The age-herald., 1900-09-13

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 Yet, beautiful and prosperous old Mont gomery, blessed old town down where the cotton blossoms blowi Montgomery's cher ished old Advertiser gets red in her wrinkled dear old face simply because folk are not aware when or in how many col umns she gets out her annual Monday morning edition!
 Former State Senator Frank s. Moody of Tuscaloosa was in town yesterday. Senator Moody was the father of the late liquor dispensary agitation in Alabama; all though some person in Birmingham writing to an Atlanta newspaper declared that Senator Cunningham "fathered" that brief flash in the pan, so to speak,
 "The iron market is steadier and it's out look is at the moment better" declared D. L. Cobb, the famous pig iron expert of Chicago and general salesagent of the sloss-sheffield Company, who has been spending a day or two in Birmingham. ''The declining tendency has ceased and there are more inquiries; but iron men do not expect considerable renewed activity until after the Presidential election. Until that event comes off there can be nothing better than steadiness hoped for. The fu- ture of the iron market depends upon the election; If it Is favorable to iron interests there will be immense business. If other wise, otherwise"
 Mr. Cobb's presence here was due to pri- vate business with the Sloss-Sheffeld Com pany. Last night he went westward Fer haps no man in this country Is more in- telligently informed concerning the iron market than MT. Cobb.
 Hon. Frank P. O'Brien returned to Bir- mingham yesterday forenoon from the East. He and his family have been spending their nineteenth consecutive sum- mer at Asbury Park; and they tarried in New York for a week.
 
 'Tt has been many years since union la bor was so well organized and so harmont- ous as it is now in the Birmingham dis trict" said Judge w. H. Stanley. Labor has come together solid1y after many trials and troubles, and it stands now with a practically unbroken front. How proud am of this and how earnestly I have la bored in season and out to create this happy condition the workingmen and the public know. The best interests of labor have been the object of my best labor and love; and the present situation is most gratifying to me, as it is to all friends of labor!'
 Ben Delemos, the immortal of Lowndes was in Birmingham yesterday.
 Henry G. Hester, the famous secretary of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange, ar rived in Birmingham yesterday morning and spent the day here. He had been to Savannah, whither he went from Birming- ham last Sunday, on which day he granted an intensely interesting interview to the Age-Herald. He again declined to discuss the price of cotton, and had nothing con- corning cotton to add to what he had already said to the Age-Herald.
 MT. Hester dwelt freely upon the un- parraeled disaster at Galveston and along the Gulf coast of Texas. Asked as to its practical and permanent business effect upon Galveston, MT Hester expressed the opinion that it would be exceedingly hurt full; and that of necessity the Texas calam- ity would benefit New Orleans.
 MT. Hester expressed the deepest inter- est in the Warrior river improvements now in progress and the proposed inland all- water route from the Birmingham district to New Orleans.
 Banker William G. Broadway and " R Phillips of Gadsden were in Birmingham yesterday.
 Solicitor W. B. Oliver of the City Court of Tuscaloosa spent yesterday in Birming- ham.
 Colonel Falkner went to Montgomery yesterday afternoon, and will return to- night or tomorrow.
 Colonel J. T. Murfee of Marion Is at the Morris.
 Hon. B. M. Allen returned last night from Perry County.
 Late arrivals in town are w. F. Herbert, Montgomery; Chester E. M. Garrison, Bridgeton, N. J.; M. M. Berger, New York.