Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-08
Miners Homes Like
Those in the Cities

Continued From Page One
All the union mines in these counties.
as in this western district, are lying
idle and empty with no indication of
resuming.
/ was accompanied ON the trip by
( General Manager H. 7. Bookcr, of
the Hillman Coal and Coke Co. II"
! was born and raised in the soft-roal
fountry and has risen through all the
! ndeS of mine employment to his pres
- responsible position
- Many Mining Towns Visited
4 We swung around in o circle, visit
ing mines and mining towns on both
sides the Nonongahcla The car car
ried us through Library, where Mont
ton No. 10 is located; Fiuleyvilc and
the mines Of the Fayctte Mining Co.
and Pittsburgh Coal Co.. MouongIhela
City, Charleroi and the Carnegie Coal
Co. and Warren Leonard Co. : prop
critics: Bellevernon aud the Pittsburgh
and the Hilman Coal Co. S workings !;
Webster. Elizabeth. in whose vicinity
all the Pittsburgh and Diamond mines
and then the Naomi mine of the HILL
man Co. at Fair Hope.
The definite feature of the trip was
.rthe prevalent impression that today or
Monday Mt the latest would see n
change in the strike situation, and
that within week all the mines would
be in operation again There was no
definite reason assigned for this belief,
but both mine officials and men with
Wnoiii l taIked seemed InApuru NIL NIL
Tue luea thaI tne tnu " WY , -, Inv. m,
\ was at haha, .thtl rerhal'S the "''' ""S
- " Wv ,l','~ .., t.,,,
..connopr borsss' thcy nre calIrI. Yrc
~ sterotynod nattern The same kind
of grav rod or s1ate-coIorod frame
DWELLINGS that for the last fifty wears
hana heop ranged in serried rows along
rnine vilioge streets and tboroughfares
in the vicinity of coal mines. In Eng
land and in the district of the great
slate 0uarries of Wales these homes
are Of rough hewn stone. ranged side
by side. There is no Ornamentation to
them. Like New England spinster OF
Uncle Toms days they are straight
up and down. All of them are OF
two story construction, WITH Il, Kitchen
tackled on III the rear rive rooms II
AL; ,.,-.....
But II they are prlm ana GhattraGIiE'
they nave other colnpehSaIlonS' fa'i
house has ITS garden attachrd. IN III
the trip did not see hfty evenings o,
COMPANY construction that did MOI
nave their gatden ana ~ per I'M :"
sne,' hIu Tpei GGaiiruV'a d .' aSo ,u1 WON,
mer. Ducks, chickens ana geese Werl
as pientlrul as Woulg De loutu aroun' t
any small iari1er ; nome "l'lllh lofty
miles or fhlladeI,hla' 81 ,;a,.,
10 theS nave any COWS ana PlES
inquired OF mine oncia' Ut "il
nope
Plenty of Cows and Pigs
s.See that fieldY" he replied laconic,
( alIy. pointing to a forty acre stretCl
ol sloping nll'siue !" VIII" -" ''"'
fDrbose are miners COWS. In tn,
spring and summer we have as high as
seventy Ave to eighty COWS pastured ii
that field and the one adjoining. All be
long to our men. We charge them
twenty five cents a week pasturage.'
In a hack Garden ar the Naomi min,
400 Mound hog Law in mass of ashes
,Tv,o bnskv SIaVs were screaming il will
butcher knives removing the hair.
,,,.,, - "a - ,ouuo
NnE uon S1u ~ III a.. bai. 20 -,
" nos Mas u - ''
pns s.No " 'no,' mot horroi This ,rav fine
~ so' D.. I,,a ""S ,rhn,
aIoo u" ,Nrorioor man pot Lnnv
~ =. = az
nt hod s;rood +bo b.ir hy brild.
fre Of rye straw around and nm
Ssr II
e.IJow many Of vour men own tbeil
hor,aYS o." asked tho snnerintend
ent ~ tbe Patterson mine.
ls.Sbont - per cent. They buy s
a q -