The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-10-06

Hh1A& a. the train swept akOQ8 l06
west Virginia shore Of Tug river.
the water boundary between the
coal fields gof West Virginia and
,eastern kentucky. and the scoEs
Of the famous Hatfield Mccoy fena
Of other days, patriarchial noun
taineer stood in the bow Of a rude
John boat with 9 smear poised to
strike. Oyer the boats bow was
suspended an iron fire basket and
the bright flame from burning pine
knots Jared over the clear shallow
water Of the river revealing the
fish to the man with the "fiz -gig. y
The train roared into the dark
ness az the narrow valley before
the snearman struck The natri-
arch with the poised gig remained
a mental picture of the survival Ot
the old life of the wilderness in a
period in which mine bosses In
fhaki concrete coal tinples. cleo
trio lights in mountain shacks. gas
oline filling stations and public ga
RACES in villages struggling on
mountainsides. silk stockings and
! fashionably cut skirts worn BY
wives and daughters of Italians
Croats Sloyenes and Serbtahs
working in Kentucky mines marx
the transition Of This region from its
former primitive state
Tbrouehont the coal and oil
fields 81 Kentucky there are every.
where striking evidences OF
change. In the great coal camps
model homes for miners compare
favorably with the latest modern
tenements in progressive American
cities. Within a few miles of these
1 trig little cities made by powerful
corporations to house their armies
! of foreign and native coal diggers
whose language is polyglot and
whose American slang il as up-to
date as the gowns and hats worn
by their wcmenfolk- one alights
flights" is the local term.from =
mnle before a log cabin He hears
Elizabethan English deteriorat-
ed from Iono uSo wbere schools
ara few and noor snoLen bv MON
and women n the unrest Anglo
SAXON lI,od altbourh This blood
has suffered INSTRUMENTATION NV rea-
son of comn,eto ;sol.tion If cians
s;rce thu mount,ins were settled
nv nioneers from virginia "who,,e
wagons broke down in the mour
tains" Iuckier travellers reachc,
the Bluegrass with the result that
their descendants inherited tine
land and the fatness thereof
A. Tvnch where tho ground
Aoor of the comnanv hote, ;s SOG
feet above 500 leval and The cres,
of the mountains within sight n,
the hotel yeranda ia 1000 feet 4
single coal tinnle said tn he tbf
largest in the world has a capacit,
of IL 0frt, tons a day.
Hero until a fow vears apo was
wilderness and silence Nowadays
there is a small citv boasting itsell
a model of sanitary arrangement
The limited States Coal and Coke
comnany. a branch of the limited
States Steel corporation. lodges
miners. and as a courtesy tran
sients not engaged in mining in a
hotel as we'll equipped as a small
summer resort in the North Caro-
lima mountains.
The company department store
compares with the best establish.
ment in any American city Of 200.
GOO in appearance. fixtures and
stock. Its basement includes =
model meat market and cold stor.
age plant in which the miners
wives do their table shopping
City Merchandising Advantages.
In This mercantile establishment
a vounp miner NAV cit at a tahI,
in the mezannine floor of the drus
store as smart as anv on f stree
lin Washington eating ices az,
cakes with his chest eirl" or .,
into the clothing department an,