The age-herald., 1900-06-04
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE


 A child born on this day will meet with 1 many losses, and be generally poor and have to work for lving.p
 This day, Whit Sunday, is a holiday in | Great Britain and Ireland, and therefore | there will be no market reports from | London, Liverpool or Manchester. "The Philadelphians who have acquired | possession of two thousand acres of land near Huntsville will build a manufactur- | ing town there' said Colonel N F. | Thompson of Huntsville, who was in Bir- | mingham yesterday. 'The transaction as | to the land is closed, and the new owners | will begin at once to develop the property | The old Bell cotton factory is a part of 1 the purchase. It was built some fifty | years ago. but the walls strong to- | day as eyer they were. The building will | be renovated at once, and within sixty | days cotton manufacturing machinery will i be put in position and the factory will l once again be at work. Several other fac | tories will be built as soon as possible,
 amongst them being woolen, carpet and | cotton mills. Numerous other industries, | including hardwood factories, will be con-
 structed The enterprise is entirely the
 
 large capital required will come from that city. Four of the men directly interested have personal fortunes ranging from $1,- | GOO, 900 to 5000, 900 each, and they have en- gagged in this enterprise as purely busi-
 ness venture. It is in no sense speculative | or booming The projectors of it realize | that it is to their advantage to build fac l tories in the south, and they going to | | There is fine water power and forests of valuable woods on the property, and the | district is naturally one of the most at | tractive in America or out of it. Millions | of money will be invested, and that will I do great good for Madison county, and all | the state. The proprietors will have entire | control of the town-ste, and can carry out | their plans to the best advantage of every | body interested. Whilst I was enabled to sell the property, I am not personally in- | terested now except that the owners have | placed me in charge of their real estate. | The name for the new town has not been agreed upon as yet, but several names are under consideration"
 Colonel Thompson was questioned re- | garding the proposed southern branch of | the Philadelphia commercial museum. He | said that the city of it's location had not | been determined upon. Atlanta, Mobile, | New Orleans and other towns anxi- ous to secure the enterprise, and were I making efforts in that direction. If Bir- mingham wished it, Birmingham must take action to that end. In other words, it was now up to Birmingham" the phrase goes.
 A cholarly man of the Black Belt, who takes more than passing interest in the course of events, past and present, in the state, discoursed pleasantly of the good old ante-bellum days" He is greatly in- terested in the historical work of Mr. John w. DuBose concerning which he said:
 q have heard from several of my neigh bors of correspondence they have had with MT. DuBose, giving him data for quite a lengthy paper he expects to contribute to the forthcoming volume of transactions of the Alabama Historical society on the set clement of the Canebrake. The Canebrake, as MT. DuBose proposes to give it's bounds. is territory of about 600 square miles, now practically all open, but when discov- cred, was all solid mass of majestic forest springing from base of tall, im- penetrabe cane.
 "Only slave labor could cope with nature in all her magnifcence here, and reduce the wilds to cultivated fields, as labor then known. Thus only young men of for tunes in negroes came to inhabit it. They were Virginians and South Carolinians for the most part. They accomplished wonders in a brief time. Meanwhile, they main- tained among themselves a society of re- 3i,,a, n,,lt any agricultural country outside of Eng land. The best managed labor, the most healthy and happy laborers, the most beau tiful plantations, the best domestic serv- ants, the most affluent and ceaseless hos pitality, the most elegant balls and dinners, the best horses in the world, were found within this area we call the 'Canebrake'
 T have pleasing anxiety to see Mr. Du- Bose's paper, for it is to be a record of a superb page in Alabama history, full of society, politics and war, men and women, and their noble customs, the like of which we shall never see again. He lived amidst it all and no man now alive knows those things better than he.'
 'It is a political fact of national interest that the color line in southern politics was
 
 said a young democrat of prominence yes- terday. "In the democratic convention of that county, held about the close of the re- construction period proper, James L. Pugh, John Cochran, and Alpheus Baker were ap- pointed committee on platform, and the platform they brought in, and which was adopted, drew the color line. They took the draught of that platform to the state convention of the party, which met at Montgomery and over which MT. Pugh pre- sided, and it was adopted by the conven- tion practically it had been adopted in Barbour. It was at that convention of the state democracy that MT. Pugh made the famous speech in which he drew the now familiar figure of the white cliffs of Cau- cassian supremacy. At least that is the story as it was told to me the other day by an old man. I cannot remember the exact