The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-09
SidewaH Penciiings
clad 1t |. over.

q am glad that the investigation of the Bryce Hospital for the Insane has at last ended" said a Tuscaloosa man yesterday.
 sYou see it has demoralized the pa- tients Cat the Hospital. I understand | that the Hospital authorities have been
 Considerably worried over It's effect upon the patients. These unfortunate people in most cases have but hazy | idea of what the investigation means. "Of course a large number, by far | the majority of the patients. In fact,
 are willing to do anything to get out. l The idea has seized these patients that l the investigation will result In the | opening of the Hospital doors They | think that the Commission was sent | there for the purpose of releasing all | the patients confined in the Hospital l and all the patients have to do Is to wait for the doors to be opened.
 Naturally such condition Tn the | Hospital gives concern to the physi- clans and nurses. The discipline ot | the Hospital Is seriously affected and l up and down the line there Is trou-
 T am glad. too, that the report of I the Commission endorsed the Hospital management but the endorsement will 1 in a degree be disappointing to the l. people of Tuscaloosa, for in their opin-
 ion 1t Is as strong as that excellent | institution deserves"
 ~The Days That Are no More. 1 Friends of Roundsman Pat J. Swee- ney, one of the best known members I of the Police Department, say that | he was the most dovncast man in the | entire city Saturday morning. It is given out on good authority that the | we'll known officer of the law paid his | first car fare on Saturday that he has | paid in twenty years, a length of time | during, which he has served the city | as patrolman.
 "Roundsman Sweeney said an ex- cellent friend of the subject yesterday, told me that it was the first car fare that he had paid in his life, or that he remembered ever paying. Of course he might have been joking me, as he very often does, but that at any rate is
 what he said.
 Saturday morning when he got on the car to ride to headquarters he
 was not expecting a refusal of the pass which he rendered, ana .when told
 that the law was in effect on that day
 had to dig in his pocket and root out
 the necessary five. Those who were on the car with him said that the
 nickel and three times as much had
 the roundsman than paid to the com pany and that large tears of com passion welled up in his eyes when thinking of the change of the times. and the days that are no more." Fight on Prohibition. While in Birmingham a few days ago. ."-said a well known travelling man
 prohibition talk. Ali of the saloon
 men in that city are afraid that Bir-
 mingham will be a dry city within the next twelve months, and from what
 could learn there are excellent grounds for their fears.
 "A stropg fight is to be made there for prohibition, as 1t is believed that
 if Birmingham goes dry that the whole rrrflI l FNI1 m lead. Already in Birmingham the liquor men are cutting down their
 stock of goods, and none will buy
 heavily untn the matter takes on def- nite shape.
 Tt was generally believed that the 1 plans Of the prohibitionists were to | confine their labors to South Carolina next. then to Florida and then invade | Alabama, but present indications are that they are assaiIing all three States at once. encouraged, perhaps, by their
 signal victory in Georgia"
 said member or the Universalist | Church yesterday, "an account of the death in Boston of Rev. Dr. Quillen H.
 Shinn, Seuthetn missionary of our | Uniyersalists In Alabama, and especial | Iy in Montgomery. win grieve, if their | attention IS called to it.
 | "Dr. Shinn has been serving the
 Montgomery society for a number of 1 months past, preaching here occasion I ally. He 1t was, too, who organized l the Camp Hill Industrial Institute. He was man of very lovable dis position and everybody with whom he came in contact thought well of him. He had a wonderful Knowledge of the Bible, and I have heard him repeat
 chapter after chapter of Hely Writ" General W. W. Brandon, State Audi | tor who has been making speeches in l several of the counties of Northern Alabama relative to the rural school | proposition, will return to the city to5
 morrow night.
 Secretary of State Frank N. Julian probably be at his office at the Capitol
 today.
 MT. W. F. Windham, leading cit izen of Dale County, was among the
 prominent visitors to the city yester- day
 Mir. and Mrs. Wm. Ketzky returned from an extended business and pleas-
 ure trip in the East yesterday morning. Mir. Albert Kohn has returned from
 two months vacation. He spent 1t travelling in the East and North. MT. C. Howard Jemison, of Talla-
 dega, was among the visitors to the city yesterday.
 MT. E. H. Reynolds of Notasulga spent yesterday in Montgomery.