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MEETING OF ILLINOIS OPERATORS.
The Coal Operators' Association of Illinois held
its seventh annual meeting at Chicago during the
week prior to Christmas. The proceedings of
the meeting made it apparent that the organization
has been uniformly successful in the past
and that the outlook for the future is equally
good. In the routine work of the organization
to build on broader and more permanent ground,
and an evidence of this was the preliminary steps
taken toward the organization of an insurance
auxiliary, which in its scope would comprehend
a mutual indemnity insurance of the miners
jointly with the miners' union and a coal operators'
mutual insurance conipany, or the insurance
of all coal properties in the state through one
company. The subject was referred to a committee
consisting of G. W. Traer, T. H. Lemmon
and J. H. Garaghty. The report of Secretary
Scroggs showed a considerable increase in the
membership, consisting mostly of new operations
in the state. The association comprehends practically
all the large operators of the state, with
two or three exceptions. Following the suggestion
of some members from the Southern and
Central portions of the state, it was resolved that
after May 1, 1905, the offices of the association
should be removed from Chicago to Springfield.
The old officers as re-elected are as follows: O. L.
Garrison, president; J. A. Agee, vice-president; E.
T. Bent, secretary-treasurer; C. L. Scroggs, recording
secretary; Herman Justi was re-elected commissioner
of the association.
An event in connection with the meeting, was
the banquet tendered to the executive committee
by Herman Justi, commissioner, held at the Union
League .Club, Monday evening. About 40 guests
sat down to the repast. After the speech making
had been concluded, Harry N. Taylor presented in
behalf of members of the association a beautifully
engraved silver loving-cup to President C. L. Garrison,
who made brief but fitting response. The
cup was of solid silver, of exquisite design, and
suitably engraved in commemoration of the occasion.
President Garrison has served as the executive
of the association for three years and his reelection
was the spontaneous wish of the opera­
tors.
CABIN CREEK TROUBLE SETTLED.
The Cabin creek miners in the Kanawha, W. Va.,
district and the operators have entered into an
agreement which probably will have the effect of
ending the trouble existing at the Cabin creek
mines. Under the provisions of the agreement
the union men are to leave the Cabin creek territory
at once, the operators agreeing to assist them
in moving, and to cease the evictions.
THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN. 41
The second annual dinner of the employes of the
Pittsburgh Coal Co. and Monongahela River Consolidated
Coal & Coke Co. was held at the Seventh
Avenue hotel, Pittsburgh, on December 21. It
was attended by many of the heads of departments
of the two corporations, but the occasion was one
more for social and fraternal greetings than for
the discussion of business. The dinner is one
of the first to be held since the two companies
were represented under the present single management
and head, and for this reason was larger than
before. Mr. George H. Schluederberg, general
manager of mines, was the principal speaker.
Mr. William R. Jarvis has taken charge as Pittsburgh
district manager of the Sullivan Machinery
Co., succeeding Mr. George W. Favor who has been
transferred to the company's general offices at
Chicago. Mr. Jarvis has been manager for the
company at Duluth. He has had a broad experience
in the work of the company and his assignment
to this important territory is sufficient attest
of his abilities. Mr. Jarvis is a native of New
Hampshire and a graduate of Dartmouth college,
Hanover. N. H., class of 1903. The Pittsburgh
offices of the Sullivan Machinery Co. are in the
Farmers Bank building.
Mr. Abbott S. Cooke, manager in the Pittsburgh
district for the Morgan-Gardner Electric Co. of
Chicago, recently returned from a fruitful business
trip through his territory- He closed contracts
..or the equipment of the mine of the Deckers
Creek Coal & Coke Co. near Morgantown, W. Va.,
for an additional power plant for the J. H. Somers
Coal Co., at St. Charles, Mich., and for additional
locomotives for the Beech Creek Coal & Coke Co..
making 16 in all of the Morgan-Gardner locomotives
the Beech Creek company is using.
Superintendent Brydon of Meyersdale, Pa., has
been promoted to the general superintendency of
the Consolidation Coal Co. and will reside in
Frostburg, Md., where the company has a fine residence
for him. He also retains the general superintendency
of the Somerset Coal Co.. F. F.
Lyon becomes assistant general superintendent of
the Somerset Coal Co.
Mr. William Collins has resigned the vice-presidency
of the Ohio Coal Co., St. Paul, Minn., and
has organized the William Collins Coal Co. at St
Paul, Minn., extending the wholesale coal and
coke trade on January 1.