The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-01
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
AND ELSEWHERE

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'1O9 days per day. meaning as may be
clearly seen. that the state paid for feed
| ing prisoners an average of 109 days for
each day of the year; the payment being
on so many prisoners for each day, or so
many days per day." The assumption
that the prisoners in the Jefferson jail are
being fed at 1913 cents per day, If anybody
assumes any such thing, appears upon the
face of it to be absurd The cause of the
mistake yesterday was that the printer as
sumed that the writer of the paragraph
in question didn't know what he was writ
| ing about Common justice to the sheriff
of Jefferson demands this explanation of an
| error of the type.
| "Please to say" writes bright woman
| interested in the Montgomery library move
ment, that copies OF the Souvenir just
issued In aid of our library may be OBJ
| tanned at 10 cents a copy of Smith & Mont
| gomery. in Birmingham This is not
scheme to make money for individuals; it
| is public enterprise having for its purpose
| the establishment of a free library in Mont
| gomery, under the auspices of the Mont
| gomery Library Association. Amongst the
| board of advisors are Probate Judge John
| E. CASTOR, Governor Johnston, Rev. DR..
| George B. Eager, Rev. Neal Anderson, Mr..
| C. 4. Lanier, brother of the gifted poet,
| Sidney Lanier Mr.. c. L. Floyd, superin-
| tendent of the schools of Montgomery, ana
Mr.. c. f. Morltz, of the school board.
| Money received for the Souvenir will be
devoted to the purposes of the library
| The Souvenir is paper of rare literary
attractions, amongst the contributors being
Hannis Taylor, DR. William Stokes Wyman,
| Frank p. OBrien, Professor Greenough
White Clifford A. Lanier, George B. Eager,
| Rebecca d. Lowe, Marilou Armstrong Cory,
| George p. Keyes, and Charles Dudley War
| ner. Altogether, the Souvenir is exceed
| irgly interesting.
| There was band of two instruments,
| performed upon by two young negro men,
| going the rounds of the hotel Hobbies yes
| terday afternoon. The instruments were
| the violin and the mandolin, and the music
| was exquistely sweet The man with the
| violin walked about the lobby with "de fid-
| die and de bow playing under under his
| arm, and he did it with remarkable success.
! He could dance, too, and sing in voice of
| wonderful richness and volume. After the
performance of each selection one of the
/ men took the hat around, and received
| quite liberal gifts of money. 1t was said
| that the partners had been all over the
| United States and had played in foreign
! lands. They go from town to town and
state to state, and manage to earn good
| living.
| A. C. Danner, the principal coal mer-
| chant of Mobile, has been in Birmingham
| day OF two making contracts for supply
| ing his trade "All the coal mines in the
| district are rushed with work. said a deal
| er, land some new mines are on the point
| of being opened up. There is a great
scarcity of cars, which is interfering Sc
| riously with business just now. There was
perhaps never before such a great demand
| for cars. The coal and iron mines have ali
/ been running at their full capacity; but
| that is hardly true of coal mines at the
| moment. Some of them are running slack
| because there is what might be called a
car famine. Every industry in the district
is prosperous and expanding
| 1.-TWO of the leading sporting men of the
| United States are in town." said man
| with turn for sport. big Dick is here
You don't know Big Dick? One of the
| finest fellows who ever knew the difference
| between the queen of diamonds and the
| deuce of clubs He is generous to fault,
like most men of his class. Saw him give
away twenty or thirty dollars in public
| place today to men who had known him
| and who came to him broke. He has given
thousands-you might say fortune-to
charity, and if he hadn't but dollar in his
| pocket he couldn't turn a man away who
| lie hal JJa ie es,alan "a A.
physical man, and is as open-hearted and
jolly as a school boy.
There are numerous other sporting men
here from a distance looking on, but not
| playing. Reminds one of the flush times in
| birmingham to see them on the streets.
They spend their money freely and are not
likely to take any away. There are no big
games going on in Birmingham nowadays.
Speaking of Big Dick. l knew one of his
servants to die, poor fellow who worked
for his daily bread. Big Dick gave him a
grand funeral, which he himself attended
was there, and at the graveside 1 saw
tears flowing from the eyes of big hearted
Big Dick.
Circuit Judge N. d. benson, of the Fifth
circuit, was in town yesterday en- route
from GadSden to Montgomery. He had
been to Gadsden to visit his venerable
mother. Judge benson is one of the young
est circuit judges now on the bench in Ala
bama, although he has served six years,
and he has the credit of being one of the
ablest. He asre-elected last August with
out opposition. Another of the younger
circuit judges was John r. Tyson, of the
Second circuit, who has been elevated to
the supreme court bench.
Frank III. Lathrop, of Riverside, late re-
publican candidate for congress against
John L. Burnett in the Seventh district,
was in Birmingham yesterday.
Solicitor Richard H. Lowe, of the Eighth
circuit was in town yesterday on his way
to Montgomery.