Show V COAL CO JAb All BARONESS i Way of Softening the Ties I Between Capital and Labor r eiry evry well regulated regulate mining naming t y will win be found at pr nt two to l I built after the tb r fah tah i i j jin corner 0 school house in the th ther r r t ho the town towa One Dt to Is for fr forand tIe the he use i ifor t c th l I I and en the oth r for fur th the uk r r These TheBe are arf j with i fr rd matter games gam of All Il clods I I es S and a room where wh r eha e w In rC and various vartoul t n on be held e In many man ca t t the i ti 1 daughters of the mine inlo i r opens i j 10 j f fr fH r the best periodical l lit n nd place It at the th command of Ih h th In n f ct e everything connected d t I i tub dub huse I free tree to ee C 01 j an and ani 1 Jeddo mining towns Ia 10 o or 11 lr H Hazleton leton the r center of the diP them C m nl th Ih rub cub ho hoist horIS is II th iii j scene cene gr ge 1 dd the w tr ic rp rf h l b by Mr 1 wh I band b and coas own anlA A t the th Jedde Jeo G mines mine Ai At Britten th the ct Ce 50 family who orm the Cross Cros rose Creek I I l company n any provide the annual feast t i I I A At hg points the Christmas festivities represent an outlay cot rot of hundreds hundred but thousands thousand of dollars dollar Nor i is the gift sent in a perfunctory t fashion h Members a of the are r always In attendance t minx I I good cheer and fellow feeling with th the substantial benefits i Mis II M rl e if ii intensely practical In her I work among ng the people of Jeddo She supports support three trained nurses nu whose e s ser r vices vl a tare r re always free fr to the sick among amon hr her r people a as he i ll he lo of j t SI tID mines e Sewing 1 and cooking I schools for tor the girls and women co cosy y club dub rooms for the men and ready as gi t i nee f Intelligently rendered in aJ aU cases of Jf need are arc among her benefactions But of or aU alt 11 the friends friend of or the miner In fh the Hazleton region there Is none so I k J noted as Mrs Eckley e B Coxe x widow of senator tor Coxe Co e of Pennsylvania Ia a woman of or unlimited wealth and broad thies All AU the year round she sIte lives In IB a I 1 i beautiful home overlooking the Cross CroiS reek collieries There is not a min mi m wo we I man or chud within the vill of Drifton that she he dues docs not know to whom she sho J JD I D would not go in their hour of trial and whose life is if not by b some invisible thread linked to hers her She S e personally mingles with the mn men in their club rooms the sewing classes es for are among her social O jal pleasures for tor her cook Ing ins school she employs the best b t teach eis en C S that the metropolis can cas offer and two trained ned nurses nurs are on her personal roll pay No case of genuine distress dl tress or afflic tion ever reaches Mrs Ir Coxe without elicit log ing a Kind and generous generou response Dur ing the past gear ear she h hut has paid th the house rent for her Invalid employees to the amount of 3 Her monthly bill bUl at the Edwards or town store not a company store by b the way averages OO for tor gro conies ceries ct rIes distributed to miners families in financial straits I Something of th real sympathy exist ing between th the women of oC toll toil and the women of luxury may be judged from this incident Summer complaint carried off oft th the wee baby of If a young miners wife and the employers wife wite the woman of or the beautiful mansion on the hill bill hurried to the desolate little cottage The prep for he ba funeral were there thero seemed no thins for the employers wife to offer But she took the hand of at the sobbing mother m ther In her own slim be Jeweled fingers and said My dear la ii lathere i there not some little littie thing I na do 1 will send flowers from the green gr en house e but perhaps there is something else Do Donot Donot Donot not hesitate The stricken mother moth r looked at the sheet sheeted ed figure so pitifully small and replied If only onh I had a aa a white dress for him I had bad nothing but little tittle prints for him and I would lik like 5 She got The handclasp grew stronger It told her that the baby bys be laid to sleep in Its robe of And It was in the he christening robe o f the baby on the bin bill Silly you say sa to robe Tobe that child of poverty In a gown of ot lawn Jawn and lace Perhaps But the sympathy between the wife of the er and the wife of the employee is s deeper de per than words or white robes One of these coal co 1 baronesses noted for tor her generosity o was asked S why this amount ou of money e spent en in Itt charities res and f benefactions ns could C not better baller be e employ e m PIO o oed ed in increasing the thEt warn wages of or employees employee Her reply was Unless Aou You ou have ae lived among us pe you yu QU cannot fully understand t question quetIn qu lUOn first that we have employees employ I by the hundreds and the thousands The money expended in charities would not in increase Increase crease crease their wages as muc much as you might expect The Intelligent thrifty miner would garner gamer the additional wages of I course He Ho would have that much more stored up for a rainy day da He would per haps give his children that much better education On the other hand the shift less miner and his wife would let beI just jut that much more slip through their fingers Th who is a drunkard and brutal by nature and alas we have them among us ue also would drink that much more might beat his family and certainly neg lect them just as s much And In the end we would have many still stin to help h lp The very g class we want to reach a helpless e wo we women men d children would W U be at the mercy e of ot careless ignorant or even brutal men It is the women and the children for whom Wh m we work At the same store she spends on an ant average each month t for hot t water ie bottles t tonics o ana other sIck sIckroom sickroom room conveniences and luxuries For Foraged Foraged aged employees ees desirous of ot ending their days in their native land she expends an annually annually annually about in steamship tickets Drugs for her work vork of f mercy she pur per chases at wholesale In New York and Philadelphia and aM the figures for or this line nae or of charity be secured She sup plies the ReedY needy with meal tickets and nd ad young and an Inexperienced mothers O with I sterilized milk I for their delicate el children I e era Orders ra for coal dp during ring the winter may seem almost ironical to in this country where coaL coat 16 6 where but hut Mrs Coat does not like to w sep see SC children nor women following cant to pick up loose loo e coaL But the W wo at Ira 1 Coxe the great greatest et est eat ha iN for the Christ mas ross tl b thought that Santa Snata Claus Claue Who many thousand dollars worth W rth of ef f gifts sifts never misses a single home In ton Her latest lat t sift girt of ot consequence is the memorial memoria el for the old people at the theW thet W poor house a building whose contract t calls for i These cold cokl figures can tan tell ten nothing of the reM real feeling that exists between em eat players and employees In these favored spots it is I small wonder however that the men nen from these collieries are the last to walk milk out ln case of strike small won der that they th ai a sin willing too hi face threats and contumely rather than cripple em who have some claim elai upon their loyalty Only the great cause ause of labor Jabar laborthe laborthe the fate of miners less te le fortunately situated sit will appeal to these e men and then they march out In ha a quiet orderly fashion and with manifest reluctance re e |