The age-herald., 1899-06-27
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

l ular interest, it is probable that politics would send coke ovens skyward. Inform ation that a strong man had entered the l gubernatorial race would be more eagerly | read than the statement that the Standard | Coal company has virtually decided to be- l gin immediately the building of three hun l dred coke ovens at Broohwood and to other wise largely expand it's business The ru- nor has been current for several days that | the Standard contemplated such enter l prise; but rumors have ceased altogether l to be interesting in view of the extraord- 1 nary facts that made public day by day | regarding the wonderful material devel- opment and growth of Birmingham and l the district General Manager r. NJ. Jack
 son of the Standard was asked yesterday | to the value of the rumors respecting the l Brookwood developments.
 "Nothing has been finally settled" he answered. We are looking into the mat l ter and what you hint at will probably l take place. That is all I can say at pres | ent, and The Age-Herald is at liberty to make it pubic.
 1 That means, almost as a matter of course, | that the contemplated enterprise will be l carried out; and certainly it is a matter of
 moment, even to the Birmingham district. | The Standard is one of the most notably successful coal companies in the south. It has made money all the while these | twelve or fifteen years, and it is enjoying now the period of it's greatest prosperity l It is but just to say that this state of af- | fairs is due chiefly to MT. Jackson, who is 1 one of the most competent and successful
 business men of the mineral district, and of ba- h Fired" Jackson is honored of all men; and this great expansion in the business of his
 company will be pleasing intelligence to the people of the entire district.
 It is matter of some interest that the
 principal owner of the Standard Coal mines
 gold mine" enjoys the pleasure of owning
 and controlling one of the best and most successful of the New York daily news
 papers. He is MT. Einstein, the proprietor of the New York Press MT. Einstein is an elderly gentleman, benevolent and philan-
 thropic, and wholly unpretentious and un-
 assuming. He is worth millions of money;
 yet one never sees his name paraded In
 the sensational papers, to which class his
 own ideal journal no more belongs than it
 does to the 'gutter-press." Even this brief
 and wellmeant reference to him is obtain
 ed secondhand, so to speak. That is, it
 is derived from one who never saw
 him. It is doubtful if there are four
 persons in Birmingham who ever saw him,
 and outside the banks, not a dozen who
 ever heard of him. Once year he goes
 to Brookwood and spends few weeks as
 the guest of MT. Jackson. He comes to
 Alabama unheralded and departs unan-
 nounced as is his wish His visits, it is
 said he greatly enjoys They mean change,
 q relaxation from care to this millionaire
 from the great metropolis. At Brookwood
 he "sloshes about and has a good time
 Neither editors, nor reporters nor promo i ters, know anthing of his coming or go-
 ing, and So he is at peace. Truly an ad-
 mirabe millionaire with an enviable dis
 position.
 The official list of the navy department
 or what is called in other countries "the
 gazette" contains the name of Lieutenant
 Commander Zane, who is "assigned to duty
 on the Alabama This bald announcement
 is of great historic interest generally, and
 possesses for every Alabamian a deeply
 sentimental, as well as historic importance
 It means in few words that the battle
 ship Alabama is nearing completion and
 that soon this tremendous instrument of
 national defence, will be ready for it's com
 mission of bearing worthily the American
 flag, as it's famous namesake bore the flag
 of the Confectionery. It will be a novel spec
 tacle, and a lesson to all the world the
 modern battleship Alabama" bearing the
 flag of the United States, and at the same
 time the name of the most famous of all
 'rebeP' ships of all time. Yet there is no
 movement on the part of Alabamians hay
 ing for its object the presentation of a
 worthy gift to this new Alabama" From
 present indications the "Alabama' will
 put to without so much as the most
 trifling token of goodwill from the people
 of the state of Alabama. This shameful fact should arrest the attention of even a
 people as notoriously lacking in state pride
 as we Alabamians are The custom in our
 navy is for states and cities to present to
 warships bearing their respective names suitable services of silver. Alabama ap-
 pears to be determined to take exception to that honorable custom. The Kentucky legislature appropriated $7,0O0 for a silver service for the Kentucky Years ago the
 citizens of Montgomery presented a $2,5OO gift of silver plate to the little cruiser Montgomery. Kentucky and Montgomery thus kept to Q patriotic rule that is left now for the prosperous state of Alabama to vio- late in the instance of a ship that bears name not less proud than that borne by Nelson's flagship at Trafalgar.
 Richard Weightman, of the Washington Post, is at the Morris MT. Weightman, who is one of the most brilliant editorial writers on the press of this country, is in a sense, an Alabamian by adoption, as he edited for a year or two the old Montgom- | cry Dispatch, which was consolidated with | the Advertiser ten years ago. For a long | time he was connected with the press of New Orleans. George Dent, of Eufaula, and his bright young son. Mr. Warren Dent are spend-