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The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-02
Members of ihe Board of Education

MT. London did not elaborate his plan for keeping the public schools of the city out of politics. He simply expressed a desire for the election of members of the board of education by the people and not by the board of aldermen. When he comes to the de tails he will no doubt follow the ex. perienee of other cities.
 In nearly all cities a small board of education is preferred Six members with the mayor added would be enough, and these six should hold of fee three years each. Every year two should be elected, and these two should be free to vote at the polls for the best pair of men.
 All experience goes to show that this cannot be accomplished if two members of the board of education are elected on any general election day. Politics will then creep ill. There is but one way out of the polit- ical morass, and that way consists in holding a special election each year for two members of the board of ed ucation Such an election would cost not exceeding $100. and it would be worth many times that sum to the people. This is the experience of other cities, and we hope MT. London will study this feature of the problem and incorporate it in his amendments to the city's charter. It would for ever keep politics out of the public schools, and bring to the schools the best direction that the city affords.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-02
New Corners in September.

In September 42,54s immigrants were landed in New York alone. Italy furnished nearly 11,O0O of the number and about as many more came from Russia, mostly Hebrews. Germany and Scandinavia sent over nearly 10,- poo, and nearly every other European and Asiatic country contributed to the aggregate.
 But out of the 42,543 only sixty-one came to Alabamal Over 10000 staid in New York, over 5000 went to Penn sylvania, over 20oO went to Illinois, and like number to Massachusetts, but only sixLy-one came to Alabamai Texas. Tennessee and Florida each got more of the incoming tide.
 AIabama's fair proportion of 42,543 would have been just about 1000 per sons, and we got just sixty-one! Now, why is this thus? Is 1t color prej- udice? or is it superior enterprise and advertising on the part of the other states? It is not a matter of distance, for 624 went across the continent to California. President Lesser of the Immigration Society may be able to explain why Alabama attracted but sixty-one out of 42,543--the Age-Her aid cannot. There are certainly bet ter opportunities in this state than there are in Connecticut, and yet thai little, crowded state got 1290. Ever Al went to Indian Territory, where no lands can be purchased. Twice as many, in other words, preferred the Indian Territory to Alabama. Can President Lesser tell us why this con tinues to be the case?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-02
NED BRACE WRITES OF POLITICS IN NEW
 YORK AND J. M. ELLIOTPS SALE OF STOCK

Mir. schurz goes On to say that he deems 1t especially important that the democrats should have a majority in the next house. It will mean that the people are dissatisfied with the republican par ty and win demand a halt. He asserts that the industrial progress of the coun- try is not due the republican high tariff.
 Senator German of Maryland, in an h. terview today. says that he believes the next house of representatives will be democratic by from twenty to thirty ma jority. He has made a very thorough estimate and his political predictions are generally accurate.
 The most thoroughly happy man have seen in many moons is Capt J. M. Flli- ott Of Birmingham and Gadsden, who has been here for ten days. He left for home tonight with a little present for his wife in the form of certified check for fifty thousand dollars and neat little deposit book from a trust company in this city showing deposits made in the past four days in golden cash aggregat- ing nearly s6O0OOO This clever young man who few years ago was the captain of a steamboat running between Rome, Ga.. and Gadsden. Ala, at salary of less than an hundred dollars a month, organ ized within the past ten years the South ern Car and Foundry company, with plants at Gadsden. ,Anniston. Lenoir, Memphis and a proposed plant at Bir mingham. The concern has been suc- cessful to a remarkable degree. Profits have been tremendous in proportion to the capital invested. So much so that Captain Elliott has disposed of a major ity of the stock which he personally owned to the largest owners of the Stan dard Steel Car company of Pittsburg for something like a million dollars. Elliott retains an interest and, though the southern plants will be controlled in fu- ture by the general company, he will re- main in charge of the southern branch at a salary within the neighborhood of that paid the President of the United States. The contracts for cars now en- tered on the books of the consolidated
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-02

N EW YORK, November 1.-The re- III suit of the state election in New
 York next Tuesday Is very doubtful coler. the democratic nominee, will carry Greater New York by more than eighty thousand majority It may go up to nearly a hundred thousand. The result. therefore. depends upon the up-to-date state majority of Governor o'Den the republican state nominee. Two years ago O'Den came down to Greater New York with over a hundred thousand. This time there is dissatisfaction among the state republicans. At the same time there is democratic dissatisfaction in New York city. Much of the Tammany element is openly abusive of Ex-Senator betting against the democrats at odds of ten to seven Hill drove off hundreds of conservative democrats by his coal plank in the platform. Hil put this plank in to catch votes. It drove off more than 1t caught and has materially injured the democratic cause. Yet the republicans are weak in New York this year. However. 1t looks to me that the republicans will re-elect O'Den governor by small majority, though coler has a fair chance of winning.
 In the congressional contests the dem- ocrats will probably gain several seats in Greater New York and a number in some of the middle states but the control of the house is merely guess work at this time. Both democrats and republicans are making all manner of claims. It seems to me to be about an even toss up.
 Carl schurz is out in an Interview in the staats-zeitung in which he says that the position of Senator Morgan of Ala bama that it would be best for the dem ocrats not to control the next house of representatives is utterly untenable. Schurz says "senator Morgan's position is tantamount to saying that when one party controls one branch of the legisla- ture and the executive power and oppo- stion is bound to yield the rest too to the unlimited control of the dominent power. This is simply nonsense"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-02

900 votes there is equivalent to a plu- rality of less than 1000 votes in Ala bama, and we would consider 1000 as a slim plurality or majority in this state.
 It is freely conceded that Greater New York city will give Mfr. coler about 100000 majority. He lives in Brooklyn. and is a successful business man of undoubted integrity. his bank ing office being in New York. He will command the solid democratic vote, and this Is good for 100000 majority in Greater New York city. Can rural New York overcome this great major ity? There is no one who can answer this problem. The prognosticaters and forecasters disagree, and there is no one to decide the question except the inspectors of election, and their decisions will not be handed out until Tuesday night or early on Wednesa day morning.
 When the result in New York state is known, and when 1t is known how congress will stand. an estimate of the situation preceding the struggle of 1904 can be made that will bear criticism The vote of Tuesday will be in fact a preliminary presidential vote, the tariff and the trusts formed by it being the chief issue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-02

On July 1, 1863 leading divisions of Hills and Ewelrs corps of Lees confederate army or Northern Virginia, and large bodies of Meades federal army of the Po- tomac, met about a mile northwest of Gettysburg, Pa. The results were the capture of the first named forces of some 5000 prisoners, great numbers of small arms, several pieces of cannon and colors, the killing or disabling of a great num- Der of their antagonists. and the driving of the rest of them through that town, to a position about half mile southward, known as Cemetery Ridge. Their success was very decder, but achieved at con siderable cost.
 Cemetery Ridge rises more than a mile southeast from Gettysburg, at, or near Cubs Hill, from which it bears, first northwestward, then westward, and finally slightly southwestward; being in shape like a fsh-hook; Culp's Hill, on the east forming the point and barb. Ceme- tery Ridge proper the curve and lower stem, and little Round Top, the Devil Den, and Round Top itself, the upper stem of the hook. The length of the ridge around, is four or five miles; bur its cur yes bring it's extremes, Cubs Hill and Round Top. within much less than three miles of each other. Its highest point is Round Top, at it's southwestern ex- tremity, which commands Cemetery Ridge, the confederate position on the west of Cemetery Ridge, and nearly par allei to 1t, Little Round Top northward, the intervening depression, Devils Run' and with them the entire Cemetery Ridge beyond the area within it's curves, ana Cubs Hill itself The confederates, With their left resting or near Wo1 s Hill, high point east of Cubs Hill, confront ed the federal line, posted from cup Hill along Cemetery Ridge to Littie Round Top, which remained unoccupled' as did also Devils Run, and Round Top itself, until about p. m. on the evening of the July ?. Up to g o'clock a. m. or that day, and perhaps even later, these all important positions might have been taken without difficulty by even small force.
 On July 1, about one-third Of Meade army of 100000 men, and one-half Of Lees army of 10000 men.-about equal numbers were on the field of battle, or near IL. During. the following night, the remain der of Lees men, except Laws brigade
 Of Hoods division of Longstreets corps
 which was pcketing at New, Guilford, 2S miles distant, Picketts division of the i same corps, at Chambersburg anc Stuarts cavalry who were at large in the country, were either present in line, or within easy reach. McLaw's division. about 6OO0 men, and three brigades or Hoods division, nearly as many, all or 1 the very best in the army, at nightfali on July 1, were within two hours march camped within four miles. and could l easily have been, by five o'clock a. m., l on July ?, at any point on Cemetery
 Ridge, which, as stated already, lay par alel to and west from Cemetery Ridge
 and the Round Tops. not more than a | mile away, at the farthest points. All
 of Meade's forces arrived on the night of July 1, and was posted on Cemetery
 Ridge, between Cuip's Hill and Little (which came later on July ?. and was
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-02
Hardwood Association.

"The Hardwood Lumber Manufacturers association of the United States organ ized in St. Louis last July, is holding its first regular meeting in Memphis" said a lumberman.
 "The association is composed of those men who withdrew from the Wholesale Manufacturers association at the July meeting of that body in St. Louis on account of the refusal of the majority of the members to approve the extension of certain rules of inspection asked for by the Poplar Manufacturers association of Louisville and other subordinate asso- citations of a similar character. With the poplar manufacturers of Louisville as a nucleus, the bolting members, before leaving St. Louis, organized the Hard wood Lumber Manufacturers associa- ton.
 ''The new organization is strong in Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky and Ten nessee. Among the lumber concerns hold ing memberships in 1t are the following J. B. Ransom & Co.,. Davidson & Bene- dict. Love- Boyd & Co. of Nashville, the Ritter Lumber Go. of Columbus, O., the Loomis & Hart Manufacturing Co. and the Blair Lumber Co. of Chattanooga. There are besides members in Kentucky and West Virginia, the greatest strength being in the latter state'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-02

Stand by your own choices at the primary. and don't forget the place to do It is at tho polls on Tuesday.
  China will find that Wu Ting Fang has become very much of an Amerl can and very litle of chinaman.
  General Uribe- Uribe now has time in which to have an operation per formed on himself for hyphenitis. The installment plan is to be ap- piled by the ghost of Jay Gould to Count de Castellane's debts.
  Jersey lightning may be playing around Mfr. Cleveland. but there is no presidential power in it. Secretary Shaw seems to think there are no trusts. He is very much of a republican.
 Coal oil Johnny" at Lake Como is the sensation of the effete east.
 -------- -------------- The Dingleyites are going to the polls half scared to death.
 --~---- A turkey trust would be national calamity this month
 --s----- There is more cold than coal in the eastern states.
 General Uribe-Uribe has lost all but his name.
 General Uribe-Uribe is his own en- core.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-02

companies amounts to ten million dol- lars.
 The proposed plant at Ensley, I am inc formed, is to be built at once. the Ten nessee company agreeing to furnish the steel according to agreement made in the original contract of nearly two years ago. The officers of the general com pany are to visit Birmingham within the next few weeks.
 Speaking about Birmingham the of ficers and large holders of the stock of the sloss company will visit the Birming- ham properties next week. They go down from here in two special Pullman cars. The Canadian bankers who are largely interested will be in the party, which will be under the chaperonerage of Director W. H. Goadley.
 In this connection it may be mentioned that officers of the Illinois Central rail- road are to be in Birmingham within the next two weeks to look over the general situation and that perhaps this great system will be operating into the Bir- mingham district soon. The indications are that the Illinois Central will some III over Lne fTlScO lFackS anu make use of a portion of the same terminals, using the Belt road and joining in terminals with the Frisco or other existing lines
 Col A L. Fulenwider, president of the Birmingham Realty company. spent to- day here on business pertaining to the location of some large enterprises in Birmingham.
 Col. Warren Elliott. president of the Atlantic Coast Line, which will soon come into control of the Louisville and Nashville, announces that he will visit Birmingham within a few weeks With him will perhaps be number of the directors.
 General Manager Murphy of the Queen and Crescent and Alabama Great South ern has returned from Europe entirely restored to health. He Is here today. Next week he goes to Cincinnati to re- sume his duties. He will be in Birming- ham within the month. Hz
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-02
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 To A woman pain endured for 5ave is pleasure.
 More men are nagged into deviltry than gre tempted into mischief
 It takes women to sanction a fashion that makes a rain coat fit and look like a night gown.
 A woman loves to hear her husband swear when she can pretend she doesn't know what he is doing.
 So queer Is the sentiment of women that though it brings them the misery of their life they will hold their wedding day in sacred reverence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-02
MemoIi's March.

Memolis new march, written for the Alabama state fair, is now in the roper toire of Liberati's band and it is one of the favorites. Signor Liberati says it is one of the best marches he has come across in long time.
 The majority of marches are mediocre. but this one is at once musical, original and stately What Is known as the trio movement is singularly tuneful without being trivial or sentimental. It is a march that will live.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-02


 No doubt these figures are approx imately correct if all raw materials that are dumped into a stack are pur- chased in the market, but leaving out the cost of lands bought at low prices years ago and assuming that the pro ducer owns alike quarries and mines, these figures need revision. The coke item alone would be halved, and the ore item reduced, until a basis of $10 would be reached as the cost in this district of a ton of iron in all cases where the iron-maker mines his own coal, makes his own coke, digs out his own ores and quarries his own Aux.
 It is impossible to raise the average cost in such cases higher than $10 a ton, and not until iron falls below $1O a ton need any one fear distress and shut-downs in this district. Iron can no longer be made in this district and sold at s6 ton, but this district is ready to face ten-dollar iron, although it vastly prefers to make iron at twice that price.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-02

The hard coal operators squeeze the hard coal dealers, and the hard coal dealers squeeze the consumers, and the consumers will play for even at the ballot box.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-02
THE STATE FAIR.

From the Florence Times.
 The state fair at Birmingham is a big success. Birmingham is big in all her people undertake All Alabama should be proud of the magic city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-02
BY REDUCED MAJORITY.
A Democratic Estimate of Governor
 OdelPs Prospects.

From the New York World.
 A careful canvass of New York State by the World indicates the reelection Of Governor B. B. Odell by a reduced ma- jority, probably around 10000. The indi- cations are that coler will have about 1000 in Greater New York, divided as follows:
 New York. ....... 6o,O0O Kings county.... .,..... l6O0O Queens county. .. .. 1000 Richmond county. liVUU
 Hill's charge that Odell owns stock iA a grocery firm which has had constant dealings with the state during his term as governor is regarded generally as proved. and the controversy Is expected to cost Odell thousands of votes.
 Upstate reports gathered by the World indicate little interest on the republican side, and strenuous efforts all along the democratic line. This is expected to sub stantially reduce the republican figures above the Bronx. The indications now are that Odell will hardly come to the Bronx with more than 5000 votes. Both sides claim the state, the republicans by AS, 330 and the democrats by at least 35,000. Neither side will give any definite figures which they are willing to stand by. The estimate of the Odell majority as agreed upon by nearly all his managers is about 4S,O00 The estimate of the Coler men varies. many of the democrats claiming landslide and predicting Coler's election by anywhere from 35,0Oo to 6O,0O0. They re- fer to the Cleveland sweep of 1892 and say there Is some analogy in the state of pop uar feeling between that time and this. No evidence of a great landslide has been discovered by the Worlds corres- pondents. A careful and complete can vass has been made in every county Tn the state. World correspondents have gone among the voters and interviewed all classes and have obtained both sides from the county chairmen.
 Chairman George w. Dunn in his ofrf- cial statement claims that Odell will get as big a majority above the bronY as Roosevelt received in 1S9S-l02,O0O The democratic managers say that Ode1ls majority above the Harlem will not be over LOGO and that Coler will get ma- tority of 100000 at least in Manhattan, Kings. Queens and Richmond. The dem- ocrats claim that Coler is a stronger can- didate than Justice Van Wyck, who ran against Roosevelt, and that he will poll the full democratic vote, with a heavy percentage of the independent vote, thus exceeding the Van Wyck majority in Greater New York. They declare that Governor Odell for various reasons Is a weaker candidate than was Roosevelt, who had just left the battlefield when he carried the state by 1S000 in 1898.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-02

Judge Lambert from "up the state" is teaching the New York judges how to expedite even Molineaux case.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-02
Cost of Production.

The cost of producing a ton of iron is always an interesting question in this district, and 1t is a problem that is always in dispute. When iron was selling down to $6 ton It Is known that some furnaces made money, and now that it is selling at from $20 to $24 the old question comes up again. A recent writer puts the cost of ton made in this district at high figures, as follows:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-02

Give Oscar W. Underwood, who covered Jefferson county with free de- livery routes, full vote on Tuesday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-02

Political apathy is disappearing from New York. At any rate it is not touching on and appertainin' to the democracy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-02

Our own Schwab is at Lake Como, where he Is more regal in his expen ditures than the regalites on the thrones of the effete east
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-02

Miss Stohe thinks the Bulgarian brigands are not more unkind than the lecture audiences in this country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-02

Charles M Schwab Is displaying his wealth in Italy in the most offensive fashion. He is scorching in all sorts of conveyances.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-02
About Persons.

The appointment of M. M- Richey as superintendent of the Birmingham divis- ion of the Southern railway became ef- fective yesterday.
 E. W. washem of Tuscaloosa is in the city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-02

If MT. Baer lives long enough he will no doubt see symptoms of the ex. istence of an union.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-02
Youno Railroad Official.

George H. Ingalls. who has been as- sistant general freight agent of the Big Four for some time past has just been advanced to the position of general freight agent of that line. He Is only 26 years old and is perhaps the youngest general freight agent in the United States.
 Mir. Ingalls, office Is in Cincinnati but he visits Birmingham frequently and has many friends here who will be glad to learn of his promotion. He Is uncommon ly bright, plucky and we'll poised and he is a social favorite from Chicago to New Orleans In this wofk-a-day-age some people have the idea that business sense and industry are sufficient to cary fel- low through and place him in the front rank of bread winners. But if young man combines good address and business talent he gets ahead, as rule, much faster than the youth who lacks en- gazing manners. Ingalls is an example of what the combination will do. His manners are irresistible. It will not be long before he is acquainted with every body in Birmingham, and it is safe to say that everybody will be his friend
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-02

China will find that Wu Ting Fang has become very much of an Amerl- can and very litle of Chinaman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-02

General Uribe-Uribe now has time in which to have an operation per formed on himself for hyphenitis.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-02

We'll set thee to school to an ant, 10 teach thee there's no laboring r the winter.
 --klna Lear.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-02

The installment plan is to be ap- piled by the ghost of Jay Gould to Count de Gastellane's debts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-02

Stand by your own choices at the primary. and don't forget the place to do It is at tho polls on Tuesday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-02

A turkey trust would be a national calamity this month.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-02

Jersey lightning may be playing around Mir. Cleveland, but there is no presidential power in it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-02

The Dingleyites are going to the polls half scared to death.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-02

There is more cold than coal in the eastern states.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-02

Coal oil Johnny" at Lake Como is the sensation of the effete east.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-02

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-02

General Uribe-Uribe is his own en- core.