The evening world. Newspaper, October 11, 1902, Page 2

Nat onal Gunrd of the State of Pennsylvania has been in men at work in the mines, strippings and washerles. Of these the percentage of miners holding certificates entitling them to ut coal is so small as to be almost unworthy of record, ‘The threatened stampede of men willing and anxious to work has not materialized. It is a question if the operators thought it would materialize, FEW COLLIERIES RUNNING. The collieries that are running are so few in number that there Is little Space required to write them down, - . A guard around the Forest City mine keeps the men who are at work there on duty, but not more than three miners have gone in since the guard ‘Was established. . The Temple Iron Company's mine at Mount Lookout was opened yes- terday under protection from troops. A stockade has been built, and the few men at work are, kept inside it day and night. There is great appear- ance of activity on the outside. but very little coa! is being mined. A few miners holding certificates are at work there, Miners with certificates to the number of perhaps a score, are at work in the Pennsylvania Coal Company's mines. Two men applied for work there yesterday. No one has applied thus far to-day. In the Delaware and Hudson and Delaware, Lackawanna and Western mines, no new men have gone to work since the troops arrived. The same condition applies to the Reading mines, A few new men have gone to work in the Wyoming Valley, where un- disturbed peace hag reigned since the soldiers were posted. For every man who has gone to work two men have quit. EVEN THOSE WORKING MAY QUIT. Officials of the union assert that after the troops are on the ground a weck even the few colileries now In operation will have to close down They base this on the belief that when the miners see that there ix no| stampede to work, with troops furnishing’ protection, the wavering men who have feared that the strike would be lost will leave their jobs and Join the union ranks in order to be in line for the benefits to accure when the strike {8 won. | “Once get the whole body of men on strike imbued with the idea that they cannot lose,” said an official of the union to-day, “and they couldn't mine coal here if tuey had the whole United States Army trying to persuade the men to go to work.” Tt is estimated that under the protection of the militia the anthracite output is about 25,000 tons a day—a large percentage of this coming from the washeries. This {s several thousand tons short of the normal demand of New York City every day. ROOT HAS A CONFERENCE WITH J. PIERPONT MORGAN. ‘coal regions for close to four days there are not more than 3,000 able- READING DENIES ANTI-TRUST VIOLATION. PHILADELPHIA, Ovt. 11.—In answer to proventings brought under the Ast! Trust law the Phiiadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron ny will file a state- ment denying that it Is In any manner A conference between Secretary of Hotel, where J. Plerpont Morgan has a {Connected with any combination of rail- War Root and J. P. Morgan aboard the) suite of rooms and where he slept night financier’s yacht Corsair, off the foot of| before last, But Mr. Root did not fo! ‘Thirty-fourth street, ended at 3 o'clock | low his baggage. this afternoon, when they came asiore| He went instead to the Union League in a small launch, landing at the foot of Club, where an Evening World reporter Forty-second street. found him engaged In a discussion with In onder to throw the newspaper men /a large and appetizing breakfast. off the track the cabman previously) “All sorts of rumora attach to your left at the foot of Thirty-fourth street, | presence In New York, Mr, Secretary,’ was Instructed to announce that he|raid The Evening World reporter. “Will was returning to the stables, Instead| you say just wry you came over?” he drove to Forty-second street, “I came over to register,” repliod Mr. When asked If the conforence was not| Root." You know I have a vote here, held in relation to the coal strike, Mr.| even though I live in Washington.” Morgan was annoyed. With Mr. Root,| When the question was put to him who answered all questions with a amile,|plump us to the Impreesion that he the financlal king stood in the ralijcame on a mission to J. Plerpont Mor- until their carriage returned from an|gan to outline a plan to acttle the cont intended wild goose chase. They were] strike and humble the arrogant Baer. driven eastward. he refused to make an affirmative an- This impression is based upon the|swer or to put forward a decilal. He fact that Mr, Root conferred with the) said almply that he had come on to New President, Attorney-General Knox, | York to register. Adjt.-Gen. Thomas J, Btewart, of the| The Inat time Mr. Root was in New Pennsylvania militia, and Gen, Gobin,| York he saw Mr. Morgan, It wan patd commander of the Third Brigade of the/then, and not denied, that he had dls- Pennsylvania National Guard, now on| cussed with the financier the effect of Guty ‘In the coal flelds, at the tem-/the coul strike upon the chances of porary White House terday, and it| Ropublican victory this fall. po daeeateg that they discussed tho gemator Platt left the Fifth Avenue Hotel for his office before 9 o'clock to- After the conference Secretary Moot day, an unusual performance for ht had a long talk over the long distance | ire was tired and petulent and plaints telephone with J. Plerpont Morgan, and out of sorts, The Senator rerun nA Ma ited arrangements to come to | discuss the atrike situation, sald he had dig baggage sent to the Fifth Avenue | his office all day. MITCHELL DEPRESSED BUT STILL CONFIDENT. (Special io The Evening World) lence, but he said the troops now on duty were abl 0 cope with the s, : WILKESBARRE, Pa., Oct. 11.—Prest-| tion qi C Reders tua ent Mitchell, vinibly depressed, re-| neceatary, cee Federal troops are not turned from New York to-day. He con-| ,,'We cannot prevent Intimidation, ferred with several of hix associates but) of"Yih, Alliler,, put We can prevent acts declined to say anythin try could not prevent intimidation of the “T think,” he said, ‘that I can boet| rt practised by the strikers and thelr ferve the public by retraining trom dis aH ON because It Is not open or Ctmsing the situation. As a matter of] "The operators ure and will be fully fact there is nothing that I can say.| Protected from open Interference from ‘The pubile knows av much of the situa-| py..etlkers, That ia as fur ay we can tion a« I do adh! of the collleries tp the Luzerne | '@ are ready to make any rearona-| district the work of building stockades | pped with barbed wire i | Die concessions in the interest of the| ress this morning, but Th none of the public, but the arbitrary attitude of tho| mines was any coal being mined or is shipped. epsratora has prevented a vettiement. 1)” sir Mitchell's attention was called to @o not see any chance of a settlement! the letter of Vico-President Wileae, of &s long as the operators continue thels| the Delaware and Hudvon Company, to oe President Roosevelt, in which he maln- stubborn resistance. t that the miners’ union is-an lle “{ shall remain here for the present. | gal organization. The strike leader hesl- There 1s no break in our lines, nor will 1 to say anything for a moment and fi cltite repiled there be. Our men are confident of win-| "tne finers’ union in orkanized al ame lines as all labor unions. tt Brig.-Gen. Gobin, who went to Wash-| the country, If the miners” organization ington to confer with the President, {9 !¥ legal ao are all the oth and [ expected to return thin afternoon with) “ye iauners iaeDek Megat | Major-Gen, Miller, who wt'! probably | iooking to the American Federation of establish division headquarters here. cape te) ace them ee f The ‘ ve| Federation has & merbership of iiearly (2toers of the National Guard bellove | Pejrraiiie ne Myneee Ime fea é {eh m |strongest trade in that organization Taw before Sunday, when an attempt} and they now feel that the will be made to open the mines, fhould come. out and. take. ar Major Miller, Adjutant of the Third | *;t!ve Interest in the struggle. M There js a report here that this wiil Brigade, made the remarkable confes-| pe done in the form of a general appeal ion this morning that there has been no/|tor assietance to all the lador org ani- decrease in the number of acts of Vio: gations In’ the country ——_—_—_+ PRESIDENT BAER’S POSITION, Gov. Odell—I believe that your position from a public view is abso- lutely untenable. If coal operators, railrond men and other business men| ‘ can combine for mutual profit and protection there is no reason why labor-| ing men should not, | Mr. Baer—What {s the proposition? | Goy. Odell—Just this. I am sure that the labor organization of which Mr. Mitchell ts head. desires him to be fair with the genera! public, If the! operators will consent to give the men five cents a ton Increase I will per-| gonally present it to the miners, and I believe they will accept It, It is a fair proposition. | Mr, Baer—Does this mean, Gov. Odell, that we are to recognize the} miners’ union? Gov. Odeli—It certainly doos, and there is no reason why you should not, | Mr. Baer--It is useless for us to discuss any proposition which Includes | ! Tecognition of the union. t | we JOHN MITCHELL'S POSITION, | I have even gone so far as to propose that I should recommend to the jathracite mine-workers that they resume work if some of thoso largely nelally interested in anthracite mines would accept the responsibility | ely of detormining the question at issue, provided they made their de- on public and gave thelr reasons for it, If the coal companies will pay an increase of 20 per cent to men em- ‘ d at the anthracite mines as contract or plece worker.s, and will re- the hours of Jabor from ten to eight for men employed by the day, or week, at the same pay they received per day prior to the strike, that event, all of the 140,000 former employees will return to thelr Working places upon notice to that effect. * * ° “ pof 20 per cent. in wages would Increase t.he cost of anthra- the mines and to the consumer 10 cents per ton. ers now struggle is further aw: and with the breach b wet roads fixing the price of coal or con- ing mining stocks. The statement will further deny that the pricea for oal sold and shipped Were ever determined by agreyment, contract, combination or arrangement with the cor juns mentioned In the It ts admitted, however, that officers of the company’ have occasional meet- ings with others in a ilke business with a view of discussing the situation of markets, the avatiaye supply and 1in the future, In order may be tuken to supply probs that measi their requirem: —_ SHOTS IN THE DARK AT THETROOPS. MOUNT CARME Pa, Oct. 1 rly thla morning persons on a hill close to the Sixteenth Regiment en- campment began hurling rocks and discharging revolvers at the officers’ quarte After a hinif-dozen bullet foll into camp Lfeut.-Col. Rickarda ana forty Mne and ‘mtaft oMicers who ta: been apprised that an attack was. th made on the camp left thelr quartors na ran in direction the firing Mm. ‘The officers shot, 1 of them, but at davbrenk application | signs of the soldi assailants « found (Aneelal to The Evening World) WILKESBARRE, mt tulement of the coal than ween the the operators wider than be regiments are by whi they are Where prisoners will fine regiment nmand to enforce to the letter tho Gen stating that all taken while committing acta of Vv shall be detained in the cam 8 thelr fre a Jom would publle peace be ca BIG RUSH FOR COAL COES ON. More Depots Where Fuel Is Sold! at 15 Cents a Pail Opened on East and West Sides. The distribution of coal for the voor at 15 cents a pail was continued by tho coal roads to-dav on a more extensive than yesterday, ‘The only depot which was ng yesterday exhausted {ta supply at So'clock In the evenin belzg unable to get more, was obit I the pegpte who called to come t Monday when there will be another s iy on hand nother partt of town the work went mn. 'Phere were dy opened this 19) Washington ste havent nd‘ Thizt atrget, Forty-sixth street and the } River, Fitty-aixtiy stree dhe River and One Hundred and Ninet street and the E River t salty cf supply! places with eo! today made Lk Impossible for the ope ators to coatinge the supply at Alfred yer's Sons’, No, 377 Water the distitbution besa ough the now depois we vily advertised there were crowds at most of them this morning when the were opened shortly after 6 8, No. o'clock. At Curtis & Biaisde 1 Washington street, the fect mob, mostly 8 adintasion when the gates open. ‘The people were other brought tn. an Ttallan who suc- ceeded In getting four pails, which he peddied about the atreets at 40 cents @ pall, The people thenselves chased him y and he had to rua for neighborhood b; BUILDING “PENS” FOR THE COAL RIOTERS.| ! Oct. W—The strike | de the efforts of the Ato wet then ent, Mit hell finds New York Business Men Express Deep Anxiety (ing fown to-day to make a long and|the @ hard fight. legal proceedin, declared martial |inw, what {8 practically a marta Ninth da this city mak : World reporters on t I Jacobs will from direét contact with the people. Their views as expressed follow: iter returns iit ord the position of the aul Thirty-elghth street, there was a Most of them were chil me with soap boxes on len wheels, into which they dumped similar crowd have to do all of our pusiness upon the ground floor, Those merchants whose machinery ts operated from their own plants will surely have to elther do this or close up entirely. As yet the coal situation has not af- or being the business done to the tiret floor, et what they i ges hid 168 ton AFTER A SUNDAY SUPPLY. | (i: ‘The coal situation threatens to paralyze business all along Broadway.” dows where the tckeis were tlogthe Weat chi on fdr policemen wn and they walpped tae cloveil ww give the streaming {n and It 1s smaller than the but Je said to b a new SppLy 2 inaule| waa a per-] | squads, As soon as one squad was] supplied they were turned out and an-| A disturbance was created in the} ne World, for was through columns that the news of this At Burns Brothei best made known and cir- Eleventh avenue culated among the poor.’ F ING, O BR ii, 1902, iy THOUSANDS OF POOR BUY COAL. FROM TRUST AT FIFTEEN CENTS A PAIL; THIS NETS COMBINE TEN DOLLARS A TON. TRADE MENACED | BY COAL FAMINE, + at the Continuance of the Strike, men were interviewed to-day by Evening coal situation in the city as it appeared to them Representative b CONDITIONS IN BIG STORIES. H, O'Neill, dry gocds. Twenty-first street and Sixth avenue, Manager Strange—It will mean that within a comparatively short time we will fected the buying public, Siegel Cooper Company, dry goccs, Eighteenth street and Sixth avenue, Manager C, M. Hogan—A!though the situation is most serious, I look for speedy rellef. We have cur winter's supply cf coal in and are In no danger urced to close; yet It Is possible that we will confine the most of PRICE, OF BREAD TO RISE. W. EB. Cushman, of the Cushman bakeries: “The price of bread will surely have to go up and that yery soon, for I am operating my furnaces ata serious loss. Soft coal is not the thing to produce heat in the ranges and that is all we are burning it the present time. The advance will be gradual, probably a cent on each loaf of bread ¢ Saks, of Saks & Company, specialists in men and women’s wear, ourth street and Broadway, ust a8 soon as the short days arrive we will be forced to close up when darkness comes, as the expense of -perating our plant after it be- comes dark would be far too costly, For a week we have been burning wood and coke, and there is very Ittle of the latter to be had at any price. RESTAURANT PRICES HIGHER. Charles E, Rector, restaurants: “But for the ingenuity of my engl- eer | do not know what I should have done when the supply of anthracite coal ran out, He has invented a gas burner operated with compressed air which broils full as well as hard coal fire. You cannot broil over a soft coa! fire. In regard to prices there will be a 10 per cent. advance within two weeks unless there ts a change in the situation.” Manager Shanley'’s Broadway restaurants: ‘We will either have to raise the prices or shut down the establishments. This coal trouble right after the lift in the cost of beef is going to drive prices away up. At the present time we are operating under great difficulties, using soft coal in our ranges.” BUSINESS ME Charles Weisbecker, N’S PLIGHT, retail grocer, No, 205-27 ‘0 West One Hundred and Twenty- HOTEL COLLAPSE, Wall of a New Structure Breaks and One Man Is Buried Be- neath the Ruins. JACKSON, Mich., Oct. 11.—The north- west wall of the new Otsego Hotel, in process of construction here, collapsed this morning while thirteen men were af work on the roof. Elght of them eacaped by jumping to another part ot the structure. The other five went down as the roof fell. One, Henry Giltner, was killed by deine buried in the ruins, while the others have been taken out seriously hurt, put it {s thought not fatally. Their names are W. Thomas, George L. Van Allen, William MoKay and Patrick O'Connor, The contractor for the bullding is Mayor Pickles, who was in the struc- ture when the wall collapsed. It is . sald that the building was inspected and pronounced satisfactory by the architect last night. IOWA IN DRY-DOCK. BUENOS AYRES, Argentina, Oct. 11, —The United States battle-ship Iowa, which was reported agfound a month ago near the island Milo, has gone into dry-dock at Bahia Blanca, Argen- tina, for repairs. {¥th etreet: “If there 4s no change in the strike within two weeks I shall close down, as I have only enough coal to last until then. I employ 125 men end operate my own electric light and celd storage plants. Since the coal trouble began my monthly expenses have increased $400." L. M. Blumatein, dry goods, No, 280-236 West One Hundred and Twenty-fitth street: “We have enough coal left over from last year to carry us along for a . few weeks, I hope that,the miners will hold out and think that all good citizens should get along the best they can until the operators are forced to weaken." Manager Sutheriand, of Horton & Co., {ce-cream, No. 110 East One Hundred and Forty-second street: “The last coai we bought cost $18 a ton, We cannot get any more and if at the end of two weeks there is no change in the situation we will have to close, That will throw elghty persons out of work.” H. C.F. Koch % So., dry-goods, No. 122-140 West One Hundred and Twenty- fifth street: "I carnostly hope and pray that the operators will come to their sensea ang let a big supply of coal into New York within the next week. If they d> not, Walt of the business p'aces in Harlem will have to clode down. It will mean another French revolution. 1 have enough coal to carry me through the month," Manager of the Harlem Cafe, No, 26 West One Hunderd and Twenty-ftth streat: “We have agents ai! over the country seeking coal, and no matter what price ts asked we are prepared to buy Under no ciroumstances will we close untlt there {s no coal to be had at any price.” TENANTS MAY SUFFER. Superintendent of the Hamilton Bank Butlding, No. 213-217 West One Hundred and Twenty-feth xtreet: “On account of the large number of offices in the bulld- ing wo shill not close, althouzh £ fear that many of the tenants will suffer from the lack of heat. We have no coal reserves and are consequently forced to enter the market and de bled each day along with the rest of the business world.” Magistrate Barlow, of the Centre Street Court: ‘The situation ts appalling, T hate to think of what Js in store fcr the poor when the cold weather sets in." NOT FELT IN SHOE TRADE YET. M. L, Miller, business manager for the Emerson Shoe Company, No. 20 Broad- way, sald: “As yet the effects of the coal strike have not been felt tn our line of business. ‘he shoe trad# 1s seldom disturbed by dissatisfactions of this nature, We are holding on well, and do not anticipate any of thoge dread results which will affect the people,” R. B. Macpherson, local business manager and agent for the Chicago firm of Marshall Field & Co., whose omce Is at No. 10¢ Worth atreet, sald: ‘T can see nothing but an Impending disaster 1f the coal operators give In to éfpantzed labor. It will mean that armies of the employed in all trades where they are hired in large numbers will take an incentive from the success of the coal miners and go ton strike, I do not hold a dellar'’s worth of stock in any coal company, so T epeak disinterestedty, (i “f uphold the operaters, and wiile the helpless poor are to be pitied for any sufferings they are compelled to undergo, still I believe this will be a salutary n for the miners, That, briefly expressed, !s my opinion—a personel opinion.” NO GAS SUPPLY SOON. Charles P, Zoreada, of Nos. § and 9 Astor House, manager of the Astor House men's furnishing store, was asked how the strike might possibly affect him, and he sald: “The only tll-effects I have yet learned of have been that my gas company Informs me that they can only supply me with gas for one week more—and they want to know what I will do for ght at the end of that time. But es yet the strike has effected us but Uttle. It will later, however.” Adolph Bloch, counsel for the Tenement Committee, “The miners have ds much right to combine under the law as the opera- tors. They have also the right to claim that they be recognized {f the coal com- bine is to be admitted. Dissolve the Coal Trust, then talk to the miners. J. M. Pitman, President of the American Steel and Copper Plate Company: “Declare martial Inw. Send Federal men and Federal officers, Don't have ore man gilarding his brother,” Charles Frazier, Prosident Charles Fiazier & Co,, bankers, No. 98 Nassau stree™ “It seems to me the operators have (he right to employ and pay men just as {t sults them." CANNOT CRUSH LABOR. Lawrence Gilleaple, Secretary of the Equitable Trust Company: ‘You cannot aeh organized labor; no more can you organized capital. What then? The leaders must be brought to make mutual conceastons,”’ H., ©, Holt, a member of the Citizens’ Committee formed to bring about med{- ation between miner and operator: “The operators are intthe wrong for not eub- mitting to arbitration.” Lowell M. Maxhdm, President of the Bay State Traction Company: “If the strike {8 not settled immediately trouble will come améng the poor. You cannot control human nature when Its senses are frozen Phils Shugerman, President of the Royal Bank: “I cannot give an impartial opinion until my coal bin ts filled." THOUSANDS NOW SUFFERING. Coroner Nicholas Brown: ‘There is no telling what misery will be produced this winter by the coal strike, Alveady thousands of families throughout the clty are suffering. The coal strike should end. Coal should be mined by the Governs ment If necessary. 5 Alderman Thomas F, Voley: “The Government should own the coal mines, Then the laboring man weul get u Just day's pay. If capital has a right to combine labor cervainly has. The position taken by the operator s one of arrogance. Coal should he mined even if the Goverrment must seize the mines,” 5 Ludwig Bawmann, of No, itt West One Hundred and Twenty-fitth street: We have some coal. If we can possibly get more we will. We must suffer in pocket with tho others. We have no intention of closing down because of the scarcity: or high price of coal. We will pay whatover the market price js. We may be able to get enough coal to tide over the present stringency.” Richard Weeber, meat end provisions, One Hundred and Twentieth street and Third avenue: “We have a very large cold storage plant which must be kept running. It Js filled with meats and perisliable products. We are buying coal at any price and will continue to pay what Is demanded, We are giving away our empty boxes to the poor for fuel."* J. R, Senior, dry-gooils tnerchent, No. #14 West One Hundred and Twenty-fitth street: “We are paying the market price for coal. We will not shut down as long as we can get enough coal to keep us going. Our story is the same as that told by the other business men." DEPOTS WHERE THE POOR MAY GET COAL FOR FIFTEEN CENTS A PAIL. CURTIS & BLAISDELL ....,.0+.0.0+5+++» No. BURNS BROS......... ROBERT GORDON’S SUNS... ALFRED BARBER’S SON. - 46th CURTIS & BLAISDELL .........++++.... 56th Street and East River HENCKEN & WILLENBROCK............94th Street and East River CURTIS & BLAISDELL . .........+++.+.+-119th Street and East River MEVER BROS, .ve:6sc5i00..cayees seeeeeeeeees Eleventh Avenue and 38th Street | See MARKLE DIDN'T SAY “KILL 160 STRIKERS,’ | Mr. John Markle. the Inéependent op- erator of Jeddo, Pi., who was quoted yesterday as having sald that it would be necesspry for the State troops to kill 180 miners before the strike could be settled, denied to-day that he made any h remark. "I was quoted,” sald Mr, Markle to a# Evening World reporter, "as saying this to Lieut..Gol, Goor, I have not been to Leut.-Col. Good. I have not been the coal regions, not only did I not make the remark to Lieut.-Col, Good, but I 100 Washington Street Street and North River .. No. 377 Water Street +. 107th Streét and East River || mace it to novody oles, 3 tm bee lutely fajee aq