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40 THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN.
of all the companies. The changes make a remarkably
strong new family of producing interests
in the Pittsburgh district.
Mr. W. M. McKee, the expert electrical engineer,
who had charge of the American building for the
United States government at the Paris Exposition,
has been made assistant to Mr. Sanford B. Belden.
Pittsburgh manager of the Jeffrey Manufacturing
Co. Mr. McKee will look after sales, as well as
represent the company as an engineer. He is a
native of Ohio, having been reared at Chillicothe
and is a graduate of Ann Arbor, class of '99.
Immediately after his college career, he became
associated with the Jeffrey coinpany at Columbus
headquarters and in the interval since was connected
with the Pittsburgh Coal Co. for a period
of about two and a half years. Mr. Ellwood D.
Horkheimer, who has been a sales representative
of the Jeffrey company, connected with the Pittsburgh
otnee, has resigned his position. It is
understood that his successor has not yet been
named.
The Michigan and Indiana Coal Dealers' Association
has chosen the following officers: President,
Mr. Robert B. Lake, of Jackson; vice-president,
Mr. F. H. Hobbs, Benton Harbor. Mich.;
treasurer. Mr. A. E. Bradshaw, Indianapolis;
directors, Messrs. D. M. Baker, Adrian, Mich., and
Walter F. Miller, South Bend.
The board of directors of the Pittsburgh Block
Coal Co. organized recently by electing Mr. J. K.
Ewing president and treasurer; Mr. C. J. Davis,
of Steubenville. vice-president; and Mr. Harry E.
Zaring. secretary. The company is preparing to
actively push its mining operations with the early
fall.
Mr. H. M. Matthews, division freight and coal
and coke agent of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad
at Pittsburgh, Pa., has been appointed general coal
and coke agent of the road, with headquarters at
Baltimore, Md., succeeding the late James A. Murray.
The appointment becomes effective to-day.
Mr. N. P. Hyndman, sales agent of the Washington
Coal & Coke Co., Pittsburgh, accompanied
by his wife, is on a western vacation trip, taking
in the Portland exposition. He left June 12 to
be back at his offices about August 1.
Mr. Robert W. Johnson, of the Ottumwa Box
Car Loader Co., recently spent a few days in Pitts­
burgh. He reports business extremely good, his
company selling more machines than any other
two alleged rivals combined.
Captain John A. Wood, one of the best known
of the older Pittsburgh coal operators, has just returned
from an eight months' bridal tour throughout
the west and along the Pacific coast. The
captain is 75 years old.
PENNSYLVANIA RETAILERS
HOLD FIRST CONVENTION.
The first annual convention of the Pennsylvania
Retail Coal Merchants' Association was held at
Reading, Pa., on June 20, with more than 300 delegates
present.
Secretary W. M. Bertolet reported upon the purpose
of the organization that of eliminating competition
between the shipper and the retail coal
merchant in the matter of shipments to individual
consumers, and to manufacturers for other than
steaming purposes, showing that during the past
six months over two hundred ears of domestic
coal have been sold over the retailer's head in
twenty-three towns of eastern Pennsylvania.
Every possible effort is to be made to work in
harmony with the wholesale trade on these subjects.
Reports were presented showing, moreover,
that the shippers appreciate the increased
security of a market among the retail merchants,
and they are ready to draw a sharp line between
the retailer and the consumer. A committee was
appointed to draft a bill to be presented at the
next session of the Pennsylvania legislature, providing
that the legal ton in the state be changed
from 2,240 to 2.000 pounds, in all cases except
shipments by boat or railway.
The International Anthracite Merchants' Association,
a broader concentration of retail interests
organized at New York City on May 10, 1905, was
endorsed and application made for membership
therein.
Samuel B. Crowell, president of the firm of
Robert Henderson & Co., of Philadelphia, was
elected president for the year 1905-1906; E. C.
Smoyer, of Allentown, Pa., vice-president; and C.
Frank Williamson, of Media, Pa., treasurer. E.
Z. Zinn, of York; F. J. Wallis, of Harrisburg, Pa.;
and J. Arthur Strunk, of Reading, Pa., were
elected directors for three years.
Although Belgium is one of the oldest coal mining
countries, and its collieries have been actively
worked for many years, a new coal region has
just been discovered. Borings in the Campines
field have shown the existence of coal, and mining
will soon be begun. The area of the new field is
large.