The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-08
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| AND SEWHENE
Yesterday was "schley DAY" in Birming-
ham proper and at the state fair; and this
morning Admiral Schley takes his depart
ure for Washington, after a visit which has
| given Birmingham the greatest pleasure
and honor. For an hour or two yesterday
| forenoon a dense mass of people were
, gathered at First avenue and Nineteenth
street. and in that vicinnage, and it seemed
almost miraculous that nobody suffered
| serious bodily harm; for electric cars and
| vehicles of all sorts, and mounted military
officers, were constantly passing to and
| fro. The police officers, of whom there
! We're too few found it impossible to keep
passage ways clear. Mounted policemen
would open lane through the crowd, and
it would close up Immediately THAT is
slight evidence of our southern disregard
of order" said a confederate veteran who
was looking on from an elevated point
The good-natured crowd had gathered to
see Admiral Sehley and 10 otherwise enjoy
themselves, and they had no mind for OBJ
serving fixed lines of street conduct 1t was
a very jolly and very happy crowd alto
gether, and in itself was an inspiration.
One very noticeable fact apparent wher-
ever Admiral schley made his appearance
was that he instantly won the personal re-
| gard of the crowds. AS a matter of course,
he would have been cheered because of his
deeds and his fame but his bearing won
the friendship of the people. They took
| to him" at once, as the phrase goes Fac
| geniality with which he acknowledged the
greetings and his evidently sympathetic ma
| ture, combined to win for himself notes of
| personal regard in the plaudts of the null
| ttude. In repose his face has stern cast,
due, no doubt to forty years of unyielding
naval discipline. But when he smiles his
| eyes and whole face are illuminated, and
he looks as jolly as any Jack Tar of them
! all. These characteristics are remembered
/ above other impressions derived from near
view of the illustrious admiral. And he
| sizes up a great man withal. One does not
] after coming near to him, wonder at his
daring or his marvellous skill as a naval
| commander He was, it is clear, planned
| for great deeds: the sort of man prepared
| to deal with vital emergencies, and that he
has made great history is easy of compre-
| hension.
| The proudest children in Birmingham are
three little girls who were kissed by Adj
| miral Schley. These children expressed to
| p Sid Jones a very earnest desire to shake
hands with the admiral. Mr.. Jones con-
Quoted them yesterday forenoon to the adj
| mirars presence, and informed him that the
little girls wished to shake hands with him.
4Ia adv irai.
not only shake hands with them, but will
kiss them, too Thereupon he caught each
| one in his arms and kissed her. They were
| filled with happy excitement, and coming
away one of them held up her little right
| hand, encased in a kid glove, and said
admiral Schley had this glove in his hand.
| I wouldn't take a hundred dollars for it.
| I'll keep it as long as 1 live" Thus the
| victor of Santiago gave three little girls of
| Birmingham something to remember al
ways.
| One of the ideal communities of the ia
nous Black Belt is Eutaw, the county seat
of Greene, where the planters retain the
traditions of the old days. They have
| club there which has a lodge out in for
est and the members go there to fish or
| hunt in season. Deer and many sorts of
| game are plentiful, and the fish fairly laugh
| to be caught. Judge Roberts has enjoyed
| enviable reputation as a deerslayer. The
| judge and Dr. I. D. Morgan are in town,
| and DR.. Morgan said yesterday that the
| judges reputation was scarcely deserved.
| The doctor ayers that the judge drives deer
in buggy, and he shoots birds the same
| way. The judge, the doctor says, drives
| out in the woods and sends his man to
| shoot deer, while he himself sits by fire
| and reads newspapers. 1t seems that the
| judge has got some dogs that will drive
birds right up to his buggy in a field to be
| shot, and the doctor declares that the judge
| owns a mule which is trained to point birds
| and also to fish, The judge stoutly main
| tains that such tales are born of envy and
| jealousy, and offers to prove 1t by Judge
| Mobley, or by any personal friend who will
| join him at home and go hunting with him.
| DR.. Morgan says the suggestion is impossi-
BILE, though of deep design. Judge Roberts,
Judge Mobey and DR.. Morgan, three typi-
cal Black Belt gentlemen, are amongst the
many notable visitors to Birmingham at
| the present time.
State Treasurer G. w. Ellis spent yester-
| day in Birmingham, and left In the even
| ing for Gadsden to attend the State Bap-
| fist convention. He said he had not deter
| mined whether he would become candi-
| date for state auditor. Reference being
| made to the number of candidates now
out for the treasurership, Mr. Ellis said:
| 81 am glad that l was instrumental in Sc
| curing the passage of the act providing
| that the state make the treasurers bond
| with surety companies, thus doing away
| with the Objectionable personal bond. If I
| had done nothing else than that during
| my tenure of office, feel that I'd have still
| done well. AS the law Stood many good
| and capable men were barred from seeking
| the treasurership for the reason that they
| saw the difficulty, even impossbility, of
| making the required bond. Now the state
j Oh a.,tir, h1,,, OF