The age-herald., 1900-04-02
IN HOTEL LOBBTES
 AND ELSEWHERE

HThere is a story about Miss Rehan that is perhaps not very generally known to her admirers 'Rehan' as applied to her is of purely accidental origin. a sort of typo graphical error, so to speak. She was born to the name Crehan, in Limerick, Ireland. Her parents had other children; and when the children were quite young they were brought to America, Their mother soon ob-
 tained for Ada and the son Arthur em- ployment at the Walnut street theatre, Philadelphia, then conducted by John Drew.
 On the first night the children were given places in the cast of School for Scandal The stage manager asked Arthur for his family name. He replied 'Crehan When
 the printed programme issued the name appeared 'Rehan.' The first nights performance, which was on Monday. was entirely satisfactory; but next morning Ar
 thur went to John Drew's office and called
 his attention to the error as to his and
 his sisters family name. The old man was
 in temper, and so he ordered the boy
 to go to the devil, remarking that 'one
 name is as good as another. so you work
 and get on The boy was frightened, and
 said no more about the matter. So the pro- gramme regularly appeared with the name
 'Rehan.' The critics were generously kind In
 dealing with the young 'Rehans;' and very properly so, for the sister and brother acted
 well, and there laid the foundation of their
 fortunes. The second Tuesday was pay day, and the children went to MT. Drew's office for their money. MT Drew was in a good
 mood, and had come to regret his former abruptness to Arthur. He counselled with
 them urging them to retain the name Re
 han. since by it they had begun to win fame. Ada and Arthur took John Drews advice, and So today we have 'Rehan' in- stead of the 'Crehan' of fair Limerick. At
 the time the change in name was made Ada was fifteen years old and Arthur thir- teen. Full measure of fame has come, and it is fully merited. A younger sister of Ada and Arthur is married to Oliver Doud Byron."~
 The supreme court of Alabama will meet in the capitol at Montgomery today, and w.. remain in session two or three months. The Mobile division will be taken up this morning, and it may require the time of the court a week or two Numerous inn portant cases have been under consdera- ton since the courts last sitting, and doubtless many decisions will be handed down shortly. The present court is under stood to have made rapid progress with its work, and is well up, except as to few c,ses that have been pending a long time, comparatively speaking. It is likely that the docket will be entirely cleared during the present year; and if so, it will be clear for the first time in many years. Chief Justice Mcclellan, MT. Justice liar ason, Mr Justice Sharpe, MT. Justice Dowdel, and MT. Justice Tyson, consti- tuting the full court, are all expected to sit today
 'I glad to read in the newspapers that large numbers of people are removing to the south from the more thickly settled states of the east and central west" said George Watrous of Chicago. ''The num- bers of land-seekers going to the far west are unusually great this year. The other day fifteen hundred farmers, with their families, from Pennsylvania. Ohio, Indi- ana and other nearby states, passed through Chicago for the Dakotas to find homes in the great wheat belt. They had been in almost every instance tenant farm CTS or renters in districts where lands were h h.s'h-priced. The high prices obtained for farm products during the two or three years have enabled these farmers to save money; and now they are going westward, where land is cheap and where rfey can purchase their own homes. To convey these home-seekers out of Chicago required about seventy-hve of the largest passenger cars, and their household effects filled near ly hundred or the most capacious freight cars At the passenger station where they assembled these people attracted a great dead of attention. They had their own food supplies with them and prepared their meals themselves. Undoubtedly this is q period of great prosperity for the Ameri- can farmer, as well as all other classes of the population.'
 D ofider the new currency, or, more broadly speaking, financial and banking act of com gross there have been four Alabama an pications for national bank charters f,ad at Washington. The total applications filed number 400, mostly from the upper Missis- slppl valley. From Georgia there are six.
 Virginia and North Carolina, four each. South Carolina, two; Louisiana. threa.
 west Virginia, ten; from Texas. Tennassee and Mississippi, applications are very numerous The bank of $25, 900 capital is evidently much desired. On this line of dis cussion, Senator Kyle, who has returned from his trip south as chairman of the in- dustrial commission, said to a southernar in Washington that his prediction was broadly that within the next ten years the south will be rival of New England in manufacturing" The senator is uuoted as saying that an Anniston man informed ham that a firm in that town was shipDjnp a trainload of sewer pipe to China and Japan every week. Had it been cotto, goods Senator Kyle proceeded to say, 'I would not have been so surprised. South ern manufacturers arc shipping hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of cotton goods to the Orient, and in some cases the whole supply, of the mill is used in this trade" Quite true, senator: there are such cases at Annston, Birmingham, Cordova and Huntsville and perhaps other places here in Alabama! An, if the senator did lIt know I2irpoi In oh ami