The age-herald., 1897-11-10
GOSSIP OF THE STREET
 AND HOTEL LOBBlES

vile and Nashville railroad, who was an bha city yesterday. 'fOne of the first things that should be done is the estab- Hshment of Ship Isla-n ais a quarantine. Ship Island is just off Biloxi, and al- most every one who goes ito Biloxi and other places msar by go over to Ship Tsland to fish. This is one of the awe nues by which yellow fever gains en- tratloe to the south. Then Havana is infected with fever at all times. It is nsver clear. Ships leave there with a clean fill elf hea1th flor southern points and fever frequently breaks out on board before or just after they Iand. When they go on to New York the length of time to become free from infection elapses suggest 6s a remedy that the mstfonal government take charge of the quarantine and prevent this. TihSs state qlpanantine businesS makes yellow fever worse than am invaSion by the whole Spanish army. I would rather have yellow fewer than the quarantine. It paral1yzss business Now Montgomery is what you might term the smoke house elf a vast farming country When the quarantine was put on the supplies were cut off. I saw hundreds calling for meat and bread and they couldn't be supplied And, again a man who has been in an dnfected district is bounded like thief Suppose he has no money. He must get out What can he do? Can it be said that Alaibania wia not take care of dts own refugees? I want to see every business organization over the country take the matter up. A gigantic petition should be sent to the next ses- sion of congress"
 'One of the singular things in connec- ton with the gold strike in Alaska, said Everett Hartsell, of California, at the Ffereree. "ls the wonderful regularity in size and shape of the nuggets. In the history of mining there is mo counter part of 1t.
 q have lately seen spread out on u tabls a sack of gold brought from the Yukon, the nuggets of which would not vary from each other by $2. In hun dreds of the yellow Jumps there would be variation of but @ pennyweight or two. They ran from $9 to $11 with an oc- casional one going as high as $14. The owner of the sack told me that the great CT portion of these nuggets were liter ally scooped out of breaks in the bed- rock but four or five inches deep, wal=re it seemed as though the tremendous wash that had brought the gravel down from the mountains ages ago had de- posted the gold much as though 1t had bsen caught in slulce.
 "That there was some convugsion Of nature in bygone centuries when tnese Jumps were dropped on the broken rock of the river bed Is certain but what the action was that caused such regularity of shape and equality of weight In the nuggets I cannot imagine, and all placer miners I have talked with are puzzled A to the cause. Somewhere up in the mountains where this Klondike gold comes from I believe in years to come quartz lodges will be discovered thao will carry the yellow metal not in strings but in slabs The lucky miner who hits on just but a spur of this mother lode will gain wealth by the side of which what has already been taken out will be infnitesimal.
 'sThat this mother lode does exist Is a certainty, and its location is sure to bs discovered later. There are plenty OF men who will not rest until the source of supply has been revealed"
 ''There has been wonderful era Of progress" said J. c. Mayben, of New York, who was at the Morris yesterday. Capital is not yet done investing here. Rich men yet consider this one of the safest places to invest What do think of the proposed armor plate plant? do not know that the government will ever build one, but if 1t should, Birming-. hams splendid. resources will be great factor in securing it.
 ~. s,.C4 of the supreme court of Alabama, was at the Morris yesterday. The judge is prominently mentioned as a candidate for the chief justiceship. He had just been to Montgomery, where court was convened Saturday. When the judges started in the capitol at Montgomery Saturday some one started in ahead Of him. Some one showed the forerunner away, and said let the senior justice en- ter first. Judge Mcclellan received many callers among prominent men yesterday.
 Many Montgomerinns are now relturn- ing home Nearly all of them have vis- ited Nashville, Louisville and other points beyond the border of the infected points Among those in the city yester- day were J. Loeb, ST., and wife and Sam Loeb and wife.
 s. S. Bullis. who is prominently con- nected with the Gulf and Ship Island railway in course of construction in Mis- sissippi, was in the city yesterday. He was en route to Gulfport.
 w. T. Gentry. general manager of tha Southern Bell Telephone company, of Atlanta, was att the Morris yesterday.
 ''rhe people of Birmingham pay less Cor uelephones and more for gas than any city in the south," was the remark of MT. Gentry, who knows more about telephones than anything, excepting that he can probably give a few more point CTS on poker playing.
 "GeDtry is g. good fellow however" said a jolly friend sitting near by. He is the best poker player in the sou.ah but he never dndulges in the game
 MT. Gentry is a great admirer of Att