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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-22
White Goods

SO inch white linen Monday we place on sale our35c
shirt waist linen We guarantee this all lnen 0Eo
IL yard bolt of princess nainsook full SO inches IN
wide, yd. 15e special Monday per bolt. lsJU
Csc white dotted dress Swiss Polka dots and small 0En
floral patterns; special. .............,.......ZV U
80 inch sheer white Persian lawn You will appreciate
it when you see the quality; special Ql1n
125 quality of 90 inch linen sheetng, all pure linen with
round thread I'd. for shirt waist, IL to OK
yards for a suit; special. JVU
SO inch curtain Swisses just received, polka dots, all
sizes and floral patterns, 15c quality; l9ln
Staples
i5c spot ginghams for school dresses This is an en-
broidered dot in all colors; special lln
Monday OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. .iIV
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Black Japanese Silks
Stdples---Continued

S1x90 hemmed and roned sheet, two inch hem made
of heavy quality domestic, regular price 60c; KIN
225 bed spread, ia size, knoed fringe with cut
ner for the brass beds one day OF
II yards Hope domestic; mn
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Our Waist Department

We are proud of our waist department and the i'm
mense quantity of beautiful waists that shown
here. We have arranged to throw out for tomorrow
lot of pretty waists selected only from such num-
bers as will please the most tasteful dresser. Fine
Special showing of net waists, lingerie waists,
fine lawns and China silks in both black and white.
Plenty of styles to choose from. All fresh and
clean, at. ....4.96
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Special Bargains in Silk
Eton Suits
The Sea SOM Choicest STYLES at $225O

Special arrangements have been made for big
sale of these stylish silk Elton suits this week Our
buyer picked up several fae lots at big saving in
price The materials used in the make up of these
suits are of the best and the coors the choicest
that can be found. Extra good value and all sizes
at Observation-Disclosures. .................22 so
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The Rush for Washable Suits
Is On

Hundreds of women took advantage of this oppor-
tunity last week to supply their wash suit wants
while the choosing good. The lots are still
complete in all sizes and the values are better than
are usually offered. Washa BILE suits of fine lawn,
with pretty trimmed waists and wide full skirts o5
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-22
Boys Waist Specials

Boys waists in the celebrated Puritan brand with moth
ers friend belt. in solid colored chambray pretty
striped percae, sizes broken, regular SOC waists; 0Qo
The brand in white with tucked bosom and plated
back, with attached collars or colarettes also Ef1o
broken in sizes. Regular price 75c; Monday. Jul
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Remnants!
Remnants!
Is! Remnants!

After busy week selling there remnants from al
most every price of goods in the wash goods stock We
reduce the prices from fourth to third and place
them on sale every Monday morning
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Staple Black Silks
Thrown Into This Vortex Of
Values

70 inch chiffon taffeta, wear guaranteed, beau
tiful brilliant black-a quality you are ac-
customed to buying at 6Sc; this AAc
A very strong black lining and pettcoat taffeta,
81 inches wide, regular value 65c; lQc
ulo Sdle W.
A beautiful loom finished black dress taffeta, a
very strong, brilliantly finished silk, 6inch-
eS wide and cannot be matched anywhere
at less than LIS; this sale QQc
az ~
81 inch, wear guaranteed black taffeta k1c
dress finish, value CSC; sale price. UJN
Black pure silk messaline, Csc value. EQc
tlllo odS W.
An elegant quality heavy weight peau de sole
rich lustrous black, easily LIS Q2c
value; this sale $3.50. ......... OJN
Finest imported black Italian taffetas are also
included in this sale. Note these prices.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-22
COrSetS- Choose Here
Tomorrow

Every standard make and experts
them to your figure:
bon Ton
p N.
r. and @.
Royal Worster
c. B.
Thompson's Glove Fitting
Warmers Rust Proof
FleXibone Moulded
and Ferris Waist
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Beautiful Spring Hosiery

Ladies' fast black mercerzed Isle hose, lace ankle Tn
double heel and toe .......................1U W
Ladies' fast black brilliant Isle hose, lace ankle KIM
and lace all over OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. UUU
Ladies' Hemsdorf black gauze Isle hose double Kim
Misses fine ribbed silk Isle hose double soles in 9kn
red and white Observation-Disclosures. ZVU
Misses Hermsdor black Isle lace hose. lace all 0En
over. double heel and toe .ZVU
Misses fine ribbed black hose, superior qoality lkn
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Muslins Reduced Again SOC

Ladies drawers in best grade cambria trimmed in wide
hemstched tucked lawn rufles, or lace trimmed open
or closed, regular price SOC; for Monday 9Qn
Ladies vests, low neck and sleeveless, made of best
mercerized Isle, finished with silk crocheted edge and
tape, regular price Csc; Monday lQn
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LaceS and EmbroiderieS
For TomOrroW'S Selling

beautiful line of Point de Paris aces. Edges and
inserting to match just received Ranging widths from
2 IL to 5 inches wide, worth 15c to Csc per I'M
yard; at .................... ...........IVU
lot of imitation torchon edges and insertion to match
from one-half to three inches wide; special price kn
for Monday .........
VdlenCienneS LdCeS
About 500 yards of new patterns in Walls. at nm
prices per doz, from 35c to................. VIUU
One lot of Point de Paris all overs worth from 75c Err
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Bags and Belts

Ladies' hand bags in all oolors, with straps and
handles large and small Sizes special. .....
Leather belts in green, tan. red, white, black an
blue, form fitting with stitching, gold and
White wash embroidered belts in different design
with gold buckle
One lot ladies' hand bags and purses in patent
feathers regular 1.25 and 1.50; special. .......
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-04-27
SAN FRANCISCO
DISASTER
WILL sURPAss THE GREAT CHI.
cAGo FIRE.
Exceeded in Number of Lives Lost by
the Great Tidal Wave at Gal
weston.

CHICAGO, April 19-If the publish
ed reports are confirmed, as it now
seems probable they will be, the Gala
nifty in San Francisco will exceed in
magnitude and horror that which oc-
Cured in Chicago October s and =.
1871. At the time of the great fire
this city had population OF about
100000, while San Francisco now has
nearly $4,000 The loss of life in
Chicago was comparatively small The
number of dead was never definitely
.ascertained, but it did not exceed 200.
In the California metropolis it is be-
lieved that upward of 1000 persons
have persisted and it is known that
thousands have been injured
In the matter of property destroyed,
tE2 figures are more equal. The loss
in Chicago amounted to 5000, 900,
that in San Francisco is estimated at
the same figure. Here 17,45O build
ings were burned ard 10000 people
made homeless. In San Francisco the
buildings are said to be $4,000 and the
number of homeless is reported to be
10000
How much assistance Will be re-
quired by the victims Of the Pacific
coast disaster may be estimated from
the fact that it took nearly $7,O00.0O0
in contributions from the outside
world to tide the people of Chicago
over the period of distress.
The Galveston calamity surpassed
that in San Francisco in the number
of lives lost, the dead numbering more
than 5000, but the property loss was
only about S12,00O,0O0.
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Big Sale OF TIMBER
MAURY FOUNTAINS RECEIVE $a5coo CASH TIMBER seo.
LANDS WHICH COST ORIGINALLY ABOUT s1a5co-mR 4
AKIN ESTATE OF MA4oR CAMPBELL BROWN HrA,o
INTERESTED

The Hurricane Iron and Mining Co..
closed the deal Thursday whereby
they disposed of the timber on their
tract Of 1880 acres of land in Hick
man county to the Interstate Cooper
age Co, a favored step child Of the
Standard Oil Co, for $4,000 cash.
This deal is of more than ordinary
Importance to Maury county from the
reason that all the parties interested
in the sale are either residents Of
Maury county or have interests loca
ted here.
The land in question is located in
the western part of Hickman county,
next the Perry county line, and was
purchased more than twenty years
ago by the late Major Campbell Brown.
Mr. A. n Akin and others, Major
Brown not only investing for himself
but also for his sister, Mrss. Turner
At that time the Tennessee Midland
Railroad had been projected through
hat part of the state, and had the
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road been completed, it worl1 b.u
passed through the lands and tb.,
value would have increased more w.
idly even than has been the case a.
it is, the land cost Originally abon,
$1.0O an acre, and the present sale .,
the timber alone amounts TO abon,
$500 an acre, so the wisdom of tbe
original purchasers is evident
Since the original purchase No.s,.
M. E. Wheeler, G. w. KiIebraw Inn
w. Fry and Johnson Bransf9rI b,vo
purchased some of the interests br,
the interests possessed by the estate
of Major Campbell Brown, by his sic.
ter, Mrs. Turner, and by Mr. A \
Akin, of Columbia, were retained 90
a whole and the present owners bava
received a nice little fortune. Mr.
Atkins part of the sale money is abont
$4,000, while the Brown and Turner
interests amount to about $4,000 We
feel sure their friends will reioica
with them in their good fortune.
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An cid Georgia darby owned small
and ancient mule, but which, at a
casual question as to the price at
which it was held, became suddenly
endowed with all the virtues of the
best blood of Kentucky
But he is at least 20 years old,
uncle" the would-be purchaser. pro
tested.
Dat mule?" Uncle Nose said, in
dignantB. mo, sab! Eff dat mules
mo- AN vars olee Al hopes he dies 10
mawniu'!"
Upon visiting his staSle the next
day Uncle Nose was struck with con
sternation to find his animal stretched
lifeless on the ground.
Look at dat, now," he exclaimed,
with intense disgust What you
think O dat? Never did see SIGH er
fool mule-couldn't take err H'l joke
lack dat!"-Harper Weekly.
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SMAMPED WITH MESSAGES.

OAKLAND April 22.-The Oakland
offices of the Western Union and Pos
tai Telegraph Companies are swamped
with messages filed by people OF San
Francisco anxious to assure friends
of their safety. There are more on
hand now than can be sent in week.
TO relieve the strain as much as pos
sible packages of messages are being
mailed to nearby Offices to be sent by
wire 10 their destinations.
1t is reported that the Western
Union lost all of its Office records dat
ing back to 1862 All it's dynamos, in
struments and wheat stone machines
were in the destroyed. The Postal
Telegraph Company, it is reported,
succeeded in saving it's dynamos and
typewriters, but little else of value.
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FEEDING The HOMELESS
A MOMEHTOUS QUESTION
Continued from First Page.

about forty considerable hotels in the
city. aha St. Francis being one of the
largest, and at this season of the year
they are usually full of visitors.
The city should be referred to in
the past tense. But comparatively lit
tile is left If it. What the earthquake
did not destroy the fire has. The sud
den visitation of the cl'amity is thus
described by one who Was there, writ
ing TO the st. Louis Globe-Democrat:
or the scenes which marked the
Transformation of this, tie gayest,
mGs1 careless city on the continent,
into a wreck and hell, it is hard to
write. That the day started with a
blind, general panic goes without say
ing. People awoke with a start to
find themselves laundering on the
floor. In such an earthquake as this
it Is human instinct to get out of
doors, away from falling walls. They
stumbled across the floors of their
heaTIRg houses to find tnat even the
earth upon which they placed their re-
Hanee was swaying and rising and
falling, So that the sidewalks cracked
and great rents opened in the ground.
The 1hTee minutes which followed
were an eternity of terror We learn
here of at least two persons who died
of fright in that three minutes when
there seemed no help in earth or
heaven. There was a roar in the air
like a great bursting of thunder, and
from aA about came the crash Of fall !
ing walls. It died down at last, leav-
ing the earth quaking and quiyering
like Jelly
1t seemed to be two or three minutes |
after the great shock was over before
T1epI3e found their voices. Then fol |
lowed the screaming of women, be-
side themselves with terror, and the
cries of men. With one impulse, peo-
pie made for the parks, as far as pos
sible from falling walls. These speed |
lily became packed with people in their
might clothes, who screamed and |
m0aned at the little shocks that fol |
lowed every few minutes. The dawn |
WAS Just breaking out, but there was
no n1her light, for the gas and electric
mains were gone, and the street lamps
were all out.
= No such disaster ever befell an
American city. There have been few
such in all recorded history, A great
prosperous, beautiful city, teeming
with life and wealth has been wiped |
off the map, and sorrow and desola-
tion reign among the homeless thous-
ands. The duty of promptly respond
ing 10 the calls for help is enc human
fly cannot gnore-Nashville Ameri-
can.
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S4,0O0,O0O tAHlGE AT
STAFFORD UNIVERSITY.
Two Killed and Eight Injured AS Re-
suit of Earthquake.

SACRAMENTO, Cal, April 90
The following signed statement fur
nished to the Associated Press by
President Jordan was given here:
THE earthquake did great damage
to the building of Stanford University.
Only two lives were lost, one a stu
dent named j. A. Hanna, of Bradford,
Pa, and fireman, Hans Stroh. Eight
students were injured, none seriously
The buildings wrecked are the memoir
fal church, the new library, the gym
nasium, the Memorial Arch and the
power house. Many buildings of the
outer quadrangle were seriously dam
aged as well as some of the shops.
The chemistry building and encina
hall, the inner quadrangle, are prac-
tically uninjured. The damage will
S4,O000O0. The books,
collections and apparatus are nac
greatly damaged This message, to-
gether with 400 private messages from
the university community, is sent from
Sacramento, as all telegraphic com
to Palo Alto and all around,
the bay is out of commission.
DAVID STARR JORDAN"
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Bridal CoupIe Killed.

At the Del Monte Hotel, a bridal
couple from Benson, Arkansas, Mr..
and Mrs. Rouser, were killed in bed
by chimneys falling on them.
Hundreds of people are streaming
into Santa Clara county from San
Francisco. Company B, Of the Fifth
National Guard, has taken charge of
the city and the strlctest martial law
prevails. Mayor Worswick has ask
ed Gov Pardee for more soldiers to
maintain order. A vigilance commit
tee has been organized and placards
have been posted throughout the city
warning that any person found steal
ing or committing any act of lawless
ness of violence will be summarily
hanged.
The Mooreland Academy, Catholic
in Jacksonville, was badly
damaged, but no lives were lost. Spe-
cial trains passed through here from
Los Angeles with physicians and nee
essities for sufferers in San Francisco
Four companies of regulars from
and Troop G, of the the Ma
tional Guard Of California from Sa.
'lnas, are on their way to San Francis
co. No person is allowed on the
streets here after 1880 p. m.
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SIN JOSE ADDS
NEW HORROR
TO FRIGHTFUL PACIFIC COAST
TRAGEDY.-MoRE THAN ONE
HUNDRED KILLED IN ONE
BUILDING.
Property Loss Will Probably Exceed
s5,coocCo.

FOgIOOJSAOs
SAN JOSE, Cal, April 20.-Nine-
teen people were killed in San Jose
and the entire business section was
wrecked, the estimated damage being
S5,OOO,000 One hundred and ten per-
sons were killed and seventy injured
at Agnews Asylum. The building was
completely ruined. Stanford Univer-
sity Memorial church and other build
ings are down, damage $3,000,000 One
student named Hanna, and one other
man killed there. The damage to the
Pacific Milling Company, in Santa
Clara, is placed at $150,OO0, and the
total loss there will be 100000. No
loss of life. At Gilroy about the same
amount of damage with no dVd.
At Salinas the Spreclles sugar re-
fnery, valued at s1,5OO,OOO, was COM
pletely destroyed. Reports from Del
Monte, HOLSTER, WatsonvilIe, Mont
Grey, Pacific Grove, Santa Cruz and
other Southern coast points show
slight damage in compressor. At Hol
lister one man was killed and S10O,
900 was done. The narrow guage tun.
mel at Wrights, three-quarters of
mile long, caved in
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HUMAN BEINGS OUGHT
TO, LIVE 100 YEARS.
TIsondon Truth. I

81 see that DR.. Lasalle has been COM
municating his ide2S Of longevity to
the Academy of Medicine" says the
Paris correspondent of Truth
They are those of Ffourens, who
set them forth in his lectures at the
Sorbonne; but Flourens had not the
same opportunities for basing his lee
lures on a broad foundation of statis-
tics. Reasoning from analogy, he con-
cluded that human beings ought to
live five or six times longer than II
took them to attain the full adult
state-that is SO say from twenty to
twenty-five years.
1T takes cat eighteen months to
grow up, and the creature, if left to
die a natural death, does so at the age
varying from ten to twelve years.
The dog takes two years, and lives
from twelve to fourteen; the horse
five, and goes on to twenty-five OF:
thirty. A we'll constituted human
being ought to live from 100 to 14O
years.
I'm addition to the cases of longevity
cited by Flourens, DR.. Lasalle gives a
long list. For instance: Peter Cor
tan, who died recently at Temesvar,
in Hungary, at the age of 1873 years,
and an old man who has just turned
his 20Oth year in an asylum at Pulsk.
He buried his wife in his 1880 year
Would 1t not be well to send a scien-
tific commission to Pulsk to investi-
gate into this Methuselah's claim to
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or
CITY BURNED
Famous Palace Hotel Completely
Destroyed.-Lower Market Street
Scene of Ruin.


a Scene Of Ruin.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 1S.-Mar-
ket street, the scene of great havoc
by the arthquake, sweeping from the
rry landing southwesterly, divides
San Francisco into two general parts,
known by no more specific names than
North of Market" and South of
Market" and is the city's great artery
Ct trade and traffic. The street is 125
feet wide and is occupied by four
street car tracks, with walk ways be
tween them. Half mile from the
water front on the south side of Mar
ket street is the Palace Hotel, the base
from which all tourists make their
reckonings and the heart of the city's
activities.
In the catclysm of yesterday it was
the Market street district that suf-
fared most Nearly all the finest bus
mess buildings in the city are within
radius of two squares of the Palace
Hotel, and the bulk of the stricken
clty's commercial wealth is conferred
in this small arena.
No hotel on the grand circuit of
travel is better known to globe trot-
tiers than the Palace. 1t was built
nearly thirty years ago by W. C. Raj
ston, in his day San Francisco's prince
of enterprise. After the death Of Raj
ston is passed into the hands of the
Sharon estate 1t is a seven-story
building, arranged in the form of
hollow square. For great many
years it has been known to the trav-
cling public as the hotel into which
one drove in ones carriages for in the
court around which the rooms were
was a circular driveway, and
the arriving guest could step from his
carriage almost at the clerks desk.
Finest In World.
California climate made such plan
of construction possible, but the same
in the severer climate of
the East would have called for extra
ordinary heating capacity. When Raj
ston built the Palace he set out to
make it the finest hotel in the world, !
and everything that he and his archi- |
tects could think of was put into it.
The frontages are closely set rows of
bay windows on every story giving /
the greatest light and view, but de-
structive of architectural beauty.
Eight hundred of the rooms have |
private bath. Many years ago the
Grand Hotel, just across New Mont !
gomery street from the Palace, was &C
CURED by the latter, aud has been run
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in conjunction with it, being connect
ed by a covered secondstory walk
Ralston spent $7,0O0O00 on the Palace
Hotel, and it was for many years be.
! fore this prodigal expense began to
produce dividends The hotel was
built for the future San Francisco, in
which the owner felt unlimited faith,
and the subsequent popularity and
success of the big hosiery vindicated
Ralston's judgment of the future CT
the city he loved and for which he did
SO much. The court, or patols, with
its galleries on every floor and its glass
roof, $50 feet from the ground, was the
center of much Of the lighter life Of
the Coast metropolis, and always a
brilliant scene at night
The Lick House, on the west side
of Montgomery street, stones throw
from the Palace, was built in 1851
and was maintained as a conservative
hotel. John W. Mackay usually made
1t his home in former years and other
bonanza millicnaries gave it their pat
ronage. On the other side of Mont
gOmery street, one square farther
north, is the Occidental Hotel, another
of the older houses with a name dear
to the tourists of the better class. 1t
is four-st0ry building and was in the
district where the most damage was
done by the catastrophe of yesterday.
Across the street from the Palace Ho-
tel, at the intersection of Market,
Kearney and Geary streets, is the
Chronicle building, the first Of the
city's political newspaper buildings
and the finest newspaper building west
of Chicago at the time it was built.
1t was nine-story building with
clock tower. Recently it was severe
E damaged by fire.
When this building was erected the
work was watched with unusual inter.
est because it was looked upon as
daring undertaking of M. De Young
owing to the poor foundation on
which he had to build. San Francisco
is built on a sand dune stretching
from the bay on the east to the Pa
cific on the west. The geological
formation is such as to scare prospec
tive builders Of high structures before |
the Chronicle building was erected. Ip
fact, the absence of tall buildings nea
the water front is due to the fact thai |
the natural water line years ago wei
as far as Sansome street, mani
squares from what is now the water
front. In this part of the city excav4.
tions for new building often resulted
In the uncovering of old hulls which /
had been stranded in the days of '49
Mr.. De Young's daring in the sky.
scraper line proved successful, for
there developed no weakness in the
building. and his example was fol.
lowed by others.
For Additional San Francisco News
See Page Five,