The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-09
.DAUPHIN ISLAND
 PLAN KNOCKED OUT Appropriation fOr Survey De-
 feated in Conference MOBILE WINS THE FIGHT Drennen-Allen-Jackson-Parsons People Wonder How It Happened-An
 Eleventh Hour Victory for
 "That Man Danner."
MOBILE WINS THE FIGHT

IC EtlOil lO 5El AltG OAANtd ototNS 6pf ernment to appropriate money sufficient to survey and to estimate the cost of, a deep water harbor at Little Dauphin Is- land south of Mobile has been defeated. The amendment to the rivers and har- bors bill that was adopted by the Sem att committee on commerce was stricken out at the last moment in the confer ence held between representatives respec- lively of the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives.
 This intelligence was conveyed in Wash ington dispatches received in Birmingham yesterday.
 It means that the Mobile people led by A. c. Danner have "bested" the Bir- mingham crowd, led by w. Melville Dren- nen, B. M Allen, F. M. Jackson and Joseph F. Parsons. It means also in the judgment of some persons, that the wishes of MeDile have outweighed the opinions of large section of the state in the estimation of the Senate and House cenferees on the rivers and harbors bill.
 The Blow.
 To the ackson-P Parsons people the new from Washington was very much like the celebrated blow that almost killed father" It hit the Mayor amldships. made him a trifle "groggy" and kept him so all afternoon. When he recovered his composure, be confided to his friends that this latest development was only another indication that the well fare of the whole state was being made secondary to the supposed interests Of Mobile.
 Mir. Parsons.
 Joseph F. Parsons took on a weird and "woozzy" air the moment he heard the news from Washington. He moved about as though he was in sort of a half trance and was wondering could the in teligence be really true. Like the girl in the story books, he "knew but did not understand"
 Why it was only few hours ago that the Allen en-Drennen-Jackson crowd had wired to Underwood and Bankhead and Pettus And it was even fewer hours since the news came that the Senate committee on commerce had adopted 'he Little Dauphin Island amendment. And now, when Congress was adjourned, and the members were on their way home, comes this startling announcement. It was the worst upset that had ever taken place in human calculations Gould 1t really bep' wondered Mir. Parsons-as he struck out to hunt up B M. Allen.
 Bee En-"
 Bee En-" too, for once in his life, was up in the air" The whole thing was as "a bolt from the blue" to him. For three days he had seen hotels going up on Little Dauphin Island and ships steaming in there and naval vessels put ting in for coal and hordes of globe-trot- ba pofpf Com fort of the Gulf from New York, London, Paris. Vienna, Berlin, Florence and Rome. H. had seen also the Birmingham district feeding all the Central and South Amer ican countries with coal and iron and steel. And he had seen "other things" as well-he and all his 'outer-bar' asso- ciates had been seeing them.
 But that's another story.
 Never before in Bee Ems" recollection had there been so remarkable a slip twixt the cup and the lip. Bee Elm" bore 1t all stoically, however; reminded Parsons that cherries were almost, if not quite ripe. and bade him to cheer up.
 Parsons Not comforted.
 But Parsons would not be comforted. Rachel weeping for her lost ones wasn't a marker to Parsons lamenting for the suddenly disappearing appropriation to
 
 ferees should have been more considerate, Parsons reasoned. They should have re- membered that the money was asked for in behalf of-in behalf in of what, gen temen? Why, gentlemen, in behalf of an island, And not only an island, gen. tlemen, but little one at that. And what was more, gentlemen, 1t was asked for in behalf of an island that perpetuated the pathetic fate of the dauphin of Francel Historical associations were to be cher ished here. Oh! for one hour of George Frisbie Hoar, L. O. c. Lamar or any other members of the American Antiqu- arian society,"
 All Afternoon.
 And all afternoon the Drennen-Allen- Jackson-Parsons people kept on talking about a man named Danner, who lives in Mobile.
 sThat d. d. d., that delightful Danner has done us to a turn" said one of the Birmingham crowd.
 Whereat there was none who dissent ed.