The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-27

ians are always sure of work at the mills,
their superiority over the negroes is not
so marked as to induce the mill men to
make any extraordinary effort to procure
them. Several squads of Norwegians
have been brought down from the north,
and have made an excellent impression
upon their employers here, but there is
great difficulty about getting these men
to venture down into Mississippi, and 50
the movement has not become general
by any means.
In preparation for the hot and compare
lively dull summer months that are just
ahead, the lumber buyers of Hattiesburg
have just organized a baseball team
which they have dubbed with the eupho-
NOUS name of the Goozlers, and with
which they challenge the world on the
diamond They have adopted the trade
motto: IAN quotations subject TO imme-
date acceptance" The lineup of the
team includes the following well known
lumber men: ]. c. Tompkns, pitcher
c. r. Hughes, catcher l.. Hide, first
base H. Hagerty, second base; Otto
Harpe, third base; T. L. McElreath,
shortstop; Jim Cleland, right field; w. b.
Perry, left field: Ben Cragin, center field !;
T.. 1Ilne DellGlls JOllil hCl<tOu St1l Clhi y >
Curt Rich manager. 1t is not a jolly
to say that this team embraces some of
the best amateur baseball material in the
south, and it may be relied upon to bring
some laures into the piney woods coun-
try before the end of the season.
Scranton and Gulfport In Rivalry.
The export lumber trade is bound to
be more or less affected by the friendly
rivalry that is now in active eruption be-
tween the ports of Scranton and Gulf
port. Both ports are making a strong
bid for federal assistance, and both are
in fair way to get the backing of Uncle
Sam as soon as the ponderous machinery
of governmental operation can get around
to them Gulfport holds the present adj
vantage by reason of having the splendid
deep water channel which was dredged
out by Captain Jones of the Gulf and
Ship Island Railroad company. Pasca-
goula has always contended that the
natural advantages of that port were
superior to those of Gulfport, and also
point to the fact that line drawn from
the mouth of the Panama canal TO st.
Louis would pass directly through the
harbor of Paseagoula, and with slight
and mmaterial DETECTION would take In
Memphis, the great inland distributing
CeIteI 1dSCd6oulst nv wal ~ iiie'rN7
on Gufport, and Gulfport has no fight
to make on Pascagoula When the canal
is completed and opened to the commerce
of the world the two ports will have
all they can do to keep up with the car
goes of freight that will come through
them Captain Jones Is now endeaVor-
ing to get Congress to reimburse him for
the outlay of cash spent by him and his
railroad in dredging out the harbor at
Gulfport, and when this is done he pro-
poses to release all his personal claims
to the port.
In the meantime Congress continues to
make annual appropriations to the har-
Dor at Pascagoula. There are now sew
eral powerful dredgeboats at work at
Scranton. clearing out a channel 800 feet
wide and eighteen feet deep all the way
from Horn Island pass to the many mills
that stretch for ten miles up the Pasca-
goula river. 1t is also announced that
within the next few weeks one of the
largest sea-going dredges of the United
States government will be sent to Horn
Island to deepen that pass and channel to
twenty-three feet at low tide and with
a width of 800 feet.
Gulfport is now connected with the
world through the splendid system of
roads built by Capt. J. T. Jones and con-
Meeting with the Louisville and Nashville
system, the Queen and Crescent system
the Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City
railroad, the Illinois Central, and indi-
rectly with the Mobile and Ohio Pasca-
goula is working hard to secure a trunk
line connection. and 1T is tipped off that
announcement of important railroad de-
velopments will shortly be made guaran-
teeing to Pascagoula similar advantages
For some time representatives of several
southern syndicates have been inves IT,
eating the possibilities of Pascagoula har-
Dor and there seems a certainty that this
harbor will be improved and perfected
and will be adopted as the chief outlet
of trunk line system.
More Railroad Building.
There has of late been much activity
in the way of carrying forward the plans
of those who are engaged in promoting
railroad construction through the piney
woods country. The Birmingham and
Mississippi Southern company. of which
| Ex-Governor A. II. Longino is the presi-
dent has sent its corps of engineers over
the route, starting at Birmingham, with
| instructions to cover the entire distance
to Baton Rouge, as contemplated for
the main line, with side trips over the
| proposed Pascagoula and Meridian con-
| Meeting branches. The Mississippi Gen.
| trail. having completed its line to Brook
haven where 1t affords the lumber ship
pers direct connection northward with
the Illinois Central. has let contracts for
grading twenty miles to E. o. Gibson and
| forty miles to the Worthington Construc-
ton company, between Brookhaven and
| Natchez. The Goodyears are pushing for
ward with their grading work, and will
| in due time come to the surface with a
| considerable stretch of road ready for i'm
mediate use.
Short Items of Interest.
The Needs Lumber company, domiciled
at Hattiesburg and capitalized for $4,000.
| has filed its charter for record with the
secretary Of state at Jackson. The in
corporators are p J. Toomer s. B. VII