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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-18

fifteenth floor of one building desired
to reach the upper floors of the building
next door he could take the elevator
coming up, then cross over. Steel bridges
from the tops of the buildings and over
the streets, say thirty stories high, would
facilitate this mode of travel but the
bridges and foot paths would have to be
inclosed with steel network to prevent
the foot passengers blowing off In high
winds.
Perhaps by that time people will have
become so accustomed to aerial naviga-
ton that they will consider themselves
very close to the ground when they are
300 feet up in the air, walking about on
the building tops with the same freedom
and lack of fear that the average pedes-
trian does now on terra firma."
Mr.. Edison also says that warships
will be a thing of the past, for, with
efficient wasps known as torpedoboats.
no fleet of warships from a hostile ma
ton could enter New York harbor.
I'VE could torpedo the waters so quick
w." he says, chat nothing afloat could
navigate Them"
The house will be a curiosity accord
ing to Mr.. Edison, and it will be a COM
mon sight to see the air navigated oy
private aero cars, and it may be possible
to use the flying machine for CONNER
cial Use.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-18
Moraan's Art Temple.

J. p. Morgan has recently completed
his private museum of art, which is to
contain the most costly and artistically
valuable private assemblage in the world
of rare books paintings of the old and
modern masters and antique manu-
scripts, tapestries and scriptures. That
is, it will contain this collection when the
tariff laws are shaped more to Mr.. Nor
gans view. Many of these objects of
art are now in Europe and there they
will remain until such a time as it will
not cost Mr.. Morgan what to many per-
SONS would be a vast fortune to bring
them here. Altogether his collection is
valued at s20000,000.
The art store house, which Mr.. Morgan
has just finished, stands in East Thirty
sixth street a few yards across a lawn
from the conservatory of Mr.. Morgan s
home, which is at the corner of Madison
avenue. From his home to the museum
Mr.. Morgan is able to go in stormy
weather without breathing the outer air.
This is accomplished by an underground
passage that leads from a staircase in
the conservatory to the vaults that con-
tain art treasures garnered from the end
of the earth. The engine room, whence
is supplied the heat and electric light
current for the museum is under the
lawn. Thus no vibration of machinery,
no Earring note of utility, mars the aes-
thetic calm of the temple of art.
The vaults. which are of steel con-
struction after the bank plan, are in
the basement, which extends the entire
length of the building.
Here are stored portable objects too
rare and of value too great to be left in
the large open chambers overhead.
There is an original manuscript of the
Persian poet. Omar Khayyam. On shelves
In one vault are parchmentS covered
with the light. flowing strokes that de-
note the oldest Greek manuscripts; sew
eral of them are earlier than the Chris
tan era. There are Latin manuscripts
of the various periods-Roman antique,
Merovingian, Lombardian, Carlovingian
and Gothic, with its artificially pointed
characters.
Then there is a Chinese manuscript a
thousand years old, and some rare spe-
cimens of Chryselphantine work which is
ivory, overlaid with plates of gold. Their Q
are appropriate spaces for 4 library for
paintings and for the hundred and one
other things that Mr.. Morgan has PICKED
up abroad at great cost.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-18
Pumpkin Pie Plant.

Says the world of a man who writes
his sorrow to an editor declaring that
he can find no genuine pumpkin pie in
the city restaurants:
Doubtless his plant is based on a Just
cause. In the proper seasons he can fail
also to discover real strawberry short
cake and the true buckwheat cake. These
however, are side issues to pumpkin pie.
From September to February some
thing like 10000 pumpkin pies a day are
eaten in the restaurants of New York.
Perhaps a few more. They come from
factories. one of which is known to turn
out daily about 10000 pies of all kinds.
The machinery which performs these mir
cles in pastry work cannot give the
personal touch which mother always
gave. Ire correspondent says the pies
speaking of the pumpkin kind-lack also
molasses, which may be a matter of
taste.
There is no anima1ism in pie,' said
the superintendent of New YorI's iarg-
est pie factory. talking one day in bust
ness hours Your habtual pie eater is
n man of fine texture physically and
mentally, a man fit to dwell among the
stars Familiarity with his machines had
not bred in him contempt for their works.
Yet he had been fifty years in the trade.
and his memories of the mother-made pie
had perhaps been dimmed. What has hS
to say to the molasses charger y
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-18
An Automobile Bank.

A bank on wheels is the latest thing in
New York, bank that goes to the peo-
pie to collect their money instead of
waiting for depositors to walk up and
leave it,
The Night and Day bank, at Fifth ave-
nue. and Forty-fourth street. has started
this new way of doing things. 1t has
put in force a collection system by which
its depositors are saved the trouble of
visiting the bank, and are enabled to
deposit all the money on hand at a late
hour at night without the risk of send
ing it to the bank by messenger
To make the collections the bank Off
Gals have had built a specially designed
automobile with limousine body Taking
up the greater part of the space in the
body of the machine is a large safe, built
into the automobile so that it cannot
be removed. The mechanism is so con-
structed that it is impossible for any
one but a chauffeur who has learned the
plan to operate it, obviating the POSSIBLE
ity of band of thieves knocking the
driver on the head and running off with
the automobile, safe and all.
Each depositor who desires to have his
money taken to the bank by the collec-
tors receives a metal dispatch box, num-
bered and enclosed in leather case. In
this he puts his currency and checks, and
when the machine comes around he turns
the box, locked, over to the messenger.
who gives him a receipt for it.
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vote for mayor canvassed. The present
attorney general refused to do his duty
in this matter, even when urged to it by
republicans of the highest influence and
standing We have always favored the
plan of open canvass, believing that 1T
is infinitely preferable that Hearst should
be mayor than that he should be mar
tyr We do not for a moment believe
that Mayor McClellan's tenure of office
will be put in jeopardy, although his own
apprehension in regard to it is painfully
obvious. 1t is intolerable that Hearst's
imposture as a martyr should continue.
The duty of the law is plain, and we
cannot understand how any decent man
can stand being pillored as a thief and a
fraud when he has the law to fall back
on. Does he prefer office and a bad rep
utation lowell. no office and no repu-
tation? We suppose that that is some-
where near the truth but it does not
affect the public interest. That impera-
lively requires that the matter be adju-
dicated and settled one way or the 9TH
or
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-18
THE WEEKS TALK
IN NEW YORK CITY
Wages Increased as Cost of
Living Goes Up
EDISON PREDICTS MARVELS
Changes That the inventor Says d
Century VIII 5ring-Another
Chance for Hearst to
Gust Mcclellan.
EDISON PREDICTS MARVELS
BY SEWELL HAGGARD.

| New York, November 17.-(SpeciaD.-It
| is said in Wall street that practically
| all of the big railroad and industrial
corporations of the country have decided
| to increase the wages of their employees.
| Following the lead of the Pennsylvania
| railroad. which has increased the wages
of it's $4,000 men nearly So, 100000 and
the Standard Oil company which has
given its $1,000 employees a substantial
increase, all other concerns, big and lit
tie, are expected to fall in line. If they
do not do it willingly undoubtedly the
employees of the railroads and other cor
porations that employ union labor will
force them to.
Information has reached the city from
Montana that the Amalgamated Copper
company, generally known as the Copper
Trust. which employs nearly 1900 men in
the mines of Montana, has already made
proposal to its employees increasing
their wages about 10 per cent.
The United States Steel corporation,
the worlds largest trust, which advanced
the wages of its army of $4,000 employees
in March, 1905, without solicitation from
the men, is also considering the question
of wage increase.
The Philadelphia and Reading COM
pany. the New York Central, the Lack
awanna and other eastern roads have
either been requested to advance the
wages of the employees or have taken
some steps to do so.
There are several reasons for this
change of policy on the part of the cor
poratons. They are at present in a
highly prosperous condition; in fact,
more prosperous than ever before in
the history of the country. Another
reason is that the recent elections sound
ed a note of warning of the growing an
tagonism to corporations, and it Is but
natural that men prominent in the flnan-
cal world should desire to checkmate
this growing tide of discomfort Anoth-
er reason for the general tendency of the
trust managers to increase the wages of
their worl<men is that the present cost of
living is the highest in twenty years.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-18
THE VALUE OF CHARCOAL.
Few People Know How Useful It Is In
Preserving Health and Beauty.
Costs Nothing to Try.

Nearly everybody knows that charcoal
IL the safest and most efficient disin-
festant and purifier in nature, but few
realize it's value when taken into the hui
man system for the same cleansing pur-
pose.
Charcoal is a remedy that the more
YOU take of 1t the better; 1t is not drug
at all, but simply absorbs the gases and
Impurities always present in the stomach
and intestines and carries them out of
the system.
Charcoal sweetens the breath after
smoking, drinking or after eating onions
and other odorous vegetables.
Charcoal effectually clears and Inn
proves the complexion, 1t whitens the
teeth and further acts as natural and
eminently safe cathartic
1t absorbs the injurious gases which
collect in the stomach and bowels; 1t dis
infects the mouth and throat from the
poison of catarrh.
All druggists sell charcoal in one form
or another, but probably the best char
coal and the most for the money is in
Stuart's Charcoal Lozenges: they are
composed of the finest powdered Willow
charcoal and other harmless antiseptics
in tablet form, or rather in the form Of
large pleasant tasting lozenges, the
charcoal being mixed with honey.
The daily use of these iozenges will
soon tell in a much improved condition
of the general health, better complexion,
sweeter breath and purer blood and the
beauty of it is, that no possible harm can
result from their continued use. but, on
the contrary. great benefit
A Buffalo physician, in speaking of
the benefits of charcoal, says: Il ad-
wise Stuart's Charcoal Lozenges to all
patients suffering from gas in stomach
and bowels, and to clear the complexion
and purify the breath, mouth and throat;
also believe the liver is greatly bene-
fitted by the daily use of them; they cost
but % cents box at drug stores and
although in some sense patent prepara-
ton, yet I believe 1 get more and bet
ter charcoal In Stuart's Charcoal Loz-
enges than in any of the ordinary char
coal tablets"
Send your name and address today for
a free trial package and see for yourself
F. A. Stuart Co., Sc Stuart Bldg, Mar
shall, Mich.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-18
SEED INQUIRIES INTO
GEORGIA DEPOSIT PL AN
State Puts Funds In Designated De.
positories to Draw Per Cent
Interest

Atlanta, November l7.-(Special.) Estate
bama has written to State Treasurer r.
E. Park of Georgia asking him for de-
tailed information regarding Georgias
state depository law, under which state
funds are kept at times in various state
banks. Mr.. Seed stated that Alabama
now has no such law, but that there is
growing sentiment in that state in favor
of depositing state funds in certain
selected banks instead of having all the
states funds kept in the state treasury
vaults.
This is about the sixth application
which has been made by other states dur
ing the year for information as to Geor-
gla's state depository law. 1t seems
to have made an impression. State Treas
urer Park said he had but one criticism
to make of the Georgia plan, and that is
there are too many of these state deposit
tories. Georgia now has Feventy-six Of
them with the probability of the appoint
ment of others in the near future. He
thinks the number should be limited to a
smaller figure. Nevertheless in every
other respect the system is regarded as
an excellent one The banks give bond
in a sum more than sufficient to protect
the state against any possible loss, and
pay into the state treasury per cent
for the use of the money placed with
them during such time as the state does
not need it. The net receipts of the state
treasury from this source in 9o4 were
S745l SO, and the amount increases slight
~ every year.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-18
Wonders of a Century Hence.

New York Will, indeed, be a remarkable
city 100 years hence II the predictions of
Thomas A. Edison. the great inventor
come true Here are only a few of the
many marvellous changes that he says
will come to pass
zone hundred years hence New York
and other large cities will be as free
from smoke and steam as the fresh green
fields. There will be no SCOT, for the
chimney will be thing OF the past there
will be no steam, for electricity will
make it too expensive: the enormous
waste of coal and other fuel will be
stopped. and electricity will be generated
direct from fuel without the aid of the
steam or gas engine, boiler or dynamo
Vibration will cease In manufacturing
plants-that Is the excessive vibration
due to heavy machinery, shafting and
the consequent over-power necessary to
drive betting and shafting from which
each machine takes off its power.
Each machine will have it's individual
motor. to be started and stopped as the
machine is employed, thereby saving a
great deal in the power necessary to keep
the shafting, pulleys and belt running.
Electricity rill run the world! 1t is
bound to be so; the greatest enterprises
today are those on an electrical basis.
All the great railroads will be equipped
with electric power and the little ones
will then be controlled by the larger
ones, so the entire system of rairoadng
in all countries will be on an electrical
basis
Houses will be heated by electricity,
and for less than half the cost of the
present heating systems. And most of
the city's distressing noise will cease.
''Skyscrapers will occupy Manhattan
Island then, for space will be too valu-
able for the low building or tax killer"
1T is possible that the streets will
then be bridged over at the top to facii-
tate transit from one to another or from
block to block. In fact, it would often
be very convenient. If a person on the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-18
"Home, Sweet Home"

While the bones of John Howard Payne
lie moulding in an obscure grave in far
off Algeria. Home, Sweet Home" the
little matched cottage at East Hampton.
H. L. which only his early childhood
knew, and which in later years, when he
was wanderer on the face OF The globe.
inspired his immortal ballad, Is itself
to do the way of all earthly things. The
site on which it has stood so many years
has been purchased and the homey little
structure will be destroyed to make way
Tor new edifice for st. Lukes church.
Although Payne has been dead more
than half century, his song is still SO
deeply entrenched in the hearts of human
nature that the descendants of his one
time fellow-citizens will make an effort
to preserve the cottage, and if they of
their own effort cannot raise "a fund suf-
hcient for its preservation, an appear for
aid may be made to the outside world
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-18
Recount of the MayoraIty Votes.

While Mr. Hearst did not win the gov
ernorship, the fact that the rest of the
neutrality-suspicious. league state
ticket was elected will probably give him
another chance to prove that he was
elected Mayor of New York. 1t will be
recalled that months ago Mr.. Hearst APP
piled to julius Mayer, the republican
attorney general, for quo warranto pro-
ceedings. Mr.. Mayer denied the applica-
tion, but now that Mr.. Hearsts candl-
date for attorney general. William Schuy-
Ter Jackson, has been elected he can re-
new his application. Mr.. jackson refuses
to make public his decision in advance
but one of his pledges made On the
stump in the campaign was to secure a
recount of the votes in the city election
Practically all the newspapers and the
public generally will applaud Mr.. jackson
If he grants Mr.. Hearsts application. The
Sun, which was one of the strongest sup
porters of Mcclellan, says:
lone of the new attorney generals first
duties should be to proceed to have the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-18

Sugar, oatmeal and other grocery sup
plies have advanced at corresponding ra-
ito, while the best grades of milk have
made even a greater advance.
Because of a small yield some CT the
canned vegetables are excessively high.
Potatoes are cheaper than last year.
The crop was very large and good Maine
potatoes are now quoted wholesale at $1.15
a bag. Last year the same grade cost
$170. Sweet potatoes are a glut on the
market at 81 to $175 per bag. Cauli-
flower, lettuce, mushrooms, okra peppers,
tomatoes, turnips and pumpkins are all
from 10 to % per cent higher than a
year ago.
Meat, eggs and milk are the principal
foods of the average family in New
York. and all of these are very much
more expensive than ever before. The
earnings from eggs and poultry in this
country last year amounted to $780, 000,-
0O0-more than the value of all the gold.
silver, wool and sheep produced This
city consumes more than 2O0o,c0C eggs
a day. which at cents each amounts
to $4,000 more than the cost of the police
department or public schools.
Retail butchers continue to advance the
prices of beef pork and mutton, explain
Ing to their customers that they are only
keeping even with the prices charged
them by the Beef Trust. Chickens are
about the same as last year but deal
ers say that the wet weather in the west
interfered with the raising of turkeys and
that they will be very high by holiday
time.
Shoes are more expensive than in form
er years on account of the growing cur
tailment in the leather supply. High
grade wooilens remain at about the same
figure, but inferior grades and cotton
goods, such as are worn by the families
nf tha middle and DOOrar classes are
all higher in price
Notwithstanding these conditions, con-
sumption is all the time running ahead
OF production. and in all sections of the
country there is a scarcity of labor both
skilled and unskilled
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-18

Gently resigned as result of criticism
in connection with the investigation
into the sale of diseased cattle for al,
legged food purposes, cost the state
$S2,732, according to its biennial report
just published. The report states that
a largely increased number of farmers
has asked for inspection, trebling the
work of the commission.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-18
WILL OWN REFRIGERATOR CARS.
Southern Pacific Has Awarded Con.
tract for 5000.

San Francisco, November 1.-THE
Southern Pacific has awarded a con-
tract for the construction of 5000 new
refrigerator cars to be delivered at the
rate of 1000 month, beginning with
next January.
The refrigerator cars in use over the
company's line are Armour cars, and
the Hartman lines will now own and
operate their own refrigerator cars.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-18
What 1t Costs to Live.

A glance at a report issued by the
Dun Mercantile agency a few days ago
will prove really startling to the wage
Garner. All household supplies have adj
vanced rapidly, and, in this city, the in
crease in rents has made the burden
harder than in any city in the country.
In the way of household supplies near
ly everything has gone up from 10 to %
per cent in the last year. Here are a
few comparative prices of few staples
taken from the quotations of one of the
largest firms in the city, showing the diff
ference between the prices of November
TO- 1905, and November 10, 1906:
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-18
Sam Jones' Son to Enter Ministry.

Atlanta, November l7.-(Special) Ut is
definitely announced that Robert w.
Jones, second son of the late Rev. Sam
p. Jones, will enter the ministry and will
apply to the North Georgia Methodist
conference at its coming session for ad-
mission. He was a convert of his father S
last meeting at the tabernacle in Carters-
vile, and since that time 1t has become
known that It was his intention to follow
in his fathers footsteps
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-18

regarded as one of the ablest mining ex-
perts in the country. So enormously has
the wealth of the family multiplied in
recent years that men familiar with the
facts hesitate to set any figure, fearing
TO expose themselves to charge of
eXaggeration They assert. that the COM
bined wealth of the seven men runs into
the hundreds of millions
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-18
Store Burns at Adaer.

Adger, November l7.-(Special)- Fire
destroyed the store and goods of Culpep-
per G. Burgess at Johns Friday night, and
nothing was saved. Loss about $4,000,
partly covered by insurance. The origin
of the fire is not known
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-18
Makes a Change.

Mr.. w. T. Tuggles, experienced furni-
ture man. formerly with McGeever Furni-
ture company, now with The Anchor
Supply Co., 221S Second avenue.
He cordially invites his old friends to
call on him at the above address.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-18

Nine. Kirke's Dermatorium,
1871 First National Bank Bldg,
is the best equipped for her line
of work Of any similar place in
the city. All facial blemishes
scientifically removed, and
treated.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-18
Farmers Want Cattle Imported.

Montpelier, VT, November liver
mont's cattle commission, which re-
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