The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-25
IN HOTEL LOBBTES
AND ELSEWHERE

| OF vastly more import Ito Birmingham
than all the politics ever yet called or dis
cussed, stirred or In any form agitated are
the matters that pertain to coal, iron, Steel
and the varied Industries that make Jeffer-
son county and the Birmingham district
great. A great coalmaster of this district
declared last night that, in his opinion the
presidential canvass of 1860 would not Sc
riously interfere with the business of the
Birmingham district. an ordinary circum-
stances the presidential contest would
cause loss and troubles of all sorts; but the
| tide of prosperity is now rolling too high
for any man to beat it back. The coal COM
panies and the producers of coke, the pro-
! prietors of pig iron furnaces, manufacture
ers Of every sort of thing, are p.ospering.
| Possibly the agitation incident to the
! presd election might reduce the price
of pig iron en- the market dollar or two
ton, but there will not be any pig iron
on the market The product of all the
southern furnaces during 1900 is sold.
Neither Mckinley nor Bryan. nor any man
whomsoever, can have power to derress in
dustries or wages in the Birmingham dis
triet The trade and commerce of the coun-
| presidential contest: but the Birmingham
| district will remain unaffected. Coal, coke.
| iron and pipe are sold already
Colonel A. NJ. Shook is at Ensley, occupy
| ing his private car alongside the great steel
| plant which is about to begin the work of
| producing steel in enormous quantities-the
fest great steel plant ever bulded south of
tl.a ri. tod n p
Herald the other day that Colonel Shook
would return to Birmingham in his special
| car and would conduct the work of the
Ensley steel plant from that car, that Being
made necessary by a recent carriage acct
dent in Nashville whereby Colonel Shook
suffers from a broken leg. 1t has been
truly said of him in another place if he
had two broken legs he would sill stand
by the great steel plant, precious crown to
| his own ambition. Henry DeBardeleben
created the payrolls of Birmingham. Colo
mel Shook adds to these rolls a vast space
filled with richness. So to Colonel Shook
in his car al Ensley will go the best wishes
and the confidence and hope and trust and
admiration of every man who labors or
hopes or material investment in the Biz
mingham district.
The unhappy spread of yellow fever in
jackson and Key West, Miami and else
where is in keeping with the opinion OF
DIR. w ii. Sanders, state hearth officer, eX-
pressed to a reporter for The Age-Herald
many days ago. DR.. Sanders declared that
the summer warmth of This October was
dangerous in respect to yellow fever.
Everybody knows that the heat is danger
Gus to general healah. Dr. Sanders further
declared his perfect confidence to be in
keeping yellow fever out of Alabama. He
sid that all things possible were being
done by the quarantine authorities of Ala
bama. Therefore the spread of yellow fe-
Yer at the moment need not cause any I'M
easiness in this Saa'.e. New Orleans occa-
sioraly reports Two or three new cases.
1t is not improba Bile that there are thous-
ands of cases in New Orleans. Nobody be-
lievcs any report about fever sent out
officially from that City. New Orleans is
commonly accepted as the breeding place
of yellow death and black disaster.
Something was said in the lobby without
any stated authority for ,Gle utterance,
that young Hearst of tee New York Jour
nal had lost about all the millions left TO
him under tire VII of his father II knew
George Hearst, sometime senator for Cali
fornia, intimately well and loved him.
said Major John Mccoy. I'VE were miners
together 'forty-niners,> argonauts, what
you may in California away back yonder
We had many ups and downs-mostly
downs. l PANIED out gold was sheriff, and
all sorts of places 1 held; and finally came
back to the states. One day in Kentucky
a man walked in on me and said heartily
enough, Howdy, john? 'Howdy, George
| said, mighty glad to see an old friend
from the slope in George Hearst We
were glad to see each Other; and. George
Hearst demanded of me that | should re-
turn to California WITH him. | said no.
He declared that he had idle in bank $780,
900 that | could take and enjoy if I'd Just
so back to California. Well, | couldn't 60
Now, I'd like to know that George Hearst's
widow is happy and his sen prosperous
There is not in the world a better woman
than Mrs. Hearst. She was widow WC,en
size married Hearst, and it was she who
influenced him to buy the San Francisco
Examiner, which made his political for
tune"
Much has been said respecting the gem
erous response to the call for aid to the
Mercy Home of Birmingham said a man
who gave to that cause and who has
Travelled far. 1T is of interest to note that
the Fifth avenue residence OF A. T. Stew
art, greatest of all merchants, is now I'M
occupied. that his estate is bankrupt. and
that no dollar of all his gaining was left to
charity. The place is not known now
where Stawart's dust rests. These facts
about the great merchant are commentary
upon uncharltable impulses and habits. The
Mercy Home is rescued from the danger of
the moment. This fact is due not to mil
lionaires. but to the charity of men not rich
in this worlds goods
Former Governor Thomas Goode Jones.
now head of the Alabama bar, is in Biz
mingham, very sorry that law engagements
here keep him from Montgomery and the
enjoyment of the street fair in that CITY,