Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-15
|R|TCH|E SPEAKER
AT COAL FARLEY
World Experts to Study Oil,
Gas, Pipe Lines and Other
Competing Factors.
BY BRADLEY w. TRENT.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, November I4-With
the arrival here today of foreign and
New England delegates to the third In
ternational Conference on Bituminous
Coal, which begins its sessions at Pitts
conclave comes into the trade spot
light.
The conference which stresses world
rather than merely national problems of
the industry, will take up such matters
as the economics of coal, its distribu-
ton and competition with other fuels,
new methods of burning the black dia-
mond, due to the use of pulverized fuels,
and many other questions to which the
world trade generally seeks an answer.
Myron G. Taylor, chairman of the
Finance Committee of the United
States Steel Corporation, will make one
of the principal addresses at the Mon
day morning general session Of the con-
ference, which also will hear Albert c.
Richie, Governor of Maryland, and C.
E. Bockhus, president of the National
Coal Association.
Noted Foreign Delegation.
Some of the distinguished foreign
delegates who passed through here on
their way to the coal gathering in
cluded r. v. Wheeler, Sheffield Untver
sity, Shefheld, England; Rudolf Paw
likowski, manager of "Kosmos," Cor
litZ, Germany; Friedrich Schultz of Es-
sen, DR.. M. Barash and T. A. Tomlin-
son of the West Gas Improvement Co,
London; Andre Grebel, consulting en-
gineer, Paris; DR.. T. E. w. Schumann,
director, Fuel Research Institute of
South Africa, Pretoria; Prof D. VIE
luch, Katowice, Poland; Hiding Berg
strom, Stockholm, and many others.
Any pick up In the basic industries,
the delegates arriving here today de-
clared, would prove helpful to the
bituminous industry at this time. They
learned that some increase in factory
buying in the West in the last few days
has benefited the bituminous market in
that section, but balmy weather there,
as in other parts of this country, has
conspired against a brisk retail demand.
One of the features of the week, so
the conference delegates from New
England say, is the increase in bitumi-
nous buying by textile mills in their
locality. This movement, most of which
is passing through Hampton Roads,
has firmed the slack prices of the fuel
about 35 cents ton in the last two
W2ekS.
Will Study World Factors.
American coal exporters generally
have gone through the dullest 54-day
period in recent history, since England
went off the gold standard, because the
depreciation in the pound sterling has
shifted many orders to Wales which
ordinarily would come here. While this
has affected anthracite more than it has
bituminous, both sections of the trade
in the United States are watching
trends in foreign markets, for they re-
gard a reduction in prices as the only
way to keep this trade from being
snapped up by the Welsh.
The higher price of crude oil gener
ally, along with some improvement in
fuel oils. tends to relieve bituminous
coal of some of the pressure of one Of
its competitors, the coal men say, but
the great potential increase in natural
gas pipe lines, along with plans now
being made for the wholesale distribu-
ton of fuel oil through pipe lines direct
to consumers homes presents fresh
problems for the neutrality-suspicious.
those of this country-to the inter-
national conference.
(Copyright, 1917