THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE- SATURDAY MORNING-, MARCH 6, 1897. 11 THE FUTURE OF .' . OUR INDUSTRIES Some facts of Interest Taken from an Address Re cently Delivered Before the Students of the University of Pennsylvania by A. E. Outer bridge, jr. The existing condition and future prispects of manufacturing industries in this country present interesting problems for study to the student, the statesman, the manufacturer and the wage earner. It Is evident, even to the casual observer, that man' industries which have proved proiltable In the past have been over-stimulated; im proved facilities for manufacturing have outstripped the capacity for home consumption. Competition has lowered prices, wages have fallen, produc tion has been curtailed (more especial ly during the past three years), and hardships have resulted therefrom. Further curtailment of production, or else enlargement of markets, must prove the solution In the near future of this Important economic problem, and the key to the situation may, per haps, be found in the recent reports of the bureau of statistics In Washington. These statistics show that exports of American manufactures are increas ing year by year, thus proving that we are now successfully competing In the markets of the world with the man ufactured products of cheaper labor In foreign countries. Although complete returns for the year lSOU are not yet available, it is safe to estimate, from the llgures furnished In the past eleven months, that the total exports of man ufactures for the year will equal. If they do not exceed, $230,000,000. This will be about $',0,000,000 more than In 1S95, which llgures were, In turn, about $25,000,000 more than those of 1S!I4. Sub tracting from the total those items tvhich do not involve elaborate mechan ical processes (such as petroleum, cop per Ingots, etc.), It appears that about 70 ier cent, of the value includes a great variety of manufactures In which Skilled labor forms the largest element of cost. These divisions Include: Agri cultural implements, sewing machines, typesetters and typewriters, watches and clocks, boots and shoes, locorno- j tlves, and other machinery, machine tools and hardware, electrical supplies and scientific apparatus. It has heretofore been maintained and, Indeed, is still contended by many manufacturers, that the relative ly high wages paid to skilled labor in America, as compared with wages In European countries, preclude the pos sibility of successful competition, but facts are more convincing than theo ries. Within the past few years sev eral large manufacturers, thinking to avail themselves of cheaper labor abroad, have established branches of their works in different parts of Eu rope; the same equipment of lnbor Bavlng tools and. as far as nosslble, the same systems of management were employed. The result In each case proved a surprise. American labor, though highly paid, Is so much more eltlclent that it lias been thus shown to be cheaper irr the end than that of poorly paid operatives In Europe. Sev eral specific instances of this kind jnlght be given If space permitted. Ex act imitations of American manufac tured products, Including machine tools, have been made In France, but they have cost more to produce there than the imported genuine articles cost. It has been contended that freight rates on all heavy manufactured arti cles would surely always prove a pro hibitive handicap. Facts again dis prove theories. Two years ago an Ala bama furnace sent an experimental shipment of 250 tons of pig Iron to Kngland. This was considered an "ex ceptional case," and was also pro nounced a visionary project and derid ed as ridiculous In the extreme. With in the brief period, says the Manufac turers' Record, the demonstration Is complete. "From that experimental 250-ton shipment this business has In creased, until now there Is an uetual scarcity of steamer room to handle the business offered. Orders are being hooked every week for large shipments to England and to Continental coun tries. It is difficult to rightly measure the influence of this trade upon the world's commercial Interests." From a recent statement by an olllcer of a leading furnace company, the foreign orders booked by that company alone amounted to about 40,000 tons', unci in quaies under consideration between 20,000 and 40,000 tons. One of these, the same day on which tills information was given, covering 5,000 torrs, mate rialized into an order. I'lsr Iron has already been shipped to Liverpool, Manchester, Rotterdam, Vienna, Ge noa. Trieste, Yokohama and elsewhere abroad. These are facts not yet gen erally known. Crude pig iron stands near the bot tom of the list of articles Involving a high degree of skilled labor. American watches, on the other hand, head the list. Yet they are exported In con stantly increasing quantities to all parts of the world. Very recently the American consul at Bradford, England, reported ns follows; "One Bradford firm of Jewelers alone lias a stock of 20,000 Waltham watches. In addition it has watches of the Elgin and other makes, and sells large numbers." American flies, made by machinery, according to the testimony of Consul Tiin mu.NKs ahi: ox .mis y Meeker, compete with English hand made Men. He mentions one order, re cently sent to tills country, Tor 1,000 dozen, whereas an order for l!00 dozen lSHRllsh files would ha considered, or dinarily, as a large one. "Go Into any cutloiy or hardware shop in Bradford," said Mr. Meeker, "and ask for shears, and you will be handed a pair bearing a Newark or Trenton, N. J., imprint. They are considered superior In every way, and one of the strange tilings about It is that they must be purchased through Shetlleld, which Is supposed to be the rlvul of American cutlery man ufactures. These shears, a dealer sali to me, are superior to all others, be cause they are 'sweet cutters.' The shears used by tailors and cutters are almost entirely of American make. Turbine wuter wheels and printing presses of American manufacture tue also sold In Urudford." The export of machine-made boots and nlioes is rapidly growing, and lias Indeed already assumed large propor tions. Within n few years past great Im provements have been made in the shoernaklng murhlnery and In the pro duct, accompanied by an ciiually no ticeable reduction in cost. Feu per sons are aware of the present extent of tills business?, which has grown up from very small beginnings. Statistics show 'that, in the census yeai- of 1S00, no less than 179,500,000 pairs of boots and shoes were made In factories in this country, by 134,000 operatives, an aver age of nearly 1,000 pairs per annum for each employe, and tin average of nearly three pairs of shoes for every Inhabitant. A single factory employ ing -':!3 hands (chielly girls), turned out 2.100 pairs of women's shoes a day. The best qualities of machine-made shoes are now fully eiual to the best hand-niude shoes, and are produced at one-third the cost; this accounts for their favorable reception in a number of new murkets, In spite of former prej- udicts and of occasional mlsrepresen tations of rivals, who naturally loss of business. Seven thousand tons of steel rails, besides enormous quantities of other railroad material are now being made in Pittsburg for Japan, and large or ders have, it is said, been booked for China. A complete locomotive man ufacturing plant was recently shipped from Philadelphia to Russia, and rail road machinery is now on its way from tills port to Australia. A multitude of similar Illustrations could be given, but these will serve as straws to show the direction in which the "trade winds" are now blowing, and It only remains for American enterprise to take ad vantage of the opportunities which fa vorable circumstances offer to enter upon a new era of industrial prosperity. The secret of success in these tenta tive experiments Is to be found In the wonderful advances which have been made in labor saving machinery, super vised by intelligent highly paid oper atives, whereby the productive capac ity of each employe 1h enormously In creased and the cost per unit of prod ust correspondingly reduced. The pos sibilities of reduction In cost of manu facture of any given articles are not al ways appreciated Ilrst by those who are I most familiar with the routine meth ods. New departures are apt to eman ate from those who approach the prob lem from a new standpoint, unbiased by old traditions. A striking Illustra tion of rapid changes in methods, and concomitant ijreat reduction in cost of manufacture, is furnished in the recent history of the evolution of the incan descent electric lamp. In 1SS0, I visited Edison's laboratory at Jlenlo Park to inspect his new system of Incandescent electric lighting. I was then much im pressed with the novel methods of mak ing, in conslderabfe numbers, the deli cate lamps and filaments, and regard ed them as marvels of mechanical in genuity. I understood at that time that air. Edison had succeeded by his his methods In reducing the cost of manufacture of the little lamps one half i. e from about $3 to $1.50 each. Today lamps far superior to the earlier forms made in 18S0 are sold in large lots at less than 20 cents each. A single factory of the General Electric com pany turns out C.000,000 a year, and the output of all the factories combined Is about 20,000,000 lamps per year. It is interesting, In view of the present low cost of the lamps, to know that the carbon filament is estimated to be, weight for welelit, the most valuable substance known. Filaments for the ordinary sixteen candle-power larnp3 are wortli $10 a thousand, and 14,000 are required to weigh one pound. The fila ments in the tiny bulb lamps used for surgical and dental purposes are very much smaller, and are three times more valuable, if estimated by weight, or more than $400,000 per pound. Formerly it was customary to esti mate approximately the cost of a loco motive at $1,000 per ton weight. Thus an engine weighing 40,000 pounds would cost about $20,000. Today, u llrst-class locomotive, weighing about 130.COO pounds, costs about $8,000, or less than CV4 cents per pound. Labor-saving ma chinery and "piece work" systems if pay ure largely accountable for these results, Tire Pennsylvania railroad this time, ho is. ".-Lire Copyright, 1S97, by .Mitchell & Miller. lias made an Interesting, almost start ling, discovery of the value of the piece work system of remuneration in its shops at Altoona, as compared with the "day's work" plan formerly i i vogue. It is stated that, before the In troduction of the new system fifty licv locomotives per annum represented the capacity of the shons. Since that change the output with substantially the same tools and appliances has doubled. "The cost of day's work In the erecting shops of what arc known aa Class 1. engines was $2D0. The snme amount of work, on engines of the same general class, but about fif teen tons heavier, now costs $95.7i, and Is done in one-half Ihe time, - Ily day's work it took three days to build a box car. This work is now done in fifteen hours. The pipe work on a locomotive formerly cost $137, and now costs $32." Figures are given showing that, while the output has been doubled and cost of labor reduced one-half, wages have been raised more than 2f per cent, under the new sys tem. The value of this change may be belter appreciated when It is stated that the cost of equipment on the Penn sylvania railroad last year was $9,500, 000, of which about $4,750,000 was labor. In conclusion, I may repeat what I have said on a former occasion that the Introduction of labor-saving mach inery has enormously increased thf output for each workman, and this Introduces a new element Into the eth ics of the question of wages, and also Into the practical question of cost. If it can be shown that a skilled workman, at a slight increase of labor and at tention, can enormously Increase the output of a machine, he should be en couraged to make the effort by an In crease of pay. An increase of output must logically arid necessarily Involve a fair increase of wages, and. in a properly conducted business, tills In crease of wages, following increased output, must mean Increased prollt. This Is a profit-sharing scheme to which there can be no practical objec tion. While the brief statements here given are Intended merely at indica tions of the present and prospective condition of manufacturing Industries in America, they seem to point clearly to the encouraging fact that this coun try is about to enter upon an era of industrial prosperity through growing expansion of its commerce and manu factures. MONEY BASED ON BONDS. The Plan Proposed by a Luzerne County Man for Pulling Prosperity Out of the Fire. We publish, by request, the provisions of the now currency bill introduced in the last congress by Representative Lelsenring, of Luzerne county, to oblige a constituent: After the passage of this act, It shall be the duty of the treasury department to prepare, lmlmedlately, a new Issue of pa per money, to be denominated the Interest bearing bond certificate of deposit, a full legul tender for all debts, public and private, without exceptions, under any contract or law, to be loaned to states, counties and cities for bonds prepared according to the laws of states, and the treasury regulations, at the lowest rate of interest that the government can bor row gold, or 3 per cent, per annum, for the first live years. After the census re turns of each decade, It shall be the duty of the treasury department to regulate the rate of Interest, to be two-thirds of the annual rate of growth In the wealth of the country, deducting loans from for eigners, In the previous decade. Section 2 No state, county or city will be allowed to borrow over 20 per cent, of their taxable valuation of wealth. If the debt of any state, county or city shall be above 20 ifer omit, of their taxable wealth, the loan from the treasury must be secured by llrst mortgage bonds. Section 3 It shall be the duty of the treasury to prepare to supply the bor rower with silver dollars and fractional sliver money, to supply all demands un der this act, and to supply 10 per cent, of the amount in gold coin when demanded; provided, the party demanding gold, agrees to return the same weight of gold coin when redeeming their bonds. Section 4 The treasury department shall issue three dollars of this class of certifi cates of deposit for every two dollars of bonds deposited, and redeem the green backs, treasury notes and national bank notes at the ratio of one dollar for every three dollars of the new Issue put in cir culation. Section 5 That any bank, society or person, having In possession bonds of states, counties and cities, issued in har mony with this act, may deposit the same in the treasury, and receive the full face value of the bonds In money us provided; the Interest above the rate demanded by tliu government to accrue to the deposi tor. Section fi The treasury department shall prepare blank bonds to supply all parties on application, and deliver the money free of cost to the borrower. Section 7 The bonds may be redeemed In any legul tender money of the United States, and at any time ufter one year of the Issue, and It shall be the duty of the treasury to withdraw from circulation three dollars of bond certificate of deposits for every two dollars of bonds redeemed, THE BILL DEFENDED. The author of this plan is H. W. Ev ans, of Plalnsvllle, Luzerne county, and lie submits the following reasons for its adoption: It Is the only way offored to make our paper money a certificate of labor stored; to benellt the whole people. Taxpaylng wealth Is a security, and strength to all the people. It Is truly the only Republican, Demo cratic, Popullstic plan of money. The people will have the Initiative, and full control over fully two-thirds the amount of this money. It provides also the easiest source of revenue to the government of actual pay for real service to the people. The general government Is the only power authorized, and able to give to the people a perfect, safe and sound credk money. And the government, that does the service, should receive the benefit. By this plan the government will bo able to legulate the value of money, better and more effectu ally than uny of the present means of regulation. This plan will also make It the self-Interest of every wealthy person to see that the wealth of the country will be con tinually on the Increase, or the rate of interest may be lowered and his Income reduced. Thus tho Interest of the Indi vidual community, and general govern ment will be bound In the unity of mu tual benefit, seeking the constunt growth of wealth, and the prosperity of the com mon people. By this plan the government will leave the actual business of banking to bank ers, but will compel even bankers to do business for the people's Interest. This plan will also avoid the Increase of of. flelal patronage that would occur under uny system of government banking. Even, wo believe, tho Interest on bonds would be collected with less per cent, expense than any other revenue. Another reason In favor of this paper money based on .bonds, will be, the un limited supply, which will dofend tho business of tho country from money panics, and gold scares. Tho gold may go to Europe, but our states, counties and cities will remain as reserve security, be hind our paper currency, and It will give tho world u chance to test the merits of credit money based on credit, oupplled on the same conditions with metallic money. A WOMAN ON WOMAN SUPI'HAUE Tho woman suffragists do not get much All Cleaning: encouragement from Mary Elliott Sea well, who, In a letter to the Hoiton Transcript, makes public an argument against the granting of the voting privi lege to women. "If I may be pardoned for a personal allusion," she writes, "I would sJy that, after un experience of some years In literary life, where one Is brought, not only Into contact with men, but Into com peting with them, it Is my firm belief that a vote would have been u very nerlous hindrance to mo at any time.' This opinion would have been more convincing had the reasons for Its for mation accompanied Its submission, but oven as It Is It Is the opinion of a women who had unusual opportunity for study lug the subject and who Is, therefore, qualified to speak on It. Philadelphia In quher. . LIST THIS ItAUY CIIV. It Will Benefit Him Unless Ho Cries Too Hard. That babies ought to cry occasionally Is a fact well known to doctors, but one which' seems very mucli against the creed of mothers and nurses. The model babies who never cry are un natural specimens. Crying Is the only exercise a young baby gets; it expands the lungs, causes a better circulation of the blood and helps on muscular growth. Of course, fretting when there is discomfort is to be promply attended to; and screaming (which might cause rupture) must rrot be al lowed; but a leally healthy little cry, when nothing particular 13 the matter save that baby needs that mode of ex pression for his pent-up feelings this Is not a thing to make everybody run and try to divert the little one's atten tion or to stop him, or get out of the way as If there wn3 a lire, or a runaway locomotive coming. The noise Is not pleasant, but If wo were once assured that It was a harmless pastime for baby, most of us could reconcile our selves to It once in a while. Not at night. If there is one lesson more Important than another, it Is that darkness and stillness go together. But, although the Idea may be a novel one, there Is something to bo said in favor of little babies being allowed a small crying spell that is, an exercise spell during the day, purely upon the grounds of health. 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Wnshburn, Crosby's Superlative la sold everywhere from tho Pacific Coast to St. John's, New Fotiiulland, and in England, Ireland und Scotland very largely, uud is recognized as the best flour In tha world. I MJuWAtttl JjIj WHOLESALE WACOiSMCESIS,, , We Carry a Full Stock of Wheels, Rims, Spokes, Hubs, Shafts, Poles, Axles, Springs, Steel and Cast Skeins, Buggy Tops, Duck, Drill, Rubber and Carriage Cloth, Carriage Forgings, Bolts, Clips, AND A FULL LINE OF IRON. STEEL AID BLMSfflllifS SUPPLIES. r & THEDECKSONMANUFACTURINGCO SCO ANTON AND WILKES-BAR RE, PA., Manufacturers of H m 4 ua tm p ms in il Mi al ?aninc-ft EuuianBiflua" B HOISTING km GometltneaneeJaarollable, the purest drugs Us?. Pessfs B flfftftmnsffnitf Vfafiflmfmi infirm gmiiar uDUntfCU t VL HI m U SI M U W3 U M il HM D H EI E 'a LA il H n D I- B9JfiB9U&l UagA&IUIilBlil LVSi-gLEiiUy PUMPIN Thor are prompt, safo ard certain In resalt. Tho cennlno (Dr. Feol'o) neTerdlsap" noiut. Bent anywhere, 51,00, Addrosa Pjsai. McmciHU Co., Clorelaud, O. f For sale by JOHN H. PHELPS, Spruce Street. Seranton, Pa. RAILROAD TIME-TABLES LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD SYS- TEM. Anthracite Coal Used Excluelvely Insur ing Cleanliness and Comfort. IN EFFECT NOV. 15, 1S96. TRAINS LEAVE SCRANTON. For Philadelphia and New York via D. & H. R. R. at C.-15, 7.43 a. m 12.03, 1.20, 3.33 (Black Diamond Express) and 11.30 p. m. For Plttston 'and Wllkes-Barro via. n. L. & W. R. R 6.00, 8.0S, 11.20 a. m., 1.5j 3.40, C.00 and 8.17 p. m. ,,, For White Haven, Hazleton, Pottsvllle, and principal points In tho coal regions via D. &. H. R. R C45 a. m 12.05 and 4.11 P. m. For Bethlehem, Easton, Readlns, Har rlsburg and principal Intermediate sta tions via D. & H. R. It., 0.43, 7.43 a. m., 12.03, 1.20, 3.33 (Black Diamond Express), 4.41 and 11.30 p. m. For Tunkhannock, Towanda, Elmlrn, Ithaca, Geneva and principal intermediate stations via D L. & XV. R. R., 0.00, 8.0S, 9.53, a. m., 12.20 and 3.40 p. m. For Genova, Rochester, Buffalo, Niagara Falls, ChieaKo and all points west via D. & II. R. R., 7.43 a. m 12.03, 3.33 (Black Dia mond Express), 9.50 and 11.30 p. m. Pullman parlor and sleeping or Lehigh Valley chair cars on all trains between Wllkes-Barro and New York, Phlladel. phla, Buffalo and Suspension Bridge. ROLLIN H. WILBUR, Gen. Supt. CHAS. S. LEE, Gen. Pass. Agt., Phila., Pa. A. XV. NONNEMACHER, Asst. Gen Pass, Agt.. South Bethlehem. Pa. Seranton Office. 309 Lackawanna avenue. Del., Lacka. and Western, Effect Monday, October 19. 1896. Trains leave Seranton as follows; Ex press for New York and all points East, 1.40. 2.00, 3.15, S.00 and 9.33 a. m.; 1.10 and 3.33 j). m. Express for Easton, Trenton, Philadel phia and the South, 5.15, S.00 and 9.55 a. m 1.10 and 3.33 p. m. Washington and way stations, 3.43 prm. Tohvhanna acenmmndntlnn. r,.lfl n. m. Express for Blnghamton, Oswego, El mira, Corning, Bath, Dansvllle, Mount Morris and Buffalo, 12.20. 2.33 a. m., and 1.53 p. m., making close connections ut Buffulo to all points In tho West, Northwest and Southwest. Bath accommodation, 9.13 a. m. Blnghamton and way stations, 1.05 p. m. Nicholson accommodation, 5.'3 p. m. Blnghamton and Elmlra express, 3.53 p. nt. Express for Utica and Richfield Springs, 2.3j a. m. and 1.55 P. m. Ithaca 2.35 and Bath 9.13 a, m., and 1.53 p. m. For Northumberland, Plttston, Wllkes Barre, Plymouth, Bloomsburg- und Dan ville, making close connection at North umberland for Wllllamsport, Harrlsburg, Baltimore, Washington and tho South. Northumberland and Intermediate sta tions, coo, 9.55 a. m., and 1.65 and COO p. m. Nanllcoke and Intermediate stations, S.03 and 11.20 a. m. Plymouth and intermediate stations, 3.40 and S.47 p. m. Pullman parlor and sleeping coaches on nil express trains. For detailed Information, pocket time tables, etc., apply to 51. L. Smith, city ticket office. 32S Lackawanna avenue, or depot ticket office. Central ltnilroud of New Jersey. (Lehigh and Susquehanna Division.) Anthruclte coal used exclusively, insur ing cleanliness and comfort. TI5IE TABLE IN EFFECT JAN. 23, 1S97. Trains leavo Seranton for Plttston, Wilkas-Barre, etc., at 8.20, 9.15, 11.30 u. sn., 12.45, 2.00, 3.03. 5.00, 7.10 p. m. Sundays 9.00. a. m., 1.00, 2.15, 7.10 p. m. For Atlantic City, S2J a. m. For Now York, Newark and Elizabeth, 8.20 (express) a, m 12.15) (express with But fet parlor car), 3.03 (express) p. rn. Sun. day, 2,15 p. m. Train leaving 12.45 p. m. urrlvcs at Philadelphia, Reading Termin al, 5.22 11. m. and Now York 0.00 p. m. For Alaueh Chunk, Allentown, Bothle hem, Easton and Philadelphia, S.20 a. m 12.45, 3.03, 5.00 (except Philadelphia) p. in. Sunday, 2.15 p. m. For Long Brnnch, Ocean arove, etc, at S.20 a. 111. nnd 12.45 11. rn. For Lakowood, 8.20 a. m. For Reading, Lebanon and Harrlsburg, via Allentown, S.20 a. m., 12.45, 5.00 p. m. Sunday, 2 15 p. m. For Pottsvllle, 8.20 a, m., 12.45 p. m. Returning leavo Now York, foot of Lib- JKftMD AGENTS. Co., Seranton, Pa. CW P m BtUMBlUIUf G MACHINERY. Ocacral Office: SCRANTON, PA. monthly, regulating medicine. Only harmloaaSBJ should bo used. If you want tho beat, get Fhnrmaclst, cor. Wyoming Avenue and orty street, North River, at 9.10 (express) a. m 1.10, 1.30, 4.15 (express with Buffet parlor car) p. m. Sunday, 4.30 a. m. Leave Philadelphia, Reading Terminal, 9.00 a. m., 2.00 and 4.30 p. m. Sunday, 6.25 a. m. Through tickets to all points at lowest rates may be had on application in ad vance to the ticket agent at tho station. H. P. BALDWIN. Gen. Pass. AsL J. H. OLHAUSEN. Gen. Supt. DELAWARE A .N D HUDSON TI5IE TABLE. On Monday, Nov. 23, trains will leave Seran ton as follows; For camonaaie b.tj, 7.55, S.55, 10.15, n. m.: 12.00 noon; 1.21, 2.20, 3.52, 5.25, 0.25. 7.57, 9.10, 10.30. 11.65 d. m. TTr. Arhnnv Saratoga. 5Iontreal, Bos ton. New England points, etc. 5.15 a. m.; "For Honesdale 5.43, 8.53, 10.15 a. m.l noon. 2.20, 5.25 P. m. 12.00 For Wilkes-uarre o.ij. i.ij. 0.10, 1(U5 a. m.T 12.05, 1.20, 2.23, 3.33, 4.4i 9.33. 0.00, "SuJ)-"-3Uk.mphlladelnhla. etc.. via T iiTiUv. vnilpv rtallroad 6.43. 7.43 a. TTl 105" 1.20, 3.33 (with Black Diamond Ex- PFor)'Pennsyivnnla Railroad points-6.43, nis n m.: 2.30, 4.11 p. m. . .. For western points, via Lehigh Valley RaUroad-7.13 a. m.t 12.05. 3.33 (With Blacfc Diamond Express) 9.50. 11.39 p. m. Trains will arrive ut Seranton at follows: From Carbondale and tho north-6.10. 7 40 8 40 9.31, 10.40 a. m.: 12.00 noon; 1.03, "21 3 25 4.37, 5.45. 7.45, 9.45 and 11.25 p. m. From' Wllkes-Barro and the south 5.40. 7 50 8 50, 10 10, 11.55 a. m.l 1.10, 2.14, 3.43. 522: 6 21. 7.53, 9.03, 9.45. 11.52 p. m. j XV BURDICK. G P. A. Albany. N. Y. II XV. Cross. D. P. A.. Seranton, Pa. Erie and Wyoming Valley. Effectlvo Jan. 4. 1S97. Trains will leave Seranton for ?sow York, Newburgh and Intermediate points on Erie also for Hawley and local points, at 7.05 a. m. and 2.23 p. m.; and nrrlve from nbovo points at 10.33 a, m. and 9.33 p. m. SCKANTOJV DIVISION. Ill Hffect Ocloticr 1th, 1800. wp North Hound. Houtli Hound. :.J Stations lBfl gSfiaiTriUn8Ballr.Ex4fiaj & 3 lis I cept frunday.) 13 IS a v up mi Arrive Leave il u 72SN. Y. Franklin St 7 11 .... 7 10 West 4v!nd street .... 753 . .. 700 Wcehawken .,..810 .... " ' p HlArrlYe Leave Mr u 1 l5,llanrock .Junction S'i5. .... 100 Hancock S'l .... ". 1250 StnrllKbt 223 ,... HM6 rioatoii rarU 8 31 .... l'J40 COUin 9 41 .... las.v Poyntello S50 ,,,. ! 1214 llelmont 8 59 .... 1203 Pleasant lt 808 .... fI159 Unlondale 3 CO .... 1149 Forest City 819.... .... Of.01131 Carbondale 704 8 Si' .... ....flWGfllKO White llrldJO I7,07,f338 ... .... fO 1811125 alaytlcld 1: IS 18 43.... .... 0 411ft 23 Jermyn 714 3 45,.,. .... 0 31 11 IS Archibald 780(881.... .... 8321115) Wlnton 73 8M .... .... osaillli I'eclcvllle 7 27 a.19 ... .... 0 83,1107 Olyplmnt 784,4 04 .... .... 020,1105 Prlceburg 7 Sil 4 07 .... .... 0 18 HOT Throop 788410... .... ClOilllW, Providence 7 88 414 .... .... 8 12110071 I'ark Place 17 41,fl 17 .... ... 61011055' scrnmon ?'42U.. r m U h Leave Arflve a m y u All trains run datly except. Eunday. f, signifies that trains stop on signal for pas. tsengera. t-ecure rates via Ontario a Western betoro purchasing tickets and save money. Day and Night Enpresstothe WeBt. J.O, Anderson, Uyi. pass Agt. T, FUtcrott. Dlv. Foss, Agt.Boraaton, Pa.
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