The age-herald., 1897-09-29

tate does not yet fill The bill.
 Rpeated inquiries are made about Bir- l ningham. Much capital has it's eye
 upon thu Birmingham district One of l tiie largest financial concerns in New l York is alrealy formulating the plans,
 which, if carried out, will mean the in- l vestment of several millions in Birming- ham,. Strange to say. up to date, no Birmingham resident is in the deal but 1 there are these who have been there. 1 One of them was present at the first
 steel run. The details of the plan will 1 be printed later.
 1 I saw Major Johnson, Birmingham's l commercial agent, here the either day. 1 He is the right man in the right place. l He don't stand around hoteG hobbies l blowing about Birmingham, nor does he l look up newspaper reporters to be inter- 1 viewed in every place he goes He saves 1 his voice and brain for places where the most good can be accomplished. You | find him talking with men who have capital to invest and those who have | manufacturing enterprises which could be more profitably operated if moved to Birmingham.
 It will not be many months before you will see fruit from this mans. labors I predict the investment Birmingham ]. has made in having Major Johnson pre- sent its advantages to outsiders win be the best made in many years. The ripe fruit will scon begin to fall.
 Alabama people are much sought in New York just now by the thousands who are looking south for investments. Everybody wants to know if it be true that steel is being made in Birmingham | as low as s12 a ton. Again, they want l to know if the government armor plate 1 plant will really be located in Blrming- 1 ham. Should Birmingham get it I ven 1 ture that the rush of men of capital to 1 it would be tenfold greater than in the 1 boom days of dozen years ago. 1 am glad to see southern people in | l They are giving up the alleged cheap l hotels and going to the best. Many are at the Hoffman, the Waldorf and the Ina- 1 perial. And, by the way, the New | Hoffman house is a perfect gem of beauty, and dts prices have been made
 reasonable. Its new dining room on the top floor is perhaps the most popular. | in New York. The hotel is becoming a 1 great resort for southern people. l Southern men and women are begin- l ming to monopolize the field of newspa-
 perdom in New York. The prize men 1 on nearly all the big dailies are from l the south.
 l Walter Hawiey formerly of Birming-
 ham, is making $5,ooo a year as the lead
 ing political reporter on the Evening | Sun. Walter Howard, of Atlanta, is the | prize reporter on the Journal, and Joe l Johnson, of Atlanta, is high up on the l staff of the Journal. The Times staff I is almost entirely made up of southern l men, and the Sun, Herald, Tribune and l Journal have a goodly proportion. By the way, tho World is rapidly de- l clining as a newspaper. It has lost it's I hold upon the people The Journal is | growing evry day, while the World is l declinig. The World is said to print and | give away one hundred thousand papers l a day to newsdealers in order to blow I about big circulation. Yet the news I dealers cannot push them out with tine | Journal.
 l Strange as it may seem, the Herald grows despite the fact that dt is a 3-eianIh
 newspaper, while the Joalrpal and World
 sell at 1 cent. The Herald gives all the
 news, but reftains from sensational pie l lures. It prints more advertisements than any dther 1.-Two papers in New York, I and its advertisng rates are the highest dn New York. The Herald is payi:ng 1 James Gordon Bennett something like l s1,50o,00o profit a year.
 | There are many new things and good
 things on the New York theatmcal
 boards this season. The best and most
 daughaibie is ''What Happened to Jones'" | now playing at the Manaaltan under the 1 management of our old southern friend, 1 Ndr. Rosentfal. 1t is destined to run
 several hundred nights. It is the bright est and funniest play seen on the New
 York sage in years.
 ''The Wrong MT. Wright is anIother
 clever, up-to-date comiady, and "A Stranger In New York is good.
 'sThe Girl From Paris" is still running
 at the Herald Square. but with a new
 colmpany, and the company is the worst
 T ever saw on a New York stage. It Is
 butcherfng a good play.
 Firancis Wilson has put on "HaSf