The evening world. Newspaper, October 25, 1918, Page 17

BARONS LOOSEN THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, been reduced fully one-third, but the immense tonnage being washed from the coal banks on the surface will serve largely to cover over this de- HIGH GOAL PRICES DRUG RETAILERS ( CULM BANK GRP i SEEBIG PROS “Smoked Out” by Evening World Revelations, Will Mar- kei | loarded Refuse. (Ppectal to The Bvening World.) POTTSVILLE, Pa, Oct. 25.—The Coal Trust has been partly “smoked” out” by The Evening World's reve- jations concerning the vast coal danks on the surface in this region, end it was said to-day is about to release for public consumption some of the mountains of coal it so Jeal- ously guarded while the Nation shiv- ered. | The influenza epidemic that swept | over the anthracite district has en-| forced idleness on thousands of| miners and caused a falling off in| coal production. It will make the October production of anthracite dis- appotnting, so far as the number of tona @ent to market i# concerned. The Trust realizes the necessity of; Keeping up the production in the face of approaching winter and the only} way tt can do it is by letting inde- | pendent operators back up the coal- | Producing efforts of the Trust. If the independents can produce it cheaper than present prices, the peo- ple will be the gainers, G. F, Stine, representing New York capitalists who are prepared to in- vest as many millions as may be nec- essary to send to market this coal, is in this city and 1s investigating title of the coal corpprations to the vast fuel piles, Up until this time the corporations | have resisted all efforts of inde- pendent operators to get control of | the coal banks and only in rare stances have they leased profita ‘workings to any firms except those in | close touch with the Coal Trust So air-tight has been this custom! that tndependent operators with splendid facilities for preparing coal have had to go out of business when their leases expired recently, not- withstanding there was plenty of coal within reach of their operations, and elso notwithstanding President Wilson's declaration that the scar- city of coal constitutes one of tho greatest dangers of the Nation, Publicity of the methods by whica the trust maintains a monopoly of coal production, as recently exposed | by The Evening World, has had the effect lately of compelling the trust to hurry the surface coal as con- tained in these vast mountains of culm off to market faster than was deemed advisable by those interested n keeping the market bare of c If tt had not been for the publicity which several weeks ago forced the trust to take steps to increase the coal product from the culm banks, the effect of the epidemic on the coal supply would have been serious, During half of this month the produc- tion of fresh-mined anthracite n- GIRLS! BEAUTIFY YOUR HAIR WITH “DANDERINE’ ~Get a Small Bottle! Freshen Your Scalp! Stop Falling Hair! Remove of Wavy, Glossy, Beautiful Hair—You Can! “DANDPRINE” GROWS HAIR ja watch | task laid out for Sunday morning at Of anthracite coal the interest own-|James B. Cahill, m | will be squelched Nation| teTstate Commerce Commission has quantities in the manufacture of gun- from the Atiaatic tothe Pucite win] decided that the anthracite rates) cotton. be set back promptly at 2 A. M.|charged by the Lehigh Railroad have| “Some drugs it is impossible to| | Conductors rains who “are on the|/iong been excessive. obtain at all,” said Dr, Cahill, “and wheel” when the change occurs, willl” his decision was made after a| the wholesalers do not want any new anette sia usual" Tf youare|most thorough fhvestigation of the| trade, be ause it ts epee for ‘king a short Fide, it may be possi-| rates and practices of all the anthra-| them to supply the defand of the ble for you to arrive before youl cite railroads, in which they brought | stores they have been selling to, All| end 1s of thousands of bed lov-/oUut every possible fact and etroum- errighel oll, used in treating bt undreds of thousands of by a thar ie ers are cagerly anticipating the extralatance in thelr favor. ei tidied 7 roe ot be hour of slecp Which they reluctantly | coming from Norway an @ ofl ob- to work, and by rushing the cheaply |produced coal from the culm banks to market to make up the deficiency millions of additional dollars will be added to the protit side of the cor- Dorations’ ledgers. “TURN ALL GLOGKS BACK ONE HOUR ON | CARRYING RATES, FOR PROFITEERING Interests Owning Both Rail-|Perry’s Store Manager Gives roads and Fuel “Worked Instances of Tremendous | to the cost of drugs, the doctor said, Jia the eost of labor, Errand boys | who formerly drew $6 a week are now | getting $10 and don't want the job; lads engaged in the manufacture of drugs are demanding $15 a week when they formerly received $6; por- ters who received $12 are now get- ting $15 and drug clerks who a few years ago did not look for more than $18 or $20 can hardly be secured at $40. “We will be very glad to put our prices back to normal just as soon as the wholesalers lead the way,” said Dr. Cahill. —_—_. Both” to Rob Public. Raises by Wholesalers. SUNDAY AT 2 A.M. Blame for charges of profiteering | made By Sophie Irene Loeb. Daylight Say ig Period Ends at| The Evening World's investigation to District Attorney Swann 1 Wea icainst druggists in this city since That Time All Over the into the holdings of the coal king# the influenza epidemic has held the! United States. has disclosed the enormous close cor- ERY man, woman and child in Poration of coal and railroads. In a the United States who possesses Word, in the two largest concerns that has a significant, Produce the majority of the tonnage community was put up to the whole- solers to-day by the retail trade, | “1 don't doubt that the District At- | torney has had complaints,” said Dr. | nager of Perrys, | ut if there E or clock in the World Building. 2 o'clock, Oct. 27 is the day that ends/ ing the coal also owns the railroad. | the six months’ period of daylight] Every effort has been made to keep !8 @ny profiteering, it is caused by the | | saving. |independent operators from the field Wholesale dealers, The retailer only | Trained satisticians will revel m)and when leases were made for cont follows the price of the wholesaler, | figures, trying to compute the number | operation they were usually made on | !f one advances, the other must, of watches and clocks whose hands|the stipulation that the independent, “But the retailer cannot profitee given @ merry whirl. The| Operator must carry his coal over the because he carries so many articles | quicker way to set yourself right/fllroad, the interest of which also he cannot keep any amount of one with the time-keeping work 1s to turn| Controlled the coal. | thing on hand. For instance we sent | back the hands to 1 o'clock, Accord-| For years the freight rates were for fifty pounds of camphor and got | ing to Hoyle, hawever, and the clock] built up by the vested interests and two poutes. How could we profiteer | makers, the proper method is to twirl] these rates have formed the basis for | on that? the hands forward, covering eleven|the present charges. | Dr, Cahill said several articles used hours, This may wear callous places| That they have been excessive has! in the influenza epidemic had taken on your thumb and index finger, but/ been cited by the United States Gov- | @ big jump. Camphor which his com- demands sacrifices. ernment through the Attorney Gene- | Pany sold at $1.65 a pound retail two reaped the benefits accrued |ral, in cases now pending before the Weeks ago cost them $4.65 a pound ight saving and once more|Supreme Court against the Reading | /ast Monday. It was explained that the bore who reminded. everybody | Coal and Iron Company and the Le-| this was caused by the big demand during the summer that “by rights}high Valley Railroad Company. daring the epidemic and aldo because it's only such and such time” can be] Not only this, but recently the In-| the Government is consuming large UNREASONABLE RATES MEANT TO GIVE A MONOPLY. What is more, the Interstate Commerce Commission, accord- ing to the Attorney General, also found that the rates “were ma unreasonable with the express tained here Is no good. “Tablets that formerly sold for 5 cents have advanced; all crude drugs have taken a big iner e; patent medicines have gone up 10 to 65 per cent. In the fuxuries handled by drug stores candy is high, and we ere relieved of | Don't forget, 2A BOYCOTT GERMAN TOYS, DEFENSE SOCIETY URGES Oct. 27, at purpose and effect of giving to | cannot « full supply, ‘and per- each anthracite railroad > | fumes have g vanced 60 cent. due | ‘ =i ‘1 to. the high cost of alcohc Isive to Give Our Children papeiviet the coal produced along Another _big problem contributing | Trinkets Made by Hands That ~ In the words of the Interstate Com- Slew Non-Combatants, merce Commission: Richard M. Hurd, Chairman of the “The evidence in this case con- 5 Royeott Committee of the American| ¢lusively shows that the rates on ~! Defense Society, issued a statement! ths commodity were established ~N here ¥, prote at an excessive b: and clearly purchase by fat 0 done for the purpose of arrived from, Hy « mieht set a] eliminating the independent out- — eater Got German| Put as a factor of competition in Y zc » this country, Which would] the markets with the gvilroad in- ene ly the economic domi- ter output. 2 anything. be. more repulatve “It has been the policy for Accounts opened from than to put into the hands of Amer-| many years of these carriers to 5 0 Hi de’ with’ siss'Mt] gain «monopoly of the proaue- ff 9 %099,0Q nt fon mb tion and sale of anthracite co; On Smell Weekly oF the Those whose property they cov eted were at their mercy, as they must either pay the toll in freight carriers chose | act or accept the price for | | Monthly Payments. Small Atco iepectally: y American ett uch careful inquiry consciously. purchasing y be minded to do #0.” men t shall prev an Invited. Open an Account With Any Baby Carriage or Anything We Sell Up to $35 and Pay for it 50c a Week Sale of Baby Carriages LP 13.85 Gash or Credit their output which the carriers or their coal compani pay. “The carriers for many years were | allowed a free hand in the institution of freight rates, It is evident that they used that great power not with the view of establishing reasonabio freight rates, but with the intent to establish rates on this commodity that were high enough to remove the production of the independent op- erators from the field of competition with the coal mined by the railroad) interests, “Reviewing this whole series of| transactions, they seem merely parts; of a plan to publish in tariff form Jrates which were excessive and | which presented a barrier against | the successful shipping by the small) shipper, the independent operator, | and then, by methods which in effect | elected to Dandruff! Grow Lots Special Sale of Go-Carts, Strollers, Sulkies Ludwig Baumann’s Liberal Credit Terms: were secret, to reduce those published rates on the shipments of the coal On $35 Purchase, $ “50 a Week ompany that had railroad afilia- | On ie “ 1:09 : tions, The smaller shipper gould not ||]} on 200 e in 4 obtain as much as cost for his coal On 250 nd 350 (« if he paid the tariff rates which were ||}] On 300 “ 450 established, |}I] On 500 759 « REALLY CONFISCATION FOR ||/I Larger Amounts in Proportion SMALL OPERATOR. | “The maintenance of excessive | freight rates on this commodity | confiscates the property of the individual operator, and by the imposition of ex: freight rates these public agencies have | brought under their contro! the shipping and marketing of the Genuine Oak Buffet ’ Cash or greater portion of the tota: pro- | an duction of anthracite coa } As was well stated by the Supreme ae Court of the United States in the }case of Swift and Company, "No Hpron | more powerful instrument of mo-j late nopoly could be used than an advan- | tage in the cost of t nsportation The effect of unreasonable rat Tool re in the building up of the ra 1 coal | whe, Gloe Free’ companies was set forth by Mr. Jus- | i, ae, tice urton in e former Read née | cane 6 U. 8. 324): ‘Obviously, buyer and @ller were! not upon "an equal: plane.” The ‘for: mer had control of freight rates anc | The seier Must pay theil| © @ Open an Account remedies afforded by ieee Ht eS | 9.85 fe their all Cash oF Credit. ducers without discrimination a Nicks! Trimmed. the coal of the independent shippe * A, it would nevertheless bear upon Ff 2 Special Sale of latter oppressive since the rate paid would find its way into the Ranges, pocket of the defendants, i “Therefore it was that the higher Oil Heaters and the freight rate the greater the in- Gas Radiators. ducament to sell to the carrier com- panigs,” COLLINS CASE DELAYED. Another Postponement im Trial of Uritiash Army Officer, | (Special to The Bening Wort.) NEW ORLEANS, La., Oot, 25.—The case of many delays, that of Col. Charl Glen ns, British Army officer charged with obtaining diamonds in In- dia under false pretenses, was put off again to-day, This time it was the absence of Judge Foster of the Federal ‘ourt, who will conduct the extradition Proceedings, that caused the delay The case comes up again Saturday, when Col. Collins will petition for « two weeks’ further delay in order that he may bring a material witness here. This is Mra. Olga Olsen, said to be sick with influenza in San Francisco. By Mrs, Olsen, Col. Collins expocts to prove that there was no attempt to deceive India Jewellers, and that tuey are using eriminal procedure te collect & civil debt, a DUTCH SHIPS TO RESUME. s Say Withdrawal of ti Noat Menace Opens Sean, LONDON, Thursday, Oct. 24.—Duteh: newspapers say that shipping cor in Holland are preparing tor regular trips to England and America in consequence of the withdrawal of the U boat menace, according ty an Am sterdam despatch to the Exchange Tele graph Compan, shipping wit K Denmark was resumed yesterday, it is anid Navy Ma is Forwer. William 8 Dunn, nineteen years; who lived at No. 695 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, when he enlisted in the| navy, was held for examination yes. | terday in the Adams Street Court, | Brooklyn, on a charge of forgery Hyman Guiskin of No. 98 ls Street eh reed him with forgin eck for officer. ac Dunn is now a chief petty | —_ Falls From Window, Dies. While opening a window on the sec- ond floor of his home, No. 6818 15th Avenue, Brooklyn, Gernidine fifty-six years old, fell to the street, ured skull, from which sustaining @ fract he died early to-day at Kings C he clea, y ngs County LM rT ANUT OAL apie dc nicqnuuctnaytnnnayeadrueneggvasatepessuty tesa tinity iversary Furnitu udwig Baumarin’s T! and to give you liberal c Convince you OUR PRICES i aaa Jacobean Oak Le BUFFET— Reg CHINA. CLOSET EXTENSION TA SERVING TAHLI, 4 LE Ite Keg. 1918. ORIVE FOR RECORDS TO-DAY. Series of Concerts to Re Given Wannm The drive for 1,000,000 “slacker ree omnis” for our men in service here and bam, baritone; Mise Sytner ‘Thompson and Mr, and | Mrs, illlam — Wheeler. Major Gen, Franklin J. Bell will speak. here will be no admission charve, but every one is asked to bring at least one phonograph new or old. LOOKING BACKWARD. 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