The age-herald., 1900-01-26
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

'.The atmosphere is both hot and cold fin every quarter of an hou," said fair woman yesterday afternoon; and she told the tale of a tiresome day perfectly. In the early dawn the sky was clear, ana the air almost sprdnglike in its mildness. At ten o'clock rain was falling Before two o'clock the clouds mad cleared away, and there was brilliant sunshine. Mean time there had been cold and heat alter nately, Atfuly, in a most extraordinary manner, the mercury in the thermometer rising and failing with remarkable varia- tions. Towards the middle of the after noon the temperature began steadily to fall and a cold wind came up from the norh northwest, strong enough to cause great discomfort. The wind prevailed but an hour but the mercury fell steadily, al- though there was splendid sunshine from blaek-blue sky, and sunset unsurpass- able in clear beauty With the fall Of the night the cold increased, and-the cold is still increas.ng
 The handsome and gifted mayor of B.r- mingham the Hon. Walter Melville Dren- men, was quite serene yesterday, the sec ond day after his vaccination. He didn seem to believe the virus would take Possibly not Possibly the young mayor of Birmingham is proof against the CT fects of vaccine virus; but possibly he is not. There's the rub for the mayor. lie may escape the full force Of that fright ful feeling that follows vaccination, and comes upon the third nourth day after the surgeons needle-pricking and contin- uels indefinitely. The mayor of Birmlng- ham may be immune. But maybe he is not. We shall see. It was comforting to see the mayor so serenely unconscious oIf : tile possible punishment of havlng to go around with ain arm as big as his leg, the cod shfvers snivering Gh1n, and at least three hard chills day nacking his bones! It is quite possible that the popular mayor of Birmir2c2ern doesn't know precisely or accurately just where he is "at' with his newly vaccinated arm. Possibly he doesn't kno,w it is loaded with a whole magazine Of misery!
 Girls and women are no longer vacci- mated on their arms That old custom of scarring their arms was barbourously bad and blunderingly beastly. Girls and wo- men are now accnated-well they and
  day, it may be observed. it is amazing that civilized persons neglect the saving grace of vaccination against smallpox, the most loathsome form of all levers! Yet many persons do neglect so necessary a' precaution, and it remains for the author ities of the law to carry out the law In that particular. There is a great deal or harmful nonsense being induged in just now respecting the so-called 'small-poS scare" There is no scare in fact: there is no good cause for any scare. There is smallpox prevalent to a limited extent, and confined almost exclusively to the coi- ored population. Taking counsel of possi- ble public fear, Mayor Drennen has now employed ten skilled men to vaccinate all persons in need of vaccination. The may or himself sets the good example of be- ing himself vaccinated, although he was vaccinated two years ago. Those persons requiring to be vaccinated who do not do as the mayor has done will have to submit to force-and that is right!
 Plans have been prepared for a fine hoteI in Mobile, to be erected to front on Blen- vile square, a beautiful park in the heart of the city. G. L. Norman, the widely known architect of Atlanta, who is about to open an office in Birmingham, has pre- pared the design, and it is exceedingly handsome The names of the men behind the enterprise are not publicaly known, nor has there been public mention of the fact that the hotel is to be erected. It is a matter of much moment to Mobile: it is of interest to all persons whom duty or pleas f,,I a1i pi itv on the gulf. Nothing quite definite has been given out regarding the proposed new hotel at Montgomery, though the erection of fine modern hotel there is practically assured Men like F. M. Billing, R. B. Steiner Jacob Greil and President B. L. Russell of the Mobile and Ohio railroad are said to be backing the scheme If such men desire great hotel to be built at Montgomery or anywhere else they can easily have it built.
 Lee J. Bryan, of Montgomery, United States marshal for the middle district Of Alabama, was in Birmingham yesterday. Mir Bryan was one time sheriff and later tax collector of Lowndes county, and for more than thirty years he has been prom inent in the republican party in this state. His genial manners command him to everybody. and he is personally very popu-. lar.
 Colonel Charles P. Ball, general manager of the East and West Railroad of Alabama, was in Birmingham yesterday.
 Harry c. Gunnels of Anniston, formerly superintendent of the schools of that city, and now chief clerk in the office of state Superintendent of Education Abercrombie at Montgomery, is a candidate for the leg dslature in Calhoun county, and if elected he will vote for John T. Morgan for the United States senate. Mir. Gunnels is a thoroughly competent man and is well in- formed respecting public questions and is- I.,.l.. l nn.1a