The age-herald., 1900-03-21
IN HOTEL LOBBIES.
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ing for St Vincent's hospital on the beauti- fully wooded hill at the top of Twenty seventh street. South Highlands, and thus will be carried out the complete plans for that eommodious and magnificent home of charity and mercy. Meantime work on the great main building and the right wing Is being carried forward as rapidly as practi- cable. Preparations for clustering the in teriors are far advanced, and the plasterers will be all busy within day or two. There are numerous fire-proof brick walls throughout the buildings. and the ordinary partitions between rooms will be made of steel lattice work covered on both sides with cement. This latest invention in par titions has not yet been elsewhere adopted in the south. The walls of the main wards are of brick The entire structures through out will be finished according to the latest inventions and most approved methods for the construction of the perfectly appointed hospital And so the new St. Vincents will be the most complete hospital in America, since it will be the newest, and be con- structed in keeping with the newest de- vices and methods yet discovered or work ed out by scientific men of the highest skill and ability. A heavy task now to be un- dertaken is the necessary grading of the grounds, which will cost about S4,000. In front of the main building there is a broad space of earth eleven feet in depth that must be removed The hospital completed will represent an expenditure of s450,O0o, and will contain two hundred and fifty beds. Naturally this great enterprise for the alleviation of human suffering calls for substantial aid from the people of Bir- mingham and the entire district.
 
 Beautiful women added to the attract iveness of the wonderful designs, arts and concefts of the springtime fashions so richly and so tastefully displayed in Ferd Marks beautiful palace of fashions in Second avenue yesterday. The day was the day4bracing breezes, brilliant sum shine-and the display was the display, If there may be paraphrase of Burnss lines '~rhe Nicht was the Nicht and the Men were the Men" Marks decorations were superb bn their great wealth and exquisite in their conception. It Is not conceivable that the artistic decorative display in the dress goods department can be excelled- It was extraordinarily rich; it was mag nifcent. And this truth is applicable in a large measure to the entire establishment, most especially to the millinery depart ment. The richness of the fabrics and the goods generally was most notable. and was eloquent evidence of the prosperity and wealth of Birmingham There were ready-made suits for women, each con- slstfng of skirt and jacket, and valued each at $125 There was a silken under skirt fit for an empress priced at $50 and so on ran tine richness. Yet there were all sorts of goods, too, to meet the demands of persons of modest means The entire display was an object lesson of great force respecting the greatness and the prosperity of great Birminshaml
 
 Right Rev. Bishop Allen was in Birming- ham yesterday on his way from Mobile to St. Bernard's Abbey near Cullman. While at the abbey the bishop will ordain two candidates to holy orders, one as deacon and the other as sub-deacon. This day be- ing the Feast of St. Benedict the founder of the order of the Benedictines, pontifcal high mass will be celebrated at the abbey, the ceiebrdnt being tho bishop. who will hc assisted by the Right Rev. Abbot of St. Bernard's. The Benedictnes are the oldest order In the Catholic church, that order having been founded more than thirteen hundred years ago.
 Within the past thirty-six hours death has deprived Alabama of two of it's most successful and most highly esteemed citi- zens of foreign birth. Reference is had to Rudolph Ehrman of Birmingham and Ja- cob Greil of Montgomery. Mir. Ehrman was a native of Germany, but had dweIt in Ia1eo far than ordinarily successful in business, and became widely known because of his spirit of enterprise. At the age of forty-seven, the beginning of the most useful period of the allotted years of mans life, MT. Ehr- man passes suddenly to the unseen. The other day he was with his friends on the streets, happy and jolly. This day the grave shall hide his form, but the clay above him cannot obliterate the memory of his virtues. He was the kindest t-hearted of men, generous and hospitable in his i'm pulses, and always light of heart and smil- ing Even Rudolph Ehrmans faults leant to virtues side His death produces in Bir- mingham feelings of sincere sorrow.
 
 Jacob Griel was one of Montgomery's strongest merchants, if mot the strongest" said Colonel J. M. Falkner yesterday. 1T have known him forty years, and I have known him to be true in all the relations of a busy and prosperous life. He was a brave and faithful Confederate soldier, good husband and father; man of great business ability and enterprise and was devoted 10 the material interests of Mont gomery. Above all he was true to his friends, 'true to the cause of charity, and true to all the higher duties of life. Mont gomery had no worthier citizen than Jacob Griel." Mr. Griel was born in Bohemia sixty-one years ago. He came to Alabama when he was II years old, and settled in Chambers county, where he was clerk in a country store. At the outbreak of the civil war;. he entered the Confederate ser- vice as a sergeant in the Fourteenth Ala bama infantry, then commanded by Colo mel Thomas J. Judge, one time justice of