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Show 1 .ENCOURAGING SIGNS. ' tfhey Relate to the Business Ontlook suoA Are Seen by tho Coal Barons. At the Fifth Avenuo hotel yesterday ind at the Hamburg-American dock in Hoboken there was a large gathering of Loisenrings, Kemmerers, Wentzes, Righters and other "coal barons'' of th Lehigh valley to say goodby to Mr. K B. Leisenring, president of the Lehigh Coal Navigation company, whose failing fail-ing health has at length oaused him to lay down the immediate supervision of his vast business interests and go to Europe Eu-rope for recuperation and recreation. Talking with these coal barons, I was much, interested to mid that they are taking a very hopeful view of the business busi-ness situation and that quite apart from ..i a. . . i- i.un a. 1.1 i IUG lUUlr lUilL IUU yiUill Ull L.LLL O.U.I LU UUiil industry in which they are more specially special-ly interested has had more than its chare of prosperity during the long sea-Eon sea-Eon when tho bituminous coal region all over the country were blighted by a 6trike of most comprehensive proportions. propor-tions. Mr. M. 9. Kemmcrer said that th most encouraging sign to his mind was the improvement in the iron industry, a branch of business closely allied to coal mining, and tho two together having hav-ing much to do with the general prosperity pros-perity of the country. A day or two ago came aa order from Brazil for tho manufacture man-ufacture of CO locomotives, a big thing In itself, since the building of locomo tives has been practically suspended fo? a long while. At the Schenectady works orders from American railroads are coming in for railroad iron. At Bethlehem, Bethle-hem, where little beyond the manufao frure of armor plate for the government has been going on, there is perceptible activity, and ono of the great iron com-f com-f anies has booked more orders within the last six weeks than in the preceding six months. M. P. Handy. Tho reasons assigned by the school committee for tho discontinuance of slates, Elate poncila and sponges in the publio schools and the substitution of paper, lead pencils and rubber erasers in their places are as follows: First A light gray mark upon a slightly darker gray Burface is more or less indistinct and trying to tho eye-eight eye-eight Second. The resistance of the hard pencil upon the hard elate is trying to the muscles, and the resistance to which the muscles are thus trained must ba overcome when beginning to write with pencil or pen upon paper. Third. The use of slates, slate pencils pen-cils and sponges is a very uncleanly custom cus-tom and loads to and establishes erj uncleanly habits. Boston Herald. |