THE QUEEN OF BEAUTY AND ACCIDENTS.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1936, 18 March 1875, Page 2

THE QUEEN OF BEAUTY AND ACCIDENTS.

(To the Editor of the Evening Star.) Sir, —Will you be kind enough to give the following statement a place in" the columns of your paper. You state in your leading article of 17th March, as follows : — " We are only surprised that the shareholders, most of whom are practical men, have not before this taken some steps to remove the stigma- from, their property which has been affixed to. At of being the grave of so many miners." Now Sir, I Ijiink when you make a statement like the above you should be* sure that it is correct before you allowed it to ; be published,, as with the excep-, tiqn of the late accident, it is the first' which has ended fatally (?) How then can' you reconcile the statement that it is the. grave of so many'miners.- I may also; state the shareholders have at all times" (since I have been in their employ) been ; as anxious for the safety of their men, *s' either you or the public could wish them; to be; and I think if you.look at the' testimonial which was published in your*

morning contemporary, and which was voluntarily given by the men employed, it will go tar to bear out the above statement. You also stated that at the time the late Mr Fox was brought to the hospital hemade the "fourth man in the institution suffering from injuries receiyed an the Queen of Beauty mine This is not correct—there was on'y one There is yet another affair which I would like to set right. Some two months a«o ia your paper tWetppMied^ an article informing the Dublic tfcat a* man named: Mqorej met, j*itn an accident accident ,toQ|c;;plape m~itirpl& lOum" claim, "at^lhead^.o^.t^^M^naife Statements like this,- made in error, mike the mine lo6kiwors«tthaiilt**ally is You aUostat* that itOmStorjifciieerg the Thames Goldfield; as be has testimonial, to s ho* tfaa^ej » jt^Rfctical miner and manager of l&yWsjstaidinjr, both m America and In conclusion, t would "wish to state ihatjis. farrairthie Tsha^e^l^ |m|-c»ii-cerned, the.ro,,.is neither expense lor and, ,when Vack aVim? SimWof fatal fijicideats that; Haver occurred o Putn^:A^^£aH£-^rfht Smile, Caledonian, "and the-:6ther companies on the Thames, I think thatrthe I am, &c, • t b^li'io-.8. , ff ~~ H. Vorn.- ---> Queen of ; Beauty,, -, n,, 1'- v"" "-Mtolh 18th; 187& ** :C "l p ■ that the term " grW was not intended tp.app;br Hte^lly.^^ di4jno| sUta that when ;s *Qj; f wasLtfk^6R[tf>ih«r,Hpspi^l|^e niadethe fourthman in^tUaianjttitmtion suffering froth accidents in the QuMtf-)>f "' Beauty mine. We said it had b*eri A 4 as- < serted"that such wat th»easeifand?l;hig fact—the fact of suoh to **«ertibii b«&g made (it appeared- iW tbeTliamis Aivertiser) was significant the bad name the claim had got. We hare no re i c:(>l^tf(»iQn;,^^MikJ« a l:li»>cident to !J&S e ' been called to the alleged mistake at tht time, correction wouid haye followed." • Not a word Mr Wilson experience. The reference to incompetent mine minager» tw^i*i#nded to b» general in its application.—B&.l