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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-11
Tined BRACE TALKS ABOUT BIRMINGHAM
PEOPLE AND THE GROWTH on THE TOWN

abuttmg property holders want damages
which the railroad people think are ex-
eessive.
Tt is a known fact that when the Sea-
board Air line built into Birmingham
they were compelled to pay very heavy
damages to some property holders who
happened to own real estate along their
line within the city limits. 1t seems that
property holders around the new union
station want to exact proportionate. or
perhaps even larger damages and the
railroad people are in a. state Of rebellion
and say they have held up work pending
settlement or adjustment of differ
ences. One railroad man largely inter-
ested in the new station. told me yester-
day that the building and ground were
to cost something like a million and a
half dollars and that the investment
would mean an expenditure on the part
of the railroad systems moving into the
new station of one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars year in interest and
maintenance more than they were now
paying to occupy the present station. He
added that they would not sell dol
lar more of tickets in the new station
than they would sell by continuing to
occupy the present one.
1t would be unjust without full knowl-
edge of the situation, to criticise any
one, but the public of Birmingham will
welcome an adjustment of differences and
the construction of handsome new pas
senger station at the earliest possible
moment Birmingham is far too big for
the old station. 1t wants a new one and
wants it quickly. This town is going
ahead. and it wants everything in pro-
portion to its development.
In this connection, Birmingham con-
tinues in its prosperous path. The past
year has been the most phenomenal in
It's history. Every individual and every
corporation exercising proper degree of
business judgment has been prosperous.
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Difference Noticed.

"A little incident happened at the base.
ball park which illustrated the difference
between the New York Americans and
the New York Nationals" said b. NJ
Brazeal last night.
"Elsey was covering first base and had
his foot on the bag. Keller was running
down to the bag and it was close play
Seeing that he was out Keller turned to
one side slightly and did not even step
on the bag. as he would have taken /
risk of stepping on Elseys foot had he
done so.
Had it been one of the Giants he would
have kept on and stepped on Elsey. Just
such little things as that show the diff
ference in the way the two teams play
ball. The Giants may be winners, but the
Highlanders are certainly a more gentle
manly bunch"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-11
Private HOardInas Past and Present.

The rich are becoming richer, not
alone in this country but in every
other civilized country The subject
has recently been investigated, SO far
France is concerned, by Viscount
Georges d'Ayenel, the well known
writer on economic subjects, and he
presents the findings of his investiga-
tons in the current issue of the
"Revue des Deux Mondes.". He did
not investigate private fortunes out
side of France, nor did his inyestiga-
lions cover more than seven centu-
ries.
In the seven centuries he finds re-
corded but one colossal fortune be-
fore the revolution, that of Cardinal
Mazarin, who left an estate of $780,
100000. Before the revolution of 1888
France had had but three persons
whose annual income was as much us
a million dollars. She holds ten today.
There are today 1000 Frenchmen en-
1oying an income of $4,000 or more;
in monarchial France there were but
seventy, and in feudal France but
forty
Private fortunes in France began to
accumulate rapidly early in the nine
teenth century. The richest persons
of today are six times more rich than
the most opulent Frenchmen of the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries,
while they are ten times richer and
twenty times more numerous than the
richest princes of feudal times.
These facts in relation to France
which have been carefully gathered
and sifted, are significant because
they show that Rockefellerism is not
confined to this country. The evil is
worldwide almost and the most that
can be said about the United States is
that the race for money is a trifc
more excessive here than it is in the
other countries.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-11
Oklahoma as a State.

The Senate has passed an enabling
act for the benefit of the people in
Oklahoma and Indian Territory. I'm
der this act the two territories will
become the state of Oklahoma, with
two senators and five members of
Congress. In the deal the democrats
are chiselled out of two senators.
The new state will be peculiar be-
cause of its high percentage of Indian
blood. All male Indians Fl years of
age become voters and full Americans.
They were certainly to the manner
born. The enabling act contains pro
visions guarding the rights of the In
dams against the land thieves. The
federal government is to retain con-
troll over the property affairs of the
Indians. Firewater cannot be sold in
the present bounds of Indian Territory
for twenty-one years and longer unless
the constitution of the new state is
changed.
In the end all sections in the bill
relating to Arizona and New Mexico
were stricken out, and those terrific
ries will remain territories simply be-
cause they are suspected of harbor-
ing intentions hostile tor the &. o. p.
This is perhaps the best result that is
obtainable in the present Congress.
1t is is certainly far better than to
force the territory of Arizona into the
union under conditions abhorrent 70
its people. Arizona may secure JUS
tice at the hands of some future and
fairer Congress. All 1t asks is a
square deal, and it has at last be-
come possible.
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tors had become followers of the
Prophet Mahomet. The present-day
Moros are true to their ancestral faith.
They live on Jolo and on Mindanao.
and the sultan, whose rule is uncer-
tain, lives in the city of Jolo. on the
sea, about fourteen miles from the
crater in which 600 of his people we're
slaughtered. The United States Sc
cures some power over the Moros by
favoring one faction or one or more
dattoes, but this policy offends the
other factions with their dattoes. Pol
Tics among these Moslem Americans
is a matter of dattoes and factions.
The faction in the crater was obdurate
and warlike and Gen. Leonard Wood
simply decided to Kill them lock,
stock and barrel
The 600 will certainly remain in
offensive hereafter, but the world will
not be apt to have higher respect
for the American people because of a
slaughter that resembled the killing
of rats in the hold of a ship. The far
ther We go in the Philippines the less
glory do We win, and after while
perhaps we will be content with a
good naval station ON a small unin-
habited island of the archipelago, let
ting the natives or Japan do the rest
of the work
The Moros are foreign to us in race,
religion and all traditions, and they
can never become Americans. Why
keep them in subsection? The decla-
ration of independence says all men
are created equal, endowed with the
unalienable right of liberty. This IS
now construed to refer TO political
rights only But the Moros, it seems,
have few or no political rights except
to be slaughtered by order of Major
General Leonard Wood, commander
of the Philippines.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-11
A CONTINENT OF ICE.

From the Chicago Journal.
The largest mass of ice in the world
is probably the one which fills up nearly
the whole Of the interior of Greenland.
where it has accumulated since before
the dawn of history. 1T is believed to
now form block of about 100000 square
miles in area ana averaging mile and
a half in thickness.
According to these statistics the lump
of ice is larger in volume than the whole
body of water in the Mediterranean, and
there is enough of it to cover the whole
of the United Kingdom OF Great Britain
and Ireland with a layer about seven
miles thick. If it were cut into two con-
venient slabs and built up equally upon
the entire surface of Wales it would form
a pile more than 120 miles high Inere Is
ice enough in Greenland to bury the en-
tire area of the United States quar-
ter of a mile deep.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-11
SOME BIG ORGANS.

From the New York Mail
The cathedral of st. John the Divine
still consists, to the eye of the passenger
on the elevated, of few great naked
pillars, single rude, unfinished arch, and
great deal of massive litter But it is
announced that the organ which is to
thunder forth praises beneath its roof.
when that roof is raised at last, has al
ready been ordered, and that 1t is To be
one of the most powerful in the world
1t will need to be powerful In order to
fill every nook and Granny of the vast
cathedral that is SO very slowly raising
itself on Morningside Heights.
But 1t may wen be powerful, for never
before has it been possible for an organ
builder to avail himself of so many me-
chanical agencies favorable to volume and
effect. Hydraulic organs date back many
centuries and electrical organs to 1865,
but not until now, we believe. have air
currents been driven through mammoth
cylindrical "seonators' by means OF APP
paratus resembling the piston of engines;
and never until now have these resonators
been extended beneath the floors of ca
thedrals, to produce there vast subter-
ranean roarings that may resemble
cross between a thunder peal ana earth
quake. Under the system according to
which the new organ for ST. Johns is
to be built the cathedral really would
appear. to become a part of the organ
rather than the organ a part of, the
cathedral
At the present moment, IL we mistake
not, the largest organ in this country is
in the Mormon Tabernacle at Salt Lake
City. 1t was erected originally in Music
Hall, In Boston. but was not an economic
success there, and was long ago bought
by the Mormons. But this is smaller than
the organ in the Royal Albert Hall in
London. The finest and most famous or
gans in this city are probably those in
st. Patrick's Cathedral in ST. Bartholo-
news, in the Church of the Ascension.
in st. Mary the Virgins, in Plymouth
church. Brooklyn; in St. Georges and in
the Temple Emanu-El
Considering that Purltanism and Pres
byterianism have in times past utterly
condemned organs. great and small, as
sacrilegious attempt to praise God1by
machinery" the cause OF good organ
music has Jared pretty well in this coun-
try II there is large church in any
large town in the country that is without
an organ, 1t would be hard to tell where
it is. The advance from the small con-
trivance that is not untittingly described
by the Scotchman as "kist o. whistles"
to the vast modern mechanical affair.
with numbering resonators under -,
church floor, has been tremendous.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-11
The pamrosch Orchestra.

birmingham has an opportunity of Sc
curing the New York Symphony orches-
ira of which Walter Damroseh Is con
ductor for a grand concert May ?. Rob
ert Lawrence. representing the orchestra,
was in Birmingham yesterday looking
over the musical situation. with a view
of booking this organization for the date
named. If considerable number of seats
are subscribed for the orchestra will
come without a guarantee.
As 1t has been a long time since a
symphony concert was given here. it is
believed that music lovers will be hun
conducts. The concert will take place at
the Jefferson theatre Reserved seats will
range in price from two to three dol
lars
Mr.. Lawrence was formerly one of the
principals of the Savage Grand Opera.
He has a superb baritone voice and yes
terday afternoon a number of musical
persons had the pleasure of hearing him
in an informal recital al the Jesse French
music store Those who met Mr. Lawrence
expressed the hope that he would come to
birmingham next season and open a
studio.
IL am most favorably impressed with
this city" said Mr.. Lawrence. 1T is a
larger and more metropolitan place than
| expected to find. Indeed it reminds me
of some of the more progressive of our
eastern cities There should be no trouble
in securing a large audience in Birming-
ham for Damrosch."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-11
Anti-Saloon League.

81 would not favor legislative enact
ment prohibiting saloons from doing bus
mess in Birmingham or any other large
CITY," said Dr. G. w. Young, assistant
general superintendent Of the American
Anti-Saloon league, in an address in this
city recently.
while l would gladly lay down my
life to see the saloons of Birmingham
permanently closed, legislative enactment
cannot accomplish it. The ant-saloon
league does not advocate impractical or
too radical measures. A law prohibiting
saloons in Birmingham would not be
enforced.
This is one of the leading. features of
the work of the league-it does not ask
for restrictive measures where the people
themselves do not want them. This was
the cause of the fight for a local option
law. We believe that the people of each
county should be allowed to say whether
or not they want saloons and let their
decision be final as regards their own
county"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-11
ALABAMA PRESS

Hartselle Enquirer: By new map issued
by the Frisco railway system, Birming-
ham is located just south of Hartselle
near shoal creek bridge-two good towns
getting together.
Baldwin Times: A man named Sechoff
killed himself in st. Petersburg the other
day in order to prove his honesty. Most
of us are afraid we will not live long
enough to prove ours.
Dothan Siftings: Since there is no
Booker Washington Clause in the rail-
way rate bill, Mr.. Tillman and the Presi-
dent may be able to pull together.
Tallassee Tri-County Weekly: A well
known scientist has stated that ''perma-
nent fatigue" begins at forty. The state
ment is apt to bring ON the symptoms
with all persons over forty who happen to
read.
Gadsden Journal: The Age-Herald says
the people OF Alabama are too busy and
prosperous to run, for Extraordinarily
overlooked our crop of sheriff candidates.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-11

Washington Correspondence of the New
York Sun.
+ The session was enlivened just at the
close by hit of airy pershage on the
part of Mr. Sherman Rep. N. ". Mr..
Clayton Dem, Ala). iVd asked unani-
nIous consent for the consideration of a
bill authorizing the Choctahatchee Power
company to build a steel or concrete dam
acress the river of that name in Ala
bama. having been read. Mr.. Sherman
soberly inquired
"Reserving the right to object should
like 90 ask the gentleman from Alabama
how the words steel and dam are
spelled?'
Mr. Clayton replied, with great solem-
nifty:
4 AS in measure so clean as this,
steel is spelled with a double e and
dam without an n as good English re-
quires,"
MIR. Sherman--I just wanted to know
what is considered good English in tho
gentleman's district, | have no obiee-
tions.
The bill was passed.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-11
AllENATED FRIENDSHIP.

Nv Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Alas, they had been friends in youth;
Rilt whispering tongues can poison truth
And constancy lives in reams ABOVE
And life is thorny. and youth is vain;
.nd 10 he worth with one we love
Doth work like madness in the brain.
And thus 1t CHANGED, as | divine
With Roland and Sir Leoline.
Each spake words of high disdain
And insult to his hearts best brother;
They parted-neer to meet again;
But never either found another
To free the hollow heart from paining;
They stood aloof. the scars remaining,
Like cliffs which had been rent asunderi
A dreary sea now flows between,
But neither heat nor frost, nor thunder
Shall wholly do away. | ween,
The marks of that which once hath been.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-11
At Street Corners.

birmingham is fast reaching that stage
makes it necessary to station policemen
on some of the intersections in the bus
mess part of the city,1 said Walter II.
Jamison of Meridian, at the Morris hotel
last night. Il noticed today several per-
sons narrowly escape being run down
by wagons and street cars, notably at
Nineteenth street and Seconu avenue,
Twentieth street and Second avenue and
Twentieth street and First avenue Those
corners should be guarded throughout
the day"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-11
SteuomYias Wanted.

The New Orleans board of health
offers So for the first live female ste
gomyia mosquito presented; So for the
second, and 81 for the third. 1t also
offers to pay cents apiece for all
stegomyias. dead or alive, brought in
this month of March. Thus far no
stegomyia has been presented, al
though not few men, women and
children have hunted the insects in
their lairs. Many mosquitoes have
been laid before the board of health
in the last three or four days, but
not one of them proved stegomyia.
The anopheles or the common every
day. harmless culex. are not wanted
on the prize basis.
The multitudinous cisterns in New
Orleans are now covered with wire
screens. and that city hopes to go
through the coming hot season with
a limited supply OF mosquitoes Oh any
kind. The offer of S. for the first
stegomyia presented stands good I'M
til an insect of that sort is brought in,
no matter in what month. The pres
ence of the yellow fever mosquito will
thus become known about as soon as
it arrives, or is Matched out, if native
Matching be possible at present in New
Orleans.
Birmingham could readily prevent
mosquitoes from preying upon its peo-
pie. The expense would not be
heavy. but public sentiment has not
been educated up to that point, and
the anopheles and perhaps a wander
ing stegomyia will affect the people in
August and September.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-11
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
ha Now York Press.

From tho New York Press.
When young man goes to church every
Sunday it is a sign he is in tow by some
girl.
It's mighty funny how an~old maids
younger sister can have children older
than she Is.
1t is better not to swear off something
that makes you do something worse all
the harder
A man ought to be able to get used to
being married when he can get used to
drinking poor coffee.
You can never make woman think
that the easiest way to make money ism I
to buy stocks when they are low and sell
them when they are high.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-11
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs
Southern Memories.

Southern Memories.
One of the most informing lectures OF
the season was that delivered by Gen.
George d. Johnston Of Tuscaloosa IN the
auditorium of the Birmingham High
school building yesterday morning. The
title of the lecture was Memories Of the
cid South
General Johnst ton told of the old slave
the old nanny. the old plantation me-
The elegance of the anti-bellum planter
was described and humorous side lights
were thrown on the politics and political
campaigns of the early days The speak
er eulogized the southern statesman and
paid glowing tributes especially to Cal
houn and Yaneey both of whom he knew
personally. The pride which the cultured
southerner took in professional life was
also referred to in a felicitious vein.
As General Johnston is "A years of age
he lived a part of the old southern life
he described, and it is a noteworthy fact
that although he is upwards of three score
and ten he Is a typical representative of
the progressive south of today.
General Johnston was greeted by a
large and appreeiative audience. He was
introduced by DR.. j. II. Phillips, who
made brief but happy speech.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-11
Fiuhtinq the Meres.

The war with Spain came up in an
unexpected manner in the last cen
tury. and yet we are still fighting the
native people in the islands that that
war threw upon us. In the recent bat
tie on the island of Jolo about one
thousand were killed and wounded.
Artillery slaughtered 800 Moros in a
crater of an extinct volcano, trans
forming it anew into scene of hor-
ror
The Moros are Maylays whose ances
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-11
Confederate Reunion.

Memorial day and the annual reunion
is near at hand" said Capt. J. Lawler
Darbey. I'VE want great crowd from
Jefferson county to go to New Orleans
Every Confederate veteran should by
all means have a gray suit. You can get
one made for So or &C. I would sug-
best that veterans call at headquarters,
in the Wilson building at the corner of
Twenty-frst street and Second avenue
or at 2OOs1a Second avenue, Commander
Vance's office for information If all the
old soldiers will make little effort this
section will be well represented at the re-
union"
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About Persons.


c. d. Smith of Louisville is at the
Hnlman.
James NJ. Kaverly of New York is at
the Hillman.
w. W. Scott of Montgomery is at the
Metropolitan.
]. ]. Williams of Selma is at the Nor
ris.
R. A Kennedy of Jonesboro, Ark, is at
the st. Nicholas.
D. A. Walker of Andalusia is at the
Morris.
]. d. Hargis of Montgomery is at the
Metropolitan.
NJ. N Miller Of Pensacola is at the
Birmingham.
r. G. Bingham of Decatur is at the
Birmingham.
Harry NJ Marshall of Mobile is at the
Morris.
d. D. Avery of Nashville is at the St.
Nicholas.
]. p Armstrong of sylacauga is at the
Metropolitan.
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The Florence.

'I am glad to be in Birmingham,
said Homer Wilson, the new manager of
the Florence hotel last night. Mr. Wilson
reached the city yesterday morning from
Evansville, Ind, where he has been with
the St George hotel.
'rhe work of rehabiIltatine the Florence
hotel is under good Roadway, and no
time will be lost in completing it," con-
tinued Mr.. Wilson. I'VE are confident
we will be in a position to reopen the
hotel by May l and it will then be a new
hosiery in every respect.
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AS an indication, ] am told that the sloss
company. the second largest iron manu-
featuring concern in the district has had
the most prosperous year in its history,
and that at the meeting of its directors
il New York on Monday next, it will not
only declare the usual dividend ON It's
preferred, but a handsome dividend on
the common stock, and will set aside a
large surplus. This surplus may be used
In the early construction Of a steel plant.
Speaking of the growth of Birmingham,
splendid progress has been made In the
development of its fire department and
the insurance people say that today no
city in the south has better organized
or equipped fire department In proper
ton to size. Several new pieces of appa-
ratus have been recently installed and a
large number of new fire plugs are being
located in the business sections of the city.
In the meantime, the personnel of the de-
partment has been added to and training
system put into operation which Is result
ing in splendid effectiveness.
Handsome new buildings are going up
on every hand. The steel structure of
the Brown-Marx building is taking shape.
The new big Twentieth street hotel is to
started at once, and 1 am told that an
other fifteen-story office building Is to go
up on a prominent corner of Twentieth
street, and a magnificent hotel is to be
constructed on a prominent Nineteenth
street corner. In other words, people
who have money have confidence in Biz
mingham and propose to spend 1t here in
improvements on scale which cannot
help but be profitable.
Indeed the future of Birmingham is
today brighter than at any time within
it's past history.
Such is the opinion Of
hrs t3e5ea~
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CHEAP.

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Miss Pert-You saw her wedding gifts.
did you?
Miss Knox-Oh, yes; ! saw them.
Miss Pert-How was. her silver marked
Miss Knox-I guess most of it was
marked down. 1t certainly looked thar
way