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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-19

F. II. Britton, Cotton Belt: Fourth Vice
President w. J. Harahan, Illinois Central;
John Fitzgerald, superintendent of ter
minals at ST. Louis, Louisville and Nash
Vile, and President H. G. Fleming, Union
railway of Memphis.
At a meeting of directors of the Mo-
hawk Valley company. the holding COM
pany for the various electric lines In
central New York. controlled by the Van
derbilt interests, 1T was decided to adopt
the third rail system on the West Shore
railroad. The section of the road between
Syracuse and Utica a distance of sixty
miles, will be equipped with the new sys-
TEN as rapidly as possible. 1t was also
decided that the equipment for the new
service be ordered at once and put In
operation as soon as practicable.
Effective with train which left St Louis
Friday March 3, southbound, and Mobile
Wednesday, March IA, northbound, the
Havana limited" was discontinued for
the season. The steamship Prince George
was also Withdrawn after sailing from
Mobile March II and from Havana will
be after March 81 Business for Cuba
will be handled on regular Mobile and
Ohio trains in connection with the
steamship Mobile, sailing from Mobile
| Tuesdays and from Havana Fridays.
The Louisville and Nashville railroad
is rushing forward the work of build
! ing long sldetracks between Birmingham
and Nashville and the next twelve
months will find that road with prac-
tlcally a double track along most of that
section of the line.
The Nashville American says: THE
matter of building second track on this
/ division has been under consideration by
! the company for some time, and the great
volume of work in progress on other parts
! of the system Is said to be the only thing
| that keeps the company from carrying
I out its plans to double-track at once
For some time this division has beer
! needing more sidngs to accommodate the
many passing trains, and Superintendent
| j. r. Wheeler of the Nashville division
| has begun the work by constructing as
many long sdings as his forces can con
| veniently handle. Work Is now in prog
/ 'ress on long sidings at many stations
| between Nashville and Birmingham, anC
/ all these sidings are being built on the
same side of the main tracks. This 1t Is
explained by an official of the company
! is done so that the work of doubling
| the tracks will not be such a great task
When the sidetrack work is completed
there will be very fe wgaps of more thar
| five miles to be built in order to complete
! the second track. Many of the sidngs
are over a mile long and will hold sew
! eral trains at once.
| THE numerous sidings along the line
are geing heightened, besides new ones
f, being built, and when the company is
ready for the second track the work car
be done very rapidly y.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-19
ST. PAUL's CHURCH.
Masses Well Observation-Disclosures
Receive Communion In Body.

The masses at st. Paul's yesterday
were well attended. At high mass the
congregation quite filed the church. The
Rev. Father Duffy delivered the third
discourse of his Lenten series
Division No. 3, Ancient Order of Hiber-
mans, attended the 1880 o'clock mass
and received holy communion in body.
The Rev. Father Doyle of ST. Anthony s
church. Ensley, will preach at st. Paul s
next Wednesday night.
A forty hours devotion will begin after
high mass next Sunday.
The Rev. Father Coyle, pastor of st.
Paul's delivered a panegyric on St. Pat
rick at ST. Peters church, Montgomery,
Saturday morning. The Grafton was pub
lished in full in yesterdays Montgomery
Advertiser.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-19
GOVERNOR JELks HERE.
Spent Yesterday as Guest of E. H
Cabaniss-Leaves Today.

Governor Jelks spent yesterday in Biz
mingham the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. e. II
Cabanlss. and will return to Montgom-
cry this morning. He expected to &C
back yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock, but
the Louisville and Nashville train was
seven hours late and he decided to re-
main until this morning.
The governor said he expected to get
a report from State Health Officer San
ders when he returned TO Montgomery
regarding the suspicious fever case in
New Orleans. DR.. Sanders went to New
Orleans at the request of the Louisiana
officials to investigate the case with
them.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-19
SIERRA RECEIVED.
Italian Minister to Venezuela Is Wei
coined by Castro.

Caracas. Venezuela, March II tSatur-
day).-Carlo Filipo Sierra, formerly Ital-
ian consul at San Francisco and now min
lister to Venezuela, was officially received
by President Castro today. President Cas-
tro has gone to Maracaibo.
The government has suspended cable
service from Venezuela by way of Trini-
dad. it being alleged that there are lrreg-
ularities in the service of the English ca
BILE, and messages must be sent by boat
either to Curacao or Trinidad and for
warded thence.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-19
Notice to Contractors.
Mobile, Ala, February %, ls

Mobile, Ala, February 26 1906.
Sealed proposals for the erection of the
new Mobile county jail building, will
be received by the Board of Revenue
and road commissioners of Mobile coun-
ty. at the office of the Probate Judge.
until the 3rd day of April, u a. M, 1906.
Certified check for ten thousand dollars
must accompany each bid Right is re-
served to reject any and all bids.
plans and specifications can be seen
at the office of Rudolph Benz G. Sons,
architects. rooms o12-2l4 Masonic Temple.
Mobile, Ala. 9-2-lt-m-0t
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-19
Sending Out Circulars.

Mexico City. March 1S.-The government
is sending circulars to all farmers. mer-
chants and manufacturers of Mexico. ex-
planning its plan for ships carrying per-
manent exhibits of Mexican products to
all the principal ports of the world. The
circulars call attention to the advantage
to be obtained
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-19
FUNERAL NOTICE.

The friends and acquaintance of Mr..
and Mrs. j. H. Weatherly are invited to
attend the funeral of Mrs. weatherly, this
afternoon at 2:3o o'clock, from the family
residence. 1905 Tenth avenue, South. In
terment Elmwood cemetery.
The following are requested to act as
pall-bearers: A. ]. Tarrant, j. F. Nc
Laughlin. Vassel l.. Allen, Prof. j. B.
Cunningham, j. T. Reed and w. E.
Berry
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-19
PoRTER'S cA.TARRH-o
WE SLEEP ONCE A WEEK

From Friday sunset to Saturday sunset
Battle Creek Turkish bath and treatment
institute. Chlropodist, now located at 1910
Fifth ave, with all kinds of baths. cleo
trc Turkish. vapor, Betz, hot air. bakes
and many Others Bell phone 1856. Mas
sage treatment specially. Jim Pearson's
Place Open Day and Night.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-19

F. II. Britton, Cotton Belt: Fourth Vice
President w. j. Harahan, Illinois Central;
John Fitzgerald, superintendent of ter
mnals at ST. Louis Louisville and Nash
Vile, and President II. G. Fleming, Union
railway of Memphis
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-19
Green Undertaking Company.

'E. T. Shaw & sons, undertakers.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-19

Chicago 9, New Orleans I.
At New Orleans: Chicago (Americans),
3; New Orleans, l.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-19

Joe Meyers, young twirler prousi u.
,,th b1, Connie Mack for a Sry-out with
~ philadelphia Athletics, has been turn
ed over TO the Montgomery club. He mas
signed a contract with Manager Durrett'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-19

Christy Matthewson is reported as con-
yalescent. His little trouble was serl-
Gus for a while and the rams IN memphis
were worried. but good DOCTORS anu
nurses hroueht him around all right.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-19

Heine PETIT, whose illness with pleurisy
caused a report to circulate that he mad
been seriously stabbed. is taking his daily
walk in the Walter Hills section OF Gin
cinnati. He is getting ready to start
training for this season.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-19

Frank Killen. who ten years ago was
a good pitcher. is going to follow the
example of Theodore Breitenstein. Bill
Phillips and Red Ehret and try a
season in the Sunny South to rejuve-
nate his pitching wing. Killen will be
on Charlie Zimmer's staff on the Little
Rock team.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-19
Editorial Section.
The True Basis of Rates.

II HE public service corporations seem to find no
i loop-hole of escape from their duties in the
lower courts Of New York. tho they fare somewhat bet
ter in the court Of appeals Recently Justice Green
baum in the supreme court, held George w. PERKINS
New York Life funds political committee, but the
court of appeals let him off, More recently Justice
Gaynor decreed that the Brooklyn Rapid Transit COM
pany was entitled to extort but one fare to Coney
island and the company has since been hrusting
passengers by violence from its when they re-
fused to pay the second fare
On Wednesday last another justice Of the supreme
court held that consumers who declined to pay in
excess Of 80 cents thousand for gas were in the
right. In opposing this reduction the gas companies
rected that it was formed Of the consolidation Of
merous gas companies under a charter given by the
which charter gave it the right to issue stock
to the fair aggregate value OF the property 1t now
claims that the reduction imposed would make it i'm
possible for it to fair return upon its capital
therefore amounts to taking its property without
compensation Judge Giegerich, constituting the de-
fense declared that it did not claim that the 80cent
would deprive of the power to the cost of
manufacture and distribution, offset to depreciation
in it's plant and fair return the actual value Of
the property owned and used by it in its business This
being true he could not undertake to that the
pany had the right to earn in perpetuity dividends
upon the amount of capitalization in 1884, whether
the value of the property then capitalized had depre-
ciated not. In other words, if processes Of
manufacturing gas had upon the market since
1884, such to render it possible to manufacture the
amount and quality of gas less capitalization
then the consuming public would have the right to
participate in the benefits of the discoveries and
they should not all 20 to the stockholders in returns
upon old capitalization.
This is important proposition of law in
ton with reduction of rates for public SERVICE If
is only necessary for company to put it's captaliza
ton high enough and then wait for the business to
up to the standard of the capital it may be pos
sble to forever exclude the public from any Of the
benefits of improved processes of manufacture i'm
proved means of transportation. This would be doc
trine repugnant to common But it is too much
the habit of American corporations to go upon this
theory. They swell their capitalzations by paying
stock expect to ateS
which will dividends this STOCK which
represents money in the business, during the
life of the corporation.
The proposition argued by Senator La Toilette in
the rateb debate that there could be true basis
rates formed without first valuation of railroad prop
erty, applicable to public service corporations in
cities Let know what the service costs and there
will be no quarrel over paying fair return on the
money honestly invested in the business
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-19
More Socialism Unrnasked.

HE Washington Post has report upon public
l. ownership establishment Which must have
escaped the eagle glance of the rapid anti
theprecpic thechasm portion of the press.
It appears from the revelations of the Post that the
United States maintains and operates a fagmaking
factory which costs $4,000 annually and whose bust
is to provide the naval vessels Of this country
with the flags of all nations These made labeled
and delivered to our doughty captains and packed
away in the basement of the ship to be used
casions. If vessels entering port of Great
Britain and lieutenant governor with mutton-chop
expected to board the superintendent Of the
flags makes dive to the cellar and brings up the
union jack which is bravely flung to the breeze. If
: send ship to Siam we drag forth the emblem Of
the elephant and let the Siamese know that
The labelling of the flags and their recognition is
very important and delicate duty in time Of peace.
It consumes much time and supernduces considerable
perspiration There is always the dread that the
wrong flag may be hoisted since there are many,
tions whose flag is seldom seen on the seas The flag
he get them in the wrong places there might arise
international complications gravely threatening the
peace of nations. -! -''.~
But the labors of the superintendent Of flags are
as nothing to those of the makers Take for example,
says the Post, the flag of San Salvador In the back
mountain green foliage and shrubbery grow Directly
in front is Of sapphire blue Above the volcano
is rising set in design of overlooking cornu-
copias and diamond from which rays scintillat-
ing in every direction Around the whole concatena-
tion is wreath Of cactus branches embracing the
volcano and throwing def at the diamond. To make
TINS nag costs the government po1oV. Inc 4uesClon
is, Is It worth the money! Are we not justified in
asking San Salvador to take into consideration the
sanity of our workngmen and appealing to her to
get up flag which can be turned out for $39Ss
Another flag which costs much money is the presi-
dent s. It is only lOx14 feet but the design is all
hand worked embroidery. It takes one woman q
whole month to finish it. We feel almost certain that
If Senator Bailey took the trouble to look the matter
up he could prove that this is Roosevelt extraya-
gance and that Buchanan or Polk used flag made
from one of the old White House curtains. GS
But this is aside from the fact that the govern.
fent makes these flags by day labor and PAYS ex
orbtant prices instead Of having them built by con
tract. 1t is matter which deserves the attention
Of the M. 0. Publishing company which has recently
undertaken the laudable designing Of unmaskng pub
lie ownership of gas plants especially those where the
price Of gas has been reduced.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-19
The Preacher and the Pass.

G ONE Of the church papers discussing but are
~ not agreed, about the propriety of the accept
of free transportation reduced rates by min
listers Of the gospel secretaries of the Y NJ c. A. and
The rate regulation law permits concessions to
these people. The question is whether they ought
to accept them. ...5 .,-
Acceptance is defended by some Of the benefciaries
the ground that their work could not be carried
if they not aided in this way and that the
work they do is of such general benefit to the
munity that the railroads we'll afford to assist
But there other enterprises which might justify
the of free transportation the ground.
Some other reason must be found before discrmina
ton properly be made in favor Of these religious
and charitable representatives and other travellers
The claim Of benefit conferred might as we'll be adj
vanced by the large shipper by the travelling sales
man, both of whom furnish more actual business
result of their travel than would balance in a ma
terial sense at least any good done by minister
others in his class. !.
AS for the argument that the minister, whose
duties require much travelling could not carry his
work without reduced free transportation, it is
sufficient to say that long the contributors to
religious and charitable and philanthropc effort feel
that their agents partly supported by concessions
from the railroads or from merchants or from any
body else their salaries will be rated accordingly.
good remedy for low salaries among clergymen and
other religi ous workers would be rule which would
require them to pay they CO. If travelling statesmen
had to get part of their pay out Of free transporta
ton of reduced hotel bills special reductions
cordingy It is not to the interest Of the clergyman
or the home missionary the Y. M G. A. secretary
that the railroads grant him any favors that not
granted to everybody else When he has to pay as
he goes he will have to be paid he goes, just like
other people. And he ought to be.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-19
Tapan's Peace Progress.

Il CORRESPONDENT of the London Mail who
~ sent to Japan to make investiga-
ton Of industrial conditions there makes report
which is full of interest to British merchants and
manufacturers. He finds two great movements in
the island-the military, the other industrial.
Since the war Japan has gone improving and en-
largng her army. She has gone improving and
charging her navy. The condition Of the government
dockyards might lead to conclude that Japan
expecting great war instead of having just finished
one The Japanese fought the Russians with army
whose guns were imported and with navy which
was built order in England, but the equipment
of the army is home made and in the dockards Japan
is laying down not only warships for herself, but is
building the Chinese navy.
The industrial development is all along the lines
Of bolsterng home industries. Japanese for the
Japanese is the cry and the government sets the
ample by buying supplies at home even where the
price is greater than abroad. Japanese shipping
panies are beginning to compete with the enterprises
of Great Britan Japanese steel Is beginning to take
the place of British Japanese tobacco under govern
ment monopoly has expelled the American product;
Japanese manufacturers Of cotton have annihilated
the American and English market in Korea and
Manchuria.
Japan has apparently made up her mind to give
the world an example Of industrial well mill
tary progress While her late antagonist is groveng
in the dust Of revolution the island empire is going
forward by leaps which will put her in new
class competitor with Great Britain and America
for world markets The nation aims to be self con-
tanned Manchuria is her oyster and it becomes more
and more evident that if the other nations get any
thing out Of it it will be but the shell.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-19
BRITISH VIEW OF LINCOLN.
London Spectator.


In days not SO long ago we used to exhaust our
vocabulary in wonder at the desperate resistance OF
the south With experience Of the two and half
years that it took to subdue the Boer republics, we
have come to marvel that the north ever able to
battle down the secessonists 1t is true that the
coercing power not separated from the enemy by
$500 miles Of sea- but, the other hand, its vital
organ within striking distance Of the enemy and
more than once in imminent peril. The interreg-
between Lincoln IS election and his installation
Nov. 6, 1850, to March 4, l861-had given time for
organization in the secession states for treachery in
the cabinet and the legislature The population Of the
south infinitely homogeneous, more warlike,
and, in the earlier stages Of the conflict, deter
mined; above all their armies were led by two mighty
thunderbolts of war
The Chevalier tombstone declared that had Prince
Charles slept during the whole of his great adventure,
and allowed Lord George Murray to act for him &C.
cording to his own judgment, he would have found
the crown of Great Britain on his head WHEN he
awoke. Substitute Jefferson Davis for the prince, and
jackson and Lee for the chieftain of the house Of
Athol, and plausible is left for argument. The
military imagination is too prone to neglect those
moral forces against which all the might Of southern
chivalry beat in van yet for at least two years the
fate of the union hung Lincoln g strength of will,
and not for single moment did he WAIVER IN his pur
VAIL admits: " '>' .>"(
cit will not be asserted that either Lee or Jack
fathomed the of this unconquerable tenac
ity. They had played with effect the fears of Lin
coin; they had recognized in him the mature power
Of the federal hosts; but they had not yet learned
for the northern people themselves had not yet learned
It, that they were opposed by an adversary whose
resolution unyielalng their own, who loved
the union even they loved Virginia, and who ruled
the nation with the tact and skill that they ruled
their soldiers.o
Lincoln lived to win the love and confidence of his
cabinet of his generals and finally Of people in arms
''We coming, Father Abraham three hundred thou
sand more.'
was the refrain of northern song in the second year
of the war. When the occasion required he
could employ diction which in its and chaste
simplicity has rival in transatlantic oratory Sir
George Trevelyan has aptly compared his speech at
the dedication Of the Gettysburg cemetery to the flu
neral Grafton of Percles There spoke the real Abra
ham Lincoln, tender and true and strong of whom it
may be written, written by his countryman of
William the Silent, that while he lived he was the
guiding star of great nation and that when he died
the little children cried in the streets
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-19
CROP EXPORTING IN NORTH DAKOTA
Grafton IN. d. Record.

Gfaft0n On. d. KecOrd.
Mr. JONES' the crop expert, visited this Office last
week. We We're glad to see Mr. Jones and offered him
every inducement to sit down. He finally sank into
bunch Of exchanges and after getting little North
Pacific dirt out of his throat, exclaimed that he
always glad to get into country printing office,
where real type used and the smell of ink wasn't
confined to the basement, but allowed to wander
all the building like cash subscriber. Mr. Jones
got his start in life by setting type on the Brush
Prairie Review, published on Section Sc. It a
rural paper and the Office faced wheat field in the
summer and bank in the winter. While spacing
out line he would glance out of the window
bright August day and estimate the crop. In this
way he became good estimator. Some years the
of the threshing machine would take his esti-
mate rather than the machine measure when making
out his threshng bill. When copy short and the
job hook empty, he would walk around little and esti
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-19

The immortal Hoke Smith, the largest man. physi-
caly who occupied the office Of secretary of the
interior, is making picturesque campaign for gov
ernor of Georgia against Clark Howell the editor and
proprietor of the Atlanta Constitution. Hoke's plat
form is nti-negro antiraroad antisilver and anti
whisky. The opposition has been Investigating and
has proved that when in Washington Hoke always gave
the best jobs to negroes that he is trading with Tom
railroad stocks and rides passes that he is the
prietor of the best bar in Georgia All these things
show that Hoke is not slow in politics as his bulk
might Indicate ,y,f. H. - =