Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-08-11

WE occasionally read an item in tins Frost
burg JOURNAL which informs the people that
mine inspector Browning has Just completed
Il tour of the region and reports everything
in good condition. etc.
Ninety per- rent. of the miners of Lonacon-
ing do not :hcsitate to say that such state
mcnt~ are false Homecoming Rccjc~.
The above quotation appears to be
designed to throw the complexion of
lalSchood on the JOURNAL. But
what the latter did say was:
Mine-Inspector Browning was in town this
week. liz reports everything i'll good con-
dition throughout the region.
Now, if there is an answer to be
made to the RcricW or the district
assembly on that point, Mr.. Brown
ing must make it--not the JOURNAL.
But says the Rcriew in the same
editOriai article:
viii the inspector visit the Alexander mine
of the American coal company and tell us
that the ventilation in that mine is good? d?
VIII he officially deny the rumor and prove
that the sudden death of Daniel Watson was
not due, in a great measure to constant toll
in bad air? 1t is true that the immediate
cause Of Watson's death was apoplexy, but
was it not largely due to the inhaling of
black damp? We have heard miners now
employed i'll that mine declare that they have
never worked in mine where the ventilation
was so bad.
The JoURNA understood the Lon
aconing STIR of last week, apparent
ly anticipating the Rerjc~'s charge,
to say
Upon the most reliable information and
authority we contradict the rnmor that the
death of Daniel Watson was caused by bad
air or anything else but natural causes.
Dropping consideration of the sad
fact that Daniel Watson is dead, why
is it that ''miners now employed in
that mine" continue to work where
apoplexy is superinduced by inhala
ton of black damp?
The RecieW answers:
Possessed with tie tcor IF fdjSchaye, they are
atIr,id to complain to the mine officials or the
inspcctor-but they have never seen that
officer
What species of manhood is it that
is afraid of discharge from disease
and death ?
And if they are "afraid to complain
to the inspector" what difference
does it make if they never see him?
Really it is about time the miners of
this region had silenced those who
publish to the world that in this free
country they are us afraid of their
servants us of their employers.
A CUMBERLAN letter to the Bal =
timore 1mericdn states among other
reasons from the Oakland stand point
why no encampment will be held
here that
Col. Wardwell claims Il suitable, healthful
site for an encampment could not he obtained
in Frostburg.
This means, after all, that Oak land
is superior to any town on the planet
for auy display Of the character in-
Jicated.
Indeed, there is probably but one
"unhealthy" feature affecting Oak
land lis IL location for IL military camp.
10 say nothing Of the ''privilege"
of selling "high old wine," that of
vending beer, for instance, would be
bilious, perhaps impracticable, GER
tainly Improbable enterprise over
there.
But for that little difficulty most
likely Frostburg salubrity would
have enjoyed no show in competition
with d summer resort of established
miasmatic reputation, where anodynes
for malarial poison are cOntraband OF
mimic war.
lT will be IL long time before the
public school scheme becomes the
perfect system the people would have.
Even Congress blunders IN legislat-
ing upon the subject so much us to
draw from the Washington star the
fol lnmi