Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-09-13
Perth Amboy Figures Promi-
nentIy in Arrival of First
Shipment of Coal
ALREADY IN NEW YORK
Local Dealers Will Get Coal
for Customers, Agt. Charles
Dorsey Declares

That local dealers will not have
any trouble in receiving coal with
which to meet the demands Of their
customers, was the opinion giver
today by Charles III. Dorsey, in
charge of the local Office Of the
Lehigh Valley railroad. Mr.. Dorsey
gave this opinion in speaking of the
i arrival of the first train of fresh
| mined coal from the mines to ttdes
| water, which reached this city yes
terday. Perth Amboy figured prom.
| inently in the arrival of this trains
| as a race was on between tpaEa-
rious coal carrying roads to bosthe
! first to rush a train Of anthracite
| race was won by the Lehigh Valley.
| from the mines to tide-water which
At the docks here the coal has
about been loaded into barges and
some of it has already been shipped
via water to New York.
The train of newly mined coal
which won the race. consisted OF
thirty cars, drawn by engine NO. 100
and arrived here yesterday morning,
and at once the loading of coal
barges began. This was the first
train of newly mined coal to arrive
at the docks since April 10.
1t was a record run for hard
coal carrying road in every sense OF
the word. The coal left the mine,
15S miles away from this city ard
made the run in less than fifteen
hours. As near as can be learned
at this time the actual running time
was fourteen hours and fifteen MN
utes. To carry the coal this dis-
tance usually takes from twenty TO
twenty four hours. In order to make
this record the Lehigh Valley ran
the train through as special. max
ing only the stops that were apso-
lutely necessary, it is said. FrePar-
ations for the race had been gong
on quietly among the railroads ior
several days.
Although four cars of newly
mined coal has been received since
the arrival of the train of thirty
cars. it is expected that shipments
of anthracite will be coming through
every day and additional help mas
been put to work on the piers ana
bumpers at the Lehigh dock so that
it may be loaded as fast as it comes
in. There Is little danger at the
present time of delay in the snip
ping of coal, as the Lehigh Vauey
is well equipped with cars ana IN
most instances 1t is the shortage OF
cars that causes the delay in the
coal shipments. The local dock is
equipped to dump 800 cars of coal
in ten hours If the occasion de-
mands.
Although no coal has arrived for
local dealers as yet. Mr.. Dorsey was
of the opinion that II would be COM
ing through in a few days and IN
such quantities that there need be
cI, A,.te
In New York City the announce
ment has been made that coal will
cost in the neighborhood of S14.50 O
ton instead of 1910 which was the
prevailing price when the miners
stopped work on April 1. Coal COM
panies in this city when questioned
on the subject of price declared that
that they did not know what the
price would be. E. ]. Dorsey & Sons,
retailers, reported that they had not
received any of the newly mined
coal and did not know what the
price would be.
The Lake Coal Company reported
that as vet no advance in price had
taken place, but that there may be
an advance of so cents per ton. This
concern reported that shipment of
pea coal is expected the early part
of next week and a shipment of nut
coal is expected in about three
weeks time.
George J. Haney, retail coal mcr-
chant reported that although the
price had been raised in New York
ii is hoped that it will not advances
in this city.
A representative of G. M. Peterson
&. Company believed that the price
will remain the same as at present