The evening world. Newspaper, September 28, 1918, Page 6

re re eee eee ene SL A ili ieee 5 : r, ee 2 indoors because | is re, The discomfort of hearing unfavor TONS OF FUEL IN CULM BANKS SINCE 1853 Page.) (Continued fro formed me that many of the culm banks contain 60 per cent. of good coal, other experta rating these enor- mous mountains in other places 80 to 90 per cent, Thomas F. Monahan of Washing ton, D, C, testified before the Benate able comments upon one’s complexion, Coal Comm: in Washington jast and of realizing that one's skin is un- J8nUAary as to these vast culm banks htly, can be prevented by Resinol Mr. Mon tment, which not only heals a sick Cite regions and began work there at skin, but protects a healthy one. Aided Picking « In the breakers, He by Nesinol Soap, it heals ecsema, helps later became a lawyer and intercated t© remove other eruptions, excessive Mimseif in the Mining Herald. dryness or oiliness of the skin, and WHEN THE COAL BARONS BEGAN tnables one to have a complexion that excites compliment instead of anfavor- PINS UP VES CULM Bani Mr. Monahan stated that between able comment. ‘At all dealers, 1653, when the breakers were eatab- lished, and 1859, all sizes below stove coal were dumped out “refuse” and ve long periods piled up. Mr. ce han was born in the anthra- y frequently val Monahan quoted # stove ¢ was alno Powder oral authorities on these culm banks G omfos t ree yo kplsé which contain various perc ta plates from “Aceth marketable coal up to 90 per cent. “oped ‘and. instantly Among these authorities is Pever makes loose, ill- ie teeth Roberts, author of the book entitled fit tight and feel right, It soothes “The Anthracite Coal Industry.” Mr. ispels irri- brals and eaves the'g firm enough t the plate the kind of support it needa, DR. WERNET’S POWDER | For False Teeth j te a cleanser and will keep the mouth and teeth In a clean, healthy state, Dostroys the germ: which are always present with an iil-kept dental plate, You Your teeth to menace h—then use Dr. Wernet’s your powder and be free from the dan- and discomforts. of unclean, Roberts state In the yearn 1820-1870 it is com- puted that after deducting the per scentage due to impurities and waste, only 27 per cent. of the original con- |tents of the seams was sent to the market. By the yoar 188 improved | methods and the use of smaller sizes brought this up to 46 per cent. so that up to twenty years aco more jthan 70 per cent. of the coal did not | yield any returns. To-day !t is es- timated that 75 per cent. Is sent to market and only 25 per cent. wasted.” oorly fitting tecth. Guaranteed by Ne Rental Mig, Co., 118 Beck- Mr. Roberts, in estimating the orig- man St, New York. si tnal cost of turning out this accumu- All Good Drurgiste Two Stoo Ti iated coal or culm banks, made tho | following statement: “The total force employed at a ES OATS washery which turned out 600 tons WHERE TO COAND row TO CET THERE] | teen men employed at $1.30 to $1.40, twenty boys getting from 68 cents to STEAMBOATS. 83 conta @ day, and a foreman, who} was paid $75 a month, The daily} wage of this force amounted to $36.60, | The sum of $5 a day would cover wear and tear, insurance and 10 per cent. interest on $20,000 capital, This would bring the daily expense of run- ning a washory of 600 tons capacity to about $41.60, Thus the average et cost of getting the coal to market Div Lite DIRECT. INCLUDING aoe Direct Hail ta Woat entsin was about five cents a ton.” Cato "|ALL COAL TAKEN OUT oF to Poughkee GROUND 18 MARKETABLE, Mr, Monahan continuing his testl- mony told how valuable this cu.m coal can be made in these times of eye | stress: ‘| “To-day everything ts marketable. <]The smaller sizes are crushed into what is called pulverized coal, com- oa putoages ay } rand mire in| mercial coal, and this is used on Jeabromee S| large locomotives and in apartment Fei sen cn houses where thix stuff is forced Up the Hudeon Sunday through a pipe into the combustion chamber, and there it is met with Negalar Sunday Service te, Wighland Valls, New. Bescon and return, Str. ‘Beni. B. Odell” Delightul Dar's Oating Peenktin St, 9.90 A.M Ny "hou st, 10.00, Central Hadooa ) Line a strong blast of alr, ticle of carbon is and every par- immersed with oxygen from the air and it produces MET ROPOLITAN LINE Pere, rt abe ‘ CrAL LOW pe BOSTON *4 PE GOR CANAL Lae GBooD A enkinte END INDIGESTION EAT ONE TABLET Pape's Diapepsin “instantly relieves any distress, up- set stomach including ‘ar Tax CARIN Witit noon OD on" ERTHS ONT. TeLEPH” A PICNIC FOR A NICKEL AT INTERSTATE PARK Lumps of undigested food causing pain, When your stomach is acid, opie’ assy, sour, of you have flatulence ROT ATEN iti [|heartburn, here is instant relict—N waiting! Just as soon as you eat a tablet or two of Pape's Diapepsin all that dys pepsia, indigestion and stomach dis tress ends, These pleasant, harinles tablets of Pape's Diapepsin never t to make sick, upset stomachs feel fne| Take Dyckman Street Ferry HUDSON RIVER NIGHT r LINES R., foot Conal a., ie | avd boildays 9 alt sur later,” Dus’ Albay 6 owing morning. ACTS of et er he HELP. WANTED—MALE. at once, and they cost very little at WANTED, drug stores,—Advt TRAINMEN, | and | STATIONMEN, Ages, 21 to 55, | Subway and Elevated Divisions, OE, te stieeeren) | INTERBOROUGH , = — RAPJD TRANSIT Co, FOR BALE, APPLY 4. M, WEP, M.. DAILY, excot Bonday, | VIALONDS Os CREUIT ty 145 BROADWAY. ROOM ims; 22 RAST 2D BT. HALL OF BROOKDS, 10TH BT. AND 8D AYV,; UT BT, AND LENOX 4 OTH BT. AND LEXINGTON 4¥.; OTH BT. AND BD AV. Hamnsed wy U, 6, EB, Permit, No, a8, ND biasion terme, AMENICAN Wi’ ‘boo BAN Tne d A Ole Bi a) BANKING AND FINANCIAL, LIBERTY BONDSS, BOUGHT—CASH IMMEDIATELY Market Prices and Accru RIALTO TRADING Co. 200 West 34th Street 9A. M.to8 P.M. Sundays 10-3, FLATS & APARTMENTS TO LET, Uniurnisheo—Manhptian 42d to 41st St., 10th Ave, [inet 1, 2, 3, 4 Rooms & Bath, $1.15 to S745 eek ‘i LOST, FOUND AN IDR Satuniay aw ‘end diainard encniet, uetveua Rt ot Ei ‘and 4s at, at tieuoe te a and’ tek us Fewand ‘asked, “Moture to ' Caries REWARDS. G4a4ad 2 HIS is an authentic picture of the entire simple operation __ THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1 r) DUMPED 431,000,000 | MOUNTAIN OF CULM BEING “WASHED” TO BE SOLD AT HIGH PRICES (Photographed by Evening World Photographer.) the Bancroft, Pa., of washing the ashery, coal out ” showing of the mountains of accumulated coal, sending {t through screens which separate the waste from the good coal, and loading ft in oars. perfect combustion. Imperfect com- bustion comes where the carbon and | the oxygen do not unite property, but | in this everything in the pulverized form is burned, ‘There is no waste whatever,” Senator Jones asked: “Tt ts consld- ered by some that that really is the most efficient way to use coal?” Mr, Monahan: “Yes, that has been proved so." ‘Tho opinion of Edward H. Williams, A prominent mining angineer, who made a survey of the culm banks as arly as 1896 and estimated the enor- mous quantity of culm coal that was dumped from the mines and which has now accumulated into mountata was presented ty the Senate com- mit! when or 0 “There were long periods there was no eale for chestnut even for larger sizes, and theso wi thrown upon the dump with the stuff below chestnut In size, all @atg from picking and all long and slaty coal, 40 that dumps soon recelved the name of culm banks, which they atili retain From the early sixties to the early seventios pea coal was the smallest sizo shipped to market, fife barred grates having been devised for tts burning. ‘Tho cleaning was still by hand, so that 144,000,008 tons were marketed, while the same quantity went into the dump, To-day there are four sizes of buckwheat, one of nd of birdseye. “The coal shipped during the thirty years since the introduction of jigs through which the coal assorted) has averaged and the (machinery passes to be 90,000 tons per annum, culm sent to the dump during that period steadily decreased, but a mod crate estimate will place it at one- quarter of the shipments, or about The grand total for is, theref 431,000,000 tons dumped since 1853, Adding to thin slate, rock, ashes, dirt from stripping» and other refuse, we have over 2,000,- 000,000 cublc yards, or suffictent to surround the world with a.pile of tri- angular sections twenty feet high, or, estimating the workable coal that has ~n dumped, to cover the State of and easily with solid mar- deep.” 10,000 tons. b Kthode 1s! ketable coal 126 feet COAL FUEL PREPARED FOR 10 CENTS A TON 18 SOLD FOR $12. |newspaper and is a typteal “wash- ry” where culm coal is taken from banks and made ready for the | market. Yot it is almost impossible for will ing operators to secure leases from the Reading, Company to wash and clean these culm banks and send |them to the market, George Keiser, a woll known operator of Pottsville, has two good washeries which he ts being compelled to break up because of bis innbility to secure teases te operate them. I. D. Beam & Co,, dis- mantied and sold for scran their breakers and colliery because they could not get a lease, The main interest of the cmnpantes seems to be to hold all the ground other operators. The coal operators will tell you that this culm coal is not as good as freshly mined coal, but thousands of tons of it is now being loaded In cars from the anthracite region and bringing the prevailing pric: EXPERTS SAY 80 PER CENT. OF | CULM BANKS IS MARKETABLE, It is estimated by reputable miners at 80 per cent, of this Bancroft culm bank 4s perfectly good market- able coal, The coal barons will also tell you that the increased cost of labor makes the present prices of freshly mined coal. This is read- ily refuted, when out of about 40,000 miners in the anthracite district about 15 per cent. are making more than $5 a day: 77 per cent. are day workers carn- ing on an average of $2.63 per day. . Eighty-five per cent. of the men that are working in the southern or middie anthracite fields do not earn $4 a day. There are about 23 per cent. who are so-called “contract” miners, they contract to do a cer- in the mine and have helpers under them. These men sometimes earn a little more than their helpers, aflor talk years of toil, these work- do with sof coal. In the main, ing with miners of long t in plainly evident t have had very } present high pric however, the rater Lodge asked Mr. Monahan ‘The fact is that thousands of good “ya they not of late been using |™ners have teft the fields because of the disheartening conditions, of the ae alter said: “That ia what 1] !pability to rear thelr families prop- iy come to, Xmotice from news-|rly and because of the low pay and papers that tho Pennsylvania Tupts- | POOF Pros! avur taken notice of it, and the As ao result of this, in most sec- sat crime is this, that this coal that} tons of the anthacite region Ameri vvroter to ls prepared for about 10/¢an miners have been replaced by the tents a ton, and the big companies |forelgn born, kot it perhaps for nothing, and we] T talked with one man who has save to pay $12 a ton for it. That is|been a miner ifn the district for ny kick.” twenty-eight years—an intelligent, Other authorities quoted in the|Nonest laborer, He has not averaged en are former Congress. {$1,000 a year, Welghed down with nets ‘ yn, Garner, who studied [the caros of a family of five he was ma ‘ i 4 | the question of culm coal and found Bancroft pro- the is being from und about 1 t the coal bery at A duced at a cost of ton" (the same as found by ning World investigation), of which operation appears in th! v vents a The Eve WHY HAIR FALLS OUT Dandruff causes a feverish irtita-|for education. And this ts the aver tion of the p, the hair roots shrink, jaye condition ef the average family loosen and then the hair comes out aisislok inal wen just. ‘To stop falling hair at once and peas el ah rid the scalp of every particle of 59 OMA HGS: Ries dandruff, wet a small bottle of Dan P08 BO DARALEIS derine at any drug store for # few & superintendant of cents, pour a little in your hand and the Pit nd Reading Coal and | rub well into the scalp. After several Iron Co He has worked in the applications all dandruff disappears coal fleld for forty years, has ™ and the hair stops coming out.—Adyt, + picture unable to get away and had to stay. He haa never had a home of more than four rooms. able to go to high school hecause of |the necessary ehrning power of the |family and he had to go right Into |the mines at a tender age. His daughter, too, was unable to secure much schooling because of the need 0 “help keep the family.” J saw this man’s time sheets. They do not average $20 a week, This father wished that he could Just have made enough to have ¢! his children a little better opportunit , which they control without leasing to His boy was un- | family of Bing children and ly now pay. oll rish nan ness th rajlre the & & price bol The Th Arthur Beattie. richest in the world. doxical rich world, Experts ap) committeas Why THE PELE ELDER EAET DE PAAALEAEAADDDAED ©644OO86VOODDOODALMALEOD® — ©6449 44 O4OMADLDEDODAARANDI DA OADS 444A 422999889096 200RLY PAID PEOPLE COVER THE RICHEST COAL LAND. If you want to know the years of | yo, and hardship in this good old family, talk te the wife of this who lives right in this wilder- of coal. | And yet a few coal kings own this vast territory of coal—the It is para- that underneath is the t anthracite coal in the and on the surface are e poorly paid people in their unsanitary, cheerless little homes. Then they sav that some miners get drunk. | wonder how the coal barons would act under similar conditions. Why not lock into this so- 4 Anthracite Trust yourself, Dr, Gan field? |_Are they now In reality veritable gold mines instead of coal mines? Why shouldn't the people of New York, where the con Is so large, secure low-price What have the companies done to Increase the production? The tari percentage of the an- js are owned by two coal which also control the sada carrying the coal, ‘They are Philadelphia and Reading Coal . Company i the Lehigh Coal VAR pn Company. ring before legislative ave asserted that the be i within t t the coal ca of $2 mine, is coal so high? LABOR COST INCREASE NOT WARRANT IT. 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