Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1882-07-01
Mr.. Brady Defends Himself.

EcKHART, Nd, June "a, 1882.
To the MINING JOURNAL:
I hope you will be kind enough to
grant me a small space in the col
umns of your paper to answer some oi
the vileht charges ever laid to man
these in my particular case Icing
that Peter Cordial and myself went
to Cumberland to have an interview
with President Mayer, of the Consoli-
dation coal company, and were closet
ed with him for several hours. This
is false, as | intend showing the pub
lie in as few words as possible. 1t is
q well.known fact that Cordial has
been the talk Of this place for the
last five or six weeks for the reasons
that he stepped out of the region to
hunt work, as he plainly saw that he
could not afford to go idle any longer
with large family depending on him
as we'll as many more in the county.
He was fortunate enough to get work
in Salisbury, Pa, as roadsman and at
switch-laying in the mine, and he took
it at the same figures as paid to those
before him-this after making sharp
inquiries of the men in that place az
to the rules and figures paid for such
work. Now, as Mr.. Cordial had oc-
casion to come home to see his family,
he arrived here on Saturday, the 18th
inst, and found out from few friends
the talk that was going on, he con-
cluded to get at the bottom of this
bag of stuff, as can call it nothing
else since I have been fully convinced
at his own suggestion. To show to
the public the whole truth and moth
ing but the truth, Cordial came to me,
as am his next-door neighbor, and
asked me to 90 with him to Presi-
dent Mayer, in order to show that
President Mayer and himself never
before had met-not even knowing
Mr.. Mayer by sight-as I was we'll
aware from experience that they were
not acquainted. He told me that we
would have to get some one to intro
ducs us. He said he was personally
acquainted with Mr.. Burwell, and
that we would have him introduce US,
which he did. The introduction took
place in President Mayors room at
the Queen City Hotel, where to my
satisfaction Cordial and President
Mayer met for the first time. The
former cf all the troubles was this
the talk was that Mr.. Mayer enquiged
for Cordial the first day he came to
Eckhart to select the ground for the
new labor. This Cordial could not
believe on the grounds that he never
had the good fortune to make ac-
quaintence With the gentleman. So
now to the public I wish it to be
plainly understood that neither Pres
ident Mayer nor Superintendent Bur-
we'll had anything for Cordial to do
any more than any other one Of their
employees. To cut things short, thore
were very few words exchanged in
all we were not more than fifteen or
twenty minutes in the two gentlemen s
company. AS fer as having the Sec
ond interview, it is bare-faced lie,
as Cordial spent the rest of the day
with his sister who was sick when he
met her. 1t has gone the rounds of
the county that we were there to do
something dirty. To our many
friends. as well as our bitter enemies,
we will venture. the assurance that if
there is no one else to do the dirty
work, as they call it, there will be
very little done by the two they
charge SO heavily. We have both
been raised in Allegsny county and
defy any man to point back to where
we have ever done day s work for less
than the majority of the men in this
region. We have always tried to be
with the majority if sound sense and
Judgment would permit. In the
present troubles we have very little
to say. We have formed our opin-
ion. We live in the world we move
with the world, but we always
thought we were living in free coun-
try. PATRICK BRADY.