New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 15, 1926, Page 11

WILLMORS 20% DISCOUNT JANUARY SALE Our 20% Discount January Sale con- tinues to be the talk of Hartford and sur- rounding towns, it enables everybody to buy GOOD FURNITURE at a BONA No marking up for the purpose of marking down but a genuine reduction of 20% from our al- FIDE REDUCTION, ready LOW PRICES. BUY NOW and PAY LATER Railroad fares allowed to Out-of-Town Customers. WILLMORS 1108-1116 MAIN ST, The store with a white front near Trumbull St. Where Quality Tells and Price Sells COAL JISTRICTS : Authracite Section Itsell Hit' Harder Than New England | With the extremely eold weather of the past fow days New Britain| people as they watch thelr supply| of coal diminish in the bins turn to | the question of future supply with | . #ome [jttle concern. But even so New Dritain #nd other New Fngland | towns little realize just what the ke means in that section of ennsylvania where anthracite coal is produced, The inconvenlenc of accepting| some less desirable substitute, such as threesquarters of a ton of soft| coal with & quarter of a ton of an- thraclte er a mixture equivalent to this, 13 probably the worst harm the strike may do New Britain, gince local dealers report plenty of | substitutes on hand so that even a| railroad tie-up will not shut off the supply for five or six weeks, But in the home of the anthra-| elte minerg the pinch of the etrike is being felt. Strikes in that section ' licfore . have beem in the summer | and the sujering hhs been corres- pondingly Jess, Men have not worked since {he strike was called more than fous‘menths ago. Savings have been swept away in most cases, and many men, forced to seek a living elsewhere have temporarily left their | lomes and gone to other parts of the | eountry, 1 Soup Kitchens Opened, | Towns which never before have | felt the need of such extreme relief | measures have opened soup kiteh- | te feed the hungry wives and nildren, Smaller grocery stores have sed their doors. In other cases tie “book system” threatens to bunkrupt che large-hearted m wio gives unlymited credit when he kiows it will take a struggle of yrurs to pay the biil, With the mem- aiv of the strike of 1902 =till fresh in the minds of many, when hun- idreds of merchants were forced out ) busin of losses Eus- tained nding unlimited credit to striking mine workers, merchants today are ‘reluctant to repeat the story. The fuel question also presents a far different problem in the mining The houses are heated entire- and in the majority of all the cooking is done on coal d wood is an unknown nd g ranges are not nearly as universal as in ether secc- | tions. anse No Coal Available. hers is coal, of course, but not available, These towns, with the ex- ion ¢ few of the arger cities have no coal dealers, During normal tines coal is purchased dircet from the mines and delivered by “coal haulers” with trucks or teams, who { & rcasonable fee for their serv- fers. A strike immediatel huts off the source of suppl coal is not available; the only place where it is ge 0 is on railway locomotives going through the towns and villages. towns | itskirts” of thes virtuatly small | 150, coal 1 all that has been To th go many women carefully and mo of coal, dust, rock slate a dis ded as we S bunks duriy E B miners and ani chil h is picked one piccc at a ti placed in bags after wl hauled home in wheelbarrows This work is not simple, Hammers arried to break the larger of “boney” to separate the oal from the slate, The job can best e visualized by imaging some one digging with his or her hands into a pile of thousands of tons of soft coal, collecting bagfuls of hard eoal, | 1 time, buried under icles of dirt and dust. several men will club to- erect a sereen similar to ns used by paving e rubbish or “eculm d against this screen, | r pieces then will be cares orted and thus the work wil he expedited. But always there is the { danger that some coal company po- | liceman will drive, by an order, | them away, and it is no uncommon | thing for men to be arrested rwr; tresp ng on these hanks. Maintenance Men May Quit. The at to call out the main- tenance men presents no small prot lem to the anthracite fields, If this were done firemen would leave their ains, me one piece the fine Sometime gother the fand s HARTFORD lboi!"r houses, engineers would stay | the mine workers, | home, the mines would be permitted | countries under diffe |to fill up with water, are suspicio ! machinery would rust, rails would rot, eleetric wires woyld come down and general | % wou!d result. But even this vould not be the worst. Mine mules, many of which have not seen the daylight n thelr lives, would be brought to the surface and some one would be required to feed them. Who, nobody knows, since Mahlei men are also maintenance men, | The calling out of the firemen and | engineers would close the slopes and | shafts so that there would be no| travel back and forth into the | breasts and gangways far helow the | surface. The "fire boss” would be unable to go down and gas pockets would aceumulate in unexpeeted places with a danger to mf: , Ja- borers, driver boys, door boys, cte.| when work s resumed. The inside foreman, who s the mine superintendent, and the mine inspector, elected by votes of the people, woufd bhe unable to maks their rounds of the underground workings.. Risipg waters, washing out railway tracks, tearing down heavy doors, irning small rail- way car: gons,” flooding the hottoms of shafts, might eventually rise to the breasts, and props, sup- ports and eribbings would in time give way lefore the floods. In the last event the damage would be apparent from the surface, In many towns, in fact in practically all the anthracite towns there are places where the workings are close to the surface. Mine breaches on mountain sides where the surface is not supported from bgneath are common, showing great gaping holes sometimes hundreds of feet in dia- meter and extending like bottomless pits farther down than a spectator can see in the dark. Living Over Yawning Pits Anything which would remove the | underground supperts, and water is a force which could do it, would open up holes in all sorts of unex- pected places and that homes of miners might go crashing into the depths beneath is not by any means improbable. In the city of Scranton a large sec- tlon now is supported from under- neath and a gradual sinking of the ground has heen noted by engineers from time to ti In Mahanoy City Joseph Schmidt, a grocer, Saturday one ight found the tloor of his | cellar had disappeared from sight. The old villag Bell's Polding probably a doz not remembered by anyone under 35 or 40 years of age, since older resi- dents recall when this entire town, except one single cottage, went down into the mines. Tn Mount Carmel there Is a small grocery store wherc a glass full of water standing on the counter will sudd splash over, as a blast is fired in mines bhe- low. In other towns and villages it s possible in some celiars to Thear nds of work going on ben ground. What would e If the supnerts we ca be imagined Another serious phase of the uation, alth not quite so seri ous as the r possibility is that the withdrawal from the mines of the maintenance men would mean months hefore the mines were work ing normally after the termination of the strike of Tunnel, en houses, 1S away, ot Suspicious of Operators, But how to avoid all this, the miner does not know. even Many of | operator: THO HILLION 1083 NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1926, Get Acquainted 3-Room Outfit $294 Convenient Terms Arranged Complete 8-Piece Dining Room Suite This very distinctive suite made of hardwood throngh- out, finished in American Walnut, consists of oblong extension table, commodious buffet, five dining chairs and one arm chair upholstered in genuine leather, For our 20% Discount January Sale only. Come at once, only a limited quantity. $98.00 Server and china ‘ean be small additional 3-Piece Living Room Suite 'ljhjs very attractive, well made three-piece Parlor Suite, upholstered in a good grade of tapestry with large davenport, wing chair and club chair with good spring construction and loose cushions. A wonderful value and for our 20% Discount Januarv Sale only. Three pieces—Sale, complete ) ' $98.00 OPEN SATIRDAY EVENINGS UNTIL 9 O’CLOCK OTHER NIGHTS BY APPOINTMENT Eight pieces—Sale hought at a cost. T born in foreign it conditions, 5 heyond their and are sus- | who, to vague, unseen, it the rank and zo to work morre hey 1. Their greatest handicap now, although they little iz 1 never would admit it, atrolled by lead- | are not pract n from a their limited under picious of the r them, represcnt somé power, I tors, autocratic file of 1 ners wou 10- 8 it a is that they ers who ther miners and tance to b dis- | own | ho & feathering k system, something which would prove @ srious hoomerang to the mine worker, is not expected nor desired by individual, but demanded by the leaders. | Heral The cheg admitted as| representative | the anthracite ficlds | told by many mine | to remain ¢ ler their old | contract, and v insisted only | ome form of contract | le understood in the situa-| g many people that one| , wife and daughter of miners, emphatically denounced the to a Herald map, because t it was the op- | rators and no miners who even | hen had refnsed arbitration. Abgentes ownership on one slde and radicallsm and ambitious lead-| ers on the other side have brought| ch looks now . as| either the ruin} markets or the| w of the wom most though it cant of the anthracite complete overthr Mine Workers of j2Americ o United | IN Q1EBEC BLAZ" Olatean Frontenac Ts Pactially Destroged 15 (A — Fire wl fternoon at ieh started yesterd clock in the old castern wing of | Chateaun St the . ter did 1l water 1y the pictur hotel Frontenac river, ahle to other building. Five firemen were falling and traveling man named Boyd. sufier- ed partial asphyxiation. Nome of| ests of the lotel amage parts tnjured by | walls one guest, a the other 300 g was dnjured, b in time to scck plac number of th were made 1 to their qu ving been warned ess bhecause ers hy wa- | Canadian | owns the to SEihem last building is Quebee to 1 loss to thc of the| eastern wing of the although more | has the reputa of the most hand- | luxurious &nity 1s 1 castled walls, main- | hrick, its copper val courtyard, The e blaze staried in one of the ) ¢ One of the family edifice 18 of the French style. Efforts were que baronial | its way inte the newer sections of | RAILROAD OFFICERS ELECTED the hotel. This they finally me-| Norwich, Jan. 15 P—At the an- made by employes | complished, while thousands of Pér- | nual meeting of the New London ch the flames, but under|sons who had gathered about | Northern railroad ‘-wl‘l.\ da ong wind they made fast| watched tha battle from various | New London, directors were ¢ headway and soon enveloped the | points of vantage, as follows: Edward Smith W ; n on their arrival The iged for nearly five | Albans, Vt., Judge Walter C. f\:fl\- coneentra r greatest efforts | hours be it was finally brought ! New Yo Arthur M. Brown, N on preventing the fire from eating | under con SO R R Gl N to 30th Annual | Francis H, Dewey, | Charles Osgood, New York; 4-Piece Bedroom Suite Four-piece Bedroom Suite including full size bed, chifforette, vanity table and dresser finished in heautiful American Walnut, This is one of the amazing values during our 209 Discount Janu- ary Sale. 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