Evening Star Newspaper, August 14, 1927, Page 6

EVEN AGCUSED (OF INCITING RIOT THE SUNDAY_ STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., AUGUST 14, 1927—PART 1. l | | Five Union Miners and Two' Woman Lawyers Cited. Sheriff Fac2s Ouster. Ty th COLUMBUS, Ohio. August 13 wnion miners and two of thel attorneys stand charzed in County Justice Court of in and @ on non wh the Friday. The sty signed he: while they bond each eveland were 145th SR 1 th procee, Hardesty has procured five that Hardesty was eeks throush w miners and however, annourcem Robhin ators on the Clevelar they gardless also collapse of plan to central compe: operators in vt Toled through the ate competitive field no longer exist “The Ohio coal operators hav compelled to come to the that the only way out for them is tc resume tions in their min Robbins n his letter, declin'n to participate in the proposed co! ferenc Their right to do th to employ such labor as they m: oble to securc cannot be denied. Union Held Responsible. Apparently carrying out this polic operators of the Provident mines n sent automobile loads of non-union miners to the mines yesterday. The automobiles returned from the Webb end Florence mines without suffering violence, but a mob of 300 men and women set upon the machine return- ing from the Provi nine and C. V. Nichols, Wheeling, Va, dr.ver, was injured. First steps toward rounding up those charged with the attack were 1aken by Col. Connelly, who reported Gen. Henderson that Sheriff Hardesty was not present when the mssault occurred inasmuch as he had 1.0t been notified of the operators’ in- tention of sending men to the mines. | Col. Connelly announced that he would hold the union officials_respon- kible ar later Prosecutor Waddell brought formal charges against the men and women. While the officials were rounding up the suspected leaders in the a kault, Monroe Mecklin, superintendent of the Provident mine, operated by the Clarkson Mine Co., announced that his company is “determined to vpen the mine” and that it would con- tinue to recruit non-union men to tarry on the work. . Beimont contained | 1 miners and | | | i Five | women | Above—Charles S. Shaffer at the controls of his canal lock with his two fllllllull dogs. Below—Shaffer, with his pigs, no longer a sideline since the canal has been closed. YEAR’S TRAINING CAMPS GET RECORD ATTENDANCE Fort Snelling, Minn, Leads All Others, With 1,922 Canddates MA!. ROBERT FIELD DIES. Retired Army Officer Served in| Philippine Revolt. Maj. Robert Field, U. A., retired, died at the Letterman General Hos- | guardians stin | that moves the massive locks. | busy w CANAL GUARDIANS STILL “STAND BY" C. &. 0. Lockkeepers at Posis, Hoping Ancient Waterway Will Resume. While weeds grow undisturbed in the old Chesapeake and Ohio Canal hie land down to 's ancient P stand Forever hoping that each year will see the reopening of the historic rway, \ dozen grizzled lockkeepers remain at their posts ami now and then pour a little oil on the machinery WV ashington, The machinery is rusted and rot is beginning to eat into the wood of the locks. The towpaths that used to hold mules have become foot- paths along which men have to walk single file. Most of the 184 miles of the canal run through barren and deserted country. Only the old- timers are left to see its degrada- tion. A few years ago the canal was a terway, with boats all along it bringing coal down to Washifgton from the mountains. That was Dhefore the flood of 1923. Today it is just a dry ditch, overgrown with weed its banks caved in In many places, but still guarded by a hand- ful of men and a couple of women who were raised on it and know no o life. Lockkeepers Out of Job. ki are 75 locks between Cum- bherland and Washington. Every one used to have alockkeepe ere n clannish group. hequeathed the job to son and some- times to dnughter. Families built their houses close by the canal and « lock sometimes was tended by the same family for three or four genera- N 3 1 eg : ) L 3-Pc. Overstuffed Living Room Suite tiond, Lockkeepers ralsed their eld- est song to succeed them and put the rest to work on the barges ov driving mylee. They seldom left the canal.” Demand for speedier trans- portation changed all this and then came the flood, It ruined the canal, but not long after the waters went down it was repaired. Then came another flood, more damaging and 1t was announced that tho old water- way would stay closed indefinitely. The canal men began to move awny. Most of them stayed a while, hoping agalnst hope that the canal's owners would change their minds. But as the months passed and tho weeds hegan to sprout thelr hope dwindled and they began to leave. Some went to work at other jobs and others sought their old life in new sur- roundings, Only a Dozen Remain. Today there ave just about a dozen left. These have been pensioned and ve the nominal task of watching v the old locks until the indefinite when they may be put back in There is Charles . § tended the lock near Glen lcho for 25 years last Ma . He was raised on the canal and has been there day in any day out since 1868, which is just 9 yvears. He expects to stay there until he dies. Shaffer has the job of keeping an eye on the old lock, but the old lock will stay there without much ance, and so he is not overworked at that job. Still he is one of the old timers, and he gets a small pension for it. He occupies his time in ralsing pige, and at that occupation he man- ages to supplement his regular income syfficiently to get along comfortably. He lives in a little white house ahout 20 yards from the lock with his wife and daughter and son-in-law. and sin his work he has two very able assist- ants, named Jack and Rough—both canine. Shaffer is proud of his pigs, which he says are the very best pigs around these parts. But, after all, there is not the same romance in pig raising that there is in moving big barges full of coal and grain, and he wants to get back into the transportation end of comme He is hoping the canal will reopen, and hoping hard. So are the rest of them. There ar haffer. who has three more veterans at the seven locks betwoen Cabln John and Great Falls, Charles Spong _keeps the first one, at Cabin John. He has heen there 1§ years. Charles Stewart watches over the fourth, Stewart is probably the oldest timer of the lot in point of werv- ice. His mother used to tend the lock and ,when she dled ho inherited the job. That was when he was a young man, and he is no longer a boy. " Jack Speaker guards the seventh lock. He in no novice, efther. Down neaver Washington {8 Martha King, ono of the woman lockkeepers. Bhe also in- herited her fob. A mile above Chain Bridge is the only lock that still is used. This fs at the outlet of the canal where it emptles into the river, and William J. Penner's job I8 to keep the water in the canal level with the water in the river. He has been on his joh ainco the flood four years ago, al- though a veteran riverman, having worked on the, canal for about 30 years. He also has a job dolng con- struction work on the river at George- town. With Penner lives his brother, Isnac ¥. Penner, another canal man, temporarily idle. Will Talk of “Grand 0ld Days.” All of these old lockkeepers will tell you about the grand days when the canal was packed with boats from Cumberland to Washington, with others waiting to get in. If you stood on any lock, they say, and looked up and down the canal you could see as many as 15 loaded boats and 15 empt ones. Penner once counted 792 boats in 15 days. They stretched all the way from Chain Bridge down to the Aqueduct_Bridge. ‘When George Washington helped to survey the land for the canal it was thought it would be the main artery of traffic between the West and the sea. Time changed all this, but for a long time the canal carried its full burden of freight. Gradually, how v n to eat into ag five yvears ago it was doing carrying busines: el g His Troubles. From Life. Terry—"“What are ypu looking sc bored and mournful about?” Jer ome friends of my wife are planning a pleasant surprise for me tonigh THE WRIGHT CO. U FOREIGN STUDENTS END WEEK'S STAY| First Group to Visit U. S. 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