The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-27

Ntroduction to the Tammany chief If tEey wish to have first-class time. In the magnificent democratic club house d2 Fifth avenue. a generous hospitality NSll be dispensed to the eminent mem- hors from all over who will pull its latch SeEing out at all hours of the day and naght, Sundays not excepted. From q GBeat committee of one hundred Tam Mnny men special details will be made 60 show country bretheren the sights, Walich will not be under the ban of any puritanical reform administration. To spend a night with Tammany in it's glory' &D it soon will be, is worth trip across tAe continent, or even from the far Phil i4Dines.
 These two great structures will have psenty of work to do right now Instead ds er-accommodation. we shall have really under accommodation, and the
 2prks of a similar character in progress Ahd which are being planned can not be hnished an hour too soon. The growth of New York is now in everybodys mind, on almost everybodys tongue. Captital- ists especially are thinking of it, and de- Msing ways and means to rush it along, 6ad avail themselves of the unprecedent- ea opportunities for enrichment that 1t Is certain to afford. A great tunnel through the center of the island is nearing com uletion Millions of dollars are invested in 1t, but the men who are embarked In the project have no apprehension that they will reap a golden harvest from thelr sagacity and daring enterprise Building a tunnel is the name we give it. Making an inexhaustible gold mine, that can be profitably worked every second in the dav and night is really what is being 6one, so far as practical results are con oerned Cable roads above 1t, the pest and swftest in the world, and then above tAem a great elevated railroad system Not a doubt is felt that they will not all turn out Pactolan stream of dividends as long, to borrow an old legal phrase' @s grass grows and water runs. Trans portation on Manhattan Island and through the regions of which 1t is the Aeart Is the bonanza on which capital Aas set it's eye. Tunnels sufficient now9 No, the cry Is for more of them ana the honey is ready when charters, plans anu Go on are arranged for.
 Indoor football has been tried again In New York, and financial failure IS the result More than $10,000 was lost on the games last week. while a year ago halt that amount was lost New Workers ap- parently do not want indoor football. It
 is likely no more indoor tournaments will be held.
 1 The new Brooklyn bridge which we
 have just opened is one of the biggest i things of the kind in the world. 1t Will l be also one of the greatest utilitarlan
 works ever constructed. One benehclent 1 result predicted of it is that it will have
 the effect of solving in great measure
 the tenement house problem in the crowd l q nf aa 1Gf
 by giving access to part of Brooklyn
 large enough to afford the necessary re-
 lief That would alone justify the vast
 expenditure 1t cost. Now, for the other l side of the medal: From the point or 1 view of the beautiful, it is about the
 ugliest thing that ever spanned river. l There is no reason why 1t should be so l in the opinion of competent critics, but
 it is. and that is the end of 1t. |
 The attachment of the Plymouth church
 congregation to the memory of Henry
 Ward Beecher is remarkable. The ranks 1 of the old members is rapidly thinning | out Few of them in fact, are lett, the | church attendants of today being mainly ] their children and grandchildren. But | the Beecher fever survives. This was l strikingly shown a few evenings ago. ] when an old portrait of the great preach- | CT was presented 10 the chuiCh' u was painted before the civil war, and shows l Beecher in the prime of his young man | hood.
 | Some of the hotels and theaters are | thinking of introducing few noVelues 1 during the coming year The bonifaces contemplate having bell-girls, as well as l bell-boys, and the theatrical gentlemen | are meditating upon the advisability of
 having lady -ushers." Messenger girls
 have not made their appearance but 1t l is only question of time, I suppose. At
 a church in Brooklyn. not long ago, | woman took up the collection in the ab-
 senee of her husband upon that duty de- 1 Volved
 l Notwithstanding that both the National l and American leagues have adopted long playing schedules, three series of games | between clubs in the rival leagues have already be arranged to be played next wear. The Phillies and Athletics have ar ranged for series beginning April 7. | Cleveland and Cincinnati have agreed to
 play seven games after the champion l shin race. and the St. Louis team Will again meet in ante season series. Pres- l dent Ban Johnson will open the New | York headquarters of the American
 league shortly after January l.
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