The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-12-08
WOMEN SEIZE 4 coal NINE.
Six Of Them Discovered I'm = Profitable
Undertaking. Underground.

HAzLRToS, Pa, Dec Women coal
miners are not unknown in the anthracite
region of Pennsylvania but that women
undertook prospecting work also and con
Quoted IL successfully was learned only
a few days ago. Tn discovery was made
when six women were arraigned before
Alderman Fallon on a charge of taking
coal from the strippings without a permit.
The approach Of cold weather invariably
witnesses much activity about the ahan-
doned stripping holes and culm hanks
of the hard coal mining bell. The old
men. women. boys and girls a~sen,h'"
daily TO gather a supply Of coal for winter.
About the culm banks greater freedom
IL enjoyed by the coal pickers than IN Thee
strpptngs. The latter offer the eaSI".
though the more dangerous. method o.
securing the required supply Perhar'
il IL TO prevent accidents 10 the pickers thai
the companies instruct the Coal and Iron
Police to permit no picking In these hoe,
As il Is accidents are not infrequent
When Police Captain Joseph Hsmptoo
came to one Of the stripping holes tie
other day, he saw signs of eItensive busi-
ness there though no one was visible
Going into the trench he soon found some
thing doing in a drift which had been
opened near the basin OF the trench
He CROPPED his way I the opening
for some distance and saw lights whiDN,
convinced hin, that some one wa al work
After listening TO the swish OF the PICS
and the thud Of the drill he thought ma.
probably the company had sent some mlh"i-
10 the place to look for a lost vein. Then
he heard voice Of women.
He pushed on and came upon the 81
.nnnap who ware arrested. lnet NhTh
foreigners and were digging out the Goa
lust like men miners.
The stripping usually exposes the vii.
or what is left Of 1t. In some plnces the
Of the mine proper. have not been rem"v"a
and In such cases most excellent coal ."
available for the pickerS.
Since it's removal In regarded as too nan
eerous an operation for the experience
miners employed by the company, u can
readily bs UNDERWOOD that for women 70
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