The age-herald., 1899-09-06
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

l great as 1t was twenty years ago, and cer-
 tafnly he looks about as well as he did
 when he first entered the senate. He has | lost nothing of that charm of manner and | characteristic kindness of heart which | have so long endeared him to his people. | "To be sure,' said a friend of the sena- | tor. '"his strength is not so great and his | language in public speaking not so fiery, , nor do his words ring so resonantly 3s
 when, a third of a century ago, he began
 his unexampled crusade against the op- l pression of the bayonet and the outrages | of negro domination. But there is no; l now, and never will be again, a civil cause l so great to Alabamians that which l Morgan led from '66 to re- It was ob- l served that he read from manuscript his l speech at the Auditorium on Labor Day;
 but he seems to have done so in order to l speak with absolute accuracy the words he desired to use. He had certain impressions l to convey, and he put his language in | writing"
 l Speaking of Senator Morgan, the people 1 of Alabama will be interested in the fact | that his former colleague and old-tme | friend Hon. James l.. Pugh has given up housekeeping in Washington, and he and | Mrs. Push will go to New York to spend several months with their son-ln-law and l daughter, MT. and Mrs A. w. Cochran. l Their family has dwindled down to them l selves and their youngest son, Henry l Pugh and so they grew Lonesome. Re- gently they decided to let their house and l go to New York. MT. Cochran is the sec retary of the United States Court of Ap- l praisers in New York; and he and his 1 wife, who have no children, reside at West l Fifty-seventh street and Seventh avenue. 1 The senator's elder sons, Edward Pugh and Jas. l.. Pugh. Jr., are married and have l their own homes in Washington. The third | son is John C.. Pugh, of Birmingham. 1 Senator and Mrs. Pugh expect to visit Eu- | faula, their old home, next winter, and will probably remain in Alabama several
 months. The senator owns a plantation | just outside of Eufau1a, and another in | Henry county. The health of Senator and l Mrs. Pugh was never better than at pres
 ent. The warmest and most cordial well l come awaits them in Alabama
 Major Charles J. Allison, recently ap- | pointed by Judge Shelby to be United | States circuit clerk fer the Northern dis | trict of Alabama, to reside in Birmingham, ] will assume the duties of his office on the | first day of October The appropriation for | clerk hire covers the period up to and in- | cuding September 3Oth; another court year
 beginning with October 1st on which date
 a subsequent appropriation becomes avail
 able. Should Major Allison take office now, l MT. Trimble, the retiring clerk would have
 to send in his report for the fraction of a l ta complicate the accounts of the office; and
 so it was agreed that the transfer of the l clerks office should take place at the end
 of September. Meantime, Major Allison is
 merely looking on at court proceedings l and making himself entirely familiar with I the duties of the cerkship. Major Allison | has made a most favorable impression
 upon all men who have come to know | him since he came to Birmingham to re- I side; and there is every indication that
 he will win great popularity here, for he
 is very engaging in personal intercourse,
 is big-hearted, good-natured, and cordially | sympathetic in his manner.
 | Labor was probably never before so pros- | porous in the Birmingham district as at | present. The army of men in the great la | bor parade Monday looked prosperous | and contented. They gave unmistakable | evidence that things are going well with | them, and everybody rejoiced to see them | in such good spirits. It was remarkably | successful day for organized labor, and | every man in the organizations has come | to feel proud of the success of the great
 celebration. As an evidence of how things
 are going, it is given out that bricklayers | are now receiving forty-five cents an hour, | as compared with thirty cents an hour last l year. Wages in other trades have in- | creased whilst the increase in the price | of building materials is without precedent. | There is a convict in one of the prison
 mines at Pratt who is making fifty dollars
 month working over time. He is hired | to the Tennessee company, and his work | is digging coal A regular task is assigned | to him as to all the convicts, every day,
 and upon the completion of his daily task
 he goes to work overtime for himself. | There is a boy at this mine fifteen six | teen years old He was a convict but his
 time expired about three months, when he
 went to work in the mine on his own &C., | count. He is now earning eleven dollars
 week. That is remarkable pay for a boy, | assuredly. It is said that there are many 1 of the negro convicts who have no desire
 for freedom, holding that they are better
 fed and cared for in every way than is pos
 sible for them out of prison. Their food is
 good and plentiful their clothing is com | fortable, they are well-housed and have
 the best of medical attention and in the
 view of many of the offenders against the
 law no disgrace attaches to convict stripes.
 Many of them occasionally get legally | fogged for fighting and other offences; but
 they don't feel the strap long.
 Hot weather continued yesterday with
 unabated and relentless severity and there | was probably not man in Birmingham
 left with his nominal amount of mental
 or physical vigor. The heat was very sick
 ening and terribly oppressive. Birming-
 ham has not suffered so much from heat