The age-herald., 1899-08-08
IN HOTEL LOBBTES AND ELSEWHERE

l IN HOl EL LOBBlES
 AND ELSEWHERE This certainly is not the place to tell | long story but merely to refer to the salient | points in stories of passing or permanent interest John A. Wyeth. of New York. is | probably the first surgeon of the world to- l day. He is an Alabamian, native of Mar | shall county, and did not go to New York | to reside until after he was near about l thirty. Wyeth was a plowboy of the hills. and by his industry, studiousness and in- comparable genius he has won fame in the medical world not equalled since J. Mar | ion Sims and Nathan Bozeman, both Ala bamians, blazed their names in the fane | of fame. Dr. Wyeth was with Forrest in l the war between the states, and Forrest is his hero ideal. Private information to The | Age Herald is that the eminent surgeon has | almost ready for the press a book on For | rest. This book will prove to be of the | deepest historic interest. The point of in- 1 terest at the moment, however, Is paper l in the August Harper's dealing with "an in- | cident in the life of General N. B. Forrest. l This refers to Colonel Streight's raiders, and more especially, so far as Alabamans | are concerned, to the immortal Emma Sam son, now Mrs. c. B. Johnson, of Galloway. Texas. There have been written a thous- and stories about Emma Samson; she being a luminous figure, lending her deeds readily to romancers and poets. Probably for the first time the truth is told, and by pr. Wyeth, who has personal knowledge of the occurrences.
 Dr. Wyeths paper in Harpers is almost an epic in the cold prose of this latter day. Students will remember that after the Union troops had burned the bridge across Black creek Gadsden. Emma Samson con- ducted Forrest and his men to a shallow place in the creek where 'she had seen the cows wading across at low water" She rode behind Forrest on his horse, holding on to the famous commander to keep from falling; and her knowledge of the creek and her daring meant everything to him. In pr. Wyeths paper there are several drawings of interest and a fac-simile re- production of Forests note recounting what Miss Samson had done. In this note he spells Alabama with two Is. The pa- per is of greatest interest to Aabamians for the reason that the writer and the he- roic girl character are Alabamians, and the scene is laid there within sound of that wondrous waterfall in Etowah called of the aborigines Nokalula-now locally termed Black Creek Falls. As for Dr. Wyeth, he has won the earth, so to speak. His in- come is said to be over $6O,0OO year, and still great part of his time is devoted to charitable work.
 Probably a more metropolitan scene was never witnessed in Birmingham than the sacred concert in North Birmingham park Sunday night. The concert was an extra ordinary success, and the Birmingham Traction company and the people of the city alike may be congratulated great crowd gathered under the splendid trees in the dell of the park, and for two hours listened to most excellent music. The wood was brilliantly lighted, and a great metro- politan audience were seated around the pavilion, so picturesquely placed in the lit tie lily-covered lake. Good music rang through the trees, and was answered by unnumbered beetles of the night The scene was weirdly beautiful. Countless fair women in white laughed through the quick southern hours; countless men rejoiced to
 
 heat was forgot in that dell of the lights and shadows and music, under the green, whispering trees Probably a thousand persons drank at the cool spring that gushes from the stone wall above the pa- wilton.
 She stopped where the cool spring bubbled And filled for him her small tin cup.
 Thanks, said the judge, "a sweeter
 draught
 From fairer hands was never uuaffed."
 Through the trees the brilliantly illumi- hated Country club glowed like some tenn pie of light and joy. The street railway company handled the big crowd admirably.
 Captain W. c. Ward has gone to Talla- dega Springs to spend short vacation. the first he has allowed himself in many years. Captain Ward has fully regained the strength he lost during his prolonged and alarming illness earlier in the year: but hard work at the bar and on the Jef- ferson county board of revenue has fatigued him somewhat, and so he has dis missed work from his mind and gone away for change and resful recreation.
 
 Editor Charles H. Greer of the Marion Standard was in town last night having come here hurriedly to escort two of his children whom he left with friends in Bir- mingham. Other two children of MT. Greer have been very i'll with typhoid fever but have sufficiently recovered to be taken to East Alabama for a change. That leaves two of "the six boys" at home in Marion MT. Greer is prospering with the Standard remarkably, although he has been in pos- session of that newspaper but a few months. He has made it one of the best country papers in the south, and deserves the success that is coming to him.
 Dr. Grattan B. Grove, chairman of the state executive committee of the populist party, is spending two or three days in Chicago. He is expected back in Birming- ham by the end of the week.