The age-herald., 1900-03-16
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

|
 covered several inches in depth by an ice
 mantle of white. But rain had been fall-
 ing steadily for ten hours before 1t gave
 place to snow, and the ground was thor
 oughly wet. Hence the snow melted 1t i reached the earth. About an hour after
 midnight the rain began to batter down
 gently enough, but it gathered in volume
 and uid not cease until it was tranformed
 into the snow. The day was not very cold.
 but it was excessively raw and disagree | able, and nobody appeared upon the l streets except under compulsion. Persons
 walking against the light wind were par
 tially blinded by the large snowflakes. This
 most wretdhed and exasperating weather
 Followed almost without warning four per-
 feet springlike days. More beautiful or
 balny days than Sunday, Monday, Tues 1 day and Wednesday could not be born of
 any mans inauguration. Fortunately there is
 likely to ibe little or no damage to fruit | trees or vegetable gardens; the weather | had been continuously cold all the season
 up to last Sunday, thereby preventing the l growth of vegetation. Snow Is compara-
 lively rare in this valley: such prolonged
 continuous heavy fall that of yesterday
 is virtually without precedent.
 l
 1 1.-The thouehtless disregard of the erdi-
 nary proprieties and clviIities so frequently
 noticeable amongst the many lovers of the
 tfeater in theater-Toving Birmingham was
 forcbbIy illustrated at the Theodore Thomas
 concert in the Auditorium last night" said
 a man who attended that great entertain- ment. "Ihere was so much talk and such l buzzing sound in the house that MT. l
 until the disturbance sulosided. The mas-
 ter simply stood silently and as patiently 1 as he might. As a matter of course, mo- body in the audience meant to disturb the l great leader anybody else: it was mere
 thou'ghtlessness, and if public attention l were called to this there would perhaps 1 be no more exhibitions of it." Upon this | same point musician and earnest lover of 1 music declared that he was frequently an- | noyed Joy tine general conversati ton when.
 music was being given. Many fn the au- l dience would take advantage of the or l chestras work to engage in conversation, | greatly to the annoyance of the musicians 1 and the lovers of music. The orchestra's | best performance was very frequently in- | tenfered with seriously by the sustained l and often strident voices of thoughtless and | fnconsiderate men and women who ar,- 1 peared ito have gone to the playhouse l chiefly for the purpose of gossiping. This 1 was very discouua ging to the musicians 1 So far as concerned many patrons of the 1 theater, the orchestra mght as well be l replaced by the backsmitln's anvil and A
 wheezy fife. This reporter being neither a | musician nor a regular visitor to tine the ater, was unable to pass upon the points | involved or offer suggestion But it does l appear that the musicians are mot outta fairly treated
 l Few people, perhaps, can estimate ccr- iectiy the number composing a large au- 1 dlence,' said Eomund Taylor Taliaferro | me audience in the Auditorium Wednes-
 day night when Theodore Thomas was the | attraction, was certainly one of the largest
 that ever assembled in this city. No pay 1 audience in the Auditorium was ever so
 large, l think. Some have estimated it at | l5O0 to 2,O0o. Others have estimated it at
 5000. My estimate was 2,50O No one whom
 have met has had a word of adverse crit l icdsm of the Thomas orchestra. Everybody was delighted"
 | Ut seems remarkable to even me, an old l Cullman have succeeded in building up the | large and profitable trade which they en- 1 joy" said Hon. w. T. L. Cofer, some time | a representative of the county which bears
 the honored name of the founder of the | first prosperous colony in Alabama. "Cull-
 man has large and valuable wagon trade: 1 and the business of the town has been un- usually good this season. The farmers and
  1 Cullman brought with him from Germany
 prospered from the beginning They have l made money and continue to make
 money. The city people who came l with him did not prosper so well 1 as those from rural districts in Germany. Cullman is a thriving town, and is growing
 more prosperous all the time" It is said,
 by the way, that there is not negro voter
 In the entire county of Cullman, the white | people doing all their own work
 Frank Glennon returned yesterday from
 a visit to his old home in Chicago
 1 Major Ross, of Macon, Ga- is in the city. | the guest of his brother-in-law, J. Morgan
 Smith, Higsland avenue.
 Amongst the visitors to Birmingham yes-
 terday was Robert Carlisle, happily re- l membered as former popular young man
 in Birmingham society. MT Carlisle dwelt
 here for several years, and stood deservedly i high in public estimation He was one of 1 the founders of the Southern club being one of the twenty-five charter members,
 and a member of the first committee of the 1 club. Early in the sos he went to Wash i ington and entered the government service; 1 continuing in that service several years.
 For the past two years he has represented
 the Standard oil company in Nashville. l MT. Carlisle is a nephew of John G. Carlisle l sometimes speaker of the house, a United | States senator, and secretary of the treas | ury.
 | c. F. Ross and Mrs. Ross, of Gadsden, l are at the Morris.
 | obop