The age-herald., 1900-02-23
IN HOTEL HOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

1 distinguished lawyers in Alabama, and for
 a while represented the old Seventh district
 in the lower house of congress, having pre- ceded the late lamented General William Henry Forney. He is member of the board of trustees of the University of Ala
 bama, and was stricken i'll while en route to
 Ess-tl. '7-t December to attend the
 uls 70 le ,oard. The thousands of
 Us lonel will be glad to hear
 au l.. road to recovery. The uuseu. mt business is profitable alzz -5a w. T. Powell. the well | nnosA adrauaa agent. q have never
 known 1t to be so good in the south as it is now. All reputable companies seem ito be
 doing well. Eight-cent cotton and general prosperity account for large audiences.
 MT Powell was for many years the mama
 ger of the Richmond theater, one of the
 historic playhouses of the United States. 1 The itheater was landmark of the Virginia
 capital, but -four or five years ago it was
 nazed and department store erected on the historic site. While MT. Powell was in | charge of the theater he engaged and pre- l scented many of the great stars, including 1 Charlotte Cushman, Joe Jefferson. Edwin Booth, Lawrence Barrett, Mary Anderson,
  Clarke made his debut under Powells management Mr. Powell is with the Wdi- l bur -Kirwdn Opera company. and will re- 1 main in Birmingham until the latter part | of next week. He was at Old Point, Va. recently and met there his old friend Sol Smith Russell. whom he reports much dm- proved in health
 Robert e. Middleton, erstwhiie BIT mingham man, who now claims Birmins- | ham as his home, is In the city. MT Mid- dleton Is the representative dn New Orleans | of several of the Walker county coal com | panies. having recently gone to that city I in such capacity. In speaking Of the coal | business in the Crescent City, MT. Middle ] ton yesterday said: '"Fhe demand in New Orleans for coal Is very good. notwithstand- | ing bhis is the off-season in that line. We can't tell much about how it will be until l the season opens up a few weeks from | now. The Alabama coal companies do a good business there"
 James F. Dean, advance agent of "The Christian" in which Fife Ellsler is star ring this season, is in the city. Miss Ellsler | will open the new Jefferson theater In this | play on the 7th of March.
 l "I am glad to see that the city council passed an ordinance last night requiring | brokers in theater tickets to take out | licenses" said a prominent business man l yesterday. It is nothing but right that l speculators in theater tickets should be re- l quired to pay licenses when every other l class of business has it to do. We may be l able to get desirable seats to good attrac- l tions hereafter without standing in line for | an hour before the ticket office opens. We l will at least have the satisfaction of know l ing that the spectators must pay for the l privilege"
 1 "The work of recruiting for the regular army is slow but sure." said Lieutenant | Mitchell, in charge of the recruiting sta l tions of Alabama. 'Those accepted for en- | listment must be fine specimens of physical manhood and men of good morals The gov | ernment is very particular. Many good men | who apply almost come up to the require
 ments, but fail to pass. The United States | army Is certainly made up of splendid ma | terial, and the soldiers of no other nation can surpass our regulars
 'It Is understood that the administration | bill for the reorganization of the regular
 army will provide for thirty brigadier gen- l erals, ten major generals and one lieutenant | general" said an ex-army officer at the Ar 1 iing,ton last night. This will be costly | establishment compared with the prescott | regular army, which is commanded by six | brigadier generals and three major gener- als, including General Miles. If the army is l to be increased to 100000 enlisted men, there 1 will be att feast thirty-five regiments of in 1 fartry, twelve of cavalry and ten of artil- | lery. But all the democrats and some of
 the republicans will oppose a standing army l of 0O00O, and when compromise bill is 1 passed it will probably provide for stand | ing army of sixty or sixty-five thousand. 1 An army of sixty thousand would call for
 eighteen or twenty brigadier generals and about six major generals. The administra- 1 tion bill will hardly be presented before ] next winter. The provisional army of sixty l six thousand regulars and thirty-five thous- l and volunteers Is ito remain in service until | July l, 1901, hence there is no hurry about a | permanent organization"
 S. H. Barron a member of the finance | committee of the Carnival society, who left several days ago for New York on business, I has worked faithfully for the success of I the carnival celebration, and in speaking | of 1t before leaving the cfty, said: "I am | certain that the carnival next week will I be a successful affair. It will surpass the I carnival of last year, and one good thing | about it, there will be no debts to follow. | All the bills will be paid promptly. The I money will be in hand and in a day or l two after the carnival Its affairs will be
 settled and the officers will be relieved un- l til next year. If the weather is favorable | next week, the Carnival society will be very popular, and the membership win be 1 doubled"
 AFRAID OF THE PEOPLE | From the Birmingham News.
 | The action of the county democratic ex- | ecutive committee in providing for a direct