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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-24
THE WEEKS TALK
IN NEW YORK CITY
Wall Street Trying to Pick the
Next President
WEARY OF ROOSEVELT
Ample Girths and Singing Not Con-
sldered Compatible by impress
sario Hammerstein-Tiek
Spectator to Go.
WEARY OF ROOSEVELT
BY SEWELL HAGGARp.

New York, March 23.-Wall street is
taking lively interest in the forthcom-
ing Presidential campaign, notwithstand-
ing the fact that 1t is so far In the fu-
ture. Wall street is quickening into
political action SO far In advance be-
cause 1t does not want the republicans
to nominate a man who will continue
President Roosevelt's policies. Failing in
q last desperate attempt to swerve Mr..
Roosevelt from his course, the corpora
tons know that relief for them can
come only with another Presidential cleo
ton and the election of d man favor
! able to them.
They figure that if they cannot get a
| man who will be til absolute servant Of
Wall street, most any man will be less
dangerous for them than Roosevelt. For
! instance, a man who shares the Presi-
dents beliefs, but who hasn't the same
courage, the same indomitable will and
the physical energy of Mr.. Roosevelt,
would be worth taking chances with. 1t
is not every man that has good inten-
! tons that carries them out; not every
man that has the force to overcome the
obstacles that are thrown in his way
in Washington as Mr.. Roosevelt has
done.
AT present Wall street has field of
twelve to choose from: Gov. Charles e.
Hughes of New York, Elihu Root of New
York. George b. Cortelyou of New York,
William II. Taft of Ohio, Joseph B. For
aker of Ohio, Joseph G. Cannon of I'LL
nois. Charles w. Fairbanks of Indiana
Albert B. Cummings of Iowa, Leslie M.
Shaw of Iowa, Robert NJ. La Toilette Of
Wisconsin, w. M. Crane Of Massachusetts
and Philander C. Knox of Pennsylvania
1t is probable that any of the twelve
with the exception of Taft and Hughes
would be more acceptable to the financial
interests than Roosevelt or q man of his
picking. IT is not likely that the cor
poraitons will take any considerable inter-
est in the campaign for the democratic
nomination. 1t seems to be foregone
conclusion that w. j. Bryan will be the
nominee.
Half a dozen men, however, led by Au-
gust Belmont, who has long been am
bilious to be a political boss and who
engineered the Parker disaster, have been
conducting a campaign against Mr.. Bryan
from this city for several months. The
friends of Mr.. Bryan are not idle and
through the Commercial Travellers Anti
Trust League, which have headquarters
in New York, are trying to capture dele
gates in the stats where there is opposi-
ton to him.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-24
EmbonpoInt and Art.

The fiat has gone forth from Director
Hammerstein of the Manhattan Opera
house that embonpoint and art are not
compatible. The director has delivered
an ultimatum to Signor Ancona, one of
his prize bartones, that he must take
five inches off the waistband OF his
trousers before next season or seek an
other market for his vocal wares. To
reduce the ultimatum to plain. ordinary
language 1t is the opinion of Mr.. Ham
merstein that Signor Ancona is too fat
to be ARTISTIC.
II don't want my singers to get too
fat" said Mr.. Hammerstein by way OF
explanation ut spells their appearance.
They cannot sustain the Illusion of their
parts. Supposing man puts on suit
of tights and jerkin and comes out on
the stage to sing Ormonde in Traviata.
Surprising he has such a large-what you
call it-ah, that's It, supposing he has
such large what you said that the peo-
pie cannot help looking at that instead Of
his face, what kind of a success can he
make? Paugh, 1t is foolishness
"Signor Ancona has wide repertoire.
He sings in Don Giovanni he sings In
'Traviata.' in 'Rigoetto,' In Carmen. He
is a good singer and the people applaud
him. But imagine what must be the ludi-
crous result if he is too fat Think OF Il
Carmen falling in love with Il toreador
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-24
The Bowery Disaster.

Disaster has struck the Bowery head
| on. The ten, twenty and thirty cent lodg-
| ing houses have been told to clean up.
| Only one who has visited the Bowery can
appreciate what this means to the para
disc of the panhandlers and the hoboes.
! The Bowery is the heart of Big Tim Sui
livan's stronghold and consequently when
politicians heard of 1t they were quick to
see another move on the part of Mayor
| Mcclellan to get hunk" with the Sui
livans and their followers.
The politicians argument was simple;
DR.. Darlington, president of the depart
ment OF health, was McClellans creation.
| Therefore DR.. Darlington would never
have issued the drastic order without an
understanding with the city hall that it
would not be Objectionable.
Here is the substance of the order
which it is safe to say no Bowery lodging
house will be able to comply with:
All lodging houses must be kept in
constant state of cleanliness.
Clean pillow cases and sheets must be
provided daily for each bed.
All floors, passages and staidways must
be scrubbed or wet swept at least once
a day.
Cuspldors must be provided in suffi-
eient quantity for dodgers.
All rooms must be fumigated at least
once a week
There must be adequate ventilation at
night, and from 10 o'clock in the morning
until in the afternoon all windows of
rooms and dormitories must be kept open.
Mushrooms must be maintained on
every floor, with adequate facilities either
in the shape of long porcelain troughs
or set basins.
Stationary baths and showers must be
supplied with hot and cold water avail
able at any hour of the day or night,
free of charge.
Mushrooms must be provided with
waterproof floors and walls but not of
wood or metal
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-24
To Europe in Four Days.

Lewis Nixon, the shipbulider, is out
for new record-to shorten the Atlanta
tic ocean trip to four days. His maiden
attempt to cut down the time will not
be made with a peaceful liner, but it
will be accomplished with five 6000-horse
power gas engines installed in a war
ship bristling with guns and torpedoes.
Mr., Nixon has already prepared plans
for his boat.
II have built every sort of vessel" said
Mr.. Nixon, land l intend to build one
that will cross the Atlantic ocean in
four days. Such a vessel one year ago
was an impossbility. Today it is per-
fectly feasible. No steamer will ever
cross in that tme but the striking de-
velopment in the gas engine enables us
to bring about such radical reductions
in weight of machinery and fuel that
1t is a simple engineering problem.
1.-THE engine of the future and very
near future at that is the internal COM
bustion engine.
"The Atlantic liner propelled by the
gas engine will come as 81 demand OF
enlightened engineering progress.
'Ths is not prophecy, but a sober
conviction based upon results already ae-
complished."
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Ticket speculators to Go.

Mayor Mcclellan is determined that the
theatre ticket speculator nuisance shall
cease Through his influence an ordi-
nance has been reported to the board of
alderman sweeping them away bag and
baggage. The measure not only pro-
hibits the sale Of theatre tickets on the
sidewalk but prevents the sale OF them
in hotels at a higher price than that
charged at the box office A bill is also
before the state legislature to accom-
plish the same purpose.
The theatre ticket market is a thing
peculiar to itself. On dull days the
best seats are to be had at the box office.
On fairly good days then can be bought
only of the hotel spectators or on the
sidewalk. On days when the business
has assumed loan office proportions they
are to be had only from the sidewalk
spectators The reasons for this lie
on the surface. The box office prices
are practically stationary. Those in
the lobby are nearly, though not always,
no. Whereas on the sidewalk any and
every price may be asked and given.
1t is hard to escape the conviction that
there Is a subterranean onnection be-
tween all three, and that the state of
the market determines the hands into
which the vending shall fall.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-24
IT is TODAY, NOT TOMORROW,

that you should take an inventory of
your physical condition, and begin at
once to repair the weak and rundown
portions of your being. The winter is
about over, and the first suggestions of
springtime is the toning up OF your sys-
TEN, which is very much run down.
Remember that we carry in stock all
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large shipment was unloaded yesterday,
and today we can supply you. You know
this is regular dollar value, but our way
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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-24
NEW MACHINERY
Is GIVEN TRIAL RUN
! ALEXANDER CITY COTTON MILLS
ARE BEING PUT IN OPERATION,
ELECTION CREATES BUT LIT.
TIE ENTHUSIASM.

Alexander City, March 23.-(Speclal.)--
Trial runs of the machinery at the Alex
ander City cotton mills have been made
and not hitch anywhere has been re-
ported. There are now 152 looms in place.
and more will be added the intention of
the company being to enlarge the plant
above its original specifications. Forty
more cottages will be built, that number
already being complete.
The first National bank here has beep
made n state depository for Tallapoosa
county, and will receive $4,000 of the
states money.
Very little enthusiasm prevails over the
selection of municipal officers here In
fact. 1t appeared for a while that the
office of mayor would go a-begging
Finally the candidacy of Thomas c.
Russell was successfully launched, and
four candidates are announced for mar
shall. The election will be held April 2
The friends of A. p Fuquay have petit
toned him privately and publicly to
make the mayoralty race. He has served
previously In that capacity, and left a
record of which anyone might we'll feel
proud.
The 5-year-old daughter Of Rob Dark
four miles west of town, fell from a rock
ing chair into the fire Tuesday and sus-
tanned burns from which 1t died a few
hours later.
c. II. Burkett, prominent druggist Of
Mobile. and Miss Sue Carlisle, one of
Alexander City's fairest buds OF beauti-
full womanhood, were united in marriage
ON Monday evening at the home OF the
brides parents.
Ernest Harris who holds responsible
position with large furniture establish
ment here and Miss Sallie Pltchford. an
accomplished and beautiful young lady
OF Gold Branch beat, were married Sun
day.
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To Unite a Hundred Rivers.

with the expenditure of not more than
100000 the United States government
can open up and connect not les sthan
5000 miles of water ways having a suf-
fcient depth to successfully navigate
steamboats, of the Mississippi river class"
writes Frank A. Briggs in The Technical
World Magazine for April. "Since the
citizens of this country awakened to the
fact that light draft navigation, SO long
neglected by the federal government, is
the only safe and sure means to protect
themselves from transportation trusts,
and the only way to develop the re-
sources of sections not traversed by rail-
roads, no project has been advanced or
presented to the government of such far
reaching Importance as the intercoastal
canal now being advocated by the citi-
zens of Texas and Louisiana. Although
the Texas-Louisiana intercoastal canal
Will cost but a small fraction Of the sum-
already appropriated for the construction
of the Panama canal the project is of
almost equal Importance and will ben
eft directly more citizens of the United
States than the big ditch between the two
oceans.
I'm few words, the project is to con-
meet the Rio Grande river, at a point
not far from the little city of Browns
Vile mad near its mouth, with the Mis-
sissippi river at Donaldsville, La. there
by connecting the various navigable rivers
of Texas with the Mississippi river, the
Ohio river the Missouri river and all
their tributaries, joining tobether fully
5000 miles of streams and canals in one
vast system. To one who understands
the situation, the proposition is a simple
one, and as evidence of its feasibility
stands the fact that the rivers and har-
Dor committee has approved of the plan
and United States engineers have al
ready made surveys and performed at
part of the work.
An extraordinary story of the under
taking follows
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-24
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Hellcon Halls Troubles.

II is not likely that Upton Sinclair, the
author OF "The Jungle" will succeed in
starting another cooperative colony. The
colony that was Quartered in Helicon hall
was on the verge of a split when the
building burned down. Here's the way
one of the dissatisfied members of the
new cult describes the situation that ex-
listed there:
while the basis of the idea put forth
by Sinclair was cooperative living, there
were at least fifty-seven different sorts
of indvidualsm. That was because there
were flftyseven persons residing within
the Utopian gates.
Probably everything would have gone
along beautifully If it had not been for
the Unsuitable desire of every one to rule
the roost.
'Humor began in the morning and last
ed throughout the day 1t extended into
the night. but the elimination of ali the
fun was at the dinner table in the great
hail.
Here would start discussions upon So
cialism, atheism, agnostcism, altruism,
utopianism. theosophy, philosophy and
everything under the sun from pessimism
and optimism to Upton Sinclairism.
Meanwhile we would be regaling our
selves with Our staple food products, con-
ssting of samp "a sort of hominy), and
prunes OF course we had other things to
eat, like sweet potatoes, Goldfish and on
ions, but l shall always remember the
soup.
Mr.. Sinclair was always at the head
of the board-that is, SO long as we all
sat at one table. Around him were
grouped the high brows,' while at the
end of the board were the residents "a
distinct element from the colonists
proper. and the workers.
"Mr. Sinclair generally affected brown
corduroy trousers, quite baggy at the
knees and red and flowing necktie. When
in deep thought he would place his right
hand to his forehead and eat with his
fork in his left hand.
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man who betrayed to his wife that he
was professional beggar by talking in
his sleep IL the story told by his wife
is true James A. Legge of this city, who
has a police record. has mad the same
experience. Under the name of Howard
Legge answered a matrimonial adver-
tlsement and soon there was wedding
In a very short time the marital peace
of the Howard household was upset by
the husband talking in his sleep. He
raved about sheriffs, jails etc., and the
wife, becoming suspicious, went to the
police. They recognized her husband as
a man they have been wanting to get hold
of for long time.
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Sample New York Murder Trial.

Harry p. Mawson in Leslies Weekly
An italian and his wife kept an eating
stand on the upper East Side. One sum
mer night four other Italians passing by,
asked to be served with clans, for which
twenty cents was asked in payment. A
dispute arose as to the number of CLAIMS
served, and while the keeper of the stand
was STOPPING over counting the shells one
of the other Italians drew a razor and
slashed him across the face, from the
lobe OF the ear to the corner of the
mouth. Such a cut never saw. I could
only think of a butcher slashing open a
rib of beef with his cleaver. The welt
from the scar was as thick as a stout
whipcord Fir this cut the Italian re-
ceived eight years-a light sentence in
proportion to the size of the cut. While
the cutting was being done another of
these italian banditti drew a revolver and
fired point blank at the man and his wife,
but. like most of the Latin race, he was
q bad shot, and the bullet went wide.
Two policemen, standing a block away,
hearing the shot and the screams of the
women. rushed UP just in time to arrest
the whole party, the one Italian having
the smoking revolver in his hand. Upon
examination, then and there it was
found that the revolver was not loaded.
Now. had these policemen been as shrewd
as the Italian, they would have searched
the ground for the cartridges, which he
evidently threw away when he saw the
policemen coming; but no, not until they
reached the police station was this
thought Of and then it was too late, as
anyone could have placed the cartridges
there on the pavement, where they were
subsequently found several hours after
the arrest. OF the two officers who were
concerned In this arrest only one APP
peared in court, and the revolver was not
produced at all. Now, an Indictment
must set forth, in order to prove intent
to kill, that the pistol was loaded with
powder and ball." and as this could not
be proved the jury was compelled to ac-
quit the defendant.
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Peculiar Accident.

Columbus, Ga. March 2S.-(Special.)-
News has reached the city of peculiar
accident at Cottonton. Ala. Mrs. e. NJ
Corcoran went TO pull her 7-nonths' -old
baby from the bed. catching the little
one by the hands and gently pulling 1t
up. In doing so she dislocated the child's
shoulder. She had often gently pulled
the child TO a sitting posture in this
way and at first could not imagine what
was the matter, but the baby cried SO
vehemently that physician was sent
for. He set the shoulder and the child 10
now resting easy.
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Peace Conference.

Though most folks probably don't know
1t a peace conference Is to meet in Car
negie hall In this city from April IL to
April II. Its deliberations will be pre-
liminary to those of the second Hague
conference two months later, and Will
get a part of their significance from
it, There will be an imposing representa-
ton here of the nations opinion and OF
the worlds friends of peace. There
will be addresses, among Others by Sec
rotary Root, Governor Hughes, Bryan,
Seth Low, Archbishop Farley, Bishop
Potter, Rabbi Hlrsch and Miss Jane
Adams. The chiefs of commercial bodies
and labor unions VIII be in attendance
and from Europe will come such men
as Baron ID Estournelles de Constant
Baron Des Camps, of the Hague court;
an officer from the kaiser's army, oxford
and Cambridge professors and members
of foreign parllaments. 1t will be body
OF great distinction and of great interest.
Talked In His Sleep.
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His Concert Toilet.

From the New York Tribune.
Heinrich Conried was talking about old
fashioned concerts
Some of the hits directed at these con-
certs were merited,' he said.
"One hit, and a good one, was made by
an old Chicago millionaire. He called up
stairs to his daughters:
what a time you girls take getting
ready for the concert. Look at me; bit
of wadding in each ear, and I'm all
ready
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who has such a greatness about the
middle; think OF mis- being a bullhghter
anyway. 1t is ridiculous
Signor Aneona has promised to go in
training and during the summer hopes
to pare off enough avoir iupois to meet
the requirements of the Manhattan Opera
house director
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of food he meekly pulled out his money
and handed it over, obeying the clerks
of the commissary contractor with as
much alacrity as he had previously heed
ed the commands of the inspectors.
The government does not run the res
taurant 1t is operated by Harry Balfe,
a former immigration Inspector