The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-11

partment of a railway carriage where there
were several young "swells' so-called and
an aged man. The young men insisted on
keeping the compartment window open,
though the weather was damp and cold.
The old man wished the window, on the
windy side of which he sat, closed. The
window had been closed and opened two
or three times when Father Mccormick,
who had been reading, observed the situa-
ton, and saw the old man shiver. He at
once stepped to the window and closed it,
and turning to the "swells' commanded
quietly:
Don't you open that window again.
The window was not again opened.
After Father McCormicKs return from
Europe he took up duties in st. Mary's
church, Jersey City, and did great work
there. After awhile he made up his mind
that he wanted parish of his own, and so
he called on his bishop to ask for one, an
almost unheard of proceeding. He sent his
card in to the bishop, and In short while
the bishop gave him audience.
What do you wish, Father McCormick?'
"A parish, bishop!"
What Immediately followed is not KNOWN
but Father Mccormick has parish.
The unparalleled disaster at Galveston is
of closest personal interest to many per-
sons in Alabama, and in Birmingham par
ticularly on account of family relations;
and the greatest anxiety for full particu-
lars of the disaster is awaited. One of those
most distressed in this city yesterday was
Mrs. Anderson, the wife of Judge John c.
Anderson of the Demopolis circuit. Mrs.
Anderson was reared in Galveston, where
she was for five years in convent school,
and where many of her rela and closest
personal friends have long resided. And
all those In Alabama who have had the
happiness of coming to know Mrs. Ander-
son and to reverence her for her splendid
womanhood will on her account, If for no
other, feel personal interest in the deplor-
able conditions at Galveston and thousands
of people who know and cordially esteem
the gifted Judge Anderson will be inter-
ested. Judge Anderson and Mrs. Anderson,
who have been the guests for several days
of Mrs. Anderson, relative, on the South
Highlands, returned to Blount Springs at
noon yesterday. , fa<l
Hon. william C. Jemison, Mayor of Tus-
caloosa and owner and editor of the Tus-
caloosa Daily Times, is in New York In
wretchedly bad health. Mr.. Jemison, who is
a brother of Mr.. Robert Jemison of Birm-
ingham, has been In unsatisfactory health
several months, and it is feared that 1t
will be two or three months before he will
be strong enough to resume his accus-
toned occupations. Meantime the Tusca-
loosa Times is under the entire control OF
Harry Walker, one of the most capable OF
the younger newspaper workers of Ala
bama. Mr. Walker was in Birmingham yes
terday, and talked as If he had already
fallen in love with Tuscaloosa and the Tus-
caloosians. Who wouldn't?
Speaking of Galveston, the public had
yesterday morning the fullest and minutest
details of the great disaster, covering an
entire page of the Age-Herad. And the
public, which appreciated the extraordinary
news, should know that it was placed be-
fore them under extraordinary difficulties.
The special train of the Associated Press
conveying the fullest news did not reach
Houston until about o'clock yesterday
morning, near the hour when morning
newspapers ordinarily go to press with their
final editions. Yet all that thrilling news
from the stricken city of Texas was liter
ally piled in on the morning papers, and
the only daily paper in Alabama gave it in
full detail. 1t was after o'clock in the
morning before the men who make the
Age-Herald left the Age-Herald building.
All that was the most exacting labor, what
ever otherwise it was!
D. w. McIver of the Montgomery Adver-
tiser is in Birmingham, on his way home
from Tate Springs, where he has been
staying a fortnight
Judge A. II. Aston, who has been holding
Circuit Court at Scottsboro, is in Birming-
ham. He will leave today for mis- home
in Clayton.
Judge Thomas R. Roulhac of Sheffield is
in town.
Colonel William W. Brandon, Adjutant
General of the Alabama National Guard,
was in Birmingham last night.
Hon. John B. Knox is at the Morris.
Dan s. Cue of Montgomery is in town.
Thomas G. Jones, Jr., Jackson M. Hob
bic and Louis C. Caroline of Montgomery
are at the Morris.
r. A. Mitchell of Gadsden is in Birming-
ham.
w T. Northington is at the Morris.
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