The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-02
NED BRACE DISCUSSES SEVERAL
TOPICS OF CURRENT INTEREST

in muscular sports was improperly con-
structed. Grady was probably right, though
there be those who would not agree with
him.
There are good women in Birmingham
and many of them. They are enthusiastic
and patriotic. They have moved often be-
fore, but they are moving unitedly in a
great and patriotic charitable work. 1t is
the Hllman Hospital movement A city
like Birmingham with its great railroad
systems, manufacturing plants. and the
like, needs several large hospitals. Until the
construction of st. Vincent's by the good
Sisters of Charity, Birmingham was sorely
lacking in this direction. Now however,
the good women of Birmingham are pro-
ceeding enthusiastically along lines of bus
mess to erect a great hospital right here
in the center of the city, to which the
wounded and injured, as well as the sick,
may be carried. The women of each church
in the city have organized into committees,
and these committees have organized into
a general association, for the purpose of
raising the necessary funds, and it is graf
flying to observe that they are meeting
with signal success. A play, "Puss in
theatre on Thursday evening and Friday
afternoon for the benefit of this hospital,
and a big bazaar is being organized to be
held in December. Doubtless several thou
sand dollars will be raised by such efforts.
The city should add to this by a generous
appropriation, and the Mayor and Alder
men should provide an annual fund to aid
in the establishment and maintenance of
cba riff u uuo nd "a W NOT
1t is good work 1t should be aided and
pushed by the business interests of the
city. Every manufacturing plant and every
railroad should contribute literally.
Many Birmingham people who went away
for a summer outing are returning They
find the climate of Birmingham at this sea-
son, and, indeed, at every sea-
son, as pleasant as that of other
summer resorts. I was in Asheville,
N c., myself several weeks. Asheville is
pleasant and attractive, and its hotel, the
Battery Park, Is perhaps the best summer
resort hotel in the south. Yet 1 found that
little difference in the china ties of Birming
ham and Asheville. The nights are always
cool in Birmingham, and the days are not
warmer than those experienced at the many
alleged summer resorts. 1t is well for one
to take week or two off, however, on ac-
count of the change and different sur
roundngs and the different people one
comes in contact with because We always
learn something, or think we do, and, to
an extent, change our train of thoughts;
but as an l-the-year-round home there is
no place in America more healthy and at
tractiye than Birmingham. And as a place
for young men it affords better opportun-
tiles than any other city in all the south,
or the north either. The more l see of it,
and the more l know of 1t, the better l
like it.
Everybody who comes here wants to re-
main. Even the soldiers of the Alabama
National Guard who encamped here last
week and the previous week were so we'll
pleased with their surroundings at East
Lake that almost without exception they
expressed themselves as in favor of making
this permanent place for the annual en-
campment of the State troops. Colonel
Wiley, in his enthusiasm, said the camp
was the greatest in the world, and Adju-
tant-General Brandon said the camp
grounds and surrounding could not be i'm
proved upon.
Birmingham really has a move on It, The
vitrified brick pavement of Twentieth street
is more than half finished, and it Is well
worth the long delay we have had In get