The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-27
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MT. Easan May Wed Princess.

Thomas P. Eagan. the millionaire woodworking machinery manufactures yesterSag and Wiii VSe be the tn s1ess fo short time of MT. c. s. Allen at the Melrose Hotel.
 There is strong American and Ha- waiian gossip that MT. Eagan, who has just returned from the annexed islands, has won the hand of a noted Portu- guese princess. It Is said that the ar- arrangements for the marriage are now making, and that MT. Eagan will short ly return to Honolulu where the event will be consummated.
 When MT. Eagan was in Honolulu last he chanced to stay at the same hotel with the princess, who was at the time on an inspection tour of large estates of her own near that port. She was attended by her full retinue and from associations in that city there the days went.
 MT. Eagan neither aflrms nor denies the story but 1t is noted that he looks wistfully to the Hawaiian Islands and on this account he may not remain in Montgomery as long as he probably first intended.
 Enormous Price for Palmer House.
 T was very much impressed by the possibilities of the hotel business in Chicago, through the making of a con- tract which came under my notice" said President F. E. Creelman> of the
 
 the lobby of the Imperial Hotel.
 While in Chicago few days ago I was informed of the remarkable con- tract made for the lease of the Palmer House by the Palmer House Company, which leases the hotel and operates it. The details of this contract lease are astonishing to laymen.
 The company in the contract agrees to pay the hotel owners $1.0o0 day for the 313 week days in the year. Tho company further agrees to pay the ho- tel owners s2.0oo a day for each of the ffty-two Sundays in the year. In other words the company will pay $1.o00 for each week day in the year the hotel is operated, and $2,000 for each Sunday the company is permitted to run the hotel. The contract provides further that each night the thousand dollars or the two thousand dollars must be put in the bank by the company to The contract runs for a period of twen- ty-f1ve years"
 Wearing Apparel of Undertakers.
 There is a growing tendency" said a man who reads newspapers. for un- dertakers to become more and more inn portant functionaries at funerals.
 Time was," he continued, when the undertaken furnished the casket and carriages and funeral car were secured elsewhere. Now the undertaken does more. He takes complete charge of the ceremonies, relieving the bereaved fam fly of all burdens.
 q observe that in a number of the larger Western cities the undertakers are adopting the custom of wearing Tuxedo coats at funerals instead of the clerical clothes heretofore worn by un- dertakers in the larger cities They claim that the Tuexedo is more com- fortable and more businesslike. | The Association of our Alabama Un- dertakers is to meet in Montgomery soon and we may expect some innova- tion from them as they are, all in all as progressive as any other set of bus mess men in the State." | Plea for Public Concerts.
 T believe it would be great thing for the people of Montgomery this summer" said a well known citizen arrangement with the Montgomery City Band or some other good band to give tri-weekly concerts in some public l square in the city.
 Tt seems to me that some equitable terms could be made with the Mont gomery City Band to give these con- | certs on nights during the hot summer months and I think it would be money Hundreds of people would attend these concerts and 1t would be source of recreation for the city's poor that is not now at hand. A number of cities have these public band concerts and I know that their citizens appreciate them; o. o,.u ...,o ,, see the wisdom of such plan and in- troduce some preparatory measure in | the Council"
 Hon. Hugh D. Merrill of Anffiston came to town last night. He expects ! to be here two or three days.
 MT. John W. HuddIeston, a prominent citizen of Eufaula, spent yesterday in Montgomery.
 MT. Carl Espy of Abbeville is at the New Mabson.
 MT. W. W. Ladell of Greenville is in the city.
 MT. J. L. Adams of Union Springs Is l in town.