The age-herald., 1900-01-19
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

''General Sir Charles Warren. the distin- guished English warrior now attracting much attention in South Africa, is one of the most enthusiastic and best known Ma sons of London" said a travelled Mason at the Morris General Sir Charles was enc of the founders and the first worship full master of the great Quatuor Coronati Lodge No. 2O76 London. He and a score of other accomplished Masons saw the need of literary body that should be recognized as an authority on every thing relating to the history and science of Masonry, and proceeded to establish the Quatuor Coro- natl. It was a brilliant success from the start. While its active membership is limited to forty, its correspondence circle is unlimited and numbers today over two thousand, scattered throughout the world. The lodge is only about fifteen years old. Among it's officers is Sir Walter Besant, the novelest Of all his Masonic connec- tions General Sir Charles Warren is said to prize his pastmastership in the Quatuor Coronati most highly
 Merton Rosenbaum and L. z Morris, of
 
 mingham, will return to Virginia this morning. These gentlemen are among the wealthiest in Richmond, and are largely interested in the Virginia and Alabama Coal company, whose mines at Pat ton are managed by Vice-President W. D. Leake MT. Morris comes to Birmingham frequently, and he says that on the occasion of each visit he notices marked improvement. In speaking of Rich mond's growth and general prosperity MT. Morris says that it has made greater strides in the past twelve months than ever before. The government census, he says, will give Richmond not less than 100000. Richmond and Manchester combined will have 1l50OO. Richmond is perhaps the wealthiest city of it's size in the south.
 Said a well-known politician just back from Washington:
 "The speech of Senator Beveridge, of h. diana was remarkable feat of memory. It contained about 5000 words, but MT. Beveridge repeated it entirely without notes, and so thoroughly had he memorized it that, although he spoke for over an hour and a half, he rarely departed from the text of the printed copy previously supplied to the press. At no time, however, did the effort seem to be other than eNtemporane- ous.
 Tt was curious coincidence that Sena- tor Beveridge spoke from the desk once cc- cupled by Roscoe Conkling, for Conkling was famous for his wonderful memory. He once delivered a speech in the senate of two hours duration, and the stenographers marvele1 at the accuracy with which he reproduced the sentences in the advance copy furnished them. He delivered the speech literally as he had prepared 1t, with the exception of the transposttlon of two paragraphs, and this change was purposely made"
 One of the young housekeepers who has entered on the treacherous pathway which leads to three meals a day, and all of the anguish required in supplying several hun gry people with appeIzirg menus bought a pair of mice fat country chickens from her grocer and had them put in the coop for future reference. She used one. and when she went for the second, behold! it lay stiff and stark in death.
 The next day when the grocer, an old Irishman, came for her order, she said:
 MT O'Brien, one of those chickens you sold me died
 He astoniShed her by carelessly replying:
 Well, be gorra, an Ctm glad it didn't doie on my hands"
 "If Atlanta had one-fourth of the ad- vantages and resources that Birmingham has she would soon have a population of half million, or claim to have it," said a former citizen of the Georgia capital, now resident here. Atlanta is in many re- spects a great city. She certainly leads in public spirit, and Gher growth has been rapid. But in twenty years from now Atlanta will be a small town compared with Birmingham"
 ''The Catholic church has made steady progress in Jefferson county said a zeal- ous member of that communion. "When Father O'Reilly came here twelve years ago there were only three priests in the county, and they were in Birmingham, Fla ther Meurer being the senior of them. Today there are seven priests in Jefferson and an eighth will be added very soon. The Catholic population of the county is now sonnet thing like 10000"