The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1870-10-15

were but q sufficient quantity IF fresh a,
Jet INTO the furnace shaft, and Mr. Edito
you would witness repetition Of the Avon
dale horror. None of such things escar
your notice. You are now (, a dark pas
sage, Mr.. Editor, Of which please take nc
tice, as yoS pass slowly on. You see hoy
black everything is the water running
along the gutter, looks as if it were pur
black ink. The floor under your feet, Mr.
Editor, is a dirty Shiny black. The wal
sides are black and covered with blacl
dust; so is the roof The timber that sup
ports the sides and roof seems dry, sud
sounds a. II half rotten. The sills an'
the rails YOU find almost buried up ~ small
coal and you wonder bow IN tho world !
loaded car can be drawn over the tract
they form.
You pass slowly along the daIk passage
and YOU notice that a currcn, # air passes
rerv slowly on 10 tie same direction. \ OF
arrive Il a 2r-c cor that blocks up The
passage completely The Joints ana crack:
IN this door, and in The fixtures, are plas
tered up with clay. 4 piece Of canvas nail
M ~ the b0tyvm, means that no air that
10 can Stop shal. pass through under the
door Where then Is the air going 70 The
good Genie stops aud looks up TO a hole that
opens near tAe roof Of the passage. 1t is
black lJ DARK, auI uninyitng; but the
Genie coadesceuls 70 ascend into il by
means " a very rude aui ricAety step-lad
DER Tic say, ia voice Of command fol
low and yoC GLOW him up that ladder.
lie s c.lmbn- up steep passage about
,a.ec icyJ Squire, 9n iucln,Dg y an angle
Of l-7 You follow him thirty fee, through
this passage; then through a horizontal pas
SAGE called heading, fifteen feet more into
another passage inclined al 7Oo called q
imam Wav. The section OF this passage is
triangular ia form; and the side on your
", IS formed u, q series Of piank-work that
lyIu uyer AGAINST tla coal wall, that forms
tAe side Ut Che triangle on your right hand:
props called iuelIrs are placed INSIDE Of the
pauAs to restrain them and prevent them
from crushing IN ami clos.u. Up the pas
sa-c. OF course you see that the props
are placed With their pointed butts into
holes cut Ia tLe t5f'sa slate. about three
t,gt from tLe rb " coal wal! sile,aul about
five tsyJ apart from each other, while their
tons lean over AGAINST the wal Just over
you head. With your stomach ana IL in.
d'gcsted contents very nearly 10 The bottom
s--.e, the coat sleeve on your right arm rub
ling the coal, the coat sleeve on your leA
o.. brushing against The timber, your head
squeezing through the upper part Of tie
prop and Che upper part Of the coal with
your fct planted above The cross sticks
used as steps, and your hands grasping the
juglars, wv you climb up that steep passage,
while the good Genie Of the Sehuylkill
Company coal miners leads the wav.
Now, NJ. Liitor, you are by no means a
fat man; YOU are light and strong and ae-
tive; YOU are made more Of muscle than Of
flesh nothing is there that i superhous
about you, except indeed that heavy supper,
or dinner as you note it, those friends IN
Of yours tempted down your precious
throat; | say you are strong and light /;
but with these great advantages you find it
hard work to climb that passage and drag
that overloaded stomach along with YOU.
But those sturdy fellows you saw at the
mouth Of the Shaft, climb such passages
half dozen times a Jay, Mr.. Editor, and
they take up planks as large as those YOU
see On your left, and props as large as those
YOU see on your left, and drills and picks
and powder, ana whatever il needed BE-
sides. But wait, Mr. Editor YOU are rery
nearly to the top Of tia. difficult passage ;
you are eighty yards up from the gangway.
and there at the top Of which YOU are iust
now arriving, The good Genie Of the N ners
of SohnyIaliI county points out 70 yo1r as
tonished vision
a GENUINE FAIR OF Gov. CEARY'S ''rETs,
VOTED INTO his POSSESSION BY ia COR
BUPT LEGIsLATURE-( SOME or TIE
WORDS THAT YOUR OWN AMGNHLE
CgEEEsTONDENTs HAVE USED
REPEATEDLY All TIE I'LL
sTIGATION OF A COMMIT
TEE AUTHORIZED BY
AND INSTRUCTED
no ACT FOR
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