The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-07-20

people who visit it will take stock in its pre-
dicted greatness. A HERALD reporter visited
the town yesterday and found everybody
complaining of poor working time and no
money and when queries as to the prospects
the answers were invariably prefxcd with
IF what they say is true"
The grumblings about hard times are no
without some cause, especially on the part OF
the mine employees and the business people,
as all of the operations of the Union Coal
Company are at a complete standstill and it
is upon these collieries that the town of Mt
Carmel depends upon mainly for support
The suspension of the Pennsylvania colliery,
which employs 1O7l men and boys, is con
sidered especially oppressive.
Pennsylvania colliery was visited yesterday
afternoon at time when several prominent
mine officials were engaged in consulting on
the best means for extinguishing the fire at
the mine. Among those in consultation were
w. II. Strong of Erie, president of the Union
Coal company, John l.. Williams, general
manager for the company in the Shamokin
md Mt. Carmel district, Superintendent vii
liam H. Lewis of VIM, Penn, and Mine In
spector Brennan, of Sbamokin.
Manager Williams told the reporter thai
the fire had been confined to the breast in
which it started and by the aid of a per
manent dam and a borehOle by which water
would be introduced iuto the burning place
the fire would be extinguished within a few
hours and the colliery will resume operations
next Monday morning. "The worst is over
nUw," said Mr.. Williams "and the colliery
will start again on Monday"
Pennsylvania colliery is located "qaite
little step from Mt, Carmel. With good
going horse it can be reached in about twenty
minutes About five minutes walk beyond
the colliery and in one of the most lonesome
spots that could have been sele ted is the
Union Coal Company's store house, two
story brick structure, which seems to have
been built to stay. In this building are stored
all the iron steel, pipes steam fittings, cotton,
oil, tools, &c, which are required at the com
pany's collieries. This store house is in
charge of Purchasing Agent w. Kriner
who was employed at the p. & r. c. & I. Co.'S
offices in Potts Vile for thirteen years. Mr.
Kriner is assisted by Thomas Sanger, lately
of this town and who formerly held a position
at the Lehigh Valley depot at Delano All
the materials that are received at and sent
from this store house are carefully weighed
and counted, aud it is hardly possible hat a
nail would pass in and out of the place and
a . ha Int ~.
things down TO such a fine systematic basis.
Just after one crosses the Northern Central
railroad tracks near the Green Ridge pos. office
which, by the way, consists of a parttiOned
soap box in the front room of story and
a-half shanty the Black Diamond colliery is
in view. This place is operated by Major
Phillips and he is said to be making money.
The reporter wal unothcially informed that
the colliery may pass into the hands of the
Union Coal Company in the near future 1t
is said,sO far as Major Phillips is concerned,
"Barkis is willin'."
Near the Black Diamond colliery there
flows a tempting creek to which there hangs
a tale which will bear repeating. Phila
delphia dude who was visiting friends at
Mt Carmel few weeks ago borrowed some
fishing tackle from friend and sat on one Of
the banks of the aforesaid creek from half
past ten in the NOR ing until nearly three
O'Clock in the afternoon, with his line and
hook dangling in the water. He returned to
Mt. Carmel and declared that he didn't get a
''danged bite" The Green Ridge residents
could have told the dude it was sulphur
creek, but hey enjoyed the sport too well to
disturb the lonely fisherman.
Many of the people who live at Green
Ridge say they have but one objection to the
place. A row Of houses in the best part of the
patch is occupied exclusively by Italians
John Williams, lately a resident of shenan.
doah, occupies house in this patch.
One finds little more life in Mt Carmel
han in the suburbs at the present time. Were
it not for the meeting of the former residents
would be big temptation to the visitors.
John d, Reilly, formerly employed in
freight department Of the P. & X. depot here,
now has charge of the Lehigh Valley depot
at Mt Carmel, and Wal McGuinness taps the
telegraph keys there. They give Shenandoah
people hearty welcome and are very cour-
teous in their treatment of them.
Lewis Evans, formerly assistant inside fore.
man at Ellangowan, Meshack Howard, Owen
B. and David Williams, William and Samuel
WrSgg, Samuel Roberts, Samuel Rogers,
Charles Powell and Samuel Jones are among