The age-herald., 1900-02-16
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

l Owing to the number of new manufactur-
 ing plants promised for the Birmingham 1 district in the near future quite an im- 1 petus has been given to the stocks of the 1 various land companies in and about Bir- l mingham. Bessemer Land company stock 1 jumped up several points yesterday. North l Birmingham Land company stock is going | up. and Birmingham Realty company stock 1 is likewise in much demand.
 1 In this connection a prominent business
 man and capitalist, in discussing the de-
 velopment of Birmingham yesterday said: l Generalization is the order of the day. l There is one consolidation, which, in my | opiinon, will be brought about in Birming
 ham in the next few months and which 1 will be of exceeding great value to this city and district. refer to the consolida-
 ltion of the several large and important | land companies of the Birmingham district. | l would not be surprised within the next l ninety days to see a consolidation of the l Birmingham Realty company, North Bir- | mingham Land company, the Bessemer Land company, the Ensley Land company | and probably others. Under such con- | solidation the district could be developed l without the jealousies and bickerings which | have arisen recently over the location of 1 new plants in the district 1t is all the | same to the general prosperity of Bir- mingham whether a plant be located in Ensley. North Birmingl~ m, Bessemer or on any of the lands of tie Realty company. What we want Is the general growth of the district. If the land companies were consolidated into great company the holders of the stock of each and every
 one would be benefited and the city would
 be materially benefited. Look out for such
 consolidation. I am of the opinion that 1t Is sure to come"
 There was a very gratifying change in the character of the Valentines received by the public school teachers Wednesday," said Superintendent Phillips yesterday.
 Heretofore the pupils have sent comic pie tures with lot of doggeral underneath, but so far as l have heard not one of this kind was received by the teachers yester- | day. The comic pictures have been super ceded by others of a more aesthetic nature. We have been trying for some time to bring about this change and I believe that we nave now fully succeeded. I have heard from number of parents today, and in each instance they state that the Valen- tines received from the children were of a different character ito those heretofore re- ceived."
 ''The town of McAllister in the Indian Territory" said travelling man yesterday,
 has population of more than seven
 thousand, all of them squatters who hope that eventually the federal government will
 ratify their title to the property which they have taken possession of. They have nc mayor, no town marshal, aldermen, no police. There never was a survey made for town purposes. Yet they have built up fine residences, for frontier settlement; | the houses are built in rows that leave wide and fairly regular Areets; the people lead moral lives and areslsw-abiding in spirit, | though there are particular laws for l them to abide by. A stranger in the city
 would never suspect that the place was not
 fully organized and furnished with all the l modern municipal machinery" l ann trying to give the people of Jeffer- | son county absolutely free schools for the | gN'atest possible number of months each l year." said Superintendent of Education | Jerry Fountain, yesterday. 'In some com | munIties the trustees employ teachers, and | pay them a certain amount of the public I money. and then permit them to make a | nominal charge for each pupil that enters | school. l am trying to break up this cus- | tom, and believe I will succeed. Where the | people have had the matter explained to | them, they almost universally approve of | the change"
 R. c. Jelks, New Orleans agent for some l of the Alabama coal companies, is in the
 city.
 | R. M. Douglas and J. H. Minge, Jr, of | Faunsdale, were in the city yesterday. |
 l J. w. Kirkland, one of Montgomerys
 hustling railroad men, was in the city yes- | terday.
 l About nine out of every ten railroad | men are in favor of Senator Morgan's re- | turn to the United States senate" said a
 Southern Railroad conductor yesterday
 "We are for him because we think he is l not only of the ablest men in the United
 States. but because we believe it to be to
 our best interests that he remain in the sen-
 ate few years longer at least"
 "The Kansas City, Memphis & Blrming- | ham will bring more people to Birmingham to Mardi Gras this year than ever before,'
 said Charley Jones, passenger agent of that | road. yesterday. We are advertising the | carnival all along road, between here l and Memphis, and in very thorough man. | ner, and the people say they are coming | The Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham l is the only road that has gotten out adver- | Using matter especially for the Birmingham
 carnival, and we will run special from 1 Amory to Birmingham on the 26th arriving l here at 10 o'clock that morning."
 "Creston Clarke, who>is to appear in Bir- | mingham next week. is a son of the late | John Sleeper Clarke the distinguished
 comedian, and a grandson of Junius Bru-
 tus Booth, generally styled "the elder | Booth," said an old theater-goer. His | mother was Asia Booth, an actress of U lrnr4ax Aol.a fa1. l4c Sla.,