The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-10
Washington
Day by Day

Washington, April 9.-(SpcciaD-Presi
dent Roosevelt is now the guest of South
ern people on their own soil for the first
time and 1t is certain they will be pleas
ed with him and he. will be pleased with
them. His visit to South Carolina is
social event of the first i'm portance. We
can not understand any man without per-
sonally observing him. Some of the peo-
pie who are gathered in Charleston to
| honor Mr.. Roosevelt may be surprised to
discover that he is a most affable and
agreeable man, one who is careless of.
social opinion, unbuttoned and a Laughter;
but, surprising or not that is precisely
the kind of man he is. The dignity of his
| station does not freeze the genial current
of his soul; he laughs on under the bur-
| den of his greatness with seemingly as
| light a heart as he played schoolboy
games thirty years ago.
When the guns of Sumpter responded to
| other guns and the war between the
States was thereby precipitated, Mr..
Roosevelt was baby in his cradle Now
|
seventh anniversary of Appomattox, he
as President of the United States is the
guest of Charleston and Is acclaimed by
tens of thousands of happy Southerners.
| Romance supplies us with nothing more
| amazing than this tremendous fact; his
tory gives us nothing more romant.cally
! suggestive. The two score years between
| Sumpter and now might have been two
| centuries. Between Appomattox and the
| Charleston fair roll ages and ages and
| ages.
In Charleston Mr.. Roosevelt sees more
| of what is peculiarly and distinctively
| Southern" than he could see in any
other large town South and his observa-
| lions and experiences are sure to be
sources of permanent pleasure to him.
No man of his temperm ent-no enlighten-
| ed man of any temperment-could resist
the fascination of that combination of
qualities and conditions which we know
as Southern" And Mr. Roosevelt is
emotional is of highly impulsive mind
and heart; and the bringing of him and
the Southerners together is like adding
a new concord to melody that is true.
1t is to be regretted that Mr.. Roose-
welt cannot extend his visit further South
ward and observe that newer Southern"
quality so wonderfully exemplifed in Bir-
mngham.
From Charleston to Birmingham is
journey not measurable by leagues, nor
to be Travelled in palace cars.
The appalling tragedy at Tuscumbia
! fills great space in the eastern newspa-
pers and horrifes the public coming upon
the heels of the monstrous crime of the
Philadelphia negro, Lane, who killed in
cold blood Mrs. Jarden and her two
little girls, the murders committed by
the Alabama negro, Reynolds. produce
something like stupefaetion upon the pub
| lie mind here. The inconceivable inhu-
manity so horribly displayed by these two
negroes thousand miles apart and with
in a period of six days gives most anx-
ious thought to organized society every
where.
| On Tuesday, April l, the Philadelphia
negro murdered rs. Jarden, by whom
he was employed as butler, and at the
same time shot one of her daughters
| dead and fatally wounded the other, the
| latter dying on the third day. He was
| expecting to be arrested on a charge of
theft. After robbing the dead of some
thing over hundred dollars he fed. His
| crimes were committee at 1880 o'clock
in the morning. At 2 that afternoon he
was arrested in New Jersey by the Phil
adelphia police, who hustled quickly out
! of that State. At 10 o'clock the
second morning the coroner committed
him to the grand jury at 1890 p. m. the
grand jury indicted him; at he pleaded
| guilty. At 1870 p. m. on the fourth day
his trial was begun; at 2:15 his crime was
| fixed as murder in the first degree and
at 20 the death sentence was pronounced.
This within sevcnty-fve hours and fif-
ty-two minutes, the Philadelphia negro
was arrested, tried, convicted and SEN
fenced to die Tor murder.
|
Dr. Charles Wheian. the brilliant
| young city physician of birmingham, is in
Washington visiting old friends and
visiting old scenes. DR.. Whelan was edu-
Gated at the famous Georgetown Univer-
sity in this city, but since he was grad
uated ten years ago he has not seen
| Washington, and so he finds many re-
markable changes in che capital, such, Tor
instances as the building of the Library
of Congress, the new postoffice, the COM
pletion of the western terraces to the cap
| itol, the great development of f street
and that district and the extraordinary
growth of Washington generally. DR..
Whelan having obtained leave of absence
from his office duties in Birmingham, will
spend two months pursuing special stud
les in the New York Post Graduate Col
lege of Medicine.
Mr. Tom Baine, of Birmingham, is in
washington, but since that most genial
and welI-beloved of Jones Valley inhab-
| tants has not reported himself at head
quarters his business in Washington is
not ascertainable.
The other day in Charlottesville south
erners saw Mr.. Hanna at his best, and he
| charmed them as he charms all men who
come within the abundant sunshine of
his genial presence. No man can meet
Mr.. Hanna and have speech with him
without feeling something of his overmas-