The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-25

park. 1t will be an ideal club house con-
tanning reception rooms, lounging rooms.
billiard rooms, library and sleeping apart-
ments dining rooms, cafe and grill rooms
One of its novel and important features
is the conversion of the roof into a gar
den commanding a magnificent view of
the city and harbor. 1t has been very
cleverly financed. Members of the club
formed and incorporated a company call
the Library Square Realty Company, of
which Mr.. Louis Stern, the president of
the club, is to be president. The bonds
and stock are being readily subscribed
for, as they are in fact a good invest
ment; and more than that. they are pur-
chased by men who belong to the most
important republican club in the country.
The so-called american INVASION Of
commercial England, has led to a COM
partson of methods pursued In both coun-
tries. Railroad men call attention to the
fact that the public mind has been at
tracted to the inroads the American To-
connective builder has made, and also of
the loss to the English of the manufac-
ture of steel rail; but still more impor-
tant industry has been lost sight of. sim
ply because 1t Is not so long established.
This Is the making of cars of pressed
steel They are not only favored by the
great TOauS LOT the security Iney give 10
the merchandise of the shipper that his
packages at the end of a long journey will
be in as good shape as they were at the
beginning. but they show a great saw
ing in wear and tear. Mr.. T. n. Hofstot.
president of the Pressed Steel Car Com
pany. tells me in regard to this, that the
general manager of the Bessemer and
Lake Erie Railroad reported that the
comparative cost of repairs of wooden
and steel cars during the year, showed
the average cost of wooden cars was
$3S16 and of steel cars $14.09 each. 1t is
In keeping up to date the United States
excels; and saving per annum of s24.O7
on a freight car soon determines the ques-
ton of dividends. It is a bit odd that
England, who boosted of her steel indus
tries, forty years ago, fell behind In the
race. No wonder Labouchere~ says 1t
would have been better to have spent the
money wasted in South Africa in edu-
eating British labor
In one of New YorF great skyscrapers,
way up in the air, on the seventeenth
floor, there is a great office. No name
is on the door. In the ante-room sits a
clerk to receive visitors. Behind a glazed
door there is room furnished with
draughtsm ems tables Here busy men
work over plans from nine in the morn
ing until five in the afternoon. Glance
over the drawings and you see the work
is mechanical engineering, adapted to
railroads. Locomotives, boilers, fire boxes,
running gear. are being drawn and plan
ned. 1t is the workshop of an inventor
and builder. His name is that of fam
lily well-known in the railroad world, 1t
is-Cornelius Vanderbilt.
1t does not do to keep out of New York
for over two years. If one should stay
away longer he would be pretty apt to
loose his way around the city, as familiar
corners disappear over night, and great
tower-like structures rise in a day. Broad
way, between Seventy-third and Seventy
fourth streets was a short time ago a
block of low stores, today w. E. d.
Stokes has erected upon 1t the largest
family hotel in the world. 1t contains
sixteen elevators and has three stories
below the level of the street. 1t will be
managed by Charles D. Hobbs.
If anyone of my readers comes to New
York and cares to see the yachts of some