The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-12
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
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afternoon and evening, and ask favors."
Thou wilt have an unsettled year for
thy affairs, and they will require much at
tention.''
1.-The young will have cause for grief"
"a child born on this day will have to
work hard to succeed, and will meet with
many troubles and hardships."
IF female she will lose her husband
soon after marriage"
Astrologer Raphaers prophecies for
Thursday. September 10, 1900:
Seek work, ask favors, travel and push
thy business"
Thou wilt have very active year and
thy business will increase and prosper, but
be careful of thy health; those in employ
will meet promotion
Young females will have attention from
the opposite SEX
"A child born on this day will be very
active, ambitious, and rise rapidly in life,
whether in employ or in business for itself"
Thou mayest hire maid servants"
1t is merely repeating and maybe en-
phasizing an oft told tale to say that every
person who crosses the streets of Birming-
ham does SO in grave personal peril!
Drivers of vehicles and riders of bicycles
riot through the streets utterly regardless
of the rights or safety of inhabitants afoot!
The hundreds who ride or drive defy the
| law and defy the uncountable thousands
| who walk
Common law, the law of justice, all sorts
| of law, give the right of way to the multi
tude who walk, not to the few who ride
drive IT has haan nrartipqllV
since modern wheeled vehicles came into
general use; and disregard of that law by
the old masters of the people was one of
the many causes which led France into the
hell of the Revolution. Dickens-that man
| who, with his sunshine heart and soul of
| song to inspire his pen, did more than any
other man of this century to right human
social wrongs-made graphic use of a car
rage accident in telling his Tale of Two
Cities" and he had historic basis for what
he wrote The aristocrats of France rode
down with their chariots the common peo-
pie, and when the people begged for bread
the answer was, Give them grass! Stu
dents need not be told the result.
That is ancient history, and is merely
related here to illustrate the plea that the
people who walk in the streets are entitled
to first consideration. We have no aristo-
Gratis in Birmingham and no gilded char
lots, no oppressed people to be run over
and bidd IL to eat grass to save themselves
from starving. But we have a multitude
or reputable people far outnumberng at
single crossings Of streets within four and
twenty hours all the soldiers who ever wore
the uniform of any Royal Louis of France,
and these are constantly in serious bodily
peril because of fools, drunkards, and
reckless, ignorant or irresponsible persons
generally who drive horses or mules or
rant around on bicycles! From handsome
carriages down through all grades of We
mcles to the numbering dray the danger is
constant, and all the time it is outrage
Gus against nine hundred and ninety-nine
out OF every thousand persons whom BUSH
ness of pleasure requires to appear in the
streets of Birmingham
All persons who appear on the street
crossings of Birmingham day by day from
New Years dawn to Old Years death are
kept lodging, jumping, sliding or running
in effort to avoid being run down and phys
ically wounded or killed, and that cease
less effort falls far short of saving all such
the poor of France were in the last GEN.
tury' add largely to the work of the sur
geons.
In the afternoon of yesterday at the busi-
est hour fatheaded youth, with a cigarette
In his mouth and his right foot resting I'M
seemingly on an exposed step, and a young
woman in white, chewing gum to beat the
most incessant brass band, appeared in
Twentieth street. The pair were in a "hug
metight' buggy. Whence they came or
whittier bound nobody knew or cared: but
hundreds of persons saw them, for the man
was driving his mettlesome horse as If
death were in pursuit, and thus he dashed
compelling children and women and men to
fly for their lives; and doubtless thew in
stantly forgot the man and the monstrous
outrage, for the people of Birmingham are
used to that sort of deadly driving!
| AT nightfall some tired men. going from
| their work to supper, were crossing Twen-
tieth street at Fifth avenue, when suddenly
there dashed down upon them out of the
| gloom man on a bicycle. 1t was miracu-
| lous that at least one of the men was not
| killed in his frantic efforts to save himself.
for the criminal who rode the bicycle did
in his fight actually touch the tired man of
peace on his way to supper. Infamous. Yet
| that sort of thing goes on all day every
| day in Birmingham.
At ten minutes before 2 o'clock yesterday
afternoon "a negro in a buggy, driving a
fast and beautiful horse, came madly down
| Nineteenth street from First avenue and
| dashed directly into crowd who had been
checked in crossing Nineteenth street by a
| trolley car, which, contrary to law, had
stopped on the crossing. Three hours later
! another crowd near the same spot suffered
similar outrage from a man driving two
| mules attached to an unloaded dray. Infam-
Gus! Yet that sort of thing goes on all day
| every day in Birmingham.
A negro preacher leaves Birmingham to-
| day for the north with the intent and pur-
| pose of soliciting money for most praise