1907 WB Times Leader, 14 May 1907, Mine Affairs

Many Applicants for Mine Foreman

Sixty-seven Men Taking the Examinations

The List of Questions

Which were Asked To-Day Applicants Must Pass 85 Percent to Get a Certificate—
Will Continue Tomorrow

An examination of applications for certificate of qualifications as mine foreman and 
assistant mine foreman is being held in the lecture room of the YMCA building today 
and the examination will be continued tomorrow.
There are sixty-seven applicants taking the examination which is conducted by the 
following board: Inspector James Martin, Supt. F. H. Kohlbaker, Patrick McGrane 
and Thomas D. Lloyd.  Owing to the ill health Mr., Martin is unable to be present at 
the sessions.  His place is being filled by Thomas H. Price, who is acting inspector
 of the Tenth Anthracite Mine district, while Martin is providing the board with advice,
 he being called up at frequent intervals on the phone.
Each applicant for a certificate as mine foreman must answer 85 percent of the 
questions correctly, and each applicant for assistant mine foreman will be requested
 to answer 80 percent correctly.
In addition, each applicant is required to furnish a recommendation as to character 
and must also present his certificate as a miner.
Two sessions were held today, beginning at 9:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. The morning 
session closed at noon and the afternoon session will close at 5 o’clock.  The same
 hours will prevail tomorrow.
List of Questions
The following list of questions was asked of the applicant this morning:
State when, at what mines, by when employed, and in what capacity you have had 
practical experience in mining in the anthracite mines of this state.
What re the requirements of the anthracite mine law when it becomes necessary to
 remove any props or timbers for the purpose of mining coal that may supported by the same?
There is passing through a mine 25,000 cubic feet of air per minute; what would be
 the velocity per second in an airway 7.5 feet by 5.5 feet?
How would you make an air-tight ditch under a wall at main door on a gangway road 
where there was a large flow of water sometimes and a very small flow at other times, 
so as to keep the gangway road free from water?  Show by diagram.
If you were acting as fireboss and had a gangway driven 200 feet ahead of the last heading,
 and you found in your examination that the gangway continued explosive gas back 100 feet 
from the face, how would you proceed?
If a gangway is driven S. 35 degrees E. and the chambers N. 30 degrees E., what should be 
the distance between the center lines of the chambers measured along the gangway, the 
cambers and pillars being 3 and 7 yards respectively?

The Applicants

The list of applicants this year is somewhat larger than last, when but fifty-three took the examination.  

The applicants are:

Wilkes-Barre:  
Bernard Conynghdm, 172 Stanton Street, 
Joseph Van Horn, 193 Parrish Street;
Edward Powell, 35 Beach Street; 
Edward Roberts, 37 Lloyd’s Lane; 
William Owens, 47 Kulp Ave.;  
Andrew Patterson 40 Kulp Avenue; 
John A. O’ Neill, 209 Empire Street; 
John Anderson, 31 Hanover Street; 
Charles Hammonds, 32 John Street;  
William P. Thomas, 104 Auburn Street.

Plymouth: 
Milton Jones, 116 Orchard Street; 
David W. Jones 18 Walnut Street; 
John J. Cassidy, 207 Howard Street; 
David R. Jones, 78 Walnut Street; 
David Lloyd, 306 Powell Street; 
David W. Bittenbender, 115 Davenport Street;  
Andrew J.  Shonk; 
John B. McGee, 169 Reynold Street; 
Henry R. Kettie, 173 N. Franklin Street; 
Morgan P. Harrison, 51 Gaylord Avenue; 
Patrick Shovlin; 
Lewis B. Thomas, 427 Moss Street.

Plains: 
D.J. Harris, 
Thomas Williams, 
Anthony Munnelly, 
Robert Condron.

Luzerne: 
William Rowley, 
George Fulton, 
John Guta, 
Michael J. Brady, 
George Seiple.

Forty-Fort: 
Grant Meeker, 
George D. Lewis, 
Edward Rogers.

Plymouth: 
Richard Morgan, 
Henry Lewis, 
John Davies.

Edwardsville: 
John Richards, 
Wm. D. Thomas, 
Wm. L. Richards, 
D. J. Edwards.

Alden Station: 
James Jeffries, 
Wm. T. Glidden, 
Alfred B. Taylor, 
John C. Hermanson, 
James Bryan.

Nanticoke: 
Edward Minett, 
David H. Walters, 
James B. Flannery.

Sugar Notch: 
Benjamin G. Griffith.

Kingston: 
Peter Julius Stritzlinger, 
Daniel Davies.

Swoyesville Borough: 
Jacob F. Miller

Plainsville:  
John Lavelle

Parsons:  
David J. Davies, 
Charles Johnson

Dorranceton:  
William Gayer

Hudson:  
Thomas James

Wyoming:  
Edwaard W. Griffith

Rhone:  
Evan T. Walters

Westmore: 
John Rhys Owens

Lee Park: 
James M. Williams

Georgetown: 
Edward W. David

Warrior Run:  
Thomas Price