The evening world. Newspaper, September 28, 1900, Page 2

SETTLING THE GREAT STRIKE. a Mitchell Says 10 Per Cent. Raise Will Not| Evening World Finds End the War—S Secret Meetings. ‘The exact situation in the great coal strike is as follows Under pressure the coal-carrying roads have decided to offer a 10 per cent. increase in wages to the miners, No recognition of the union will be involved in this offer, which edommpanied by & proposition to arbitrate other points of difference Mine superintendents are meetin ie today in Seranton and Wilkesbarre fo got this offer into shape to present to the men, Individual operators are not bein few the coal roads. President Mitchell declares positively that the atrike te not ended, and Chat & 10 per cont. incroave will no! |) ‘The Reading Company to-day has only twelve out of thirty-nine colleries at work, having lost another mine t A strike of bituminous miners @oale te not lived up to by operators An tmmportant meeting '# being 8! | heen deiegnied to bring before the Ini Qoday ot M Cortiomit street of all the (abependent operators of the anthractio coal regions. fenater Hanna te present and was for geme tiem tm conference with Presidem of the Erie row. Marie, one of the biggest of ‘he independants, arrived arly this morn. fing, but refused to discuss the strike eituation. He went directly to M Cortlandt mireet, fetiere President Walter and Vico-Pres dent Bayre, of the Lehigh ey road, end other coal operators were awaiting Tho terme of surrender were put forth, They include the advance of 1 per cent. Lh wages for the strikers, The e@peratora will deal directly with their men through the arbitrator, Cardinal G@ibons. He ha» agreed to serve, with the understanding that hie mediation ‘would be mutually acceptable, Tt ts believed that Benator Hanna had than any one other man, He have come to New York for oRptens purpose and has suceseded his mission. President Mitoneit, of the United Mine ‘Workers’ Union, when informed by The (World that the operators would grant the atrikers a cont, advance in wages, waid: “The Union will not atand on any technicality of recognition, We did not order a atrike for the pleasure of strik: tog. If the concempions are entirely watistactory 1 shall declare the ptrike ft at ones, If thoy are only partial, | wall call a conference and nubmit them ‘to the minere—the men who mado the trike, If they are satisfied with them, ‘the Union will be bound by their deci: mon, The Union looks only to the bet: torment of the men's condition, If ‘what The World taile me is correot, this ptrtke hes won the greatent vio: tory ever peored by organized labor." Rx-Gov. Mone when asked what he thought of the ending of the coal miners’ wirike ald: tHe = “TL hope the report that the coal wertkce | , : gt | Mteuot the men to refuse the off PPEADAPEAEDODAD EERO RE EEE Em te . WHEeEroinrinn sits ‘ . js over ie true, o for i° at ike. teleare, oe’ ot My gg Te teoiees, te ieee Were Axed bY] Delectives are at work in earnest to-) irvine to wipe some dlood from hie fwce, he will be robbed, uch things are ean Valen por A a } @ three dietrtots. | day following the clues furnimied by{ which had been out by a fall The | common, he said eH noes, nT i wake ‘They cannot accept anything lee than| rhe ‘evening World in the myntertous|nearo Kot # towel and wiped the old m the testimony of several persona consumers ot coal. jope the these demands without a two-thirds 0 | , ed! fant le ever. ince tt te 0 cuickiy bs yr} murder of old Chariew #. Fook, the rich | mans fade Mt If certain (hat Peck's body wan not bh Fab G abt over) vote of the three district in jotnt fenlemtate dealer, who waa found dev es Aes oot) HOt possesion of the} on the aldewalk at Yolock, where bi Pt eee Ue oe 1 are | Cnvention, which can settle any quem|in West Meventeenth street enriy Vite inokdent, Uapt. Meciuaky | Policeman Kehoe discovered tt twenty Hanne Morgan are tion oop the etree, torday morning with Nia abut fractured | paid fl sows (wt Mr. Peck had at jommt minutes Jater, ‘The conclusion ts ins ‘willing to give the ininars the advance re here say they feel tn love ' Gemanded for political reasons, why wag |"'9! and non-union men| The most important development to | allen onoe and recelved some Injury by |ovitable that Pack was elthor murdered ft not given in the firet insiance as u will etand wut ‘Bmalnat the reported offer | day war a atatomen| of James Helly, | tint bine jearned ‘hat Peck and) in a cab and thrown out into the street matter of right? Bd al Bl heal hw lever e paicon near the apot where |aome companions had beon In MeCoy's|or hp was murdered In aome nearby | " wand, to the and Corbett’ places before going to (he | house and his body dragged out and left ‘I wonder If the increased wages the murdered man wae four y qed have boon sliowed if Mr. Hanna| FO STRIKE ‘IN OHIO, | erect that a man in hie saloon last | Delavan dh the Vlabw atk : eensocmeegiann AlgAt told of meeting A WaRON driven hire) Meck had apant money freely and Capt, Oirumetance# aro aginet the man'al tind not gone to Mr. Morgan and voll . Hedly through Beventeenth street Just) MeClusky thinks Ais roll must have having hoon dragged th the street him that the strike endangered the wuc:|Ultimatem leaned ty Bituminous y vd cam of the party, and that | Mimene tee i before Policeman Kehor found the boty een pretty: well vised up by the (me He | Dayitaht trad appeared before the ody #0 mtust endt 1 wonder it Mr, Hanna | le Reity could nwt tal who had rad thie, (gor to the Tein | wan foune Ighborhood had bee 14 have tak stepe th end th in Wages, hor who had seen the wagon, Dit ha-wan| Peck'n bleeding in ihe tavatory tn] gun ar aciiet woul en Any stope t tho] rae 6. ‘ NeNeR A at 1, [I Man's place le dimeounted by the fer] Th t 1 ftrike {f he had not found that it» con JACKSON, 0,, Bopt. An ultimatum [sure of the fot Whoever t ‘ ee i : A solution of the . ‘ r y 1 that {he wagon vening nd rope earned) mystery hwen balked by the | would have 4 jaa been tweed by the diwirict president | acmording tn Hetlly, sald thar , ; nex on, ie Mi . rat tcute nd member of the Mate Hoard of [had made a arent clattering aa it waslyererday. valf a day i advance of the |pitoable altitude of the pollee of the Patter Hanna when asked about the linited Mine Workers to the operatora |iriven rapidly away police, MAL Peck Nad A Nomeblem) (he Weat Twentieth street station. They trie nid: vt Oak HY}, (his county, embracing Ave! ft hed been remarked beeauee {1 came | te had pot fallen at that time Amaiimed from the outeet that the man | wet companion, ontering a strike tomorrow | auring the rain storm onl made po ‘had come to hie death by a fall, When "7 t tT y td : we 1 don care to dirouna the matter Atl ieee the Operon pay (he Koala for} muh nodse driving Th wun not 4 NOT MURDER, OF COURSE. beonfronted with the statement of Mr thle diatrtot, whieh, the miners olaim, te moh a mally see M ky sold he did not be'leve! Peok’s clerk that he had carried " " . ” milk wager ‘ ‘ ko Mhat he had carried a large | A ia strike aotually ended?” he Warley conts per CON amainat © conte now | the nelehbomond af thath Nl Nia | M KM owas ime at he wae mum of y, a watoh and chain and mt éont care to eteouss the matter a) sine pad to Metlly'a informant Relily ke : ihat he] aevernl rings, all of which had been all,’ he replied, MINERS STILL MAR Peok'® body wa iit to the nel) ‘wre smite, DUCT stripped from his body, they intimated anGeerne borhood tn this wagor 1 wan simp socase of wetel that he might have been robbed after he | Addl CH Capt. Mochunky dak (ile mon Ne vory much intowionted ane fall ng! had No offort wae made to in OPERATORS MEET. Isvevn narvor ana fve ths men rae Was A al and a4c tet non night on the omne he " nyt y " nile Wve World reporters scoured fere at Haat tives Mocafferty, Sar te ' ‘ Nelenho hood and esteblighed the Beoret Sessions of the Coal Men Colliery Closed, Armatrong abd Mogart fn n mk at Wilkesharre and HAZLETON, Pa, Bapt There wae | veeled acing Pooh's mente ; " re trylie to And a trek Seranton of strikers ftom Freeland etn f } : “ rook to-day and an a result the} al 1M AM ve wim A won # sald, saw Plates yyielgh ad es a y of J. B, Wents & (Co, waa prac fon the om ; A Sal emer Until he wae lant t q oon Saat de Walk where he waa foun Kid Coys Valleys had a meeting In the offer of! pagionrouk Tose Nba pion ss OAT hy om na such t to Inquire Into the Lahigh Valley Coas Company in thisftnat a crowd tirikers ! nd te any man came tO be @iy to-day, Chairman Lathrop of the [arrived bu mOWO TT hed wii a a) ir ' ea 18 Anil Jahigh Vailey Company, ix preniting, — | gportton | i Wcrey (Ay Reeieh buy pro President ‘Truemdulo, of the Lackne | of | saad tae wanna Company, has referred | ve paid i Nie soon he Hey Guperintendants the plan of settlement —_ ean |HOODLUMS JEER @f the miners’ strike as propored by th 1 1h presidents of the conserving rairoats | JONES TALKS ¥ ie AS HANNA SPEAK Up to thie time the reprewentatives of ane . the companion in thin neetion have had OF H A N N A orking ma — = erblirary power, aud before any mov . ’ ‘ Was made by (he presidents of the com enumaiins . (Continued from Firat Page) panies the high offic in charge of meiW “i - a mines were conmulte! Hut ir Klan ane f te " Now appear that the prostdents of Coal Strike Queries and! . wer: ‘ for wh want in the Adminis: | New York, but of all over ine country | ad rranged "i ve Valted Mates, Are Moin lo be juet as eompaniee have taken all powers the Senator's | m an Jat as enthupiaatio tor | themselves, The jarge individua: oper S 5 Interest cy : i vi HANNA NONPLUSSED, i ae And he Drineiplen of Repub. | ators were not represented at the oon in Them. ied ila See aa Moe , ww you ore ference. Au i | every man whowe mind |e One individual operator stood outalie r elect will malo. It up defor binthad wouLo NOT SPEAK, the door where the conference was held | fon day and will vote for the right ontor Hanna finished fenator Manna (nod t ied hie apewoh Asked if he was taking part in the de | MP'e! 4 é ST WORK Se ee THAT Bestia a Volek | AM role ma inte wae Uberations, he «aid A a ay pe: ne: ie Janne was qonpluseed for a moment) again renewed, ‘There were {mer “No, The iidividual operators will cut! | uf ek ait Am sort od alle of “RMN! “Hine! hut Me no figure in the settlement, if a puree » mocratic N BY STRIK E ime to Glecuss thal to-dey. J} id serund'wiore (HAH ie baw Ment le made, Hverything depends \ fosdquartere when nsked wha and loft the platform with the Senator, oe big companies, What ney nay | 1) UF ar HAAnA ; Morte to end The rest of the sentence was inier| The cordon of poller had to be again ne ' ed it parte ! inte wee y ine Of the representatives of | |! Nom Wie 1 the oon! strike | He Hae icy ry frot A Cheha eRe Hover ia trie T hope so for tie sake] Delaware and Hudson) oii tie senator rtood 1 for am H UNe WAUAL HtAnding room ANd FoMned the companies here, while they ' ene 61 Laid ent and ining on tip-tomm, shouted! acres the hall to see the noted fnane the miners who will go to @ | n aid with bel reves ed a Mi an wage, and for the ake Coal Company 1) tell you what trust to follow thir meeting quickly thimed out af fneren ere or m ream imer | hope the Aeht is over Off 300 Men. rort in Wiltam MoKiniey Seuntor TH ' . by tel w r he ate! an tokly M re im the price of powder, will advine t A ¢ the at th \ ' K! repar rouwht down the vest bundred of ' Waker ¢ abd @gainet recognizing the mi st vied, why wan it begun at all t Hie ant they oheered and oa MA Vortland, Me, and tea Fu ‘ t. Hanna and ’ | m ac Puig batea, Mr, He inn mM ' | Delaware and Mute morte time . who clored (he meeting Tebearapned to thelr superiors in Mew | Hotes, Why was It not given tn the first | day tald off the tas © company's | f°" oy ow POO) SUPT HULDEBRAND DEAD, York, and the menting adjourned ARDEA, 44:8 Thelien OF Fey employer ere are now fh * welfare on hie mb v * MORANTON, Ve |, General 1 won ene Stee el Wares} thom f work Weehawken as a) pty ‘ord stande tn bold pellet for the! Henry IMenrend, of Brooklyn, for Buperintendent Lo f the Delaware, | Wl have been alowed if Mr. Hanna] pasuit of the Pennaylvania coal strike | just twenty years. challenge the pnb-|tWenty-eght yeare ev of 7 pane and Ww Hern Mining Dee had Hy ne Lats Morgan ie toll | The men Joan average of $1) polnt out one single aot of hie! the distitiing plant of t ni On |, ie today conference with] Vim that the strike endangere) the am y i nT ‘ pany ! \ i men ja dn wileh Was wrong in any way Bula At Greenpoint, died at his Judtyidual Coal Operators’ Apaocta-| cons of the Republican party and that! some of t arn f the unem In cloning, | say that 1 did tot come | Summer ree e in Milford, Pa, to. 7 Mon here. ; it must end ployed mon are tn absolute want here (0 Make a CAMpaign xprech, but to} day, Mr. Hidebrand had heen ill tor EY Ag chairman of the Buperintendenta’) “And | wonder If Mr, Manna woud! The hands diamiored Include clerks, | get ingpiration. i have it now, and can|eeveral yeurs and went to MIIford tor clation, ev dg mini Mocs we Rane ry. Neve i the sirtke|boaimen, yerdmes, train hands and) deli Gye td meeting ie one of |lils health two yeareagh, te was forty- coah-on roads, thet ite continuang® many, { the voters, not only of ‘six yeara old. in Oblo threatened by the men to do with the proposed ending of @ considered In the matter and will fol e muMelent to end It. yay it wage Vidual oparatorn the baula upon which the strtke of the coal miners may be vettled. the wage demande of the miners, Tt fe learned that thin bagie is not a tomether agreeable to the Individual op orators, some of whom regard being unequal, and they will ask of he omlcartying roade some fretgnt co cessiona | MITCHELL IN DARK. Mine-Workera! Prestdent Declares the Coml Strike 8 Not Haded Vet. NAZLETON, Pa, Sept Mitohell, of the United Mines Workers, at noon to-day emphatically dented that the etrike |# ender Ite has hot been offfetaliy nolifer hy Anybody repregenting the operators of (he reported offer of 19 per cent. Increase | In wages, and he saya he te not in ne- wotiation with any one, There te no doubt, however, that Mr. Mitchell bas unoMelal knowledge of of forte on the part of the coaloarrying companion and other interests to end the strike. Bverything is very quiet here, and the apparent excitement all over ihe COUnEFY remArding the settlement te not reflected hore, When asked if a 10 per cont. increase would be sattefaciory, he declared that it would not, Mr. Mitchell held no oon. ference a4 his headquarters here with Auy one during the forenoon, \s offered the minare {i will probably and the personal visitation of repre. pomtatives of the mine owners As Mr, Mitchell Is not empowered to Noeopt anything lees than all the miners demanded he oould do nothing bul ine Metore going to this meeting he |‘ Give 4 10 per cont, Inerense on all | | 98. —Preaifent | | If an Inarease of 10 per cent, in wages | | be done by means of posted notices | eee THE WORL, D: PRIDAY WV ENING, sins NASIK - 'THINK PECK’S BODY WAS IN THIS WAGON. ee New Clue in Mystery of) Murder of Rich Architect. MR. AND MRS. CHARLES 8. PECK (From a photograph taken three weeks ago inthe Catskills.) 28, » 4 * ‘ * t 4 t » > oe ud ,| hundreds of little girls Im Hazleton doing women's work who ought to be alt. 4| slate and their girla work In mills, The most precious dream that theme de- | BRYAN ON HIs TOUR. LITTLE MOTHERS OF COAL MINES. pareneens Va | |Evening World Woman Visits the Tiny Heroines of Great Strike. $OObo1-100-0-004 he P44 peerrve t NO. XIL OF THE SERIES. : BY OLIVIA HOWARD DUNBAR, q| 14404 LOO Pore Pee Ce nS ed “TATTLE MOTHERS” OF THE MINES. (Special to The Evening World) HAZLETON, Pa., Sept. 28.—Twelvo days of idleness, of swiftly ebbing | supplies, of « more and more intimate knowledge of that cold, cruel grip with which destitution selzes the very hearts of the poor, have forced the women) sf the miners’ families to seek labor for themselves A week aco they would not have thought It ponsible that they sould leave thelr homes, bound as they aro by their cares as mother, nurse, house wife and Grudge. But necessity has spoken now. And leaving thelr poor houses untldied and their sickly children unfed, these brave women are try> Ing to sell the Imbor of their hands in order to buy the things that support Ife But If this ie a hard undertaking for the women, nelther Is |i easy tor| the little girls on whom the mother's responsibility devolves, ‘There are ting placidiy in the aehoolroom, WEARY CHILDREN PICK UP COAL, You cannot pane one of the droary black culm hills without seeing girls of nine or ten either bent doublé over the elate in which there Is occasionally 4 bit of coal, or dragging wearily along the baskets that contain the results of their hours of Jabor, ‘The poorer families cannot buy coal now, And such fuel as {# sed must be labortously picked from the refuse by tha delicate hands of children, Trudging along the street this morning was a girl of ten carrying two twin babies a year old, one on each arm, ‘The proceeding looked inco monly dangerous for all three of the Htthe mites, 1 asked the little gir! her name and heard the familiar, touching story, Mamle Sullivan, she sald, "Yes, these are my little brothers, Papa's on atrike and mamma's out to find washing, snd I'm minding the babies because they aren't very well and we don't want them to die like my little sister did, They like to have me carry them around, and | don’t mind, Play? No, I'm too old” Heaponnibility jan't new ¢o these “little mothers,” instinct as they are with a mother’s divine unselfishaces, They have known it ever since they were born and long before the strike was heard of. young to accept their share of the domestic burdens, and when they get old) enough to work outside thelr homes all day they are usually forced to seek ‘a place in the shirt factory here—a factory built not because the market atood In need of shirts, but to give employment to the daughters of the men whore employers underpay them, ‘This Is literally true, and not many fac tories are built for such a purpose. It 16 vain and useless, the miners will! , tell you, to make them glittering promises so long as thelr Doys must pick franded people cherish in ther hungry hearts is that their children may wome day know the happiness and independence that their parents have been driven to renounce. THE STORY OF JOHN PATTERSON, HERO, | The stout-hearted women who are now resolutely standing out for the wuccess of the strike and whose courage {* each day more severely tested, have been impressed, and not a little encouraged, by a true story that Or- ganiser Dileher has been telling, Several of them have repeated it to me | It ts the story of John Patterson and his wife, of Nelsonville, 0, John Patterson took part in the great strike of the bituminous coal | miners. He had suffered wrong and poverty with the other miners, More: over, he was a union man and belleved in the strike with atl hie heart and soul, For that matter, so did his wife, and they waited and hoped and prayed, and starved—together, Marving ts harder than fighting, and more herole, and it was a long alone, But that was not the wore of it, There was a baby-—a puny little thing, not a year old, but ite mother loved it even more dearly than if {t had nm plump and dimpled, and dressed in cambric and lace. One night a brother miner came to see John Patterson, | “Netter give up, John," he said; we're losing, There's no use in ptary- | ing too." John Patterson pointed to his wife, who cat nursing her weak, fretful baby, watching Ite little blue-white face with all the passionate anxlety of a mother beset by the lant, worat fear, | HER BABE DYING OF HUNGER, “You know well enough why that baby {s dying,” he said quietly, “The mother hasn't eaten anything herself for two-days. 1 had nothing to give her, “But rather than give up, rather than hurt the cause that's Boing to mean everything to the rest of you, we'll starve here In @ bunch—yes, and let the baby there starve too,” ‘The visitor said no more, but went out and told the story of John Pat- | terson and his herole wife, Every man and woman that heard it took cour- age, The tide turned and the bituminous strike was won, To-day, saya Mr. Dilcher, there are no breaker boys in the bituminous coal felds and the mule-driver arning $20 day, 1am eure Mr. Dilcher has not meant to Imply by thle etory that there | are no John Pattersons among the anthracite miners, for 1 have seen them already and Uallkes: with eiadiad OlsVIA HOWARD DUNBAR, Mr, Diryan was interrupted whtle en Jig breakfast to make apewor At Vers million, # Dak He had previously ap Makes Speeches In Soath Dakota) ken at NIK Point from Hie Piyt Speetal <a Train, TO SAVE HOWARD. #mOUN CTY, La R-Ww J. memetanaed Hryan, Demoeratio Py ntial canis (Bpeolal to The Bvening World) jute, boomed the spectal train provided | @PTATE MOUSE, FRANKFORT, Ky the National Committee and ataried | Bept, %&—The local authorities here from (hls city at 7.90 A, Moon his long | show some concern over the rumore apenking tour—the Iam before election. | that Jim Howard's frlienda will try to The Dakota iine wae crowed tn a few | rescue him. mina and th While the guard fan net been ling swiftly aer atranghtened at the Jat! offloers of coum wertward itireotion, At Bloux City the! ties in central Kentucky have been re- was joinet by J.C. 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