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INDUSTRIAL COUNCIL OF
COAL MERCHANTS MEETS.
The International Council of Coal Merchants
held a meeting October 26 at the Great Northern
hotel in Chicago. Joseph H. Palmer, of Wallingford,
Pa., brought up the short-weight question,
saying that eastern retailers were sustaining considerable
losses on anthracite, which frequently
amounted to two and a half and three per cent.
James Walker, president of the Philadelphia Coal
Exchange, said that eoal received in open cars
from the anthracite collieries was short in weight,
and called upon Secretary Charles K. Scull, of the
exchange, to submit figures showing the shortage
on cars received at Philadelphia as reported to
him. Robert Lake, piesident of the Michigan
and Indiana Retail Association, called attention
to shortage in bituminous shipments and particularly
on nut coal. He said that on a recent shipment
of three cars which he ordered there was a
total shortage of 15 tons. He suggested that
every dealer ought to make an allowance of 25
cents a ton, which should be added to the cost of
the coal, to make up for the short weight.
W. F. Plane, of Atlanta, Ga.. explained conditions
in Georgia outlined in our Retail Trade
Notes. George Gregory, of Marshalltown, Iowa.
said the Iowa and Nebraska Retail Coal Dealers'
Association had gained in its campaign for short
weight a bill of lading, the re-weighing of the
car at destination or the nearest junction point
free, if it was found to be short in weight, or
if it was full-weight, a charge of $1.00 was made.
Wherever a shortage was found to exist a claim
was made by the dealer for the excess freight
charges and the amount of coal lost or stolen,
and these claims were allowed at once by the rail
roads.
The North Carolina Granite Corporation, of Mt.
Airy, N. C, is now installing a Sullivan Corliss,
two-stage air compressor for driving the Sullivan
drills and other compressed air appliances, used
at its quarries. This compressor has a capacity
of 2,000 cubic feet of free air per minute, at 78
revolutions, and is an excellent example of modern
practice in air compression, as regards fuel economy
and air efficiency. The air cylinders are
connected to a Sullivan Corliss, cross-compound.
condensing steam end. especially designed and
proportioned for this purpose. The air inlet
valves are of the Corliss type, operated by independent
eccentrics, and the discharge valves on
both cylinders are of the automatic poppet type.
moving in a direction parallel with the piston
rod, with removable seats located in the cylinder
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heads. The devices for cooling the air during
compression are unusually efficient. A similar
machine is installed at the works of the Southern
States Portland Cement Co., at Rockmart, Ga.,
and has given very efficient service during two
years that it has been in operation.
The Jeffrey Manufacturing Co., Columbus, O.,
lias issued Bulletin No. 10, rich in illustrations
and typographical style and dealing exhaustively
on the subject of electric mine locomotives. Introducing
the work is the following: "The refinement
of systems of mine haulage b.v operators
and mining engineers has called for a corresponding
refinement in the design of mine locomotives
and their equipment. Since the flrst installation
of electric mine locomotives was made by the
Jeffrey Manufacturing Co., in 18S9, various theories
as to the proper equipment of mine locomotives
have been advanced oy different manufacturers
and engineers. The Jeffrey Manufacturing
Co. have made a great variety of equipments to
suit various conditions and ideas of their customers,
and have gradually incorporated in their
locomotives the best of those ideas, until to-day
they are able to present to the users of mine locomotives
the highest development in the matter of
design and equipment that has ever been offered."
The Ottumwa Box Car Loader Co.. oi Ottumwa,
la., reports recent sales as follows: Verner Coal
& Coke Co., Carnegie, Pa.; Penn Gas Ooal Co.,
Irwin, Pa.; Empire Coal Mining Co., Bellaire, O.:
Colorado Fuel & Iron Co., Denver, Col.; Dominion
Coal Co., Glace Bay, N. S.; Ledford Coal Co.. Ledford.
111., one loader each. All of these are rush
orders, and the conipany with its usual push will
have all of these installed and ready for operation
before cold weather.
The management of the Ottumwa Box Car Loader
Co., of Ottumwa, la., has added a new department
to its already large business, the same being structural
iron work, steel tipples and bridges. This
will be run under the name of the Fair-Williams
Bridge & Mfg. Co., they having lately bought the
control of that company's business.
The Sullivan Machinery Co., Columbus, O., has
issued a remarkably interesting booklet, Bulletin
101. clearly explaining and graphically illustrating
the novel destruction of Henderson's Point, Portsmouth,
N. H., with the aid of Sullivan rock drills
and air compressors.
The October issue of Monthly Bulletin, published
by the Ohio Brass Co., Mansfield, Ohio, outstrips
previous issues and contains some technical articles
of exceptional value. The conipany will
mail copy free on application.