The evening world. Newspaper, September 24, 1900, Page 2

ne a a SE GE ee Tee Miners’ Wives on Constant Watch Force Non-Union Men to Quit. PAA IA DAD totter NO. VII OF THE SERIES. BY OLLVIA HOWARD DUNBAR, H ee Rebbe ddd bbe’ 0004-004 How WOMEN CLOSE A MI SHPNANDOAIT nt, 24 Bor Aftoen ainutes to-day tT watehed an army of women conten net a body of sullen miners and win the vietory, hate | ylvania Coal Company's cols Horler, Many of work are Hon-union men, and being {ndiaposed to heed the strike order, they had worked on The women stood in walt for them, All the forlorn, wind-swept hovela hilly were vacant On the broad slope facing vethor these defenders of 4 common cause Lithuanians, tte Ame an ALL WOMEN. ‘ WOMEN KEEP MEN FROM IAINES. seattered over the surround the colliery #tood marsed Poles, Some hod hastily tled a scarlet or erimson kerehtet about thelr heada, some wore the blue gingham sunsbonnet that ts the badge of matronhood {nh this region of f exquely plipple nners ome bad their Jtte ones safely eradied In the colored scarfs that were! firmly bound th ta, and othe had pationtly accommodated f the tiny toddlers that they dared not jeave hehind., » the an unalterable resolve, [t may hat led them there, giving 4 lon'a ot the themselves to the quit On eagh face Wa fiave been the Instinet of 1 strength to the t timid) gp ® perception writts tory of herhood | meaning of Uhis crisis, whith no mine wife awalt# her husband to interpret for her, At all @Vonts they were serene re of their purpose. No sooner did there appear a miner in working dress than they gure rounded hin in an Liopenetrable mans His own ignominy was the instru mont of hi tigation From hundreds df throats came cries of seurn and denunciation, echoed In the plereing treble of the ehildren. If the man yielded and turned home he was unpuraued, If he resisted stones were cast at hin by hands grown strong with the many forma of Jabor that there women know ° | From frat the women had the vietory in thetr hai v The men,! out dgainet them, | | over the bridge that leads | mame, could not hold f them together, Weakened by a Finally they fled from the coll The victor herole attitudes on the bride the porsible need of their victory should be complete WOMEN URGE ON THE FIGHT, K of ry to the town nono hurry to abandon the fleld, stood tn unconsclously the Hill or sat In earnest groups to await lomonstration, They determined that further were Afterward 1 vivited some of them In thelr homes, “The men must all strike together,’ was thelr irrefutable logic. ‘Wel . havo got to win Uile strike, and we can't do it if we let these men go to Work, Fight? Yes, every day if we have to, tll thin thing ts settled, and Bottled us we want it. If the men can't manage It we'll do tt for them And tndeed the fight is on in earnest 1n Shenandoah, ‘The women keep fonstant watel, and it l# a sluggish one who permite herself more than a few hours’ sloop. At dawn they ave up to see that ho miner tries to steal ° Unobserved to hie work At night they are on hand to see that the } ba ell - eh ' q nan at the night Price May Advance Fur- Bevoral vollivrls |d Have boon gperated by night shifts bad the} . ther—Poor Not Suf- Women not been or ny The Pennaylyania Company has offered | fering Vets fa men during the progros of the stytke 26 extra cont® to.each dollar they eer earn, e bait has caught some of them, and it Is these whom the women | 4 Gre at war againat The second week of the great coal Hat the rage That le everywhere so Mmanifewt has little to sustain It] eirtke opens with prices to householders Oxcopt wteadfartnors of purpowe That grim powslbility of starvation jy {th same ae ast Friday and Satumay Appallingly near at hand, ‘hore are familiew that believe they can hold out] it Mth prompeotn of 4 further rise it trike continue & month, or even two. Hut in some of the homes that 1 went into thts Chairman J warhol moot, of the] 4 morning the women told me trustées of the Hetall Deaterw Assootn: | | CAN HOLD OUT A WEEK, "A WREK, PERHAIS, NOT MORE * Yet these men have heen working all their lives, ‘Their trade in one held more than ordinarily profitable. There are no rival industries, Tf any dusted worldngman | this region te to support bisgamily ft must be by mining. , Yet they live in quarters not Mt for animals, have no money and but one wee the fe provisions ahead Possonsed by Ar that Keeps most of these poor creatures con: tantly qlort, that of being misrepresented to thir employers, and subse quently (echorged, one woman, 4 Mim, Dennis Flaherty, whom 1 talked With to-day, would at firet have nothing to say We don't know anything about the strike at all whe persisted; “nothing She seemed almost Nant, Mut gradially Treasured her Then sud- denly she burat Into a flood of tears Can't you see," she robbed, “that It breaks my heart to apeak of thebe things? I've known nothing but trouble for # liftime, I can't even talk about ft any more The woman was barefooted, her dress torn, old and of the poorest stuf, her neatly arranged hulr thin and gray, She stood at a washetub In one of the two Httle rooins for which a good-nlze! rently wring from her HER LIFETIME OF SORROW, Aft while she told h tory, Hor husband is Afty-nine years old, Ho haw heen w K in the since he was eight. Put {natead ot | being able t ve nfortably an Ave his been paid leas and lows till now he ning than ¢ fore. and practically destitute. Three children I H{tlonw t vere for endurance, have died. The {tle cons) eft ro for sich & woman Tho sliding sale of wages, w Seleht and ten cents off every dollar ie what's starving my man and me,” whe wald | Here, too, as in every other town, I have tried to find from the miners What the sliding scale of wages ts, and not one of them knows. The “sliding weale” inay be an eminently just even piilanthrople ar b oo they have failed to make rangement on the part the moe tinderstand Ita t c All, THE MON WHOSE RARNING® ARE APPE ni BRLIPVE I'v BUT ONE MORE PHASE OF THE MULT NFONM ROMDIRY mY Bion THEY HAVE 30 LONG BERN THE VICTIMS. 8 the men unders | and try to explain it the company agres Dp them an additional per cen! of i wari in pro naeeae Catone ane 4 mubtract a similar amount when total receipts are lew “For two months in the year,” one miner told me, have said the same thing, “we got oxira money. mubtract what they please from the litt up with tt.” { the companies, 1e purp and many others Tn the remaining ten they lo that we get, and wo have to put SAD CASES OF DESTITUTION, After hearing numberle come ee families starving tor the lack of It ‘olish woman, Mrs, Giaeki, told me her husband had been without work all summer, that thelr earnings had beon all eaten up and that her last cent had just gone flour weet Of then destitute canes are within sight of the main atreot of the} One explanation women 4 statements that there ts plenty of work, I wf the fact that children have been dying, Given to dosperation and men out of work, {8 to bo found In the ayatoms | °° of tyranny and corruption practia A man gets a fob desirable tp has pald the boas who has giy ! by the “bosses n It to > him Tf he hgs no money to give he proportion to the amount of money he| THE WORLD: MONDAY LY EVENIN THE MAN This is not the man with the how Starved miner of the coal region, man with the hoe,” from abroad. twon his face, Why! Has he eaten too many frogs’ lege? Will he have to Burope? Didn't his horas win? time to recnve his lordship or some Mabob from across the water? auto? road!) ihe child wants bread!! Wis wite wante bread!’ He can't make money enough at tirikns How outrageous! SOFF COAL _ IS BARRED.|; sald today le “The situation is worke than we an Heipated, It is evident that the miners are not woing back to work The oon Hhvation of the strike means higher prices. The prices on con! today ares White sah, M7, red ash, Ff and Lykena Valley, $7 7, We are going along entirely in the Jark, a4 we do nol Know how much cow! the companies have on hand or when | the prices may be changed Bo far there has been no general advance in whole. fale prices sinee Friday We do not know when the compantos may Amain take action and we pe forced to followed sult POOR NOT SUFFERING, 1 saw somewhere there are today Above ground. fd @ statement that 1,000 fone uf rom hot belleve that ta true, If the atrike continues for three Weeks It will be no longer a question of Price, Dut of golting coal at all Fortunately ooal Th hone now Fido not need hot (or a month to come ®t prevent ls from large Jere who should have jald in May If prices are again advanced there wil a reKUlAr stampede of orders Those why are holding back for a break Wh In, We will not be able to do ving. If we took orders at $6.76 and Hark mbes UP we Would be forced to AIL Chem at w foas, the | dealers will not unt the whol and w demand hele stock i ela meet again alors raise prices or a reak in the strike necessitates our jow- ring prices." TRUST CREATED FAMINE, It is no longer questioned that the railroads have manufactured the famine for their own profit, Over 2,000,000 tons f com) are wlored th the railroad plants at Udewater, Thin would be suMcient to supply New York's datly consump: jon of 95,000 (one for eighty-neven days. When theme facts were called to the ationiion of President Murphy, of the Board of Health, by The Evening World, together with the burning of soft coal y woreral big downtown factories, he waid: "The heaith and comfort of the ople are more |mportant than the ‘ividenda of manufacturers or the profits f com) barons, There la no emergency Af the railroads hold back thelr voal rom the marnaet | have po right bo sus end the operation of the law, | will cule UNers of Mott coal without or favor, There will be no lens ar SOFT COAL BARRED, President Murphy's stand will put an tlarving trade to buy the breed, to ho This is the man with the pisk=the halite It may be that he Is a rélative of “the for he wae Imported An expression of oulled dissatisfaction postpone his trip to Won't his country house be finished in other Ip it because his yacht needs scraping or because of a puncture in a wheel of hie new No Heim iiateimply hungry; Me wante 1 hie ws oh to en) F4449 90694-0040 b 10496606. 14 DOE DEDEEEH EDD that th coal in th oth declare lent ol need 1 be wat John Philade pany for pal we are me riers miruntie At th ING; SEPTEMBER 24, 1900 ' WITH THE PICK, To the Raltor of The Byening World Troops are not needed in this section of the anthracite region, and the call of Goy, Stone to have the Ninth Regiment in readiness has only served to Incite the men, the miners here have been peaceadle and will, 1 believe, remain eo, The labor troubles of the past Ubirty years have shown beyond © fm powsible doubt that the deputies posted about the mines by the coal operators are responsible, and not the strikers, for all blood- Every mine tn this city Is completely tled up, and the leaders of the United Mine Workers have done everything in their power ed preserve law and order. OCP ee ee ee ee eee | ‘PITTSTON MAYOR SAYS_; : TROOPS ARE NOT NEEDED PITTSTON, Pa,, Sept. 2 Since the strike wos declared i re: ‘Troops are not needed, and only darken the prospects of an rly settlement, + ‘ THOMAS F, CORCORAN, i Mayor of Pittston, * ¢ road would attempt to une soft ite engine ye Tight of Premdent Murph: to) World re: to The Dysaing f Mixth and Columbus avenu: ot fear that clouds of soot will ted Into their windows. dmunde, salem agent the Iphtia and ne Coal Com: meld to-day: nave ho coal eo today at all holdin ept the tittle for our principal euntos | We are paying fo attention to I know nothing about the loon mn ho other offices of the big minten all requests for Tn refined whole- forma NEW STOCK FIRM FAILS, ~~, Egbert Mills & Co. Sus- pe Was at at Noon to-day The firm {# a email one, and the an- houncement of the suspen effect ¢ The and 8 consist Mr. Odell withdrew some time ago, and Mr, Mitchell entered taat July. Mr fatlure World about “I do not know what my assete are,’ he continued. to the had Irapttott faith, to cover their mar- wine." Mr. The he had been deal oo Wall ‘ennessee Coal and Iron, which has stay, rally, sume ot the firm's Vp t bial he for heae forwte There were iatiso ce bio, Wabash oft wourt Lous gets no work, end | fie, aprend of ud woft coal nuls- ‘Ton dojtare is considered 4 fair price for a job, ‘Ten dollars to a heart. (hat declared an tinkeueney tained whet loss, consclenvelors brute while the home from which ft has beon taken | (it, price of Ue ge oe he Jacks breed. And the work 1 ured Is not Hkely to Iaat a day after | hapn te wine mati aeah OF OM them and & purchase has beon made p than at the ompany store,” which “Phe alieor HHumiyating Comp, H malctainod here by both the Povusylvania and Lehigh Companies, "| Doane aya Ein attertae wen mig Ae “They tollhus we can do as we like, live whore wo please and buy whore | atti, Ihe Faprgpalttan treet Halt i : N [way Company followed ails atm please,” said one woman bitterly, “but they know that not one of us|fed the he +yy black dtoud ot snes . at hus @ Child too young to work dares take thom at thelr word.’ ‘4 OLIVIA HOWARD DUNBAR, b by le rm as ye’ 3 u was bin @ Manhatt oli Mae as Be wart Bie the nd with $250,000 Liabilities. re of the stock broking firm t Mille & Co,, of 2 Wall street, ed on the Stock Exchange on had no on the market fit, members are Babett Mills Mitchell, ‘The firm formerly ed of Mr, Mille and Mr, Odell, Mille was mich affected over is He wept as he told an Eve reporter that hts llabilities were $280,000, "My suspension was due fallure of customers, in whom | Mille Geeiines to pay whether it at he owed money to his nd pereonal (reds, broker refused to Bay what stocks in, but it wae paid Mr, Mile waa long treet thal A about twelve points in a week. ook was off three point it noon but gained & point later on a ht and sold rule for the stocky were bi xchange under ( ROCOUNL Lom » 4 o'clook Xo en tought and eotd under the rule firm'e account, One-third of shares were Reading preferred th of Debent hd i ond worth pronto ell gra bs of Mia, Pactti Hue “and outhwertefn ara Mills # a tab re of stock of Sinn. and Bt, Lout WITNESSES ARE WANTED pieapibichabss Those Who Saw Turner Clubbed Should Send in Their Names. The Bybning World calle upon any cltizen who wittowsed the aasault upon and arrest of Henjamin Turner by Po Meeman John T of the Twen, Precinet, and Michael J Coyne, of the Twenty-fourth Precinet, which oeeurred in Sixth avenue, ber tween Forty-second and Forty-thini streets, soon after 11 o'olook A. M. on Saturday, Bept, 15, to send his name and address to The Evening World, In partioular, The Evening World calls ypon (he tall man, dressed in a brown sult of clothes, between Forty-third and Porty-fourth streets, caumht Policeman Carberry's arm when it was raised in the aot of clubbing ‘Tuner, to rend hie name and address to thin newspaper. The woman who sald to another wom ao, I whall certainly call my husband's Attention to this outrage and have him complain of these officers,” is requested to end her name and addres@ to this newspaper. ‘That mmn, too, who sald tn the hear. ing of an Evening World reporter, There should be no trouble to @et wit. nesses to thie affalr,” i requested to wend in HIB name and address, The two gentlemen who denounced the conduct of the officers, but who declined to go to the pollee station (@ complain of It because of Imperative business, are asked to send their nares and addresses to The Bvening World, Through the agency of The Evening World Policemen Carberry and Coyne have been ordered (o be placed on trial for their conduct in the arrest of Turner before the Board of Police Commissions ore, If those who witnessed the assault will do their duty by helping The Even- ine World to punish these two clubbers polloe brutality will cease to be popular in thie town, a DRANK POISONED WATERS Carberry, tysecond who, David Long, farmer, near Rahway, N. J, i dead, hie gon and a servant are bay It to thought that their well has pean poisoned. are patrolling the city from end to ond, SHAMOKIN, Pa, Sept. 24g—Not- withstanding the efforts of operators, none of the coilieries in this vicinity resumed work to-day The miners as a boty remained away fromm the collieries to the sur- prise of several operators, who were confident their inines would be able to gtart up. Attempts were also made to work colllerios between here and Mount Carmel, but searcely any miners re+ ported WILKPSBARRE, Pa., Sept, 24.— Everything ie quiet in the Wyoming valley and the sitnation remains ab- solutoly unchanged, No attempt #as the mnes, — MARCH OF TROOPS, Quiet as Battalion ho Remton= deer Soldiers, Sept. 4A battalion the Wighth Rogiinent, composed of Companies B, F and 0, arrived at Me Adoo, the nearest point in Sehuykill County, to the elty of Hualeton, at o'clock thik morning, Tie troops left the camp at Shenan- | doah at 4 Wolock and did not being their camp equipment with them because they @xpent to return to Shenandoah to-nient. Lieut.-Col, Hutchinaon, who ia in com- mand of the battalion, sald he wae or dered there to make a demonstration by marching bla men through MeAdoo and the surrounding towns Bach man car- Tied twenty rounds of ammunition, As soon as the battalion had lett the cars, Col. Hutohinaon hired a team and wave the order to march The route taken was down the Ta maqua road through MoAdoo and then weet to Honeybrook, Here a wide de- tour was made which brovaht the bat tallon to Audenried, Luserne County and then they marched back through McAdoo ta the polnt from which they had started, The troops were recelved by the tn-| after them as people on the maby a jeer Was sent they pasted groups of #lreets. The women Noyed at the presence of the solilers than the men, One woman, after troops had passed, shouted to a gt seemed to be more an of men, “If you don't shoot some of thone fellows you are no good. Kdward J. MoGeehan, a BMackamtth | who | the burgess of the town, slated that the action of Gen. Gobin in send.) ing soldiers there was an outrage and) ‘® reflection on the city of McAdoo. “T shail not be responsible for any overt act committed by any person ti this town while the troops are here, he sald, WASHERIES CLOSED. | Strikers Prevent Them Running at) Wilken re—Men Ordered to Stay Home, (Hoeelal to The Rroning World.) | WILKESBARKE, Sept, &—The de termined opposition of the strikers and thelr women sympathiaers to any at tempt being made to run the vartous washeriea about this district resulted in orders from (he companies to-day for the washery men to remain at home, Rh strikers were on the teh for her men, lining the roads an] ha men ahd women, and Ke the early prepare WN em ALL the me apt! reported ‘or work at the West mine at En ooanamqua and the colliery ts ru with nearly a full force The Ninth TRegiment |» being readiness to respond at once It {nthe Bohuy iki _MEN WIN NA POINT. Strikers Get 10 Ber Cent, of Tr ow Minere to Quit Their Ti held in needed reals mv made to resume operations at any of | Working on Baturday Blghith When Chombisk! i‘ } dtd ni . per cent, of the men in the Frankiin Colliery at Treverton at home to-day. A cartond of deputies went mine, 1t 18 operated tyr the Philad jaod Reading Coat and Iron hand’ employs About Mo "men and boys terete THREE MINES CLOSE, Only Sixteen One i Thirty-nine of ‘the Reading Colliertes Are Sow Work PHILADELPHIA, Bopt, %.—Roeports receives! here by General Superintendent Honderson, of the Pitladeiphia & Read. North ing Goal & Iron Company, to-day, show that sixteen of the thirty-nine cajMeries owned by the company are worlk!hy this morning. This Iv three mines less than were ‘The additonal cgttforiag (ie@ up to-day gre the Boston tun, Draper and Bear Wdge, all in the Mahanoy rewign, near Shenandoah Nye foes avers ae 70 employees etch BURIED ‘BY STI STRIKERS, the | Hearse at Mat Viott Vaneral, SHENANDOAH, Bept, John Cho titek), the Polander who was shot and Killed during the rlot Jast Friday, was puri today The funeral was an impressive spec tach, fully 6,000 mine worker following the body to the grave The procession was headed by the Lithuanian band, of thie olty (man they passed a battalion of the Fourth Regiment re- turning from patrol duty around the mines, Again ax the funeral cortege Wos on its way to 8 Lidwig's Polish made an Inspection of the surrounding|C@uthollc Church a battalion of the country, He returned to the railroad Regiment passed wtation at 6.90 A, M. and Immediately t Ine kore reached the od In Tine, and as the hea vehicle in the FOceania ed to the front every at Hees wine iN pu " a wan wore A emall plece of cre! ma ats to the lapel of hie cout 3) ##n Interred In the Polish ceme- tery, oo SWITCHMEN TO QUIT? habitants, of the various town With | President ‘Truendale of the Lacka- evidenow of entalty and dislike, Not a | aN cheer was given (hem at any place, but Wanna Has Net Vet Mot the Delegates, 1 nt Truesdale, of the Lacka- Wanna road, when a at his oMfee In the city today, deciared that he knew nothing about thé report (hat a commit. tee of the road's awitehmen were on their way here to offer a formal protest agoinet the hauling of non-union mined oa! Mr. Truesdale sald that not only had he heard nothing about the report, but that doubted the (uth of 1 He ony that he would not see such gation if they ealled, ANSRY AT MILITIA. Fourteen Coliieries Quig Troops Were “" Into the Pighe. POPTSVILIN, Sept, 2h Everp operas ton i the Mahanoy Valley wave the Lawrence colliery at Mahanoy Plane, ywhed and operated by, the BW Sheafer estate, is shut down, Only pump and fan runners and the bosses fare at work At Gilberton the mino workers to- day resolved to quit work, It was contended at this meeting tat since the militia has been brought Into the region it is thetr duty to go out, be» chune the appearance of an armed force is o reflection upon those who have been peaceable and law-abiding, The statement was made that the men are willing to work If the troops are recall, The shut-down embraces Boa- ton Bun, Bear Ridge, Draper, Girard Mammoth, Gilberton, Hammond, tndian Nidee, Mahanoy City, North Mahanoy, Bi. Nicholas and Suffolk, Tunnel Ridge, 4 Miners *\ all Phitadaiphia. and Reading Coal and ace colliery, operat. Work, SHAMOKIN, GBept, M-The strikers crisp. you will, you'll 4s the only known method of keeping biscuit fresh and Get itwhen and where oe Coal Ma bs iC nd mrose colliery, of the Lehimh Conl Company, a biscui " Tn-er-seal ten, Fe right and tight, until you eat the biscuit. The rer-neal Patent Package'’ find it to the) All the goodness that is in of the oven goes in the Patent Pack- ° age." All its delicate crisp- ness is there—-and it stays A WORLD WOMAN AMONG THE COAL STRIKERS __ TELLS HOW THE WOMEN CLOSE DOWN A MINE. STRIKE GROWING HOURLY; | MINERS REFUSE TO WORK. (Continued from n Firat Bags Page) i, CRORE ER are fully ten thousand min Workera now idle in waat ts known rr the Mahanoy Valley, which extendas About fourteen miles At the Lawrence colliery to-day the Workmen repulsed a body of who came ta coerce them. sich | sored A victory tdav by Inducing 10 Upholstery Departinent, Tuesday, Sept, 25th, we will offer, at greatly re. duced prices—in most cases at one-half the original materials for Draperies, Wall & Furniture Coverings, which will include almost every fabricinSilks, Damasks, Orientals and Tapestries at present in vogue for above purposes; prices range from} 50c. to $5.50 a yard, » All remnants in this de partment of from one to five yards at equally reduced prices, Colored Curtains, aso pairs of Silk Cross. Stripe and Snowflake Cur. tains, small lots of each de sign, reduced as follows: ‘Those formerly sold at from $2.00 to $2.50 a pair, $1.50, $3.00 $4.00 “ * $2.50. | | $4.50 $6.00" “ $3.50, $6,00 " $8.75 “ $5.00, Lord & Taylor, Broadway & 90th St “ Lord & Taylor, Grand Street Stove, | Autumn Millinery Opening, ~ pT ues, Wed, and Thurs., Sept. 25th, 26th and 27th, andsome yg Hep and Bonnets 3 Misses’ and Children’s Hats 5 Pretty effects tor Dress and General Weas, Simply Trimmed Wa ing lor Hats, Untrimmed Felt, Velvet and ancy Ina Large Variety of NewShapes, Fancy and Ostrich Feathers | Flowers and Foliage, Ornaments, Buckles and Novelties in Trimmings. A visit of inspection is respectfully invited, Cor, Grand & Chrystie Ste it when it comes out readily distin. guish the package by the trade-mark de» sign on each end,