The evening world. Newspaper, October 6, 1902, Page 2

; supply of water ga3, of which about 26,000,000 cubic feet are consumed every day in New York under normal conditions. FEARS FOR THE RESULTS. “All we can do,” said an official of the Consolidated Gas Conipany to- day, “ 1s to hope and pray that something will happen to settle the strike. If it runs into the cold weather I hesitate to say what will be the result, , "The consumption of gas in New York City is about 80,000,000 cuble feet a day. Of this about two-thirds is coal gas coal. The rest is water suf. “We have orders for anthracite, from which wa fn England, Wales and Nova Scotia. ‘we can. ply of anthracite and will have to shut down our water IMPOSSIBLE TO MEET THE DEMAND. “We are already turning out all the coal gas we can manufacture, “It the strike continues the demand for gas for heating and lighting | purposes will run up to 250,000.000 cuble feet a day, or treble what ft is) now. facturing, and {f the water gus supply fs cut off entirely we cannot furnish | one-fourth of the gas that will be needed. “From this ft will be seen that we could not satisfy the demand even ff we had the coal. And if we cannot get the coal—well, I don't want to| consider what would happen. You can figure {t out for yourself.” The first cold snap, on the authority of another official of the Consoll- dated Gas Company, will bring appalling results to New York. Hundreds} of thousands of gas stoves will be lit, the pressure will decrease in the pipes! until jets will produce a bare, blue flicker, and cold and darkness all over | the city wiil follow. Realizing the seriousness of the situation, the gas people are putting up a brave front, but their worry !s plainly apparent. BROOKLYN ALREADY IN BAD PLIGHT. Restdents in Brooklyn find themselves confronted with a condition which makes it next to impossible for them to obtaln even gas heaters or ranges. The Brooklyn Union Gas Company, which furnishes virtually all the | gas for the city, is not putting {n gas stoves, for the reason that {t cannot get them. Even were stoves obtainable, the company would be unable to| provide enough gas for heating and cooking purposes, according to a state-| ment made to an Evening World reporter to-day by an official of the company. There has been a scant supply of gas for the past month. Gas 1s shut off at § o'clock in the morning and kept off until 4 {mn the afternoon, in or- der that there may be sufficient pressure for illuminating purposes {n the evening. It is, therefore, next to impossible to do any cooking during the day. CITIZENS OFFER TO HELP. “The average daily consumption of gas in Brooklyn {s from eighteen to twenty million cubic fect,” said a gas company offictal. “We are not able to furnish more than 17,500,000 feet, despite the fact that we are straining every nerve Ordinarily a ton of coal will yleld from 28,000 to 85,000 cuble feet of gas, but it is impossible to tell what the yield 1s from the grade of coal we are now compelled to use. | should say {t Js not one-fifth of the yield we get from our contract coal, which ceased coming last May. ‘We have paid us high as $21 a ton for anthracite. We have also im- ported Welvh coal, but it is not as satisfactory as the domestic article, ox- ploding under intense heat. ’ “Our present supply of coal will last a week. We have had several offers of smal] quantities of coal from persons who say they have read of our plight in the newspapers. One lawyer wrote us, offering to sell five tons of egg coal at $23 a ton. Five tons would last us about five minutes. Consequently we have declined offers of individuals who have volunteered to come to our assistance. Our case {s an exception to the rule, ‘Every Iit- | tle helps.’" | made ter gas Is made, placed gas plants, SS PLOT TO KEEP SOFT COAL OUT OF NEW YORK, ‘To make the hardship and suffering more acute because of the famine {m hard coal, the presidents of the great coal-carrying railroads have banded together and now refuse to haul soft coal to New York in suffictent quanti- ties to give partial relief. With thousands and thousands of empty coal cars lying ‘dle In yards | and banked upon sidings, the presidents of these roads refuse to permit the | soft-coal miners an! operators to ship their product. So completely have they tied up the coal cars that the soft coal opera- | tors here have made a joint appeal to President Cassatt, of the Pennsyl- wanita line, to at leart treat them fairly and handle the usual quantity of | soft coal which they ship to tidewater, | COMBINED TO KEEP SOFT COAL OUT, To prevent its use the presidents of the conl-carrying railroads com- bined. Because of this com! ination bituminous coal is selling at from $9 to} $12 @ ton, but only in a speculative way, as none can be delivered, and the operators who are selling it are doing so to be delivered thirty days hence. Bituminous operetors hold the railrond officials responsible for this econdition. They si hey can mine sufficient soft coal to supply the entire market if the railroads will only deliver it, While the coal famine fs on the Board of Health will not enforce the laws against the use of soft coal. The bituminous operators claim that the Pennsylvania Railroad, New | York Central, Beech Creck Rallroad, Baltimore & Ohlo, Chesapeake & Ohto,! Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg, are responsible for this condition, UP TO PRESIDENT CASSATT. The Davis Coal and Coke Company through its President sald: “The question of soft coal is up to President Cassatt, of the Pennsylvania | Railroad. An appeal has been made to him in person by representatives of the soft cos! operators. Give us cars and we will give New York soft coal.” Samuel J. Smoot, President of the Retall Coal Dealers’ Assoclation, sald: “Retail dealers are unable to buy a pound of either hard or soft coal in the market to-day. The famine in soft coal is as great as it Js {n hard coal.” Allison Docd, one of the largest wholesale dealegs, at No, 143 Liberty street, said “No Wall street proposition equals soft coal for speculative tendencies. The price of soft coal to-day is even more of a speculation than the most active stock listed. The bituminous operators declare their willingness to ship their entire output to New York if the railroads will only haul it for them, as they say the price is better now then they ever expected to receive. MINERS READY TO STAY OUT ALL WINTER. (Special to The Evening World.) TAMAQUA, Pa., Oct. 6.--In the Panther Creek Valley last night all the locals of the United Mine Werkers held meetings and passed resolutions re- affirming their allegiance to the union and declaring their Intention to Fe- main on strike a!! winter if Mitchell desires them to do so. Contrary to expectations the troops did not patrol the Panther Creek Valley this morning, néither did the strikers have pickets posted as usual. Any man who desired to go to work could have done so without fear, but notwithstanding the favorablo conditions not more than the regular force of non-union men went to work and no additional colliery was started. ELEVATORS STAND STILL IN THE SKYSCRAPERS. /-On account of the scarcity of coal the itor service in many of the sky- Faping oMce buildings was reduced by Emit to-day. In some buildings it was alinued altogether for hours at aj OA account of the diMcuity in keep-| p steam, This was especially true] ach femih'Ge ze ,ot the, Goal arike dings tn which power Is used for| Walking, to the skyline in. the morning king down raul than the running of cle-| “The service on the Third avenue road’ Was exasperalingly , Y SOWIE toa. siniflar shortage. 0 its were made to supply |ooni and consequent. reduction 1 me <4 poatag gba Cars moved | power gent through the third rail, up and down the shafts with exasper- ating slowness, This was the case in many bdulldings in which supplies of coal were due, but were not delivered by the dealers, Until coal could be se- ured, engineers avenue We are getting bituminous wherever | But the time {s coming when we are going to have a short sup-, It is impossible for us to turn out much more than we are manu- || j hundred or more We in an appearance at the jall at the first »* | Exchange this afternoon for Am NO COAL TO BE BOUGHT, THESE PHOTOGRAPHS SHOW HOW THE EAS7T SIDE POQR ARE GETTING FUEL FROM DAY TO DAY, (Snapshots Plfotographs Taken This Morning.) from bituminous) t pog7ar wer Wood pend BACHELETY Stree , WOMAN HURT BY CAR. nes m= Knocked Down tn ineeadwey and Taken to Hospital. FietrMenduec/? and'littla | Mary Gorman, of No. lar streat, Dorenms with The Trooklyn, was knocked down by a car Woad.theviGathared t Jones street and Broadway at lock this morning and so Injured | that It was necessary to remove her to St. Vincent’a Hospttal, WANTS HIS PRISONERS TO CUT FUEL FOR JAIL. ————_—+4- is at hia wits’ ends what to do for fuel, He has already furnished extra blankets to the one hundred prisonera now tn the Jail, and he has hd to depend dur ing the past fow du old ps “ing and iher Iy of cael for another says, to find land-owners who at jin give the ber on thetr property in exchange for the labor of clearing It, and he w harges to work at storing aw. nt amount of wood for pris sumption, Owners of wooded Innd in the nelgh- borhood of the Queens County Jail who aro anxious to have their property cleared of timber at t may find a tittle consc » present coal famine — Incidents the one y Willies who put every year may rch easy ones this sign of cold weath find thelr lots not season a9 heretofore, Sheriff Joseph De Bragga. charge of the Jall, Is short of who hi 1, and ene HARD COAL JUMPS — TO $380 AND $38 A TON. aizex sultable for do- | to thelr oldeet customers, For this they Hard coal, in | are demanding the market price. mestic use, has reached the top note! | price of $30 a ton or $38 a ton when sold by the bushel or pall. It ts dificult to get any even at this| price. ‘This the ordinary | consumer, the poor man, the fuel to prepare the daily meal costs a cent and three-quarters a pound. By the exercise of the greatest econ- omy St will require 2% pounds a day to prepare meals and heat water for do- mestic use. This means an outlay of 42 cents a day for fuel alone, unless the consumer ts fortunate enough to find pleces of board wita which to |help out, very workman returning homo at night is laden with bundles of wood, Carpenters and others employed In bullds ing tle up a@ few sticks of wood and carry It home with them jn order to prevent the paying, In some Instances, of one-third of the dally income for fuel, Coal dealers say that the sbipments from Canada will have no appreciable effect on the market or the price of coal All the eval which can be shipped in from there will be gulckly bought up by big manufacturers and gas com- means that to the Harlem fay that they of anthracite tn a chants, have a yarda "We cannot get It, nation they can make, Coal is now costing more than flour | or sugar or even the ordinary grades | of cor meal i Dealers vound 18 the only exp hope for, prices, any | They ere, Weaned It wo) Ma before any cos ntitles suMotent to reliet | claim could arrive lower th Bott coal Is uoted, at ho and $12 @ ton to-day by the va tis ractically impossible to use thin coal tn ramtlies, because the soot from {twill choke up flues and chimneys within Aa week after its use ts begun. In addition to the annoyance from this {tls claimed that the guses emitted from soft coal talot the food and make it in gome instances unfit for use Dealers to-day are refusing to nen |” | more than half a ton of hard coa even 100,000 TONS OF COAL ORDERED IN ENGLAND, LONDO! | Noweanst coal were sold Oct. &—A telegram from nounces that 100,000 tons of on the Newcastle This is the largest quantity contracte lin any one day since the American co strike, started. but oat Koes aro dein, sold right along to American consumer: PIANO STRIKERS: PICKET IS FINED. Orso Is Accused of Violently} Interfering with New Boy| Going to Work in Weeser’s Factory. During the last two weeks the rubbers anit pollshers tn New York plano facior- jes have been on a strike for fewer hours and mere pay, Blight hundred men are out and have established pick lines for the purp of Interc vith new men who ha been employes. John A. Weeser, who has a fasts 3 + Ferty-third street and notifled the police of the We nth @trect station that pic were making themselves obnoxious near Ws factory and threatening new men. Detectives were sent to preserve avenue “urty-se were going to worl stopped at the | facto one of the pickets, who became «0 bolsterous, Mr, Weeser s1¥s, that he summoned the detectives had the man arrested, He sald he was Gluseppe Orso, 639 East Thirteenth street. He was taken to the West Side | th Court. BROKER SUED BY A RACING MAN, Cornelius Fellowes, a Horse Show Officer, Asks for an Accounting froma His For- mer Partner. Counsel for Cornelius Fellowes, Pres!- dent of the National Hors how Asso- ciation, and a prominent racing man, to- day brought sult before Justice Steckler in the Supreme Court against Davis Johnson, the Well street broker, for an accounting Involving about $100,000, he sis due him Fellowes asserts that in 1 entered a partnership with Johnso Ung $,00 in cash and his Stoc change se at In the firm, In the next two Years his prouts should have been reaoWes withdraw and ettlement. Johnson vontinued under “the “present Johnson & Co aw 3 Fre firm e tor Davis June and he wants rellet ibility and the fortune ho has been aeprived of for more. than, twelve years, Jctoason, In his answer, declares can give no accounting, as the books of the old firm were destroyed in a fire in the offices, says that under |t he |! Lathere Terie signe 6.4, B, VETERANS. ChOWD CPL. Washington Will DevoteWeck to Ceremonies of National Encampment in Which600O,- 000 Will Participate. WASHINGTON, Oct. 6—The men who fought €or the Union In the great con- flict are tho guests of the capital of the nation. They came thousands stri to partic!pate in the tlonal pment of the G st the Re :, the opening ceremovites of which oceur to-day, and were greet by bright skles, a beautifully decorated clty and hospitable people. ‘Phe streets were early the scene of great activity, The visitors already are counted by the tens of thousands, and ltrains aro arriving hourly with their loads of human freight to be added to the throng, which !t ts expected will reach 500,000, Tho city with {ts lavish decorations never looked more attractive than to- day, There {s scarcely a building on the principal streeta that 1s not festooned with the national colors, and many of the stands and vehicles on the streets are similarly decorated, At least 50,000 of the G. A. R. men are expected to attend the encampment, and Gen, El Torrence of Minneapolis, the present Commander-in-Ontef, will pre- side. Among the prominent women who will attend are Mrs, Margaret Ray Wickens, of Ohlo; Mrs. Flo Jamison Miller, of Ile nols; Mrs. Emma Foster, of Kunsas, and Mrs. Belle C. Harrls, of Kansas. Other dis A. R. who Emma Wall, pre National Preldent ‘of tits Ladies of the G. i ten A. Rui Mrs. Blizabo Emma Wall, National President of the of Veterans; 3 Delia A. HK. Pay, Na- tonal President ‘of Army Nurses of ‘the he trustees, of the Corcoran Gallery have tendered to Mrs. Roce velt the use of the gallery lor her ry ception to the visiting delegates to t several womens patriotic soctetles which will be In convention here during AR. week, and froin 4 to 6 a’ stork A Thursday afternoon nexk 900 these women will meet the wife of the | Pragident President Roosevelt has expressed to Gommander-in-Chlet. Torrance and. to Chairman Warner, of the local eom- mittec, his keen rearet at his inability to review the parade on Wednesday. His physictans feel that he should not subject himself to the great strain this would involve. He has, however, in, pome way he might be able of the Grand “1 and thelr familles ho accompany them. His to-day stated that If nothin, occurred In his ecadition, ani weather was favorable, he could be driven along the Ifne of the parade on Wednesday, and he expects to carry out this arrangement, ‘© I want more.”’—Oliver Twist, Your breakfast to-morrow will cost you about half a cent if it’s H-O, H-O costs fiftcen cents—other kinds about ten. not to tax your digestion much, tax your pocket a little so We It’s so much cheaper than the other kinds because it’s so much better, CURED OF ASTHMA By ths KOCH LUNG CURE. “Twas unab severe coughing attecks every nil ruined to try the eneezing and asthm: , and therefore deter- och Lung Cure, at 48 St, New York, Since taking the tlon treatment T have slept 1 have had no asthmatic at- every wight a e Kor treatment made teks. in fact, tue Well, and 1h: “For years 1 could. ‘hard holding ‘on to the fence: i oT am welt and favor misiness, It ie fg realskins and sim wubject to this dtr to make this frank willing to prove th ho will call upon IRS. 10! 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