The age-herald., 1901-08-15
The Preaent and the Pad.

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 '"The constitutional convention ol io'o assembled on September and eompleteo it's labors on October 2-was In sessioH twenty-six days-and in that time accom- plish the civic and material regeneration of Alabama, without any reference what ever to personal politics, or partisan poi- itics of any bias or class-leanins' this powerful business man of Birmingham continued.
 That convention had to deal with the vital issues and conditions growing out of what Mccorvey emphasizes as the Congressional plan of reconstruction; IL had to face state bankruptcy, and the general demorilization resulting from ne- gro rule, and 1t accomplished Its wise and great work in less than four weeks, talk ing no notice of men or cheques or in- dicidual political concerns. Never In the history of free government was there gathered more earnest, more self sacrificing, or a wiser body of men. Lit erally they worked out Alabama's plan of salvation in six and twenty days.
 But we have fallen upon troublous times in respect to our present conyen- ton. It has been in session seventy-one days, and must remain some eight or ten days longer, and in the way of discharg- ing the prime duty for which 1t was call ed, and which 1t ought to have compiled with in ten days, 1t offers to and will force upon the people a suffrage scheme which most members of the convention must know to be unwise. unjust. and in- defensible. And If we are to judge sole- ly by yesterdays debate, forgetting all these long and unhappy weeks of wrang- convention"
 Harry Glenn: Locomotive Engineer.
 Harry Glenn-otherwise MT. Thom- as Henry Glenn, locomotive engineer was busy yesterday in packing his things preparatory to removal from Birming- ham to Decatur, and he wasn't happy. He, with several other engineers, has been occupying quarters in the Smith block at Nineteenth street and Second avenue. but that resting place will know him no more
 When 1t became known, yesterday morning that Harry Glenn was going away there was gloom in the Louisville and Nashville yards, at Adams drug store and elsewhere in this town, for everybody has feeling of affection for the big six-footer who can get more out of an engine than anybody else. And he had clear case of the blues. IT frttfh ha rafnaad h ha foFfpd and as he Is a rank out-and-out teetotaler his friends were hard put to 1t; never took a drink in his life, and too old at eight and thirty to learn how.
 Harry Glenn Is an engineer by accident. He was in an office in Bowlinggreen when his health gave way and as a last fight for his life he got a. job as fireman on a locomotive. He weighed a hundred and twenty eight pounds then: two hun- dred and twenty-eight now. nearly; and he is credited with being one of the best and most valuable engine-drivers in all America. Certain 1t Is he is one of the best fellows in the world, and he knows how to be happy though not married
 The gloom over Harry Glenn's going away Is gloom right enough. as most of the hundreds of engineers in Birmingham bear sad witness For years he has been making the Birmingham-Decatur round run every day; but he has been ordered to make the MontgomeryDe run twenty days a month and to reside In Decatur Hence the trouble. It is doubt less best for the L. 6 N. but its re- gretted by great many good men in this town. Hereafter Master Glenn will mere ly pass through Birmingham just a-hyin'.