The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1875-07-24
Written for the woRKNsHAS's ADVOCATE
PICTURES, CHARACTERS,
VN'esCs n-Ons .MtnerGOaUn.
BY sUBTERRANEAH.
Continued from last weeE. I
BY sU BTERRANEAN.

pore his yed of. 4"
Another boy suggests the necessity o
making a monster Of Mr.. Gordon by put
ting on him an additional head. Man,
other suggestions quite as varied and di
verse are made but nothing definite i
agreed to. The meeting is getting into
chaos, when it is called to order by tn,
president brandishing piece Of rock, anC
threatening the instant destruction of the
next boy who speaks
Don't you know, boys, that wen have
some Of our daddies Or some other fellow
here after us before many minutes will
pass over our heads There'l be fine
scamper if we do not act all together and
have our plans ready to repel any attack
made upon US. What Will you say, Hans
Irantman, if your daddy comes here with
big stick to break every bone III your
body Oh you needn't blubber, cause
we're not going to let him do il. Wen
not be tampered with by your daddy Or
by any one elses, while there's piece Of
rock loose enough and light enough to pelt
him with Let him come and try it
We'd change him so that your nanny
wouldn't know him when he went home To
her"
Gentlemen and boys, says the presi-
dent, eleyating his tone and style, have
a proposition or suggestion to make il you
will be kind enough to listen to it.
''You are out Of order, Mr. President. y
says one Of the biggest aid LATEST and
fattest Of the boys in the cro~1 | make
a motion that we adjourn TO eat our din
ners, and I'LL our cans with huckleber-
ries"
''And | second the notion" squeaks
out little rat of fellow Of about nine
years. This young gentleman has A very
white face, sharp, piercing, restless blue
eyes, and very ragged clothes He has a
hungry look, but he is as supple as a cat,
and he jerks about among the boys,
threading his way and moving from place
]
never know where he is for one moment
President Pat Duggan now makes good
his threat. He takes deliberate aim at the
fat boy, who was the first to interrupt the
meeting, and the ''rock" hits him in the
belly, with such force that it Is likely to
postpone his dinner at least for the next
hour. He rolls over, roaring with pain
Pat then leaves the stump and plunges in
to the crowd after the lean boy But that
young gentleman slips through his fingers
as if he were an eel The meeting nov il
literally broken up before anything good
or bad has been accomplished, because the
confusion following the assaults Of the
president cannot be quieted neither by
Pats prayers nor his threats. One squad
of the boys starts for the border of the
woods, and at point where they can see
the parade Of the show without being seen
themselves, they sit on the grass and ap-
ply themselves seriously to the double
purpose of emptying their dinner cans and
filling their bellies. Another squad goes
off in search of huckleberries.
During the day number Of birds-nests
are sought and found and robbed a num-
Der of fights take place one boy breaks
his arm by falling from tree, and several
fall into the hands of " old Gordon, > and
receive tOlerable Gaming at his hands
Two or three others meet with suitable
punishment at the hands Of their dad
dies, and very few have seen the shadow
of the show.
Johney Lovejoy starts home the moment
the meeting is broken up, and reports con-
tdentially to his nanny. He spends
the fornoon IN wedding the garden and
planting some seeds, and at night his
nanny takes him to the show.
Anthracite coal, as it comes from the
mine, is mixed with impurities is irregu-
lar in shape and size, and unfit for market
al it passes through the process Of prep
aration Ia the breaker TO 70 through
every detail Of a coal a-ssker is task |
shall not impose upon you 81 ollow-
ing short, Uery short sketch, must sll-
for onr present purpose. But if you in
slst on minute detail, | on my side insist
that you wait until you get it. There are
published details aioat, but | shall never
recommend them to the particular notice
of any Of my particular friends
The coal raised from the mine is brought
to the Cip[ ing shute of the breaker in
wagons. The wagons are then dumped,
and the coal runs down to platform.
Here the lamps are rolled into shutes by
the platform men, and they run them
down to the lump coal bins. The smaller
Goals are sent off through another shute,
which allows the steamboat coal to pass
oDer set Of CRATE bars, while the smaller
coal drops through between them, and
passes down another shute to the breaking
rollers. In this shute Johney Loveloy
uses a rake to feed the rollers | want you
to remember this fact, while we 20 about
the description of the rest of the breaker
After the coal passes through the rollers it
drops on to a Gtdie-bdck, which throws one
half Of the coal In one direction while the
balance goes in an opposite direction, each
portion hndlng its way through hopper
that leads to a revolving screen. These
screens separate the dirt from the coal,
and the chestnut and stove and egg and
broken Goals from each other. The states
and other pieces of refuse, are separated
by those little imps of mischief called
slate. pickers, who, whilst at work in the
dust, are as black as old Mr.. Harry, the
gentleman in the sub Netherlands. The
states are picked out whilst the coal passes
down the inclined teLegraphs, a series OF
narrow troughs which lead from The
screens to the coal bins.
1t is needless to add, that after the Goa
passes the inspection Of these highly res
ponsible young gentlemen, it is considered
ft for market, so it passes directly intC
the coal bins aud is there stored up ready
for the cars. These little imps are sup
posed to be under the control Of slate
picker boss This is a gentleman whc
may be considered to have concentrated
within him the severity OF ten hard heart
ed school masters. He carries q piece 0
: hickory, which should have the terrors o
ten ordinary switches, but it has not Tn
severity Of the one and the terrors Of tn