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14,000,000 TONS OF ANTHRACITE
IS BURNED IN 67-YEAR COAL
MINE FIRE.
The most destructive and ‘longest
mine fire in the world, according to
mining engineers, has just completed
burning for sixty-seven years at a
loss which can only be estimated in
eight figures.
The area involved is about a mile in
length and 1,500 feet wide and dur-
ing the time it has been burning a
total of $3,000,000 has been expended
in an attempt to extinguish it. Estim-
ates of the tonnage consumed dur-
ing the entire period of the fire are
placed by engineers as high as 14,-
000,000.
The area in which the fire has been
raging is owned by the Lehigh Coal
and Navigation Company, founded in
1820. It is in what is known as the
lower coal field of the anthracite re-
gion.
Various stories are told concerning
the origin of the great underground
conflagration, but the following is re-
garded as the most authentic accord-
ing to officials of the company:
In the days before the Civil war,
it was common to have large stoves
at the bottom of the slopes for the
comfort of the men. Daniel Boyle
was the bottom man at the Summit
Hill working where the fire originat-
ed.
Coming to work one morning a lit-
tle later than usual, Boyle is said to
have hastily shaken the grate of the
stove and several burning coals fell
to the bottom with the ashes. An
empty mine car of the all-wood var-
iety, which was standing nearby was
used by Boyle to dump the hot coal
and ashes into.
During Boyle’s temporary absence,
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a driver hauled the car with the hot
coals into an abandoned section of the
mine as he had been ordered to do by
his foreman on the previous day. It
was not until sometime later that the
fire was discovered in that section of
the pit. The hot coals had started a
fire in the bottom of the mine car and
it communicated with the fifty foot
vein of anthracite.
Because many of the workings in
section were undeveloped at that time,
officials closed the burning area work,
believing that it would burn itself
out.
In the early eighties the first at-
tempt was made to extinguish’ the
burning mass when a large cut was
made from one hillside to another.
Eventually, however, the fire ate its
way past breach.
The next attempt was to place dyn-
amite holes across the burning base
| for a distance of 250 feet and then
fill it with a fine silt of water and
coal dirt. This also failed.
Partial check of the fire was finally
made when a twelve-foot gap was
sunk to a depth of 160 feet into the
earth and lined with concrete and
intervening space filled with clay that
made a barrier 700 feet long.
The fire traveled so rapidly that
this was finished only under the most
trying hardships. Before the barrier
was finally closed, it was possible only
for the large force of men to work in
twenty-minute shifts.
While the spread of the fire has
been checked, it is still raging in the
original area, evidence of this being
revealed by the smoke arising from
the surface on rainy days and the ab-
sence of snow from that section dur-
ing the winter.
Despite the fact that a process of
flushing the workings with water will
be continued until the fire is extin-
guished, it is believed that it will burn
for the next twenty years at least.
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Music Students of Nation in Competi-
tion at Sesqui-Centennial.
Word of particular interest to
Pennsylvania musicians was received
a short time ago, concerning the
musicians contest under the asupices
of the committee in charge of Sesqui-
Centennial music, to be held in Octo-
ber and November.
State contests will be held between
October 7 and 17, district contests in
fourteen districts between October 19
and 24 and the National contest in
Philadelphia November 1, 2 and 3,
CLEAN OUT YOUR CELLAR.
In the health talk of the Pennsyl-
vania department of health prepared
by H. F. Bronson, section of housing
bureau of engineering, state depart-
ment of health, Mr. Bronson says:
“The living room is by no means
the most important one in the house.
Many people, however, think that it
is. On the contrary, it is the cellar.
It is there that the health factor in
your family is to some extent going
to be determined.
“Not a few years ago many of the
cellars in the cities were unwhole-
some. They were dark, they were
damp, they were musty. Not a few
of them lacked drainage facifities
and habitually entertained pools of
water. Moreover, certain pests carry-
ing disease and death in their train
were frequently present. Rats, mice,
roaches and beetles occupied the
first floor; and being of an inquisi-
tive and nomadic nature, they fre-
quently entertained themselves by
prowling around your kitchen and
your dining room.
“A damp cellar is a health hazard.
Rodents carry bubonic plague and
mice can carry typhus fever. There
are some authorities who are con-
vinced that they also are the purvey-
ors of measles and chicken pox.
“While modern construction in ur-
ban districts calls for a cement floor
and a furnace, there are literally
thousands of homes in cities where
the old-fashioned disease spreading
cellar yet remains. And as for rural
sections, the modern cellar is even
yet the exception.
“Moreover, the food supply, espe-
cially of the farmer, is located in the
cellar. It also furnishes nutriment to
the rats and the mice. Much food in
the farmer's cellar finds its way in-
to the city markets. It therefore
follows that the cities and the coun-
trymen alike should have a definite in-
terest in seeing that all cellars are
as sanitary as it is possible to make
them.
“The state department of health
suggests that the model cellar should
have cement walls and cement floors
as well as a strip of wire mesh sunk
in the cement around each corner.
The doors leading into the cellar
should be made with carefully level-
led cement or iron sills and properly
protected with a strip of iron around
the bottom; this for the purpose of
eliminating any space through which
either a mouse or rat could gain ac-
cess.
“Such construction automatically
eliminates the rodents and is water-
proof when properly drained and con-
sequently dry. But do not forget
that even the proper type of cellar
needs seasonal cleaning.
“Buy expensive over-stuffed furni-
ture, if vou will; amuse yourself
nightly with the radio and victrola,
if you can afford it. In other words,
enjoy all the high standards of living
which your purse entitles you to, but
don’t forget that if you have not al-
ready done so, whether you be an ur-
ban or rural dweller, the best invest-
ment from a house standpoint which
you can make is to see that your cel-
lar is on a plane with the rest of your
house. Disease and even death may
thus be avoided. Don’t forget the
cellar!”
cert at the Sesqui-Centennial on No-
vember 4.
Contestants will be accepted in so-
prano, tenor, violin, piano, contralto,
baritone, violincello and organ, and
must not have reached their 24th
birthday on November 4, 1926.
The national winners in each of the
eight classifications will be awarded
a prize of $500.
This contest aims to give an imme-
diate and definite objective toward
which students may work to inspire
greater effort in artistic achievement
and to demonstrate the important
{ place given music and music educa-
tion in America.
Contestants from Pennsylvania will
communicate with Mrs. Samuel Lip-
pincott Borten, Norristown, Penna.
Indian’s Prayer Breaks Drought and
Saves Crops.
The rattlesnakes of the Hopi In-
dians evidently carried the prayers of
the red men for rain to the spider
woman of the underworld, who the
Indians believe has control over the
rain clouds, for heavy rains fell,
breaking the long-extended drought
which threatened the crops and live
stock ranges of central and southern
Arizona.
The Hopi Indians recently staged
their annual colorful and weird
snake dance at their pueblo at Waipi,
near Winslow, offering up their pray-
ers for rain by liberating hundreds of
rattlesnakes, which were supposed to
carry the rain prayers to the snake
mother and thence to the spider wo-
man of the underworld. The dance is
one of the most fantastic of American
Indian dances—the Indians wrap and
wind the snakes about their bodies
and even take the reptiles in their
mouths during the dance with utter
abandon as to the danger of the
poisonous fangs.
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9—Condition of mind
11—Vehicle
12—Printing measure
14—Temporarily inert
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23—Conjunction 15—F.umans
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27—To long for 20—Allows
29—To open a keg 22—Rings a bell
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26—Fit
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31—Young woman
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