The age-herald., 1902-01-20
SAM MILLS TELLS WHY
 HE LEFT BIRMINGHAM

For the first time since his disappear ance from this city during last season Sam Mills. the former manager of the Birmingham baseball team, has offered an explanation of his action.
 Mills contends that he owned the team, franchise and all property and had a per- feet right to do what he pleased with it.
 His letter follows:
 Allentown, Pa., January 12.-Editor of the Sporting News: I will kindly ask you to give me space in your valuable paper to reply to some person who writes from Birmingham, Ala. To begin with, in the fall of 1900 I went South with the expec- tation of getting some town in the South ern League, and had my eyes on Birming- ham, which was represented by w. J. Boles of the Herald. at the meeting. MT. Boles was elected vice president of the league and was also given the fran chise for Birmingham, and later tried to organize a stock company and utterly failed to enlist men to assist him to finance the project.
 In a short while our league dues be- came due and the protection money had to be paid, without which Birmingham would not have been represented in the league and it was then when everyone had given the club up that I went to ~~~-~%%>&%<>%%~ >~-o><>>e<< some 75000 such are regularly accom- modated in state and private institu- tions."
 "A parlor in a home for young women employed in departmental stores and of- fees. These are often poorly paid, large numbers averaging from S2 to $6 per week."
 ",The Floral Home for Young Women in Los Angeles This fine building has been donated to the army by the ladies of Los Angeles, and Is valued at more than s20,O00."
 "The mammoth Christmas dinner in Madison Square Gardens, New York, when 45OO baskets were given out, con- taining dinners for 22,50O persons, and the table spread for 5000 guests. The proceedings terminated with great Kim etoscope Passion Play service. About POD GOO persons were fed at Christmas by the Salvation Army In the ohiteo States
  stafr Captain Agnes Mackenzie sang: Come Ye Disconsolate.' A group or 10o salvation Army officers follows. This rem arkable combipption photograph or army leaders in all lands They are rep resented of the 15,000 officers carrying on the work of the army throughout the world.'
 Next was a living tableau-Captain Bremen, in the robes of Jewish rabbi eff the times of Christ, who sings pa pthetic song of his own composition to popular melody. Captain Bremen was trained to be a Jewish rabbi
 Working in Sums.
 The curtain is kept busy with "A group of Salvation Army slum sisters, working in New York Citl, In the notorious Bow cry. Redlight, Cherry Tree, Battery and Helrs Kitchen district. Slum sisters In Berlin, Germany, and slum sisters in Paris, France"
 Then comes the story of '"The drunken ragpicker, searching for food in an ash- barrel. Once she had a happy home, but her husband, a workingman, met with an accident and was brought home dead on a stretcher. She was left to face the world with four little girls. Her friends rave he drink to comfort her. She be- came a drunkard, sold everything for drink beat and kicked her children and lived in a bare attic with them At an open-air meeting of the Salvation Army, while the snow is falling. she Is con- verted. She goes to the attic, where her children lie huddled together on heap If rags trembling at the footstep or their drunken mother. She gathers them round her and tells them the story or her conversion. She is going to beat them no more, will get them better clothes and food and a home The children listen with happy wonderment. The four girls grow up and are thrown on the screen in Salvation Army costume, as they might afterwards be seen, singing Salvation song to the 'Star-Spangled Banner
 An intermission of a few minutes and the lecture continued.
 Child Plays Part.
 The rescue work of the army among fallen girls was fully illustrated.
 Taking up the farm system established by the Salvation Army pictures were presented of the farms in Ohio. Colorado and California
 In the closing tableaux Little Lucy Nina Booth-Tucker the 6-year-old daugh- ter of the commander played touching part.
 Commander Tucker also lectured last night at 8 o'clock to another large audi ence at the Jefferson. His lecture was not illustrated and was on an outline of the Salvation Army work in the United States.
 Tells of Work.
 Commander Tucker will leave today for