The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-15

and he was not greatly surprised to- hear it. Aa,
 aThe first information that I had that I was to be transferred from Memphis to Duluth came to me from a Memphis newspaper man. said Major Potter, "and now the first word that I have received that I am to be transferred to Tompkinsville comes from another newspaper man. shall regret leaving Duluth, where I have made many friends and which is an interesting and Important station. but good station. The Third lighthouse district is the largest in the country, and extends from Cape Cod to Cape May and the Delaware river"
 Major Potter said that he expected he would receive oficial notice of the changes by tomorrow mornings mall.
 Major Potter has been in charge or the Duluth station nearly three years He succeeded Captain David Gaillaird, now Major Gillaird, who is a mem Der of the board of engineers that has been appointed to make report on the Duluth-Superior harbor with ref erence to notifications, if any, in the present plan of improvements by the government Major Potter had s-- pected to be here when this board should come to make its survey of the harbor, and 1t may be that he will, for the board Is expected here about July i 23 or "A.
 Major Potter is a very popular res- | ident of Duluth and there are many 1 who will regret very much to see him l and Mrs. Potter leave the city perma- nently.
 The Third lighthouse district sn- | cludes the coast of Rhode Island, Con- | necticut New York. including Long | Island and New Jersey to a point ten | ,..t1a. nn,,tb nf Ca ndxr ITnnlr Tho I{ohts | on Hudson river to Albany. on the Con-
 necticut river to Hartford, on the \ Thomas river to Norwich and on Mar I ragansett bay, Lake Champlain and | Memphremagog to the Canadian boun- | dary and Porto Rico. Has 2s3 lin \ the United States and fifteen in Porto I Rico. Has following boats. America | John Rogers Cactus. Gardinea, Mis- l tletoe. Iris, Kettle and Daisy I Major Potter was for time sta | tioned here some years ago Mrs Pot T ter was formerly Miss Sophie Hollon- I guist, one of the most notedly beauti.
 full and brilliant young women of the
 State.
 | ALABAMIANS IN NEW YORK. | Mrs. Jefferson Davis, who made her home in Alabama at the most stirring II time of our history, is now at Hotel II Grametan, where she will spend the | summer
 Mrs Davis has spent the winter at II the Girard There also were Mrs J.
 D. Beale and many other prominent
 Scutherners
 An instance of how romances are II made of nothing is the story of an old
 door-knob tfat has been going the rounds of the papers:
 Six houses are being torn down in
 Forty-fourth street, between Sixth and
 Seventh avenues. Yesterday gray haired woman who once had been a beauty, stood before Ine house at No. 121, and ever and anon she wiped a
 tear from her eye. She asked the
 U orkman for the Little knob from a
 closet door. and. sobbing. she told her
 story.
 She was NIics Winifred Cullen Stuart. who is stopping at the Gerard Hotel with Mrs. Jefferson Davis. She lived in No. f21 during the civil war with her parents. and there she secretly met her young Confederate lover wh6 had got a spy's appointment that he might make a surreptitious visit to his anfe-war sweetheart. One night sht had him in the parfor. her parents who drowned on the case. being away Thev came back unexpectedly. want ad sonething in the very closet 1T ,,hicb the young Confederate had bees
 hidden. found him there, put him out , and almost decided to Eive him un al