Show U E IN A COAL BREAKER picture drawn of employment to which young boys are cound bound practically every boy gradual from froin chool choo to the coal breaker before lie hf Is 14 fourteen sonie some boys as early as ten or eleven years tho the coal break er Is ti it aunt lile wooden structure it at t thu u top of which tho the coal Is broken braken into tile the required require size for uso use and then sent tn in a continuous flown down chutes which empty into wait ar inck ets tile boa lo 10 aro employ I 1 i ac I ing stream tile th PI pieces ot or baal e appear straddling the chutes or sit alt uns ting on small wooden projections at the side the in the breaker Is so BO thick and lark dark with hying coal dust that an all attempt to take tak a raph of a couple ot of boys nt at noon near a window resulted in fit on indistinguishable black surface Bur face tho noise Is a so great that I 1 could not ds da ting the tl 0 o words of illy guide ev a when ho be put his mouth close cloeo to in ill car and shouted tho the movement ani and shaking of tile iho whole structure tire are at times time s so ho violent in somo break ers era I 1 have been obliged to hold tightly to a hand rill rail for safety tho boys grow so cramped front froin long sit ting in ili one position that 3 they nedye the opportunity to chase chasa one olle another around tho the slippery metal platforms and thero there was not ono super superintendent hi in ili tso the four cr five col that bellave we have happened to visit who did not upon our OMI questioning relate at least one tra tray gely that nail occurred in ills his experience of a boy who had slipped into a n coal pocket and been sino smothered therel or lind had been mangled and killed by foiling into tile tha machinery when wo we have asked whether v the slate picking could not be lone dono by devices the invariable answer lias has been yes but tile the boys aro are cheap cheaper er aln harpers rp ors magazine |