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Show ENCOURAGING SIGHS. sy Xtelnto to tfcs Business Outloolc a&d Are Seen uy the Coal Harons. At tho Fifth Avenuo hotel yesterday end at the Hamburg-American dock ic Hoboken thero was a large gathering- of Leisonrings, Kemmerera, Wentze Righters and other "coal barons' of the Lehigh valley to say goodby to Mr. E 8, Leisenriag, president of tho Lehigh Coal Navigation company, whoso failing fail-ing health has at length caused him to Jay down tho immediate supervision oi nis vast business interests and go to Europe Eu-rope for recuperation and recreation. Talking with these coal barons, I was mnoh interested to find that they ar1 taking a vory hopeful view of tho busl-noss busl-noss situation and that quito apart from iho fact that the great anthracite coal industry in which they are more specialty special-ty interested has had mcro than w share of prosperity during tho long sea-Bon sea-Bon when tho bituminous coal regions all over the country were blighted by a Btrilco of most comprehensive proper tions. Mr. M: 8. Kemmerer said that th? most encouraging sign to his mind was the improvement in tho iron industry, a branch of business closely allied So coal mining, and the two together hav ing much to do with the general prosperity pros-perity of the country. A day or two ago came as order from Brazil for tho manufacture man-ufacture of GO locomotives, a big tiling in itself, since tho building of locomo-iives locomo-iives has been practically suspended foi a long while. At tho Schenectady works orders from American railroads are coming in foi railroad iron. At Bethlehem, Bethle-hem, where littlo boyond the maunfar tnro of armor plate for tho government has been going on, there is perceptible activity, and one of tho great iron com panies has booked moro orders within tho last six weeks than in the preceding is mouths. ---M. P. Handy. In consequenco or jji. Dreyfus' tros son in supplying Germany with the sa-oreta sa-oreta or the French plans of mobilization mobiliza-tion says a Paris correspondent, thb got drnment has jnst spent more than 400.000 in changing all the essential features of tho schemes for placing troops in caso of war. It has been found that fully 15 per cent of tho men drafted for tho Madagascar expedition aro physically phys-ically unfit for tho arduous service, and their places aro being filled. Already it is apparent that tho campaign will cost 125.000,000 Instead of $18,000,000. |