The evening world. Newspaper, September 17, 1900, Page 2

—— — A WORLD THE —— SECOND OF SERIES BY OLIVIA HOWARD DUNBAR. Child Labor Abuse at the Mines Described in | Graphic Words. WOMEN WORK LIKE MULES. ‘Mothers Weep. as They Tell of Hardships Endured by Children. (Special to The Evening World.) “Perhaps it is in Pittston that) PITTSTON, Pa., Sept. 17. the great strike will be remember which 100,000 men quit work to-day, It is here that the first warning of war was sounded,! and here that discontent first found voice the workers in the Halstead mine were ten days ago driven to anticipate the strike by unanimous revolt to-day appeared the first open aggression-and that from Ithe aide of the operators, | Not one of the Pittston miners, nor bne of the mothers whose puny boys spend thelr long days in the dreary lalavery of the mines, will ever forget that # brutal superin= ‘tendent, enraged by the striking of the empoyees, publicly Ihorsewhipped a tiny mule driver, LASHED & LITTLE BOY. The superintendent confined his brutality to one boy be- cause he could not succeed tn catohing the others chose a boy rather than a man because the boy was so And he felt safe to gratiTy his rage ‘upon the public street because he knew thai not one of the men who stood about looking on would dare to stop him Harkness, longing to the Pennsylvania Coal Company The boy was the smallest of t struck for the same rensons and with the same right as the workers in the valley ing they left the colliery and drove their mules down the small as to be helpless The man was Adam thousands of othe: atreet Superintendent commanding them to return Harkness him he seized » heavy horsewhip ang pursuec Hlaved him with pain LIVES HELD BY OPERATORS. he caught ind follow till the | hrieked THE ' (‘otra mave . | On YOU. WORKS (AM 1 PAVING | VOU) FOR, THING AT THe ym Lom FANT STORE lon STARVE YY) longest—this strike in It is here that And here rye MINE ry BOY*AT SCHOOL seems of Colliery No. 8, be-) enty mule drivers who Early this morn. shouted oaths after them, When they declined to hear them til He then lashed the little WOMAN GREAT COAL STRIKE WORLD; MONDAY EVIENING, SEPTEMBE R 17, AND ITS By Powers. ‘raphically Preturd y 7, RINT AE |Dealers Won't b.L: Ao CLee e TI 3 MONG THE MINERS. CAUSES. Ar Mong whey \ om Mapa) Ok OMA Chan, LB. THE PULL DINNER Me #40 a im Pain AR OUMENT ' rene Me me DOROHF HOLO Goon 10, Y if 1H PUNISY LAN IA EP aA SALE COAL GETS — — Quantities They Agreed To, But not one of the men wh ww this Knocked Harkness down or made ar ittemipt to defen his victim because | every man of win 8 business Which the mine | Operators indine trol and have the power to destroy | They did not dare appear t hampton the cause oftn striker even when assaulted by a brute four times nin size Not fn pleasant reflection on the power of the mine tyrants | ‘Do they think we'll ais up the strike?” asked one of | the hoy’ npant ifterward, ‘whee they can't even let n kid alone? We'll stiek it out now whatever happens” This boy could not have been more than nine. He was Yery grave, and not even his eyes had a smile in them, It] (Photographed by Olivia Howard Dunbar especial! for Phe Bvening World) fen long time since he censed to be aehild Mra, John Hafferty and her children, 510) Putnam avenue, antoa, PaMee, Maferty's husband Indeed there are not many children among the miners works for 61.50 0 day, and they are ¢ ed to bay all their a sat the Ceompany At the When they emerge trom babyhood they strnightway be end of the week the Ustore! wets mont of Din earmings—Mre Hiferty and her children are shown tn come little Inboring men and women, and hungry mouths the one hedeoum where alt the family steepe wait to swallow up tle meagre earnings of them tiny hance By and by they reach mething that is a dismal seemed too weak and tired to ery and whose little lodging the Bouth side Ih tha Itory imitation of youtl TI their time mes to rear families seemed even poorer than the others L had visited y every colliery started but van able munter tt fin | that are to be ns unt Does your husband’ SA a Boy’ § EARNINGS cur IN Two. yee ond): “ale gain. ik d a8 tler mtarting work, had to mune] It the | { 1 th But the company made mpensation nd beewuse of the m i. A in renkers' that The wamnan looked nel d Many of the mines thar have started} ne Hust 1} 1 " 1 mit i} mior endere “ hort handed wil yrotab ahi Me Rats wind ; i Ly Pej, Wy You ask thate’ she said “Why Tye never had a cent \irtie ened vr ¥ ope mt ' t nike int regur ' nw sting , 4 ‘ A since Nhe died that T didn't enn carrying saeks of coal 1 It was conservatively emtimated that The | , n he mines rarely give them n 1 1 . my bock or washing vs not the 16000 In the dine ling their fy husband took his own visk, they tell me. He t It work today MMI tos pe peibie ' e i men were Hut arly atl wih , 4 - bo jag {He PAPE OFA contrnetor in doing their work for them. They jearly every workings tn the diatrtot 1 ; Viowe me nothing teaveriig to persia wae men who \ L ' Mules And t Men ave killed here ave Vouk netimes tie Ad Meelted to work to reconsider ond spend ar ' ty he ng them and " IER a ; Tea aa » into the inline ahs i arty ; Us better that they shouldn't ao, Mea ats (ne: Golaraln caning for them, | youn " tyaid More We enn't afford invalids. And often they die of asthma Raat RR abe eco ; er, when u eve { ¢ t tof ‘ the ry “ yy mine, but nothing haw occurred to die over, 1 } 1 u der, check-/And then their widows are left to do as 1am doing ir the peace eo far ing the work of tl Inivers, the little fellows-the youngest| Who is there to help us? The strikers from McAdoo are trying fare but eight years old-are "docked" from this time until) THE Bl TRI [hard to get the men at Colerain to quit the machine ts again put in operation aihike want BIG STRIKE LJ ON ' and & committee was sent there before J he ° 80 e is c v e wana hush!. b yer he mothers wept as an ) arting time for that purpose. pevern: f the mothers wept as they spoke of thogtark-| oy i! the dreary district where the miners live The There was some henitation on the ness incident dread of the eoming fight with poverty and injustice wars part of a lot of the Colerain men, put Yan't it bad er jh," evied one, “that our boys get nol*"! bi down upon those wretched homes. And there wus when the whistle blew a olock they t P , orvething more-the fear of violence ' r h . TI schooling and not enought 1? Aren't they eve » fr bead narched into the mines, The collier teeta , y even safe fr ui Nowhere are the Hungarian and Polish miners so hot-/ies at that place are working short 6 ; bl fod and esentful as here Nowhere has the enmity! handed, however But this is nly ne of the reasons why the feeling Del Veen operators and workmen been smou dering 80 long The G. BL Markle collier at Je fgainat the oper | par ularly bilter in Unis section, Mt! Mercely In general the strikers are what their lenders) iighiand and Oakdale, employing 22 it is not the rowever, for the Miners Hs a clhes arelehe sty hem to be-paaceable and patient But if thereymen, started work shorthanded Great Keonly alive tot fedu r nd id should be riot at any point along the Vallay® Pittston and\efforts wer made by United Mine If rivets beias Seiden wah Wed secure it) Diryen fear that this will be the aeene of ity Workers) officials to bring these men or thet: y hey uid OLIVIA HOWARD DUNBAR rut, but Mey failed, ‘The Markle mine LIVE IN OPERATORS’ TENEMENTS, ——- feta trae eh ud Another inthe condition of (hein homes. Moat or tnem|100, OOO MINERS ON STRIKE. The ogly mines on the North side live in tenements owned | perators Many of the deso- which started with the full number of late structures are made to house 160 persons Thet oe j men were Lattimer, Harwood and Pond reNSA LAY agave - : (Continued from Firat Page.) Creek, The oMeluls of these mince had Ladd would laugh should you sudgest repair or sanitary pes ARN I Ml Jy notiied thelr employees that if they did provements The health Micer ep ¢ rly f; | vt report for d 4 4 operation: mp r T alth J Pp gingerly aloof reselve! from the various mines and AS quarters the leaderm claim 16 per cont | ener AA her siti aii There® A Lenomen scornfully said a minor's wife,| they came in w @ inetiligence that| Of tho men in the above district did] MOvld be Auapended IndeAnitely, pointing across the street, ‘so bad that even miners can't had 5 a Ho to work| Hot report for work, ‘The operators had| | 4 ware enon, the sie "we ad, y see . much enthu " of to and ver Meadow, on the Bouth e, Jive init, It losed nu William Conna@! owne tt. | 8" | sor UKaIE ieee aa oe DR Nl And the eame Company's operations at He has a colliery in Duryen and he's Republican candidatel at ics ie -anedlial hen ee Oneida, Derringer and Gowen, on the for Representative There's not an operator the miners|ther 4.1 mena " SOME MINES WORKING] Wee: side, are working, hate so bitterly as he, and no Wonder. He wouldn't toueh a Pale Nei Oe COMRADE c empt wa Je 10 8ta thet tenement though people were dying in tt, but he got SHAMOKIN'S S$ PLIGHT, Ate t Malt the Miners Aroung | Witeries an attomp his rent to the last cent It is conceded that the great nbuses are perpetrated| SIAMOKIN, Pa, Sept. I1~The co! by the individual mine operators, such men as Connell, | Here operated by the Mineral, Union, men who are millionaires and whose perso, al power is hscaioulel la and Reading Coal and Tron jedceeded only by that of the great trust magnates, to whom ‘ompanies and by individual operators ‘the whole troubl may ultimately be attributed WOMEN IN THE MINES. ff unlimited child labor is permitted in direet violation the law there is no reason why women snould not like- ee take their turn in the mines - I questioned one woman whose brood of pale children] as the United Mine Workers’ head: | {8 tho suburbs of thie place and employ ing detween 9.40 and 19,000 men and oye are com y ted up, In Mount Carmel and Locust Gap dintriots it Is an yet impossible to give the exact number of men on strike Owing to the collieries being widely sep: arated, And they do. work, but the non-appearance breakergpoys prevented it, ot the eton Are Idle and All Will Probably Go Out, | ‘The Ay Pardee collieries, at Cranberry HAZLETON, Pa, Sept 17.~—The} irystal Kidge, em Py ing So men, Wnunching of the atrike in this district| Mo s"kemmores unite, we Bendy fun was attended by varying success, With big mines that did not were those of the la- Harlem may have a coal famine wreat coal strike te continued, and jation there may be taken to fa portray the condition of the retail mm Kot all over the elty Vhere 1s more or lowe abundant pres morale t supply in the coal yards, put the GIRL NOT A SIREN. The tract coal arrange r by conaum | ere ta yet to be delivered, and every The Bouthgates have been untalr tn Cc " | I ‘ t Wrangles ber| What ihey maid of hor Tt was Richard elebrate Reynier wer er @ t baila and another brother who a. co : ay Jor Sperry, of the Sperry & Pops | forced her (o leave her adopied mother K om le lot m Coal Company, ald this morning: Some, | resent (he imputation t ine ul Oo Sue eG aves, We have four yarda and we are Cully | Was the temptress, | have spoken to mtocked in mowt grades vii for the | Mer nee ihe (ragedy, ant 1 know she i tobut coal je very scarce and | Wa convinced againwt her will into «| tiene are tioklieh times Phe wholes! COlly that means a life-long regret silore are not ablpping @ pobnd on, now I want to say that the giel'e acttone contracts ike to pred T would not a) what the situat PRECIOUS, | Deliver) (svn & 4 week hene MISS SOUTHGATE WILL GO FREE ON RECOVERY. (Continued from Firet Page) by attrihuting it to an ingane impulse t pul on end to his suflering.” COURSE OF BULLET. Detvetive James Keelan. been bi charge SOUTHGATE BLAMED! | | Minister's Widow Te a Why Hetem nom Mra, theate Lett K has | Into who Story, gation vf the Invest the tragedy, sail towday chat the state Mn BOR wile & retired ments of the Seney Houpital surgeons Ppt pallan minister ai Goad Ground, rowarding Miss Southwate's wound WORE ene Meetates It the OOnTeRs "4 st her story etor of why Hel I « Southrate The dootors tell me,” he vad, “that |!) Nr Adame morher + home the ball which «truck Mine Southgate When Hutchins nD AO UCHEALD SEARO shattered her breast bone and deflected changed iG waiallo Ber pict downward toward the right, alancing of (Ne felt (hat hie adepeed slstor would 4 lower rib and Imbediding Itself tn the ADR 8 part of tne Bouttg ih ihd and would prove a to his bringing Muscles of her hack, This, a¢ nis bel Nhe s home Hie thelr opinion, pears out her other brothers sided with hin againat that Barbour sho! har while the eitl ‘The question was how to get ying on the bed beade him, Hd of Ne The Hullo: has not been extracted 9*) 1¢ was sally acoomolished ot yet, am Mine Bouthgate's mental condi: | ting Hatelle Harwon Helen South Hon ie so Alatromming that the doctor® wate chat {i might be better ifahe went yer 10 excite her She Is wuffering no away from the # ates ‘Tho: alrite omivenience from it and ie in a fale had thelr chat tee ri veil to recover,” It WAS propored by ide that Helen Bo QWAY Bectetly w ia © hoow SHE 1S IMPROVING, [fix a! ter uuentons hess sve una to give her m: 0 Meanwhtle the young Woman isimprov: | I me dawned on Ul Ing, the bullet having been extracted, |kate, ayd wit nee ah and If it were not for her mental condl. | wot t H Was pas whe would mit of all danger | midnight, paoked Jone eds feverish after the mental shook | «purning th 8 fterot f the tragedy and t her mood has | Olt the Ae atl Wa e been one of hystertc ty. She prays ns 1k " nually, thanking God that her ite} 'L nearly faincet tron fr wn | how been apared and that she escaped al aw her he forward in m suicides Krave Jand tod me Lite h The attitude of the Harbour and Bourh me ounbe ow ' kate fomilles has roused Minw 8, V. | alice sutd. ‘a ave Ie Behell, wint of the wounded girl tol want hele mm area! seseutment. “L admire Rev. Dr. | f Rarbour for the stand he has taken | my ' toward hin son.) whe sald toed buy | aa ( think it ty unfatr thet he should tay |! ue Jevervthing thn all the blame on the woman. She hae not led other men astray Harbour knows there is for such a ohare omen It in right that hin love ibawiall She did not] are ad him to the atu bat ie hae no mroun to arbor the. e] ® jon that Helen Fervor iss Fall Importation | murderene, | Was merciful to the Harbours Suppose Helen had received the fatal ry bullet and the man's wound had veen Jonly dlvabitig, how much greater now | Moule thelr anief and shame ol Aid Gloves t | May give ree to an e | ts entirely inderstanding that wrong and misteading Mer! have been awarded the Aevera) Harlem dealers are short of | felations with Mr, Barbour were never stock, aid lots of wholesalers are laying | impr She told me when #he came Dy ,; down on contracts and not delivering, | here Monday of haying met him again Grand / dl Cf the wholesale Lehigh and) "When TE asked her tf she loved him, | , Di hla Themnatit Wilkexburre have 10) tone on hand:| she sald she was greatly attracted by at the Paris Exposition, 1900, Btickrmy & Cunningham, 125,00, and the| him, but that #he could not love hin| ; ; Hrle 0,000 tone hooquae of his professed intdeity, Me| Highest award that can be “Phe puyen for the Matropatitan| seemed to be always harping on til*! made by the French G rine Coal Company, of Boston, were here] when in her presence, and he had y 1 Govern last week trying (o buy stock, but ene her that life was not worth | Ment, tirely called, and that means that the}iiving, He had been a failure and was Kasterners have to such locks as the} a pesaimiat | companies have been led to beteve,! “Helen has an unuaually active mind Lord & Ta lov, and that Boston will have a famine | and her temperament makes her a prey i 9 wefore we do to melancholy. She was in an unfor: | . Retailers here are delivering presont| tunate mood when she met Harbour Broadway & 20th St riders, bu hy new ones, and}after an absence of two y Mis there may be a meeting (his evening to] betillaney attracted her and his will | Hincunat ation and Jer the} dominated her | schedule of prices, We are charging] ‘She wonders now how she was le $6.2) for white ash and $57 for red aah] to accompany him to a cheap hotel | val stice W jual, when there] #he came back here Wednesday even ‘ ; was an adya onty a ton ing much depressed | The perfection of At Leonard WH West One! "he was nervous Thursday, knowing | c f rite Hindred and ‘Twenty-ffth street, the! pe 6 p a What Fa) and Twanty shitty a0 Ho take he ot Wh ustom Zailoring, wane she tol me of their actions In the js working, That is the West End, socanaqua, where 40 men are employ Of the other men 52,009 are and about 20 are working, ‘These are oulelde workers Who are mining wamtsville, tried to Ko to run home orderly The Lehigh and Company report Wilkesbarre © Lackawanna and ar’ and Hudson, the Susq » the Kingston, the Parrish o other of the companies here, The West End mii the regular district and the men | muntty HELD AS A SOCIALIST. Achite Campagne, jan Malan immigrant who arrived y at Bilver| lerday on the steemahip New York, hae been detained at the Barge Office the exception of Cose’s colllery, at it Commas}, Aes Leaver Meadow, the entire territory | rire 8. Wente & Co, known as the Bouth Side, whic! y-| Brook: the ey ww mings, at leaver leh In| Brook, he A. 8, Van Wyckie works, cludes about twelve mining towns, completely tied up. On the North Side, witch takes In ten owe, and which ts not well organized, ondittons at an early hour were al: t the reverse of thee prevailiiag on th by vestment, Put your businestopporm sunity adv, in The World Unemployed capital seeks safe in-|__. WeTAOPOLS Beeeae tes’ NOW READY, inne, Decause ne is & Booklist, amusements, strike | nl, bDUt Just cleaning up outede the Hlerlon. The te-up i® practically complete There was no violence except at Ke where a Polleh miner who work was stoned and At no other place was (here any outbreak. Ali-the men were quiet and Wentern, any ine i remote from quite apart from any other mining com- thirty years old, rotel ts proof poritive that ahe did not | in| conapifa with him to die | There are afew men whom fon't believe he mirtke ‘eg s wat lo i 6 mood MtOCk When they entered the roam he emp Gy te mat Hota, Yacken deere 4 ouwe lied. hin pockete and ordered her tv] WE Cannot lit perfectly A eee tein att aoung (empty hers. ‘Then he took off his coliar | ‘ en tong we deiver W ton. Ht te all golng) OTS eG ee to do likewiee, with ready-to-wear suits, e Whe an davance of BM centin a Ww he began to burn the laundry | ee ae ee ee ate tty) marke whe realized he was in feartul but there are many who Htntin earnest pi ocean Hhe wanted to escape, but waw fear do not want us to try, ful If she moved to the door he would ' A MINER STONE ene ieee it the head For them we have the Laem TAN “Bhe loosened her corsets as he or- Only One Case of Violence Report: | dered, ut when ehe lay back on the bed best appointed made-to- w Miatetet, — | at hie order that he might kill her the Hi! Hastath Mia Ave Ont, easier she sald she thought of nothing measure departments, (poeta to The Brening Worl) Du Tae RN epee ee ith ae Fashionable fabrics only, WILKESBARRE, Pa,, dept. 11.—Oniy | Anything In alt de este aan on te one mine in the entire Wyoming district | tnAt whe Tured the young man on to Prompt service always, | at} ej, | _'T know her very intimately and her mind has always been singularly free from vivacious thoughts or inclinations ‘This whole thing is In absolute contra: diction with her usual bent, “phe acted entirely under an influence that was superior to her will and her judement. 1 know that she will be 1) cleared of everything at the Coroner's inquest and whe will return to the home of her brother, Baward Bouthgate, In Bryanaville, Ma." Moderate prices, Satis- faction, Cor, 13th St. BROADWAY Cor, Canal St, Stores, Near Chambers, ~~» no few men working on he outsid Jol thotr mix | mines he Jeaning up at the fh ae, ie Pennsylvania r Coal at Pittston, but none ing at, the Lahiah ‘Valley, the ee ive 1X STORRS: FALL ez STYLES '