The age-herald., 1900-04-27
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

Astrologer Raphael prophecies for this day, Friday, April 27, 1900:
 'Keep quiet; do not quarrel"
 Success will attend thy endeavors, thy business will increase, but do. not quarrel or go to law; thou wilt change and travel with much success"
 "A child born on this day will be quick of temper but generous and open-minded; very fortunate in all it undertakes
 Julian Hawthorne and Homer Davenport will arrive in New York today, in answer to summons from the New York Journal to "eome in; which is an order familiar to all newspaper men who are sent on spe- cial assignments. Generally speaking, 'eome in is a message gladly received by such workers; although 1t frequently means that those so summoned are to be sent off in some other direction. Still there is all ways chance that "our special represent atve" will be permitted to stay at home for a time and do his ordinary work in the ordinary way The average newspaper man has no love for special assignments that take him away from home, for as rule the only possible advantage afforded him is the generally limited chance of add ing to his reputation and usefulness. Our special representative" is nearly always very hard-worked, and added to the labor of his trade, miscalled by courtesy pro- fesson are the burdens of railway travel, loss of sleep, poor food, worse drink, oc- caSiOnal danger and constant 6iSaPrPa- ableness. Tramps, bootblacks, beggars, burglars. gamesters, journalists" lawyers, doctors, and so on, are professionals" Newspaper men mere workers at a trade. Most of these last are nearly al- ways glad to receive the message Come in"
 As for Julian Hawthorne and Homer Davenport, amongst the most eminent of all newspaper workers, there is their own deliberate statement that they greatly en- joyed their special assignment to Alabama, and certainly Alabama enjoyed it to the utmost. This much is especially true of the people of Birmingham, amongst whom the two visitors spent all their time ex- cept day and half devoted to Mont gomery. They were at home here: our people were their guests. Birmingham amazed and gladdened them-amazed by it's greatness, gladdened by that unaffect- ed, bouyant spirit of cordial hospitality so markedly characteristic of this people, To Birmingham friends who were happy in seeing them at Montgomery, MT. flaw thorne and MT Davenport were generous in their expressions of appreciation and they sent kind words of farewell to this city They left Montgomery for New York at o'clock Wednesday night, travelling by delayed train over the Western of Ala bama railroad by way of Atlanta.
 Montgomery's new auditorium in which the state democratic convention assembled is splendidly spacious and handsome, and is admirably arranged for everybody ex- cept reporters. This may be not act ualy fault of the hall itself, but it is
 grave fault nevertheless. Upon re- porters the burden of a large convention rests heaviest, and inasmuch as they are the real representatives of the public they have a right to ordinary facilities for doing their work. Some of them who had for twenty or thirty years to make the best use they could of the one small tduiS III llS idll Ol lile uOuSe Ol representatives at the capitol quite natur- ally hoped for reasonably good accommo- dation in the great auditorium, but to the man in the gallery they appeared worse fixed than ever before There were about half dozen tables, each capable of
 accommodating eight or ten reporters. Two of the tables would probably have been quite sufficient for all the report CTS present who were at work as report CTS; but every table was most disagree ably crowded and every reporter jostled. There was no sort of protection against the surging crowd that constantly throng- ed the space about the tables. There was ample room in that splendid orchestra place for every newspaper worker of ev- cry sort who cared for seat, and certain ly all such workers desiring seats should be accommodated at all public conven- tions. But there should be order, system, and protection from intrusion in the ar engagements for their accommodation Re porters don't attend conventions unless they are obliged to do so That sort of work is no fun for them. Nor do they attend public meetings for amusement.
 
 This brings up story about Governor Jones and w. D. McIver, the veteran worker of the Montgomery Advertiser When the governor was making the can- vass of the state for his reelection in 1892, McIver went the rounds with him to re- port his speeches. The governor made a great speech at Demopolis, and next morn ing he and McIver started out in buggy to make the twenty-mile drive to Linden, the county seat of Marengo, over what Is said to be the worst public road, even in the Blackbelt, notorious for abominable public highways and so famous for fertile soil From Linden they were to drive other wretched roads to other expectant villages When the governor and the re- porter had been bumped and begged and shaken over many miles and both genial souls had become trife irritable, McIver exploded with a remark of great vexation. This caused the governor to explode also.
 My gad, sir-my gadi Do you fancy