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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-08
TALLEsT BUILDING ON EARTH.
Plans for Structure That viii Tower
Above Washington Monument.

From the New York American.
Here are some of the dimensions of the
proposed tower annex to the Metropolitan
Life building. at Madison avenue and
Twenty-fourth street. which is to be the
tallest building in the world:
Height above sidewalk 65s feet.
Total height from foundation, s9O1s feet.
Number of stories above sidewalk, 49,
Number of stories below sidewalk, ,.
Grand total floor area of new Metropoli-
tan building, 1858 square feet about
25 acres)
When plans which were filed yesterday
with Building Superintendent Murphy are
carried out the great marble building of
The Metropolitan Life Insurance company
at Madison avenue, Twenty-third and
Twenty-fourth streets, will be complete
with a tower which will make it the tall
est structure of any kind on earth.
The new tower is to occupy the site of
DR.. Parkhurst's old church on Madison
square, and will rise Sos feet above the
sidewalk The tower will be five stories
higher than the new Singer building tow
err, which is to be built soon. From the
elaborate plans submitted to the building
department by the architects, Napoleon
LIE Brun & Son, it is evident that the new
structure is to be in many ways the most
remarkable of modern buildings.
Above the eleventh story the tower Is to
be but seventy-four feet square, and yet
it is claimed the problem of skyscraper
construction has been so thoroughly mas
tered that the lofty column will have all
the power of resistance which belongs to
the main building. Wind braces will pro-
tect it, and the interior construction of
the steel frame is of such nature that the
strongest winds which blow across Man
hattan>can endanger 1t no more than they
would the lightest reed.
The tower will be of steel skeleton
fame filled out with ornamental brick
and marbel to match the main structure.
Above the main portion will be peaked
dome "a feet high, with an octagonal GU
pola rising 70 additional feet. Six passen-
ger elevators will run from the basement
through the forty-eight stories to the top.
Three storage tanks, each of 1900 gal
Ions capacity, will be installed on the
twenty-sixth, thirty-eighth, and forty
eghths floors of the tower The estimate
ed cost of the addition is $3,O0o0Oo.
The Metropolitan Life now occupies the
block bounded by Madison and Fourth
avenues, and Twenty-third and Twenty
fourth Streets The building operations
of the company began in 1890, and when
the tower is completed the entire block
will be occupied by the company.
Sixty-one large drawings, showing the
Withdrawing and other engineering fea-
lures of the tower were among the pa
pers filed by the architects yesterday.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-08
From the Rochester Post Express.

From the Rochester Post Express.
ETEk PAN was a parsonage in the
(" Never-S overland. He was
remarkable youngster, as indeed
are all who dwell in that wonderful do
main. whether they be bipeds or quad
rupeds. Who can blame Peter for his
allegiance to that fascinating country! lie
was hungry for mothers love, and
Mrs Darlings arms were tempting
goal. But the horror of growing up and
becoming president obsessed him' anu ne
fled to his home in the tree tops PACK
to his familiars, the fairies, back TO the
wonderful lions and crocodiles, back TO
the Fenimore Cooper Indians, and Robert
Louis Stevenson Pirates, back to ths
Never-Never-Land
Every man with the heart of boy is
Peter Pan. In infancy he may not haso
fallen out of a perambulator, when the
nurse was looking the other way put at
one time or other he has been plooo
brother Of the band of Lost Boys mas
adventured In the parlous forests OF the
Never-Never-L and and cruised its desper-
.+o saas The trail of that wonderful
land is neither long nor tedious; 1t OF
sars no dificulties to the nimble feet OF
youth. though the hating feet of age
stumble grevously over its barriers ooiile-
times the trail runs through an orchaiu
or a hit of meadow land. crossing a prook
or bordering a mill stream soihe.iiiiea
its tortuous course is confined WITHIN 'he
pallngs of the back yard-that vast IRON
tier of childhood and sometimes 1t wlnos
through long halls up mountainous starr
vavs and into romance-haunted attics. In
eact there are many, many trails that
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-08
Huuhes or Roosevelt.

It now seems as good as determined
and settled that the republican nomi-
nee for President next year will be
either Hughes or Roosevelt, simply be-
cause they outrank in public estimation
all other republicans, and because. the
republicans propose to carry New
York.
The chances are that opposition to a
third term and the probable desire of
Roosevelt to become the nominee of
his party in 1912 will operate to take
him out of the race in 1908, thus Civ
ing Charles Evans Hughes a walkover,
for the candidacy of the Fairbanks and
even the Tafts will not bring out serious
opposition on account of the desire to
carry New York state. And yet Hughes
would have been defeated in 1906 IL
three or four democratic leaders In
New York or Brooklyn had been true
to their party ticket. They did not
love Hughes bit, but they hated
Hearst, whereas the upstate democ.
racy had confidence in him. Hughes
alone on the republican state ticket
was elected. not because of his popu-
larity, but because of the sly work of
city politicians within the democratic
party
This condition calls for action on the
mart of Governor Hughes of the most
telling sort. In the next eighteen
noaths he will make or break himself
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-08
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
There would be no fun in the world
for anybody if everybody had it.
When people don't like tiattery they
mean they don't mind lying about it,
girl is awful fascinating never to
want you to kiss her unless you do 1t
against her will.
We brag about doing our duty just as
II we hadn't been made to before We
would do IT.
It's curious. but when some women
think they are all dressed up for the
evening. it is very low down.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-08
PRESS POINTS

Portland Telegram: Mr.. Rockefeller has
purchased another 100000 worth of
friends at Chicago.
Columbus Ledger: 1t has been demon
strated that there was another Russian
official who was not bomb proof
Washington Post: A Henderson (Ky)
mans petition for divorce consists of
only ten lines. Perhaps he thought the
Judge could read good deal between the
lines.
Charleston News & Courier: The pro-
motion of James McCrea to be president
of the Pennsylvania railroad is another
evidence that providence is on the side
of the Irish.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-08
MOUNTAINS TO HAUL FREIGHT.

How mountains are to haul freight
trains. in obedience to the iron VIII OF
T. II. Hartman, performer of modern
railway miracles. is the theme of an
interesting story in the February Tech
meal World Magazine. Dewey Sheldon
Beebe tells a tale that smacks of Ara
ban Nights romance. in recounting the
truth of what the Little Lizard is do
ing and planning. To compel The Sierra
Nevadas not merely to stand aside for
his trains, but actually to pull them for
him over the 5oo0-foot elevation of Emil
grant Pass is Mr.. Harriman's purpose,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-08
RIrmlnaham Presumptuous.

81 was over in Atlanta last week and
a number of men over there were laugh
ing at me about Brmngham's trying
to get the sub-treasury,' said j. L.
Sto<ely last night. when he heard the
news that Birmingham had been chosen
unanimously by the caucus, after At
lanta had bolted
There were a number of Atlanta men
in the party and they said that it was
presumption on the part of Birmingham
to even try to get the sub-treasury.
Il had several serious arguments about
the matter and some of those men
wanted to whip me for even saying that
Birmingham had a good chance to get
the sub-treasury, | have never enjoyed
hearing any news as much as | have
enjoyed hearing that Birmingham had
been chosen by the Caucus"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-08
HEARD IN ATHENS.

From the Limestone Democrat.
Two little negro boys dropped into a
store in Athens a few days ago and one
inquired, rs dis Jew store?" On be-
ing assured that it was the would-be GUS
toner remarked. well, l wants a Jews
harp
The clerk hiding his smile, assured the
Afro-American that they carried none in
stock and the two little negroes left, I'M
aware that they had perpetrated a good
piece of witticism.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-08
IT'S THE LAST ROSE OF SUMMER.

By Thomas Moore.
'Tis the last rose of summer
Left blooming alone;
All her lovely companions
Are faded and gone:
No flower OF her kindred
No rosebud is nigh,
To reflect back her bushes,
Or give sigh for sigh
I'll not leave thee thou lone one,
To pine on the stem.
Since the lovely are sleeping,
Go, sleep thou with them.
Thus kindly / scatter
Thy. leaves DER the bed
Where thy mates of the garden
Lie scentless and dead.
So soon may | follow,
When friendships decay
And from loce's shining circle
The gems drop away
When true hearts lie witherd.
And fond ones are flown,
oh, who would inhabit
This bleak world alone7
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-08
About Persons.

j. L. Palmer former mayor of Horse
Creek, and now an alderman of that city,
was in Birmingham yesterday.
Allan K. Merrill, James Isaac Valen-
tine and Thomas II. Evans, all students
of the University of Alabama from Bar
bour county, passed through the city last
night en- route to Tuscaloosa.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-08

and he has fashioned the bride, bit
and traces to harness the mountain
streams for the work. 1t is story
from real life of real coaches to carry
everybody who goes that way-a more
wonderful story, when details are told'
than the tale of the Pumpkin Coach
With its white-rat- horses that bore Gin
derella IN the ball in our childhood fairy
books and our childhood dreams. An
account of how millions upon millions or
investment in the huge first cost OF such
an enterprise spells economy for a great
railroad. and how Americas cleverest
minds and best trained talents are en-
Moved in the task, are not the least IN
teresting features of the tale, and the
methods by which the silent prime mover
in It all works toward his tremendous
ends are uncovered sufficiently to stir
the reader to enthusiasm. The great
fight of transcontinental roads to corner
traffic, the struggle of the giants of the
railway world to cut a mile from natural
distance and a minute from running
time, and their marvellous tanning and
breaking in of natures wild powers to
override natures most formidable OBJ
stacles, are all typfed in this great
feat This advance story of the enter
prise is remarkable for it's picture not
only of what Hartman is today, but
of what he will be tomorrow, in the rail-
road world. and makes food for thought
as well as entertaining reading. Mr..
Harriman's own mysterious personality
and the popular guesses at the interests
he represents are touched upon and the
author has made the reader realize how
little is really known or realized about
either and their combined influence on
Americas present and future life
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-08

Mayor Mcclellan is between Hearst
and Murphy, who represent the devil
and the deep blue sea, but which is the
sea and which the other fellow is not
stated.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-08
CELEBRITIES MEET.

From the Washington Herald.
IBIS, I believe, am Madam Screeeh.
de black Patti?'
''Well. sab, an who am your"
"Misatll Yallermoke, de Coon Caruso.'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-08

From the Pensacola journal.
The Birmingham Age-Herald notes that
there were seventytwo lynchings last
year. as against sixty-five In the previous
year The increase does not point to an
early disappearance of this form of dis
order and anarchy.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-08

The Boston Herald says that Julia
Marlowe's dimple is just as fetching as
ever. Julia, herself, fetches a good
salary from the managers.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-08

When New York dramatic critics fall
on play with the adjectives, "ama-
flourish" and "innocuous," the play
sometimes goes out of business and
sometimes has a long run.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-08

Mrs Russell Sage seems to have
pretty good idea of security, probably
learned from Uncle Russell when he
was alive and busy.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-08

Stuyvesant Fish saw no panic COM
ing until after he had been ousted
from the presidency of the Illinois
Central. Then he knew it was coming.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-08

We might as well understand at the
beginning that Senator Tillman is not
championing the cause of the negro
soldier because he likes them.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-08

for drugstore stamps?
CAMPAIGNING.
Always tell the people s'howdy,f
Ever jolly them along,
Be master hand at mixing
Tell joke and sing a song.
Kindly kiss the little babies,
Daily chuck them meath the chin,
And in spite of all your blunders,
You are simply bound to win!
Being president of the steel trust seems
fearful "hoodoo'
EXPENSIVE TIMES.
Alas, the man who only makes
Ten thousand bones a year.
Can not afford in these late days
To keep a COW for cheer.
NOTIONS
1t does no harm to think you are all
right, so long as you do not think about
it too much
A wholesome quarrel Is one that you
have with yourself especially if you get
the best of It.
Regardless of what her friends may
say, IneFe never NdS pretty Sul WHO
didn't know it.
AS between a sermon and song, give
US the song every time.
The man who asks for honest criticism
invariably gets mad because it is.
TOUGH LUCK.
'Twould make the heart of any one
Among the poets sick
To write good stuff and see it cred
I-ted to Maverick"
You remember Harry Buyers song,
"There Isn't Anything That Can't Be
Cured? Try it on the dumps.
Sunday is a slow day to some people.
but that is because they are wicked and
don't go to church.
The collar that Is worn to a dance in
summer could hardly be called lone
night stand"
PAUL COOK
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-08

John Sharp Williams is not fox, but
he says the cellar Of the White House
is too damp for his use.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-08

You would think that President
Roosevelt would be troubled by insom-
MIA by this time, but he is not. He can
sleep like q top.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-08

There is one precedent the Presi-
dent has not violated-the third term.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-08

block signal calls for the services
of two men, one to set it, and one to
obey it, and between the two mistakes
are human and wholly feasible.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-08

Baby rhinoceroses in the New York
ZOO are insured for $4,000 each They
are rare birds nowadays.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-08

Washington welcomes Carrie Nation
as relief from discussions of trusts
and the color line.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-08

Railway homicide may yet become
as great foe to the human race as
race suicide itself.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-08

Those bad habits that were canned
on New Years Day should be kept
sealed to the end of it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-08

~ AN RICE would often say to
V0U new clown: IF you're sick, dis
T. tressed in mind or body, owe any
bills, or are lodging anybody who Is GO
ing to lick you forget It till the show. is
over Though expressed in homely terms,
there is pure gold in the famous testers
philosophy But 1t has broader applica-
ton than to the circus ring. Why not try
this rule in life, and If we have troubles,
forget them eth the show is over? Then
the world will never know the sorrow that
is locked in our hearts and life will be
better worth the living.
A WE'LL KNOWN CITIZEN.
Behold. he's here,
Still in the game
A fellow whom
We need not name,
Who growls all day
And half the night
And makes his neigh
Bors want to fight
Who's never pleased
At anything
And never yet
Was known to sing;
Who grumbles oft
And wears frown,
Is pretty good
At running down.
But doesn't seem
To know the art
OF making smiles
In ripples start.
You know the chump-
OF course you do.
And just beware,
Lest he be you'll
A woman with a little boy got on an
East Lake trolley car. When the con-
ductor came around she handed him
nickel. H elooked suspiciously at her son.
How old is that boy?"
six" answered the mother.
"Why, ma" exclaimed the boy, re-
proachfully, you know I'm over seven"
AN OLD STORY.
Some things we want and cannot get,
Some bills we cannot pay
Some things we ought to do and don't
So runs the world away.
The new poet laureate of the navy may
be expected to write verse with hating
feet until he gets his sea legs.
Canary birds are now rated at 50 an
ounce. says the Washington Herald It's
lucky that they are not on the bill of
fare
Footwork, quite as much as headwork,
seems to figure in Raisulis campaigns.
Il haven't friend in the world says
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-08

Taft, Foraker and Fairbanks are just
standing round waiting for it to strike
them.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-08

New York continues to crow over its
birth rate-its East Side birth rate, not
its Fifth avenue rate.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-08

In Missouri's first senatorial primary
Governor Folk will be pitted against
Gumshoe Bill Stone, and the governor
expects to win
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-08

The New York Mail says that the
man who stole lot of feminine lin
gerie won an empty victory.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-08

Hughes promises to do right, and
there are good many who think he
will keep his promise.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-08

Governor Folks latest reform prop
osition is two-cent passenger fares on
all steam railroads.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-08
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

Doctor Osborne. the blgamist Yet, he
has three wives living and one in the
spirit world.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-08
lYNCHlNGS.

Look for the label on the bottle be-
fore you swallow its contents.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-08

Mr.. and Mrs. Bourke Cochran are
happily honeymooning in the Orient.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-08

Poets who profess love for work
and sing of it daily know quite well
that they don't ever intend to do any.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-08

State pure food laws should be
brought up to the national standard.
Alabama has none at all.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-08

Delaware refuses to give up her
whipping post. She says she needs it
in her police business.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-08

A false label in these pure food days
is to be made public in court.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-08

Governor Pennypacker squandered
millions of the states money, and he
has retired to think the matter over.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-08

The Sunday paper. large and full,
Records the passing fads,
But Monday morning, merchants talk
OF errors in their ads.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-08

Hughes is New York's first real gov
ernor. He takes orders from no one.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-08
WHO Is PETER PAN {?

lead to the -Never-Land. Every
Peter Pan has his favorite route, and is
reluctant to share its secret ways.
We who have grown up who have be-
come Olympians, often wonder if we
could mark again the path down which
our flying feet travelled so joNusly in
those days of sanguinary encounters with
whiskerandoes, buccaneers of the Spanish
Main, and of desperate hand-to-hand en-
gagements with ferocious redskins. Every
thicket was an ambuscade, every tree
concealed a mortal foe. But we were
brave, rash, indomitable. John Silver
himself schemed against us in vain and
the Vaccinations of Hook and Since did
not avail We thwarted the devils at
every point in the game, even when they
would lure us to destruction with dark,
damp cake-cake with green sugar. How
we gloated over the discontinue of the
pirates and revealed in the shock of bat
tie! The crash of sword on sword was
sweet to our ears, and the angry boom of
blunderbuss, and. cannon was as music.
Aye, those were great days, glorious
days-days of achievement and enchanl-
ment. Somehow everything seems SO
commonplace now that we have grown
up and the hair is turning gray. Back
Yards have shruk to very small proper
tions; orchads and meadow lands are
prosaic, and we do not even experience
thrill of excitement, a flip of the BLOOD
when we pass a copse or thicket. truth
to tell. we lost the trail to the Never
Never-Land many years ago. 1t had al
most been forgotten until Mr. Barrie re-
discovered the route and blazed the way
in Peter Pan"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-08

New York spends $59,O6i a day for
stamps Wonder how much of that goes
for drugstore stamps?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-08

The new poet laureate of the navy may
be expected to write verse with hating
feet until he gets his sea legs.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-08
EXPENSIVE TIMES

Being president of the steel trust seems
fearful "hoodoo."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-08

Canary birds are now rated at 50 an
ounce. says the Washington Herald. It's
lucky that they are not on the bill of
fare
Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1848-1918, 1907-09-13
3ndDt6ans nnb Sd,aoenerlab.

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