Show The big coal strike In Pennsylvania was en expensive affair to the railroad companies engaged In anthracite coal carrying trade The Financial Chronicle Chron-icle shows losses as compared with October Oc-tober 1S99 aggregating GS1233S in gross earnings The l cord Is not complete com-plete as some of the heaviest anthracite anthra-cite carriers furnish no monthly reports re-ports but upon the known l data has been based an estimate of 10000000 as the loss In gross earnings due to the great strike which for several weeks paralyzed all business operations In the anthracite coal region Strikes are such costly things that as bright people as the American people peo-ple ought to discover some effectual remedy against them It seems they have found such a remedy away off In the Southern Pacific and they surely are not any brighter people down there than are the American people |