The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-10-17


worst of it I'm many ways Too many
people are trying to give 1t the black eye.
My old friend Paul Earle may not know
he great damage he did to this city when
he made the statement some time ago
that it was bankrupt. like OR. Earle.
He has a reputation of being truthful
a man. I don't suppose any man knows
the condition of the city better than Mr..
Earle. His statement got printed in
some northern papers. Many editorials
were written up there about BlTming
hams bad financial condition. don't
think Mr.. Earle intended to injure the
city, but his desire to tell the truth pre-
dominated, and there you are. The
thing got out and rival towns are trying
Ito make much of it. Even little Chat
tanooga gets on dts hind legs and fairly
paws the air at it's own greatness, In
pointing with pride to what Mr. Earle
said about Birmingham being bankrupt.
Chattanooga is envious That town is
not SO warm. The people up there would
like to make capital out of Mr.. Earle's
remark Try to discourage people from
coming te Birmingham, because Mr..
Earle said it was bankrupt. Chatta-
nooga should not put on airs. 1t was
worse than bankrupt once. They should
not have jumped on to Mr.. Earle too
speedily. 1t is evident to my mind that
the people of Chattanooga don't appre-
ciate a man who tells what he knows.
They are doing Mr.. Earle great injus-
tice. If the town is really bankrupt, as
Mr.. Earle says 1t is, it may have some
influence with the arnor plate board.
1t may not want to locate a plant in a
bankrupt town. I'll bet Birmingham
will pull out all right. May be little
hard just now. Can't last always In
fact, 1t can't last much longer. Bound
to come out. Everything looks that
way. More business every day. More
money in circulation. I'll bet when the
armor plate board gets back to Wash
ington it will vote Birmingham a good
place and have some pleasant words
for its citizens.
1t is true it won't be here long enough
to see much 1t will only see the best
side. If Birmingham don't get the ar
NOR plate factory 1T will not be because
Birmingham has not worked hard to get
the committee here.
had not seen Bob Burdette for years
uIrIFi SodIIie Olu fSOD. O5eQ 10
know him when he was on the Burling-
ton Hawkeye. He looked like a tender
foot when he first came cast. His first
day there he wanted to know If court
had not been in session that day. When
asked why he wanted to know, he said
the town was pretty full of people, and
that something unusual must have been
going ON He Flowed" it might have
been "a murder trial or something of that
kind. Bob don't write like he used to-
DoRh have to do it. Making too much
money lecturing. Good fellow Bob is.
Piled up good big fortune telling funny
stories to the people. Got a beautiful
place in Brooklyn. One of the most pop
ular men in the City of Churches. Every
body on his square knows him Great
friend with the children. take off my
hat Ito the man who loves children. The
man who loves children has got a good,
big heart.
Bob has been lectuTing now for about
of several hundred thousand dollars
Takes life easy now. Was mighty hard
working newspaper man when The was
younger. Burlington Halwkeye turned
out two good newspaper men. One was
Burdette and the other was Frank Hat
ton, who was in President AIthur's cab
met and later became chief editor and
one of the proprietors of the Washing
ton Post.