The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-07-23
They Were Successful In Passing th9 Mine
FOreman'S Examination.
SEVEN PASSED AS ASSISTANTS
Only Four Applicants Failed to Secure
the Proper Percentage-Names of
the Successful Candidates - The
Thirty Questions That me Applicants
We're Required to Answer-Deal
with All Phases of Nine Work.

was conducted IN the comm jn council
chamber of the municipal building, by
The board of examiners Of the Second
Anthracite district. The board con-
sists of James Young. supsrinten dent
OF the Dunmore mines of the Pennsyl.
vania Coal company; Philip Mulderig,
of Minooka; Benjamin Grifiths. of
the West Side, and Mine Inspector
Patrick Blewitt
The law OF Pennsylvania requires that
those having charge of mines, either
as foreman or assistant foreman, must
pass an examination before the board
of examiners of the district. The mem
bers of the board are appointed by the
governor and with the mine inspector
are expected to prepare annually a set
OF examination papers for the benefit Of
enterprising miners desirous of becom-
ing foremen.
The examination held on July 10 aud
II was a successful one for the miners,
eleven of tGem receiving mins.tore-
mans certificates and seven certificates
as assistant mine foremen. There were
hut four applicants who failed to pIss.
ApRtniSu 10 bue liS' VI udluCo VI luOSo
who will be recommended for fore
mans certificates
THE SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES.
John Connolly. Reese Thomas Isaa C
Watkins, Thomas F. Jones. Howell
G. Reese, Francis & Reese, Francis Z
Cosgrova, Alfred Powell, Edmund d.
Wis, John T. Davis, David A. Jones and
Robert E. Owens.
The following will receive certificates
IS assistants: Charles Haiusworth
Edward E. Davies Evan Walters, John
Deveraux Frank Campbell, Daniel
Matthias and Lewis P. Davies.
There were thirty questions given. A
complete answer to the first entitled an
applicant to twenty points; the remain.
ing twenty.nine were rated at ten points
each, providing correct solution was
given 10 each one, or, more properly
speaking, ten points was marked down
for every correct answer to any one Of
the twenty-nine. Then il the solution
did not warrant any more than three
points, that number would be credited
to the applicant, and from that to five
and eight points.
Each applicant was required to make
a total OF s. per cent to 90 successful /;
that is, there were total of $40 points
in the list of questions and they must
receive 264 points, If the applicant
fell below S5 per cent and made 60 per
cent, whicA would be 1885 points, he
was entitled to an assistants certifi-
cate.
The board finished looking over the
papers on Saturday and the percent
ages Of each applicant will be for
warded to the stale department at Har
rishurg. AS soon as the certificates
arrive the board Of examiners will give
notice through THE TRIBUNE. The
following is u list of the questions:
QUESTIONS PUT TO APPLICANTS
Give your experience in the anthr acite
coaI mines of Pennsylvania.
What are the duties of mine foreman
under the mine laws?
What are the conditions necessary to
| produce ventilation without any mechani-
| cal appliances?
Describe the best grade on hauling road
|
far the rails on lht to be from the ribs, etc
viii air dIffuse with or dilute an ac
cumulation 6f fire damp quicker than an
equal accumulation Of black damp? Give
reasons in full?
Give the plan or system of ventilation
adopted in some mine at which you have
worked, and state the difficulties that may
| be encountere when final robbing takes
place to maintain the ventilation.
In mines where fire is liable to occur
what precautionary measures would you
adopt in your system or plan of ventila
tion so as to guard against serious acci-
| dent to life or property?
State fully how you would use the safety
lamps in testing gas, and under what cir
cumstances it is unsafe
State the law regarding shaft sinking.
Your main entry from bottom of second
shaft runs due north 8, 900 feet; a cross GU
is started due east at distance of 200 feel
from the face and driven 2,465 feet. Wha
length of roadway started 2jO feet from
shaft will be required to connect with the
face Of the cross entry?
How would you establish ventilatinl
current before sinking an escapemen
shaft, and what method do you consider
| best?
II three-horse power passes 49, QUO cubi
feet of air per minute, what horse power
would be required to double the quantity
| The belt pulley on fan shaft is 3 fee
G inches in diameter; the belt wheel on al
engine is feet inches in diameter; thu
large wheel Is revolving at the rate Of x
revolutions per minute. How many revo
lutions Is the fan making per minute?
With water gauge of six-tenths of al
inch the quantity of air passing is "a, 0OC
cubic feet what water guage will be ro
quired to pass 49, 600 cubic feet?
What should mainly be observed by
mine foreman when he takes charge Of
mine?
What are the necessary precautions II
order to prevent accidents from falls O
coal and roof
PRECAUTI oNS CONCERNING AIR
What precautions are necessary in ordel
to maintain good current of air in all tn
working parts of coal mines?
II you were sinking shaft from on
vein to another, the mines working OIL
coal in the day and sinking at night, ex
plain how you would dump the materia
from bucket with safety to the men work
ing at the bottom, the rock to go in the oil,
workings; also explain how you woult
| connect Jne wires 10 make blast OF sew
eral holes at one time, and where woul,
you make the last connection 80 as to b.
safe all aroundS Explain fully.
A gangway is driven on pitch Of de
grees, 10 feetjwide, 9 feet high. and a cur
rent OF Is, 00O cubic feet Of air is passin,
per minute thus Keeping the place fre
from gas: II the width Of the gangwa,
was increased to 1S feet wide what effec
would it have on the air with the sam
amount passing per minute, and would 1
keep the place free from gasp II not, why
Explain fully.
II you were retimbering a shaft, hov
and where would you commence, the shat
being entake and mp cast, with gas to con
tend with, the hrattice and cribbng to b
renewedS Explain iully.
If you had old workings above you
shaft level to be filled with culm, hoy
would you do it, if the faces were so fee
perpendicular above bottom OF shaft an,
no chance for bore hole, pitch Of oil
workings Is degress2
Is there any difference between endles