Evening Star Newspaper, June 7, 1931, Page 108

ICTURES AP i, SURBGESE BQOM THE DAYS WHEN MAN FIRST LEARNED To MAKE FIRE- UNTIL COMPARATIVELY RECENT TIMES, THE FIRES OF HOME AND> INDUSTRY WERE FED> ONLY WITH Woop.~ THEN MAN DISCOVERED> A NEW FUEL THAT WAS DESTINED TOUSHER IN THE AGE OF STEBL .« THIS'NEW “FUEL was COAL . CENTURIES AGO MEN HAD DISCOVERED COAL , HAD EXPERI- MENTED WITH IT AND USED 1T To SOME EXTENT, BuT IT DID> NOT COME" INTO GENERAL LISE- UNTIL THE PROPER METHOD> OF BURNING: 1T HAD BEEN FOLIND>. (Copyzight, 1931, by J. Carroll Mansfield) e MAQqusrrs FAMOUS FRENCH JESUIT MISSIONARY AND EXPLORER., DISCOVERED COAL DEPOSITS IN AMERICA IN 16T3. ANTHRACITE COAL WAS FIRST FOUND IN RHODE ISLAND INLTEO ¢ ¢ o o 2 o o = o IN 1800 PEOPLE EVERYWHERE SCOFFED AT THE IDEA OF USING COAL FOR HEATING . TROMAN SOLDIERS , INVADING THE ISLAND OF BRITAIN IN 54 3.C., WERE AMAZED TO SEE SOME OF THE INHABITANTS USING “BLACK ROCKS" FOR FUEL. . Brrummous COAL WAS DISCOVERED NEAR RICHMOND VIRGINIA IN 1702, | BUT MINES WERE NOT OPENED ON THE SPOT UNTIL 1750.THESE MINES WERE THE FIRST IN THE LINITED STATES. MEN WHO TRIED TO SELL THE "BLACK STONES" FOR FUEL WERE EVEN THREATENED WITH Marco PoLo, FamMous VENETIAN TRAVELER,SAW COAL USED IN SOME PARTS OF CHINA IN 1275, WHERE ITIS CLAIMED TO HAVE- BEEN USED BEFORE THE TIME- oF CHRIST ., IN 1790 A GREAT COAL FIELD WAS ACCIDENTALLY DISCOVERED IN PENN- SYLVANIA BY A HUNTER WHO HAD BUILT HIS CAMPFIRE UNDER AN OUTCROPPING LEPGE OF COAL . THE FEW WHO BRAVED RIDICULE AND> BOuGHT COAL HAD Dlr-FccuLTY MAKING /‘/ _THIS WAS BECAUSE THE /_/ FIREPLACES OF THAT DAY 7/~ WERE NoT ADAPTED FOR 'ACTS Asour CHINA. AREA: 4,277,170 SQUARE MILES. POPULATION: 400,800,000 (esTimaTer>-1920) CAPITAL : NANKING. POPULATION 390,000. OLD CAPITAL, PEIPING(PEKIN) - POPULATION -~ 1,300,000 CHIEF EXPORTS — TEA, SILK , BEANS ,EGGS COTTON,TIN, FURS,WoOL, MEDICINES, PEANUTS AND CEREALS A LITTLE COAL WAS USED IN EUROPE DURING THE MIDDLE AGES, BUT MOST PEOPLE OF THAT DAY HAD NEVER HEARD OF COAL OR THATIT woulLp BURNAND GVEHEAT ¢ « ¢ o oo -FOR YEARS A FEW BLAGKSMITHS ~ - stE‘mE ONLY USERS , yiog *EVERYONE ELSE USED WOOD, WHICK WAS PLENTIFLIL AND CHEAP, Some~ ENTERPRISING MEN TRIED TOGET THE PUBLIC TO USE COAL FOR HEATING HMOMES BUT WITHOUT MUCH SIICCESS o Ouven EVANS OF PHILADELPHIA, NOTED FOR HIS PIONEER WORK WITH STEAM POWER , 1S SAID TO HAVE FIRST BURNED COAL.IN A GRATE-. BURNING COAL, BUT THE DISGUSTED USERS BLAMED THE COAL ITSELF. ARREST FOR FRAUD . . . . . IN18O3 .. .... .70 8 coNnmINUED:,