and Transportation
Company, which has operations at
Grant Town, this county, is in tho
region today. Mr.. MacSweeney IS
the guest OF J.. w. Dawson, gener-
al manager of the operations at
Grant Town.
Lake Situation
The general outlook at the lake
front, according to reports from
Cleveland, were no better at the
close OF last week than they have
been during the immediate past.
The railroads had 6,793 cars at the
lake front Friday morning, and
4,O71 cars in transit. The docks
dumped 1923 cars Thursday and re-
ceipts dropped to 2,216 cars. Boats
In some cases did not get around
for cargoes yesterday on account OF
the storm and loading was only es-
timated at 1:745 cars.
Miners Hospital
A dispatch from Charleston states
the following: "a modern hospit-
oil OF $50 beds will be erected Ill
Charleston in the near future by
District II, United Mine Workers,
1t was announced at district head
quarters
convention Of miners of the district
held In Charleston. 1t Is planned
to invest about 100000, In tho
hospital, district officials say.
The proposed hospital Is private
enterprise for the exclusive use OF
members Of local unions comprising
District IT, United Mine Workers
OF America, which has headquarters
in Charleston. Any PROFITS that
might be realized will be put back
into the institution in improved IA
cilEties and service, it was stated
by Fred Mooney, district secre-
tary."
Daily Production
Fairmonb region on Monday load
ed 1871 cars OF coal and coke, 1851