Fueling the Gilded Age: Railroads, Miners, and Disorder in Pennsylvania Coal Country

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>> 269 Index abusive strikers, 144 Adams, Charles Francis, 98 Adams, Sean Patrick, 10 “After the Ball,” 167 “After the Strike,” 167 agency, 4 agency costs, 256n43 Agitation Grounds, 101, 102 agitators, 62 Agricultural College of Pennsylvania, 8 alcoholism, 160 Allegheny Mountains, 8 Altoona, PA, 150, 172 American Federation of Labor, 125, 180 American Miners’ Association, 40 anarchist principles, 204 anthracite cartel, 38 arbitration, 101 Archbold, George, 43 Argyle, John, 68 Armstrong, William, 48 Arnot, PA, 207 Baer, George , 199 Bald Eagle Mountain, 46 Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B&O), 36, 60, 70 Baltimore, MD, 9 bankruptcy, 213, 225–226 Barclay, PA, 50 Barrett, George (Judge), 57, 60 basis system, 197 bayonets, 166, 172 Beaver Meadows, 101 Beaver Run Coal Mine, 65 Beaverton Mines, 46 Beech Creek Railroad, 93, 95 Beechtree Mines, 129 Bell, Lewis & Yates, 119, 142, 154, 162, 189 Bellefonte, PA, 48 beneficial associations, 38, 39 Berwind, Charles, 103, 143 Berwind, Edward J., 36, 192, 211, 226 Berwind, Henry, 147, 175, 216 Berwind, White Company, 36, 92, 95, 162, 204, 211; strategy, 215 Bierly Hall, 101 “The Big Wheel,” 17 Bixler, J. R., 65, 70 blackleg, 20, 25, 31, 78, 130 blacklist, 18, 83, 84, 44, 142, 145, 158, 164 Blossburg, PA, 207 Blossburg Opera House, 208 Boston, MA, 9 Bowman, John, 226 Bradley, Thomas A., 160, 164, 173, 174, 201 brass bands, 72, 75, 167, 168, 169, 172 Broad Top Mining Region, 46 Brody, David, 186 Brown, John H., 115, 130 Bryan, William Jennings, 199 Burchdoll, Thomas, 58, 84 business unionism, 224 Butler, John, 136 “butties,” 107 Cameron, James, 48 Cameron, Simon, 66 “Camp Determination,”209 capitalism, 224 270 > 271 Derby Mine, 23 Dilbert, 256n43 Dill, William H., the “Millionaire Minister,” 140, 147, 150 discharge papers, 67 Dix, Keith, 4 dog hole mines, 84 Dolan, Patrick, 201 Douglas Democrats, 68 Drexel, Anthony J., 97 Drexel, Morgan, 96 drinking (alcohol), 129, 160 driving tunnels, 162 drummer boy, 44 DuBois, PA, 101, 112, 207 Dudley, Charles, 1, 103 Duke, Buck, 40 Duncan, David, 193 economic theories, 41 Edgar Thomson Steel Works, 95 Edwards, W. S., 74 eight-hour day: anthracite mining (1869), 38, 39; Strike of 1894, 154–157 Eleanora, PA, 206 Eleanora Mines, 129 Elliott, S. B., 112, 195 Ellsworth, Darius, 21, 22, 45 Elmira, NY, 95 Engineering and Mining Journal, 105 Enterprise Mine, 23 equanimity of the well-fixed, 97 Erie Canal, 38, 93 Erie Company, 210 Erie Railroad, 207 Eureka Mine, 37 Evans, Chris, 202–203 Evans, John W., 84 eviction, 206 Fall Brook Railroad, 94 Famine Irish, 65 fee on board, 100 fife and drum organizing, 85 Fisher, James, 47 Fisher Brothers, 36 fishing, 167 fixed costs, 213 Flat Top Land Association, 187 forcible entry, 69 foreign investment in railroads, 96, 97 Franklin Mine, 37 Freeman’s Hall (Tyrone, PA), 203 Freemasons, 17 freight agent, 5, 9, 99, 195 freight rates, secret, 37, 154, 195, 227; discrimination , 215 freight rates, sliding scale for coal, 36, 37, 72, 101–102; “differentials,” 197, 213; freight rates v. wages, 140, 143, 161–163, 169, 170, 187–188, 193, 194, 226 freight rates wars (and truces), 36, 46, 60, 70, 80; impact on foreign investment, 97, 99; Trunk Line Wars 164 French miners, 53 Frick, Henry Clay, 156 Frugality Mine, 62 gardens, 165, 167 Garlock, Jonathan, 122 Garrett, John Work, 60 geography, 185 Gilbert, Richard, 203 Gilded Age, 221, 222 The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, 1, 103 glassblower, 112 Goaziou, Louis (anarchist), 160, 181, 204 Gold Democrats, 200 Gompers, Samuel, 125 Goodrich, Carter, Viii Gorn, Elliott J., 208 Goss Run, PA, 36, 37 Gowen, Franklin, 40, 94, 95 Grange, 126 Granger laws, 199 Great Depression, 213 Great Lakes, 96 Great Strike of 1877, 61, 73 Great Upheaval of 1886, 91 Greenback Labor Party, 17, 18, 64 gross ton, 114, 149, 171 Groundhog Day, 119 272 > 273 MacDonald, Sandy, 43 Mack, Michael, 30–32, 57 Magee, George, 94, 98, 102, 112, 142, 150, 170, 174; and Democratic Party, 199 Magee, John, 192 Malee, John, 23, 68, 69, 113, 192, 204 Malee, Patrick, 69 Malee, Peter, 69, 84 Maloney, John J., 44, 64, 66, 68; burgess of Houtzdale, 67 Mapleton branch, 18 married men v. single men, 37 Maryland, 8, 9 mass meetings, 17, 39, 45, 101, 110, 135; Houtzdale, 158, 177 Mayer, Judge Charles A., 22, 57 McBride, John, 134, 160, 165–166, 168, 180 McBryde, Patrick, 160 McCullough, Thomas J., 22 McGowan, George, 50, 68 McGowan, Henry, 19, 29, 74, 83, checkweighman lawsuit, 113 McGowan, Sarah, 19, 25, 28 McHugh, Arthur J., 66...