Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 17, 1885, Page 7

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CHAPTER KII Anton had ventured to approach the Vulture, and all the men to whom he ad. dreesed himself, acking If ho could get work there, ehook thelr heads and ended by telling him to wait for the superinten. dent, They left him alone In_the midat of the badly lit bulldings, filled with black holes confusing with the intrloacy of thelr rooms and floors, Ho had just mounted a dark flight of steps, half d cayed, when he found himself upon a swinoing foot-brldge, then having passed ' . the screenlng shed, he plunged wi & darkness so profound that he walked with his hands before him, so as not to hurt himself. Suddenly In front of him, two enormous yellow eyes shown out of the gloom, He was under the tower, at the superintendent’s office at the mouth of the shaft. A miner, the elder Richmond, witha large soldler like figure and gray mus- tache, was walking slowly, directing his etops toward the superintendent's office, *Do they need a workman here, no matter for what kind of work!” agaln in- quired Anton. Richmond started to say no, but he checked himself and responded like the others, with a nod of the head: “Walt for Mr. Daneeart, the soporin- tendent.” Four lanterns were sot there, and tho reflsctions which weroe all turned toward the mouth of the shafts shone brlghtly upon the iron inclined plane, the hand. splkes and the plans upon which tho two osges wero slid fn, As for the rest the large room, like the nave of a church, re- malned in a strange light, filled with great floating shadows. ~ Only the ofl Tight flamed ot at the end of the place, while {n the superintendent’s room a amall lomp gloamed like & dim star. The holsting had jast been resumed;and upon the iron flagging there was a continual din,the coal cars rolllng by withoat ceaslng, tho ranning to and fro of the crushers, whoze long, bent forms were distlogulahable in the midst of the con- faston of all these biack and noloy things which were in constant motlon. For on instant Anton remained mo- tlonless, deafened, blinded. He was chilled with tie carrents of alr coming in from outside. Thon he stepped for- ward attracted by the enzlne, the shining steel and copper of whish he now saw. It was located seventy-five feet in front of tho shaft, in a higher room, and set so firmly apon its brick foundation that it ran at full stoam, with all its four hun- dred horee power, with no movement bat that of the crank, which rose and fall with a well-olled smoothness, shaking the floor. The enginecer stood at the throttle, listening for the sound of the slgnal, his eyes nover leaving the in- dicator; on which the shaft was repre- sented, with its different galleries by a vertloal grove through which some plam- mota rau suspanded by cords and repro- sonting the cages. And at each depart- are, when the engino was again started, the drums, tgro great cylinders seventeen feet In clrcumference, aboat the centers of which steel cables wind and unwind In opposlte directlons, revolving with sach rapldity that they look like nothing more than dust. “‘Take care!” crled two miners who were dragglug a huge ladder, Anton had just escsped Injury, his eyes becoming accustomed to the l'ght, he watched the cable moving in the air, more than one hundred feot of steel rib- bon, which went up swlftly into the tower where they passed over the drams and then deecended perpendicularly into the shaft to be conuected to the holst- ing cages. An lron framework similar to the high framework of the tower sup- ported the drums, It was lko the flight of blrds, without nolse, without collision, the movement swift, the continual com- ing and going of & cable of enormous wolght, which would lift as much as twenty five hundred pounds at the rate of thirty feet & second. “Great heavens, look out!” agaln cried the men who were dragging the ladder to the other side to examlne the drum on the left. Slowly Anton returned to the superin- tendent's offico. That glgantic fllght above his head astounded him. And, shivering in the drafts of alr, he watched the working of the cages, his ears oracked by the rolling of the cars, Near the shaft the slgnal was operated—a heavy hammer upon a lover that a cord from below let drop upon a block, One blow to stop, two to descend, three to come up. It was without inter- mieslon, Uke the blows of a gavel con- trolling a tumult, accompanied by the clear sound of & bell, while the crashers directing the movement often Increased the nolee by shouting orders through a speaking trumpet to the engineer. The cages in the ilddle of the clear spacs ap- pesred and sank down agaln, were emptled and re-filled without Anton understonding anything of their compli- cated operations. Ho could only com- prehend one thing: the shaft swaillowed up the men in groups of twenty and thirty, and with a gulp so easy that he did not seem to notice them pass 3 The descent of the workmen commencad at four o'clock, They arrived at the shed with bare feet, lJamp in hand, walting in little groups to make up the required number. Nolselessly, with the steslth of a night anima), the iron cage csme up out of the drakness and was secured by bolte, with ita four ocompart ments contalning each two cars filled with coal. Orushers &t different landings, took out the cars and replaced them with others emp'y, or filled In sdvance with cut timber, Aad It was the empty cars that the workmen filled, five by fiva, as maoy as forty at a thme, Wherever the compartments were fall & volee crled through the speaking trumpet (meanwhile a cord was polled four tlmes for a signal below) shouting to lanch, for the purpose ot glviog Informatioa that the load was ha- wan flesh; then, with a slight jerk, ths cage eilontly disappeared, dropping ltke a stope, leaving behind 1t only the trem- oling fllght of the cable. “Iaitdeep?’ asked Anton of a miner who was waiting near him, with a sleepy alr, “‘Eighteen hundred feet,” responded the man, “‘Bub there are three lovels below the first at one thousand feet.” Both torned thelr eyes to the oable, which was running up sgain. Aaton re- sumed: ‘And what if 1t should break{” *‘Ah! if it should!” The miner finished the sentouce with a shrug. His turn had arrived, the osge had reappested with its easy, tirelees movemsnt. He cronched down there with some athers, it planged down agalp, reappearing at the end of four minutes, only to take on a new gang of men. Kora half hour the shafi swal. lowed them upin this manner, with a mouth more or less greedy, according to tne depth of the level to which they de- soonded. But without a pause, always hungry, with the stomach of a imm oA pable of digesting a family, It filled itself ropeatedly, and while the shadows still remalned the cage rose out of the pit In the same eager silence. Anton was agsin overtaken with the disheartened foellng which he had already experfenced oatside Why trouble him- self! that superintendent would dismiss him like the others. A vague fear sud: denly determined him, he went away and stopped outside just before the boller bullding. The door, wide open, showed toven bollers and two furnaces, 1In the midst of white steam and a hlsslng nolse, a fireman was occupled in charging one of the furnaces, the ascorching heat of which could b felt as far as the door slll; and the young man pleased with tho thought of getting warm was approach- Ing, when he nearly ran into another company of coal men who were arriving at the mine. It was Mahon and Levaque, when he percelved Catherlne ahead with the air of aqulet boy, the wild idea seized hlm of rleking a last Inquiry. *‘Say, now, comrade, they have no need of a workman hers for anything, have they?’ She looked at him In surprise, a litile afraid of that sudden volce which came in out of the shadow. Bat, behind her, Mahon had heaed, and he repllod, stop- ping o littlo as ho spoke, No they had no need of anyone, But that poor devil of & workman dying upon the road, in- terestod him; when he left him he sald to the others: “Well, weo mlight bo like that; we shouldn’t complain, every one hasn’t work to kill them.” The company enterad and went straight to tho waiting room, A great hall, rade- ly plastered, surrounded with closets which were secared with padlocks. 1n the canter a huge farnace, a kind of stove wlthout cover, was glowing, so stuffed with barning coal that pieces wero cracking and sizzlng upon the floor of beaten earth. The hall was only 1t up by that fire of living coal, the refloctions of which danced along the dirty walna- ooting up to the celling which was cov- ered with black duat. When the Mahons arrlved, laughs broke forth in the great heat. Thirty of the workmen were sianding, their backs to the flame, roasting themselves with an alr of enjoyment. Before the descent they all came there to take and carry away in their eking a good bltof fire, to brave tho dampnees below. But that mornlng they were more cacerful, thoy joked with Morquette, a coal soraper of nineteen years, a jolly girl, whose large breasts and hips swelled oat her vest and breoches, She lived In Requilart, with her father, old Moque, a groom, and her brother Moquet, & miner. The hours of work were the same for all, but she came alone t> the mins, and among the wheat fields in summer or behind walls in wiater she met her lovers of the week. She had hsd the wholo mlne, a fact mentloned by her companions without further notice. One day when a nail- maker of Marchlennes had taunted her, she nearly dled of anger, orying that she respected herself so much; that she would cat off an arm if any ono could say they had seen her with another than & miner. “Ten’t it the blg Chaval any more?’ sald & miner, laughing. ‘“‘And you're takin’ that little fellbw. He'll have to use a ladder, I've seen you bshlnd Reqalllart, and to prove it he was stand- log on a stene.” ““Well?” responded Mcquette, in s good humor, “‘what's that to you? We dida’t call you to help D And these rude pleasantries increassd the mirth of the men who were throwlng forward thelr shoulders, scorched by the fire, while they shook with laughter. She walked among them, with an impu- dent air and tantalizing joke, with her projecting lumps of flesh exaggerated even to a deformily. Meanwhile ths fun ceased. Moquetto was telling Mahon that Fiorence, big Florence, could coms no more; they haa found him the day before dead upon his bed, some eald of a dlsease of the heart, and others, of a plat of gin drank too quickly. And Mahon was in despalr from the mishap, that was a loss of one of his scrapers, without being able to lmmediately replace him. He dld piece- work; there were four heavers associated at hls work, he,.Zicharle, Levaque and Chaval, If they had only Catherins to push the cars, the work was going Zto suffer. Suddenly he had an idae: *‘Hold on! there's that man who was looking for work.” Just then Dansaert passed through the waltlng room, Mahon related the trouble to him, asklog leave to hire the man; and he finslsted upon the wish of the company to gradually replace the push- ers like youths as at Anzln, The sup- erlntendent smiled at first, the idea of excludlng the women from inslde was generally repagnant to the miners, who were mnot uneasy at placing their daughters there, little touched by the question of morallty or heslth, Finally, after having hesitated, he gave permls- slon, but with the reservaion that his declsion should be ratified by M. Negrel, the engineer, ““All right,” declared Zacharle, ‘‘the man fs not far off If he has walked at “No," said Oatharine, *'I saw hlm stop at the boilers,” *'Go after him, ldlot,” cried Mahon, The youug girl rushed out, while a crowd of minors started down the shaft, ylelding the fire to the others. Johanle did not wait for his father, but also went, taking his lamp, with Thebut, a great stupld boy, and Lydle, a wild girl of twelye yeas Btartiog before them, Mogquette screaming on the dark stalrway, calling them dirty brats and threatenlog to box thelr ears if they ploched her, Auton, in the boller shed, was talking with the stoker who fed the fires, He shivered greatly at the thought of the cold night which he had passed. How- ever, he had decided to eet up agsln when he felt a hand placed on his shoulder. “‘Come, for you to d At first he dd not understand. Then he experlenced a feeling of joy, and vigorously pressed the hands of the young girl, “‘Thanks, comrade, deed a good fellow.” Bha laughed and looked at him in the red rays of vhe fice which lit them up, It smused her that he still took her fora boy, her hair tucked up uoder her cap. laughed with pleasure, and they both rewained an Instant, laughing io each others faces, thele cheekaglowing. Mahon in the walting room knelt down before his box, taklog off his sabcts and sourse woolen stocklugs, When Anten Oathatine, ‘‘hero’'s work Abh! you are in- arrlved there they arranged all In a fow words: thirty sous a day, it was hard work, but he would learn qalckly. Ma. hon advised him to keep on his shoes and lent him an old cap, a leather head-dress, deslgaed to protect the head, & precsn. tlon which the father and children dis- dalned. The tools were taken out of the chest where they found all ready the shovel of Florence. Then when Mahon had shut p thelr sab.ts and aleo Anton's bundle, he suddenly became impationt “‘What's the matter with that fool of & horse! We aro a half hour late to-day.” Zacharie and Levaque shrugged thelr shoulders quletly. The first ssld at length: Is it Chaval we're waitlng for? He got here bofore us and went down at once."” “What! you knew that and yon sald nothing. * * * Come on! coma oa! harry up!” Catherlne, who was warmiog her be- numbed hands, started to follow tho party. Anton lot her pass, then fol- lowed. Again he found himself Ina labyriath of stalrs and blind passages, where the bare feet made a soft nolso like old socks. Bat suddenly a small light blazed up, showing a glazed place filled with racks where a number of safety lamps were ranged In rowaof a hundred, inspected aud cleaned the even- Ing before, shining out llke tapers at the end of a lighted chapsl. At the door each workman took his own, plac:d at his number, and exam!ned 1t, closing 1t up himself, while the t.me-keeper seated at a tablo Inscrlbed upon a reglater tho hour of the descent. Mahon was obliged to ask for a lamp for hls new pusher. And there was still another precantion taken; the men walked in slngle file ba- fore an Inspector who satlefied himsoelf If all the lamps were well shut up. “‘The douce! {t's not warm here,” mur- mured Catherine, shivering. Anton contented himself with nodding bis hoad. Ho agaln had that shrioking feeling bofore the shaft, In the midat of the vast hall, filled with currents of air. True, he thought he was brave, but there came a disagreeable sensatlon in his throat at the thundering of the cars, the heavy blowa of the slgnal, the smothered belrowlng of the speaking trumpot, in the sight of the continual flight of the cables which wound and unwound on thelr drams, with the engine at full steam. The oages rose and fell with thelr stealthy movement of an animal of the nlght, always taking down some men which the mouth of the pit 8eemed to swallow. It was his turn now, he was very cold, he malntained a nervous silence which made Zioharle and Levaqae laugh; both had dlsapproved the hiring of that unknown, Levaque erpeclally, who was offended by not having been consulted. Bat Oatherlne was pleased at seelng her father explain things to the young man. *‘Seo hero, above the cage, here 1a a safety broak, some iron clampa stick Into the guides in cate of a break. That works! Oh! not always. Yes, the shaft is divided Into three compartments, 1n- closed by planking from top to bottom. In the middle one are the cages, on the left one s a ladder. But he stopped to grow! without rais- ing his volce. *‘What's the matter? Good hoavens! Is it right to freeze us in this manner?’ The boss, Richmond, who was llkewise golng down, his lamp fastened to a stud on his leather cap, heard the complaint. “‘Take cars, the walls have ears!” kindly sald the old minet, true to his compaaions, ‘‘the work must be done. Hold on! We are there, gat in with your people.” The cage, composed of bars of fron and a fino wire mesk, waited for them, held up by the locking bolts, Mahon, Zacha- rle, Liavaque and Catherine crawled into a car at the boitom; and as it should hold five, Anton entered also; but the good places were taken,and he was obliged to croush down close to the youog glrl whoze elbow stuck into hls side. His lamp annoyed him, they ad- vised him to fasten it to a button of his vest. He did not hear, and held it awkwardly in his hand., The loadlng continued above them, 8 mixed mass of humanity. It seemed to him solong that he lost all patlence. At last a jerk #hook them up and all became dark, the objects around him disappearing while he experienced a strange sensation of falling, The only light of dsy came from abave the two storles of the office, struggling through the network of timbers, then falling Into blackness of the plt it dlsap- peared untll no loager perceptible to the senses, “Now we're off,” rald Mahon, quletly. They were all easy. But he eachmoment asked himself if he was rising or falling. He was motlonless whila the cage went stralght down wlthout touching the guldes, and with suddea bumps finally producing a shaking of the jolsts which made him fear an accident, Meanwhlile he could not distinguish the wal's of the shaft beyond the grating agalust which he had put his face; the lamps badly lit up the people at his feet, Only the open Iamp of the boss in the nelghborlng car burned like baacon, “‘This one is thirteen feet in dlameter,” continued Mahon, Instructing him. ‘The tubing ought to be repatrad,for the water filters on all sldes, Hold on, we aro ar- rlving at level, do you heat!” Anton guddenly asked himself what was that notse llka a shower. Great drops finslly sounded upon the top of the csge, at first like the begioning of a shower, and then the raln had Increased, streaming down and changing Into a verltable deluge. Withous doubt, the roofing was broken in, fora stresm of water ran down the shouldera of the young man; he trembled all over. The cold became Intente, they were burled in s damp darkness, When they had rapldly gone down still lower they canght a gllmpee of an opening where men were bustling about In the rays of & lamp. But in an ios‘ant they were lost to oue thousand feet down, Look how fast we go.” Ralsing his lamp, he lit up a jolst of the guides, which ran llke a rall under a train at foll speed; and beyond that they could see nothing. Three other galleries were passed In the twinkling of sn eye. The deafening raln fell in the darkness, ‘‘How dark it ls!" murmured Antor, The descent seemed to have lasted for hours, He was sufferlg from the us- easy position which he had taken, not daring to stlr, especlally on Catherine’s slde. She did not speak a word; he only felt her o t him, warming bim op, When the cage stopped at last at tho bottom, elghteen hundred feet, he was sstonlabed to learn that the descant had lasted juet one mlnute. Bat the sound of the bolts which wece sllpping in place and the feeliag of eolidity under him, suddenly choere{ him up and mado him 80 bappy that he spoke familiarly to Catheriue, *'What have you under you skin to be to warm? 1 have had your elbow in my slde all the way.” Then she also made merry, He was stupld to still take her for a boy. He mast be blind, *1 guess you've had it In your eyes— my elbow, I mean,” responded she in the midst of a tempest of langhter which sur- prised the yoang man, who ooald not see the point. The cage was emptled, the workmen passed the maln opening of that gallery, a room In the rock, arched with masonry, and whero three groat open lamps were burning. The loaders were aoctlvely rolling some fall cars upon the fron floor- Ing, A cave-llke odor fell from the walls, a smoll of nitra with warm broaths of air came from a nelghboring stable. Four drlfts were worked there, yawnlng and dark, “‘Throagh here,” #ald Mahon to Anton, *‘You're not there yet; we've a good mile to go.” The workmen separated, disappsaring in groups at the bottom of thess dark holes. Fiftoen men had just begaa dig- glog on the left, and Anton walked be- hind Mahon who was preceded by Oath- erine, Zwharle and Lsvague. It was a good wagon level cut out through a layer of coal and from a rosk so solid that it had only needed to b partly walled. Oao after the other, they wind on and on by the littls lights of the lamps. The young man hit agalnst something at each step, catching his feet in the ralls, Eaich fustant & dall nolse made him uueasy, the dintant round of a shower of raln, the rush of which seomed to proceed from the bowels of ths earth. Was that the thunder of the storm sending down upon thelr heads the enormous mass which separated them from the earth? A light plercad the night, hoe felt the rock trem- ble, and when he ranged himeelf along the wall llke hls comrades, ho saw pass beforo his face a great white horae har- nessed to & traln of care. Heroert was seated on the first, holding the guldes and drlving, while Johnnle, his hands pressed agalnst the back of the last car was ranning in his bare feet. They resumed their march, Farther on a crossway appeared, two new drifts opened, and the party agaln dlvided, the men distributing themselves a fow at a time In all parts of the mine. Now the wagon road was timbered, the wood, with its bark on, and of a palish yellow, sup- ported the roof, making in the failen rock an Immenss hole, sticking out of which one percelved sharp pleces of slate, sparkling with mlca, and a hoavy mass of ntone, dull and rough. Tralns of cars, full or empty, were continually passing, crossing each other with thelr loads, car— ried In the darkness by a dumb beast, with & phaotom-iike trot. Acrcss the two rails of the rond a long black ser- pont wes sleeplog, a tealn stopped, the horso enorted, so startled in the night that his haunches dropped like a block trembling from an arch. The rough wooden doors elowly closed up, and the farther they advanced the straighter and lower the drifts becams, while the un- even cailing forced them to bend their backs constantly. Anton severoly bumped his head. Without the leather cap he would have cracked his skull, However, he followed with atvention the least gesturcs of Ma- bon before him, whoss dack shadow was produced by the rays of the lamp. Not ons of the workmen knocked themselves; they were obliged to know each projeo- tion, every knot ia the timber ana en- largement of the rock. Tha young man was alzo distressed by theslipping ground which annoyed him more and more. Now and then he paesed through some real pools, which the muddiness of his feat alone revealed. But what surprised him still more was the sudden changes of temperature, At the foot of the shaft it was very fresh, and In the wagon line through which passed all the air of the ming theze blew a cold wind whose force was like a gale botween the narrow walls; then as they passed into the other drifts, which only recelved their alloted portlon of the sir, the wind ceased, it grew hot, a choklng heat, heavy as lead. For a quarter of an hour they had gone on and on through these narrow passages; and they were now enterlng into a more oven- like pit, blinding and melting. Manhon no longsr opened his mouth. Ho went into a drift slmply saying to Anton, without turning round: “The veln Willlam.” This was the veln where the lead was discovered. From the first step Anton struck his head and elbows. The sloping ceiling dropped eo low that It was necessary to walk doubled up, The water came up to thelr ankles, His breath left him for an lnstant for the heat stlil incroased. They proceeded thus elx hundred feet, when euddenly he aaw Lavaquo, Zacharle and Oatharine dlsappear, who seemed to be swallowed op in a emall fissure openlug before him, “‘Wo must go,” eald Mahon, “Pat yourlamp on a button and hold on to the wood.” ; He also disappesred. Anton was com- pelled to follow him. This opening left in the vein way resorved for the miners and cleared the whole second floor. It extended through tho layer of coal more than twenty Inches. Happily the young man was slight, for still awkward he drew himeelf up with difficulty, flattening his shoulders and hips, pulllng forward by tho ntrangth of his wriste, his hands clioging to the timber; at the end of fifty feet they first came upon the second floor, but they must go on, the vein belonglng to Mahon and his gang was at the sixth floor, “‘In hell,” as they sald. The floors were ranged one above the other at distances of fifty feet, and the sascent atill continoed stralght through that cleft which scraped the back and chest, Anton fled os if the welght of rocks rested upon him, his hands scratched, his legs brulsed, his skin worn away so much that he could feel the blood bursting ont. Dimly 1o a path he percelved two doubled up belngs, one small and nne large who were pushing the cars, it was Lydic snd Mo- quette already at work. But he must cilmb up to the highest part of the veln, The perrplration blinded him, he despalred of overtaking the others, whom he heard with aglle limbs climbing the rock with a long glide. “Qourage, here we are,” sald the voico of Oatherlne, But when he had really arrlved, an. other volce orled at the end of the wall, “‘Well, what's the matter! You don't think of any other folks. I have to come & mile from Montson, and I'm the first to get Lere,” It was OChsval, a tall, thin man of twenly-five years; with strong featuree, who was sngry at belng compelled to walt, When he percelved Anton he In- quired, with a contemptuous alr: “‘Who's this? What does this mean?’ And Mahon having told him the story, he added between iy teeth— “Then, the boys will take the bread from the glele?” The two men exchanged a glance lit with batred, which from intoition is felt each path, The devourlng shafé allowed Hta daily ration of men— almost seven hundred workmen who wee Iaboring at that hour, in that hage swarm, borlng holes In all parts of the earth; it was riddled like an old plese of wood filled with worms, And iu the midst of & profound eilence followlng the crushing of the heavy layers, with the oar held close to the rock, one could heae the steps of the human Insects la walking and the flight of cable which sent the holsting eage up and down, and even the woratehing of the tools catiing the conl, at the bottom of the felling-board. 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