. The Locomotive . The lan-guage of one of the overseers that I watched was chaste but vigorous, and he understoodhis broom thoroughly. One might fancy himself, for the moment, in a slave-holderscamp, instead of a modern coal-breaker; but the resemblance is purely superficial, forthe best of feeling prevailed, so far as I could learn, and the boys are as happy as anyboy could hope to be, when restrained from going fishing or playing marbles. I wantedto photograph the boys at work, but the light in the breaker was not strong best that I could do, under the circumstances, was to take
. The Locomotive . The lan-guage of one of the overseers that I watched was chaste but vigorous, and he understoodhis broom thoroughly. One might fancy himself, for the moment, in a slave-holderscamp, instead of a modern coal-breaker; but the resemblance is purely superficial, forthe best of feeling prevailed, so far as I could learn, and the boys are as happy as anyboy could hope to be, when restrained from going fishing or playing marbles. I wantedto photograph the boys at work, but the light in the breaker was not strong best that I could do, under the circumstances, was to take the view shown in Fig. 2,where the smoke that is seen rising from the breakers is not smoke at all, butmerely coal-dust that is rising from the coal below as it rattles down the chutes. Areader with active imagination can perhaps picture to himself about three dozen dirty-faced boys inside the building, watched over by a voluble foreman, who is doubtlesseven now punctuating his remarks with the all-important Fig. 2.—A. Breaker near Scranton, suowiauCoal Dust. 158 THE LOCOMOTIVE. [October,
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