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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-09
Personal and General.

The Ladies' Aid society of the Meth odist church will meet Monday after noon at S;30 o'clock at the church, Avenue G and Twentieth street
 The friends of Rev. and Mrs. NJ. A. Glasgow of Sanduskey will regret to learn of the serious illness of tn cir daughter Ruth.
 MT. and Mrs. Frank Stones were in the city today. the guests of MT. and Mrs. E. C. Mandy, Avenue H.
 Messrs. Crawford Perkins and Louis Smith left yesterday for Livingston, Ala. They will be absent about ten days.
 T. P. Bain. boolskeeper for the Lin wood Drug company, has resigned his position to accept a position as travel ing salesman for tobacco house.
 Mrs. Thomas R. Walker assumed charge of the choir of the Presbyter- ian church today. Mrs. Walker Is a musician of rare ability and the church Is fortunate in securing her services. Mrs. E. G. Galdsmith will still preside at the organ.
 Mr. and Mrs. Schaen returned last night from a two weeks visit to New York.
 Will Berney, who has been spending his vacation at his home In Albertville returned today.
 Miss Laura Davis of Memphis. who has been the guest of Mrs. Modie Cunningham for the past two weeks, left for home today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-09
Bessemer Makes Another Claim.

If one were to come to Bessemer and make the remark that he was or the oninion that this city was following in the footsteps of the Gate City of Geor- gia. AS regards claims of all sorts and every kind of boosting on the map, every one would become indignant, but Besse- mer does set forth the claim that if there is anything modern drifting along she gets her share of 1t.
 For instance, she hankers after gas nlants. she wants to be known as Greater Bessemer she wants to be the county site of a new county, she wants to iioat bonds to beautify the city, but she has never vet made the claim of being the home of poetess. something out or the ordinary. However, this is just what has happened to her
 Toura lean Libby in her maddest eights to the realms above, never touched her Ella Wheeler Wilcox, in all her dreams of things that were beautiful in tbis life and the after life for that mat for never for a moment came near to heinz in the her class, and as for Alfred Austin and James Whitcomb Kelly. they are simply outclassed.
 Ii has never been admitted before that skating could inspire anything save de- sire for fresh air or liniment, but the fact Is admitted now, and the following. dedicated to the delightful sensation pro- duced by skating, is the result;
 Go to the Bessemer Hippodrome,
 Take your friends or go alone,
 The kindest attention you'll receive; Learn sport that Is no make believe IT you have never learned to skate, Take five lessons before it's too late
 The floor is slick and the rail is strong On that floor you may sit, or glide along. So oct a quarter and dime beside. Hail the car and take ride.
 The above Is the latest effort of the Marvel City poetess.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-09
At the New Gayety.

The Rice and Barton Gaiety EXtrava- ganza company will he the attraction at the New Gayety theatre this week, be- ginning with a matinee this afternoon and a performance tonight.
 The Rice and Barton show is three shows combined in one. The first part will be a musical melange, entitled "Broadway After Twelve" The vaude- vile features wiil follow this period, with ,'rhe Great White Way as fitting close the latter being a hilarious bur lnenl1e-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-09

With "McFadden's Row of Flats" which will be the attraction at the Jefferson theatre Thursday afternoon and night are such well known artists as Jerry Sullivan, Tom Hearn. Everett T. Scott Charles Johnson. Ford West Harry Gran dell, William Durwood, George Buchanan r. R. Stephenson, Thomas Dwyer, Annie Hart. Annette Dorgan. Estelle Gilmore Daisy Dickson, Pansy Allen, Toma Henry, Pansy Walden, Belle Donohue, Ella Ea- gen, Dixie Beaumont and a bevy of beau tiful blushing chorus ladies complete the list
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-09
Personal and General.

Miss Rose Gillespie of Birmingham Is visiting MT. and Mrs. Eugene l.. Huey.
 MI. and Mrs. K. F. Rarden have re- turned from Moundvile, where they went 10 attend the funeral of Mrs. Rarden's 8 brother. Mir Bishop,
 Miss Bessie Neil will entertain at her home on next Tuesday evening in honor of her Sunday school class.
 Mrs. A J. Baily of Goodwater Is vis- ting her daughter, Mrs. J. l.. Rarden. on Arlington avenue.
 MT and Mrs. H. D. Keith and Miss Pearl Keith have returned from an ex- tended trip in the east. Among the places visited were New York, Niagara Falls, Philadelphia. Boston and the Jamestown exposition
 Miss Moss Keith left yesterday to visit friends in Cardiff
 E. G. Randle is confined to his bad
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-09
Congress Closes.

Sacramento, Cal, September s.-The National Irrigation congress closed last night. The new officers elected are Frank c. Goudy of Denver, president; George Barstow of Texas, first vice president John E. Baker of California, second vice president; Herbert E. Strain of Montana, third vice president B. A. Fowler of Arizona, secretary. The con- gress voted to eliminate from the plat form a resolution protesting against the enactment of any further legisla- ton favoring> Philippine sugar.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-09
Notice to Contractors. HiohWav Construction,

Sealed proposals will be received by the undersigned until II o'clock a. m., Saturday, October 12, 1907, for the con struction of certain highways. Plans, profles, etc. may be examined and specifications obtained at this ofhce. The right is reserved to reject any or all bids.
 (Signed) ROAD COMMISSIONERS OF LIMESTONE COUNTY. By c. D. GLAZE, President Road Con- misison, Ath ems, Ala.
 9-9-1mo-m -th
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-09

with fever He expected to leave last welx to enter Auburn, but 1t is hardly pos s.ble that he will be able to leave for several days.
 w. s. Mims and Sid Smith left yes- terday to enter Auburn.
 Clarence Hurd and Arthur McWhorter left yesterday to enter the University of Alabama.
 Dave Trotter left yesterday to enter the Sparks university at Montgomery.
 MT. Isaac Haas of Greenville is the guest of MT. and Mrs. Jacob Marks on Sixth avenue.
 Rev. A w. Williams of Talladega Is visiting his sister, Mrs. M P. Benton.
 J. l.. Langford, who has been connect ed with the Armour Packing company in this city for the past few months, has resigned and has accepted travelling position
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-09
NOTICE.
ana Great Southern Railroad
 Company.

e is hereby given that the annual
 of the stockholders of the Ala
 Great Southern Railroad company
 held at the office of the company .n .... .ninGham, Ala, on Wednesday, Oe- tober 2, 1907, at 10 o'clock a. m. for the election of directors and the transaction of such other business as may be brought before the meeting.
 Transfer hooks will close at 3 D. m Tuesday, September 10, 1907 and reopen at 10 a. m, Thursday. October B. 1907.
 R. D. LANKFORD, Secretary. September 3, 1907. 9-S-to-lO-L
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-09

claims they add many advantages which are entirely technical in char acter but which appeal to mill en- gineers and managers.
 The cotton mills of the south are now using about 300, 900 horse power. Less than one-third of this is furnished by water power. According to MT J. W. Fraser, we'll known hydro electric engineer, the water power in the very heart of the cotton belt still unde- veloped Is about 2,0OO .OO0 horse power and all in a climate wh ere Ice cannot materially affect the development The advantage has been slow up until this time, but MT. Fraser thinks this fact an advantage, because the more scien- tifc treatment now being brought to bear on the engineering problems in volved will assure catching up with the delay, and eventually running ahead of other sections which started earlier. The most important thing, economically, is that the power Is be- ing sold to the factories as rapidly as it can be developed, and the necessary machinery installed in the various mills.
 Tn New England and other older man ufacturing sections of the country. the factories were built where there was water power. The railroads came later and were forced to go wehre the mills were already establish ed in order to get the business. In the south, the rail roads were built when there was no manufacturing, and when the mills be- gan to be erected they were placed on the railroads, perforce, to take ad- vantage of the transportation facili- ties. Now electricity has came and has carried the power of the rivers to the mills. It has done much already for the upbuilding of this section, what 1t will yet do no man may predict It emancipates the mills from fear or a coal famine, a serious matter in this section so far from coal mines.
 The word factory" brings to the mind at once picture of great col l. umn of brick from the top of which issue clouds of black smoke to dehle the air and desecrate the heavens. one thinks of long trains of grimy coal cars, of the light from the furnace mouths glaring on the blackened faces of the sweating stokers, of thousands of gallons of water being drunk In by
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-09

All the week, with matinees Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday Anita, the Singing Girl"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-09
AT THE GAYETY,

All the week, with daily mati-
 , nees-Rice & Barton's Burlesquers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-09
ADJUSTMENTS.
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AT THE JEFFERSON.
ATThE RIIOu.

Thursday afternoon and night { "McFadden's Flats"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-09

| The advantages of driving machinery by electricity are not questioned. The | largest cotton mills in the south use the electric drive, making their own current by the use of steam power It is known that the Southern Power company sells
 it's current for $20 horsepower year,
 The cost of power in the plants run by steam, or by electricity generated by steam, varies in every mill Many of them admit that their steam power costs as much as $35 Others say it costs more, others say less. Few if any, manufact-
 urers claim that they can make power as cheap as they can get 1t from the hydro electric companies. Nevertheless, many of them who are convinced of the economy do not care to throw away their present
 steam equipment. and there are a few who do not look with favor on the in-
 novation.
 The difference in cost Is not the only
 advantage on the side of electricity.
 With a steam plant and mechanical l
 drive, the whole power plant must be operated to run one set of machines. With the electric drive the mill may be shut down except one little section and that section will use no more mower than is needed to run it. The advocates of tha hydro electric power not only claim a great saving in the first cost on mill construction. but they say that the mills will use less power will pay less for what they do use, and will save money by operating only parts of the plant. at time when the whole is not necessary. To these
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-09

Not many miles away is the Yadkin river. in North Carolina, where S5 O00, 900 is being spent to build a power plant which will have a capacity of 5000 horse- power. and which contemplates system of 10000 horsepower. These are the larger plants, but by no means the only ones for all over the south there is dsposi- tion 10 make the rivers turn the wheels of industry. Small mills of various kinds have been operated by direct water power ever since the country was settled, but the first hydro-electrc plant in the south began operation in 1894 at the Columbia cotton mills. Columoia s. c. Not only was this the first southern mill to use water power to make electricity, but 1t was the first textile mill in the world to be operated throughout by the electric drive. Mill engineers up to that time had doubted the feasibility of transmit ting power by any other means than belt rope or gear. The Columbia mills proved the advantages of electricity. But the power in that case was transmitted only 800 feet, Now it Is carried for a hundred miles.
 Anderson, another South Carolina town. was the pioneer in long distance trans mission of power in the south. Twelve years ago it began to use the power generated by water on Rocky river six miles away. for pumping the city water supply for lighting and for motors. The work went on until now there are six teen or seventeen plants in the Caro- llnas. Georgia. Alabama and Virginia of greater than 1000 horsepower each, while other plants are being constructed in all these states and in Tennessee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-09
McFadden' $ Flats

The Brightest, Brceziest and Best Given for Laughing Purposes Only PRICEs-Matincc 25c and 50c; Night,
 25c tO SI.OO
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-09

Try t;ne Gawk for half-tone and IIne lustrations. AQe-Herald 1ulldlnA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-09
USING THE POWER
 OF THE RIVERS What Has Been Done With the Waters of CataWba HOW BIG MILLS ARE RUN Cotton Mills of South Now Use 3oo,ooo Horse-Power, one-Thrd of
 Which is Furnished By
 Water.
HOW BIG MILLS ARE RUN
BY FREDERIC J. HAsKlN.

Charlotte, N. C.. September, S.-The Ca
 tawba river is known to fame because of the delicious grapes which were first produced along it's banks. The beauty of its rocky course and numerous falls has been the theme for many a local bard. Sixty years ago a North Carolina writer described its beauties, praised its grapes, and added that the day would come when it would be known all over the country because It's waters, then roaring an age long protest against their own wasted energies, would be thrown on wheels which would furnish power to the fac tories of the great manufacturing cen ter of America.
 After six decades the prophecy is being fulfilled. The Catawba is in leash Mighty turbines gather the force of the swift river and with 1t drive the machines that turn the energy into that mystery of mysteries, electricity. The electric cur rent is carried away across the country to be sold to whosover will buy. The far seeing writer who predicted the conser- vation of this wasted power. had in his minds eye a long row of mills along the banks of his beautiful river. He could not have dreamed that it's power could be saved there and carried safely over little wire, miles and miles, to supply many factories and many cities with needed energy.
 The streets and business houses and homes of Charlotte are lighted by the power of the Catawba, eighteen miles away. The water supply of Charlotte is pumped by the power of the distant river. Charlotte women cook and iron with heat furnished from the harnessed Catawba. Charlotte factories are run by the power which comes over the copper wires from that same river.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-09


 Sixty-seven cotton mills are now oper- ated by electricity generated at the two power plants on tie Catawba, both in South Carolina. The company operating those has already begun the construc- ton of two additional plants, which will be completed in another twelve months, and it has planned a system which will furnish all the power needed to run all of the mills now operating in this sec ton, to say nothing of lighting and heat ing. The two plants now running have a capacity of 42,OOO horsepower, the sys- tenn when complete will be able to make 150,000 horsepower Then 1t will be the largest development of hydro electric DOW CT in the country. Excepting only the combined plants al Niagara Falls In this construction nearly $12,000 900 will be spent counting that already expended on the system.
 The two plants now have 42O00 horse- power, and are supplying slxty-seven mills with power over transmission lines which altogether measure 253 miles in length The current is carried on cop per wires suspended from high steel towers, guarded by every electrical pro- tection known to science. Such lines are not built cheaply. the cost here being from $6O0O to 5000 a mile. No accidents have befallen the men working on them, i but a negro who bet a quarter that he could climb up and touch the wire Is no longer in the land of the living. The
 sudden result of his experiment has in-
 creased the respect of the colored popu- 1 lation for the cross-country wires.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-09
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Thursday--MRtiuce, $iGht-Scpt.
 Bargain Day Matinee
 THE MUSICAL FARCE COMEDY
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-09
"McFadden's Row of Flats"

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-09

claims they add many advantages which are entirely tech hnical in char acter, but which appeal to mill en- gineers and managers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-09

Tomorrow-Charleston the City by the Sea.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-07-05
Education.
Southern Farm Magazine OF Balti-

Southern Farm Magazine OF Balti-
more for June.
Taxation for the support OF local
schools is the fundamental principle
in American education, and any at
tempt to obscure that principle IS
bound to introduce a dangerous can
ker into American education. Money
raised by local taxes for the support
Of local schools is more likely to meet
the educational needs of the commun-
ity better than money raised in any
other way. Farmers Of the country
can afford to give no heed to the
specious arguments that, If made et-
fective.. will bind the farmers hand
and foot to power in education and
consequently, power over the indl-
vidr;al that can only undermine the
rights Of the individual.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-07-05

one aspect Of the question. however.
which it seems to me. deserves ser-
Gus consideration at the hands Of us
! all, and that is the necessity on our
part Of preparing the conditions
throughout the state to make them at
tractive and satisfactory to the new
citizens whom we are inviting.
"While at this time We purpose to
devote our attention primarily to the
introduction Of the home-seeker and
the farmer, still it is inevitable, that
as the movement grows, We will
broaden out our lines and use our
best efforts to supplement the sup
ply of labor in the state.
Better Labor Laws Needed.
"Before we can expect to bring in
to this state any considerable number
Of white labor. it is absolutely neces-
sary, in my opinion, that our labor
laws should be made to conform to
white mans country. Ever since the
establishment Of this colony, we have
been dependent upon negro labor with
the result that all Of our legislation
so far as farm labor conrtcast are
concerned, has had reference to an
inferior class Of workmen, and we
have enacted legislation which SEEM
ed to be required by the peculiar
class Of labor which we had at hand.
eff we are earnest with this ques-
ton Of immigration, if we have firm
I ly made up our minds that we pro-
pose to adopt a course which in sue
ceeding generations will make this a
white mans country, if we are thor
oughly convinced Of the propriety of
introducing white laborers in our
midst, the sooner we begin to set our
own house in order, the better.
"The conditions necessary for the
control of negro labor would not be
submitted to for a moment by white
labor. and the first step which we
should take, in MY judgment, is to
reform our contract labor laws and
make them conform to states and
countries where white labor is invlt-
ed and prosperous.
II was glad to see that this ques-
ton had been brought up in the Unit
ed States court and that his honor,
Judge Brawley, had decided that the
act of South Carolina on this subject
was unconstitutional. What [ would
| like to see, however, is not that the
act should be nullified by the courts,
but that at the coming session OF the
legislature, the general assembly Of
South Carolina should repeal such act,
thereby authoritatively declaring the
public policy Of this state on this sub
ject.
"You can accept it without reserva-
ton that labor laws framed for an
inferior colored labor can not and
will not be acceptable to the liberty
loving and iberty-seeking white man.
"In conclusion, I would urge upon
you gentlemen Of the State Press
charged as you are with the great re-
sponsibility Of leading and largely
moulding the public opinion Of this
state, to give the matter of immlsra-
ton your serious and patriotic con-
sideration, as upon the attitude TAX
en- by you will largely depend the an
swer to the question: Shall this Tor
all time be a white mans country?"
|
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-07-05
Trapped.

Everybody's.
A Boston lawyer, who brought his
wit from his native Dublin, while
cross-examining the plaintiff in a di-
vorce trial, brought forth the follow
ing:
"You wish to- divorce this woman
because she drinks?'
eyes, sir"
"Do you drink yourself?"
"That's my business!' !''-angrily.
Whereupon the unmoved lawyer
asked:
"Have you any other business?"
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-07-05
Barbecue.

The undersigned Will furnish a
first class barbecue at Forks school
house on the 9th Of July, and will be
pleased to have the publice take no.
tice and cavern themselves accord
inely. In addition TO 4 first class dill
ncr. further entertainment and amuse-
NirHt will :" n"rvi1c1 for those who
desire Sumc;i::"= besides 4 GOOD din
Mcr.
H. F. Counts.
Caldwell Ruff.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-10-02

producers of wealth are they that
really cause Produce to spring from
Mother Earth. Nothing is so val
p. GensinQer----
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-10-02
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