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Show ROCKEFELLER ON INSPECTION TRIP MUll INTKItKSTin) IN SCIIOOUS T Till: CVM1N. lolm l, Jr. Ituiihc Trlnlilnil nnd doc TliroiiRh the Alines Al Her-wind Her-wind mid TnhaKt Talk to Miners and Thilr lvi- anil llut Hearty iMiiiur ItonnlltiR llouo. Tl.lVllni) Colo Kept 20 John l ltkifeller Jr Mslted the mlnttiK snips of llerwlnd and Tabasco on his first da Inspection tour of the Colo-rsd Colo-rsd . properties of the Colorado Kuel and Iron comimnv He talked freily with tht miners, w, nt Into their hfitnes iiiiestlonlnR tin mm nnd their wrlves about working conilltliins nnd niMklng suggestions to Individuals ror Impriienients Itockefelter nppar-entl nppar-entl was gretl Inti re-ted In the work Iwlns; done In the public schools r Tslmsci Thev limit slnK ver) wJl, sir" sMilngtl a pretty school ma'am. ii w the) have Just started to y h ol and haven I had time to learn nnii h nil then, the) are so Utile " The) re doing fine fine n piled ll kefeller smiling hrundl) And slxlv sons and daughters of llerwlnd and Talwsii miners of an nvemgc age of six vears and of perhaps it doxen nationalities shhr IiikIIIj In rihhI United Uni-ted SlateM the winK In which the) had been tarefully drilled b) Miss ltdna Campbell tenrher of the first grade In the Tultasco-lhrwlnd school Tnlks to the Cliltdnn. Then llockefeller made a speech to thc children In which he told them to stud) hard and obe) thilr teacher. "And when next 1 come to Colorado perhaps some or )ou will be touchers ) ourselves," he added I have six children myself,' continued the oil magnate Sometimes they nre not as manncrl) ns )ou seem to be Maybe May-be 1 II bring a few or them along the next time I come to Colorado,' The da) was spent In visiting llerwlnd ller-wlnd Canyon, some flftein miles north of Trinidad where the compan) has two big mines nnd u series of coke ovens Accompanied b) President J I' Wellborn nnd other officers of the eompan). he made a close personal Inspection of the camps, going Into the homes of the miners nnd uklng them a rapid fire of questions n gard-lug gard-lug their working nnd living onill-lions onill-lions l.itrly In the round of Inspictlon Itrnke filler hunted up Dan Morrill, n coal digger who hud breli elettid b) tin mm of the llerwlnd camp to rip-resent rip-resent tin m In confcreiiie with the of-fliers of-fliers of the ioiiiiniii) Dan had Just come from the mini nnd his face was grimed with blink dust The two sat down side b) side on the steps or the mine otrire and tulkid eiiriiestl) for pirhaps tweiit) mlnutis Ulncs Willi the Miners. Itoikefiller qiicMliuii d the mlmr closel) on the practical working of the scheme recent!) Inaugurated for conferences between offleirs of the eompun) and representatives of the miners. The part) took luncheon nt the miners' boarding house at llerwlnd. ller-wlnd. At itockef clli r's right hand sut Tom Davis, supirlntendmt of the mine, clad In blue overalls und black shirt nnd with coal dust ground Into the wrinkles or his fnee Itocki feller ingaged III a running conversation with Davis and the otlur men at the table, miunwhlte doing full Justice to the beifsleak and beans nnd mnshed potatoes. After lunehinn the part) went to Tabasco, stopping on the wn) to visit the school. At the school house Itotkcfellcr Inspected some exteiislv. Improvement work done In part b) the expenditure of money contributed b) the llockefeller foundation last winter to furnish work for unmiplo)-ed unmiplo)-ed miners following the calling off of the strike A sheer side hill has bun grmlid to mnke a rensonuhl) level plu) ground, hold In place b) a high ntalnlng wall surmounted b) a wire f. mo to prevent the ihlldriu tumbling tumb-ling to the road below, (Ivcn it Wiirm i Iconic. At Tabasco the part) was weliMimid b) Charles O Ni III, the superintend-ent superintend-ent Itoikefiller asked the miners nnd their wives If the) were sutlsflid with the homes the) rutted from the eompun). how much rent the) paid and whether the) thought the houses were worth the mone). "Why don't on have a gardeiiT he demanded of one Italian nt llerwlnd "You could fix this place up so It would look much bitter, Leaving the cun)on late In the afternoon, af-ternoon, the part) returned to Trinidad, Trini-dad, where Itoikefillir wus inter-tulned inter-tulned ut a picture show and saw u filmed iepreenttttlon or a parade nt the rieint fit Ul and track meet hlveu b) the emplo)es of the Colorado I'uel and Iron eompan) Itockereller was linked tonight as to his iittltu bi toward strike prosecu tions in Colorado pattloularl) the murder t. Inl or John It Ivwrgon I can give no lt r statement of my Ideas on that subject than I made to the federal commission on Industrial Indus-trial relations ln Washington last Mav he replied At that tlmo 1 read a prepared statement In which 1 said Unit Justice should be so administered admin-istered as to be above suspicion, nnd If In an) material particular the trial of Law son has been wanting In this respect 1 for one, should deslie to see the supreme court of Colorado, to which the appeal has been taken, onrefull) consider ever) ground that ma) be urged and grant a new trial should an) material ground bo sustained sus-tained That" continued Itockefelter, "still Is in) opinion When the Ivwson trlnl was about to begin I took steps to assure as-sure in) self that the Colorado I'uel nnd Iron eompun) was not participating participa-ting In nnv wn) In the prosecution 1 fill that when private Interests par-tb par-tb Ipate In erlmlnnl prosecutions the proceeding tend to lino their Impar-' tllul quallt) |