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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-17
CASUALTY COMPANIES
 FEAR A CIRCUS RISK

too, are great, as in one season alone a
 The total amount of the insurance will be over s500.000, the principal portion of which, however, will be used to cover the wild animals Probably the most unique policies ever issued will be those written on the various trained wild beasts. In- dividual policies have been issued on the more important beasts, as. for instance, on Pedro, the elephant riding tiger, who jumps through hoops of fire and performs ar act of such startling skill and nerve that few human equestrians would care to duplicate his performance. Pedro is insured for s10,000.
 Before the insurance was granted the companies insisted on many covenants be- ing entered into which in themselves are unusual. All the animals on which sep arate policies are carried have had to be branded as a means of identification, it being a practical impossibility for an ad- juster to tell one wild beast from another of the same species. Many other steps were taken by the companies to protect themselves, the most important being that the cars Tn Wnlcn all perlOfneFS, nuiildi or animal, travel should be built with steel bed floors at least four inches thick and steel supports at each end. The cars are, therefore, of great strength, and 1t is now believed that, except in case of severe collision, they will withstand almost any impact.
 The Hagenbeck circus is moved in three trains. The first carries the equipment such as tents seats. etc.; the second car ries employees and human performers, while the third carries only the wild animal menagere and performing beasts. The companies have insisted that each train be supplied with proper fire-fghting apparatus. and that the animal train car ry a number of men who have served as firemen in some recognized service. The greatest fear in the minds of the insur- ance companies seems to have been that of fire after a collision, it being a recog- nized fact that wild animals are espe- cially hard to handle under such condi- tions In addition to the individual poli- cles, group insurance is carried on the menagerie animals, horses, etc. besides general equipment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-17
MT. Underwsod's Second Victory.

When MT. Underwood had out flanked the opponents of his district court bill the latter at once took an appeal to Attorney General Moody and President Roosevelt. The President and the attorney general were both pelted with telegrams, while MT. Un- derwood simply went up to the at torney generals office, where he talked the matter over with MT. Moody. The rest followed naturally and in good order. The bill was signed, and Birmingham gains from it six months of court each year.
 MT. Underwood stood almost alone in the House in this matter, for three congressman from this state opposed the bill and four took no position upon 1t. So far as the Congressional Rec ord shows, no one supported the bill on the floor of the House except MT. Underwood, and he fought ali corners
  from MT. Keller to William Alden Smith. In the Senate General Pettus put the bill through.
 The bill is wholly just The House committee of the judiciary presented the figures of cases pending in the various parts of the Middle and North. ern districts, and the committee goes on to say:
 From the foregoing statement 1t Is readily seen that more than half of the business of all the courts in the northern and middle district ol Alabama Is now pending on the dockets of the courts for the southern division of the northern dis trict of Alabama at Birmingham.
 .~rhe testimony before the judiciary committee shows that Birmingham is in the center of the mining and manufact- uring district of Alabama, and is the lar sest railroad center fin the state; that AAara is . vast amount of litigation at
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-17
LIKE NIJNl-NOvGOROD.

From the New York Mail.
 What. Is this my native Nijni-Nov- gorod and is this the volga? Then I am at home indeed.v said Haxim Gorky as he looked out from his hotel window over the Hudson the first morning he spent in the metropolis. Those who have seen the ancient fair city in the heart of great Russia and have read Gorkys spirited picture of its people in ''Foma Gordyeeff' will recognize the justice of the comparison. although 1t may never have occurred to them before.
 The Hudson is broader than the volga, and its tidal waters are crystal clear in- stead of the golden brown of the great river that flows through the forests of wooden Russia" But the rocky bluffs that overlook it on the Jersey side are not unlike the clay bluffs that command the volga, and the domed monastery that crowns them in the Hoboken hinterland might have been lifted bodily from the Kremlin or Nijni- Novgorod. As the East river joins the North river within the limits of the city, so the Oka joins the Volsa, and in the fiat land between the two Russian rivers lies the world-famed mart of commerce. as commercial New York is huddled upon Manhattan Island
 For ten months in the year Mini Novgorod is just a sleepy, provincial city. with a population something larger than Yonkers. But for two months beginning late In July and ending In September it lives up to it's name as the scene of the last and greatest of the fairs of medieval
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-17
From the Baltimore Herald.

From the Baltimore Herald.
 N CCoRDING to the press agent of \P7E the new Hagenbeck show, who
 is in town today arranging for lis appearance here next week, one of the hardest things. in the world to ln- sure is a circus either in part or as whole. The big casualty companies class 1. |. A verp poor risk and the protection needed most-that against train wreck commands such a big premium that few of the circuses care to pay for the pro lection. The employees and human per formers mostly all carry personal insur- ance, for which, however, on account of their calling, they have to pay big premium. Many of the life companies re- fuse to insure circus performers at any rate whatever, which is also true of some of the accident companies.
 Stranger still Is the fact that the main desire for such insurance is not to protect the loss on human life so much as to in- sure the loss consequent on the death or or serious injury to the trained wild ani- mals. The Hagenbeck trained animals, both on account of their rarity and great skill are almost priceless. Before allow inv his animals to travel with the circus this season Carl Hagenbeck insisted on the insurance being obtained. Some two years ago MT. Hagenbeck suffered a very serious loss iron train wreck In Flu rope. and not only was the loss or the animals severe, but the monetary JOSS caused hy the trainers inability to re- nlace the acts was far greater. Hagen heck trained polar bear act, In which ten or twelve polar bears take part, requires at least ten years to develop. Such an act will, when ready to be put on the mar ket command salary of at least soO0 a week for the first five years, and will av- craze $500 a week for perhaps five. ten, or even more years longer. As it must take many years to obtain and train an- other troupe of bears It will be readily ap- parent that a loss from train wreck of a large number of Hagenbeck trained ami nal acts would be immense. During the coming season the Carl Hagenbeck shows will be insured against loss by train wreck only. The policies which have been issued by the Travellers Insurance com pany of America will also be reinsured in several other big American and Eu- ropean companies, so that in the event Of a sever accident the individual loss will be small. The dangers of train wreck,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-17
WHY THE RosINs BREAST IS RED

By James R. Randall. The Savior. bowed beneath His cross,
 climbed up the dreary hill And from the agonizing wreath ran many
 a crimson Till; The cruel Roman thrust Him on with un-
 relenting hand, Till, staggering slowly mid the crowd, He
 fell upon the sand. A little bird that warbled near that mem
 orable day Fitted around and strove to wrench one
 single thorn away: The cruel spike impaled His breast-and
 thus. lis sweetly said, The robin has his silver vest incarnadined
 with red. An Jesus, Jesus, Son of Man. my dolor
 and HB sighs Reveal the lesson taught by this winged
 lshmael of the skies. l, in the palace of delight or cavern or de-
 spair Have plucked no thorns from Thy dear
 brow. but planted thousands there.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-17
MARCH OF PROHIBITION.

From the Huntsville Mercury.
 The prohibition element of the state recognize that the dspensary is the first step toward prohibition. and in all the counties of the state where the dispen- sary sentiment Is stronger than the pro hibition sentiment the word has been sent out to join forces and support dispen- sary. The whisky element in Hunts vile know they can defeat the prohi- bitionists, hence the anxiety to have the campaign run on those lines. They are merely catching at straws. The campaign will be on the line they fear most-the dispensary-and will put them out of business
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-17
THE COMIC POET.

He wrote a rhyme on Easter bills, On vanity and hats: The price of coal and Standard oil The life we lead in flats. He joked about the magnates bold, The politicians. too; About the Presidents big stick
 The way the servants do. He spun some verse on living high
 And eke the auto ear; He ridiculed the stuff we eat
 The fierce campaign cigar. He joked about the stork and twins, About his ma-n-law, About night frolics at the club
 The funny things he saw. The fat man in a trolley car,
 The woman who stood up Were not forgotten by this bard,
 Nor yet, the bulldog pup. He paid a tribute to the tramp,
 Likewise, the office boy, The baseball game, the shrieking fan, The umpire, free from joy. He lampooned all the funny flends
 He met in daily walks The comic woes that people have, The windy man who talks; The summer girl the fisherman, The hefty end-seat hog, The waiter in a restaurant,
 The "skeeter'' in a bog. The merry bedbug, here and dAthere,
 Was given fame in rhyme, As were the pleasures that fill up The good old summer time. He trined with the chorus girl Her age, the clothes she wore, And prodded the surbanite
 Till he was sick and sore. There wasn't any sort of theme This fellow didn't use. While plying his profession he
 Would work up any ruse. He sang ten thousand songs, l guess, And yet the people say The greatest hit he ever made
 Was when he passed away Every pert paragrapher in the country is yelling Play Ball"
 Music instead of handcuffs will be used to quiet the iunatics of Kansas. It may have that effect on crazy people. No, anxious Annie, Perry Belmont didn't call the President MT, Facing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-17

this point, and the dockets of the United States courts are overcrowded; that under present conditions 1t takes four or five years after 1t Is filed to reach a civil case for trial. which amounts to almost denial of justice; most of the time is oc- eupled in trying the criminal cases.
 "The report of the attorney-general for the United States for last year shows that the business in the courts of the northern and middle districts of Alabama Is greater in amount than that on the dockets of any district or districts in the United States over which single judge is called upon to preside. except that of the southern district of New York
 There is no doubt that to accom- plish the ends of justice some form of re- lief is needed at Birmingham, and ii Is believed that this blll by providing for six months of court, will relieve the sit uation without great cost to the govern ment"
 This is the entire argument in nutshell. It came from the House committee of the judiciary, and the entire report, figures included, is printed in the Congressional Record. Mir Underwood's management of the bill was excellent He met all oppo- nents, and he won at every point. His victory before Attorney General Moody put an end to the conflict, and handed over 10 him and to General Pettus all the laurels of the occasion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-17
LATE JAMES A. BAILEY.

From the New York Sun.
 The late James A. Bailey, in addition to his complete mastery of the circus bus mess, was probably the best transporta- ton man in the country Besides knowing how to set 1t before them. he possessed a marvellous knowledge of the railroads over which the show must be moved, the distance from town to town and the difficulties that must be met and over come in each community
 Seated in his office, MT. Bailey could tell over what roads his trains could be moved, the grades that they must take, the facilities to be obtained for loading and unloading, and the position and dis tance of the show grounds with rela- ton to the railroad switches He could give the route of the circus for an entire season in this manner. with practically no reference books and with unvarying accuracy. Certain railway lines could not accommodate the circus trains because of weak bridges, narrow cuts or on account of other physical reasons. and these MT. Bailey had indexed absolutely in his mind.
 In his complete grasp of this depart ment of his business Mir, Bailey was not less wonderful than in the other branches. many-sided man, he was most remark able for the thoroughness and complete knowledge he displayed in each of them. Barnum's name will never stand second to another's in the annals of saWdust ring, but it is a question whether he was so complete a master of all the mys- teries of the circus was MT. Bailey.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-17
FIattery's the bellows blows up sin.
 --Pericles. Prince of Tyre.
Twelve Thousand a Day.

Nine ships landed in New York last Sunday 1889 immigrants. and eight big ships were expected to bring in as many more yesterday. What the prospects are for today has not been stated, but if an equal number of ships come in today, this tide will be equivalent in numbers to the land ing of an Anniston on Sunday, a Huntsville on Monday, and Selma today.
 This great tide of homeseekers would be all right if 1t could be turned to sections where it is needed One of Sundays ships that put Into New York had on board 958 immigrants to be landed in Baltimore, and yester- day that ship sailed away to that port. This points to the true remedy. Let the immigrants be distributed prop erly by landing them at the ports nearest districts that need them. This would be better than head taxes or educational qualifications. Better still 1t would be If all immigrants from Southern Europe were ordered to land at South Atlantic or Gulf ports. while those from Northern Europe are landed at North Atlantic ports. The control is vested in the general gov ernment.
 This country can readily assimilate a million immigrants year if they -aare properly distributed along our lonR coast line. Unwise distribution woSAs all the harm of immigration The southern cotton fields suffer be- oause Italians are not brought to them, while the congested northern cities complain bitterly against the influx of newcomers. It is fully dem mstrated that the Italian farmer could prof1tably make cotton It is, in fact, his best opportunity The climate is his own, and all other con ditions are favorable. But the govern ment persists in landing him in New York when he should be landed at New Orleans, where plenty of return freight is available. The Dillingham; bill, now before the Senate, does con tain some provisions relating to dis tribution, but none of them go far enough. and no bill will meet the problem fully and squarely and solve It until all immigrants from Southern Europe are landed at Gulf ports. Landed in New York they are out of reach. The cotton fields are as far away In travel cost as their old homes in Europe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-17
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs
Politics in Marion County.

Jame Pierce, a prominent democrat of Marion county, who was a member of the constitutional convention. was in Birming- ham yesterday. "The people of my county are solid for S. D. Weakley for chief jus tice'' said Mir Pierce. He also said that he believed that W. J. Bryan would be nominated and elected President of the United States in 190s Tn order to make Mir. Bryans election doubly sure l think that the labor organizations of the eoun- try should have proper representation which would result in victory as great as that recently won by the liberals in England. who, by combining the labor vote with theirs, won an overwhelming victory.
 MT John w. Tomllnson has many friends in Marion county who would like to see him in the United States Senate and would give him their hearty support in the event he enters the race.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-17
Handsome Building.

Until I saw picture of the East Lake orphanage in Sundays Age-Herald, l had no idea what a handsome building had been secured by the management said a busy man.
 "The late Father O'Reilly. perhaps, nev- CT did a nobler work than when he pur- chased the athaneum building and con verted 1t into home for the orphans. The building was. I am told, not only substantially constructed, but judging from the picture. 1t is artistic in design I learn that photographs from which the cuts were made-the building, the group of children and the interior of the chapel, were made by the Birmingham View company"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-17
The spIttIna Ordinance.

"A number of men were fined in the police court recently for violating the anti-spitting ordinance, said citizen who rides every day in the street cars. q was glad to see that the ordinance was no longer a dead letter. As l have not read of any splitting cases coming up in court within the past few days l pre- sume the examples made of those who had spit in the cars or on the sidewalks had the fleet of making people more careful in observing the ordinance. When the public sees that no guilty man can escape the ears and sidewalks will be free from tobacco juice"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-17
About Persons.

F. M. Brown of Montgomery is at the Birmingham.
 J. R. Caldwell of Gadsden is stopping at the Morris.
 J. E. Lacy of Jasper Is registered at the Metropolitan.
 c. W. Buckley of Montgomery is stop ping at the Hillman.
 W. S. Swiney of Johns is at the s.. Nicholas.
 J. w Murphy of Anniston is registered at the Morris.
 S. W. Welch of Talladega is at the Hillman.
 J. c. Maxam and wife of Alexander City are stopping at the Morris.
 A. G. Hauser of Atlanta has accepted a position with the Metropolitan hotel.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-17
Likes Baseball.

q always want to go and see a game Of baseball when l can finish my business in time to get to the park, said W. A Garrett, general manager of the Queen and Crescent Route, yesterday. And especially like to travel to West End whenever I get to Birmingham he con- tinued.
 Just as certain as l go to the game and Birmingham Is playing. l pull for the Coal Barons I like the looks of the team this year, and it certainly played a good game this afternoon"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-17
Two Many SprinQfieIds.

The Springtields are making a bad record Springfield, O.. indulged in an uncalled-for race riot, and when the leaders in it had been arrested indicted, tried and found guilty the judge on the Ohio bench fined earh
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-17
HE WASN'T DIPLOMATIC.

From the Chicago Dispatch
 He-And l am the first man who ever loved you darling?
 She--Slr you are insulting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-17

The Kaiser does not even desire President to congratulate him on his triumph at the Algeciras conference. He is not aware that he possesses such an article.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-17

The John Bunyan revival goes on swimmingly. Mir Facing-both-way is as numerous in this world as the Man with the Muck Rake.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-17

Having been twice eyicted from New York hotels. Maxim Gorky may fiatter himself that he is getting accli- matized rapidly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-17
ANOTHER SUGGESTION.

From the Gadsden Journal.
 Birmingham is certainly having a hard time in disposing of Vulcan. Why not mt the Iron Man down at the union depot?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-17

Petrunkevitch will be popular in this country because his name IS not so hard to pronounce
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-17

It has been discovered that an in surance company does not have to have it's head offices on Broadway to be crooked.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-17

The Czar will not open the douma in person. He sticks closely to his palace and the sea- He has confidence in the fishes. at any rate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-17

New York paid $7O,O0O to see Rich ard Mansfield act during his recent engagement there, and the general be- lief is that 1t was worth the money.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-17

A Kentucky woman threatens to talk a grand jury to death because 1t scored euchre parties. Bet she could do it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-17

New Jersey has a negro Elijah who stands ready to fill the gap left by the retirement of Five-per-cent Dowie.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-17

The first apostle is seeking salv- age of per cent. He IS out TOT the shekels as he always has been.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-17

Elijah H. thinks five per cent of a loaf is better than no loaf at all.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-17

In order to build that million-dollar palace for Jonh D. III. oil has been pushed up cents a barrel.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-17

Corbin is now a lieutenant general, but no harm will come to the country in these days of profound peace.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-17

Gen. Fred Funston has become dis satisfied with his whiskers, because Gladstone Dowie wears some of like pattern.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-17

The Russian pople have found real leader at last, but his name sounds like the transfer service. Petrunk- evltch has, however, history, and it is a good one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-17

Prof. Matteucci, director of the royal observatory, two miles from the Vesuvius crater, is one of the heroes of the eruption, for he never left his post.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-17

President Castro's resignation has a cable attached to it which cannot be cut.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-17

King Alfonso is always ready to ad- vance the date of his wedding, but he is never willing to reverse the pro cess
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-17

Carnegie says he was more sinned against than shining in that Atlanta kissing incident.