New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-10-16
THE PASSING THRONG.

William \. Chenoweth. OF Birmingham. Ala.
who is identified with the iron industries o. me
"Pittsburg Of the South" is AZ
FOR the Grand Hotel Mr. Chenovetb
GREATER who Is native OF Kentucky weot
BIRMING- % Birmingham seventeen wears
HAM. ago "Our city" said he ..vrrfct
has population OF sixty-ive thou
sand is now deeply Interested fn the proposition %
greater Birmingham. which is made possible ~.
BIZ passed by the last legislature " the subu-
ban towns all come in. the population will no
swelled TO one hundred thousand az least The ma
1ority OF the people in the city. now cosfifffed
favor the enlargement OF the municipality and me
The established limitation OF general tslx.,tlor a.
one-half OF cent in the city. gives the towns
act responsibility they would assume. Brnine-
IAN batn nad only SIX thousand population when
furnaces and now there thirty with q co.
pacity of six thousand tons OF pig iron daily ana
the city is growing in a very Substantial name
Three skyscrapers-ten story buildings-each cost
ing 10000. have Just been completed And de-
spite the downward course Of stocks. work goes
steadily forward important expansions ~ ta,
industries OF Birmingham The Alabama Steel and
Wire Company is now building steel plant and
ready for operation in January. Ohio and AIa5ama
capital is also erecting plant that viii IN
equal amount
n. F. FarneIl-scott HneaI descendant q SIR
Walter Scott. was a guest FOR a day recently. AZ
the Gilsey House. he is an OIL
HOW TAXES cial of the English Government a,
ARE PAID IN Fort IIill in British Central Africa
AFRICA. Mr. Scott is or leave en- route s,-
his home in Yorkshire. England.
and when he completes his round trip he win have
travelled sixteen thousand miles at the expense
OF the Crown. My duty" said Mr.. Scott. is n
collect the tax rubber and ivory that passes
Fort Hin which Is transfer station on the wav
on the East Coast The distance from me- cast
MT ~ t ,,-oII ~ hl. elJ 5y {hr route thar
20 Fort Hill The natives pay a nut tax % three
ton to- the support Of The eovernmSnt T a7o
collected at my post last year was about u.Ta y
take that. and If he has nothing else. We let him
mostly concerned with marital differences o. to
natives. whose notions of morality are not so
acting among Americans or Engishmeu''
August Auerbach. who has been engaged n
merchandising I'm Nicaragua fo~ q dozen years. "a
the Hoffman House. on rou+s
NICARAGUA FOR WurternbnrS Germany v.rars
HOPELESS he goes to pay visit 10 his boy
OF CANAL. hood home He has seen much p
the Central American countries.
and is familiar with their resources and euha--
easements. Tho resources Of th- country i1 the
vicinity of PriuCipUleO, whore ! am established.
said Mr. AUerbach. are chiefly rubber the produce
of the gold mines and the forests of lhos-rr ,rd
cedar. Last month A6t0 ounces OF gold came o.
Principuleo. and We get about twenty-five thousand
about 20 cents pound in the Nev-York urrSet.
The culture OF rubber has been un,i-rts&cr- bus Va
nave mao no crop IRON !il- source as yet ne
gold, which Is quartz. is very rich and nothing
Jess than s. ton is worked \ good many miners
from the West in the J0ited STATES come down %
Nicaragua. but they soon get disguised with the
Few people appreciate the extent Of our isolation.
We are about six days travel from our capital,
and a revolution might DO going iI THAT part 90
the country and wOr.d knew nothing ABOUT 90.
We get our freshest news from Neu-orIeaus
papers which come q, us six days OLD" Speaking
of the canal situation. Mr. Au.rhacu said. We
have had 10 hope Of a canal iu Nicaragua since
the Nicaragua Company failed and abandoned
work at GreytOwn. iu 1899. Since then lars
regarded the negotiations of the United Sta-~ with
Nicaragua only menace To- Panama. ard
though the Colombian Government has rejected tla,
treaty believe that Panama Will secrdr oefrr4
she VIII sacrifice the chance Of having the v-tsr
route established across the IsthmuS