The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1913-08-08
PICTURES
Showing Mining Meth
DDS Attract a Large
Crowds at Vivian

been arranged b. fhe III. @. Fr.c< Coke
Company, ~rh-idiary Of the United
Stairs Sts-I q ,rsorst'on, AMI which wss
recently given at ti..- mines &c the United
Ststrs Cnsl and C..ke Company ut Gary.
WAS shown at Vivian. W. Va on Tue,-
day evening O. az i-ast tweiv- hnairesi {.
fifteen hundrpd interested s.s~rstors AZ
ter the show had heen given a the mine
in and sronnd Gary, il ws- turned over
to Mr.. Lawson Bleukinshsp, State Mine
Inspector of the llth District, for use in
the Pocahontss field At the opening o.
the shox, Mr.. Blenkin-opp made a lev
remarks ds<crihine the nature of the
show, in which he stated that it was Eos
the sole purpose of preventing accidsnfs
in and sround coal mines. The idea wss
frt conceived by Mr. Thomas winch.
President Of tie United States Coal sna
Coke Company and all other suhsidiar,
coal companies of the United States St~
Corporation, excepting one Mr. Lynch
10 known throughout the mining worl.
- . great advocste of safety and santa
ton Of mines and mining towns All Of
the coal mines under his jurisdiction pro
duce more than half ~ much coal as the
gress state of West Virginia, and not
w.thstanding the fact that this coal H.
mined largely from shaft and slope mine
some OF which are very deep and very
gaseous. the number of men killed per
million tons OF coal mined is much below
that Of the state Of West Virginia, the
United STATES or any other mining coun-
try 1hese results khave been brought
shout by constant vigilance. strict appli-
cation and the adoption OF every known
safety device for the inside. the outside,
and aronnd the mines They have disoo-
vered that Ia be su~cessiul in preventing
Q large number Of mining arcidents, it is
necessary to have the cooper 'ti"n Of eve
~ working man or hoy who works lea or
srsaHnd the mines and they are exhibiting
49, Psctus -, showing th~ 1proper Way
- pefform the dangerous operations in
coal mines and the fatal resElts Of care
lessness on the part OF " ,rkmsn, in hope
Of further interesting him. make him
more careful and thereby further reduce
the number Of sccidents, both fatal and
non-fstal. After Mr.. Lynch had tho
roughly thought the scope which ne
wished TO cover with these pictnres, he
turned the matter over 10 Messrs- w. II.
Clineerman, Gen. Snpt.. j. y. X. Miller
Chief Engineer and Austin King, Chief
Mine Inspector, all of the II G.. Prick
Coke Company, for de~elopeDent- Mr..
King Mas given full charge Of the deve-
lop~nent and spent the better part "f a
year in thousands of pictures Of vari
accidents - they happened. sham soci-
des.ts and conditions where accident-
had occurred previous to the time he 10
gan this work. After the selection o
the pietures to be shown, they were ex-l
hibited at ali the mines e the H. Frick
Coke Company, iscated i'm we-tn,oreland
and Fsyette counties. Penn, including
the towns Of Connellsville, scotsiaie, III.
Pleasant and Uniontown; also at the
mines vi the National Mining Company.
in Aliegheney county, Pa; in Pittsburgh
for the benefit Of the Mining Institute;
at the mines OF the United states Coal 4
Coke Company, thence to Vivian, and
they will he given in WEIGH for the len
efit Of the miners and mine operators on |
Wednesday night and then sate en- to In |
diana and Illinois % be exhibited at the |
mines there, after which they will BE- re-
arranged with some moving pictures that
are now being made by the United Ststsr
Coal and Coke Company. Thee moving
pictures will show the various Operations
Of each occupation inside aud outside OF
the mines and will be shown again over
the same ground for the purpo-e Of inn
pressing upon the workman the Necessity
Of mailing safety the first consideration.
Photographers from the Government
Bure-n Of Mine-, Department of the In
terror are doing this work, and IL = be
ing done very thoroughly. We expect ia
IL b<ing done very thoroughly. We ex-
pect they will IL of great benefit to the
conservation of life and from an econo-
mic standpoint.
The FIRST slids shown ws- safety
First, the slogan q the United state-
STEEL Corporation: . photograph Of Tho-
Lynch, President of the subsidiary coal
companies II tie United states st~el cor
porsfion; q report of the fatal sccidcnts
of the IA. g Prick Coke Company for
the years 1910. 1911 and 1912 a. well a.
. comparison Of the fatal sccident- be
tween Scotland, South Wsle- and all Of
Great Britain and the N G.. frick Coke
Company which showed a. follows:
Deaths p~r million tons of cosl prodnced
for the yesr 1912: Scotland $50; south
Wals 6.5z; all OF Crest Britain q 50;
II. @. Friek Coke Company J -. Tons
Of coal prodoced PER fatal accident Scot
lsnd ~, 90; south Wales l53.OpO. ell
of Great Britain z4s. s.O0; n O Prick Ook
Company 5si.3e4. Deaths BY falls per
million tons mined: scotland l.ss. :.
W-l~s ~. eli Of tisest Britain 2.O0 "A
G Frsck Coke Company 10
r. "A Il Ersck O.ke Oomnauv n~ou3u