The age-herald., 1901-07-16
A Staff Officer.

A former Eufalian said last night: Colonel Edward B. Young of Governor Jelks' staff is like the Governor himself Eufaulian. He is perhaps less known to the Alabama public than any man of State importance within the State, for there is not In Alabama so manly a man who is at the same time so modest, un- pretentious, unassuming as Colonel Young. He is a man of courage in the truest and widest sense-he Is both morally and physically courageous.
 'Colonel Young Is physically a little man grown round and good looking, a rare type, and all the better for being rare. In truth, he has assumed mild al- dermanic proportions. Imagine Colonel Robert Patton McDavid fifteen years older and weighing forty pounds more and you have Colonel Young; for Colonel Young is quite as comedy as Colonel Mo- David, which is saying a great deal in deed for Colonel Young's comelinessl Colonel Young has been, a banker ever since he was boy, and a remarka- bly successful banker at that. When the Eufaula National Bank of Eufaula
 
 in the 70s, Colonel Young was made cash fer; his distinguished brother-in-law, the Hon. S. Hubert Dent, now a delegate in the Alabama Constitutional Conven- tion, and always one of the best men in the world, having been chosen president
 From the beginning the EufauIa Ma tional Bank of Eufaula was remarkably successful, and it continues to be so :; a condition fortunate for the stockholders and for Eufaula, and which is largely due to the foresight, wisdom and skill of Colonel Young.
 ''The Youngs are amongst the best of all the real Southerners; they have been always so; and the Dents, with whom the Youngs have happily intermarried, have been social and political leaders on Eastern Shore of Maryland for two cen- turies, and longer.
 ''The Alabama branch of this family, of which Hon. s. Hubert Dent is the head, came to Alabama five and thirty years ago, and ever since then they have been amongst the foremost of Alabamas s citizens. A younger member of the family, Hon. George H. Dent, is mayor of Eufaula, and a still younger, MT. Warren F. Dent, is a druggist well known in Birmingham and throughout the State. A brother-in-law of the Dents Is Dr. Hamilton M. Weedon, retired druggist, noted citizen of Eufaula.
 Colonel Young and General Chester AL Ian Arthur, sometime President of the United States, together with His Royal and Imperial Majesty King Edward VII as Prince of Wales, are perhaps the only men on record for whom really good cigars have been named;the average cigar with mans name being mean enough to make a smoker strike his grandmother Many years ago Weedon & Dent. the Eu- faula druggists and capitalists, whose names are familiar as owners of large real estate properties in Birmingham brought out the 'E. B. Young Cigar, price ten cents, and 1t was equally as good as the General Arthur which Is saying much praise.
 Then, there was organized the 'E. B. Young Fire Company of Eufaula, which had the handsomest fire engine in the State and which could put out a fire be- fore it began to burn, as Colonel Youngs friend, the great-hearted, royal-souled Pat O'Byrne. ever beloved citizen of Eu- faula, might say. Ft
 Colonel Young is'one of the best and worthiest of all of Alabama's best citi- zens. Yet Eufaula has many of the best citizens. There Is the first citizen of the Alabama of today Governor Jelks him self. for examplev'
 Great Cathedral for Richmond.
 ''Richmond is to have a new cathedral, which will probably surpass in size and architectural beauty any ecclesiastical edifice in the south," said a former resi- dent of the Virginia Capital.
 Many years ago. while the Most Rev erend J. J. Keane. Archbishop of Du- buque, was Bishop of Richmond, he start ed fund for the erection of grand ca thedral. but he got only as far as the purchase of suitable site when he was transferred to the rectorship of the Cath olic University at Washington. Dr. Keane's successor in Richmond, Bishop A. Van de vyver. kept the cathedral scheme in abeyance, his policy having been to use the revenues at his disposal for assisting the poor parishes in the dio- cese. But now comes Thomas J. Ryan, the prominent railroad man and capital