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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-27
Speaker Reed has been nominated fol

Speaker Reed has been nominated for
president by the Cologne Gazette.
This papers enthusiasm for the speak
er lies in the belief that "he is no
friend of extreme protection Were
that so, the republican party would be
no friend of Reed. AS a matter of fact
he has been one of the most conscien-
tious and consistent protectionists in
the country. The Cologne Gazette
should guess again.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-27
SECRETARY PORTER HERE.

New York, Aug 26.-Among the
passengers who arrived this afternoon
per steamer Mesaba from London, was
J. A, Porter, secretary Of President Me-
kinley, and family.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-27
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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-27

Bertillon, the great measurer, failed
to measure his words.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-27

No doubt the chair trust hopes that
its product will be sat upon by the
American people,
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-27

THE SPY SHOULD HAVE THE EYE OF ARGUS: he
is HoNoRABLE IF He DO BUT LOOK TO The VEL
FARE OF The COMMONWEALTH"
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-27

A. Conan Doyle says that for absent
mindedness he holds the worlds cham
pionship, and the Denver Post expresses
doubt whether he could win out
against the Colorado woman who put
her baby in the oven to roast and sang
lullaby in an endeavor to soothe to
sleep the stuffed turkey that she rocked
in the cradle, but even those two Incl
dents are mild comparisons to the Bos-
ton broker who, on leaving his home
recently in hurried effort to catch
the train, took out his watch to see if
he had time to go home to get it.
President Schurman of the Philippine
commission sticks to his assertion that
the insurrection is confined to a single
tribe and does not include all the in
habitants even of the island of Luzon
This is no news, but it is Of much sig
nificance as contradicting recent dis
coveries" made by anti-expansion
newspapers at home. President Schur-
man declares that 1.-The retention of
these islands is thing to be desired by
the people Of the United States" and
he adds that the obstacles in the way
ARE not difficult to overcome" As
President Schurman was supposed to
represent the conservative end Of the
commission, his words will be all the
more annoying to the anti-administra-
ton organs.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-27

Some of the newspapers appear to en-
joy grim satisfaction in calling atten-
ton to the fact that the amount of
money paid for pensions is decreasing.
They forget, in their gloating, that the
decline indicates more prominently than
anything else the work which death is
doing in the ranks of the old soldiers.
Possibly It will not be long before, they
will begin to harp upon the application
Of those brave fellows who are today
calling for aid by reason Of the suffer-
ings they are experiencing from disease
and wounds incurred in the Spanish
American war. 4hese papers seem to
forget what they themselves said at the
beginning of the war, I'VE will stand
by those who stand by their country"
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-27

SUNDAY, AUGUST az. 1899.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-27

1t Is a pleasure to learn that the ma
tional exposition at Philadelphia VIII
not be passed over without some rep
resentation Of the vast and diversified
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-27

Compensation. - Her friend = You are
frightfully tanned.
She Gust back from the seasidel =
know ii. but / match my shoes exactly
Chicago Tribune a44
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-27

off the engagement l should return MS
presents
Maud-Not necessarily. i should GER
tatnly wait until twas engaged 10 soIiie-
body else.-Detroit Free PFesseo~
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-27

The Man and the Senator THE man
who is worth a million may be man tor
a that; and If the stories are true, ne
may be United States senator for less
than half that. N--Detroit Journal.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-27

Chapley-"We have quarreled enough;
I have come to make up with, YOU enc enc
rus girl-"The stage manager Wpuluh
hear of such a thing. Harlem Lire
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-27

Guest-"You charge more. for porter
~ Proprietor OF restaurant-'I have to
pay pay more, for ~ The price Of. beef has
gone up. Guest7-"Thef steak Is smaller
restaurant-'"Th of course. is on ac-
count of the scarcity of beef "-Chicago
Tribune. H ~Fsf #lf afTt.
The age-herald., 1899-07-30
FROM
 AN OUTSIDE VIEW
What is Being Accomplished Per manent Activity Replacing
 Old Time Boom.
Special Correspondence of the New Orleans

Special Correspondence of the New Orleans
 Times-Democrat
 Birmingham, Ala, July 25.-I will be frank and say that I can not yet fairly de- scribe Birmingham. have been here just two weeks. l have ridden here and there, but by no means everywhere, to adjacent towns. have been in various industrial plants; have talked with numerous heroes of this industrial epic; but it is vast theme. for Birmingham Is great; is certain ly going to be much greater; Is likely to be In the next quarter of a century the great est industrial center In finished steel pro- ducts in the world. To use a hackneyed phrase, the last would seem to be manifest destiny. Hereafter shall have some we'll weighed statements to vindicate these as- sertions.
 The town has been for many years a sort of magnet to draw hither from the south the most energetic, far-seeing and sanguine young men of this generation. The town Cor districD is in its iron age Literally speak ing), and is about to enter on its age of steel. Its iron has made the price of the product almost the world over.
 It would take long and tedious review to pass from the era of incredulty with which the invasion of the Pittsburg district with Birmingham pig iron was viewed by the former area, or to their convictions and admissions as to the permanence and tri- umphs of the latter area in the premises. But the invasion of Europe has far more impressive results. Nearly, or quite twen- ty years ago an occasional and authorita- tive investigation from Great Britain would visit this district, and sound a note of warning. The minds of the we'll informed will advert immediately to Sir Lothian Bell and Sir James Kitson conspicuously. Then, after awhile, came the iron and steel insti- ute in a body (so to speak,, and large company of German iron masters. They went so far as to investigate this country
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at large, and compared it to the Birming- ham district, yielding the palm to the latter. Here was loud blast of warning. Noth- ing ought to have been more convincing; but it was theory. For the last two years and more Europe is confronted with a con- dition.
 There is another phase of the Birming- ham boom that has made a lasting i'm pression on the character of the predom- inant spirit of Birmingham Some of the nose influential, sagacious, experienced and wealthy iron men of the north and east came here and invested. They brought their capital, their methods, their experi- ence. In instances they have lost much money, but the contact of these with the bright ambitious southern men, the flower of southern enterprise, have been of incal- culable value in building a type of man al- most peculiar to Birmingham. There is a brisk alert, almost electric air, that seems to charge the movement of things here, that is very noticeable, yet hardly defna- ble
 I know men here from the south who are ''flling the bill' in all calls for the most superb management of severe and intricate business.
 Another feature I notice in Birmingham is spirit of intolerance, and capability or capacity of fraternization There is next to nothing of clash or sectional friction. The political asperitieS are mnimized and humanzed. Men with sincere convictions, mutually interested in material aHairs,soon learn to respect each the others convic- tions. As gentlemen they soon learn mu- tual tolerance; and, superadded, is the strong force of mutual business interests And it adds strong endearmept of the northern man to the southern that some of these northern republicans have protected the south against and prohibited hostile and proscriptive federal legislation, threat ened once by the republican party. l have all along felt that the grand solution Of sectionalism was in having northern capital identified with southern in development of the south. In no part of the south does this principle apply with more force than here. Fortunately, political prescription of the south may be fairly said to have passed.
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Street railways were built out to them; maybe furnace here and there built, to give them the plausibility of future great town. But who was hurt? Largely foreign holders. The loss of the former spectators was the gain of later ones. I hear of this and that failure. A town plot is concocted. Large prices are paid for land. city rail- way is built The town collapses and the whole thing, land, railway cars and what not are sold for less than the price of the railway. But the land is here, and so Is the railway. The first spectators were left. The last are Tin it." Meantime the manaces were struck from Birmingham. The workman could buy a lot and ride to his home by the street cars. In great meas ure, all the outlaying towns within radius of eight or ten miles are the result of the once exorbitant prices in Birmingham proper. These towns are numberless. On almost every railroad and street car line you find them Sometimes you will find dozen or more towns on a street car line You find interspaces in brush, or bare areas in bitter weed. Then group of houses of larger or smaller area. Then a town, and so alterna ing to the end of the street rail- way. Hence. Birmingham now is a great place for suburbs
 All these adjacent towns, with the ex- ception possibly of Bessemer, are destined to absorption by Birmingham in the next few years Bessemer is almost too far-fif- teen miles, l believe-for consideration for some years yet, and Is, moreover, very considerable town. Another thing is that the town site mania seems to have not been so pregnant out toward Bessemer as in other directions. After riding little way toward Bessemer you come upon the country proper, and find farms and fields of corn and some cotton with some melon patches, and little truck essays. But you will not find the logic of events expressed in the defects of development most com- mon to such place as Birmingham. The theory even is and the fact almost inevita- ble that such manufacturing or mining center as Birmingham develops the most advanced features of land culture; that raising fruits and vegetables wholly, dairy ing and the like. are most fiourishing; that
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The last war has utterly extirpated 1t as a spirit of Intent in the nation at large; but it's roots were extracted at Birmingham long ago, and both business and sentiment have eliminated political intolerance from this happy area.
 Another very impressive trait about Bir- mingham is its prevailing, intense public spirit. If there be any croakers and pes- simists here 1 have not found them. When one reflects upon this it is surprising There are a number of men here who in boom times were wealthy. The collapse caught them, and they are poor. In such cases it is quite natural to see men impre- cate the place where they have lost their money, and say it has gone to the dogs. l see men who deplored the boom, were ruined by it, bracing up full of hope ana prophecy of the great future Of this ois- trict
 Brave spirits are some of them heroic pioneers, as cheery and elastic as youth in their alacrity and vim, and invigorated with dauntless intent to restore them selves. The boom in Birmingham had two sides to it. The prices once asked here for sites for business deterred millions or capital from coming here. l have talked to business men, and asked if they thought my estimate of forty millions was too high to estimate the amount of money that was deterred from coming here by once high prices They said, promptly, it was not an overestmate. To be sure, 1t looks prepos- terous. unless one remembers the exorbi- tant prices once asked for sites in this magic city" But let one remember ho" rampant prices were once here. l have had narrated to me, by one and another, the wild spirit of speculation here-iots as high here in places almost as in the cen- tre of New York city; men crazily specu- lating on options the banks so full or money that their vaults could not hold 1t, and gold and bank notes piled up on their floors Prices getting so high, adjacent tracts of land were bought and laid off In lots. Men bought them without ever sec ing them. And there they are today, grow ing LID in bitter weed and underbrush.
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HUNTSVILLE

Huntsville. July 29.-(SpeciaD-T. F. Keenan, aged 70 years, died at his home near the city yesterday afternoon. Keenan was A native of Ohio. but has been resi- dent of Madison county many years. His remains will be shipped to xenia, O., for interment.
 Mrs. O. G. White, wife of prominent citizen of Monrovia, died yesterday of con- sumption. She was buried in this city.
 Lieutenant W. S. Wells. Jr.. of the Twenty-ninth volunteer infantry, will reach Huntsville tomorrow to establish recruiting station for his regiment. Lieu tenant Wells was young business man of Huntsville and was appointed in the army about two weeks ago.
 The Huntsville baseball team is playing a series of games at Rome, Ga. Two games have been played. the first resulting in a score of 15 to and the second IA to 0, Rome winning both.
 There are ten candidates for sheriff al- ready in the field and many more are men, tioned, although the election is over year off. The ten candidates, all democrats, are as follows: Jack lamar, deputy sheriff. Hammond Curry. deputy sheriff; Robert Phillips. deputy sheriff; Jesse Fer guson, deputy sheriff; James NJ. Massen- gale. deputy sheriff: J. K. Harrison. ex- William Mitchell, night chief of police: John P. King, clerk; A. D. Rodgers, livery man.
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No Romance at Paisley

After leaving Fourteenth street one Is into the new town of Ensley, which can not be described, but will have to be seen to be appreciated. The fairy tales of the old Ensley Land company, dwindle into signif- icance when compared with the realities that exist at Ensley.
 A lot bought one year ago for s400 sold one day last week for $3 600. an increase of nearly $500 a month. Another 50-foot lot, which was bought for about $40O, was sold by it's original purchaser about thirty days ago for $500. The last purchaser has since sold twenty-five feet or one-half of his lot, for $2,2O0. and has the best half of it still left.
 These, however, are the business lots, and are much higher than the residence lots. A centrally located residence lot can be se- cured for from $3O0 to $6OO. After going out 8 little farther from the center of the city prices shade off to $20O and $l0O for good lots.
 After passing Seventeenth street and Avenue E, which is today the business cen- ter of the town, the next stop is at Nine- teenth street and Avenue E. The first thing to attract ones attention is the mag nificent three-story brick structure going up on the corner, profusedly placarded with This is the Ensey Bank" A good hotel. good boarding houses, and number of real estate offices and other buildings are visible in every direction.
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Secret of the Success

At Ensey lies the secret and the key of all this success and prosperity-the location of the big steel mill, the nucleus around which everything else is building. Here, too, are the four great furnaces of the Ten- nessee Coal, Iron and Railway company which have always been known as the Big Four" but which will have to be changed to the Big Five" as the company is now erecting fifth furnace alongside the other four.
 Here also is the only bi-product coke oven plant in the south, owned by the Sem et--solvay company of Syracuse, N. Y. For the first time in the history of the south, coke is bi-product, and gas, coal tar and ammonia are the valuable elements this company is after
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The Wire and Nail NH

The great plant of the Alabama Steel and Wire company Is located near the steel mill, and occupies about twenty acres of land. Its output will be 1000 kegs of nails a day, together with great quantities of wire. steel rods, wire fencing, etc. The plant will be in operation within the next sixty of ninety days. The great boiler of this mill are fast nearing completion and are not only marvels of beauty, but with their multiplicity of pipes and fiues, will certainly be a great steam maker.
 The Ensley Brick company is located near by, making from 50,000 to 10000 red brick every day. Not only is the ordinary clay used in this manufacture, but also the shae obtained immediately above the coal formations. The front of the new bank is built with this company's pressed brick, comparing most favorably with the Pha- delphia pressed brick, so long known throughout the country.
 The Morrison Lumber company is four ishing concern, and is furnishing all of the new corners in Ensley with lumber, laths, and everything else in the builders line
 The Nolan Trading company. the Ensley company, and the Ensley Land company are all busy and prosperous, and are all making money. The Ensley company is capitalized at s42O0O, and it commenced op erations a little over year ago. Its stock is today selling readily at to l., in other words. the entire valuation of it's stock is s2lo, 900.
 The Ensley Land company has recently been reorganized with David J. McCombs, of New York, an active real estate man of long experience, in control He is an active manager and is prepared on short notice to furnish houses for all who may want to come to Ensley. From the indications, 1t looks as if he has taken upon himself a very large contract.
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Marvellous Development of That
 City During Past Year. STEEL PLANT IS kU,LEUS Around Which Are Gathered These Varied Industries. INCREASED VALUATION OF LAND Over One Thousand Per Gent. Advance In a Year-Description of All Big
 Plants in That Section ofval-
 ley-Work of Railroads
INCREASED VALUATION OF LAND

A trip from Birmingham to Ensley over the magnificent new line of the Brming- ham Railway and Electric company, is a veritable revelation, not only to the whole country but especially to the people of Jefferson county. Evidence of thrift and prosperity are visible on every hand, from the minute one leaves the Florence hotel in Birmingham, until the end of the line is reached, at the corner of Nineteenth street and Avenue E in the city of Ensey
 The first thing that attracts the atten- tion are the many new houses that are go- ing up on all sides, before you get out of the limits of Birmingham. The first suburb is Smithfield which Is again budding forth and taking on a new life. A little beyond is situated Liberty park, the great rendez- vous for the colored American, where he celebrates his Fourth of July and other holidays, and eats his watermelon and Ice cream to his hearts content.
 The next stop is at the furnace plant of the Republic Iron and Steel company, for merly known as the Pioneer Mining and Manufacturing company, where there are situated two large blast furnaces, three hundred coke ovens, and a newly completed railroad to the company's coal mines The town of Thomas contains large, thrifty, contented and industrious population.
 Passing this plant and crossing the great railroad systems that have done so much to build up the Birmingham district, you next approach the beautiful and aristocratic suburb of Pratt City, known as East High lands, which during the past three years has practically been built up with beauti- ful cottages that would do credit to any suburban villa in this country.
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The Model Steel Plant

The large steel plant, which is now re- garded as a model, not only for this coun- try, but for the whole world is rapidly nearing completion. A few days ago an att tache of the Russian embassy was sent sent here by the government from St. Pe- tersburg, for the purpose of examining the Ensley plant in detail The claim is that this plant is the model of the world is not egotistical The men at it's head have had the benefit of the experience and knowl- edge as well as the mistakes, of all their predecessors, and if they have not profitted by this, they would be censurable. They have secured the most noted firm of archi- tects and consulting engineers in the United States the Wellman- -Seayer Engin- eering company of Cleveland, O., who can boast that they have the largest and best equipped office in the world. They are per- haps experimenting and constructing more large plants in this country, in Europe, than any other company in the world. Their rush of business for the past six months has been so great that they have been forced to say they can take no more business at present, notwithstanding hu- man avarice and human love of money.
 Not to go into detail in describing this plant, the open hearth building has been completed for months, and the 50-ton roll ing furnaces are practically finished, as are the gas producers, fues, etc. The ten tall stacks which so beautify and set off the plant, have been finished for some time. The great blooming mill engine, the largest
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FROM BIRMINGHAM ID ENSLEY
 OVER THE GOLDEN ROD ROUTE

cement. This product will be marked all over the south, the southwest, in the At- lantic states, and in this country's new pos- sessions of Cuba and Porto Rico, and is ca- pablo of furnishing all they require. This plant, like nearly all the. others in the Bir- mingham district, is actually creating product from a raw material which has heretofore had no value
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Mining City of Pratt

You next come to Pratt City, which is not only a city in name, but in reality as there are now more than 10000 inhabitants living in it. On it's streets you see miners, lawyers, bankers and almost all other trades and professions; all of them con- tented and all doing well,
 Here the great center of development of the Warrior coal field is located, this being the Pratt division of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company the principal office of the new Birmingham Southern railroad, the headquarters of the largest coking plant in the world, where there are more than a thousand ovens located, and a city where on an average over 5000 tons of coal is distributed daily to the plants of the Tennessee company, and to its custom CTS and patrons.
 Passing through Pratt City proper, you next come to the western suburb of the city, which Is not as aristocratic as the East Highlands. Here the great American staple lives and thrves. The sable African. the olive Dago and the blonde Hun all vie with each other for supremacy in this re- markabe suburb.