The age-herald., 1901-12-01
NED BRACE. TALKS ABOUT SO1E MEN NF1Oos
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@ HE Navy Department at WashI VI ington has paid sssta AdmirRl
 II Sampson something more than
 s250OO of prize money resulting from the destruction of the Spanish fleet at Santiago. Admiral Sehley has received only s216 sohley really did the work He was the man who earned the prize moneN yet Sampson, who was absent when the fight occurred but who was ranking offir eer of the American fleet, receives tho lions share of the prize money distfibuk ed by the Navy Department.
 This construction of the law guiding the distributions of prize money pyathe Navy Department officials will undoubt] edIy be condemned by the American peo; pie. Schley did the fighting and agets practically nothing for it. Sampson di6 nothing and is the recipient of great financial reward for his absence when ~ths actual battle occurred. q's F ~ OLONEL NAT BAXTER. since IT 1887 President of the Tennessee, N A Coal Iron and Railroad Com | O pany, yesterday closed his desk and retired from actual connection with, that great company. MT. Baxter ic has, gone, to Nashville. He has become, the, President of the Cumberland, q Coal .aHd, Coke Company. Birmingham loses sene ssff l her best citizens in the retirement of 1 Colonel Baxter. He has done more for the development of this town than any man in it. Under his management the l Tennessee Company grew from small concern to one owning and operating twenty great iron furnaces and one of the greatest steel plants in America. MT. Baxter was the father of the steel plant. and under his personal supervision the first basic, iron made in the South was run from the Alice furnace. He shipped this iron to Pittsburg where it was con verted into steel. The test showed that the steel from this iron was of the best | quality. Then MT. Baxter began inc work of raising funds sufficient for the construction of the Ensley steel plant.
 He struggled for years. He finally .suc- l ceeded. q 1 ItWas through his efforts largely that the Boston capitalists became interested | in the Birmingham street car line and | furnished the money to develop a great system here. MT. Baxter has been inter-, ested and active in almost every work i, of development in Birmingham. within the past ten years. He is a strong man and an able citizen and every business man in Birmingham regrets his removal to another. state. r
 - AM glad to learn that the EnsIev steel plant of the Tennessee Com O pany IS now operating profitably fhe mistakes in the construction have been remedies and the plant is now turning out. from 700 to 800 tons. of eel day. But for the insufficient quantity of gas, due to the limited capacity of the retorts, the plant would be turning out more than 1000 tons day It is be- lieved that in a few months the capacity will be increased to from 12, 900 to 15,0OO 1 tons daily. .t
 Though tip to the first of September the plant mad not made money, since that
 time each month has shown a handsome profit. l understand the earnings for Mo- l vember were sufficient to more than l make up the losses sustained during sew. eral months last spring. eThe n1anage-H I ment of the company iastieIighted with the results being obtained at present from the plant. Indeed, the price of steel bil- lets is so high now and the company is
 earning such profits that no extra, effort Is being made to hurry the rail mill ito completion. The profits in steel billetk
 at present are as great or greater than
 would be the rrofits inA rails after con l verting the billets into rails.
 ehe outlook for the steel plant is in- | deed bright.