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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25
RECENT VISIT OF
 MUCH IMPORTANCE
Perrin and Kennedy Have Paid
 Visits to EnsIey
TEAM FOUND IN CREEK
Animals Hitched to a Wagon Were Mired In Mud and Thus Far No Owner Has Claimed the
 Outfit.

Ensey, February 24-(speeiaL)-lhe people of this city and community attach great deal of significance to the in vestigations that are being made in the district by c. P. Perrin and Julian Ken nedy, who were commissioned to look over the industrial field by the Tennessee Republic interests.
 It has already been announced that these companies will spend several mil 1 lions of dollars In extensions and in new plants in the Birmingham district and these men were sent here to look over the conditions and make report as to the best plan of spending the money.
 Mr. Perrin is stlll in the district and will remain several days. Before mak- ing his final report he will visit all the properties of the two companies in this section. He spent some time this week looking over the properties at Ensley and this section and it is said that he was favorably impressed with the gen. l eral conditions here.
 It has already been announced that the companies have in mind the enlarge ment of the steel plant at this place and the building of new blast furnaces and 1t is confidently believed that still more extensive developments will be made at Ensley.
 The most valuable plants of the asso- ciated companies are located at Ensley and Thomas and it Is natural to sup pose that the bulk of the money appro- priated for extensions will be spent here in the improvement of the plants al- ready in operation and in the building of new plants.
 The companies have ample properties on which to build new plants and the lo- cation with all advantages are ideals.
 Stray Wagon and Team.
 Negroes reported to Chief of Police Suggs that they had found a horse and mule hitched to a wagon loaded with furniture in Village creek about 200 yards above the bridge between this city and Pratt City early this morning.
 On investigation the chief found the team mired in the edge of the creek. He extricated the animals and brought the turnout to the city. The wagon was loaded with household goods and seemed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25

S75O--One 3-room house on 2Oth st. $50 down and $15 per month. s7OO-Each 20 4-room houses; $50 down 1 and $15 per month. | $17O0-2 Broom houses on Ave. G. rents
 for SIS per month.
 $3OOO-One broom house and nice lots, blocks from Hill Top station, sta
 ble, chicken house. city water. $65O-S beautiful lots, one corner, at $125O-One store and 2 houses in steel plant quarters.
 s1100-One acre of land near Fairvew $1250-10 acres of land at Dolomite; acres cleared.
 s1Oo Each-100 lots at West Ensley, for
 colored people; $5 down and s5 per
 month. s31OO-One S-room house close in. s21OO-4 lots opposite Fairview station. $5OO-2 lots at Besse. Ave and Tuxedo car line.
 $13O0-One large 4-room house on hill be- yond Tuxedo park.
 $15O-One 3-room house and lots, 3
 miles west of Wylam. s95O-Vacant lot near Ave. I and 18th st. $200O-One Groom house on Ave. E, rents for s20 1 $12O0-One broom house on Ave. H and 18th st.
 $11O0-One 5-room house on Ave. H and 18th st.
 $SO0-2 25-foot lots on Besse Ave, Tuxedo, with a 1-room house. $1050-A nice 4-room house and 3 nice lots, near Ensley; this a bargain; it is all fenced in, has lots of fruit trees $S0O-This is your chance to double your money: we have lots 15. 16 and IT, in block ?, on Chestnut and Oak sts. | $150-Lot f. block D. map Pratt Land and Improvement company a corner. $S50-Nice lot corner 24th st. and Ave. I. $15O0-One business lot on 17th st. near
 Ave. E alley: corner. S19O0-Lot 1O0x110, with 4 Broom houses;
 rent for $22 per month. S950-2 nice lots, Ave. H and 22d st. S2S00-5 nice lots, 214 feet deep and one 4-room house, at Palmer station. You will have to hurry if you get this $1200-One 7-room house, Ave. K and Fist
 st., rent $15. $1650-3 3-room houses and ? lots, Ave
 K and Fist st, rents s24 $350-One broom house and lots Ave.
 E and near city hall. S350-One cor. lot at Rising station. $500 Each-4 nice lots at Boulevard sta-
 tion S. Ensley line s1SOO-One broom house, Ave. G. One lot Ave. D and 27th st.; one lot Ave
 c and 27th st.
 $S5O-One cor. lot near sherman Heights $SO0-one inside lot. near Sherman
 Heights.
 s2OO-one lot on Ave. F bet the bridge
 and the K. c. R. R. $350-A cinch, one lot on hill above Hill
 Top station.
 $550 for all-4 nice lots and chicken farm $15OO-You ought not to miss this; 92 acres | of land miles west of Ensley 45 or 50 acres cleared, 400 fruit trees, $400 worth | If you have any real estate anywhere O or on the South Ensley car line, W blank and mail 1t to us and we will
 Ensley Real Estate and Investment Com 1 1913 Avenue E. Ensley. Ala. Gentlemen-Please sell for ........ tn 1 Improvements ............................ My address ............................. Now Just One La.
 DO
 IT ENSLEY REAL ESTI | COM
 1913 Avenue E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25
Milton Smith "Hard-Headed."

Washington Correspondent New York
 World.
 A story is going the rounds of the east concerning the hard of Mill ton II Smith president of the Louisville and Nashville railroad, which bears re- beating. Mir Smith is noted all over the south for his propensity for sticking to an idea upon which he has once set his mind. Fifteen years ago. the story goes, a representative of a company interested in the work of lighting cars by gas, vis- tied Mir. Smith At that time the larger railroads of the country were just intro- ducing the system. The representative ex- plained his system painstakingly without producing any unusual interest.
 Finally the agent attempted to secure MT Smiths permission to fit an l.. & N. car with the light MT. Smith doubted the efficiency of the system and refused.
 "Oh, well,' said the agent in departing, you will have to come around to us some day, anyway"
 The agents tone was patronizing. and quick as the flash Mir. Smith replied:
 Never. so long as I am at the head of this road"
 He kept his word and with the excep- ton of the parlor and sleeping cars op- erated over the L. & N. by the Pullman Car company the trains are still lighted by oil lamps.
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Southern Railway Co.
Schedule in Effect Februar Il. 1908.


 Trains leave Birmingham as follows: $40 a. m.-No. 3s, for Atlanta, Washing ton, Baltimore Philadelphia New York and the East Pull man Drawing Room Sleeping Car. Birmingham to New York. Dining car. Birming- ham to Atlanta. 6:20 a. m.-No. 19, for Montevalo, Ma plesville. Selma and way sta. tions.
 1925 D. m.-No. 95, for Columbus, Wes: Point, Winona. Greenwood and Greenville also Sheffield and Florence and North Ala bama points. $40 D. m.-No. 15 for Cordova, Oakman, Corona and way stations: also Blossburg.
 5:45 a. m.-No. 22 for Anniston. Hefin and way stations: also Rome Ga. 6:50 D. m.-No. 36 for Atlanta, Charlotte. Richmond. Washington, New York and the East. Pullman Sleeping Car Birmingham to Richmond Va. l:O5 D. m.-No 24, Annston. Atlanta and way stations; also for Jack sonville and all Florida points also TalladeSa, Ala 10 20 D. m.-No. 37 for Columbus. West Point, Winona, Greenwood and Greenville. Pullman Drawing Room Sleeping Car Birmlng- ham to Greenville. 10 :35 D. rR.--No. 21, for Selma, Mobile and way stations. Pullman Draw ing Loom Sleeping Car Bir- mingham to Mobile. Il :30 D. m.-No 9S for Atlanta. Annistoa and way stations. Pullman Sleeping Car, Birmingham to Atlanta. Sleeping Car can be occupied at Union station 9:S0 D. m
 For detailed information and sleeping car reservations apply passenger office. Morris Hotel Building. Telephone 306l Bell and 617 Peoples.
 J. N. HARRISON. Dist. Pass. Agt- R. B. CREAG. Tray. Pass. Agt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25
Education.
From an EXchanpe

From am Exchange.
 Hamilton Wright Mabie, in an address to the students of a business college, said 'lf l were a young man or young wo- man going out into the world today 1 should not dare to go unless I had given myself every possible educational oppor- tunity-unless I had made myself abso- lutely master of the thing l wanted to do l tell you today that the tragedy of mod ern life is the tragedy of the half-edu- cated man or woman. It is the tragedy of the man or woman who wants to do something and cannot do nythng we'll"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25
Was Never Arrested.

He was never arrested. though the of- fieers were often close to him. It is known that this man was in New York for a while with several companions. and they professed to belong to a theatrical company.
 Isaac N. Chase, postmaster at East Fairfield, which postoffce was robbed just before Connecticut Bill was shot at Sheldon, has gone to New York city, be- ing summoned there by officers of the postoffice department.
 In the office of the American Express company at New York are two pack ages addressed to James Graham. MT. Chase believes that these packages con- tain over S700 worth of his personal prop erty. eoins bills and other articles, also a quantity of stamps and other property stolen from the postofhce and belong ing to the government. These express packages were sent from Richford just after the East Fairfield robbery. When found the dead burglar had on a pair of shoes which had just been fitted with new rubber heels. These heels were put on by a shoemaker in Richford and the man who put on the heels identified the dead burglar as the man for whom he did the work. thus establishing the fact that he had been in Rchford
 Another proof is that in the safe which was robbed at East Fairfield was a pen sion check drawn in favor of E. C. Co., burn. This Postmaster Chase had cashed and put away. A few days ago the de- partment sent from the dead letter office a registered letter containing this check and explaining that 1t was an uncaled for letter addressed to James Graham, General Delivery, New York" The let ter was mailed on October P at the Rich ford and St. Albans railway postoffice and was postmarked in New York on October 19, 19o5 at 6;3O D. m. It was never called for. As this is the same address as that on the express packages nrnnertN.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25
Another Family.

From Harper's Bazaar. Mrs. Kncker-I thought your cook was jewel.
 Mrs. Bocker-So she was, but she has been reset.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25
HeId on serlous charae.

AoAiA1 lo the rescue.
 Held on Serious Charge.
 All the boys arrested in connection with the shooting of Albert silxes, 17-year- old white boy, at Fairview yesterday morning. were released today except William overmark, who is held on a charge with assault with intent to mur- der. He was released on bond today.
 His trial is set for hearing Monday morning but on account of the serious condition of young sikes the trial will probably be continued until he is able to attend the hearing.
 It Is claimed that the shooting was ae- edental and the result of promiscuous shooting by a gang of boys near the Fairview station. Slkes was on his way from this city to his home at Bessemer and was waiting for a Bessemer car at Fairview junction when he was shot
 Notes and Personals.
 Miss Louise Thompson, librarian, under the direction of the Carnegie library committed yesterday ordered 5000 worth of books for the new institution. Miss Thompson has made a careful selection of books and 1t is said that the library will open with a very fine showing
 Miss Matte Sheldon, who has been Ill for some time, is said to be in a dan gerous condition at the home of her brother, J. H. Sheldon, in this city.
 The. male members of the First Baptist church of Ensley will have social meeting at the old Presbyterian hall on Nineteenth street next Tuesday night
 The Rev. S. L. Dobbs, presiding elder of the Birmingham district. Will preach at the First Methodist church in this city tomorrow morning and again at night
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25

of strawberries, vines, new fence all
 around the farm, ana a 4-room house.
 Good water. s2OO to s25O each-35 lots at Tuxedo park.
 (lerms).
 $35O each-l4 lots, near Palmer Terrace $2500-One broom house near 18th st. $210O--One business lot Ave near city hall. $650 for all--3 nice lots, Ensley So High
 lands
 $95O-Here is your chance, big lots at
 Ave. c and 27th st. sSOO-One lot 65x15O near Big Springs on road. $1SOO-One nice 4-room house at Fairview; s21Oo-S houses and lots rents for sSO per
 month.
 $11OO-One nice 4-room house on hill be- yond Tuxedo park and ? lots, the va- cant lot corner; good well. Terms. $12OO-One 4-room house on hill above
 Tuxedo park, F block of car line. $1O5O-One 4-room house this side of chick en farm, on road, ? lots sS50-One Broom house and lot in French Town (for colored). $1O0 each-4 lots, West Ensley. S1200-2 beautiful lots at Hill Top station
 this is a bargain. $225O-A up-to-date 5-room house and lot at Palmer Terrace. $110O-One 4-room house and lot Ave. L. $llOO-One 4-room house, Ave. J. SLIGO each-4 4-room houses on Ave. I. $1S5O each-2 houses. Ave G near 18th st. $l2OO-One 2-story house, Ave. F and Ia street.
 s24OO-S Broom houses. will rent for $sd
 per month. S100 per acre-20 acres of land at East Lake
 s2OO per acre-5 acres at East Lake. $2OO each-2 nice lots at Pratt Boulevard and 17th st. Terms. $l7OO-One modern 4-room house on 4th
 ave. No. 1516 Bessemer, Ala. $lbUO-One 4-room house, one store house and buggy house, and lots on So. Ems ley car line between F'airview and Bir- mngham. s1SOO-2 lots 18th st. and Ave. H, alley cor. S45O-One nice lot Ave, I and 18th and --.n
 streets
 $SoO-one broom house and one 4-room
 house on drift track in Pratt; rent for SIS per month. SGOO-One lot, H and 26th st. S7OO each-2 lots, Ave. and 26th st. Sl2OO for 4-room houses and lots on Ave- L and 2Sd st., rents for s2O per month. You cant beat this SSO0-Lot Ave. F 24th and 25th sts S2j0O-One broom house on Ave F. all Improvements made. SSOO-One lot 24th and Ave. H. Sl5Oo-One broom house. Ave. I. 2Sd and 24th sts. s425O-A big store. lot 1OOx150, 17th st. and Ave. G; get busy. $l25O-House, Ave. r, between 18th and 14th sts; $500 cash. S1SOO-Store and houses on Ave E near 18th st. Terms. $1SOO-7-room house, Er1bet. 18th and 14th. Now don't forget us of you have prop erty in or near Ensley. It this way, Ensley Pratt City, wylam can sell it for you; just fill out this o the rest: any: Peoples Phone 47. '.,.......... day Of 1906. following property: Lot No............., ub-division ......................... survey. erms ...,....................... t Word, GET BUSY-
 NOM IIE G INvESlM MEM 7ANY
 Peoples Phone 47.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25
FAMOUS BURGLAR
 PASSES AWAY Was First to Use NitrO-GIyCer- inc in Blowing Safe WAS CONNECTICUT BILLY He Came of Good Family, Went to Harvard and Made Bad Use of the Chemistry Learned
 There.
 
WAS CONNECTICUT BILLY

St. Albans, Vt.-After working on the case for several months, 1t has been proved by government inspectors that Connecticut Billy. alias Fred Adams alias Frank Howard, and passing at times un- der several other names, who was shot and killed by Eugene Trudeau, clerk in the store of Jennison & Gallup com 1 pany at Sheldon, while attempting to rob the store early in the morning of Octo- Der B, 1905, was one of the most famous crooks in the country, a member of prominent and wealthy family of Hart ford, Conn. and former Harvard stu dent
 The postofhce department has in It's possession paper signed by the mother, sister and brother of the dead burglar, stating that they positively identify the photographs as those of a member of their family, and relnquishing all claims to the body of the man, or any property in his possession Out of respect to the family. which is a prominent one, and at the earnest request of the relatives the department will not disclose the name.
 We did all we could for Henry" said the mother to Postoffce Inspector Grady. but though we spent large sums of money and used all the good influences we could, he would not would not re- form, and we had given him up."
 Went to Harvard.
 He attended Harvard university for two years until in 1888 he either left or was expelled. At that time he was 19 years old. An examination of his high school and college records shows that in mathe- matics he stood fairly we'll in geography and history low. in languages very low and in chemistry very high ranging from 96 to 100 per cent. His proficiency in chemistry was turned to account in his criminal career.
 It was Connecticut Billy who first in- trodueed among safe cracksmen the idea of using ntroglycerlne instead of gun powder or dynamite. It was he who taught them to make a cup of wax about the top of the safe door and pour in the nitroglycerlne, letting it filter into the crack between the door and the safe instead of drilling a hole for the powder, as his predecessors had done
 When shot he had on his person about a pound of wax and a quart bottle of nitroglycerine. He seemed to take pride in being the best cracksman in the busi- ness. Regarding these and other facts, the postoffice department is now in pos session of sufficient evidence to make the case a clear one.
 His mother said that when about home during his leisure time he was continually shooting at clay pigeons from traps and he was known to be an expert marksman with a revolver. When he was killed a twelve-inch. 44-callber revolver was found on his person.
 Connecticut Bill was 36 years old when shot His first record of crime was in South Carolina From there he was traced to Illinois and Ohio. A little later he was heard from in Minnesota, Iowa and other central states. Afterward he worked the Pacific coast states For many years the postoffice inspectors and the Pnkerton Detective agency were on his track
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-25
CARRoLLTON SHORT LINE RAIL
 WAY COMPANY.
SCHEDULE Effective June 15, 1905.

oOIILDU IsI
 Effective June 15, 1905 No l. >-o g. .s:4s pm. .Lv. Reform. Ala. Ar .12 :25 D. m. 4:05 pm. .Lv.... Stansel ....Ar. .12 ;S5 m. 4:28 p.m...Lv.. Carrollton ..Lv II :50 a. m. 4:43 p.m...Lv.. Carrollton Ar. n :35 am. 4:5S p.m.. .Ly.... Dillburg ...Ar. II :l5 a. m .5:25 pm. Ar. Aliceville ...Lv. II 200 a. m. First-class passenger trains meet and connect with all main line Mobile & Ohio trains.
 For further information apply to
 JOHN T. COCHhANE, Pres. and Gen'l Manager. Carrollton. Ala
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-14

A song OF national circulation, -In the
Sweet BY and BY" written by s. Fillmore
Bennett Of ElkhorD. Wis, had it's birth in a
Country store. Mr.. Bennett told the story
which is given in Wisconsin in Three Cen
turtles" a. follows:
II was about time for closing business In
the evening when J. p. Webster. whose melo-
dies have made Wisconsin famous. came into
the store. feeling somewhat depressed.
said to Webster: What 10 the matter
now"
lie replied: 1T is no matter: Il will be all
riEht by and by.
The idea Of the hymn came TO me Ike a
flash Of sunshine and l replied: The sweet
by and by. Why would not that make a good
hymn"
"Siaybe il woald. " he said, indih ~erentsT.
] then turned 10 my desk and penned the
hymn as fast as I could write. ] Anded il
to Mr.. Webster. As he reaG II his eye k.ndIed
and his whole SemeanOr changed. stepping
70 his desk. he began writing the notes in
stantly.
In a few moWents he requested Mr.. Bright
TO hand him his violin, and he PLAYED with
little hesitation the beautiful melody from
the notes. few moments later he had iOtted
down. the notes for The different parts and
the chorus.
do not think IL was more than thirty
minutes from the time ! took my pencil to
write the words before the hymn and the notes
had all been cOmplsted. and four Of ~ were
ain gin q u exactly ~ " appeared In the "SiyncL
Ring" 4 few days later. and ~ Il has been
sung the world over ever since.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-14

che fact that Il win iind there hay Tor spa,
beasts, grain 10 be crushed into ooaSaa
-four. and wine, the product of The vine
yards. There are timber and stone in abun-
dance and the primitive buildings are
erected at little or no expense.
The stations In the Rhone valley among
the vineyards are not at all like other VIII
lagos around them. They are simply ths
stations that mark the extreme northern
point OF these ~migrations.
The Anniviards do not mingls with other
people, their homes are closed to outsids
influences, they import nothing, they i've
in isolation, distrust everything nsw and
are closely attached to the lives their fathen
led before them. Sufficient unto then.
selves, they buy scarcely anything except
ing raw cotton. Their lands supply them
with bread, fruit and wine, they build their
houses, make their own furniture, spin
yarn, weave the cloth that they turn into
clothing and provide their own footgear
from the hides Of their cattle. In summer
the women participate in all tho labors ~
the men. In winter they weave cloth
make garments and braid straw hats for
summer Use.
A family IL rich with twenty head Of
cattle and the poorest has at least two. In
the Val d'Anniviers they call a man rich
who has more roofs to cover him, mora
fields to cultivate and more work 70 do
than the generality.
Naturally their inner are primitive,
The rich and poor dress alike; there 10 no
amusement; the women AVE no ornaments.
They are content with a ration Of milk,
cheese, coarse bread, and in winter dried
meat.
, Wine is reserved for the laborers in the
field and for winter evenings. No time ia
wasted, for the AWKWARD, from morning
till night, summer and winter. ia fully
occupied. The migrations are sometimes
mace in the night, so that the men and
women may give all the day to labor.
viii they be spoiled by the tourist? Their
little valley has been found by Alpine
visitors, who every year are ascending tba
steep slope in greater numbers TO zee this
strange people and their man habitations.
Poor az he is, the AWKWARD is not lacking
in hospitS lily; and not a few of the tourists
are telling Of their pleasant experience in
some Of these huts, where milk, cheese and
bread have been gladly set before them
without asking and without price.