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The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-09
THE FEMALE TAXPAYERS
 OF ALABAMA MAY VOTE

proposition to classify cities, and ad- dressed the Convention. He sharply criticised the government of munich palities and declared that some Alder men were insolvent in fortune and bankrupt in character.
 MT. deGraffenreid of Hale sent up an amendment that the law prohibit ing the sale of liquor in certain cities shall remain unchanged.
 Considerable discussion was preci- piiated. It was participated in by Messrs. Weakley of Lauderdale, O'Neal of Lauderdale Ashcraft of Lauderdale and Judge Coleman.
 On motion of MT. Ashcraft, the mil nority report and the deGraffenreid amendment were tabled.
 On motion of MT. Sanford of Pike, who said the proposition was purely legislative, the section was tabled by a vote of 65 to "A.
 Section II of the Article was then read. It provides that no town or city , shall levy a higher rate of taxation than one-half of one per cent, provided | it shall not apply to Mobile, Birming- ham, Huntsville and several other l cieiS.
 Mir. Browne of Talladega argued against the section and his motion to | table it was defeated, fl to 42. | MT. Beddow of Jefferson sent up an amendment correcting the phraseology of the section, and MT. Chapman of Sumter began to speak, but yielded to Mir. deGraffenreid, who offered an or | dinance providing for the repeal of Section 2S of the Article on Judiciary, relating to Solicitors. | The Convention then, at 1 o'clock, | took recess until 3:30 o'clock.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-09
FIGHT WITH INSURGENTS.
Force Under Capain Brown Meets
 Rebels Under Malvar.

the 1st United States Cavalry, with troops l. and M of that regiment, and d company of the 21st infantry. had a five hours fight in Batangas province yesterday with an insurgent force commanded by Malvar. Two calvary men were killed. The insurgents es- capped.
 The insurgents were in considerable force and allowed the advance guard to pass. Before attacking, Captain Brown ordered the cavalry to dismount. The troops drove the enemy from seV- eral positions and carried a number of quarters. The report says the enc my is believed to have lost several men but no dead were found.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-09
A Census Bulletin.

Washington, Aug. S.-The Census Bureau today issued a bulletin on the school. militia and voting ages of peo- pie in Kentucky. Louisiana and Mary land. It shows that in Maryland per cent of the males of militia age are foreign born. Tn Louisiana the per centage is only per cent. and Ken lucky 2 per cent. The number of per sons of school age, five to twenty years. is as follows:
 Kentucky, 79S,027. of whom alGlos
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-09
Montgomery Again Beaten.

Columbus, Ga. Aug. S.-tSpeciaIJ-Co lumbus took the second straight game from the Montgomery ball team today in an exciting game by score of to 1. The visitors put up another bad fielding in hard luck with the umpiring. The Last game tomorrow will be hard battle.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-09
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIES

CHATTANOOGA. Aug. s-The Chamber of Commerce of Chattanooga tonight adopted a resolution formally requesting the Rate Committee of the Southeastern Freight Commissio nto extend full recog- milton to Chattanooga as river point and to name Chattanooga rates on freight from Eastern cities on as ia vorable basis as cities situated on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-09

tion papers of the kenesaw Memorial As sociation have been filed in this city. The incorporators are Colonel $. A. Harper Captain J. II. Hill and Captain J. J. DaWdy.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-09

NORFOLK, Va, Aug. s.-The steamer Norfolk of the Norfolk and Atlantic Terminal Company, used as d ferry boat between Norfolk on the roads and old Point Comfort. was burned to the wa ter's edge this morning. Her crew Of twelve men were asleep on her when the fire broke out and had a narrow escape.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-09

LAREDO Tex, Aug. News reached this city today of the death yesterday ol Churles Bull Towle. United States Consul Agent at Saltillo, Mexico. The remains will be shipped to Boston, where the in terment will take place.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-09

ram o. Bolles. a prominent physician of Springfield, died today. He served with the Federal Army through the Civil War as surgeon at the military hospital at Savannah Ga
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-09

BRISBANE. Queensland. Aug. S.-The German punitive expedition sent to avenge the massacre of pr. Mencken and other members of the first German South Sea expedition on the Cannibal Island of St Matthias landed from the German cruiser Cormoran near the scene of the massacre killed eighty natives and cap tured seventeen.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-09

CHICAGO. Aug. S.-Oecar l.. Triggs, the University of Chicago professor who compares Rockefeller with Shakespeare and characterizes church hymns as dog gerel, told his class in English literature today that the poetry of Longfellow is trivial and unworthy of consideration. Professor Triggs made similar expressions with reference Co the poetry of Oliver Wendell Holmes. .-.s .+. ...%
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-09

SALT LAKE, Utah. Aug. S.-Memhers of the Kentucky Press Association, talk ing their outing in Salt Lake City, spent the day in trolley rides and general sight seeing The party will start home to- morrow.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-09

COEBITRN. Va, Aug. S.-H. D. Hud- son. Chief of Police for the Virginia Iron, Coal and Coke Company, at Toms Creek. was shot and instantly killed this evening by Magan Carty, 16-year-old boy whose father che policeman was trying to ar rest.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-09

PORTSMOUTH x. H. Aug S-A dis astrous Windstorm passed over here this afternoon, causing the death of two per sons on Seaver's Island and inJurlng half a dozen others.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-09

WASHINGTON. Aug. B. Forecast for Alabama: Gen. orally fair Friday and Satur- day, except s h 0 W e r 8 in southern portion; light south westerly winds.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-09

KNOXVILLE, Aug. S.-A Bristol. Tenn, special to The Journal and Tribune re- ports double drowning in the Holston River. twelve miles from Bristol. Jesse Harless and John B. Rust, both aged about IS. were canoeing in a creek. It had been swollen by hard rains and the boys were swept out into the river and drowned.
The age-herald., 1901-07-28

the streets were ungraveled, unpaved and terrible soggy.
 One lone mule, veritable animal, without pride of ancestry or hope of posterity'' was slimly harnessed and att tached to this car and the volunteer driv CT was no less a man than W. H. Morris, the enthusiastic secretary and treasurer of the company, who mounted the board with an air of pardonable pride and bade the brute Ego on.'
 Major Thomas Peters, (peace to his ashes, for a nobler man never lived) was elected by the management of the company to be the first passenger on a Birmingham street car and at a given moment he mounted the car and placed a nickle in the box. The next passenger was Vim. Hood, then came Ben. Terry, then little boy, bright and prom ising, now a man who is soon to become great scholar and a promising physi- clan. Ben's father had given him one dollar, and he sat still in that car and with it made twenty trips, then going to his father drew another dollar and re- mdlHeu OH the Car uHLll LHdL WdS CA hausted
 The first days receipts of the Birming- hm Street Railway for passenger fares amounted to $10, but this amount fell off asl the lines were extended and the ex- penses increased.
 These incidents are presented merely to show with what eagerness proud Bir- mingham welcomed her .new-borne enter prise, and how much the people encour- aged the promoters.
 Within a short time after the date of the installation of the first car the line was extended from First avenue on Nineteenth street to Second avenue, thence along Second avenue to Twenty third street and latter eastward along First avenue to Ayondale, via Sloss furnace; the eastern terminus being Spring street. Avondale.
 Next the Birmingham Street Railway company built the line from Avenue H south to Sixth avenue north.
 And this was the beginning of Bir- mlnghanl's present street railway sys- tenn. The careful observer will not be kles for passage that the early promot- CTS of this enterprise were seeking; not the direct results as counted by the cash boxes on the cars, but the development of Jones valley as a place for homes and for manufactories, by consolidating
The age-herald., 1901-07-28
BY FRANK V. EVANS.

hands and seals, this 18th day of May. 1882. Signed.
 Mayor and Aldermen of Birmingham, Thomas Jeffers, Mayor. B. F. Roden. W. H. Morris and Associ- ates.
 Attest, W. A. Jones.
 The reader will observe the extraordin- arily liberal terms granted by the city to this corporation. The "exclusive right to construct a street railway could not of course stand the test of court inves- tigation. The agreement or promise by the company to conform to all" the just and reasonable" regulations of the city and the agreement on the part of the city to prohibit private vehicles from getting in the way of cars of the pros pective street railway simply meant anything to get the street railroad" for ambitious Birmingham. Concession was unbounded. The people wanted it; and the man who would then dare put | an impediment or a stumbling block in | the way of such an enterprise would 1 have been ostracised socially and damn 
 Therefore with such overfiowing pub lie sympathy and armed with such boundless rights and franchises, Messrs. B. F. Roden, w. H. Morris, R. H. Pear son, J. c. Kyle and others broke ground on First avenue at the old Pratt depot, Thirteenth street. and began construc- ton of tracks eastward, coming first as far as Nineteenth street
 That was an eventful day in Birming- ham, when the first street car was placed here upon the tracks and began operations. Many funny incidents oc- cured which should not be lost to fu- ture generations who are enjoying and will still more enjoy the product of this early effort toward development which means wealth and happiness to thous- l ands.
 B. F. Roden was president of this com pany; W. H. Morris, secretary and treas urer, and J. c. Kyle, superintendent ; The first cars were built right here in Birmingham a fact worthy of special note, by MT. Warner, whose cabinet shop stood at the corner of Twentieth street and Fourth avenue, on which spot now stands Elks Hall. A yoke of well-broke oxen were hitched to the first car and 1t was pulled from the construction shop through boggy, muddy Twentieth street to the car track at Second avenue. Bir-i mtngham had issued no bonds then and
The age-herald., 1901-07-28
Birminghams History is Unwritten Unless the Story
 of Development of Street Railways is Told.


 large area through cheap facilities for transit. The Highland Avenue and Belt R. R.
 On the Fifth day of April, 1885, the Ely ton Land Company obtained rights and franchises from the city to construct and operate street car line upon and along First avenue from Nineteenth to Twenty-second streets and on Twenty second street from First avenue to Avenue E and on Avenue D from Eff teenth to Twenty-seventh streets, along Fifteenth street from Avenue D south ward to the corporate limits, and on Avenue A from Twentieth to Twenty second streets. A most valuable consid- eration for this franchise was that the Elyton Land Company built the neat and substantial bridge across the rail- roads in the center of Twenty-second street. This condition was that the said company should build this bridge for use of its own tracks and for wagons and pedestrians. And the company dedi- cated the right of way over said bridge and over the ground between First ave- -
 bridge to the public and bound itself to keep said bridge in good repair so long as said company shall run the same. The dedication to public use Is perpetual,
 Dr H. M Caldwell was president and this was the beginning of the Highland Avenue and Belt R. R., that magnificent line which encircles the foot of Red mountain, our Alabama Piedmont, and brings these hills in such close proximity to the business center of the city. With out street railway facilities the present magnificent residence district known as South Highlands would not have been pos sible. and we could have no Lakeview.
 Birminuham and Pratt Mines By. Co.
 Tn March 1886, James A. VanHoose, H. F. DeBardeleben, William A. Walker, Jr, Joseph R. smith, Sr., T. c. Thompson and A. Marre were granted franchise and right of way through the city for the Birmingham and Pratt Mines Street Rail- way. This grant covered an. immense territory, It's objective point being Pratt Mines. now Pratt City. Parts of several streets were covered soon after the or RdnlZdL1OH, dilQ llllS DCOdiAlS lAAC toAi ham Union Railway
 The East Lake Line.
 On the 26th day of July, 1SS6 James A. vanHoose Robert Jemison and Rufus H. Hagood incorporated the East Lake Land Company, and among other privileges said company was granted the right to build and operate a street railway. With in few months after organization the company began the work of constructing a line from East Lake westward through Woodlawn and Avondale to Birmingham On July 21st. 1887. contract was made by which this line became part of the Bir- mingham Union Railway Company, and the road was deeded by the East Lake Land Company on September 30, 1890, to the Birmingham Railway and Electric Company.
 Birmingham 6 WoodIawn St. R. R. Go. Received it's rights and franchises from the city of Birmingham to construct a single track street car line in said city
The age-herald., 1901-07-28
THE GREAT RAIL WAY SYSTEMS OF BIRMINGHAM
 AND WONDERFUL PROGRESS OF REGENT YEARS

upon and along First avenue from the Eastward along First avenue to the East ern boundary (then Twenty-seventh street, on the 4th day of March, 1887. A. B. Johnston was President of the compa- ny. The road was soon merged into the Union Street Railway. and later became part of the East Lake line.
 Birmingham 6 Milner Spring St. R. R.
 March 2, 1887, the Birmingham and Mill ner Spring Street Railroad Company was granted franchise and the right of way by the Mayor and Aldermen of Birming- ham to construct a street car line with double track in the city of Birmingham, upon and along Third avenue from Thir- teenth street Eastward to Twentyfourth street, thence Northward along Twenty fourth street to the city boundary. B. F. Moore was President of this company. It was sometimes known as the Forest City line, and MT. E. Eastman was one of It's moving spirits. The company began the construction of its line, but sold out to the Union Street Railroad Company be-
 
 The East Birmingham Line.
 January 25. 1SS7 the East Birmingham Land Company obtained from the city a franchise and right of way for the con- struction of double track street car line upon and along Nineteenth street, from Morris avenue to Eighth avenue, thence Eastward along Eighth avenue to the city boundary. Goldsmith B. West was first President of this company. MT. George c. Kelley was among its principal promoters, and the building of the line developed vast exteIst of territory.
 Birmingham & New Pittsbura Railway
 On the 18th day of April, 1889, contract was entered into by the Birmingham and New Pittsburg Railway Company and the city of Birmingham by which said company was granted right to build double tracks on Fourth avenue, com mencing at the intersection of Twenty second street. thence westwardly to Seventeenth street, thence northwardly to Seventh avenue, thence -eastwardly to Fourteenth street, thence northwardly to Eighth avenue. thence westwardly and northwardly to the city limits. This be- came the Ensley Railway. wm. A. Walker was It's President, and with him were associated Messrs. T. T. Hillman, R. H. Hagood, J. B. McClary, D. Ensley, T. D. Radcliffe and others. Not long thereafter the title was changed to the Birmingham and Ensley Railway Com pany, and in August, 1884, to Ensley Rail- way, with w. A. Walker, Jr., President; T. T. Hillman, Vice-President, and J. B. McClary Secretary, Treasurer and Super intendent.
 The Birmingham Union Railway. Successor to the Birmingham Street Rail- road Company, became purchasers of the East Lake Land Company's street rail- road on June IA, 1887. By contract this company consolidated with the Bessemer and Birmingham Railroad Company, the Ensley Railroad Company, and thus by such consolidation and amalg gAmation, -fhe four corporations so consolidated formed corporation under the name and style of Birmingham Railway and Electric Company.
 North Birmingham Street Railroad.
 On the 16th day of February, 1887, the Nouth Birmingham Street Railroad Com pany obtained from the Mayor and Alder men of Birmingham rights and franchises
The age-herald., 1901-07-28

The Present Strength of the Birninghan Railway Light and Power Company is Not Only Due to the Present Excellent Management, But to
 the Pioneers Who Blazed the Way in
 the Early Eighties---How It Began.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-12-27
BET ON SURE THING.
Traveller Knew ~ Accident Occurred
Wager Would he on.

w ohs
Speaking OF railroad accidents"
said veteran commercial traveller at
the Cosmopolitan yesterday to a New
Orleans Times Democrat reporter, IL
am reminded of a curious experience
and incidentally of the most incor-
rigible gambler ever met In my life.
was going west over the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe some years ago,
and one of my fellow passengers in
the Pullman was a race horse man
from Louisville. He was an interest
ing fellow and a good story teller, but
his conversation was marred by his
habit of leading everything up to a
proposition to make a wager Every
statement he made was clinched by an
offer to back 1t with money. and final
ly the thing became rather tiresome,
and | made some excuse for avoiding
his society. Our sections in the sleep
er happened to he directly opposite,
and that night we were sitting on the
edge of our respective lower berths
preparing to retire when all OF sud
den the whole car was shaken b. a
series of swift and heavy conclusions.
We both realized instantly what had
happened The train had jumped the
track and was at that moment bump
ing its way over the ties preliminary
to heaven only knew what kind of a
plunge. We were at that time in a
part of Kansas that is full OF ravines
and gullies and short bridges are OF
frequent occurrence. That disquieting
fact flashed into our minds simultane-
ously. Bet y a hundred we're on a
trestle!' yelled the Louisville man
above the pounding of the wheels
Take W | yelled back, and with that
the coach gave a sickening lurch and
rolled completely over. When | ex-
tricated my self from a broken win
dow found we had stopped on level
ground, and while everybody was more
or less cut and bruised no one was
killed. | encountered my Kentucky
friend wandering about the wreck and
he promptly handed me 500 bill.
What made you take me up so quick p
he asked. Because II we had been on
trestle we would all have been kill
ed | replied, and you couldn't have
collected the bet. | stood to win. but
not to lose That's So he said, re-
gretfully Next time this happens I'll
take the other end"
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-12-27
WHAT BECOMES oF cANs7
Made Into Solder. Can-Iron and window
sash Weights.

sash weights.
What becomes of all the old tin
cans? is question asked about as
often as what becomes of all the pins.
The end of the millions of pins has
never been answered, but the first
question can be, as far as New York
is concerned. Briefly, 300,0 discard
ed tin cans. exclusive OF wash boilers.
basins. cups and other divers sorts of
tinware. are collected in this city each
week, and as rapidly as gathered are
transformed into solder, can-iron and
window-sash weights. Everything
about the can is utilized, even to the
paper. This. It is vouched for, pro-
vides light and delectable dessert for
omnivorous billy goats. At the works
there is a vertable mountain OF tin
cans, where the recipient OF delicate
French peas fraternizes with the vessel
which contained marrowfats. and
where the can once containing aristo-
cratic branded peaches lies in helpless
proximity to one once the home of
plebeian beans. They are brought there
by thousands, not only by dozen or
SO hucksters, but by teams constantly
in use. They are gathered from pri-
vate places, ash barrels and dumps all
over the city. Fifty tons a week are
brought in, and as the average is three
cans to the pound, one may easily see
that there are tremendous numbers of
them. The factory pays the hucksters
50 ton, though they get them free.
The first work of the day is taking
these cans to an auxiliary stack of the
furnace by means of conveyer con-
them up and bear them into the recep-
tacle. They are exposed to a heat of
from 400 to 500 degrees. At this tenn
perature the solder is melted of, and
by rotary screen sifted into a sepa-
rate channel, to be afterward purified.
The cans are left to go down another
way Then the cans are sorted. Those
with sides intact are picked out for
what is called "can iron" About one
fifth of cans entire weight can be
used for this purpose, while solder is
| yielded to the extent of forty pounds
to the ton. An employe went into the
building and pointed out something
| which looked like clothes wringer
Through this" he said. "the still use
| full sides of the cans are passed, SO
that they may be Strengthened out
They are put into bundles of fifty
| podnds each and sold to manufacturers
| of trunks and other articles where
their use is required. They average
$50 or less plates to the bundle, ac-
cording to whether they are pint
quart or gallon size. Here is where the
refuse tin. amounting to about forty
out of the fifty tons weight of cans
each week. is melted after 1t is sorted
from the solder and the can IRON
| New York Exchange.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-12-27
NAMES FROM CELEBRITIES.
Manner In which the Memory of Noted
Persons Is Kept Alive.

Persons Is Kept Alive.
AS soon as a man or woman be-
comes famous, something or other
generally an article of dress-is sure
to be named after him or her. Usu-
ally the new word sinks into oblivion
with the celebrity who inspired it. but
not always. Wellington boots con-
tinue to be worn, although some peo-
pie prefer to call them bluchers, after
the iron dukes great rival and friend.
Gladstone bags. which superseded the
old carpet variety In the SOS. are as
popular as ever. The brougham, was
called after Lord Brougham, one time
chancellor OF England, who first dis
carded for It the old. numbering hack
ney coach. whilst the victoria, OF
course, received its title out of COM
pliment to England's queen. None OF
your blarney." on the other hand. can
be clearly traced to one Cormack Ma
earthly. who was lord OF Blarney cas-
tie In 1902. The fortress was besieged
by Gen. Carew, with an overwhelming
force, but the willy and soft-spoken
Irishman literally talked him into
raising the siege. The boycott is an
even more striking example OF an
Irish celebrity-derived phrase. AL
though now recognized English
word and incorporated as such in ali
the best dictionaries. II only came into
being in 1881, In which year Capt.
Boycott, an unpopular Irish landlord,
was ostracised by order of the Land
league. Neither is 1t always necessary
for an individual to be exactly famous
In order to originate a word or a
phrase. 1t is sufficient to get ones
self to be talked about to be notori-
Gus. Mrs. Amelia Bloomer was of no
particular consequence even in her
own locality, while the black maria.
which dali conveys prisoners from the
metropolitan police courts to the jails,
and vice versa. derives It's quaint nick
name from certain Maria Lee, a bur-
ly negress, who kept a sailors board
ing-house in Boston. She was a wom-
an of such great size and strength
that the unruly stood in dread of her,
and when the constables required help
IL was a common thing to send for
black Maria, who soon collared the
refractory and led them TO the lookup.