The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1913-09-17
Miners Field
Day.

CNPsSicSi ~ oe tht NutiOuQi
Conservation Exposition has
been completed and there is
every indication that the crowd
on that day will be one of the
largest of any of the big expo
sition days. William b. Will
son, Secretary of Labor in the
cabinet of President Woodrow
Wilson, and Miss Mabel Board
man, president of the Red Cross
Society, will be the honored
guests on the occasion. Twon-
ty five thousand miners and the
members of their families are
expected To be i'll Knoxville for
the day. They will come from
all purts of the South.
The program as arranged
starts the fun at o'clock in
the afternoon with review of
the contrasting mining teams
by Secretary Wilson, Miss
Boardman, President Wright
of the exposition and members
of the executive committee. At
l.3O o'clock the first aid con-
tests open To teams in the South
ern Appalachian states will be-
gin. These contests will @
spectacular an d interesting.
All of the twenty three teams
entered have been trained for
this event by experts from the
| United States Bureau OF Mines
and will work under the strict
est of rules.
During the afternoon there
will be n demonstration of the
effect of carbon monoxide gas
on canary birds and small ami
mails. At p. m. the shot that
will cause an explosion of coal
dust in the big steel tube of the
Bureau of Mines will be fired.
AT 40 p. III. Secretary Wilson
will present the prizes to the
winning teams and will make n
short address. Other addresses
will b @ made by Governor
Hooper Of Tennessee, Miss
Mabel Boardmnn and III. NJ.
Wilson of the Bureau of Mines.
Following are the different
teams entered with the captains
of each:
Roane Iron Company, Rock
wood. Tenn, w. IL. Mills. Cap
tain; Minersville Coal Compa
ny, pless, Tenn, w. T.. Wilkes,
captain; Coal Creek Coal Com
pnny, Coal Greek Tenn, w. d.
Henderson, captain; Knoxville,
Iron Company ,Briceville, Tenn. !,
John Nj. Wood, captain; Pied
mont Coal Company, Oliver
Springs, Tenn. George Vinsant
captain; Standard Jellico Coal
Company, Clarified, Tenn, |.
Il. Eager, captain. Westbourne
Coal Company, Wcstbourne,
Tenn, Richard Rigsby, captain (:
Tennessee Coai. Iron 81 Rail
way Company, Whitwell Tenn. q,
John w. Smith, captain; The
Virginif. Lee Company, st.
| Charles; Va, j. g. Martin, cap
taiL; Wisconsin Steel Company q,
Benham, KY, Il. X. Johnson,
captain; Stonega Coke & Coal
G I'm pany, Imboden, Va,
George Snodgrass, captain;
| Continental Coal Corporation,
Pineville, Ky, William Taulber
captain; Stonega Coal x Coke
Company, Big Stone Gap, Va.
William Simpson, captain, Wi =
cnnsin Steel Company, Benham
Ky. Alem Patterson, captain
Stearns Coal Company, Stearns,
KY, George Humble, captain;
Roane Iron Company, Rock
wood, Tenn, w. II. Richards,
captain; Ducktown Cope r
Company, Ducktown, Tenn.
Edward Roberts, captain; Jelli-
co Coal Mining Co IN pan y,
Mountain Ash, Ky, Sam Marsh
captain; Tennessee Coal Com
pany. Briceviiie, Tenn, Harry
Il. Smith, captain; Coal Creek
Coal Company, Coal Greek,
Tenn, j. l.. Jones, captain.
In most of the mining towns
the day will be a holiday. Many
of the mines will pay off their
men on Friday so that they
may come to Knoxville for the
big day.