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The Florists' Review 



AuaoBX 20, 1914. 



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FLORISTS' FUEL DIRECTORY j 



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THE COAI. MAKKF.T. 



Since the prices of food so quickly 

 took the cue and began to soar at the 

 first announcement, almost at the first 

 vague rumor, of war in Europe, it would 

 scarcely be reasonable to expect that 

 the coal market would long remain un- 

 affected. Yet the prices of coal have 

 been slower than those of other com- 

 modities to respond to the upward im- 

 petus. Among the most obvious rea- 

 sons for this exceptional state of affairs 

 in the coal trade are, first, the large 

 reserve stores of coal which have been 

 piled up, awaiting a market; second, 

 the obstructed condition of ocean trans- 

 portation, which makes it impossible 

 to supply the newly created foreign 

 demand, and, third, an unexpected dull- 

 ness of business at some of the great 

 factories, the proprietors of which were 

 somewhat disconcerted by the sudden 

 outbreak of the war and have not yet 

 gained entire command of the situation, 

 so fta to avail themselves of the special 

 opportunities which the war has pro- 

 vided for the sale of their products. 



Indeed, so plainly noticeable is this 

 business depression that a prominent 

 coal journal r^orts a "complete stag- 

 nation in the eastern trade." As a 

 consequence, "New England cotton 

 mills," says the same authority, "are 

 not taking anywhere near their cus- 

 tomary tonnage of coal. They have not 

 yet readjusted themselves to the con- 



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ditiona incident to the complete shut- 

 ting off of their European competition. 

 Certainly they have not yet begun to 

 pile up those, stocks #o£< goods whie^ 

 the^ will need to satisfy the market 

 which cannot be satisfied under present 

 conditions by European producers. Also 



the var^^us ports along the -.Atlantic 

 coast are congested with co4l. An un- 

 precedented number of railroad cars 

 loaded with coal are tied up at thesfi 

 eastern ports. There are plenty of bot- 

 toms At those ports to take all of this 

 coal and relieve this congestion, and their 



