The age-herald., 1900-03-30
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

OA <AldBdiHd S6INlnS III AS6iStAeAfO branch of the government. He was born in Jackson county in 18H, and removed to Arkansas seven years later. He entered the confederate service as a second heu- tenant in 1861, and lost a leg at Corinth 1 the following year. Upon the retirement of MT. Garland in 1885, MT. Berry was elected to the senate, of which he has remained member ever since. Two other senators now serving are native Alai5amians: Ed mund Winston Pettus of this state, born in Limestone county, July 6, 1921; and Charles A. Culberson of Texas, born at Dadevile, Tallapoosa county, i'm 1855. Two of the Texas members of the house of rep resentatives were also born in Alabama: Robert Emmet Burke, a native of Senator Culbersons county of Tallapoosa, was born da 1SI7; and John Levi Sheppard. oorn in the adjoining county Of Chambers in 1852 Congressman Andrew Fuller Fok of the Fourth district of Mississippi was born in Alabama's county of Pickens in 1S49, and Congressman Bertram Tracy Clayton of the Fourth district of New York was born in Clayton, Barbour county, this state, in 1862. The other members of the present congress who were born in Alabama are
 
 George Washington Taylor, First district, born in Montgomery county in 1919; Jesse k. Stallings, Second district born in But Ter county, in 1856; Henry De Lamar Clay ten, Third district, born in Barbour county in 1857; Willis Brewer, Fifth district; John Hollis Bankhead Sixth district, born in Marion (now Lama) county, in 1S42; John Lawson Burnett, Seventh district, born in Cherokee county, in 1854. Thus, there are thirteen natives of Alabama at present members of the national legislature, seven of them representing Alabama. Of these, but two, MT. Stallings and Mr. Clay ton, now reside in their native counties.
 
 If Weathermaker Ben M. Jacobs, always kind and popular, beguiles with cigarettes his quite hours after his days business is done and his official duties are forgot he is likely to be uplifted to the read joys of the pipe, or the secondary comfort of a cigar The Big Injun of all the weather makers upon this continent, evidently pre- ferring the calumet himself, has placed his official ban against the seductive little thing wrapped in rice paper or other substance. True the inhibition applies to "office hours only; but how can a fellow smoke innum- erable cigarettes during unofficial hours, and restrain himself whilst he is trying to provide suffering public with decent weather! He'll just have to give up alto gether. Might as well expect man. who takes various little sips of o-be- joyful dur ing the festive hours of the night. to deny himself afl the next day. '"Fhe action of Chief Moore of the Weather Bureau for
 
 sense," said local 'fend" last night. 'eThe chiefs only reason given is that cigarette smokers grow careless and lax. Nonsense! some of the greatest men in- the world in cluding Lord Roberts, smoke cigarettes. This form of smoking is indulged in by nearly all men who work at night. believe that seven-tenths of the workers on morn ing newspapers indulge in cigarettes; and they can be neither careless nor lax and expect to keep their jobs I don't know but one man on the staff of morning newspaper who doesn't smoke cigarettes, and he-chevs gum. Chief Moore of the weather bureau is ignorant, densely ignor- ant. of the joys of cigarettes!'
 
 .'The official record of the number of im- migrants landed at the port of New York o-' 1ss9 has been made public, and the total was 74,S92 or just 23,0oo more than during the corresponding quarter of 1S9s,' said an observant and interested railroad man of Birmingham yesterday. Something less than 1000 of the arrivals during the 1899 quarter came south and only about 5000 went beyond the Mississippi to the west. Over b ,OGO stopped in New York; and more
 
 in the North Atlantic States. Explanation of this unequal distribution of immigrants is that the newcomers found relatives, friends, many representatives of their respective races and profitable employment in the east. These facts constituted an at traction that the immigrants had no thought of resisting. But dull times will come some day, and many thousands of persons in the overcrowded centers of pop ulation will be thrown out of employment. Then there will be trouble, and great deal of it; then the immigrant class will bitterly regret that they did not settle in the comparatively thinly populated districts of the south and west. Very many of the 2000 who turned southward in October, No- yember and December came to the Bir- mingham district, for here are found all the attractions they could desire. Amongst our fellow-citizens are large numbers of Irish, Scotch.. Welsh, English, Germans, Italians, Slavs and so on; and wages are high, and likely to be permanently good There are at least two notably prosperous colonies of Germans and Scandinavians The fact is that the Birmingham district could absorb all the 75O0o foreigners who landed at New York in the last quarter of last year. and there would not be any dis turbance of labor interests. On the con- trary, all interests would be subserved But it is a hopeful fact that the tide is well begun to flow this way
 Hon. E. B. Joseph, the mayor of Mont gomery, was in Birmingham yesterday on private business. Mayor Joseph has been in oce a few months. only, but all reports are to the effect that he Is giving the cap- ital wise, progressive, and thoroughly sat " iSfa ad IIa vvas Co,