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Show A CENTURY OF ANTHRACITE First Ton of Hard Coal Reached the City of Philadelphia Just Ono Hundred Yearo Ago, An even hundred yrnrs have e'liiwtl since one Wltlliun Worts, it I'll! lade!-" pliln merchant, lroo his leiim of mules Willi the llrxt ton of anthracite (lirougli the spring freshets nnd boa hind to the hanks of thu Delaware river- nnd floated the now1 fuel down the river to Phlhidelplitn ou n pine log rnft. Hut he experienced no little dlftl-culty dlftl-culty In that first unthriiclte cnr of 1820 In overcoming the popular ohjen tlon Hint the coal wns "extremely slow of lighting" Pine log rnfts floated only I!03 tons of unthniclte that year. Hut It fetched n price of $12 n ton and could be delhered frelght-on-rnft Philadelphia nt $1 n fnet Hint wns freely advertised Co nttrnct additional ca ill ta I, for, of course, there wns no pnillteerlng lu those days. Spring freslielx nnd bog hind nnd slow liiiliiiiuiiiihlllly no longer worr; opcrntors. Silk shirts for miners nre n bigger nuisance. Hut production In n hundred years has Jumped to SO,. 200,000 tons, and could this ,enr surpass sur-pass the 100 inlllloiidon mark, whkh will almost reached lu 1017. Heading, W'llkesbnrre, Leblgk Munch Chunk these mimes lire spoken one thoioiind times hourly In the Industrial world today, simply because be-cause there lay up In tho hills of I'enu sjlvunln a hard, lilack substance, one ton of which sly old William Wurlx steered on n raft down the Delawnri ,o Philadelphia, Just one hundred yeurs jigo. Wall Street Journal. |