The age-herald., 1899-10-24
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

| n1SIOIlC SiTSelS Ol the 0Tduft u llt 8oH- federacy are crowded with booths.
 Mr. May, setting a good example. has builded a booth that extends almost half way across Dexter avenue, that beautiful street which spans from Court square to the state house upon the hin The grounds of tlne capitol were granted by one Dexter nearly sixty years ago and the broad street leading thereto now bears the name of | Dexter. Montgomery, capital of Alabama, and first capital of the Confederacy, en- ters upon a time greater for It than any | state conversion ever assembled there l save only the secession convention that l sought to pass Alabama from the Union, l and at the conclusion of which convention | Leroy Pope Walker of Madison county, as secretary of war of the Confederate gov | ernment, ordered the fling upon Fort Sum- ter, which order sounded a gun heard around the world with louder note tnan the shots of the embattled farmers wao stood al LeXinSton Montgomery, mother of | Birmingham, has the best. wishes of the dauslnter city here in Jones valley. Bind ing the mother and the daughter ten- der ties. and Birmingham rejoices that the cry of Montgomery is one of rejoicing at this tme and therefore Birmingham is glad of Montgomery's prosperity.
 
 Birmingham will be well represented at | Montgomery. Birminshams vanguard in that rejoicing is led by Francis Patrick 1 o'Brien, former Monegomelfan, who is now the higll sheriff of Jefferson. Through him the mountains and valleys of rne min eral region call to the capital county. MT. O'Brien used to dwell in Montgomery. Coming from Pennsylvania in his youth Frank 'Brien made his home there, and | there he abided until Birmingham dawned upon the world. The late Josiah Morris, Col. Boiling Hall Mack Billing, pr. Bald- win, Colonel Gilmer, Frank o'Brien, | great company of Montgomerians were them that planned and builded Birming- ham, along with Dr. Caldwell, Jolhn T. Mil- ner, Ben Roden, Powell Duke of Birm- | insham," and the rest and no man now has greater cause to rejoice in Montgom- | ery's prosperity than Frank OBrien. Jo- | sial Morris monument we now have in | the Morris building, at First avenue and 1 Nineteenth street, the most splendid struc- ture in Alabama, and in an architectural sense one of the most beautiful in Amer | lea. Old Josiah Morris, years ago gone to | iis rest, buided "Ine Morris as Glis own monument and it shall stand for a long time his monument and evidence of the genius of Inc architect Sefdel. Frank o Breen was painter, song writer, musi- clan, artist, poet and ,lhe skill of these is not passed from L,im in the office. and af- feirs of sheriff of Jefferson. They can never pass from r.fm He goes his way as the leader of Jefferson representation in Birming'l1am's tribute to Montgomery in and about Montsomery's fair General Edmund W. Pettus junior United States senator for Alabama, spent some hours in Birmingham yesterday. The sena- tor was on his way from his home at Selma to Jasper to attend the circuit court of Walker county, which was convened yes terday. The law firm of Pettus & Pehtus. of Selma, composed of Senator Pettus and his son, Hon. Francis L.. Pettus, some time speaker of the Alabama house of represen- tatives and later president of the state senate, is one of the most famous law firms in the south and it enjoys great practice at the bar. Senator Pettus was formerly associated in law with John Tyler Morgan now senior United States senator for Ala bama, and also with Colonel N H. R. Dawson of Selma, a brother-in-law of l Abraham Lincoln, and some time commits sioner of education of the United States Whatever concerns Senator Pettus concerns all Alabamians for the state has had few citizens so distinguished as he in the eighty years of it's statehood For more than forty years he has been the most powerful | individual in Alabama nolitics
 Colonel William A Handley, of Roanoke sometime member of congress and at present one of the wealthiest and strongest citizens of Alabama, and one of the largest owners of Birmingham real estate is in the city after an absence unusually prolonged. Colonel Handley is very natur- ally pleased with his possessions in the matter of Birmingham property; but it is safe to say that his greatest pride is in the Handey High School at Roanoke. Practi- cally, he has created Roanoke. To its fine school he has contributed fortune. When he was in the state senate for the Randolph district he was called the junior senator for Jefferson" the lamented John T. Milner being Jefferson's senator. For $2OO invested in Twentieth street property in i realize s2OO,OOO. But, q ain't selling, you know the colonel says. He is a big man with big brain and big heart.
 l
 Hon. John w. Tomlinson returned Satur- day from what may be properly termed a triumphant tour of certain of the northern counties in the interest of himself for the democratic gubernatorial nomination. It comes from private and public sources that MT. Tomlinson was given very great en- couragement by democrats pure and un- defiled." Sunday night MT. Tomlinson pro- ceeded to Jasper and there presented him. self to the democrats of Walker county. His chances for the nomination he seeks grow brighter every day.
 The judge of the Tenth judicial circuit, the Hon. A. A. Coleman, is presiding over | iAt-- ,ia1,1, h