The Florida star., 1902-08-15
COAL STRIKE SCENES.
Aspects and Contrasts In the
Anthracite Fields.
PINE VILLAS OF THE OPERATORS
How the Rich and the Poor Live,
Happy Holidays For the Mine
Mules-Running Mines and Manag-
Ing Miners-An Irish Groom's De-
per of Reckless Strikers.

4hfhcFs-ah GrOOm'9 De-
votfon 10 His EmpIoyer-Bad Tenn
per of Reckless Strikers.
Movement is halted; there is a sense
as of something tremendous always
impending, writes the New York Even.
ing Posts special correspondent at
Shenandoah, Pa. You pass miles and
miles of empty coal cars on the sid
ings; freight yards are choked with
cold and idle locomotives, close
packed. not a man near them. In the
valleys the grimy. black breakers. an
gular. lOpsided structures. high and
huge, having indeed a look of inani-
mate malignancy. squat III eXasperat-
ing patience on great dismal hills of
their own dust and waste. They desc
late the landscape; nothing grows upon
them, and around them everything is
wild. Excepting these culm piles and
the tall. stark breakers there is no
sign OF the method by which the people
in the tawdry villages gain q liveli-
hood. The rest is underground.
Many railroads cut along the hill
sides and send switches down to the
mouths of the pits which the breakers
cover. The other morning. from the
car window, three different roads
Quilt in days of cOmpetitionJ, with
their spurs, were visible from the car
windows as we ran along a mountain
slope, land not a car moving on any
of them. In huckleberry pastures you
saw blue forms, muscular men in un-
soiled jeans STOPPING over the small
bushes with pals and baskets; at sta
uOnS there were numbers of them, 81
lent. but not stolid. and you could see
they We're not. even after three months.
used to loafing. 4 few had changed
their shift" or working clothes for
mufti. and with odd black trunks bear
Ing Hungarian or Italian railway
labels were going to other fields or
home to the old countries.
Twice outside Scranton and Maha-
noy City strikers were seen on the
huge culm piles trying to pick good
coal out of the refuse to carry home to
SELL Nearly all companies have for
hidden this. and those special guards
for mining regions, the coal and iron
police. recruited largely in the tough
places of cities, patrol the properties
and camp within the stockades.
In the midst of these torn valleys
somewhere there is often villa, where
the superintendent of the mines or the
operator or the owner dwells. When
hn iSit
gate, you are in grounds like those
over by Wheatley hills. and around
them is a high fence. shutting out all
sight of the raw brown gasheS and the
drcar. gloomy hills of slate cOlOred
drOSs and leaving only view OF the
tops of the green mountains and the
sky. The fence itself is hidden by
trimmed hedges; the lawns are smooth
Shaven, with numerous sorts of stunt
ed and outlandish trees. poplarS
brought by the owner as souvenirs of
n tour through Lombardy. pines from
FOntainebleau, and n formal garden
suggested by one in England where he
was entertained. The edges of the
walks are as precisely straight as the
edges OF Il square: the walks are
pebbled with small white conglomerate
from the mountains.
The house is covered to the caves
with ivy and hOneysuckle and morning
glory, and Dutch pipes spread their
wide leaves over the veranda trellis
with the regularity of shingles. There
is Il small pine grove carpetcd with
brown needles, rustic seats and places
for hammoCks. The stable is, though
small. us beautiful within as George
Gould's, ut i4akewOOd-bit steels shin
ing in glass wall cases, silver mounted
harnesses cleaning in others and half
a dozen brewster carriages and carts
and ruuabouts and OmnibuScs keeping
fresh and glossy under white sheets.
There are only four hurseS-the opera
tor is an autOmobiliSt-but their stalls
are a delight. They are the last word
in stallmaking Through screen door.
which lets in pure air while keeping
out flies, there is the cow stable. i'm
maculate, its straw Sweeter than no.
tel beds i'm many OF the Caribbees.
And outside are the cows. Jerseys.
pure in breed. wholesome TO look at,
pretty as those painted by Van Marcke,
grazing on velvet lawn. y gate opens
into the golf course. smoothly rolled
closely cropped. with tees for wet
weather and other tees for dry. OAKS
and elms are the hazards. except for
one artificial bunker, which has not
been permitted to put any difficulty In
the way of the links being picture.
They are pretty stiff hazards. The
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