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Show ENCOURAGING SIGNS. " t hey Relate to tho TJusiness Outlook itsd Are Seen by the Conl Karons. At tho Fifth Avcn'uo hotel yesterday &nd at the Hamburg-American dock in Eoboken there was a large gathering of Leisenrings, Kemrnercrs, Wentzcs, Righters and other "coal barons" of tha Lehigh valley to say goodby to Mr. E. B. Leisenring, president of the Lehigh Coal Navigation company, whoso failing fail-ing health has at length caused him to lay down tho immediate supervision of 6is vast business interests and go to Europe Eu-rope for recuperation and recreation. Talking with these coal barons, I was much interested to Cad that they are "taking a very hopeful view of the business busi-ness situation and that quite apart from the fact that the great anthracite coal Industry in which they arc more specially special-ly interested has had more than its share of prosperity during tho long season sea-son when the biruminoas coal regions all over the country were blighted by a strike of meet comprehensive proportions. propor-tions. Mr. M. S. Kemrccrer said that the most encouraging sign to his mind was the improvement in the iron industry, I a branch of business, closely allied to coal mining, and the two together hav lug much to do with the general prosperity pros-perity of the country. A day or two agi' came az order from Brazil for the manufacture man-ufacture of CO locomotives, a big thing In itself, since the building of locomo tives has been practically suspended for a long whila At the Schenectady works orders from American railroads are coming in for railroad iron. At Bethlehem, Bethle-hem, where little beyond the manufacture manufac-ture of armor plate for the government has been going on, there is perceptible activity, and ono of tho great iron com-f com-f anies has booked more orders within the last six weeks than in the preceding six months. M. P. Ilandy. |