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Severe Fighting is Reported During Which Both Sides
 Lost Heavily,
SECTION OF SIBERIAN
 RAILWAY IS TORN UP
in the Present Conflict Much Depends on Preservation of Peaceful Re- lations Between France
 and Great Britain

London, Mrch 2.-From Yin Row comes an unconfirmed report that 300 bandits armed with modern rifles have attacked Russian post to the west of Hai Cheng (Hai Cheng is thirty-two miles east by north of New Chwang). There was se- we're fighting and both sides lost heavily. This report is descredited at Yin Row, but if it is true in indicates that a serious danger Is confronting Russians in these well armed brigand bands.
 Reports received here from Tokio de- clare that Japan has granted permission for fifty-three foreign newspaper corre- spondents to accompany the Japanese forces. Seventeen of these correspondents ure has not been fixed.'
 Railway Is Destroyed.
 A mile and a quarter of the Siberian railroad, according to the TolSio reports, has been destroyed in the Ninguta district between vIadivostock and Harbln.
 The Tien Tsin correspondent of the Standard cables that the Russians are fortifying strongly points south of Muk- den Thousands of cooies who are work ing day and night on the ramparts and entrenchments of Hai Cheng are com pelled to labor without pay.
 Heart-rending stories are appearing in the English newspapers of the sufferings of refugees from Port Arthur on the train journey to European Russia. It is bitterly cold and there is scarcity of food and water. Several children have been suffocated under the rugs and shawls witb which they were covered in attempts to keep them warm. Owing to exposure and exhaustion an epidemic of influenza has broken out among the refugees.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-03
Distinguished Party VIII Attend
 the Coming Conference
GOSSIP FROM WASHINGTON
Senator Morgan Confident of Demo cratic Victory-Roosevelt Will Take Enough Rope to
 Hang Himself.
BY wATTERsoN sTEALEY.

Washington, March 2 = (Special.)- Among the visitors in Washington today is Edgar Gardner Murphy of Montgom- cry. Mir Murphy is enroute to Birming- ham to confer with Mayor Drennen, Dr. J. H. Phillips and others of that city in reference to the plans for the next ses- sion of the conference for education in the south.
 The president of the conference is Rob ert C. Ogden of New York. The executive committee is composed of eleven men from the various southern states. The conference meets in Birmingham. April 26, P and 2S. The programme is not yet entirely completed but partial list of the speakers includes Bishop c. B. Galloway of Misslssppi; Dr. Woodrow Wilson, president of Princeton university; w. B. Hill, chancellor of the University of Geor- gia; o. B. Martin, state superintendent of education of South Carolina S. A. Mynders, state superintendent of educa- tion of Tennessee; Alfonso Smith, profess sor of English in the University of North Carolina; l. w. Hill, state superintendent of education of Alabama; pr. s. C. Nit chell, professor In Richmond college, Richmond, Va; Hon. Sidney J. Bowie, member of congress from Alabama; Dr. Charles D. McIver, president of the State Normal college of North Carolina; Dr. Edward A. Alderman, president Tulane university, New Orleans; Dr. Charles w. Dabney, president of the university of Tennessee; Robert c. Ogden of New; York; Df. Walter Fl. Page, editor of the Worlds Work and number of others whose names will be announced within eight or ten days.
 Meets In Jefferson Theatre.
 The conference opens at the Jefferson theatre in Birmingham on the evening of April z6 MT. -sgden v-t bring a special train to Alabama and he will be accom- panied by large party of distinguished visitors MT. Ogden's party, while in the state, will visit a number of the leading educational institutions, including the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, the State Normal college at Troy the State Normal College at Florence and the Girls Industrial school at Montevallo. The party on It's way south will also visit the State Normal college at Rock Hill, s. c.
 The meeting at Birmingham will be the seventh session of the conference for edt- cation While the gatherings are attend ed by distinguished visitors from every part or the country, most of the sneakers ana members are from the southern states. The secretary of the conference is Dr' b. J. Baldwin of Montgomery.
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explain that as the building was under construction 1t possessed no power to summarily stop the work.
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Much "a Of the committee Mir. notwithstanding the cretary of the re- publi lmittee then held by M Id have been very glad m prosecuted, as- sunni at the facts war rante
 Tn sensation among the srs and Mir Robb was down by Senator Scot ia. who told Robb that w flat Postmaster -~~~<><><>>>~>~>>><>- Second Paae)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-03
Hotel Patterson Shaken.

Records of the building department show that from the beginning to the end there has been constant contest between the building department and the Allison Realty company, the contractors and owners of the property Amendment af- ter amendment to the plans were filed and the engineers of the building department time and again approved suggestions for the betterment both for the owners and the architects.
 The plans for the building were filed by the firm of Neville & Bagge, architects, and called for the construction of a fire proof building twelve stories in height. with frontage of 55 feet and depth of 100. of steel. brick and stone, of height unfinished of 149 feet. The approximate building cost exclusive of the plot. was named at s390,000 The building department
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ing in ambition or in courage. In the
veins of his ancestors there flowed
Dutch, Irish. Scotch and French lu-
guenot blood.
FROM the Datch." writes ono Of his
biographers. "he obtained his name
from the Scotch his obstiulcy, from
the French his lmpctuosity and from
the Irish his gift Of tongue"
Young Roosevelt was sent to private
schools during bis early years to avoid
the rough treatment OF boys In tile pub
lie schools. He entered Harvard with
the determination to make man Of
himself, mentally and physically, BY
obedience to the laws of health and
careful exercise the puny. =icl,ly boy
grew to robust manhood. At Harvard
the tastes Of young Roosevelt. already
exhibited for natural history and hunt
ing. We're plainly manifested His ride,
with which he had roamed the woods
In summer, was the most conspicuous
object In his room Live turtles, other
animals and insects were nlso in evi-
lence. His stubborn defense OF his
own convictions. even against the opln-
\ ion of his Instructors, is still remem-
bered by his classmates.
Athletics at Harvard received from
him due consideration. He soon be
came the champion lightweight boxer
and was also fair catch-as-catch-can
wrestler, a good runner ana a lively
polo player For a time he was cap
tain of the college polo club.
Young Roosevelt was graduated from
Harvard in 1880. After extended travel
In Europe he returned to the United
| States. studied law for few months
and then plunged at once into the macl
sTom Of municipal politics. He was
elected in 1881 as assemblyman from
the Twenty-frst assembly district, and
although then but twenty three years
/ old, soon succeeded In making himself
a storm center ut Albany. His best
known work in the legislature at this
| time was in connection with the pas
sage Of the acts abollshing the fee sys
! TEN in county offices and In deprlvlng
aldermen of their veto power Of the
mayor of New York's appointments
He served two terms in the lesisln,
ture. In 1881 Mr Roosevelt went tC
Chicago as chairman of the New YORK
delegation to the Republican national
convention.
( The next two years of the president 5
life bore unexpected and Unforeseen
fruit. They made him an author. paved
his way for appointment as assistant
secretary Of the navy and undoubtcd.
ly gave him the training and view OF
life which later suggested to him the
formation Of the famous regiment OF
rough riders. After retirement from
the legislature Mr.. Roosevelt went each
summer to the ranch he had purchased
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hR6. JOHN ". T1hMONS, SENATOR PAIR-
BANKS ONLY DAUGHTER.
dency was almost Us conspicuous in
public life as her husband. She Is
president general Of the Daughters of
the American Revolution and is re-
garded as probably the ablest parlia-
mentarian in that organization. Her
husbands senatorial experience hns
greatly aided her In her study Of par-
liamentary law.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fairbanks have five
children. Their only daughter, Ade-
laide, was married last September to
Ensign John Wesley Timmons, U. S. n.
Miss Fairbanks was one of the most
beautiful girls who had ever figured
In the society life of the capital and
was highly popular. She is tall, dark
beauty, with great wealth of "per-
sonal magnetism" and knows how to
dress.
The eldest son is Warren c. Fair
banks, who is director OF the Oliver
Typewriter works In Chicago. He was
married recently to Miss Ethel Helene
Cassidy Of Pittsburg Frederick C..
Fairbanks. the second son, graduated
from Princeton in 1903. He is now
taking law course in Columbian uni
versity In Washington. The third son.
Richard, II in his Junior year at Yale.
and the fourth son, Robert, is student
at Phillips academy, Andover, Mass,
preparing for Princeton.
Senator Fairbanks mother is still
living and is nearly seventy-Hve years
Of age. She spends her winters with
the senator's family In Washington.
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nation for the higher office at the hands
OF his own party. OF his four predeces-
sors lu the vice presidential Office who
succeeded to the presidency. John Ty-
Ter, Mlllard Fillmore, Andrew johnson
and Chester A. Arthur, but one. Fill
more. was a candidate before the peO-
pie for the presidency at the ensuing
election, and even he was not nomi-
nHied hv tile party which had made
him vice president, The others were
all auyI0us to receive the Endorsement
which tlc nomination for the presi-
deucy would have Implied, and one Of
them, Chester A. Arthur, nearly sue
ceeded, but tie popularity of James G.
Blaine with his party was too great to
be overcome, and Arthur was defeated
in the convention by the "Plumed
Knight" who IN turn was beaten at
the polls by Grover Cleveland. at the
time O comparatively unknown man.
The present campaign is the thirteenth
for the Republican party. In all but
three elections since It's formation into
national organization it has been
successful. the three exceptions being.
1856. when John C.. Fremont was de-
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as n silent man. He has little to say.
and he does not wear his heart on his
sleeve. He is grave, calm, courteous
and forceful. and a model senator in
department Comparatively few sena-
tors now dress with the slightest re-
gard to their environment, but the In
dianian is an exception. He is very
well groomed and Is the best dressed
man in the upper branch OF congress.
1t is not that he has passion for good
clothes. He believes that the United
States senate is one of the most impor-
tant legislative bodies in the world and
that In dress, bearing and conduct a
senator should be faultless. This idea
of his manlfests itself In other ways,
1t is said that when he became senator
he at once ceased practicing law, be-
cause he thought his time belonged to
the nation and because he did not be-
lieve a senator's services as n lawyer
should be for sale.
About dozen years after Boston was
settled ship from England brought to
the colony one Jonathan Fayerbanke.
his wife. four sons and two daughters.
They were Puritans, and their ances-
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BAY. n. Y
ply Of Gouverueuf Morris. followed in
1888 by his Ranch Life and Hunting
Trail which proved a very popular
book THE Winning Of the West"
however. he considers his greatest lit
erury work
Other productions Of bis pen are
Historic Towns" History Of New
York City" Essays on Practical Pol
ilcs" and "The Wilderness Hunter"
lie also wrote American Political Ide-
uls.' 1.-THE Rough Riders Life of
oliver Cromwell" and THE strenuous
Life" aud, in collaboration with Henry
Cabot Lodge, produced volume en-
titled "Heru Tales From American
History"
Most OF President Roosevelt's time
during the coming campaign Will be
spent at his fine country home at
Oyster Bay. At this beautiful estate
on Long Island sound Mr.. Roosevelt
has passed many pleasant summers.
even before he became prominent po-
lidcally. He has an interesting family.
consisting OF wife and six children.
Mr.. Roosevelt has been twice married.
His first wife was Miss Alice Lee OF
Boston. who died in 1881. one year
after her marriage, leaving daughter.
Miss Alice Roosevelt. now twenty years
Of age. In 1886 Mr.. Roosevelt led to
the nltar Miss Edith Kermit Carow.
the friend and playmate Of his child
hood The I'VE children resulting from
this marriage are Theodore. aged sew
enteen: Kermit, fifteen; Ethel, thirteen:
Archibald ten, and Quentin. seven.
The boys are great advocates Of the
Strenuous llfe' and never lose an op-
portunlty to put their theories into
practice. Mrs Roosevelt is essentially
home body" although she Is mem
Der of family which for generations
has been prominent In the social life
OF New York city. She has the rcpu-
tation of being one of the host house
keepers in Washington. and her deyOt-
ed husband, who treats her with the
same Galllntry that he accorded her
while they were children and later
sweethearts, declares that the reputa-
ton is well deserved.
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Theodore Roosevelt

in the Bad Lands of North Dakota.
lie became there an expert rider and
gained n reputation as courageous
man. an lndefatlgable hunter of big
game and n sportsman of ability. There
he became intimately acquainted with
the ranchmen. rustlers and cow punch
ers who subsequently formed the nu-
cleus OF the regiment of rough riders.
In 1851 Roosevelt was again Ia the
turmoil OF New York city politics.
Henry George was the labor candidate
.r mayor Abrnm $ Hewitt was the
nominee Of the Democrats. Mr.. Boose-
welt was put in the field by the Repub-
iclus Mr.. Hewitt won.
President Harrison in 1859 appointed
Mr Roosevelt United States civil serv-
ier commissioner. lie was firm be-
llevcr in the competitive merit system
AMI put his ideas in force at once.
President Cleveland retained him In
9,rre but Mr.. Roosevelt resigned In
1895 30 become president OF the New
York board ot police commissioners.
The policc department had just been
rSposcd ns corrupt to such an extent
ton would work any radical Improve
neut Under Mr. Roosevelt the mo
r;le Of the force became higher than 1t
has ever been since. and the efficiency
Of the men advanced in proportion.
President Mckinley nominated Mr..
Roosevelt on April &. 1897, TO be as
5istani secretary OF the navy. From
tic very first Mr. Roosevelt foresaw
the Feasibility OF Il conflict with spain,
ul DC set about preparing his depart
meut Tor It, lie spent enormous sums
Of money In ammunition for target
practice and left nothing undone That
coull secure the highest efficiency In
the service when the time for action
should arrive When actual hostilities
began, In 1878. Mr., Roosevelt resigned
Ai5 post IN the navy department and
organized a regiment Of rough riders.
The history of Roosevelt and his
rough riders during the Santiago cam
palru is too well known to be repeated
Af,er Guasimas and San juan Hll
Colonel Wood was made "a hrigadicr
general and Lieutenant Colonel Roose-
yrlt the regiments colonel After the
tNLiIf iAA WIS NNtT iplbtfl lbNofNf flt
returned 10 the United States to ind
himself talked Of for the gubernatorial
nomination In New York. Vie was
nominated and elected.
From tho governors chair to the we
presidency was but step. although
unwilling one for Mr.. Roosevelt He
was nominated at Philadelphia June
Il. 1900 Mr. Roosevelt was unwill-
Ing to have his name presented TO The
convention, declaring that he did not
desire the nomination, but he finally
Yielded The tragic death Of President
Mckinley Sept IA. 1901. made Mr..
Roosevelt president
one of the most astonishing things
in the presidents life Is the great
amount OF literary work he has accom-
plished despite his manifold other CON
Germs. He began to write before he
left Harvard. and in the yenr after he
was graduated he produced his Naval
War NJ 1Sl2' He wrote a Life OF
Thomas II. Benton" and also a biogra-
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Mr.. Fairbanks located In Indiana
n. for tho nractice of Inv in 1874.

| Mr.. Fairbanks located In Indianai
lis for the practice Of law In 1874.
| His early professional career was
much the same as that of the average
young lawyer. He and his young wiie
began life in a boarding house. AS his
practice grew they furnished modest
home and later moved into one more
pretentious. Their present home, into
which they moved about three years
ago, is located at 1922 North Meridian
street. Indianapolis, on one OF the hand
somest building sites in the city.
Senator Fairbanks entry as posi-
tive force in Republican national poll
ties may be said TO date from the ST
Louis Republican convention OF lsh
and the events leading up to 1t. He
and Major Mckinley had been friends
OF many years standing. Both were
| Ohio born, both ardent members OF the
Methodist Episcopal church and in eN-
act accord in their political views. NJ.
Fairbanks had many clients In ono
and knew the state, and Its Republican
leaders and traditions appealed to him
1t wns natural, therefore, that Mr.
Fairbanks should attach himself to the
fortunes of Major Mckinley in the pre-
llminary organization leading up to the
campaign Of 1896.
He took charge of the work In In
diana and was Influential in organizing
the state and in committing the Re
publican party in Indiana to the gold
standard. He was chosen delegate
Mt large to the st. Louis convention,
and soon afterward 1t was announced
that Major Mckinley, whose nomina-
tion was then foregone conclusion,
had invited Mr.. Fairbanks to be TEN
porary chairman Of the convention.
His speech as temporary chairman at
tracted wide attention. In January.
1897. Mr.. Fairbanks was nominated Tor
United States senator on the first ballot
over n field of strong candidates.
Mr.. Fairbanks ut once took high
rank In the senate. He entered active
Fly into the work OF the extra session
which passed the Dingley tariff bill
and was equally prominent in the work
of financial legislation which followed.
In the agitation which preceded the
declaration of war with Spain Senator
Fairbanks was one of President Nc
Kinley's chief advisers, us he was dur
Ing the peace negotiations which
closed that war. He was at one time
invited by President Mckinley to join
his cabinet and was appointed by him
a member Of the joint high commission
to settle the Alaska boundary question.
Senator Fairbanks was delegate ut
large TO the Philadelphia convention Of
1900 and was chairman Of the commit
tee on resolutions which reported the
platform.
He was reelected to the senate in
1903 by the Joint assembly Of the In
diana legislature with the largest ma
Jority ever given to Republican can
didate for United States senator in the
history of the state.
Mrs. Fairbanks prior to the nomina-
tion Of the senator for the vice presi-
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The Rock Island is the only
line having one night train be-
tween Pueblo and Chicago with
out change d eafs.
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but before reaching manhood emigrat-
ed to Massachusetts. At Ware he
learned the wagon makers trade, and
when he emigrated from Massachu-
setts to Union county, o., 1t was to set
up In the wagon making business and
farming.
The senator's mother, Mary Adelaide
Fairbanks, came of the Smiths of Co
lumbia county, N. 7. They were early
eInigrants to Ohio. Her brother, the
late william Henry Smith. founded the
Associated Press.
Senator Fairbanks earliest recol-
lections date from the log cabin in
| which he was born, on May IL. 1852,
and which stood on the edge Of a farm
Of 2l6 acres In Union county, o. This
| log house was the scene of the first
and only tragedy Of his life and came
| near ending him at the age of four.
Workmen were engaged in building a
new frame house and were occupying
the old log house as a workshop. The
place was filed with shavings, and the
future senator strayed into the build
ing in the absence Of the workmen, and
while replenishing the fire in the stove
he ignited the shavings on the floor.
The flames cut of his retreat, and
when he dashed through them to the
door the latch was beyond his reach.
With thoughtfulness extraordinary in
one of his age, he seized board from
carpenters table. braced 1t against
the wall, and, mounting 1t, raised the
latch, pulled open the door and es-
capped In the nick Of time.
The senator's boyhood life was such
as fell to the average farmer boy. He
was early taught the value of indus
try and frugality. He worked on the
farm and attended the country schools
during the brief terms until he reached
the age Of fifteen, when he went to the
Ohio Wesleyan college at Delaware,
o., few miles away.
The career of young Fairbanks at
college was distinguished for sincere
and diligent application to his studies
and for self denial and self reliance.
He and fellow student of equally
meager means shared a room and did
their own cooking. He won and has
since held the respect and confidence
of classmates and faculty. 1t was as
student there that he met Miss Cor
nelia Cole, daughter Of Judge Cole Of
Marysville, y. They were coeditors of
the college paper. The friendship thus
formed ripened into love, and as soon
as Mr.. Fairbanks had graduated from
college and prepared himself for his
profession they were married.
On leaving college young Fairbanks
went to Pittsburg, where for time he
/ acted as agent Of the Associated Press.
After remaining in Pittsburg for a
year or more, during which he applied
himself assiduously to the study of
law, he went to Cleveland, completed
his studies and was admitted to the
bar Of the supreme court of that state
after attending a term at the Cleve-
land Law school.
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is said that he possesses nj prescuf hut
small portion OF the great fortune
which he Inherited from his f3thcr,
Theodore Roosevelt's birthplace WIS
- East Twentieth street. Ncw l1rk
the date. Oct. 81. 1855. His father.
Theodore. was wealthy descendant Of
an old Knlckerbocker family and YVES
well known as philanthropist Hls
mother was descendant OF Archhuld
Bullock. first president Of Georgia dur
Ing the Revolution.
Eight generations of President Roosc-
velts fAmlly have lived in Now YORK.
and from the middle OF the seventeenth
century the name has been In tse poAi-
cm. business and social Affairs or
Gotham. The founder OF the family iu
America wns Klass MarCnsnn Koose-
volt. who came from Holland In ltii
and settled in New York
The young Theodore was described
as a weak eyed. pig chestcd boy. too
frall to take part in the sports OF ials
Of his age" Though frall, however,
Teddy" as he was famIliarly called
. by his playmates was not at all iuck
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with the foundation OF the town Of
Dedham. Mass, where he settled in
1896.
Nothing better illustrates the strong
willed character of this pioneer than
an entry In the church record;
Jonathan Fayerbanae. Notwithstanding
he has long stood on from ye church upon
some scruples about publike p'fession OF
faith and ye covenant. yet after divers
loving conferences with him le made
such n declaration OF his faith and con-
version to God and p fession Of subsection
to ye ordinances of xT In this Xyt he
was readily and gladly received by ye
whole church ltd-Sm.-i664.
Charles Warren Fairbanks is eighth
in descent from Jonathan Fayerbankc.
The senator's father. Loriston Monroe
Fairbanks. was native of Vermont,