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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-01
STATUS OF ROWING
AT PRINCETON UNCERTAIN

Whether Princeton will take up aquatics
as part of its athletic association Is still
matter of conjecture, notwithstanding
its recent fine class-day regatta on Car
negie lake, in which large number of
the students took part and great enthusi-
asm was manifested.
OF course If Princeton really goes into
aquatics with any degree Of maintaining
the sport as a college recreation 1t will be
a. welcomed guest at the intercollegiate
regatta at Poughkeepsie, every one
would deem it a pleasure to have the
Tigers" Join the feet, but this is not
what Princeton wants.
The great mass of the student body of
Princeton regard Yale as their particular
athletic enemy in all matters relating to
sports, and hence they want to be as
sured before making a real plunge into
college rowing matters that an annual
eight-oared shell race between Yale and
themselves be agreed upon. They would
like to make it that the New London race
be confined to Yale, Harvard and Prince
ton, but there are certain to be objections
to that on the part Of Yale and Harvard.
Princeton and harvard are not in athletic
touch with each other, and the Crimson
would think very hard before it would
reopen negotiation for such acton.
By this it will be seen that though
Princeton wants above all things a race
with Yale, the uncertainty Of arranging
it keeps the aquatic movement in the
background.
The athletic association has already re-
ceived invitations to races from Columbia
and Syracuse, while Georgetown has sent
an invitation to come down here in the
spring and have a race on the Potomac
but all are held in allegiance until the stu
dents decide what standing aQuatics will
take in the university.
There is large contingent in the insti-
tuition who are in favor of rowing and
claim that Princeton will make itself
stronger with the public generally if it
enters the Poughkeepsie regatta, and
leaves Harvard and Yale to decide be-
tween themselves who is who. 1t is pro-
arating for their Christmas holidays the
matter be settled in order that Coach
Titus, who is handling the rowing men,
may know exactly what to do and expect
Princeton was formerly a power in col
lege rowing. and at one time and another
defeated Yale, harvard, Cornell, Am
herst, Williams and Wesleyan. Prince
toms training facilities were so unsatis-
factory that rowing was finally given up.
1t was never revived. Mr.. Andrew Car
neg:e had constructed the lake which
tonians expect to see champion crews
train to wipe out the best ones of Amer
lea. 1t is Princeton's own lake. No one
else is allowed to boat thereon, and with
such perfect conditions it ought to pull
to the front.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-01
Buffers Purchase of Thoroughbreds.

NEW YORK, November 3O.-Following
the announcement that the court of ap-
peals had decided in favor of the Empire
City track at Yonkers in the case of the
state racing commission came the news
that James Butler, the owner of the
Westchester plant, would purchase some
high-class runners next spring and would
turn them over to competent trainer
1t was also stated that Mr.. Butler in the
course of time would go inc the breeding
industry on a large scale.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-01
Swimming Races in Chicago.

NEW YORK, November 3O.-winter
swimming will make its initial bow to
the public in the west at the dual meet
between the Missouri Athletic Club of
st. Louis and the Illinois Athletic Asso-
citation in the latters handsome new
natatorium in Chicago. This meet, with
the one just held in New York, will mark
the official opening of the indoor season
of 1907-S. which gives promise of being
the best in the history of the sport
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-01
DENTISTS PLAN FUR
 BANNER GATHERING Alabama Association Assemblies
 Here This Month WILL BE EDUCATIONAL Dentists Have Some Ideas Which They May Ask Legislators to Embody
WILL BE EDUCATIONAL

No sooner will the travellers have re- turned to the four quarters of Alabama than the tooth twisters will arrive In just as great numbers, for their great annual state convention. They will coma on the 18th of May and be here three days.
 President Luckie of the Jefferson Coun- ty Dental association expects POO people, delegates and visitors, who will be royal ly entertained. Every member of the To- cal organization has been appointed on
 the reception copmi.tee, and they will
 busy themselves continually from now
 until the convention. An entertainment
 committee to look after the delegates aft
 CT they arrive and are assigned to their
 homes consists of Dr. Lucl1ie. chairman;
 Dr. Lathem, Dr. Merrill and pr. Yielding.
 The local organization expects to make
 this one of the most successful meetings
 ever held It will be grand educational
 rally. not only for . profession, but
 for the public in general. The sessions
 will be open and the public will be espe- cally invited to come and understand exactly what the association is doing.
 while special non-technical talks will be
 delivered along educational lines It Is a remarkable fact that the dental profession has grown and the methods improved more in the last ten years than
 any other, while the next ten years will see an even greater advance. The dent st Is no longer mouth blacksmith, but has become an educated physician, who understands the relation of the teeth to
 all the parts and functions of the body. One of the most important questions which will come before the convention | will be one which the legislature may be
 requested to enact laws upon. In this | advanced day the necessity of careful att l tention to childrens teeth is as evident | as the need of vaccination. The dentists | openly affirm that the teeth have moro | to do with the condition of the system l than almost any other organ of the body. | For this reason many of them favor a
 commission in every county. appointed | from the county dental organization. l whose duty It will be to visit the public
 schools. and examine the mouth of every pupil at various intervals, thus reaching | the tenement and poor child who can not afford to pay for attention. They believe
 this would wonderfully promote the gen. | eral health
 | Many matters of this kind will come up l during the three days session, and will | probably bear good fruit. A local physi- | clan has the programme in charge, and
 will soon have it completed Among other | things a grand picnic will be arranged | at East Lake park.
 The Birmingham Dental association held l a meeting last night in the city hall and | listened to an interesting paper on The | First Permanent Tooth" by Dr. billiard. l This was followed by a general discus- 1 sion and case reports.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-01
Council Committee Gets Plans
 in Definite Shape
EARLY RELIEF PROMISED
Mayor Ward VIII Submit Annual Re- port to Council Tonight, Which Is Expected to Be of Un-
 usual Interest.

The grade crossing question was thrash ed out yesterday afternoon In the meet ing of the railway committee of the city council, and plans were set on foot for a thorough campaign for viaducts on the dangerous crossings of the city
 Alderman Parker, who is chairman, and all members of the committee were unan- imous in belief that something must be done immediately. An interesting point that developed, and one which the rail- roads will consider, Is the fact that the wreck at the Twenty street cross- ing will cost the companies almost as much as the cost of a viaduct.
 While the committee will meet again today and frame report to the council, 1t will probably work along two lines. Every effort will be made for co-opera- tion with the railroads, and the city will attempt to get the various companies to agree on definite plans. while legislation will be pushed through the next session of the legislature giving the city au- thority to force railroads to build these viaduets.
 Nitii ehtSS tWo poWtIS peiliiiu lHe guns old fashioned death traps will be driven out of Birmingham, and up to date safe ty arrangements put in their place This
 Is the first time the city council has taken firm grip on the situation. and as there is nothing else live on the board, the im- provements may be expected to go through smoothly.
 The city council meeting tonight will be of public interest in that Mayor Ward will submit his annual report, docu- ment that is always pithy and full of live affairs. It is probable that good many citizens will attend to hear the address.
 Committee meetings will be held this afternoon. when all routine business will be thrashed out, and the night session will be unusually short.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-01
Judge Greene More Strongly in Favor of Non-Removal
 Than Ever
BOTH CLAIM SINCERITY
 FOR COUNTIES WELFARE
pr. Stagg Facetously AIludes to "The Age-HeraId's Pittsbure Dream Jail-Statements By
 Both Sides.

That the county jail question is still by letter from pr. J. W. Stagg appear ing in the Birmingham News, In which the writer criticised the position taken by Judge D. A. Greene before the Board of Revenue.
 Judge Greene when asked last night If he had anything to say in reply to Dr. Stagg said he was more 1rmiy entrenched than ever in his position against the re- moval of the jail from it's present site.
 Here Is Dr. Stasgs letter in which he reiterates his conviction that the jail should be removed and incidentally pays his respects to Judge Greene's opinion:
 pr. stags's Letter.
 Whenever I get perplexed I have friend of whom I ask questions, and sometimes get more light from his an swers than I can get from my own reasoning:
 Last night asked my friend: What do you think of the Birmingham News account of the speech of Judge Dan A. l Greene against moving the county jail?
 "'Well, I'll tell you; first. l read the account In the News, to find what was eloquent In the judges remarks, and l did not find anything convincing, and then I read it to find what was clear and convincing, and did not find any thing eloquent, and I concluded the re- porter and head-liner wanted the jail to stay where it is about as bad as Judge Greene
 fwt1 d. I1<1 ,fr1r that I have any provocation for appear ing in public print in reply to what the judge had ito say about me. and my mo- tives-since you know how reluctant am to attract the public gaze? Please don't put your hand over your mouth; if you want to laugh, laugh out
 My friend said: You have about as much ground as the man who, in re- construction time in old Virginia, beat negro, and when the court asked him | the provocation he said. "The negro spit on my side of the path.""
 But I persisted that my motives had been impugned And my friend said, You don't want to call anybody liar, do your
 | "Of course, quicAly assured him that | did not, but that I did wish to say that when Judge Greene or any one else as- serts that I write letters for newspapers solely to create sentiment for my views, | that they assert what Is emphatlcally not | true; I am sincerely earnest in advocat- ing that the jail is a detriment to Blr- mingham, physically and morally and believe that can truthfully say that in this matter I have risen above the petty consideration of the good of a single de- nomination, and am advocating that which l I believe is for the beautifying of Bir- mingham, at whatever cost, as much as Judge Dan Greene believes that the old | Jail in its present shape and on It's pres ent site, will save money for the county | of Jefferson, and I think further that while the judges assertion that many In Saint Paurs Catholic church, the First Baptist, the First Christian and the First | Presbyterian churches have not given any thought to the county jail may be true in part, that he has not in the least offset the fact that Father Coyla- in his address
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-01
STOLE JEWELRY
 BY WHOLESALE
Trio Held In Nashville In Possession of ValuabIes Stolen In
 Birmingham.

Two white women and a man have been arrested in Nashville with great stacks of stolen jewelry in their possession. some of which is identified as stolen from Birmingham.
 Chief Wier yesterday received a teie- gram from Robert Sidebottom. chief of detectives describing scores of watches. chains, brooches, rings and stick pins, all full of diamonds and jewels. amounting fin value to near 5000. One of the watches is that stolen from Mrs. John Bibb of 500l First avenue, Woodlawn, about week ago, while connection will prob ably be made with all the other stuff It Is said that the trio had been working all over the south, and wanted on half dozen charges.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-01
CHARLES N. M'RAE
 DIES SUDDENLY
We'll Known Woodawn Citizen Over come By Chronic Heart Trouble
 Funeral to Be Held Today.

Yesterday as he was walking near his home in Woodlawn. Charles N. McRae was overcome by chronic heart trouble and death came at once.
 Captain McRae was born in Robeson county, North Carolina, In 1S40. When he was q small child his parents removed to a plantation near Louisville In Bar bour county. The son remained on the plantation down to the days of the war. When those days came on he joined the Clayton Guards, an organization that be- came a part of the First Alabama regi- ment. He went into the service as a lieu tenant and he came out of 1t at the end of the war as the captain of his com pany.
 After the war he removed to Bullock county. living chiefly at Union Springs, where he filled places of trust bestowed by the people. Later still he came to this city. making a new home at Wood lawn, where he was engaged in handling real estate so far as his health permitted when death overlook him.
 He left behind a widow and four chill dren. The children are Mrs. J. P. colvin, of Lincoln, Ala; Mrs. George H. Walk CT, Montgomery; Miss Mary McRae and John l.. McRae, business manager of the Age-Herald.
 The funeral will be conducted this aft ernoon al 3 o'clock from the Presbyterian church at Woodlawn, located on Sixtleth street, near First avenue, by the Rev. Mir. Caldwell. Interment will follow in Woodlawn cemetery. The following will act as pallbearers: H. E. Dalbey, Dr. J. l.. Heddleston, John M. Webb, Allen M. Holt, W. H. Jeffries and C. M. Stanley.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-01
Marriaae Licenses Issued.

Marriage licenses were issued from the office of the probate court yesterday to the following:
 w. H. Armstrong, North Birmingham, and Miss Lula Burnett.
 J. B. Self, West End, and Miss Lonie Ash.
 w. H. MacAfee, Birmingham, and Miss Helen B. Ehrman.
 John Freeman and Miss Ida Lathorpe. P. P. Ridgeway, Henry Ellen, and Miss Hattie Pearl Pledger.
 John Bingham and Miss Alice Williams.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-01
ADJUSTMENTS
At the sijou.

''The Night Before Christmas is prov ing popular at the Biiou this week, and deserve1ly so. The play is excellent of its cll5s The plot is wel woven, the character drawing good anl the rural atmosphere convincing. rhece is plenty of comedy in the four ac,5 arh some pathetic scenes that ring true. The pre- senting company is much better than the average. The principals aoduit them selves eredtaby. Some seecialties are introduced The usual performance will be given tonight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-01
KILLED ON TWENTIETH STREET.
Negro Fatally Stabbed In Quarrel
 Over a Pool Game.

and killed last night at about g o'clock by another negro in billiard parlor on Twentieth street and Powell avenue.
 They had quarreled over a game when one drew his knife and plunged It to the heart of his victim. Sherman ran out of the door with the weapon sticking in his breast. and staggered a block and half, falling in front of the negro drug store on Avenue A. He was carried inside and died in a few seconds.
 The man who did the killing escaped and has never been captured. An effort is being made by the police to locate him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-01
Burson Is Elected Secretary.

Walter Burson. city sanitary inspector, was elected secretary of the Police Re- lief association yesterday afternoon. MT. Burson was once a policeman and has since been in good standing. There was no other business of importance trans- acted
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-01
Dr. Stagg 1aYtly Attacks fhe VieUs
 Of Judge p. 4. Greene 0n Jail 11atter
70 KEEP INSURAVCE
 MONEY w STATE
Lieut. Gov Gray Prepares Bill Requiring Foreign Companies Doing Business Here to Invest One Half of Premiums
 Collected Within the States Borders

Lieut.. Gov. Henry B. Gray will have introduced in the legislature at it's July session bill, which if it becomes a law, will require that all life insurance com panies doing business in Alabama shall invest in this state one-half of all the premiums collected each year within it's borders
 In speaking of his proposed measure yesterday Mir Gray said:
 Yes it is true that I intend to have such a bill introduced. It will be provid- ed in the bill that 50 per cent of the money paid to life insurance companies by Alabama policyholders shall be in vested in this state. This plan is not only feasible and fair but the principle of the measure has precedent in several states New York requires certain percentage of the life insurance premiums collected in that state to be invested in the state, and other commonwealths, l do not know how many, have similar laws. This works no hardship on the companies. but on the contrary, it will be good thing for them.
 Had such laws prevailed generally. the scandals developed in the investiga- tions of three of the large life concerns would not have been possible, for the investment of the premium funds would have been so widely distributed that vast sums could not have accumulated at
 
 before the Board of Revenue some days ago, asserted that he could confidently say that all the Catholics in the Birming- ham district would be heartily in favor os removing the old jail. The session of the First Presbyterian church, by unanimous vote. has petitioned the Board of Revenue to remove the jail. This court usually has its decisions confirmed by the con- gregatlon in all matters. except the shorter catechism and the confession of faith, and I think that l can say with some little confidence that I can hand the judge almost as unanimous vote on the part of the Presbyterians as Father Coyle can on the part of the Catholics for the removal of the jail.
 There are something like more than a hundred ministers in the Birmingham district-they authorized a petition to be presented to the Board of Reynue for the removal of the jail. Of course the easiest way to set aside the e0rce of this petition is to say, after the fashion of Judge Greene:
 ''I venture that many of them did not know what they were talking about The only people in town competent to pass
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-01
Mayor Ward Thinks Residents Have Made Mistake in Vot-
 ing for incorporation
MANY THINK ELECTION
 WILL NOT HOLD WATER
Others Say the Joke Is on Birmingham and She Must Make Up Her Mind to Abide By the
 Consequences.

The talk of the curbstones yesterday was the incorporation of Elyton, and the general mix-up that may follow. Opinions vary as widely as the borders of the new town, there being those who claim re- spectively that Greater Birmingham Is practically killed, that Elyt2n has chopped her own head off, that everything is for the best, that the newly prescribed limits are illegal inasmuch as Elyton was in corporated years ago, and cannot be re- instated in the galaxy of Alabama muni- cipalities with entirely new limits.
 There was universal surprise. when it was learned that the new town had reached out and taken in the baseball grounds, Birmingham's Green Springs park and the rolling mills and furnaces of the Republic and Tennessee compan- ies. The audacity with which forty-one men carried out their plan, was never suspected, while men swelled up and ex- ploded at the thought that Elyton is half as large as Birmingham. Elyton residents bantered Birminghamers with the sug- geston that they were going to take in Birmingham next.
 Felix Blackburn, the attorney and resi- dent of new Elyton, to whom is party due the plan of incorporation, said long before the vote was taken that he believed 1t would go through all right, and gave as his reason for favoring it his belief that the citizens would reap more benefit from an individual town than by going in with Birmingham under the existing condi- tons.
 Ward Thinks It Mistake.
 Mayor Ward when seen yesterday, be- lieved that the outlying section had made a great mistake. They were the very first people who suggested coming into Birmingham, and have talked it, saying they were willing time and again, but now they are the first to put up the bars. "They have harmed themselves to keep from paying a little higher tax. Had they come into Birmingham sanitary sew CTS, for the drainage of that end of town, would have been extended, and they would have received the public improve
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-01
Georgia Negro Identified.

T. H. Handy a deputy from the Georgia penitentary, arrived yesterday and iden- tiied Jim Jones. a negro who was ar rested here by Officer Armstrong as an escaped murderer. The negro was serv ing life sentence at the time he maA the break for liberty. He will be ts back today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-01
True Flavors

With great care, by process en. tirely his own, Dr. Price is enabled to extract from each of the true. select fruits, all of its character istic flavor, and place in the mar ket a class of favorings of rare excellence. Every flavor is ot great strength and perfect purity For favoring ice-cre\ T, jellles' cake. custards, etc,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-01

headquarters to be used wrongfully in financing Wall street propositions
 Alabama allows 8 per cent interest and while that rate might be too high for conservative investments still 1t will be easy enough for insurance companies in approved securities of various kinds that will net more than per cent which is about all that insurance money aver ages now. The law that I propose will certainly be protection to the policy holder for the reason. as already sug gested, that the distribution of the in- vestments will prevent the accumulation of enormous sums in a speculative cen ter.
 As Alabamians who now carry life insurance pay in premiums millions every year. something like s13,00O,0O0 l believe, one-half of this invested in the state would have very appreciable effect on Alabama values. Keep all the money at home we can so long as 1t does not work an injury on any interest con cerned. is a sound, pusiness-like motto. Lite insurance funds are growing stead ily and therefore with my measure en- acted into law the investments in Ala bama will be larger and larger year by of taxation l do not see how there can be any serious opposition when the mat ter comes before the legislature"