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Fine was born (1893) in such a town, an anthracite "mine patch" near Nanticoke. His father worked for the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Coal Co., first running the stationary engine in the shaft, then working on a company-owned farm. When little John was in grade school, he helped at farm chores and plowing. But he found that a man could still make his way out of the dark hills if he wanted to. After he graduated from high school, Fine studied law, paying his way by a job delivering and picking up laundry...
...state's anti-pollution laws, Duff has already cut the dumping of mine waste by 80% in the Schuylkill River basin. The task of dredging out millions of tons of accumulated silt and culm is ready to begin. Similar projects are under way along the Lehigh, the Lackawanna and Susquehanna Rivers...
Andrew Kotalik, who once worked as a boilermaker for the Lackawanna Railroad, summed up his recent life in words that contracted the world's dimensions more strikingly than air-travel statistics and which made peace terms seem more real than all the speeches of statesmen: "From de war we ain't had enough. From de Joimans we ain't had enough. Den dem bandit fellers come and dey boint down de houses' and boint my horse and four sheepses. Excuse my English, but can't you folks do something for us folks...
Scranton had fallen on evil days. Anthracite had once been king in the Lackawanna Valley, but the king was dead. Hard coal diggings had scarred Scranton's hills and undermined its streets; the exhausted mines threatened to cave in the whole economy of the polyglot community among the culm dumps of Northeastern Pennsylvania. Even the war had given Scranton only a cardboard security...
...five"; "I have this idea: to paint the white marble (which immediately surrounds [my] hall fireplace) the same strong red of the hall walls, & then cover it with Mr. De Forest's thin arabesque-cut brass sheets. . . . Ask . . . if that can be done"; "Go to the Delaware, Lackawanna & Hudson R.R. and see if they will rent me a special sleeping car. . . . Go directly to the President of the Company. . . . Hurry!"; "No provision is made for a wooden barrack for the soldiers who guard General Grant's tomb. I wonder what [it] would cost.. . . Could...