Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-05-18

enc river 10 the railroad
70 bring over such members of the Com.
mittee as we're expected to arrive IN the
Trains from the West. We were not LONG
at the station before the train cam. =
bringing Hugh Lindsey, of the Hunf,neson
NeiDs; J. II. Irwin. of the Bloir Caun,u
Radical, and h. 4. Brainard, of the Cur.
wensville Times. The three editors are all
good-looking, dark-complex,oued men. with
oark-coiored hair. They are aged between
oo and 10 years. Lindsey is Philadel-
phian by birth, stands about S feet or Q
inches, of spare build, and student stoop.
and wears full beard and moustache. He
Is practical printer. and a member of
church. Brainard is not so tall. being
ABOUT feet inches. He is an Indiana
county man by birth, wears side-w biskers
and moustache, and is a practical printer.
irwin Is Fulton county man by birth, is
about as tall as Brainard he is a practical
printer and church member; he has no
ceard, but wears a moustache. The whole
party took carriages snc drove bach to Nc
Veytown and entered the Odd Fellows Hall.
which had been opened for the
Executive COMMITTEE
Of the Juniata Valley Printers Associa-
ton to hold its meeting in. The object of
the Committee was to effect organization
and transact such other business as might
be brought before it. The Committee Or
ganized by the election of E. Conrad,
President, and 81. A. McPike, Secretary.
E. J. Stackpole, of the MeVeytopn Journal,
and NJ. E. Mccarthy, of the Msunt Union
Times, and W. W. Trout, Of the Free Pres,
at Lewistown, and H. J. Fosnot, of the
Democrat and Sentinel of the same place,
were admitted as advisory members. A
short session was held, when the Commit
tee adjourned
To DINNER.
By Invitation the editors all went to Mr..
Conrad's house to dine. Mrs. Conrad was
in waiting when her husband arrived with
the invited guests, and she received each
member Of the Committee in her parlor BY
shaking hands. Rev. d. W. Moore was
present, and partook of dinner with the
guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. Conrad. If the
minister made a count of those with whom
he sat at table be learned that all were
church members excepting Brainard, Fos-
not and Schweier. 1t was quite noticeable
that eight of the twelve men present wore a
moustache. Rev Mr.. Moore was the
largest man in the party; his height, when
standing in stocking feet, will not fall short
OF six feet. He has a full person, wears
side viii skers and has cleanly shaven up
per lip and chin.
AFTER DINNER
the party visited the sand mine of Dull &
Bradley. PenrOse Dull was there, as genial
as ever, and put light into two lanterns,
gave one to Mr.. Moore and kept one him
sel:, invited the party to go with him into
the mine. Dull knows all about the place,
but with all that the preacher led of, and
was the first 10 reach the bottom of long
stairway into pit about thirty feet deep,
and thence on the railroad into the mine.
The mine is simply a hole or tunnel into
rock of silicious white sand. The tunnel
is Is or 20 feet high by about 10 feet wide.
The hole is shaped like Gothic arch. The
distance from the mouth of the mine to the
far end is about five hundred and thirty
feet. A great deal of sand is being taken
out from tunnels that run almost at right
angles from the main tunnel, and there is a
hele dug up perpedicularly through the hill
to the surface of the ground, down which
shaft tons upon tons of white sand rock is
tumbled to the side of the railroad, whence
il is hauled out in cars. A stream of clear
water Follows the course of the railroad to
the mouth Of the cavern, but there is no
mud all is clean sand, which does not
muddy shoe when one tramps into a soft
place. When the party came out Of the
mine the weather seemed doueiy hot. A
sand mine, such as that is, would be a de-
sirabie place to perform physical lator in
during either winter or summer. The oand
is brought out in cars and placed in hop
per, where it is crushed by two wheels that
each weigh twenty-six hundred POUNDS.
From the hopper the sand passes into box
about Is feet square and feet deep, in
which are number of spiral grinders that
so manipulate and work and shift the sand
that it is passed through three different cur
rents of clean water, and thus is thoroughly
washed and prepared for the dry box. The
sand is dried by steam. The machinery of
the dry box is so constructed that as fast as
the sand dries it drops out of the bottom of
the box, from which it is passed into wagons
and hauled to the railroad and sent to glass
factories in Pittsburg and other places.
They ship 40 to 60 tons per day. A new
piece of machinery has just been put up
that is to so pulyerize the sand that it can
be used TO make american Chinaware" of.
There are works in Trenton, n. J., for the
manufacture of American Chinaware. Dull
& Bradley are putting up other machinery,
that is to facilitate the transportation of
sand. From the sand mine the party went
to the
PREsBYTERIAs CHURCH,
under the escort of Rev. Mr.. Moore. The
Presbyterians of McVeytown have splen-
did property, consisting of a parsonage, a
church and number of lots of ground, all
adjacent to each other. Of which fine
property suffice it to say, that congregations
that contemplate building church, might
do well to send committee to McYeytown
Presbyterian church to fashion after the
plan of Mr.. Moore, place of worship. The
pews are complete; it is luxury to sit in
one, and lazy man in such a comfortable
seat might fall asleep, but devout chris
tian would be more devout in such CON-
Portable pew. From the front step OF
H.