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The age-herald., 1902-04-28
The Steel Car Plant.

"The Southern Car and Foundry Com pany had intended starting to work on it's great steel car plant at Ensley, or rather Wylam, which is the same thing. early in the spring, but there were un- avoidable delays" said an official of the company. Work will be begun, however, in May. The cross ties for the Birmingham Southern track to the site are being shipped from Mississippi and within the next two or three weeks the Car and Foundry Company will be as- sembling its building material. The works will probably be completed by the end of next fall.
 "The plant will cost over s6OO.0O0. About 1000 men will be employed in the works, most of them high grade mechanics. A feature which the Birmingham and Ems ley merchants and savings bank com panies will appreciate is the all cash payments. The Southern Car and Foun- dry Company, which now operates four works, two in Alabama and two in Ten nessee, has no commssary, and the mo- com missary policy will be applied here"
The age-herald., 1902-04-28
Egg Storage.

Said produce merchant Saturday:
 Swift & Co. stole a march on Ar mour x Co., at the beginning of the egg ing to tho story among commission men, and got good start. Sixteen-cent eggs now means eggs at more than 20 cents next winter. The carrying charges In the cold storage warehouses range from a cent to d cent and third a dozen for ordinary care until January l. Special care to the eggs may bring the cost as high as cents a dozen. To this must be added the profit to the speculator and the profit to the wholesale distributor and wholesale dealer.
 Despite every effort, 1t is not believ- ed that over 50o.000 cases of eggs will be obtained for storage in Chicago this year. The amount already put away is estimated at from 150,000 to 175,000, and the best weeks of the season are all ready over.
 "One of the most recent novelties in the way of egg storage is the met bod of filling pails full of the whites and yolks and freezing the mass solid. At the Armour and Swift storage plants at the stockyards hundreds of men are busy breaking eggs into pails. As fast as the peils are filled they are carried into the freezing-rooms, where they are kept until taken out in the fall and win ter for tine use of the National Biscuit Company. the independent bakeries and the restaurants which need them in cooking on a large scale"
The age-herald., 1902-04-28
THE VIcE-PREsIDENcY.

From the Boston Herald.
 It would seem that the lesson again enforced within the last year upon the American people, of the importance Of having a thoroughly reliable man in the Vice Presidency would not be disregard ed If there Is anything that should be impressed with solemnity upon the pub lie mind it Is this. And yet certain poli- ticians appear to be treating the subject more flippantly than ever, if that were possible Here is young Governor Yates of Illinois proposed as the Republican candidate Governor Yates has never had any standing in the country as a national statesman, and as Governor of Illinois he has had a discreditable record But we are told that the Republican party of Illinois is split into factions, and that, if Governor Yates can be nominated for Vice President, these factions may be, by the trade implied in it. brought into union. And the Vice Presidency of the United States, which we have so lately had the impressive warning may become It's Presidency, is proposed to be used for this purpose! Are there politicians in the dominant party who have neither sense nor shame?
The age-herald., 1902-04-28
COUNTING VOTES IN PARIS.
Drenching Rain Did Not Prevent
 Electors Going to Booths.

Paris, April 27.-The polling of the cleo tion of the new members to the chamber of deputies began at o'clock this morn ing and cleared at o'clock this after noon. Total number of candidates was 2515 Of this number 353 stood in the de- partment of the Seine.
 A drenching rain in Paris did not pre- vent the voters from going to the booths. The poll everywhere was about twenty per cent heavier than at the last election. No disturbance worth mentioning occur red anywhere in the city. During the day the authorities took stringent pre- cautions to cope with possible disorders and strong bodies of police kept the crowds in moticn. The entire republican guard was quartered in the public build ings.
 Dense crowds composed of nationalists assembled in front of the offices of the Libre Parole, The Gaulois and The Echo de Paris, and greeted the first election returns with grea. manifestations. M. Millerand, radical socialist who stood for reelection in enc of the districts of Paris, failed to secure his election on the first ballot his nationalist opponent running him close throughout. If the votes recorded by the anti ministerial ists and the socialists are transferred to M. Millerand on the second ballot, to be held May Il, he is certain to be re- elected.
The age-herald., 1902-04-28
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Steel Frame Construction.

.,The people who watch the workmen engaged on the Woodward building, that is to say all people who pass along Twen- tieth street or First avenue had rest today but the crowds will gather on tune tomorrow" said a well known civil en- gineer yesterday.
 Here is a good joke on my amiaole friend John L. Parker. A day or two ago MT Parker was hard at work at his desk when Mir. Dearborn approached nm hurriedly and said: Parker some here right away, please; I want you to do something for me.
 MT. Parker protested he was very busy and asked what was pressing Come on; have no time to lose, said MT. Dear born. Then MT. Parker laid down his pen, put on his hat and went with Dear born. The latter walked briskly toward Twentieth street, Parker tagging tew feet behind. When they got near the corner Dearborn said: It is this: l have to go up town and will be away for about 15 minutes. I want you to watch the building until I get back.
 T But he no doubt vowed to himself that he would get even the first time he found a chance to play a Joke.
 Well, I do not blame people for stop ping to look at the steel frame workers. I have seen scores of sky-scrapers in course of construction, but l never pass along First avenue In the neighborhood of Twentieth street without spending a few minutes gazing at the Woodward.
 Architect Weston has given the public good show at Twentieth street and First avenue but he has shut off everybody but the small boy from seeing the work on the Title Guarantee Loan x Trust Co. build ing at the corner of Third avenue and Twenty-frst street, at least until the construction is pretty well advanced. He has had a close fence P feet high, built around the site. The caissons will cer- tainly be filled without witnesses other than the men employed and the small boy who will scale the fence and perch thereon"
The age-herald., 1902-04-28
More Big Ships in the Navy

The naval appropriation bill that is to come before the House very soon contains provisions calling for the construction of two great battle ships of 16,000 tons displacement, to cost s4,212,OOO each; two armored cruisers of 14,500 tons displacement, to cost exclusive of armor and arma- ment $4,659,Uv0 each, and two gun boats of 1000 each, to cost 1882, ,000 each. The two proposed battleships will be larger than any of the present ships of he navy and the cruisers named will be larger than the New York or Brooklyn.
 As there are today ffty-nine men, of-war under construction for the navy this addition of six more means that Uncle Sam is to have one of the greatest fleets in the world. When all these ships are completed there will be but one more efficient navy in the world, and that will be sailed and operated by a nation that speaks the tongue of Shakespeare.
 The fighting of the world promises to be largely done hereafter on the seas, and every great power including the United States is arming with that proposition in view. Great Britain, the United States and Germany prom ise to lead all the rest in this respect, and all three are under the obliga- tions of tle, kindred and common blood to refrain from fighting among themselves. The three could control the sea, and dominate the world, and the bringing of the three into alliance was Cecil nnodes' grandest dream It may in the course of time become fact as the Slav or Chinaman begins to threaten the peace of the world But all this is very far distant It is beyond this century, young as it is for century is not a long space oi time in the history of great nations.
The age-herald., 1902-04-28
Money for Southern Schools.

The Ogden board has received s1 100000 from John D. Rockefeller, and is in position to get as much more whenever money is needed from other wealthy men. The Pea body fund was started at $3,500,O00, part of which consisted of repudiat- ed Florida and Mississippi bonds. The income of the fund has however In thirty years been $2,744755, and this amount has been chiefly used in promoting public school systems, and In training of teachers through nor nal schools and teachers institutes.
 The Sater bequest of $1.000.000
The age-herald., 1902-04-28
VAlLSBURG RACES.
Mcfarland and Kramer Easily Beaten
 by Young Franz krebs.

Newark, N. J., April 27.-Stiff winds and chilly atmosphere kept the attendance at the Vailsburg bicycle track down to 4OOo today. The surprise of the day came in the. half-mile open in which the na- tional champion, Frank Kramer, and Floyd Mcfarland were beaten from the scratch by young Franz Krebs. who won rather. easily by a yard. Kramer was beaten again in the two-mile handicap, this time by Collette of New Haven. Summary:
 E Half-mile open, won by Franz Krebs, Brooklyn; Frank Kramer, East Orange, second; Floyd Mcfarland, San Jose, Cal. third. Time, 1:0S 4-5
 Two-mile handicap, won by George H. Collette, New Haven (60 yards) Frank Kramer (scratch), second; W. S. Wenn, Bristol (scratch) third Floyd Mcfarland (scratch) fourth. Time, 4:25 1-5.
The age-herald., 1902-04-28
THE ONLY DAllY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Possible Peace in South Africa.

The Boer fighting generals have gone home to consult, not the men in bombproofs in Hollond, but the fight ing men themselves as to peace and peace terms, and it is not unreason- able to conclude that peace in such hands is very possible. They have shown themselves brave and hardy beyond precedent, and now that win ter is coming on in those elevated districts they will be apt to think twice before they reject the generous terms offered by the British authori- ties.
 In substance the offer of peace be- yond reasonable doubt includes the rennnciation of independence which the Boers never fully had and which was hopelessly lost when Cronje sur rendered. The two republics will be- come a crown colony, but this colony is to have representative government and in this way the Boers would to a large extent govern themselves, as the Boers in Cape Colony long have done.
 Much will be done toward rebuild ing homes and restocking farms, thus enabling the Boers to get on their feet again and to overcome the mis- takes of their leaders. None of the Boers will be outlawed, no property will be confiscated, but a general am nesty will be granted.
 peace has all along related to the treatment of the young Boers from Natal and Cape Colony, who are very numerous in the present Boer ranks They really constitute the present Boer fighting force, the soldiers of tht two republics having been captured or slain in battle. England has beer very much disinclined to grant then a full pardon. They went out of theil way to fight the power that protects and befriends them at home, and all Englishmen feel very sore towards them. MT. Chamberlain, it is said insisted that such Afrikanders should be punished in some way. A compro- mise of some sort has been adopted, and there Is more curiosity to know its nature and terms than there is to hear the other full and definite terms of the settlement, for peace Is consid- cred well assured on some basis be- fore coronation day comes around in Hume
The age-herald., 1902-04-28
THE CONVENTION MUST GO.

From the Choctaw Advance.
 A state primary seems to be the prob- able method of selecting party cand1- dates in future. Nearly the entire press and the best people of the state favor it, and demand will be made upon the Democratic Executive Committee to adopt the measure It is the only fair mode of selecting candidates and the old rotten convention methods must go. By all means let us have a primary in which none but white men who will sup port the nominees will be allowed to rarticipate.
The age-herald., 1902-04-28
COMING TO ALABAMA.
Ogden Party Will Visit Several
 Schools During This Week.

Athens, Ga. April 27.-The fifth annual conference for education in the South which began here Thursday was closed this afternoon by a mass meeting at which addresses were made by several members of MT. Ogden's party. Bishop McVickar of Rhode Island spoke at Elm anuel Church.
 MT. Ogden's train left late tonight over the Southern railway for Calhoun. Ala, where a short visit will be made to Pitt Dillinghams colored school From Cal houn the party will go to Montgomery, reaching there about 10 a. m., to visit the State Normal colored school under Prof. c. w. Patterson. Monday afternoon will be given over to a trip to the Ala bama Polytechnic Institute at Auburn Tuesday will be spent at Booker T. Wash ingtons school at Tuskegee, Ala, and part of the days visit there will be de- voted to the dedication of the new Carne- gie library just completed.
The age-herald., 1902-04-28

is the third of the series, and it's in- come is confined to the promotion of schools for the education of negro children. Money is in this way given to the Tuskegee institute in this State, to the Stillman institute in Georgia, and the Hampton institute in Virginia. In all of these industrial education is blended with the accus- toned training of the classical schools.
 The Peabody and Rockefeller funds are supplemented by the Slater fund, and Dr. Curry is connected with the administration and distribution of all three funds. This ensures harmony in the work, and no doubt the entire s6,000,000 of the three funds will be made to go as far in bringing public education up in the South to higher standard as money can be made to go. But after all the income of these three funds is but drop in the buck ct. It is about S25O,OOO a year, or less than one-quarter of the appro- priation of Alabama alone for public school purposes.
The age-herald., 1902-04-28
THE CHARIOT.
By Emily Dickinson.

By Emily Dickinson. Because I could not wait for Death
 He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. He slowly drove, he knew no haste,
 And had put away My labor and my leisure, too, For his civility. We passed the school where children
 played, Their lessons scarcely done; We passed the fields of gazing grain, We passed the setting sun. We passed before a house that seemed A swelling of the ground; The roof was scarcely visible. The cornice but mound. Since then it is centuries, but each Feels shorter than the day I first surmised the horses heads Were turned toward Eternity.
The age-herald., 1902-04-28
THE NEGROES REAL FRIEND.

From the Louisville Courier-JournaL
 Senator Deboe is evidently of the belief that good to the Republican party in gen. eral and to himself in particular is to come from "a comprehensive investiga-' ton into the condition of the people Of the negro race" since he has offered bills to that effect. Statesmen of the Deboe- Crumpacker variety are not the true friends of the negro race. An investiga- ton of the kind MT. Deboe proposes would be on fon possible benefit. The true friend of the negro Is not the man who seeks his vote in dubious ways, but the man who employs him at honest work, pays him honest wages and exhorts him and helps him to be cleanly, thrifty and law-abiding That is the gospel which Booker Washington Is teaching with such devotion and success-a gospel of which no old-time abolitionist nor latter day clam orer for the negro's political rights and social privileges has ever dreamed. It is the gospel which Is to lift the negro to the higher plane of civilization on which every real friend of his hopes that he will take his stand.
 Booker Washington has been fitly styled the Moses of his race. and certainly he has brought great wisdom. tact and devo- tion to his work, but he is calling for no inquiry into the conditions. The condi- tons are thoroughly understood by him and every other good friend of the col- ored man. The distinguished Alabama teacher has the practical wisdom of Ben- jamin Franklin in recognizing that the first step a race must take in progress is to become industrious and thrifty. To save a part of his income is as MT. Car nege aptly says, the act of civilized person, to spend 1t all is the act of the savage. Once the negro can be taught to accumulate property he gives hostages to the laws and to have others obey them. No nation and no race ever struggled up to a higher life without hard work and the process of accommodating property. For this reason Booker Washington does not concern himself with the negro's poli- black can be taught to work, to live in decent fashion and to desire a decent place in the community his politics and religion will take care of themselves. His work is a rebuke to the demagogues who champion the negro solely because his crave. They have made the franchise a curse to the race, as sensible negroes now realize
The age-herald., 1902-04-28
GRANT HAS GUEvARRA.
lnsurgent Leader and All His Com mand, Including Arms, Surrendered.

Manila, April H.-General Fred D. Grants expedition in the gunboats Bazeo and Florida, several steam launches and native lighters, has ascended the Gan dara river in the Island of Samar and has brought the insurgent leader Cue varra and his entire command down the coast. Guevarra's command consists of Rafael Sebastian, Abak1 and thirty eight other officers, 1S9 men and 167 rifles.
 Three hundred insurgents with 131 rifles are expected to arrive at Catbalogan. Samar, today, to surrender formally to the American authorities.
 Three hundred bolomen, 2S of them armed with rifles, surrendered yesterday at Sulat, also in Sanar. Guevarra sue oeeded General Lukban to the command CT the insurgent forces in Samar when the latter was captured last February He announced his intention to surrender last March.
The age-herald., 1902-04-28
Liberal Age.

"As read an account of the conver- sion of Landgravine Anne of Hesse, aunt of Emperor William, to the Catholic church and of the arrangements for her formal reception at the vatican, I said to myself, how times have changed! remarked a Catholic last night. Had close relative of the head of the Luth- eran body renounced Professionalism for the Catholic church a hundred years, or even fifty years ago, there would have been a mighty commotion in Germ any. But intolerance is fast passing away and now a member of the imperial family can become Catholic without causing any harsh criticism. The Emperor himself keeps in close touch with the Pope and maintains strong embassy at the vatican
The age-herald., 1902-04-28
REPRESENTATIVE CUSHMAN.

From the Chicago Tribune.
 Representative Cushman is receiving 6000 letters of congratulation a day for his speech attacking Speaker Henderson and the Reed rules. The young Wash ingtonian awoke one morning to find himself famous. At present the country is interested to know whether he will stay famous or whether his one great speech will be unsupplemented and grad ually forgotten. If addition to pos sessing great burst of speed he can show he can go a distance, he is fit to win in any company" as the horsemen
The age-herald., 1902-04-28
The Press Association.

''The members of the Alabama Press Association are looking forward with great delight to their excursion to New York via the Central of Georgia and the steamship line from Savannah" remark ed Secretary Rountree.
 ''We expect to leave here on the 10th of July. I have never been on the sea and 1t is safe to say that not dozen editors in the state have ever travelled to New York by the way of Savannah. This trip has been talked about for a long time and the association decided that it could hold off no longer
The age-herald., 1902-04-28
Community of interests.

The passenger department of the Plant System announces that its interchange able mileage books will be recognized by the Seaboard Air Line, the Louisville and Nashville, the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis and several other lines of the South.
 It is believed that the Seaboard Air Lines mileage books will, before great while, be recognized by the Southern Railway Company.
The age-herald., 1902-04-28
Banking and Currency.

Washington. April 27.-The majority report of the house committee on bank ing and currency will be circulated to an extent probably without precedent. Chairman Fowler of the committee re- porting the Dill, wher asked today as to the extent 10 which the report was being mailed, said: ''''ro be accurate am sending the report to IO2S,S1e per- scns."
The age-herald., 1902-04-28
ALlKES.

rom the Hartford Pest.
 We find it increasingly difficult to make up our mind as to whether w. T. Stead is the Poultney Bigelow of Great Britain CT whether Poultney Bigelow is the w. T. Stead Of the western hemis-
The age-herald., 1902-04-28

Manila editors who are guilty of water cure is not applied to them. They have no information to give m
The age-herald., 1902-04-28
THE REAL QUESTION.

From The Denver Republican.
 The real question is this, Kunnel Wat te1son, are you a Bryan Barner or a Wolfert's Rooster?
The age-herald., 1902-04-28

The baseball reporter rarely finds our vocabulary large enough for his purpose, and he proceeds at once to exnand it.
The age-herald., 1902-04-28
MASTERPIECE OF ENGLISH PROSE

From the New Orleans Times-Democrat. Here is a letter that was written by President of the United States who, like Paul Kruger, had never suffered from the facilitating influence of a university education:'
 Washington, Nov. 21, 1864. ITO Mrs. Bxby:
 Dear Madam-I have been shown in the files of the War Department a state 1nent of the Adjutant General of Massa- chusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle I feel how weak and fruit less must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from loss so overwhelming. But I cannot re- frain from rendering to you the con- solation that may be found in the thanks of the republic they died to save. l pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so cost ly sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
 ABRAHAM LINCOLN"
 We print this letter primarily for the purpose of presenting to public atten- tlon a masterpiece of English prose. In- cidentally, in view of a recent incident we should like to inquire whether or not a graduate of Oxford University may be expected eitEer in nobility of sentiment or n dignity of phrase, to surpass the author of this letter?
The age-herald., 1902-04-28
GAINS EVERY DAY.

From the Tuscumbia Dispatch.
 The white Democratic primary plan is gaining favor with the dear people. The politician is on the wonder.
The age-herald., 1902-04-28

The beef trust has cornered the hen and the steer, and it is now seek ing new products to conquer.
The age-herald., 1902-04-28
Transport Grant Arrives.

San Francisco, April 27.-The trans port Grant arrived early this morning From Manila with 161o passengers in cluding the Twelfth United States in fantry and four companies of casuals.
The age-herald., 1902-04-28

In some towns curfew is not rung at all-it is whistled by every loco motive in town that has steam up.
The age-herald., 1902-04-28

tired. will deliver a lecture in Selma April 30. and will come to Birmingham and lecture at the Jefferson Theatre Thursday night, May L
 General Lee is one of the most popular men in this country and he is a most en- tertaining speaker He is a nephew Of the late Gen. Robert E. Lee. He was ed- ucated at West Point and was a lieuten- ant in the regular army when the civil war began. His record as Confederate officer was exceptionally brilliant and he came out of the war as a major-general