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New-York tribune., 1907-12-01
C. C. MARKHAM's WORKS TO BE SOLD.
Paintings and Curios at the Artists Former
Studio, in Montague Street

One of the familiar figures in Brooklyn.
Charles Cole Markham. artist. soldier. newspaper
writer and collector OF curfOs recently passed
away at the age OF threescore years and ten
He long had studio. which was as much a
museum studio. in the Continental Insur-
ance Building. az Court and Montague streets.
There is to be a sale az auction Of his works.
both oil paintings and water eolors. and OF
many things he collected including. especially.
engravings. portfolios and costumes. in his for
studio at No 204 Montague street, on
Tuesday of this week. at II a. m One OF the
works from the brush of Mr. Markham IS pOr-
trait OF Horace Greeley. He also painted pOr-
traits OF n number Of well known Brooklynites,
including II. D. PoIhemus. William 4. Kingsley
Hugh Mclaughlin. George Foster Peabody.
Mark d. Wilbur. John B. Longley and George
T. HOPE His My Grandmother. % Years Old
was exhibited at the Centennial Exposition in
Philadelphia. in 1876. one Of his works en-
titled Baby Florence and in the Art Gallery
in Montague street an infant in was taken
by his mother to see the canvas When ne saw
the bib painted in Baby Florence" the child put
out his finger to touch it, and said: That baby
got a bib like mine
OF the collections by Mr. Markham in ~
studio. which he first occupied quarter or 4
century ago, this description has been given
The studio in its early days was well worth &
visit IL was veritable museum. a storehouSs
OF treasure in all that the name implies PANT,
lngS Dy many eminent artists DOtn IOTelSf an"
American: bric-a-brac. rare specimens or porce-
lain, trophies of the hunt and chase, oidtms
furniture. clock that had belonged TO one OF
the Napoleon family. Dutch etght-cay Cloch
zoo years old. portfolios OF prints, etchlnsS'
sketches, curious and artistic lanterns. manu-
scripts. dramatic costumes, musical instruments.
interesting scrapbooks. quaint looking boAeS
and writing desks only a few OF innuns,I
able treasures or menlentoes that croWoeu io 20
little studio to its very doors and rnaoe u.
visitor wonder how they were ali able 10 -
into the cute little den. and also TO imagine Whae
would happen il another article were brouSnt Z"
the studio. matter how small IL might pc
Mr.. Markham was a brother OF Arthur llsus-
Markham. who was best known by MS sTas.
name of Frank Mordaunt. and who dled SS
year. He was born in the Green Mountains -
Vermont. and always retained a strong IoVe -
that region and the neighborinS AdlronaacAs
AT the outbreak of the Civil War ne ehiis,SS-
and he beguiIed of the leisure OF camp -
by making a series OF sketches Of scenes III tn
field. and also wrote for the newspapers VIA
were known as The "knapsack Letters. II
afterward wrote much of outdoor lie IN @ 70
Adirondacks in the course OF his annual F"e@
tions.
New-York tribune., 1907-12-01
SHEEP RAISING IN FALKLAND.

J T. Roven. consul at Port Stanley, Falkland
Islands, writes: sheep raising and ship repair
3hg are the central activities through which in
vested capital and labor receive due reward
There are thirty sheep ranches the eoD0 square
miles OF territory embraced IA the Falklands.
cordinS TO the latest report OF the government
Spector there islands 702 ess head of
sheep The wool product cf 1896. the latest avail
able report amounted TO 1924 2i5 pounds. The
OF the wool was approximately s726722. Wool does
not represent the full value of the product of the
sheep RANCHES Taiow. pelfs. hides, etc. were ex-
ported 10 the value OF 50
"A sheep ranch OF 5n0.esst viii employ about
TWENTY-FIVE men The shepherds receive 50 10 $50
q month, according 10 experience. The navvies
receive about s2i month, but the shepherds get
free house rent and fuel and have several cows
3ree,- aud also the they consume The
iluIil'DeT Of employed a ranch varies as
there are :iInes when expert worknlen are needed
along certain lines. notably for building. fence
making and horse breaking. that at times there
ca the ranch additional force for such pur-
poses Expert carpenters, Tnasons. fence builders
and tsnrse breakers in the receive s. day.
a heaVX item Of expeaEe 4 Falkland sheen
ranch j. horses By reason of the rols1h camp
where the horses work barge supply to he
kept One hundred mead OF horses working in re-
saSr - required ranch OF the area nefIti ioned
Tie horses are imported from Southern Chilli and
fli" argentine Republic aud have lie broken after
ARRIVAL ~ the camp On a ranch of this bout
s""" sheep would find pasture. The sheep require
~ efher FOOD 1f3p she grass but sometimes sy
%fsstef. when Inc is deep and weather.
xesct fhes dss hy the hundreds. fair profit can>
= rsnxsd at 10 cents a pound WOOL
New-York tribune., 1907-12-01
CLEANING PUBLIC B1THS.
Much Necdcd Reform Being 1ccOm-
pIished iR BROOKLYN.

The reform movement has now reached the
public baths OF the borough, and within the next
TWO weeks it is hoped that the FIVE buildings
now in operation viii be made tit FOR the pur
poses for which they We're intended. Up to
within few days these baths were in un-
sanitary a condition that the better class of per-
sons using them complained to Joseph Law
renee. the Superintendent Of Buildings.
Mr. Lawrence instructed w II. Hale. the su-
New-York tribune., 1907-12-01

w Plnckuoy. The committee in charge COM
prsed stephen V. Hopkins. j. Seymour Barr.
Francis W. Moore, il. and William Roberts.
The papal marquis. Spencer Turner, son of
the late J. Spencer Turner. Of the Heights is
staying at the Plaza For the last few years he
has made his home in Rome.
New-York tribune., 1907-12-01
CAUSE FOR THANKSGIVING.

Lady Il. had been paying n round of visits dur
ing the afternoon. On her return home she
bounced deliShtedly to her husband and said.
You'll never guess how lucky I've been this
afternpon, Tom I've made six calls and only
found ono at home The Tatier.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-23
Pistol TOters Here and Elsewhere

New York is alarmed because a GER
tain element of It's italian community
goes armed with revolvers, brass
knuckles and stilettos. The pistol is the
chief source of offense, and the Tombs
is crowded with pistol toters gathered
in from the foreign quarters of the
city. The press declares that the city
wants no Sicilian terrorism, and alto
gether a big sensation has been
worked UP.
Here in Alabama-in Birmingham,
to be precise-pistol toting is confined
to no foreign quarter. 1t is as preva-
lent among one class as another,
among the native-born as well as
among the foreign.born, among all
colors and all races. The habit is as
prevalent as 1t is unlawful, as pro-
miscuous as 1t Is unnecessary.
If the police would carry on cru
SADIE against the habit as vigorously
and vigorously as Police Commissioner
Bingham of New York is doing, the
habit could be checked and perhaps
squelched in this city. Too much len
iency on the part of the police is what
has fastened the pistol toting habit on
our people. The evil cannot be abated
by leniency at any stage. The pistol
toter deserves to be punished, and the
police and the courts can put an end
to the evil by adopting a policy similar
to the one recently carried out in New
York The pistol toter is a violator of
the law, and a ceaseless war should be
directed against him by the police and
by the courts.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-23
Ross-HuIed Rhode Island

Today the Rhode Island legislature
will adjourn without day and without
electing a United States Senator in the
place of "Me-Too" Wetmore, whose
term has expired.
Rhode Island is a peculiar state. 1t
can scarcely be said to have repub-
Iican form of government, for mem
bers of the legislature are apportioned
in the little state regardless of popula-
ton. The back townships control the
legislature, and the machine as a rule
controls them. The head of the ma
chine-one Brayton-is King, and Sen
ator Aldrich is the Warwick OF the
state. representing corporate interests
as we'll as Standard Oil and the dig
arohy in general.
But the machine got out of order last
fall, and when the time came to elect
Senator, three millionaire aspirants
appeared. The rotten boroughs were
divided Some of course supported
Millionaire Wetmore, who has no rec
ord. and is simply me-too to Nelson
w. Aldrich. Some supported Million
aire Colt, who is president of the rub
her trust while the democrats and a
few republicans supported Millionaire
Goddard.
Delaware overthrow Addicks, and
New Jersey kicked Dryden out, but the
dementia plutocratica has firm grip
on Rhode Island, and the people of the
little state have no chance OF taking
the control of the state from the cor
porations and the machine they have
set up. Boss Brayton Is blind, but he
Is still able to rule the state and to
defy Governor Higgins, a democrat,
and to snap his fingers Vanderbilt
fashion at the common people. He has
no intention of permitting the popular
election Of Senators to creep in. He
prefers to select them himself, and he
expects with the aid of corporation
money to buy legislature that will
carry out his will next winter.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-23
Geoqraphlcal Center.

1.-THE fact that Birmingham is nearer
the geographical center of the south than
any other large city is being appreciated
by northern manufacturers that have to
maintain southern agencies and distribut-
ing depots," said Maj. e. T. Taliaferro.
within the last twelve months number
of these agencies have been established
here. and more will come as soon as
suitable office quarters can be secured.
Atlanta owes much of its commercial
Importance to the great number of gen.
eral agencies there. Some northern con .
Germs may still cling to the idea that
Atlanta presents especial advantages as
a distributing point. Not to underrate
the Georgia metropolis, Birmingham has
the advantage in its more central loca-
ton. 1t would be well for the CONNER
cial club to have map made of the south
for popular distribution accentuating the
hub idea. 1t would be an advertise
ment worth while.'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-23
Mobiles Tax Valuation

The state tax commission is not
pleased with the valuations of property
for taxation purposes in Mobile county.
President Mitchell, after examining the
records and the situation in the county,
declared that the general status of
assessments is lower in Mobile than in
other counties of the state, and there
are great inequalities in assessments
in the county" He went on to say that
the assessments are about one-half OF
what they should be, and he stated
that 1t is the intention of the state tax
commission to have the valuations In
Mobile raised to correspond with those
elsewhere in the state.
AS nearly as can be judged from the
action and statements of the state
board a uniform valuation of realty at
go per cent of its market value is de-
sirable. Any valuation below that
standard is unjust simply because its
owner is not paying his just proportion
of state taxes. He is putting on some
other county taxes that he himself
should pay.
If the state board can bring all valu-
ations to the 60 per cent level 1t will
accomplish a great work. 1t will do
much more than 1t was believed 1t
could do when 1t was appointed. AL
ready Mobile is begging that It's in
crease of 80 per cent in valuations be
permitted to come in three annual In
stallments, but 1t is difficult to see
what Justice or what comfort delay in
Mobile county would bring to those
counties that are at that level, If there
are any such counties in the state.
The state tax commission is at any
rate bringing to public attention the
gross inequalities of valuations In this
state. and the hope Is that 1t will lead
on to a lessening of the evil. 1t GER
tainly has power enough to abate it
altogether, and the policy 1t applies in
Mobile county will probably Indicate
its course in the rest Of the state.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-23
The Haskin Letters

The Age-Herald has contracted with
Frederic ]. Haskin, the famous news
paper correspondent, for a new series
of letters which will appear daily In
this paper, beginning this morn
ing. Mr.. Hasl1in's letters will cover a
wide range of subjects, including, as
he says, everything, from horse rae
ing to Methodism" A most attractive
list of topics has been chosen, all OF
them treating of conditions at the pres
ent time In the United States and of
great educational value. Each letter
will afford readers of The Age-Herald
information of an interesting and vital
nature conveyed in a most attractive
way. There will be nothing dull or
hackneyed.
Mr.. Haskin Is widely known among
newspaper workers. He Is just now
concluding a series of daily letters that
have attracted much attention in the
country, and his new series promises
to be even more successful.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-23
SAILING DAYS,

From New York Correspondent Pittsburg
Dispatch.
Sailing days furnish unbounded amuse-
ment to the regular guests of the fash
ionable uptown hotels The prospective
voyagers, in their excitement and nerv-
BUSINESS, imagine that they are the only
bipeds on the face of the earth and can
remember but one thing-that they are
about to pull up anchor. Here is a sam
pie of Observation-Disclosures that was dis
played by a woman at the Waldorf yes
terday before she sailed. "Oh, bless me-
how do you do, Mrs. Blank? Delighted
to see you'll Mercyl 1 have been meeting
old New York friends all dayi Just ran
across MRS. declare I've forgotten her
name; but anyhow you know who I
mean-that little blonde who used to live
near us on what-you-may-call-i street.
l sail for the Rivera today. Just stopped
in the stores on Fifth avenue to get that
new book that made such great hit
You know the one 1 mean. l can't think
of the author to save me, but he's that
foreigner with the Russian name with so
many 'Cs' and Us in 1T who was dis
covered by that great Russian who died
some months ago; and how is Mr.. Blank
and your dear little daughter-Gwendo-
line, isn't it? or BEATRICE? Oh yes
Sarah; should have remembered. hear
that those people-friends of that great
friend of yours-have taken house
somewhere in your neighborhood. They
rented 1t from the estate of that Million
aire-you know who l mean. The one
that made all his money in western rail-
roads-or was 1t in mining stocks-forget
which, And do tell me about those young
Blanks, who eloped and got married.
I've heard that the old couple have quite
forgiven them and that the course of true
love is running smoothly at last. Sure
ly you know who I meant Yes, we are
going away for three months. We will
remain together part Of the time In a
town in France-the name has escaped
me. but I'll remember 1t directly Well,
goodbye, dear. 1t seems age since
we saw each other and had a good talk
like this. My regards to Mr. Dash and
Gwendohn-I mean Beatrice Goodbye;
so pleased to have seen your
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-23
STORIES OF SENATOR MORGAN.
Aged Albanian Now Not Even Man
Of Moderate Means.

New York Special to The New Orleans
Times-D Democrat.
A special to the Globe from washing
ton says:
Senator John T. Morgan of Alabama,
who is three years past the four-score
mark, is the subject of innumerable sto-
ries in Washington, but none of them
more interesting than those which EN-
phasize his habits of scrupulous honesty.
Senator Morgan has some ideas of his
own as to how a member of the Senate
of the United States should conduct him
self which some might call old-fashioned,
but which no one could well refuse to
call wholesome in these days when so
much is heard of men buying their way
to the Senate. The latest told of Senator
Morgan is that he never accepts money
for his magazine articles. Neither is he
of that class of senators that make money
by going on the lecture platform. Senator
Morgan has written for magazines some
articles involving great work and re-
search. He refuses to accept pay for
them.
This is in line with Senator Morgan's
practice in the days when the railroad
pass was in vogue. He was rendered by
railroads innumerable passes, which he
did not use. He paid his own fare, and
insisted on the members of his family do
ing likewise.
Though far past eighty Senator Nor
gan, despite the fact he is In frail health,
works almost necessarily. He will arise
from sick bed to pillow through endless
volumes in his library in search of some
fact in which he is concerned He thinks
nothing of working until midnight, and
often he tolls away at his books and his
desk until far into the morning.
OF moderate means when he entered the
Senate, he is now poor man, and has
little to live on but his salary
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-23
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Talks Of Memphis Politics.


R. Brinl5ley snowden and I. o. Vinton,
who are largely interested in the develop
ment of Mountain Terrace. arrived in
birmingham yesterday, and the latter
will be here several days. Mr.. Vinton
Is very active now in politics in Tennes-
see and yesterday talked interestingly Of
certain peculiar developments which have
made him the balance of power to a
large extent In Memphis, where the poll
tics of the state will be controlled largely
in the future. He said:
I'VE we're not satisfied with the manner
Of running things in Memphis and went
to the legislature and secured a new
charter, two factions Of the democrats
combining to secure the change. Accord
ing to the new charter we have three
commissioners In authority now and they
are appointed by a state commission.
When the state commission came over
to Memphis to name the commission
there each Of the two democratic factions
had to be represented, SO one commits
sioner came from one faction and one
from the other. To carry out the law, a
member of the minority had to be on this
SOtAitAAAGoAOiA1 VI d IGPuDllCdu III lniS III
stance, and I was given the appointment
This leaves me the balance of power be-
tween the two democratic factions. 1
think they are just realizing the condi-
tons there now and the situation is
rather unusual.
Shelby county will have more to do
with controlling state politics In the flu
ture than any other part of Tenenssee
and this adds interest to the situation"
Mr. Snowden Is probably the largest
taxpayer in Memphis, and he has recent
ly with his associates, invested over $780,
600 in Birmingham real estate and i'm
provements which are being made In the
property bought. Mr.. Snowden said yes
terday. that he had been criticised on
many sides in Memphis for leaving there
and building residence section in Bir-
mingham, but he had explained his rea-
sons by telling the Memphis people that
Birmingham was one of the two greatest
cities in the south. The other, of course,
is Memphis.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-23
Old DAYS In BIRMINGHAM.

Il have been coming to Birmingham
once or twice every year for the past
twenty-three years." said Peter A. Boyle
of Davenport, Iowa, at the Eillman last
night, land each year 1 am more and
more impressed with the remarkable
strides it is making. A great many young
men have become identified with Biz
mingham, and these cannot realize how
rapidly it has grown.
Il remember well the first trip I made
here. I went to the old Nixon house for
a room. 1t was crowded, but the land
lord assigned me to quarters in one of
the one-story buildings in the rear of
the hotel, of which there were several.
When l was about to go to my room he
cautioned me to leave the door unlocked
as another man would room with me.
That day was some sort of festival oc-
casion and there were great many in
toxicated and semi-intoxicated persons
splitting the air with their noise / lay
awake and with many misgivings awaited
the arrival of my roommate. When he
came in my fears were no allayed by
MS unshaven, burly appearance and
was trying to decide whether to risk a
fight or call for help when he knelt down
beside his bed and said a prayer before
retiring. Then, I began to wonder how
he had sized me up.
In the twenty-three years in which !
have been regular visitor to Birmingham
1t has made wonderful progress in every
respect. Why? Because 1t has the natural
advantages. If an earthquake should de-
stroy 1t, 1t would spring up again greater
than ever,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-23
SIanderina New Americans

DR.. Aked, who has just arrived and
is an immigrant himself, has taken
charge of the Rockefeller church, and
in his initial sermon he proceeded to
discuss the newly-arrived. ut is a
question" he said, whether the pri-
NAL stock is to be vitiated by the in
terpermeation of an inferior race
After charging the newcomers with
disrespect for law and order, he wound
up by saying, ITO you and to me who
know, and to men and women like us
is entrusted this solemn responsibility
and the splendid privilege we have to
change the mob into a commonwealth,
the proletariat into democracy"
Anything farther from the truth or
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-23
That Louisiana Lottery

Lotteries were popular and were
even legally recognized one hundred
years ago. Washington himself often
bought lottery tickets, but since Wash
ington's day gambling of that sort has
fallen into disfavor. 1t Is now done In
stock exchanges and on race tracks,
but II lottery itself has been declared
altogether evil.
But when federal grand jury sitting
at Mobile recently indicted a dozen or
more men for violating the anti-lottery
laws it became plain that the Danish
ment of the lottery was more in laws
than in reality. The old Louisiana lot
terry is the offender. 1t had been moved
to Honduras, but 1t continued to do
business in this country under one
guise or another.
1t was in 1892 that all matter relat-
ing to lottery was excluded from the
mails. In that year, too, new charter
was refused in Louisiana, and the
monthly drawings were after that year
conducted in Honduras. That republic
receives $4,000 year for granting the
lottery home and habitation. and still
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-23

anything more saturated with egotism
and self-suficiency could not readily
be put into black and white. While
DR.. Aked may be well adapted to his
office as the Rockefeller pastor, yet it
is plain he has small acquaintance with
immigration or with America as a
whole.
To say that the poor and humble
toilers who are leaving crowded Euro
pean districts to find new and better
homes in this country are members OF
mob and therefore undesirable is
simply far wide of the truth. Ninety
nine out of every hundred of the new
corners have no thought of anything
except to earn better living and to
establish new homes. They are as
honest as DR.. Aked and ten times less
conceited
Ever since 1910, or two generations
ago, immigrants that DR.. Aked says
are politically dangerous have been
coming to us. All told W. have re-
ceived since 1870 over twenty-five mil
lions of them, and the entire number
has not been as dangerous to our In
stitutions as the men are who have
attempted to set up an oligarchy IN
this country, to crush competition and
to buy presidential and state elections.
II DR.. Aked would give more attention
to the oligarchs in his own flock anu
less to the poor and humble whom ne
has not studied, he would get great
deal nearer to the American heart ana
to American acceptance. He scored a
mistake at the beginning of his career
in this country.