Men of mark 'twixt Tyne and Tweed . inthat capacity was at Greenside, near Ryton; his next and last atWallsend. John Buddie was thus, as it were, cradled in the mine, and hisfather, we may be sure, spared no pains to give him that generalinstruction which his previous avocation fitted him to impart, andthat practical acquaintanceship with colliery management which hisnew position enabled him to bestow. John, on his part, wc know, 426 JOHX BUDDLE. laboured incessantly to justify his fathers exertions. He was asready to learn as his father was apt to teach, and by the time hearrived at mans esta
Men of mark 'twixt Tyne and Tweed . inthat capacity was at Greenside, near Ryton; his next and last atWallsend. John Buddie was thus, as it were, cradled in the mine, and hisfather, we may be sure, spared no pains to give him that generalinstruction which his previous avocation fitted him to impart, andthat practical acquaintanceship with colliery management which hisnew position enabled him to bestow. John, on his part, wc know, 426 JOHX BUDDLE. laboured incessantly to justify his fathers exertions. He was asready to learn as his father was apt to teach, and by the time hearrived at mans estate he exhibited unusual talent and skill in hisprofession. Buddie the elder died in 1806, and Buddie the younger, havingbeen his fathers assistant for several years, was unanimouslyappointed to the management of the colliery. He was then upwardsof thirty years old, had acquired considerable reputation, and wasregarded as the most promising viewer in the North-Country. Hemade experiments and introduced improvements at which the old. •JoHn*^^^^^ viewers in the district shook their heads, as old men always do whenan innovator appears. But the undoubted success of his schemesextorted from them an unwilling recognition of his wisdom, andadmiration of his skill. The owners of ^^allsend allowed him freescope for the exercise of his ingenuity, and he rewarded them bymaking their colliery the most successful in the kingdom. Collieries, as Mr. Buddie first knew them, were wrought in verysimple fashion. The drawing machinery, in nine cases out of ten,was a gin or a water-wheel; wooden tubbing was used for keepingback water in the shaft; iron tramways for underground transit hadonly recently been introduced: wooden waggonways were common; JOHN B UDDLE. 4 2 7 blasting the coal was unknown; one-half of the coal was left in themine to support the superincumbent strata; the steel mill was theonly lighting medium in fiery places; while, from ignorance on thesubject of ventilation, and upon th
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