Show W 4 S sasi arbitrators DEPART FOR COAL REGIONS one oe the commissioners says public ion will force both sides to accept the verdict they render washington oct 2 the majority ot the members ot the commission left this afternoon for scranton where they arill meet tomorrow to begin their investigations tho party consisted 0 commissioner of labor wright general wilson bishop spalding spilding ding grand chief clark assistant moseley and ancill and three stenographers the other members of the commission arc expected to reach Pc ranton by tomorrow judge gray the chairman is at del and expects to board the train on its arrival there late this afternoon wathina and parker are in new york city and have been officially notified ot the departures of the others the will spend tomorrow at scranton arranging the details of the trip through the coal fields the hearings will not begin until the formal claims of the miners and the answer of the operators have been filed the first place to be visited by the commission after leaving scranton probably will be the tour through the cobil felds in advance of the hear inga will bo of a preliminary character aa the points in all probability will be visited later for the purpose ot taking 0 mine bosses foremen and the miners themselves to require the miners to leave their work aej trav c any considerable distance to testify would involve considerable hardship on abo men in the preliminary inspection and inquiry into the cand irions it the mines the itinerary will be mapped out to cover the several important coal fields of ahn anthracite region anc n of the colmia eion is willip to be quoted in predictions of the length of time the work of the commission will consume they say they will go into tuo subject exhaustively and one af pf them said privately that 19 believe the report would be ready within two month if cither pt the parties to the con troverse tro versy should refuse to abide by the decision of the commission what could be donot this commissioner was asked we bee no reason to anticipate anything of the sort was his answer 1 I do not believe that either side could face the force of public opinion by rejecting the which they have agreed in advance to accept |