The age-herald., 1901-06-26

Aorln tnere VIII De dally SnfpmenrS or several hundred tons of coali until the mine is fully opened, when the shipments will rise to a thousand or fifteen hundred tons a day.
 So said Mir. Henry AfHner yesterday. R1r. Milner is the general mafiager of the Empire Company, in which the estate of his father the late Hon: John T. Miineri is the largest stoekholdefj that estatei It is commonly said, being interested to the extent of $700i00o The MilheF estate owns entirely the Newcastle mines and eske ovens, and that accounts for the Empire coal being shipped thither for eelklng.
 MT. Milner said yesterday that the quality of the Empire coal was most ex- eellent; and that is fact of common knowledge to coal men. There is now open in the Empire mines 9e00 feet of entry, and In doing this work about 5000 tons of coal has been accumulated and stored by the railroad line. This will be shipped away as soon as practicable. The rooms In the mines are as yet made quate but they will be completed im- mediately, though 1t will be many weeks before the mines can be brought up to | lttSif lutl dH4l3 capdcitJ OI 0ulpul+ DO far, only about eighty houses for miners, out of a proposed total of perhaps four hundred, have been completed, but the work of building houses will be hurried.
 The opening of the Empire mines means the development of an entirely new ter ritery between the main lines of the Kan sas City and the Southern roads. the mines being nine miles from the one road and five miles from the other. A Great Charity for Montgomery.
 The Montgomery residence of the late Bishop eoadjutor Jackson of the Episco- pal diocese of Alabama has been sold to the Sisters of Charity as a site for their proposed splendid hospital in that city, the price paid by the Sisters being s23,ooO. The sale was by auction to the highest bidder, under decree of the probate court of Montgomery county, for the benefit of two children of the late Bishop Jackson, who are resident In Richmond, Va.
 The house was for some years the resi- dence of Ignatius Pollalk, the well-known dry goods merchant of Montgomery. The grounds extend to five acres, superbly wooded, and are bounded on three sides by beautiful residential streets. The situ- ation is high and altogether charming, and Is about half mile from the business center of the city-an ideal location for a hospital
 It will be remembered that the people of Montgomery, subscribed $10OO0 to provide the Sisters of Charity with site for the hospital; but by adding $13,0OO on their own account the Sisters have secured property that Is really worth much more than the sum total paid, and which will within few years be worth three times that amount, for Montgomery Is one of the most prosperous and promising of all Southern cities. It is fortunate for so large and so admirable a city that 1t will soon have one of the most perfectly equipped hospitals in the world.
 MT. Richard K. Edmonds Here.
 MT. Richard H. Edmonds of the Balti- more Manufacturers' Record Is in Bir- mingham.
 Mir. Edmonds' phenomenal success with his famous publication is one of the won ders of trade-Journalism in America, for the Manufacturers Record Is the most quoted journal of that class in this coun- try and is one of the most prosperous.
 The South has had no friend more tire less or effective than MT. Edmonds, and there is none who has proclaimed the natural wealth of the Southern States to greater advantage to southerners.
 MT. Edmonds pointed out last night that the bank ciearings of Southern cities were approximately greater in per cent age of increase than the clearings of any other section of the Union and this, too, in a time of extraordinary general increases. He also referred to the won- derful increase in traffic receipts of the Southern railroads in general As to cotton manufacturing, he said that twenty years ago the South had 660,000 spindles and the rest of the country 1O.- 00o,0OO. Now the South has 6,0OO,OO0 spin dles and the rest of the country 12,O00 900. gn other words, the South now produces one-third of the entire cotton manufac- lures of the United States.
 Superintendent of the Steel Plant.
 Mr. John W. Mcconnell of Pennsyl- vania, successor to MT. w. R. Palmer as superintendent of the great steel plant at Ensley has arrived in Birmingham, &C., companied by MT. R. w. Dawson also of Pennsylvania, who will be his first assist ant. It is understood that Superintendent MsConnell will take immediate charge of the steel plant.
 About Persons. a
 New Workers at the Morris are: H. D. Crosswell, A. Spitz, D. B. Snyder, w. H. Gilnland, w. L. Prince, J. P. o'Donnell, George B. Scott, w. P. Schawbacher and R. E. Allison.
 William H. Pickens formerly a resi- dent of Birmingham, and popular with everybody as Billy" Pickens, Is at the Morris. MT. Pickens is now travelling for a Chicago jewelry house.
 M. c. Wilson of Florence is at the Nor | ris.
 | Charles P. Jackson and Major R. Drey- fus of Montgomery are at the Morris.
 Mir. Goodman and Edwin s. Gardiner of New Orleans are at the Morris.