The evening world. Newspaper, November 29, 1918, Page 3

MRLEONS OF TONS OF FUE By Kin on Her Return From F rance LE WASTE IN PROOF IS 6 Coal Companies Demand E orbitant Royalties on Culm Bank Les PUEL KEPT FROM PUBL IC; Bums Bros. Called To-d ito Testify to Onerous Local Conditions, By Sophie Irene Loeb ‘(Staff Correspondent of The Evening Werld.) WASHINGTON, Nov, 29.—'The Sen- ate committee investigating coal will resume its hearings this afternoon-at 2fotetock. Tha last witness before the com- mitioe on Wednesday, William Grif- fith, testified that it was practi- cally impossible to secure any culm coal from the large vompanies. Mr, Gyidtth was at the head’ of a commis- sion appointed by tho lentisslvenia Idegislaturo to detérmine the methoda of preventing waste, such as the culm waste, which lies on the eurface and cdo ‘readily be sent to market if the Chat Trust would permit it. ,Ho eaid st was almost impossible to edoure refuse banks from these com- panins, as the latter went on the the- ofy that if any other people could gail them, the company could, and they therefore refused to dispose of tiem, “Another witness, Gas, y N. Gr of Pottsvil! t he had to pay as bi for culm laat winter in order to till un order. When a bank of refuse was secured, however, which only vontuinud about 20 or 30 per cent. coal, 40 coats per tom was paid for it, ‘For the production of co’ of this culm cou When we talk under- wear we take special pride in pointing to No. 923, our raglan shoulder union suit— our own idea. All the advantage of the! regular union suit plus a seamless shoulder. The *“‘Composite’’ Derby conforms without con- forming. *Meaistered Trademark. ', RoGers PEET COMPANY Broadway Broadway at 13th St. “The at 34th St. Four Broadway Corners” Fifth Ave, at Warren at 41st St rious opportun: exactly as you wish, *}eoal he can only load am average of four ta twelve tons, INFLUENCE OF ANTHRACITE OME-MAKING DAYS! you have always desired—to furnish it just furniture that is typical of the genuine Ameri- can home—Kellner furniture. COAL FIELDS, VEN SENATORS gone by wero docked, and they were fonty paid for mining the largo: sizes. CONDITIONS IN NEW YORK MAY j BE EXPLAINED TO-DAY. Burns Brothers, tho fargest distrib. uters of coul in New You, will appear! before the comimittes t»-dey, Richards, Presideit of coal éompany, the Ph phia and Reading, has also been sui ' >oenaed. He ts one of the three men | who comprise the Anthracite Com- mittee In charge of distribution for the Fue! Administration. The other |two dre Messrs, Wariner, Presiden’ of*the Lehigh Coul and Navigation Company, the next largest concern, and Mr, Dickson, The important items that the testi- mony has shown thus far, bear oug the Uisclogures made by The Evening-Wortd In its tnvestigation of the an That millions of tons le on the surface that could een sent to the mar- ket at a low cost to the consumer and thus have eliminated shortage.’ No price was fixed by the Fuel Adminis. M. lar f culm coat of the coa! fields tration for this culin, James B. Nea! Director of Anthra Production for th Fuel Administration, and Pr dent of several coal companie admitted that if this culm had beon sent to the market it would have broken the market prices and reduced the prices of the freshly mined coal. t has been pra ny one to secure 4 nd the ‘comp hemn for future y cost practically | being sent to the hat one man can load approat- mately an average of thirty-five tous Der day, w n freshly minod TRUST IS FAR-REACHING. That the anthracite region represents a little kingdom ta which the coal com- panies control everything from the smallest: inspector to the highes: courts. That they pay such a small taxa- tion on these valuable properties as to enable them ‘to hold them indef: Initely and keep out competitors, That the prices of coal are set by t coal companies, ui and, Reading Covi and Jron Company, and are generally followed by the other dealers, That all the independent dealers are dependent upon these cdal com: panies, which own the coals for ear- rying theirs output, That it practically impos- sible for independent operators to create a price lower than the large companie hat not a single new opera- tion, has been opened by the large companies in sixteen years. They are content to leave millions of | tons of coal tie in the ground, so | that the result is less production and higher pric That immense’ ro by independent -operators” to ~th larger coal companies, which also jg to an impossible condition tn the effort to change-prices from thos. designated by the coal compa: % Willlam Griffith, of West Pit ‘a geologist, testified as to the acoumulation of the culm baoks. The first banks started a hundred years ago, when it was not known that the culm was burnable, Of late years various methods of burning;the culm have been discov. \ered, At the present time the meth- ods developed-have shown that the y stnallest sizes of culm cun be] d tor fuel, even where it is as fine ag flour, the witness sald, He satd’he did not know as to the | amount of culm now ava . but it ‘ts many Million tons. He a mein- ber of the Coal Waste Committee of the State of Pennsyivania, which was created to tind out how waste coal could be utilized as Since thi time the culm has been going to the market in-increasing quantities. nator Reed wanted to know the attitude of the coal companies in re- Ities are paid | §} va What a glo- ity to build that home yet’ economically, with THE EVENING WORLD, -PRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1938. Miss Anne Morgan Greeted at Pier BRIG. GEN JOHNS “MAO LEDTHE 77TH, WOUNDED IN ACTION Officer Took “Camp Upton | Division to France—Com- manded 12th on Border. {LIEUT. COL. A. H. WOODS at ERAN TRS mse EM BEG ROS eee ede Rep ad be HOLLWES INT INQURY TOP ~—THERHNE TODAY HE PLAYED Ex-Chancellor aan He Re- garded Austria’s Ultimatum to Serbia Too Sharp. 7 : Von der Marwitz’s Army Leads Homeward March—Will *Take Eight Days. Dig. Gen, ots ; WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY OF| LONDON, Nov. 2.—Dr. von Bethe eportel In As’ sp \ OCCUPATION, Tiu Nov, °8/maaan-Hollweg, German Infperiat ! a * nding (Associated Prose).—-Gen, von 4¢Ficpancelior at the outbreak of” 6 offi of 2 of ty Marwit rit army will’ begin | war, is eager for an Investigation inte fantry of the {7th Diviston, He was ‘omsinig® the ne to-morrém The; bare in the origin of the édnfligt, ymmandes of the division solng will require elght or pine| according to a statement be bas mate ft Camp Ur e apording to reports veaching!to the North man Gazette of Bere s in the thick of the The movement ja being carried|iin, as quoted by the Central News fi gm the Argonne Forest, v ree columns at points div-| correspondent at Copenhagen, t Vislog. won its laurels. from each other. The former Chanceflor in his’ state- Jorn | Johnson, old City » | of the Inte Rew jot St. John's on of the late Even M. who was GC of Brook Dr. Protestant He ording to t {000 men ‘witt be Mrankfért, bi ment refers to, the Bavarian revélas \ions regarding the war's origih, aha protests aguinst the publication of fragmentary extracts from doctménts: and the deductions made from these, German plan, 200,- quartered at accommodations for have been prépared. t Troves ‘is réported, re- Johnson, founder Bp “r eee ARTHOR woo. WOODS Oier whine Church in that Borough. ieee iting In units proceeding on foot] He admits that Germany was mot as @ priy ward Coblenz, It was originally |surprised at Austria's abtion Fe - former mi TEUT. “COL. “ARTHUR | It. to thove°the troops foward |ing Berbla,- but. déelated Ne staee ae |General Staff in Washington and ts WOODS, former Polleg Com- | Germany by tail. At other points itlaware of the text of the ultimatum jan honor dee ay of the Army Schoo} of. New York, will | is gaid thot the roads are unable tolbefore tt was despatehed, and- when He is fifty-six years of rv Lurope ta take [handle the extraordinary — trafMfy| he saw it he regarded it'as too sharp, und ts w vetoran of the Spanish] charge of Itary police in tha |and that thousands of troops’ are] both in its tone and au to heaemenl nad Philippine campaign and] triets of Germany occupied by | matching eastward after waiting] made, nded the 12th New York In-| American troops, according to word {Gays for trains Apparently the} phe former Chancellor says he $s fantry on the Mexican border, trom We ogtuph [Germans are endeavoring to with: lansiounly awaiting tho. day when Ble Lieut, William Bargfrede, 24 years} of Col. We Was taken a short 4s rapidly as possible. case may-be Judged by an impartial Jold, whos home was at No, 458 Brook} {ime'ago in Wauhington, wi ts Copies of a proctamation by Fteld governmental tribupal Avenue, the Bronx, met death as a! jug been on duty Marshal von Hindenburg, urging Ger- |" uve will admit our ersors,” he addy, t me ° onne — soldier 4 civilians 0 hero, leading his men in the “tet me diers and civilians to r “but will not allow ourselves to be Forest Sept. 28. His mother, Mri -| NURSE TORE FLAG OFF BED | Altied troops with “restanation and | forced to make untrue confession: August Dargfrede, to-day recetved have appeared In villages | —_——-- |letter from Sergt. Joan Herold, an aid OF Bay IN CITY HOSPITA Ani an lines. ‘The | school chum of the officer and a mem- - says this is the best ‘ov. \ber of his company. Me told how genital 1 ¥lew of the fact that Gere | oMcial dia of Yale University tasued | Wn ‘i . R a grand total enrollment |they fan a German machine #2) Nine-Year-Old Patriot Got It Back} many ts fable to make re- students and members of tratn~ jand kille 10 four Germans operat. | Fr Sie i wn stance 4 Allies. {ing ‘units ling tt, but not before the Zdeutenant| | * ithe 1 Can, and Offender | Jreceived his fatal wound, Bargfrede no Longer Works There } : nt n at Cump Upton ; When a mate nurse at < ra » Ne ANN_MORGAN ANS MR OGATTERLEE é 1 Noon, Company B,! dita kwell's Tse : Ow Fin ser: wf Ptas was killed tn actlon| bed of u.site-venr-otd troy 1 e }Oct. 7. He was born in Hempst hehe pillow who has been engaged in relief w Cl eoeniecaaran off with the exclamation, “Th's ten ed to New York to edmplete dah ty the Kourth of July! he made 1 week on the reno liner A ne boy was Fred Burattl ert Satte Ih brnclaw tended an officers’ training [Mke a Rood American, ho recovered the coting henat , [Upton and received his © \flug ftom a reta 1 and pinned "|after being in a number on hit piliow agin \ h } 7 |: ments. Patients in the ward wrote as Gee iieer e a cei RED CROSS MOTOR WORK. |" uanm s: Pattison w jietten to «World Witness said the companies would yy | ported inlaning IH action © fees les nd_demandin not t Tea up tho « jet Organized, | vording to word recelved ie | cbrinte supply. He de efforts to ob- bate ee, ater brother, John A. Pattivon of No, 2 tain leases ¢ various companies ta o Inve work the culm, He made » | North 18th Stroet, Kast Orange, Ho read fo him. tlons to Suxquehann ¢ hirty-one # old und the son of |) nurse wu: Company avi hi , anna t!so Brooke |e Nospite . : gation € ny, the Delaw and |, {it ue a " at ne ok= | not becnu Hudson any and 0 we ce as a heat holders of culm, He sa it 5 geunt in, Company G, 161st Infantry, |Ghfehuis, ‘Pranic wince ° Jed to hold the culm, and |nue, former and received lls commission over-| gust, Michuel Smith, Adolpa . ‘ rth as much to) Flagler, ir a} Arthur Murphy. ; inatividuals, | |ehapiers ecu se. No riba (From the Diary of w Reel American) fied the miners were docked | All enila the corps | : . Fe lao ta era roe weal if S%S) REDS KILL JEWS, REPORT. Nov. 29th order cara from | Arius issued from | 9 arded a division Bolshevik Vorces Capture Three ‘SENOOFFDINNE DINNER BODY TO HELP WELCOME THE 27TH, by ' Th Commitiee Organi Evening W Homecomi New York Men. The Oit s Off Dinner mittee, hus v a lett , Hylan, placin nd@ its machinery at the disp city for “‘LITTLEMOTHER’ CRUSHED tld Offers Services for | telon, goon. mmittes was ausple The | Evening later made offi | cial by Mitchel, It gave a two on the ¢ n hono r nD n to Spartanburg “Our commit mposed of t merchants in the market distri ant men, gave a 1 dinner t | th 1D ny ¢ He hold off a bad! Towns tw Today I notified the Debarka- BTOGKHOLAL. Nov." 2 ~ tion Hospital No. 3 that my: for in mis "wounded iti | Cte in northwestern Tussi car was at the service of con- ie back to thel « ver we A report from a ba & Ci aaa anemer" ef Compuay A [ria Ui I, ANTE valescent soldiers three after- noons a week And For an additional treat I'm send- ing Tootsie Rolls to a number of convalescent soldiers. 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