The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-24

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Black Hollow is abandoned now not
because the coal supply beneath It's
surface is exhausted, but because OF
the disaster that has sooner or later
come upon every enterprise started IN
the valley
But Black Hollow, though never an
inviting place, was at one time re-
garded as the most promising, If not
the most prosperous. of all the anthra-
cite coal fields in Pennsylvania. Just
after the war. when wages We're high,
the place was i'm the first flush of sue
cess. Then Black Hollow had four
hundred miners cabins and boarding
houses. all fun: and it felt proud of it's
square, unpainted. frame hotel and of
the great rambling store of the com
pany-two places that absorbed most
of the earnings of the miners.
The hotel was known as the Lu2erne
House, though there was no sign to in
dicate the name The house was very
popular because of the genial manner
of the horid, rotund landlord, Peter
Grier, and-some thought-because Of
his daughter Kate.
When Peter Grier's wife died. every
one who knew him wondered why, in
stead Of hiring a housekeeper, he did
not take Kate from the seminary at
Bethlehem and give her charge of the
establishment. In reply to this the
landlord would say:
Il hope to leave the child a little
money. | am not educated. more's the
pity. but Kate shall be. ! want her to
learn how to be happy and to make
others happy"
In accordance with this admirable
plan, Kate Grier was kept at he SEM
mary till she was past nineteen. when
she came home to Black Hollow with
a diploma, the respect of her teachers
and the love of her classmates.
pete is givin' that gal too much
schuolin'. She'll come back to Black
Hollow too stuck up to know her
neighbors, and with more airs than a
prize nlly at a county fair" That is
what the rural Solons. who supplied
the miners with vegetables and dairy
products. prophesied; and to do them
Justice, they were amongst the first to
ACKNOWLEDGE they had erred-as to
Kate Grier.
When the girl took I'M her permanent
residence at tho I.uyerna uo,ise tho &C
tahlishment CHANGED IT'S character
She induced her father to paint the
dun gray extension. NOT white hIt =
color that gave a warm gIoyv to tba
dreary settino. without beine i'm dis
cord with if. The hopsa bararn,. - sbn,,,
place for the bare-Iapsad -baa,ad
children. who na,a,. ,.aa,,iad nf Iis,,,,
ing to the cana,ies i'm tba sitting-roo,,
and adniriug the hIossorniro, ulants In
the principal window
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chanical engineer
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