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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-03
GADSDEN IS AS FULL
 0F LIFE AS EVER Is Marching on to Real Metro-
 politan Proportions IS DESTINED TO BE GREAT Is One Of the Few Spots Where Exist in JuxtapositIon Iron, Coal, Cot
 ton, Fruit and Big Indus " trial Plants.
IS DESTINED TO BE GREAT
BY FRANK V. EVANS.

Gadsden, April 1.-(Special.) )-What is Gadsden doing? is a question frequently asked by many persons who are deeply interested in the material progress of the state, and the visitor to this place finds an answer most convincing. Gadsden Is fully alive. up and doing. and the writer can conceive of no hindrance that could possibly arise to check it in its march to real metropolitan proportions.
 Located upon the banks of the Coosa river, this part of which is navgable by large steamboats at all seasons of the year, surrounded by beds of Goal, iron and timber, with magnificent agricultu- ral lands. a progressive citizenship strong financially and best of all healthy att mosphere. there Is nothing to hold Gads- den back. and many Alabamians of today will live to see it one of the great big cities of the state.
 A ride over the city today by courtesy of MT. E. W. Whips, of the Gadsden Real Estate company, revealed to the writer some wonderful facts in regard to Gadsden. MT. Whips, by the way, came here from Ensley, following the wake Of the Schulers. His company is succeeding remarkably we'll In inducing investments here Asked why he left Ensley, the an swer was: q came here to meet and assist this growth, and I am delighted with Gadsden in both a business and social way. It is most delightful home"
 Is Manufacturing City.
 Gadsden is fairly entitled to be called a manufacturing city, well as an agri- cultural market. There are few spots on the globe where one can find In juxtapo- sition cotton fields and cotton factories iron furnaces, steel mills, iron ore, coal, water ways and railroads, salubrious cli- mate. excellent citizenship and richly bearing fruit trees-all In sight. But
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Gadsden is such a place, and Gadsden Is destined to greatness.
 Today the city proper has a population of 1000 or more. She receives 120O0 bales of cotton per annum. Her free school system ranks among the first in the state the High school building costing SlS'OOO She has fifteen churches, among them some of the handsomest in the state Two hotels care for the strangers. She has an electric street railway, finely equipped, with smooth and heavy track connecting the city with Alabama City and Attalla, and affording great convent ence to the people in the corporate limits
 Five railroads enter Gadsden-the Nash vile, Chattanooga and St Louis, the Louisville and Nashville the Southern and the Chattanooga Southern. and she is soon to have another extension of the Louisville and Nashville to Oneonta, and a branch connection with the Seaboard Air Line.
 The city enjoys an excellent system of waterworks and of electric lights. She has a partly paid fire department well equipped and efficient; the two long dis tance telephone lines, and well con- ducted and well patronized local ex- change. Both of the great telegraph lines touch Gadsden, and both are im- portant and profitable offices.
 Streets Are Attractive.
 Especially attractive are the cherted streets of Gadsden, which are the finest driveways in this section of country. These are wide, extending from curb to curb, and are kept in perfect condition. Many of them extend far into the coun- try. connecting all important points.
 Among the manufacturing concerns of Gadsden may be mentioned the follow ing: Ward & Weller Manufacturing com pany, employing twenty men; Southern Manufacturing company, employing 100 men; Gadsden Supply company ten men; Coosa Furnace company, 300 men: steam laundry: Hammond Bros. & Co.,. ore mines, 125 men, Gadsden Pipe works 125 men fertilizer factory, ten men; Queen City Lumber company, forty men; Kyle Lumber company 200 men; A. & J. Man ufacturing companys stove foundry, twenty-five mem Gadsden Car and Ma chine company, thirty men; Cassels Bros Touring mille, ten or more men; Southern Car and Foundry company employing when in operation. 250 men, put now sus- pendede on account of litigation; cotton seed oil mill and ginnery, twenty men; handle factory, thirty men Alabama Consolidated Coal and Iron company, close by employing 400 men; one bottling works two tin shops, four blacksmith shops and woodworking shops. plumbing shops job printing offices and one press ed-brick plant, with a capacity of 5O,OOO brick per day.
 Add to the above the great furnaces and steel plant and wire nail mills, which the Schulers are erecting (and partly operating) at cost of $5000,000 and the Dwight cotton mills, two and half miles distant. but connected by electric railway and you have an idea Of the high position held by Gadsden among the manufacturing cities of the south. The great Dwight mills employ about 1900 hands and consume or manufacture eighty bales of cotton per day.
 Scene of Great Activity.
 The writer has just driven through the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-03

There is much talk about an endowed theatre just now, but l see very little action
 The art of acting depends on so many things, that so long as the theatre is conducted on the lines of a dry goods store, the art of acting must go back wards.
 Commercialism and art can have no possible relation.
 The effort of the one is to reduce ex- penses and increase receipts.
 The effort of the other is to produce the best results regardless of expenses or recipts.
 The commercial manager confronts the playwright and the actor with the set phrase: T give the public what it wants"
 The public from an art standpoint can not have what it wants, any more than a child can have what 1t wants from an educational or a hygienic standpoint.
 The child must take what good judg- ment determines is best for its physical well being and for its mental advance ment and the public must have the same.
 Books are not written down to the child, the child rises to the books. Plays must not be written down to the pub lie, the public must rise to the dignity of the plays.
 Teach the child what 1t wants to learn and you bar educational progress.
 Give the public what it wants and you bar art progress.
 The child does not know that educa- tion compes the admission of the benefit.
 The public is a child in art, with this distinction: It is hungering and hungry for the artistic.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-03
The Birds of Hawaii.
lckwood's s Magazine.

From Blackwood's Magazine.
 From some of the open pastures rises the song of the skylark, which was imported from New Zealand; skylarks increase in number but not very quickly. The voice of the Chinese turtle dove-the mourning dove, 1t is ealled-is heard in the land quite near to the valley homes; also the upward whir of the Mongolan and the Japanese pheasant. Grouse and quail the California valley quail-were there until lately. but the latter have now be- taken themselves to heights of 5000 to 1000 feet, whither the marauding mongoose
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grounds of the Schulers' great furnace and steel plant, and 1t presents a scene of unusual activity. Iron furnace is now in full blast This is said to be the most modern furnace in the south today. La bor saving devices are in evidence on all sdes and its full capacity Is said to be 400 tons per day. Three of like size are to eb added. The steel mill Is rapidly approaching completion. and the purpose of the company Is to begin operations on July l. With the new furnaces, the steel mills and the wire nail works, the great manufacturing paint will give employ ment to about 3500 men.
 Alabama City Is really the cotton mill town. but it is so close to Gadsden as to fatter this people with the idea that 1t Is part of Gadsden. Still Alabama City is town of its own, with home government. By the way the Dwight Mills company keep the place in most perfect sanitary condition. The cottages. the stores, the streets, the people are cleanly, and the neat appearance of things in general in- dicate perfect health. It occurred to the writer that some cotton mill owners nearer Birmingham should visit Alabama City and take observation on the subject of cleanliness and general sanitation. The company provides even a beautiful and clear swimming pool and bath houses for the operatives in the very heart or the town.
 Large Retail Trade.
 Gadsden enjoys not only a large re- munerative retail mercantile trade. but has several prosperous wholesale houses, and the rival freight rates give them some very extraordinary advantages over competitors.
 Two local newspapers-the Times-News by that veteran journalist, ". M. Meeks and his bright sons, and the Journal cover we'll the field The first is a semi weekly and the Journal an afternoon daily.
 The two banks rank among the strong est of the state and are doing fine busi- ness. The financial movements in and around Gadsden give to each of these banks heavy deposits and business ac- tivity seldom observed in cities of like population
 As has often been stated Gadsden oc- cupies a beautiful natural position. It is high, dry and well shaded. On all sides the mountain scenery is charming. Noccalula falls is near by. It Is one of the finest water falls in all the land, and the scenery around 1t Is wild and pie turesque. On the mountains overlooking Gadsden are many homes and the Belle view hotel. These mountain tops around Gadsden are declared to afford the most health giving summer atmosphere in all the southland.
 Live Commercial Association.
 To back up and encourage all of these Gadsden enterprises, and to encourage the location of still more there exists here a live and up to date commercial and industrial association, with mem- bership of 250 hard workers, who talk Gadsden always, and who are ever active in behalf of its growth.
 Socially Gadsden stands high among the cities of the state The moral at mosphere here is first class and 1t may be called a city of beautiful homes and of handsome churches.
 The Noccalula club is the social organ
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-03

nor on the north for It's manufacturing patronage.
 All this does not take into considera- tion the income of her mines and fur naces which helps to put her on a solid foundation. But 1t is chiefly the new ag- ricultural development and the gradual elimination of the feeling of dependence that is building up the south and making her substantial part of the fabric of a prosperous nation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-03
Those Amusing Antics.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer
 It Is reported that the hyena that King Menelik has sent to the president keeps up continuous bowling.
 Let the keepers take him over to the house of representatives. That will make him laugh.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-03

Wanted-Good Gin Men Carpenters (bench hands)- Machinists (lathe hands)- Breasters and Saw Trainers.
 GULLETT GIN co.
 Amite, La
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ization of men. It has elegant quarters, elaborately furnished. and its member snip Is composed of the foremost men of the city
 Pages could be written of Gadsden, but the Age-Herald, which Is the first paper to reach here every day in the week, and which is largely circulated here, has covered the city from time to time. The object of this letter is only to answer the questions, What is Gads- den doing today?'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-03

cannot follow them. I asked a young niece of my own who lately left Honolulu what birds visited their grounds three miles up the valley road, and she tells me, Java sparrows, ricebirds, and those squawklng mynahs. The last eat up all our young figs and grapes, unless we throw the ten his nets over them. The natives call the mynah manu ai pilau-that Is, ''bird who eats filth" He does some good, then, as we'll as H.
 That watching of birds which Is essen- tial to a knowledge of their life history has indeed. been impossible to most visit ors to Hawaii. And now that annexation is giving an impetus to the development of the country's resources. the inevitable destruction of it's forests. even If the birds themselves do not perish with the trees that sheltered and fed them, is driv- Ing them up to still more inaccessible heights and wooded depths between the sharp volcanic peaks which will baftie the hardest climber.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-03

THE ENDOWED THEATRE.
BY PAUL GILMORE.

An Endowed theatre is therefore a nec- essity
 People have come to measure all things by money rule.
 Mr. Carnegie says he does not believe in an Endowed theatre. The question is: Is Mr. Carnegie authority?
 Writing a beautiful poem, painting beautiful picture, or impersonating grand character and giving millions of dollars away, are as far apart as the Antipodes.
 Art is simply the expression of human emotions.
 Accommodating millions of dollars is the art of appropriating part of the pro duct. or earning faculty, of a number of human beings.
 MT. Carnegie says: If a thing needs support it admits weakness.
 The child Is weak, the mother supports 1t; 1t grows by the aid of the support and gets strong.
 Can money serve a better purpose than to become the mother of art?
 Let money support art and art will grow big and strong.
 All the Rothschilds. Carnegies Stages, Vanderblts, Astors. Czars. Emperors and Kings combined could not produce a Paradise Lost, Last Supper a King Lear or such character Representations as Irving's Louis XI., Rehan's Lady Lady Teazle or Raymond's Colonel Sellers. But their money could be of vast benefit to those who have natures of artists.
 We not only need one Endowed thea tre, but many of them.
 Let money come to the help of art and in ten years time tho Amer ican playwright. actor and musician will be among the foremost of the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-03
The New South.

From the Boston Globe.
 The new south has already become more than an economic dream. Accord
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-12-17

usual. and from July 10 to Sept. TO-
there was not a single fine day.
In CastIerea, County Roscommon,
, one of the most severely affected dis
tricts last spring the local authorities
foreseeing the possibility of a bad po-
tato crop, as the preceding years seeds
were very inferior, asked permission
from Dublin Castle to spend a small
sum in distributing new seeds, but this
demand was CURLY refused.
The good land has been almost Who'll
" absorbed into great, fertile grazing
farms, while the tenants are steadily
driven on TO the bare. stony patches,
or bogland. where economic rent is
unearnable. The land act of last year
gave them no relief, as the govern
ment refused the earnest demand of
the Irish party to include among its
provisions the power compulSOrily to
acquire these grazing farms for divis-
ion among the people in the Congested
areas adjoining them.
Dublin Castle has sent down inspec
tors, but, as usual, they refused to
recognize that there is any need for ur-
gent help, as the tenants have in some
cases enough potatoes to carry them
over till Christmas without absolute
starvation Special correspondents
from London papers going over the
ground, give appalling accounts of the
privation of the peasants, whose cheer
full patience and uncomplainingnes
sometimes provokes their strong adj
miration The island of Achill, off the
coast of Galway, is one of the worst
parts. as there absolute famine is only
a matter of three or four weeks. Ill
ness from want is common, and the
dread famine fever cannot long be
STAYED off. The Daily Chronicle cor
respondent says:
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-12-17

commanded by their bishops to come
ever here and plead and they have
Cheyed. The work they have under
taken is most disagreeable. One of
them recently has told us that over and
over he has been insulted while MAX
Ing his round doing the begging he
was sent TO do. As rule these clergy
men are to be pitied
But-and here is a question-is not
some pity due the clergy of our own
country, too? They know that in their
little parishes as a rule, the people are
poor. There is scarcely enough money
t. keep the church and the priest and
the various necessary charities going.
a. things are. They have their own
churches and schools to build and keep
in order. The priest from Ireland
comes and the people are sympathetic.
They open their purses for him and
gtve-often far more literally than they
Go to the parish priest. AS A result the
Parish is stripped and the money never
Ieturns.
Still. this should not be regretted if
there were any actual need of church
tUiloing in the old country. But. in
tolnt of fact, Ireland is better supplied
With churches than is this country.
Where is the reason in building fine
'iui SlleS III d country which Ine people
are leaving by thousands year after
year? They are coming here and they
need churches here. 1t is because there
is lack of priests and churches that
thousands OFF young Irish are lost to
he faith on arriving here. In cold
truth, is there not upon us solemn
obligation before God to provide for
those here and those coming rather
than for the building of artistic and
mighty cathedrals i'll land which the
PEOPLE are deserving?
What may be done? We do not know.
We do not see what can be done un-
less someone makes it plain to the
bishops over in Ireland that the Irish
iru this country are. as rule, poor
end already the bearers of many bur
Gens. Some day and somehow there
must come an end to this incessant
round of parliamentary fund collec-
tons, cathedral fund collections, and
funds for other unnecessary purposes.
IN case of famine, give, give give; but
III other cases have mercy on us, be-
cause of the burdens we are bearing
l'ere at home.-Catholic sun
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-12-17
Taking Catholic Position.

The high church Episcopalians are
coming over to the Catholic position on
divorce very rapidly. Holy Trinity has
come out flat-footed for an indissoluble
marriage, and has published the fol-
lowing notice:
we, the undersigned, the rector and
clergy of the parish of Trinity church,
IN the City of New York, having in
view the action taken BIZ the general
convention at it's recent session in
Boston releasing the clergy of this
church from any obligation toward di-
Ytrced persons seeking remarriage at
their hands, do hereby give notice that
we will not solemnize holy matfimory
in any case in which either party has
husband or wife living, who has been
divorced. for any cause arising subse-
Guent to marriage, and it is hereby
announced that the marriage of any
person so divorced may not take place
IN Trinity church or in any of the
chapels of this parish"
The announcement is signed by the
Rev. DR.. Morgan Dixon of Trinity
church, and the posters of St Paurs,
st. Johns. st. Luke's, Trinity. ST.
Agnes, st. Chrysostom st. Angus
tines and st. Cornelius chapels.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-12-17
sALIDA CoLo.

Miss Mary Killeen was picked up
unconscious by friends on the street,
where she had fallen with a hemmor-
hage, Thursday, Dec. 8. She was TAX
en- TO her home on C street, where
skilled medical aid attended her till
death at noon on Monday. Miss Mary
killeen came to Salida in 1889 and
went Immediately into school work.
She had been teaching in our schools
continuously ever since. She had Civ
en- such eminent satisfaction that she
had withstood all the changes and
storms among school workers of the
city. She was a favorite among her
pupils and teachers generally. She
was native Of Buffalo, n. Y, where
her remains were taken for interment.
Her brother, Thomas Killeen, died in
this city last February. Her brother.
James killeen, of Salt Lake arrived
Monday and accompanied the remains
10 Buffalo. Miss Killeen was a devout
Christian and a faithful member of
The Catholic church. A sister, Mrs.
Mooney on her way here was inter
cepted at Chicago. The funeral took
place from the Catholic church Wed
nesday morning. The schools were
closed on Wednesday forenoon in or
der TO allow the teachers and pupils
an opportunity to attend the funeral.
All Monday afternoon an atmosphere
Of gloom surrounded the high school
and little in the way Of recitation was
accomplished. Teachers and pupils
alike had not yet recovered from the
shocks which all felt upon the sudden
announcement of Miss Killeen's death
large number of the high school
pupils have at some former time been
pupils of Miss Killeen and still retail
for her the kindest regard and esteem.
All preparations for holiday merriment
were at once suspended. The teachers
who have known her and worked with
her so long were almost Frustrated
with grief
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-12-17
IRELAND FACES
ANOTHER FAMINE.

There is now no doubt whatever than
an extensive area of the poorest dis
trict in the west of Ireland is threat
ened with famine. The potato crop
has failed badly the tubers, where not
actually diseased, being wretchedly
small To these people, eking out the
oarest subsistence at the best of times.
on pltltully meagre and unproduCtive
holdings, reclaimed by their own slav-
lsh toll, from the bog or barren hill
size, the potato is the staff of life. They
never get meat more than two or three
times a year, living on maize. potatoes
and dried fish chiefly. The weather,
prevailing damp, has been worse than
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-12-17
services at St Mary's church and in
terment was in the Catholic cemetery

services at St Mary's church and in
terment was in the Catholic cemetery.
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At the regular meeting of division
No !. A. O. H. Centerville. last week.
the following officers were elected for
the ensuing year: John K. O'RouTke,
president: NJ. ]. English, vice president;
T. ]. Mccarthy, recording secretary;
James J. Mccarthy, financial secretary;
P ]. Sullivan. treasurer; D. Harring-
ton, ergeant-atarms; John Fox SEN
tinel; Thomas Curtis, marshal; Frank
E. Mcdonald, trustee for three years.
At the Holy Savior church in Meader-
VILE. branch of the Sodality of the
Blessed Virgin was established during
the 10 o'clock mass Sunday. The So
dahty is attached to the one in Rome.
Fifty boys and girls received the
blessed medals and badges and Father
Batens, pastor of st. Lawrence church,
delivered the sermon.
Rev Fathers De Siere, Batenss Eng
lish, Callahan and Van Aiken of this
CITY. Administrator Day of Helena and
Coopman of Anaconda, left Sunday
evening for Dubuque, Ia, to be present
at the conservation of Ri Rev. John
p. Carroll, the newly-appointed bishop
of this diocese, which takes place on
Dec. y.
Rev Father McGlynn is busy at work
preparing for the Christmas services at
St. Patrick's church, and expects To
have a musical programme that will be
better than anything that has ever
been given in Butte. The choir is now
hard at work rehearsing. and every
thing will be in shape for Christmas
morning, when the first mass is read.
Mrs. Flora B. Rooney is assisting Fa-
Their McGlynn.
The ladies of division No. ., A. o. H..
about 100 of their friends at
I. O. G.. T. hall last week. The hall
was beautifully decorated with carna-
tons and smilax and the afternoon
passed merrily with songs, music and
cards.
A very pleasant surprise party was
rendered Miss Mary Monaghan at her
home. Atlantic street, Meaderville.
About two dozen guests enjoyed jolly
evening.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-12-17
ANACONDA, MONT.

At the last meeting of the Woman's
Catholic Order of Foresters the follow
ing officers were elected: Mrs. Mary
ODonnell deputy high chief ranger;
Miss Mary II. Brennan. past chief
ranger; Mrs. Annie Sweeney, chief
ranger: Mrs. Lupke, vice chief ranger;
Miss Alice L. Mahoney, recording sec
rotary; Mrs. Mary Wicke, financial sec
Mrs. Bessie Coffey, treasurer;
Mrs. William kelliher, Mrs. Kate
Sphera and Mrs. James Lappin, trus-