The age-herald., 1899-08-09
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

noon So he spent over seven hours here. during which time many of his political and personal friends called to see him at the Morris. The senator seemed to be in perfect health and declared himself to be perfectly well. The real object of his coming here was presumbaby to meet Judge James ". Lapsley. of Anniston, his old time friend, and his host during his recent stay in Anniston. The illustrious senator never appeared in better health or spirits. It was remarked by one who had not seen him that in ten years the senator had not aged in that time. Indeed, it seemed as if he had grown younger so his admrer declared. And so the-senator's ap- pearance indicated. Time had carried him backward, not forward, and his bright face, his genialty. his good humor made him almost youthful in that appearance which, in times past won to his side all Alabamians who loved the state. The stately bearing, the smile that has won thousands the eomradeship, the great good nature of the man, were never more ap- parent Morgan is himself Morgan is "as he used to be-" He had little to say; nothing for publication, in fact. His
 
 spending the time pleasantly with his daughters. The record on the register of the hotel read: John T. Morgan, Blount Springs" He said he would remain at Blount for some time he didn't know how long. His daughters, the Misses Morgan, are with him there. The time, they all of them, are spending pleasantly. There is no need for haste. The senator's mail is ex- ceedingly heavy. He Is trying faithfully to ''catch up with it." so to speak.
 
 Charles J. Swift, lawyer of San Fran cisco, is in the city on legal business. Mr. Swift was born and brought up at Colum- bus, Ga, but for twenty years he has re- sided at the Golden Gate of the Pacific, and nas prospered there. He is a man of keen intellect and engaging manners and is learned in affairs of state. He was the first American to advocate the annexation Of the Hawaiian Islands, and this he did in paper in the Overland Monthly, nearly twenty years ago. When MT. Swift was presented to Senator Morgan yesterday he reminded the senator of this early effort The senator remembered it. and heartily Congratulated MT. Swift upon his wise fore sight. MT. Swift is greatly impressed with Birmingham. He declares that, in his opin- ion, Birmingham is certain to be the great est of southern cities. The ful6llment of itspromise baffles the ina gination. It must come to be amongst the greatest of cities in this country Mir. Swift knows quite in- timately Wyatt Oates, the younger brother of Former Governor William Calvin Oates Wyatt Oates has lived in California for nearly twenty-five years, and has pros pered there. Mr Swift is a man of wide culture and ripe intellectual attachments.
 
 Atlanta does a good deal of bragging to be sure, but along with its brag is much genuine public spirit said a we'll known commercial man. "A number of the larger southern cities display public spirit, but Att lanta easily takes the lead in that line. It has been the making of the city. The con- ditions here in Birmingham have been pe- culiar and 1t is easy to see why the public has been lacking. But this city which leads in iron, is beginning to aspire to position as a jobbing city, too. Well, it will make progress in jobbing trade if the merchants only keep up united effort and induce the railroads to give them more
 
 in effect. If, however, Birmingham is to become a great mercantile city, or great metropolitan city, it must take lessons in public spirit, from Atlanta, Nashville and other cities that might be named. Public spirit is always the opposite of selfishness, and the every -man-for- himself policy. And yet it never fails to pay those who practice it. Certainly for the good of Birmingham the Commercial club and the Board of Trade should endeavor to create a broad and progressive spirit; should endeavor to educate people on the line referred to-"
 Alderman Roman, of Montgomery, was in town last night. MT. Roman is a member of the firm of Lehman, Durr & Co.,, of Montgomery, the oldest and greatest cotton firm in Alabama. The fame of the Ala bama Warehouse" in Montgomery, crosses more than thirty years. Within that time more than million bales of cotton have passed through the Alabama Warehouse, and the enormous transactions of Leh- man, Rurr & Co.,, have had their effect up- on the cotton market of the world. This was at Montgomery, and the great business interest of this city readily acknowledges the supremacy of the capital city in this particular Yet Birmingham is forging for ward in the matter of cotton receipts. It is a matter of more than passing interest that the great iron town of Alabama should be- come the second inland cotton town of the state. Birmingham cotton receipts the past year have far exceeded 100000 bales. The Birmingham district will supply the world with cotton; 1t promises to supply the world with pig iron.
 Hon. Jno. ". Tomlinson, chairman of the Democratic National Bimetallic com- mittee, in an interview with reporter of The Age-Herald, says:
 "The contest in Kentucky may have an important bearing on the status of the United States senate on silver, which is now tie. If the gold senator in Kentucky and the one in Louisiana are displaced by silver men, 1t would give the silver forces two majority. even should they fail to dis place gold senators in states like Kansas,