HAULBOWLINE 



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HAUNTED HOUSE 



Haulage. 



in refinement and 

 complexity to the 

 elaborate haulage 

 plants of the great 

 gold and diamond 

 mines of the Trans- 

 vaal, for example 

 recording on the 

 way, the wheel- 

 barrow and every 

 kind of transport 

 a n i m a 1 m u 1 e s, 

 llamas, horses, cam- 

 els, oxen, dogs. The 

 mechanical means 

 employed include 

 the light railway, 

 the standard rail- 

 way, and the aerial 

 railway orwire rope. 



Haulage in a coal 



mine may be described as main and 

 secondary or contributory, the 

 latter consisting in transporting 

 the coal from the working face 

 to the main- haulage ways; the 

 former in conveying it to the foot 

 of the shaft. In the main haulage, 

 trains of trucks or tubs are drawn 

 along rails either by horses, com- 

 pressed air locomotives, or by wire 

 ropes operated from near the bottom 

 of the shaft either electrically or by 

 means of engines worked by com- 

 pressed air. Of recent years elec- 

 trical locomotives and benzine or 

 petrol locomotives have been in- 

 troduced in coal-mining. The tubs 

 or trucks employed are either of 

 iron or steel or wood, and hold any- 

 thing from 10 to 45 cwts. of coal, 

 their size being determined by 

 the character of the workings. In 

 the direct haulage system, where 

 the tubs are brought up an in- 

 cline direct from the working face 

 to the shaft, they are usually 

 arranged to run back empty by 

 their own weight on a single line 

 of rails. See Mining. 



Haulbowline. Island in Cork 

 Harbour, co. Cork, Ireland. It is 

 S. of Queenstown, and on it are a 

 naval dockyard and an ordnance 

 depot. The name is also that of a 

 rock at the mouth of Carlingford 

 Lough, on which is a lighthouse. 

 See Queenstown. 



Haunted House. The idea that 

 houses and other places are haunted 

 by the ghosts of the departed is 

 very ancient, and common to 

 nearly' all nations. The usual ghost 

 story describes various noises, to- 

 gether with the appearance of 

 ghostly visitants, usually con- 

 nected with some crime or tragedy 

 that has been committed in the 

 place. The majority of such tales 

 are founded on careless and in- 

 accurate observation, and the 

 sounds and phenomena are explic 

 able by material causation. 



There are, however, on record 



System of steam-driven rope haulage for 

 trucks up a steep incline 



well authenticated cases which 

 cannot be put down to the imagina- 

 tion, the evidence for them being 

 as convincing as it well could be. 

 Of several explanations proposed, 

 the most probable appears to be 

 that persons under strong emotion 

 as when meeting a violent death 

 may leave some kind of impres- 

 sion on their surroundings, one 

 normally as imperceptible as the 

 image on an undeveloped photo- 

 graphic plate, which becomes 

 apparent only when the plate is 

 placed in the developer. So the 

 alleged impression becomes ap- 

 parent only to those who are 

 psychic or peculiarly sensitive 

 thereto. This would account for the 

 fact that some persons otherwise 

 perfectly normal are greatly given 

 to experiencing these strange pheno- 

 mena, while others never do so. 



Haunted House. Old house in 



Cock Lane, SmithfieW, scene of 



manifestations which puzzled and 



deceived London society in 1762 



Among houses at which super- 

 natural appearances are said to 

 have been observed is Mannington 

 Hall, Norfolk, where Dr. Jessop, 



rector of Seaming, on Oct. 10, 

 1879, saw the figure of a man in an 

 old-fashioned costume of clerical 

 cut. Newstead Abbey is reputedly 

 haunted by a Black Friar, presum- 

 ably one of the Augustinian order 

 expelled in 1539 when the property 

 was sold to Sir John Byron. The 

 poet Byron declared he had seen 

 him, and that the appearance of 

 the Friar foretold a death in the 

 family. Incidentally, Newstead 

 Abbey is considered unlucky to its 

 possessors, a view founded on the 

 belief, as expressed in Spelman's 

 History of Sacrilege, that holders 

 of what was once Church property 

 are doomed to disaster. 



Numerous instances of houses 

 infested for a time with malicious 

 spirits, playing senseless pranks, 

 are on record. The German people 

 have long recognized this kind of 

 haunting by Poltergeists, as they 

 style them. Such was the Epworth 

 ghost which in 1716-17 tormented 

 the Rev. Samuel Wesley and his 

 family. The Cock Lane (q.v.) 

 ghost in a house off Smithfield, 

 London, whose pranks were of the 

 like character, was a deception. 

 The Sampford Peverell ghost dis- 

 turbed the house for three years 

 from 1810. Fraud was suspected, 

 but never discovered. 



The best established account of 

 haunting in recent years is found 

 in the book The Alleged Haunting 



of B House (2nd ed. 1900). 



Ballechin House, Perthshire, is the 

 mansion indicated, as appears from 

 a correspondence in The Times in 

 June, 1897. The book is a cold, 

 circumstantial account, under the 

 imprimatur of the Psychical Re- 

 search Society (q.v.), in which it 

 is remarked that the occurrences 

 observed had continued for over a 

 quarter of a century. In 1913, 

 circumstantial accounts of the 

 haunting of Asfordby Rectory, 

 Leicestershire, appeared in the 

 newspapers. These manifestations 

 had continued for thirty years. 



Ghosts have a kind of quasi- 

 legal status in the sense that the 

 owner of a house stated to be 

 haunted may bring an action at 

 law for " slander of title," and may 

 recover damages, as in the case of 

 the modern house called Hillside 

 at Egham, occupied by Stephen 

 Phillips in 1903. He left the 

 alleged haunted house and forfeited 

 the rent. In 1904 the owner 

 brought an action against his late 

 tenant and a morning newspaper, 

 but the case was settled out of 

 court for 200. In 1906 The Daily 

 Mail was defendant in a similar 

 action, when 90 damages was 

 awarded; but judgement was re- 

 versed on appeal. The house is now 

 peacefully occupied. 



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