The evening world. Newspaper, September 22, 1900, Page 2

, | Carmel strikers. At the first mention | made of the atrike @ month A WORLD W THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 22, 1900, ~. aa Bt a AN IN THE COAL FIELDS TELLS OF WOMEN LEADERS OF Bh ete ‘Spirit of Resistance to Oppres- sion Shown by Miners’ Wives. Two-thirds of Mt. Carmel’s Honest Laborers Are Paupers. LDA DAE AAP EA DRAB AAMAAAD bh oe NO. Vi. OF THE SERIES, BY OLIVIA HOWARD DUNBAR, ORDA AAG Db LAA DA dote WOMEN LEADERS OF THE STRIKE, lal to The Byvening World » MOUNT CARMBL, Pa, Sept 22 bb bbe: Women are the loaders of the Mount] The strength bred of their Ureleas patience and suffering haa become @S active force, The man who ts too cowardly to strike will have to deal heneeforth with these heroic women Here is a typleal Incident for proof | On Monday, when the strike became general here, the Rider Colliery re mainod in operation. Only a third, approximately, of the men had struck Yet the Rider mon suffer all the wrongs peculiar to the employee of an| Andividual operator, and have no reason, apparently, to consider themselves better off than the other miners The women could not abide thetr timorous polley, FACED 600 ANGRY WOMEN. So on Tuesday olght when the Rider men lef\gwork they found them selves face to face with an army of #ix hundred angry women, most of them leading thelr Jittle children by (he hand and many darrying bablew in thelr | arms, Hinnes, shouts and exeerations came from the women “Blackloga!” they cried, “how do you dare to work? Our cause and stoaling our children's bread!’ And vowt by righteous fury they hurled great jagged stones at the “blacklegs, who attempted no defense but ran for thetr tives, wading knee deep through a stream, rather than go by the road where the women stood Inaseed Logethor Bnet the leason had heen effecwally taught The next day nota man ap peared at the Rider Colliery, It had been clowed AND BY WOMEN. Operator Rider immediately sent mossages to all his ateiking employees! to the effect that he would guard them to and from their homes dally, Hut the men stood firm and the colliery ja sul ted up: ‘To-day the women are planeing how (hey may best deal with the man at Locust Gap, the only large golliery now in operation here You are ruining | upon, shared all her provision Hearing of thie and fearing the power of narmed women atrong in their determination to keep the men oul, the Philadelphia and oad ne! Coal Company, which owns the colliery, his morning sent two care full of soldiers to the Gap to protect the men working there, But a greater force than soldiera or weapons can subdue ts latent in these women “WE'LL FIGHT,” SAID THE WOMAN. “If the mons fight the womens fight too,” volunteered a Polish woman ‘Strike no good ff every inan not join, We make him, We tired of hungry, tired of poor wages, We fight Gureel ves." Whenever in these blighted towns one of the miners’ wrongs has been Pighted wnother has sprung up to take ite plac ) ‘The Philadelphia and Heading Company pays [ta men, | learned, twice It has no company stores, Here, Chen, an improvement ta con ditions waa to be looked for On the contrary | found on visiting the miners that the wages paid) Qre no low as fairly to wring the very life blood from these slaves of the) Coal Trust A typiew! miners Mountain Patel. T talked with almost every woman who lives in thie squalid group of shan es and tho testimony wae in each case (he same-starvalion wagea, galling oppression | tlemont here in Mount Carmel ts The family of Mike Jakto representat| ve Jakto ie @ strong young Pole and, ae he works instde (he mines, should recelve good pap, Wut he showed mea Me beartig st of pay chocks for the paat year ‘There Was ho opportunity for geeration in these printed witnosses, 1 looked qirefully over the checks for the laat three months and found that THE HIGH Bea? SUM THIS ABLE HODIED MINBE HAD RBCRIVED FORTNIGHTLY WAS $504, AND PHI LOWEST $8.94, and his rent bad W hime th the amounts quoted the man had to buy his wife and Aye ehiidren been deducted already food and clothing for THEN HIS POOR WIFE WEPT. It in tho wond at his poor wife wept ad she told me of her trouble The eilent. shrinking children that followed her about were never sure whe told me. of food Kor reelf whe had hardly the courage to keep up} & strings hat kely t in death | It te women fortified by ex Hees such as this who are urging the men of this district to fight to the lant Hardly able to evedit the full extent of statements | heard made re poate to the effect that the Poor Distrlet here is obliged to contribute to the suppprt of the fam { Hundreds of miners, | went for informa tion to the ead of the loreal Minera’ Union, Daniel Gallagher Mr. (iallawher ha en a miner for twentyefive years and fa atill, He knows every inoh of Mount Carmel and every miner. “te true’ he wald POR THE PAST SEVEN YRARS TWO-THIRDS OF THE MINING POPULATION OF MOUNT CARMIBL HAS RE- OBIVPD AID FROM THE POOR DISTRICT "They certainly could not live without this help, They can barely live with \t “Why haven't they revolted before Hecause privation and sorrow have eaten into the very fabrie of their souls and made @ cringing, lowespirited creature out of every man ot Mhis poverty Is nothing new, Why, in the twenty-five years that Tiiaye been a miner | have seen a reduction of from 50 to 300 per cent. in the wages paid to contract labor LABORERS WHO ARE PAUPER S. On analysis Mr. Gallagher's first statement is startling. fe anything hut a rich township. here, Yet Mount Carmel There js but one wealthy operator living be taxed to keep alive the men that the operators and lar mpanies employ and will not pay TWO-THIRDS OF THE HONEST LABORING MEN OF THIS TOWN, THERBPORE, AKE PAUPERS. They aye no vote, not a possession thoy cad Jay thelr bands on, and, most bitter of all, no self-respect. At last the opportunity has come to them in the form of thie atrike. The fervor with which they have embraced \t ts easily comprehensible. There In another pitiful aspect of this dismal situation. * The widows and orphans of the town, whose claim is legitimate. can- he township must / Mot be adequately provided for because the small resources of the Poor| before the funeral, Distrie: aro already eaten up by the destitute families of the miners. A miner's widow is, you will find, a woman who has lost all Rope. nip of they bere bay say OLIVIA HOWARD DUNBAR $0) month She hus two Idren, She ds obliged to support herself and » (wo therefore, ON AN INCOME OF THRE AND ONE-THIRD TH A DAY BACH, And she triew hard to dot ' Tf they would give me $4 a moutl he ways patiently, “Lb think I could get niong Mhink of tt! KINDNESS BRED OF POVERTY. fo Mrs. Letdenberg and to nil the we hoo are similarly destitute (howe whose fortines are a grade higher ave wonderfully kind, The warm: heartedness and generosity of these poor creatives: themselves: abjectly destitute, is a reassuring thing o see 1 found, for thate Mra Prank offle with herr whom Mre, Nuss ustan who is death tute now at the very beginning of (he wtrth secure and cleanliness ie impossible Yet here, too, the agents, who in this cane and Reading Company, decline to make repairs OLIVIA HOWARD DUNBAR ANOTHER DELAY IN MOLINEUX CASE, e+e = represent the Philadelphia |Defect in Appeal Papers Laid to District- Attorney and Work Must Be Recast, | JMand of the troops MARTIAL LAW FOR COAL REGIONS, (Continued from Firat Page) Run when 100 men from Mreeland went there at 6 o'lork to stop the men at the A FP Kammerer colitery from going to work There wae a parley near the colliery and the strikers agreed to work on the promine that they will not return to the mines Monday morning The men and women of MyAdoo wee vgali on the mareh today At4 A M W) strikers from Audencied, Jeanesvile and McAdoo, and 60 women of the latter started for Coleraine where masemeocting waa held > GEN. GOBIN’S PLANS. Will Divide Troops Between Shene hh, St, Nhe jae nd Mae hanoy Clty, He Saye. BHENANDOAH, Pa. Bept. 2 Only Mike Yuckavage, was killed outright In the shooting here jart night one person Annie Rogers, (he Little girl who tt waa| suppowed Ww hot to death, has reco ered consclousnesa and may recover The Town Counell Nae appointed over 8 special policemen to serve rowds were permitted to conmresate On any of the streets after this body ef specials were appotntod, they being dis tingulshed from other ribbon badge, with the word printed thereon Gen J.P &. ‘Special in, who la in com jas made the stat terward called |! Mont ‘hat he will distribute the soldiers tween Shenaniowh, B! Nichols, Mu Jhanoy City and other pointe Kdward Clark, who was shot below the heart, had a remarkable escape, the bu Yet Mra, Miller provides for herself, her husband and six children on |iet haying been extracted and bef im | loan than $10 @ month! proving to-day, He had gone ato the My man haan't earned 860 wince list A confessed THe eee NE ER TEE FentGe The Has he wtruck? Yeu anit t ay out md VT help hime | wound 4 Mie houwes whiet tease we sien Ly Valmont ss bal condition aw! Ali collieries around wlow', Lost those | kaw in Shamokin yesterday. Whe roots loak, the outer doors are | Creek and WHIM Benn are coved broken and offer ma protection against wind or rau, the walle aro Ins) How Ne: amine i the oegi fe welt | Is because their men are afratd to go to work for fear of violence at ine hands of (he tribers, The deputies who were wiih Bherlf et eventing and dtd the hooting ected from the bes itheene of Bhénandoah. They were forty tn number ‘the camp equipage for the here is arriving, and the gleep in thelr tents toniaht toope now moldiers: will Die promptness Is due to the faet that the State Arsenal authoritios at Harrisburg had prepared eo equipage last week for th ure Third Uriaavle WEST END WORKS. Many Strib Neturn to Work ly the renuen ave Vora peop Nae referencen @ There After Appeal by Aneto aes tase ) ali Wee Seema Leth Uh LAR the Owner, NG few fy HW M as wi caver _ ie A a teAttor fe showed that) WELK BABARRE, sept, 2—'Mhe errik the wearing Mund Molinos far (oo voluminious and thar, er have failed (o cloke down the We Appeal Wont absitenoe Hendinenia and pee Hhd mine at Mocanaqua, deqpite the : ad N nude & the form) fet that they have 2) of the 1 em Avot “ "i son winke kot tok Crom MI ‘ ' (the Mol day 110 of these strikers we « ay Bie Ruant dee, Will HOW FeCMt the entire [tO Work In AnAWe to an apiod { vd ly f ‘ eral weeks work wt no» (hem tae! nie! John Mo Cony natant rn t the owner, and [t ow Jooke as if the WES en ee ‘ ' ‘ any Fewioe | curikers will te unable to gain thelr WONT CURB ERO UNI eee: [ see will now | Bal ‘ ‘ p Heer rde i f a irl ot Anponls; haforn |. fH cMnRLeniy mine Ine tinprer ea Marted on hin Ruminer v vrly part of November fold which ts tn operation 400 CARRIAGES AT A WOMAN'S FUNERAL ote Thousands Turned Out to Honor the Mem- ory of Mrs. James March $1,500 Casket | our renreventatives In the district eascouihasalarbh nay that about 4 o'c'ock Friday after. noon Bupt. Boyd and peveral of the fore | Mrs James te of Port, wan ta ap : men at the head of an orderly hody of Warden Maron an leader | Mot ry, . ad run an | men numbering about MO) were exgort of the Hixth Distr was | heen « pe eh: (OR youre. 40) ing the miners who had worked during buried today from Mt Pairich’@ Church, |Fenutem masn wan colebretal st eeeen| the day to (halr homes Mott ptroe! Tho edifice wen pastor, Hey. John Kearney a Hg | "AL sovers pinnea Ihtes bedign ot thee tWronged and (he #tree ed with| He wae aaaleted fay, daha eigners, mostly Lithuantans, had con the mourners and fi Hi 0 Bete 7 QUINT | vrogated, and any man wearing worke Four hundred oarciagen mi nen ‘ach | ere airs her clorey. ing clothes wos a mark for these crowds. yearae, which was ita vik Wal Willleng Afeeaey AY BF® [they fret began by calling them names and wae dia * | MoLaughtin Phy and James land then resorted to throwing aticks i } and sfones, bilo ty * ie « iver WINK AN olf custom which gave! By this time a few of theme men haf andies im ath Waachind WML wArE'| cane friends of Mrs Maroh an ops|romened their homes and fupt, Boyd, ch nike, oe abla ew the funeral proces 1g further advance Imposslble, took “ hit sant ei iy was taken from the! refuge in O'Hearn’s very salable. They filled an Ma? - accra cc tivaey Cemetery, where the! were at once surrounded by the mob, Mr Mareh. w ‘ - eat Mine we From the church down) “The English-speaking olttzens, alarm. Mine M & Flynt rf fel fo Grand to Mulberry, ta) ed at the. turn of affairs, quickly organ~ Maes, Niall May \ 1p Hroome, (0 the! ised a posse of about four houndred and Seah paawen k ; j Bowery to Bast Tenth street ferry reveras coal and iron police, ‘They Kiown women in the iower part of! Among those tn carlages wore Gen, | marched to the livery atable and atten ‘ a Wan conapiciats for her) Branca V. Greene, President of the Re. | same ameulty made thelr way through ‘ue Nabe Int hei vy, | Pubiean County Commit George R, | tie mor pulting rete ie et Manchorter, Brcreta ecommitice,| “Guprding the men who had taken night : ) Or. Henry, Prank Rulkley, Chanies A e's » in the etable, they with Httle | Hem Paccory — Inepector —-‘Mhoman | molestation safely escorted each miner Wen Roosevelt apt Mi, M O'Hirte Daniel Shea, Jeremian Bulll- | to his home. March Pom Wanten he aald to t (yan, and Colleetor of Internal Revenue | ‘Sheriff Toole had by thts time reached ‘March, your wife is a ve right( Fentinand Bidmen the scene from another point whigh be and tam anly 90 ‘ allbearers were Postmaster | had been guarding, He quickly eWwore AAC; Oana, tt Corpeliua Van Cott, ex-Cohgresaman {in additional deputles, and with a force Nearly 6,009 mourners visit Timothy J 1ihe house jorneliog Mulll- o view tie body.) van, of Boston; W. F. Burr, Brnest and Aix policemen were stationo! at the | @tegeler, C.F. Wetael, N. Ke, Taylor, Campbeil, March nome, % Marion street, to Keep) FP Patwill, J, Maresca, Riohandt ¢ “ohen, the throng moving, |x 8, Graen, 1 Opmmone sad debe No: At W colook this morning the vody| Nuluy, | HOW FIRING BEGAN, Operators tw Ne. | warding the Shooting of Strikers, dood to The Kren! World WILK HSHARRE, Sept M—An ot wae given out by General statemen Mananer Wa Coa) Company the riots at Shenandoah yevterday Lathrop, of the Lehigh to-day, regarding of one hundred marched to the Cam- bridge collfery, They accompanied the miners there to their homes, and along the line were intercepted several (Limes, ot the men} citinena by a rea} * Coe wey eee orth ow ONLY SMALL LoTS = AT PRESENT PRICES, » t William oH, Burke, coat ? denter ae 44 . dred and Sixth treet, ree fp funed to well a twelveston & lot of eheatout coal t i + to any one not a re; % customer ‘ “1 will seth amatt tote to} my own (rade at BOTS wiow f for white an he pai “y io hb and can't *® regelar customer + it Want twelve to of f bite w molaht wl tte him, but 1 wowldu't want ¢ to” + | + OODOD6-405:5 0404 96-0-4bO4 toner | — | Nery Juat aeror io valley from Bhen Junddah with » wileravly augmenied for Sherif Toole made bia way Tinrough fewer) large crowds, The Niners there were aw alting we party Gk (hen the Bherif's posse start. toward Sfenandoah They had ngfely parsed the frst Crowd and neared the Kecond, when they were met by @ Vole f stones and sey eral revolver showy. The mob mud the pome and Sheri Toole was fore: to mive the order to fre to protest them welves. “Mie had the effect of ¢ crowd and the men were taken home pean EE MINERS WEAKEN, e | Many Mew May Het to We Owing (0 Pressnce of Troops fn Comttetds RURANTON, Pa, Sept. —Now that | troops are tn the flell at uncertainty ie Krowing amone miners here ‘thelr future. rom Poreet City the Hillside Coal a mines many men hi where 1 tron Company hae the news comes that ye announced (hetr inten: two bie | Hon to go back to work on Monday The Delaware, Lackawanna and West. | ern Company's met, are showing renileasness to-day, and a break may} come in thelr ranks very soon, ae ene! Company again brovgh Genera, Bupl Loonie, | winoes today that aw aoon an | men get back to work thelr demands we company wloyees exclusively wit! | be taken up and considered | The Pennaylvania Coal Company }vtande in a sltniiar porition, and other | companter are ready to do the same The position of the companies and thelr | decided announcement that they wilt Hot deal with thelr employees through | } J the United Mine Workers’ organteation omether with the bringing of (he millthe into service, has get the strikers here abouts to thinking, and they realtee that the battle ta apparentiy going amainat) | them | T Washertes, which operated all the | week oa still going No divonter hae broken out anywhere in Cis region, The ate peaceable and are remaining from the mine 4,000 ROUNDS TO MEN men away Vwellth Hemiment Gets Pwo Dayal Hations and Plenty Ammunition, BUNBURY, Pa, Sept. 2 The Twelfth Remiment, Col CM. Clement command ing, left Bere for Shenandoah at lo tock (his morning over the Penney! vatta Rathroad | ‘The command moved in heavy march> ling order and carried provisions for two }days Four (houmand rounds of ammu nition wan i biited among the men when the train pulled out of the local yards The Tweltth Regiment Hand accom panied the trope ALLENTOWN, Pa fepl. B—Col, C ‘T. O'Neil And the other officers of the Fourth Regiment left for Shenandoah on a special train at 7.80.4. M., accom: two compantes located Rane oth “Mompentes had full Fane q except fifteen men living outside | Allentown, who followed A CUT BY HIGHWAYMAN When # Hrooklyaiie Foaght for Mis Wateh Hin Face Was Slashed Six Times, John Helmer, of 20 Wallabout qtreet, Brooklyn, Had hin face seehed by a highwayman before dawn to-day, On hiv way home from Wallapout Market Heiser dropped into a saloon, and while in the place looked at his fine gold watch, At the carner of Walton street and Marey avenue he was halted, He re- Haved the highwayman, who drew a knife and al his face atx times, A JUDGE DALY RETURNS, - Among the passengers who arrived to-day per steamer Ponce, from Porto Rico were: Judge J. F, Daly, of the United Bates Government erie: t Dr, Hi, Hollander, B. L. MoKee, Fonouee’ Meuirtment,, snd, fie. b- DEATH SONG OF HOWARD GRAHAM. Author of Love Ballads Had a Brillian’ Career, Only to Die in Poverty. WHES TO-MORROW VESTHADAY, BECOMES Voemeorrow, dear, will be a p ant May Day, One me these words you Fond memiry bet our frat piny day, You promised me that you should wed. | know that you ° me back to trae to me an All Jealousy from me ¢ away, My love for you, dear heart, will Inat forever, When tormorrow will be yeaters day! Chorus Tosmorvow will seem like a year ome, Altho’ it in onty a day: To-morrow a aie, a wold ring aad the bling ‘That will follow the word you any Till be yen, | well know, and we mo we'll happy be eheokeved way, For then you'll be mine and t will he thine thro’ Iife's When to-morrow hecomes terday! yen. In many of the theatres and concert halle throuwhout the country to-night atehy |litle ballads and songs, filled with melody, will @in the applause of thousands Every wong pulaisher in New York knows the author of many of them, Howard Graham, who, with his late brother Charles Graham, both wrote and sang songs that aroused human interest and touched chords both pathetic and sentimental, for years, Jtoward |e dead, and naught but the! Kind offlces of the Actors’ Hund can prevent the body from belag trundled to Potter's Metd. Commumption, neglect and excesses browght Howard low at thirty-aix yy of age. Wie life went out in the Relief House In Hudson street at midnight, Only an hour before he died he hummed a tune, It was the air of a new baliad he was compowlng, and it died with him Once, years ago, Howard Graham war a tenor of promise, He was a mem: ber of the Clipper Quartet and e orated with his brother Charles by writ- ing verees to fit the latter's catchy muale, ‘They earned fame and money together, Howard wrote the words for Pwo Lge tle Girle in Blue.” Charles wrote the muste, When Charles died a year ago and left his widow penniless with five little chil dren Howard went to live with them In a wretched tenement at 15 Washington street, Mre, Graham earned a pittance wash- ing the Qoors of a big downtown oMee batiding, whtie Howard—he could do nothing ¢lse—wrote® songs in 4 room with @ bare floor.on a rlekety table, ‘There he wrote iWhen To-Morrow Be- an. | Givin brother's family and his own needa that Graham could not walt for royalties Ite gold hie songs for Anything he eoud get, When he brought the money home he would way ‘Bore day I write @ song that wii) make us all rheh—when I get well,” One of his latemt gongs and Gis favor ito, was "Phe Hardest Daye Are Over, Jewsie Dear’ Jenmio waa his Uitte niece, She wept towlay when they toh’ her Unelo Howard would never write another wong. “Maybe he'll sing them there,” she with a little Anger rimed celiing of for Unele Howard waid, polnting upwi toward the smokey the Cratam home, was good," He was good to little Jewsle any way, but to Nimbelf-well, le might have lived longer had he eared more for bimsel! hin friends aay who knew him beat jmham was anf fihan (Wo years ago he and his brother Charles went (o Engiand together and recelved a jemmey (rom a relative, It was a comfortable sum, but the song writers knew jothing of how to keen money, To them It came easily, and from them it went quickly’ Howard's death leaves Mra, Graham abeolutely destitute, with five small onildren, at 16 Washington treet In all of@the songs the Grahame wrot \t fe sald they hever pat a tale of pov> ty to music. Of love, of home, of chile | ny ind childhood days, they composed Jeong after sonn. Poverty” and "auffer- ine Chunwer and “wane! were words unknown (9 tie Graham vocabulary They fived and died writing only somme that meliowed the human heart, and their fratities are swepl away in the current of cheer they brought rt no y The Range of Modern Guns covers an immense area, but the Gas Range is practically limitless, What oes it do? Every. thing in the culinary line— exc, ,t overheat the kitchen or fail when wanted most. Always instantaneous im the best of service, out with the twist of a finger, clean, convenient, economical, Landlords point to the Gas Range asa feature of their flats or apartments, Every bright woman wants a Gas Range in the kitchen. Hate you one in yours ? New Amsterdam Gas Company Night and Day” and otter gongs al) now being sung. But they broveht Graham little meer) vad he could not write Mil, wretenedly i, tat ote © GBORON Fox Come Help Wanted~ "Male