The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1870-09-24

while they revolve about thirty times per
minute. Of course the coal from the roll
ers finds it way into the large screens you
have seen, and out Of the large screens
into the hands Of the imps already noticed,
and out Of the hands of the imps into the
deep, dark coal bins below them
You notice the men on the platform who
have those bastard picks in their hands,
take charge Of the states and split them of
the Goals to which they sometimes adhere,
and then drag them to the slate schultz,
down which they slide into the merry do
main Of Pat Finn, who disposes of them after
they run into his two ton dirt wagon with
its pivots and swingletrees The dumping
schultz is like bic spout or canal, twenty
four feet wide, six feet deep, and nearly one
hundred feet long, incluing at an angle Of
twenty-five degrees. The lump coal schultz
is Of the same width and depth, and it runs
from The front side Of the platform, down
to the level Of the railway cars, into which
the coal it contains runs through sluices.
In the dumping schultz you find screen
bars fixed, over which the coal slides, and
through which a large portion Of the dirt
and small coal finds its way into large
conical counter screen which revolves be-
low, and which separates the dirt from the
coal the coal running down to the hoppers
that conduct the coal into the big screens
You observe these things, and pass up a
flight Of steps by tho side of the dumping
schultz without exchanging a word with
those hard working men on he platform.
A. you are going up the steps you hear
clicking and rattle and a rumble; a
three ton wagon Of coal has Just arrived at
the top Of the shaft aud been Dumped, and
the coal from the wagon runs down the
schultz with : high velocity and strikes the
caai already in the schultz, at which the
men are working, with such force, that the
sphnters fly in all directions, the men tax
ing little notice Of them, only they turn the
crown Of their heads towards H., n, to keep
tie Splnters from striking their faces.
The top Of the steps brings you to the mouth
Of the Coaldale shaft, over which large pull
leys are fixed, ana mi which fiat wire ropes
are working, one ascending, another de-
,cendiuy. \ Oh zee a man in atteL lance
here who -alutes you politely. Then after
seventy seconds you hear bell ring away
down below you somewhere, and then the
steam that was putting with great force
through the roof IF a building begins to
abate, aud the ropes 10 the shaft begin t.
move slower; and then you hear cialter
and feel a trcmor Of the framework, and
the wirr rope suddenly becomes transform
ed into a strong chain, and these chains
spread apart frym each other and change
uto a monster that pops ont Of the mouth
of thc shaft. Then you hear again a
clicking ana Gathering, and a -itlny Of
chains, which ~ suddenly " .ccede4 NY ar
tiicial thunder, as you S.c the monster :
mouth open and spcw out A mass If coal
into the dumping schultz On close eyami-
nation you discover that the monster bound
by the chains holds a three ton coal car in
It's NAV, and Is called a hosting Gaze, aud
you soc that the monster kccls over to
dump, lust as a drunken beast doe, 70 vom-
ID and that it mauWuyrc~ and shakes and
gathers itself up into a vertical position.
and stands and balances itself as ii consd-
ering some subject Of importance. 1t now
resembles a drunken man just risen from
TIE road, stcalying himself before be tax. :
another step. Then you hear one stroke of
agony down under The roof through winch
the steam pipe sticks, AMI you see the mon
stcr dart down into rs cave, and you loose
sight Of it 10 the darkness, and the steam
pufs out Of the steam pipe, and the ropes
move in the shalt, and the big pullies turn
90 their axis until another monster pops out
of the opposite side If tie shaft, and per-
forms the same drunken feats and vomits
its contents into the schultz, balances, a.
iusts ana stcaiics itself, as did It's prode-
cess0r, preparatory for another trip to the
regions below. Tbs process is repeated
the whole day through, the monsters pop
ping up with their bellies fun Of coal, and
down again, after having vomitel their con
tents.
You are now one hundred feet above the
level Of the railroad track, and window
that opens upon the town, presents You
with a grand perspective view Of il. Per
spective merely? nay It j. almost bird :
eve view; for besides the one hundred feet
above the level Of the railway, you are a
few hundred more feet above water level
You are well pleased with the grandeur Of
the scenery, and you are better satisfied
BY looking at Coaldale over the tree tops
Tran you were while viewing it in the streets,
when the loungers in front Of door steps
and On street corners, and at tavern stands,
% magnanimously allowed you to pass them
by way Of the gutter.
TO BE CONTINUED.