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ANTHRACITE SHIPPING SIZES.<br />
A statement recently given out puts the division<br />
of anthracite coal shipped, by sizes, as follows for<br />
two years past:<br />
1903 1904<br />
Tons. Per ct. Tons. Per ct.<br />
Lump 2,303,116 3.9 1,447,549 2.5<br />
Broken 4,825,497 8.1 3,979,062 6.9<br />
Egg 7,977,689 13.4 7,600,002 13.2<br />
Stove 11,531,573 19.4 11,282,077 19.6<br />
Chestnut ll,20b,635 18.8 11,327,971 19.7<br />
Total large 37,838,510 63.6 35,636,661 61.9<br />
Pea 7,929,715 13.3 8,057,268 14.0<br />
Buckwheat 8,180,880 13.8 7,894,145 13.9<br />
Rice and barley. . 5.51o,726 9.3 5,904,448 10.2<br />
Total steam. . .21,624,321 36.4 21,855,861 38.1<br />
Total 59,462,831 100.0 57,492,522 100.0<br />
The last year showed an increase in the proportion<br />
of steam sizes, a continuation of the movement<br />
which has been going on for several years.<br />
A notable point also was that the shipments of<br />
chestnut exceeded those of stove coal for the year.<br />
The more important decreases in proportion were<br />
in lump and broken; the larger gains were in<br />
chestnut, rice and barley and in pea coal.<br />
Col. William F. Endress, of Jamestown, N. Y.,<br />
president of the New York and Pennsylvania Retail<br />
Coal Dealers' Association, has been elected<br />
president of the International Anthracite Merchants'<br />
Association which was formed a few weeks<br />
ago at a meeting of retail dealers in New York<br />
City.<br />
Dr. Charles E. Reese, chemist of the Dupont<br />
Powder Co., delivered a lecture on explosives in<br />
the Y. M. C. A. auditorium at Wilkesbarre, Pa., on<br />
May 6, which was listened to by about 750 mine<br />
superintendents, foremen and expert miners, employes<br />
of the Lehigh Valley Coal Co.<br />
Mr. J. W. Heintzelman, of Jeannette, Pa., has<br />
resigned as superintendent of the Penn Gas Coal<br />
Co.'s plant at Penn station, after a continued service<br />
of 30 years. Mr. Heintzelman's health has<br />
been failing for several years.<br />
Mr. Bernard Callahan, one of the oldest and best<br />
known mine inspectors of western Pennsylvania<br />
retires to-day from active service as a government<br />
inspector of mines, after serving intermittently<br />
for the past 20 years.<br />
THE <strong>COAL</strong> TRADE BULLETIN. 39<br />
JAMES WALTON BARBER, WHO HAS BEEN<br />
ELECTED TO THE SECRETARYSHIP OF<br />
THE MONONGAHELA RIVER CONSOLI<br />
DATED <strong>COAL</strong> C& COKE CO., COMBINING<br />
THE OFFICE WITH THAT OF ASSISTANT<br />
TREASURER, WHICH HE PREVIOUSLY<br />
HELD.<br />
James Walton Barber, at a recent meeting of<br />
the Monongahela River Consolidated Coal & Coke<br />
Co., was promoted to the office of secretary, succeeding<br />
W. D. O'Neil, who retired from the office<br />
because of ill health. The change is the subject<br />
of pleasure with Mr. Barber's many friends, as<br />
Prior to his promotion. Mr. Barber .had been<br />
the deserved advancement of an efficient officer.<br />
assistant treasurer and paymaster of the company.<br />
He continues as assistant treasurer as well as<br />
secretary. Mr. Barber was born in England in<br />
1872 and came to this country with his parents<br />
in 1880, the family locating at California, Pa.,<br />
MR. J. W BARBER.<br />
where he attended school at the State Normal<br />
College. He left the college for awhile and ob<br />
tained the practical experience of employment in<br />
the coal mines in that vicinity. After a subsequent<br />
resumption of his college career, he took<br />
up the study of telegraphy, his preceptor being<br />
the Pennsylvania railroad agent at California.<br />
For about three years he was the agent of the<br />
Pennsylvania railroad at Hays station, being<br />
transferred to the passenger offices of the railroad<br />
conipany at Fifth avenue and Smithfield street,<br />
Pittsburgh. Not satisfying himself with so active<br />
a career in his younger days, he devoted all his