Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-09-30 | Page 1 | Coal $21 a Ton and Rising in New York

COAL 21 A TON ION AND RISING IN NEW YORK Hospitals Poorly Supplied an and Suffering May a Result Strike Affects England Also LONDON Sept SO The O.-The The American coal strike already fans hns made an ant t tf f Impression on op the British coal market and if It It continues for another six months hou householders In London will trill have to lo pa pay hay 20 20 O a ton f t ft t for tor fuel fuet II Ml I 4 NEW V YORK Sept 30 30 Hospitals of or this cH city are uie threatened with with bring being seriously affected h by the sc scarcity of coal coat The J. J Hood rl Wright ht ho hospital pHal has hils only enough coal to last this till week while St St. Luk Lukes Luke's s 's was so o foi fortunate as to obtain ob- ob obtain obtain ob ob- tain a cargo of or to tons about a week a ago enough ago enough o-enough to last two months St. St Marys Mary's Hospital for Children has practically no supply of steam coal loal and und is using furnace coal of or which It has haH about twenty e tons This conditions prevails Ire at many other institutions The pi price Ice of anthracite has ha i reached cached 21 n. n but some retailers retailer's are peddling out their small supply at Sib Iii or of 16 to old customers