The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-20

ters on the nomination of candidates for the mayoralty and the November cleo ton. To politicians, place-seekers and those seeking the influence of persons in power the result is of more interest than to the taxpayer and the average cit izen. No municipal government of the city has been free from it's weak points and the conditions which have existed in the municipality under all administra- tions are not widely different Each has had it's merits and demerits. Fusion has been represented by Mayors Strong and Low; Tammany by long line of mayors. Every New Yorker has learned to know that the Tammany administration, what ever it's faults may be, has always been strong in guaranteeing 10 the individual whether citizen or stranger, security in life and property It has never been found wanting in protecting the pedes- trian from the thug, the highwayman and the dive-keeper It has never arro- gated to itself the right to reform man. kind but it has ever asserted the power of law and curbs, checks, controls the thief and desperado. It may have wink ed at the existence of vice, but it has protected the innocent from the vicious. Beneath her long rule the city has at tained it's pre-eminence in the world. In matters of expenditure, such as great improvements, statistics prove Tammany has ever been more conservative than those temporary administrations which. uncertain of their tenure of office, adopt as a principle the old maxim make hay while the sun shines"
 
 MT. C. Oliver Iseln has thus far failed to confirm or deny the report, circulated by some of his friends, that he will again be found in the active list of the Amer iea's cup defenders. Than MT. Iselin, no man has done more to keep the famous trophy in the possession of the New York Yacht club. Besides his time, labor and thought. he has spent a good-sized for- tune in the patriotic work, and it is hard iy fair to expect him to continue at the thing all his life Besides that, MT. lse- lin is a modest man and he may wish to give some one else chance to show what he can do. One thing is certain, the cup will never lack defenders.
 Sir Thomas, like the genuine bachelor sport that he is. has taken in" about everything in this big town, and that is saying a good deal, as all who know it will testify To him, Coney Island has unfolded all it's mysteries many of them unknown except to the initiated. But that is not all. His tracks may be found all over the east side, the west side and the byways of the famous "renderloin." Lon don, he declares, is not fin it' with New York, whatever that means.
 
 President Roosevelt and ex-President Cleveland will come together on the same platform in this city the last of the month: the occasion being the installation -,t.1 Ir-T- who happens to be a Princeton profess sor and close friend of MT. Cleveland. Mir. Roosevelt and MT Cleveland met during the summer in St. Louis at the Worlds Fair dedication when they were brought into competition public speak CTS. The president then, if a prize had been offered in the contest, would cer- tainly not have won It. as against the philosopbic statesma of Princeton. Pos sibly he will do better this time. At a gathering of colle ge men. the other even- ing. Cleveland worshpper offered to make a good-size wager on his favorite but there were no takers.
 
 I am told by a prominent member of the Catholic church that strong repre- sentations have been made to the Vat can with respect to the spiritual cond- ton of the nordes of Italians arriving in this and other cities during recent years. that they are becoming indifferent and falling away from the church, The ques tion gave very great concern to the late pope, who was oevising plans to meet the problem when hIs death came. These are now being put in operation. One is to send Italian missionaries after their fel- low countrymen and the first of them arrived here a few days ago. The two political parties here also profoundly interested in the Italian vote, which is beginning " 70 a potent influence in municipal s. Thousands of young men. sane Ban parents. become of age every They are natural poli- ticans anu thelr influence with native Italians is enormous Tammany gets the greater part of the Italian vote. but the republicans have fair proportion of it. Local bosses of Italian descent have in fact arrived
 MT. Morris K Jessup, president of the Arctic club of this city, is as enthusiastic North pole chaser as Lieutenant Peary himself. He has given thousands of dol lars to enterprises having the Pole as their objective point and has not yet grown weary in the giving. Far from i: his check-book is still ready and will be soon in evidence with a big contribu- tfon to the new Peary fund. James Cor don Bennett has probably spent more than any other American in this line ot exploration The expenses of the Jean- cite expedition were all paid by them. and they came very near the quarter of million mark.
 Mrs. Langtry bas-again demonstrated, first, that she is not an actress, but a clever society woman on the stage, and secondly that she can dress. Her gowns, according to the young lady escorted to see the Lily" were "dreams," whatever that may mean in feminine phraseology and so she will draw wherever she ap- pears. Mrs Langtry will never again see the half century mark of the years since she was born, but she does not look 1t Her charm is. indeed, infinite. and that is another comfort for the box office. as we'll as for her audience By the way, I saw her old admirer. Freder- ick Gebhardt. away back in one of the boxes. Evidently he could not resist the temptation of looking again on the loved and lost. Freddy" by the way was not the only one present of the young fellows of twenty years ago to whom it was q distinction to be seen in her train. T