The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1869-09-25


SIND the Adjustment of matters connected
with q at strike not fvs yesrs ago, in which
contest your large coal corporation Lost
10 thf nelgbbOrhOOd Of one hundred and
City 4dOusand- dOllSw, nothisg Of any m1-
ment occurred until vely short i@s arc.
you 4schargvd No Crooks, for shat isl
think 10 be no offence at all. This man that
was actiVe In assisting 10 buIId ~ the
prOsp@ity Of the company you ignominou--
y discharged you know
TO BIZ CONTINUED N
T. II. w.
Ar"isnd, Pa, June, 1869.
THR ANTHRACITE CoAE ReoioN. area
OF the anthracite coal region in this State is
four Hundred square miles, and one hundred
and wen miles Of it lie within the limits Of
Lu1etkne county. The total quantity raised
IN tho whole State .JWn 20 1869, amounted
to Attle over eighty-shree millions 6f tons,
OF witch Luxerene fnrnished twenty-nine
milliC hs. The frat company for mining coal
was ermed in l793, "a Il wac ave years be-
fore 4bey shipped 20 PhiIadelphia, and this
VentUte consisted Of thirty tons. The city
thctities consented 20 take it, and tried to
burn A under the boilers Of the engines at
the v ater works, but 10 pat she Ere out. The
balaEEe was broken up and used 10 place Of
gravel over the sidewalks, and only the
blaclNmith's near the mines used The coal
for hHme use. The diBcOvery was made by
9 tiIkekeeper, Jesse Fell, Of Wilkesbarre, who
concluded that q good draft was necessary
to make it burn, and he built grate Of green
bicIIry sapplings, placed it in q large fire.
black in bis bar-rOOm, flled it with broken
coal and dry wood under the CRATE and set
it OF FIRE; the flames spreading through the
coal it was soon ignited, and before the
WOODEN crate bars we're consumed the sue.
cess was proved, and hundreds Of people
tioc4ed to the old tavern to witr the
discovery.
rtJTY TO MINKRs.-Two hundred dead
mirkls lie smotherej IN the coal pit at Steu-
benz smothered because the inevitable dis
astek found them with DO means to escape,
the bnly outward channel being ithen OOcu-
pies asia chimney for roaring flames and
sitting smoke. 1t were idle to enlarge upon
thek utter wretchedness, the unima Unable
misAAry thrust in a moment on the destitute
WINS and children of the poor fellows thus
SUE Fenly sent to eternity, but it may be pro-
6takle TO suggest that the great State Of
PeE1usylVania owes something to the memory
Of bese dead and mare to the safety Of those
Wh4 must work there in the future. M
mil should ibe worked which has not two
shsN Is. Had such been the case ut Stuben,
hON easily these two hsDdred lives miKhi
haAs boon saved. The great companies
viii own these mines, who speculate in she
stot Tx on Wall street, who organize strikes
for the sake Of putting no the price Of coal,
and keep expensive officials in suderb and
NAL ni6cent estate, care nothing for the
mil ess, they only work the minea But even
they must appreciate in the presen; instance
;befunfOrtunate parsimoDy that was content
wi one shaft, for now the working Of the
mise is entirely stopped, and months must
elaee before it can be revoked Bas all
THU is local; What is needed is . State lac
compelling these people to provide neans
lorf the safety Of the men Jrom whose labor
the capitalist Q eculatOr yearly reaps . rich
snk golden harvest.-N Y. Star.