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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-30
THE MOST CROWDED
 SPOT M AMERICA

and Madison Square alike into fanho by
 his poem, became one of the shrewdcst,
 wealthiest lawyers of America. The simple life was then. as 1t Is now, all
 well enough in poetry, but William AL len Buffers law firm achieved regular-
 ly an income of $1,000,0 900 a year. The young ladies of his family evidently never had need to complain after. the manner of Flora McFlimseys William Allen Butler died in 1902
 The present day most noted struc- ture at this corner where three ways meet Is the huge, ugly, "Flatiron'
 building. It is wije at the south end
 and runs up taperlng and wedge shaped to the north end. It is not seen in the picture, which is perhaps artistically all the better looking on That account. Owing to it's peculiar shape and loca- | ton the wind currents about this | ''Flatiron" building are something fear
 some, quite equal to those which sweep the streets of Skagway, Alaska, where | they say the breezes blow the lead out 1 of a pencil. IL is a fact that two win
 ters ago heavy glass plate was blown
 out Of window across the street from the "Flatiron." On particularly windy days, too. bold, bad members of the masculine sex stand on the street around there to watch the ballooning, | twisted skirts of hapless women 1 obliged to encounter the air currents. | Occasionally 1t Is necessary for police-
 men to disperse them. A window l cleaner employed in this twenty-three story structure Is undoubtedly one of
 the coolest nerved men in America.
 When engaged In his work he climbs l from one window to another on the outside walls. surefooted as @ cat It's l too much trouble for him to go inside the pass from one window to the next one even at the topmost story. Some times people away down in the streets
 watch him in fascinated horror while | he performs his great acrobatic stunt. | Everybody is scared cold but his wife.
 who peacefully declares that Jim knows
 his business.
 Abroad, throughout Europe, photo-
 graphs and Autographs of the Flat | from are sold as representations of an | American freak.
 l At night from the steet corner seen
 in the Illustration northward on Broad way ta~ about forty-fifth street. New
 York is the most dazzlingly illumi- | mated city in the world. Such a lavish
 showing of electrical lights could not | be afforded in any city of Europe I | witnessed the electrical illumination on the opening night of the Paris eXposi- 1 tion. Even at the Place de la Con ! corde, where the main gates were, the light display was nothing like so bril- | liant as that which may be seen on Broadway any clear winter night Es- pecially was this true before so much soft coal was surreptitiously burned in l New York. Many business firms have their electrical signs designed by art
 ists The radiant, changing color dis play suggest the aurora borealis.
 | Along Twenty-third street all day long plays the whole human circus. surRing. seething, rushing splendid or
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-30

Picturesque. impressive and wonder full, psychological study, Is the scene
 at the point where Broadway and Fifth avenue cut into each other at Twenty
 third street New York City It is all
 New York city; 1t is the world. It is undoubtedly the busiest. most crowded spot in the Western Hemisphere, pos
 sibly on earth, though the picture does not show this, because 1t had to be taken when Sunday quiet reigned over the great united thoroughfare. It
 would be impossible to photograph the
 scene at it's busiest. There wouldnt
 be any spot where the photographer could rest his camera long enough 10 get picture.
 Twenty-third street from Broadway to sixth Avenue is shown on the ex- treme left of the photograph On any fair week day from noon on till o. clock this space is black with people, hurrying, scurrying, lodging to get out of the way of trolley cars, trucks and automobiles No matter where they are going they are all running as IT they had only a minute and half to get there. The hurry, scramble atmos- nhere of New York has caught them all. It Is a fact that when rural visit or to the great city sees for the first
 time Twenty third street at this poin1 he sometimes asks his city friend;
 
 are running to?"
 just a way New York people have of gal l loping or as if they were continually rushing to fire.
 The building prominent in the view her@ shown is the historic Firth Ave nue Hotel for generation or more the headquarters of
 the Republican political party, as its rival, the Hoffman House a block northward, has been quite as long of the Democratic party. Past the | front of the Fifth Avenue Hotel. to- ward the right, are shown, looking
 northward. Broadway and Fifth Ave nue. united in one. At the point where
 low, dark building seems 10 block l the way the two thoroughfares part, l Broadway leading to the left, Fiftp | Avenue to the right. Broadway is the ! only street in New York City that lies | in q true northerly and southerly di- : restion. and that only in its upper DOT , tion.
 ] TO the right of the scene Is the fla
 nous Madison Square Park with its weatherbeaten statue of William H. i Seward in the foreground Madison 1 Square is now in pleasant weather 1 mainly a roasting place for hapless | folk, men and women out Of employ
 mept in New York City. But forty years ago, when William Allen Butler ] wrote his Flora McFlimsey of Mld.son 1 Square" who had nothing to wear, The
 heart of rich and aristocratic New
 the old parks fringe was to be IL so-
 cially. Now not single private resi- | dence is left upon it's cramped sides.
 Flora McFIimsey's wardrobe would De poverty and shabbiness nowadays. Will Ham Allen Butler, who fioated himself
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-30

in poverty, oVerfed, starving, oyer dressed, in rags, gay and laughing. miserable e--the extremes of the eaFth.N
 On the left of the picture is shown the north side of TwentyIthird street, where several of the couhtry's leading book publishers have their estabfish- ments. On the other side of the street, opposite the publishers, Is one of the aristocratic shopping blocks. Here in morning hours, which for her mean from Il o'clock until about ?, may be seen the automobile of Madam Afil- lionaire when she is in town. The most extravagant dressing in the Vest ern Hemisphere is to be found in New York among the society women who shop on Twenty-third street Their outdoor gowning is not gaudy, as 9 rule, but the cost of it--good graciousi
 Brave clothes they wear. these ex- quisitely groomed women who shop in their automobiles along Twenty-third street. Are they happy? No. Whc is? The brave clothes of the New York society women cover many heart that aches almost to bursting. There it Mrs. Billion, wife of a famous financier beautiful refined and a model wife and mother. She was poor when Billion married her, but he was dead in lovt with her, she was in love with him Now he neglects her for an ignorant, homely, common bred creature in whom nODody put hlmSelI can see anytnlua in the slightest degree attractive. Mrs Billion dresses and looks her part on the society stage to perfections yet her heart Is breaking, for hers was love match. Alas for love matches!
 In all the great, brilliant, reckless. cruel, kindly. cohceited, furious paced city probably few persons are really happy. Witness the suicides. murders bankruptcies, embellishments. nerve sanitariums, insanity. The happiest persons in New York are the girls and young men of the working class, toil- ing for small wages. In summer their paradise is Coney Island of a Saturday night and Sunday. Tn winter their ideal of pleasure Is to attend a vaude- vile show or a lurid melodrama at cheap theater But they marry young and recklessly and pay up afterwaro for all the fun they had before.
 New York, the most expensive of all cities to live in. Is a delightful place for the literary or professional lone woman who has made good her footing financially. MARILLA WEAVER
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-30
EASTERN SHORE WRECKED.
Deat,. List Along Bay wiil Reach Over
 FLY.

Rirmineham, Ala, Sept 29.-Mail ao- vices sent from Mobile last night ahu received here today indicate that earlier accounts of the storm ana the haso" wrought were not exaggerated.
 The complete death list has not been mada in because many small towns along the coast have not been hearu from. but what is known 1t fs oeieveo that it will range close to 100. Only four houses are left standing at Ala bama Port, while Golden, another coast resort, has bee na1most wiped oui.
 Roadmaster Brown, of the Bay Shofe Road. who has reached Mobile from a frin alnnr, that line. said that if the missing persons did not turn up, the number of dead along the Bay shOre Road alone would reach fifty.
 He said that fifteen dead bodies had baen accounted for. Thomas McDan- ieis. who came In from Coden, saio that the place was In the direct path pr the storm and was almost completely destroyed.
 he said that help was needed by the people alotg the shore and special frain with provisions was started from Mobile yesterday afternoon. The worst suffering and desolation Is said to be Gt Alabama Port where many people have lost ali they possessed.
 The wife and child of Judge J. E
  ed lost, were saved through the efforts of B. T. Barrett, tiihDer broker, who used a metal bottom boat and with 1t saved his own family and that of Judge Afford, A. 0. Ward. ST., and F. S. Ward of New Orleans. and several others.
 Navy Cove, near Fort Morgan. and the home of many bar pilots, was wiped out by the storm. Pilot Frank Midgett, who has come in from that place. says that every house in Navy Cove was wrecked Seven persons are known to be dead ct that place.
 Advices from along the eastern shoer of Mobile Bay are that. the entire shore has been. wrecked. The wharves at Farhope, Battle, Point Clear. Marlowe and other places were destroyed.
 The damage at Marlowe and along the Fish River was very heavy, though full details have not been received. Conductor David Rice of the Mobile and Bay Shore Railroad. reports that a large number of dead bodies had fioated ashore from the direction of lief that the settlement on that island had been drowned.
 He also says that every building in Coden except the Julian Hotel were wrecked. One boat from Dauphtn Is- land containing thirteen members of family is reported lost. Reports from along the line of the l.. and N. Rail- road show great destruction.
 At Bayou Sara Bridge the driftwood was piled so high that 1t formed a walkway 1,0OU feet long. At Magazine Point a house boat, two fishing boats and two other craft were piled up in one wreck. A three-master schooner W IS across the railroad track. The steamer Triton Is on the beach at Magazine Point. The four-master schooner Pendleton Brothers is ashore in the marsh near Hunters Wharf, also the tug Mary Louisa.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-30

Meridian, Sept. 29--Private informa- tion from Mobile at 10 o'clock this morning carries the report that Co den, Alabama Port and Bayou La Ba- tre have been wiped off the map and that but one house, the Julian Hotel Is left standing at Coden. Among the dead are some of the most prominent people of the coast, including the wife and youngest daughter of State Sena- tor S. McRae of Washington county. Manor D. J. Stevens, Orlis Werneth, wife and youngest daughter and Il :. G. Turner. said to be leading coast lumber man.
 The entire west shore, below Mobile, is reported as completely devastated. tidal waves having been driven Tar in- to the interior, wrecking every hut and building in its way. Twenty five bodies had been recovered up to send ing this information and thirty more were reported as known to have per ished
 Many bodies of negroes are included in this report. and the survivors Of the race are terror stricken and help less
 The whites of the vicinity as woll as many from Mobile, are reported as having heavily armed themselves and are patrolling as much of the devasta ted territory as possible in order to protect the victims and their prop erty and to compel the uninjuried, ter riffed negroes to assist in the work of salvage The quarantine station has been completely destroyed and pr. Scales, the only maA from there who is known to have been saved.
 The least information is concerning Fort Morgan. where the coast ar tillery Is stationed. The last heard firm there was several hours before the force of the storm struck Mobile, and it was then stated that waves. mountains high. were dashing over the great walls and the wiEd was rag ing at a fifty mile clip,
 The storm came from the southeast at this point, and 1t is feared the loss of life among the soldiers will be heavy. Not one word has been receiv- ed, directly or indirectly, from the fort, and all kinds of sensational ru- mors are reported as being prevalent in Mobile
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-30

the Escambia on a piece of wrecked
 schooner. made his way into the city this afternoon with the news that fifty
 people were homeless and starving at Garston's Point The storm destroyed their homes. their clothes and all food
 except half a barrel of flour. This was used the first day nd since then men. women and children without shelter and in the woods have mad nothing to eat. The Chamber of Commerce of
 Pensacola will early tomorrow morning
 send a relief boat to the aid of these people.
 Blew One fTundred Niles.
 According to the official readings of Weather Observer Reed. the storm that devastated Pensacola attained a veloc- ity of 1Q0 miles an hour. Its height. according to the Instruments, was att tained Wednesday morning at 3:i4
 when, for full minute. 1t blew 100
 miles an hour In some of the gusts
 that followed the velocity of the wind
 was greater than q hundred miles aa
 hour and greater than the instruments
 were able to record.
 The sea water at Pensacola at tained eight feet above tidewater dur ing the storm, which was one foot high
 CT than the Galveston flood. Pensacola
 was saved because 1t stands upon high
 CT ground than Galveston. Nothwith-
 ktandln& tnlSs had IL not been TOT inc
 protecting bulwark of Santo Rosa Is-
 land. the city would have been flooded
 and beaten to pieces by the great waves
 from the open gulf. These waves. at
 a height of probably forty feet. struck
 Santa Rosa Island and that great bank
 of sand broke their force. The island has been broken In two places and water is rushing through new channels. and this has never before happened in the history of Pensacola
 Acting Mayor Oscar K. Maura today issued proclamation ordering all sa' looms to be closed until quiet had been completely restored. The proclamation also counseled the people Of the city from lettering on the street and tres passing upon the property of others, While the streets are thronged, absolute order and quiet have prevailed. The list of those made destitute by the storm grows The special committee from the Chamber of Commerce IS feed ing hundreds of these people
 The authorities do not believe call to the outer world for assistance VIII 1 be necessary.
 At 10 o'clock tonight the Western Union completed repairs on its lines 70 Ftonaaton. and for the first time since the storm, Pensacola has direct com 1 munication with the outer world. The Associated Press accountE or the situation and this telegram to The Ao- vertiser were the first business handled 1 by the telegraph company.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-30

line from Mobile north to points in Mississippi. corn and cotton being ma terial1y damaged"
 c. S. Clayton. the Pullman conductor of the train. who also passed through the Mobile storm, made the following statement:
 When the train pulled out of Mobile yesterday morning the water was sweeping Into the city from the gulf and the wind was still blowing hard. front the water stood from to feet deep in the buildings, and the damage to the contents will be great. I am sure the loss of life has been exag- Rerated
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-30
NO KNOWN CASUALTIES.
ComuandeP of Fort Morgan Makes Re-
 mort Ok Damage

Washington, Sept. 29.--The military secretary has received the following telegram from, Captain Dwyer, com manding at Fort Morgan at the en- trance of Mobile harbor. dated yester- day.
 'The post has been swept by a ter rifle storm; the entire post having bs'1 under water. Every building in the post is seriously damaged and some have been destroyed completely. in- cluding the pumping station, which fur .nished the water supply, ordnance store house, quartermaster's store house; two primary stations with instruments, the quartermaster's dock and main wa ter tank.
 Tt Is thought possible to have wa ter transported from Mobile tempo rarily after storm subsidies. Request authority for necessary emergency re- pairs Request inspectors be sent to ascertain and report on damage. Nc casualties so far as known
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-30
MOBuLIANs TALK.
First Train Over M. and O. Reaches
 st. Louis.


 St. Louis. Sept 29.-The first train over the Mobile and Ohio Road from Mobile arrived this morning, having left at 9:S0 yesterday morning. after having been delayed there for thirty six hours.
 George K. Warner of St. Louis, Treasurer of the St. Louis Southwest ern Railroad, and his family were pas sengers from Mobile.
 "The storm Thursday was a freak storm" said Mir. Warner. "the wind coming from the, southeast and sweep Ing over the city. doing great dam age to the wharves, harbor and naval stores on the water front. The dam age I think. will reach probably S2,- 500. 900. Sixty per cent or more of the wharves and docking facilities were damaged and put out of use for some time. Roofs were torn from houses and windows blown out. but the total will bo small. I know of only three deaths, and they were negroes.
 The damage could be seen along the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-30
Many Millions for Revolvers.

ANVW
 Daniel B. Wesson. the Massachusetts revolver maker. died 'ith a fortune estimated at sS0O00,o00 The, sum rep Tesents Americas measure of the value attached to the revolver, for the make bearing Wesson's name is chief ly sold in this country. and, indeed. is standard in the cavalry arm of the service. Thirty millions dollars is q big sum to be charged to a single and dangerous and suicidal luxury The volver Is that. It is dubious service in war. Its only function there is as a cavalry weapon. Indeed, 1t is an evo vide horse soldiers with a nrearm. H. the cavalry the weapon is effectivu only up to fifty yards. It has no value for hunting. The average man can do more execution on birds and beasts with a slineshot The only purpose which the revolver serves is to kill another man, and even for that its use- fulness Is overestimated
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-30
The wicked skating RInls.
Mexico jMo.) Ledger.

MeNICO VMU,J LVUEUI.
 An ordinance has been introduced in the Mexico City Council making the skating rink license $10 week and prohibiting the use of pianos in such places of amusement If there Is a place on earth calculated to make a woman forget mother, home and heaven 1t is a skating rink
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-30
HALF NOT TOLD.
Trainmen Relate Sensational Stories of
 Conditions in Mobile.

Meridian, Miss. Sept. 29.-Advices just received from Mobile state that the only outlet Is via the Mobile and Ohio through this city.
 The first fast train, loaded with bananas, reached here at four this afternoon. men accompanying train stated that not half has yet been told of the damaged. suffering and terror of the storm, Louisville and Nashville Railroad haa every engine under wa- ter in Mobile and will not be able to run trains until middle of next week.
 Southern Railway. 1t is reported. is in almost as bad condition. Public mass meetings are being held in Mo bile today and tonight to organize relief committees for systematic work.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-30
pYGMY IS REMOVED.
Will Be Educated at Negro Institution
 fin Brooklyn

New York, Sept. 2s.-otta Benja, the African pygmy. who has been exhibited at the New York Geological Park for some time, has finally been taken away as the result of the protest of negroes here.
 The pyemy has been installed in Howard colored orphan asylum in Brooklyn. There it Is hoped that by association with the colored children and their instructors. the pygmy may be civilized, So that when he goes back home ne will be able to teach his peo- pie
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-30
six Drowned Jn souua.

New Orleans, Sent 29--Six persons were drowned in Mississippi Sound by the hurricane. eight large sailing yes sells and about thirty small vessels wrecked. and Ship Island. Cat Island and Horn Island were submerged. The Federal quarantine station on Shin Is- land was badly damaged and about $i, GOO 900 damage was done to property on the mainland.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-30
REPORT TO WASHINGTON.
Engineer of Revenue Cutter Alert Wires
 News of LOss.

Washington, Sept 29.--Assistant Sec retary Edwards has received a tele- gram from F. M. Rock, engineer in charge of the revenue cutter Alert, dated atsMobile. September 2s, as fol- lows:
 Alert was sunk at her berth at z o'clock this morning by the river steamer Nellie running into her during violent easterly gale. Impossible to estimate darnaBes at present."
 Nothing has been heard of the reve- nue cutter Winona or the launch Pen rose, which were in Mobile harbor at the time of the hurricane.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-30
MAGAZINES WE'RE FLOODED.
Damage Done A. Fort st. Philip, Es
 timated At RIO.OOO

New orleans. Sept. 2s-Damages of $1O,OoO at Fort St. Philip. sixty miles below here on the Mississippi river were reported today by incoming steamers.
 portion of the levee erected to protect the post against just such tides is reported to have been broken and the magazines were flooded. New quarters under process of construction. are also reported swept away.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-30
one Ere to RnnInesa.

New York Tribune
 In a certain Massachusetts village tho town clerk combines business with his official capacity. 4 notice board at the edge of town reads: "Antontobilss must not go faster than eight miles an hour-J Olcott. Town Clerk Get your gasoline from J. Oleott."
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storm in China.

Hong Kong. Sept. 29.-A strong gale ragged throughout last night. The ship ping and the inhabitants had been warned of its arrival by forecast of the obserVatorY.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-30
Gadsden Times-News

Gadsden I1mes-NeWs9 7|
 An Ohio pastor has left the pulpit in order that he may take the stump dur ing the coming political campaign That is very much better than talking poii- tics from the pulpit
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-30

Maude--'My long suit Is bathing. Claude" Umph--rd hate to see your short one"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-30
FATE AGAINST
 PENSACOI A

fcostinuea from Pas< one.)
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-30

Why did you name your horse Money3'
 Because he goes so fast"
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-05-26
CONDITIONS AT
WAIALUA FAVORABLE
j. A. MeCANDLESS MADE A TRIP
TO PLANTATION YESTERDAY
MAKES FAVORABLE REPORT.

John A. McCandless went down TO
the Waialua plantation yesterday and
returned full of enthusiasm over the
conditions there He inspected the
dams and says that If there are any
rains at all this year that there will be
plenty of water for the coming crop.
e. X Bull, manager of the Oahu Su-
gar Company, accompanied Mr.. Nc
Candless and was enthusiastic also
over the outlook
while 1 was there they were draw
ing 100000 gallons Of water day
from the large dam and consequently
the water there was low. They have
about 1000 acres of land plOwed for cane
and at present are furrowing 1t out
for the planting of cane. Conditions
are very favorable for a large crop in
two yeas. If there is any rain at all
there will be plenty OF water. Condi-
ton could not be much better"