Glamorgan Free Press

tyustard and Cress. In the Bailey's Arms case, heard at tke Pontypridd Police Court on Wednesday, Mr James Phillips, in cross-examining the sergeant inspected the "plan' of the premises, and trus- ted when he built a new house a, policeman'* plan would not be adopted. Dr Hunter evidently bad the midsummer's nights' dream in his mind when he suggested the various places in the sketch should be marked thus: This is a w-ndow, etc. His touching appeal to the wit- ness to be fair "for once in his life" raised general smile, which was taken up by the learned gentlemen on the Bench. The rainfall registered at Maesderwen, Pontypridd, during September was 3.51 inches, as compared with 3.59 during the correspond' iug period of last year. The Rev R. Thomas, Penrhiwceiber, has, during the last three weeks, preached 40 times in different Cyrddau Mawr both in North and South Wales. Mr J. E. Thomas, son of the Rev R. Thomas, Penrhiwceiber, will commence his studies at Edinburgh University on the 15th inst. He received his preparatory education at Ponty- pridd Academy, under the tutorship of Mr E. D. Edwards, M.A. This is another instance of the principal's efficiency as a teacher. Shortly after midnight on Tuesday several messengers were seen hurrying along Taff street with the object of calling on the fire brigade to extinguish a fire at the District Council Chamber. Dense volumes of smoke were seen pouring out of the windows, but investigation proved that the flames were still confined to the fire grates, the smoke issuing from the wrong end of badly drawing chimneys. Talk about the dense, murky, November London fogs! They are as nothing compared to the conditions which prevailed at the Ponty- pridd District Council Chamber on Tuesday. Fires had just been lit, and the chimneys re- fused to draw, with the result that members, as they walked into the room full of smoke which could be felt, looked dim and gaunt, mak- ing one imagine they were visitants from the nether world. There were humorous incidents, by the sroi*, in connection with the School Board election. One old lady went into the booth, and de- clared that she was illiterate, but indigD infj declined to teil the presiding officer the names of the candidates for whom she wished to vote. She went outside, but, evid- ently prompted by someone at the door she returned and told the secret. I "Who do you want to vote for"? was the ¡ question put to an able bod eJ man at Treorky "Wel, pwy dd——1 chi'u feddwl," wal tre reply, "ond y dyn bach, wrth gwrs," and it j took the officer somA time 'o discover who ilie i "lyn bach" was 1who do you want to vote forp" asked the returning officer. I don't care a d-" was the reply. But who do you want to see re- turned?" "Not one of the devils" was the an- sv. er, and the intelligent voter walked out of the booth without recording a vote tor any one. In one instance the generosity of a votpr j living at Pentre was almost boundl s. It not a case of bribery and corruption, but simply magnificent "giving away." Oi;dtwch i fi wei'd," said the voter—"Rhowch bump i Jenkins, yt Ocean, pump i Mr Morris, a rhoddwch y pump arall i bwy fynoch ch'i— cym'rwch nhw'ch hunan, o'm rhan i." That was the Ystrad School Board Election. What about the people who were summoned to count the Ystrad School Board Election votes in 1896 and never turned up until 1899?There- by hangs a tale, the sequel of which was re- vealed last Monday, "all the king's horses and the king's men" will not drag the mystery from the manly bosom of the man who revels in the dark stories of "Mustard and Cress." "There were more blunders made by voters in this last School Board election than I have ever seen in any other election," said a p 'l clerk to a schoolmaster, "and it does not re- flect much credit on your schools." "My dear fellow," was the teacher's ready reply, "those voters were born before their time. If they had been young enough to have passed through my school they would have been properly taught." It is said that Dr Jones, the Rhondda Medi- cal Officer of Health, declared on Saturday that the health of the district was allowed to "go to the dogs" for that day, because his subordi- nates were all (or nearly every one) employed as presiding officers or polling-clerks. The doc- tor may have meant it, but he did not use the slang term quoted; that was simply a little em- bellishment put on by the informant of the "Mustard and Cress" man. What a rush there was at Treherbert on Saturday for the "Pontypridd and Rhondda Chronicle" to be sure! "Sold out" was the only reply. Then, at Pontypridd, the "Foot- ball Edition" (out an hour and a half before the Cardiff evening papers) went "like fire." One of the Llwynypia ticket collectors was in a "scrimmage" last Saturday, and if he had not been a "cool customer" he would have fared badly. There was such a rush of specta- tors for the Cardiff-Llwynypia match that he got fairly "bowled over," but when squatting on the ground he lustily cried out, "Tickets, please." The inhabitants of the upper portion of Pen- tre were very much startled on Saturday by the appearance of a herculean ghost. On in- vestigation, however, it was found that a bag of flour had played a very prominent part in a scratching competition between a majestic widow and her neighbour at the house which the supposed ghost came out of.

PONTYPRIDD BURIAL BOARD. Mr R. Rogers presided at the ordinary meet- ing of the above Board on Thursday support- ed by Messrs D. Rees, G. Hughes, James Rob- ots, E. Morgan, J. Rosser, P. Gowan, F. Judd, together with the Clerk Mr James Spic- kett. The attention of the Board was call- ed to the fact by Mr Evan Morgan that boys habitually played football in an adjoining field near the cemetery to the annoyance of tJte minister conducting the service. Mr Mor- gan said the noise was (iisgraceful. Mr James Roberts promised to see the owner of the field in reference to the matter. A short time ago the graveyards adjoin- ing chapels in the Parish of Llantwit Yardre were after inspection ordered to be closed for the protection of public health. In reply to a communication from the Board a letter was sow read form the secretary of the Home Off- ice sanctioning the burials at certain exist- ing graves in Sardis, Libanus, and Fennel Cfcapel Cemeteries under the condition that the graves be walled and properly cemented.

Porth-Thursday. Thursday.—Before the stipendiary (Mr J. Ignatius Williams), and Dr Ivor Lewis. SIMPLY DISGRACEFUL. A member of the Cymmer Workmen's Club named William Jones, of Cymmer, a collier, was summoned for committing a nuiance upon corn- ing out of the club in an intoxicated condition on the 1st inst. He had a bottle of beer in his pocket at the time. The Stipendiary remarked it was simply dis- graceful. It was bad enough to turn the people out in such a eondition without any drink upon them. Jones was fined 5s. YOUNG MARRIED COUPLE'S TROUBLE AT WATTSTOWN. Phillips, a young married man, of Aberllcchau Road, Wattstown, was summoned by his wife, Margaret Jane for desertion. Mr James Phillips appeared for Mrs Phillips, who said in evidence that she married her husband (the defendant) during the strike, and kept him by taking in sewing. During the whole of her wedded life he bad only given 'her E2 7s 6d. The first Saturday night after the strike he came home rather drunk, quarrelled with her, and pushed her out of doors. The following Mon- day he packed up and went to lodge at Cym- mer. Soma time after she went to see him, but they kept her outside the door in the pour- in- rain for a quarter of an hour, while her husband escaped through the back door. De- fendant said 'his mother-in-law was at the bot- to of it all. He wag not on friendly term with her. When his wife was confined she came down there and between them they drank two bottles of gin the same day. Complainant said it was her husband who drank the gin, and he brought her home two- pennyworth of porter, the greater part of which he also drank on the sly while he thought she was sleeping. (Laughter). He even marked the food before he went to work, when her mother attended her during confine- ment. Defendant's earnings were put as P,5 per month. An order was made for the payment of 8s 6d per week towards the maintenace of his Iwife, HE PROMISED TO BE A TEETOTALER, A Pontypridd china hawker named Frank Flookes was brought up under a warrant charged with assaulting his wife, Maria last Tuesday week. The case was partly heard at the Pontypridd Court on the previous day. Mrs Flookes again described the illtreatment by her husband on the day ia question. She said her husband came home in a drunken con- dition, knocked her in the face, pulled her hair. and threw a flower pot at her.. He habitually treated her in this manner. Prisoner implored the Bench to give him one more chance. He would be a teetotaller for life and atend to his little ones at home. Complains said her husband had frequently made promises of the kind and broken them. The Stipendiary suggested that the case be adjourned for a month to see how prisoner would (behave himself. Complainant agreed to this suggestion, which was accordingly adopted. HAFOD COLLIER CHARGBD WITH ROBBERY. Thomas Davies, a Hafod collier, was charged with stealing bedclothing and a shawl from clothes lines at the back premises of eertain houses at Ynyshir the previous day. Superin- tendent Cole told the Bench that robberies in the district had been very frequent of late, and consequently he wished to apply for an ad- journment in order to make further inquiries. P.C. Lucas proved the arrest. When he asked prisoner what he had in his bundle he replied that it was a child rolled up. Aft examination showed that it contained two bed sheets and a shawl. Resina Ivens, of 5, Witan street, Ynyshir, said the sheets belonged to her. They were stolen shortly after she washed them. They were taken away in a wet condition. Prisoner remanded for a week. ALLEGED INDECENT ASSAULT AT TONYREFAIL. Evan Evans, collier, residing at Mill street, Tonyrefail, was charged with indecently assaulting Fanny Goddard, the 10 year old daughter of George Evans, of 10, Mill road, Tonyrefail, on Wednesday, the 4th inst. The offence was alleged to have taken place in a ield at the back of the Tonyrefail Board School. Mr James Phillips, solicitor, Ponty- pridd, defended. Evidence in the case was gives by Richard Davies and a farmer named Llewelyn Rhoderick, and defendant was com- mitted to take his trial at the coming Quarter Sessions. DRUNK AND DISORDERLY. For committing a breach of the peace on the 6th inst., David John Price, a respectably dressed collier, of Ferndale, was asked to pay costs, this being his first offence. Evan Jonea also a collier, of the same locality, failed to answer a summons for being drunk and mis- behaving himself on the 1st inst. Previous convictions were recorded, and he was fined 20s. The Perth police discourage loafing about the pavements. This accounts for Lemuel John Taylor's appearance at Court. He was found on the pavement reading a newspaper. P.C. Lucas arrested his interest in the war news probably for a few seconds, while he took his name and address. Taylor was now asked to pay a fine of 2s 6d. A Perth collier named Job Morris started a record by being fined 5s for being drunk and disorderly at Porth on the 7th inst. It seemed that Morris came very near to being locked tip because he refused to supply the constable with his name ilitd address.

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Letters to the Editor. The Editor, white welcoming letters 811 public topies, does uoi aold tamodf rompow afblo for the epmions contained therein. c. triVniors must write o* one side of the yapn only, and letters brief and to the point hava preference insertion. All commnmcatio— must be aceomp voied by the correct name and address of the writer, not necessarily for po. lication, but &8 a guarantee of good faith.

FERNDALE LICENSING QUESTION. To the Editor. Sir,—In the "Mustard and Cress" column last week you published an alrming report of the doings of Ferndale chapel people re the "Licensing Question," and though I know not from what source your information was de- rived, it appears to me that you are making a mountain out of a molehill, and a small mole- hill at that. As an inhabitant of many years' standing, I am aware that considerable differ- ence of opinion exists in some of the chapels hern regarding the desirability or otherwise of increased drinking facilities, but I have yet to learn that this difference of opinion has be- come so pronounced as to necessitate the inter- ference of the police or that "several challenges have been issued." Your informant deserves congratulation on possessing such a magnificent imagination, but it is a pity that he is not en- dowed with sufficient commomsense* to realise the amount of harm that can be effected by such addlepated ignoramuses as himself rush- ing into press on matters they know little or nothing about. I beg to prescribe for your informant's malady by advising a careful study of the old adage, "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread," trusting that a few doses of that medicine will do him good, and serve to lessen the number of these disgraceful "abapel squabbles" we hear so much about, and which are mostly caused by the virulent and ignorant interference of conceited fools.—I remain, ycurs respectfully, A FERNDALE READER October 14th, 1899.

6 RHONDDA SCHOOL BOARD ELECTION. To the Editor. Sir,—A eorrespndent bearing a borrowed name, writes in your last issue to complain of the conduct of the two School Board members for Treherbert for not inviting allm to a feast there some months ago. Because his stomach was not appeased, his liver got out of order, and his complaint is so terribly serious that he could not make it known until the eve of the election,, evidently with a view to injure the chances of the said members of being re-elected, and to deprive Upper Rhondda of direct repre- sentation. This savours of meanness which no true workman would stoop to practise, and our conclusion is that "he is not of us." The erec- tion of the magnificent school buildings in ,Treherbert was to a large extent due to the untiring efforts of the two local members, and a,$ the cost of the same had to be borne by ratepayers throughout the whole School Board area, as well as those who would be directly benefitted by the school, the local members, as was just, invited the friends and pioneers of education from various parts of the Rhon- dda, to participate in the joy which attended such an auspicious event as the opening of the new school. But was the Labour party exclu- ded or disregarded? On the contrary, hun- dreds of the hardy sons of toil availed them- selves, of the opportunity, and while bearing the marks of their perilous occupations, showed their appreciation of the Educational advan- tages which Treberbert had inherited. All could join in the procession. Labour was re- presented there, and not only there, but the streets were lined by workmen according to their own pleasure, who were not ashamed to occupy the same vantage ground as the young children who kept cheering and waved their banners in the breeze. On the eve of the open-, iUt, about 300 of the young people of the neigh- bourhood were invited by Mestrs D. R. Jones and D. Williams to an enjoyable repast in order to celebrate the occasion, and as a large num- ber of these consisted of the Labour party,, it is preposterous to suggest that these gentlemen had abused their generosity. But this particular individual was not there, and consequently the whole body of workmen received an affront! The whole machinery drifts into rack and ruin when this tiny cog is not recognised! Let the Iteavens tremble! Again, on same evening, about 850 children enjoyed a similar feast at the expense of the local members. And whose children were they? Was the Labour party ignored, when the workmen's children were en- joying themselves ? Who but your correspond- ent is idiotic enough to condemn Mr D. R. Jones or Mr D. Williams for this benevolent action? Again, on the opening day,, workmen bad as free an access to the new buildings as anybody else, and I saw scores of workmen who had entered without tickets or invitation, par- taking heartily of the viands set before them, and not even they were more satisfied with their homeliness and strong digestible organs then were the two generous gentlemen who had pro- vided the feast. But your correspondent's stomach was not there, and the emptiness of his stomach (or, shall I say, his head?) accounts fo,, his rancorous, splenic letters in the press this week. But the workmen of Treherbert, Dunraven, Blaenycwm, and Blaenrhondda are j not going to be gulled by the mischievous in- sinuations which this gluttonous idler belches forth from his insatiated stomach, and thereby be deprived of direct representation on the School Board, but will remember Mr D. R. Jones at the polling booth in such a way as to cause his enemies to regret having ever taken up the cudgels against Ihim. It is a matter of regret that Mr David Williams has withdrawn after having made such a brilliant record as a School Board member. But now that he has withdrawn, let us, as colliers and ratepayers, combine to throw in our lot with Mr D. R. Jones, who also has proved an ideal representa- tive on the School Board.—I am, etc., A GRATEFUL COLLIER.

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KiLLED BY h INQUEST ON THE VlCTl^ held On Saturday an Inquest was t Pontypridd Police Court oi John O'Shea who was killed Thursday at the Cieai Western tfce breaking' of tbe liy-wheel 0 j) I h dr;ver. eagme of which he was the dr*v Vf L. B. HOGS, Cardiff, deputy c°roner p isted by Llr White, one oi 1 o. Mines. IKr Brarmvell agent of TM-es^ Collieiy wai- first witness called was Elizabeth 0 ow, who said the body seen i>y that ^of her husband who was 38 ye3^ f He lived at No. 2, Thurston pridd. John Davidson, head engineer at the Great Western Co ± the engine in question was the pit-an ordinary (hauling was erected in 1896. The accident about 3.30 on Thursday aftern0011^ sped ting the engine after the found tliat the l']y-whe«?l bad several pieces and "ome of the, slightly bent. Deceased was worki°° gme alone. He thought that the accident was that the engine wa-s "j, ed at the time at two great the arms of the llv-wheel were .J lUQ w never had any reason to repair 1 A flaw was reported to him in two 0 a fortnight ago. It was reported b1 derground foreman filter who 01 it. He (witness) had not emaillill himself. The fireman told were very slight and he considered it ( work the engine if not driven speed. By a Juryman; He did not cSaP wheel himself because the firem*111 him the cracks were very slight- J. TRI C& J man examined it every day. in thing particular he himself he did not think it necessary 111 Had never known the lly-wheel of all engine to break before. A jul^ jef witness since the t wo arms 1 defected why were they not to j Witness replied that they intend eed' III 11 straps on, to do which, they v.'oulu j in the pit, and that they could 0^ out the manager's eonseni- j was away for his holidays wheB e the was reported. He produced j book in which wa.s the entry 10 two cracks in Fly-wheel." 1lc- for fly-wheels similarly cracked wo1'1 and he considered this wheel I-' to work. W'lUiam Oidpood, sepT", 1 fitter deposeci that on the 22il(^ ^) y he discovered a flaw in two t IL dink n the fly-wheel. They were so 1 could only just see them. JIe ififer to Davidson. He did not, give instructions. He examined the times dai?y after di&coveri11?^^? Tl» flaws did not increase. 0» tfl .^i last he took out one of the ra PO t t the two holders of the wheel p tight and he found they told the deceased to drive sve>' slow mte. He -saw the engille a bfO < accident and r'oMiid the wfteel 1,3 be61* Ila to four pieces. He thought It JPI ven at two greart a speed. He had told the deceased TVesdav to the accident to d at a moderate rate. The orack^ a that they could hardly be seen- A were in the same sedgement. JIe .1J8 tQ jf fitter for nearly five years. he had been a foreman at the Pontypridd. After discovering day he entered that all was right r the his report because he did not tlllt)! djd any damage from the, cracks. be J enter a report of the flaws ever*' j he did not think it necessary "5^ told Davidson. He knew it i put straps on that day ctíO- I sa1) had first to get the nuinagcr3 I having a fire in the pit, and be tC J There was no indicator on the | the number of revolutions pcr I •eased was in sola charge of the ctl^^ J| John Thomas, underground fore111 Thursday at about 3,30 he was a^°U^o(jl9e. from the engine when be heard a )' hurried to the engine-house, and Id got no answer. He found eleceas 4 Ji1 his back in the engine-house. A 6 It the wheel was lying on hip j too heavy for bim to lift, so be The man was dead. eØ Hugh Bramwell said he WP J the Great Western Colliery. Th« e^eo s built by John Fowler and Co., Leeds, ill best makers, in 1894, and it was erec tllt1 /I eculiery in 1896. It was designed to t ifi high speed. The two cracks opinion of such a nature as to ing of the engine at its normal j quite a frequent thing for en13*1 jl occur in fly-wheels. He had kno^ ;tjj$A gines worked for, years and years cracks. This was the first time he fly-wheel of a hauling engine to bre tire eO 1 a strict law at the colliery that he lighted in the pit without$ the manager. Solo The deputy-coroner, in briefly 11 they said it was for the jury to say 1f I sidered blame attached to anyone. tl1t1lJ, I tiring for a few minutes the )jjs th»ir verdict that deceased mefc i through working defective

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