Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1896 — 10.000,000 Tons of Coal. [ARTICLE]

10.000,000 Tons of Coal.

A prominent New York coal merchant. while showing a Pittsburg friend about New York on the occasion, of the latter’s first visit to the metropolis. took him to the top of one of thevery highest buildings in town and pointed out to him the different objects - .[ of interest that could be seen. The Western man took in the beautifuE view of the bay. and then looked northward over miles and miles of roofs and chimneys, over the vast expenseof street and park, business buildings and dwellings, and then turned to his friend with the remark that the most astonishing thing to him was that it. was so clear. Not a blot of smoke marred the landscape. Clear and brilliant in the sun of a brilliant winter day, New York was clean and neat,and the greatest possible contrast to thedingy and grimy eities of the West, 1 where the use of coal is not restricted to certain kinds. New Yorkers have made a study of the combusion of coal, and have learned how to get the most out of it with the least dirt and smoke. The enormous amount of 10,000,000 tons of anthraeite coal is now burned every year in New York, and this is not at alB remarkable when it is considered to what an extent the use of coal enters: into the everyday life of the people. The coal dealers of New York are legion, and the business has grown to immense proportions. The ease with which coal can be shipped to New York and unloaded in order to get it to the market with the least posible handling has contributed, to a great extent, tothe success which New York coal merchants have attained.—New York Mail and Express.