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Evening journal., 1907-08-03

terson. southwest corner Delaware avenue
and Van Buren streets s265OO.
Thomas II. Melvin TO Ira A. Graham,
No. S37 Pine street, $3.50.
Harry S. Lynch TO George r. Neldie,
west side Of DUPONT, south of Fourteenth
$1,000.
Harry S. Lynch to John F. LeCarpenter
west side Of DUPONT, south OF Fourteenth,
$500.
Alfred II. Mcdowell to Bessie NJ
Grubb, south side OF Seventh. east OF
Lombard, SiO5O.
S. Redmond Smith to Wilmington Realty
Company, lot northwest corner Sixth and
Rodney streets, s6.0OO
Evening journal., 1907-08-03

There remained another hurdle, the
Jockey Club. and his peace with it
assures racing at the Empire track
next month and during forthcoming
seasons if Mr. Butler so desires
At present the James Butler Grocery
Company owns IT'S stores in New York
city and is capitalized at SlO0OOOO0.
Mr. Butler owns the company. He also
owns a heavy interest in "A company
which, under the name of James But
Ter, owns more than one hundred stores
in Philadelphia and seven in Pittsburg.
Every one of them pays a profit; every
one of them is conducted in exactly
the same manner.
Here is Mr.. Buffers advice on how to
succeed:
Evening journal., 1907-08-03

NEW YORK. Aug S.-When James
Butler left ireland, thirty-one years
ago, his only assets We're a ticket to
New York, a rugged constitution, smil-
ing blue eyes and an ambition 70 make
his mark When he went back to Ire
land thirty years later TO see the friends
of his boyhood he was the owner of
more than three hundred grocery stores,
millions Of dollars worth Of New York
city real estate, the promoter of a
scheme TO own grocery stores in every
city in America and the possessor Of
one of the finest trotting stables in
the New World.
In these days OF swollen fortunes and
phenomenal business rises the achieve
ments of Mr. Butler do not attract as
Evening journal., 1907-08-03
Al Shnllnnt park

There was a good attendance at
Shelpot Park yesterday despite the
rain. To-day there viii be the usual
attractions and the attendance is ex-
pected to be unusually large. To-mor-
row there will be the usual sacred con-
.certs, and Miss Dorothy d. Young will
sing a number Of songs. Beginning on
Monday there will be an entle change
Of bill on August % it has peen de-
cided to hold a masked carnival at the
park, and prizes will be offered for the
best costumes.
Evening journal., 1907-08-03

Persevere.
Don't spend too much time in recrea-
tion.
Don't get a smattering of a thing and
let some one else supply your informa-
tion; learn all there is to know about
a subject in hand.
Know what you are doing; then you
won't make mistakes.
There are more opportunities for sue
cess in business now than there ever
were.
Ambition is the first essential; then
comes perseverance.
One should not be in too big a hurry
Go slowly; then you will be through
Evening journal., 1907-08-03

wonder the place is building up? When you
can put chicken upon your table that only
costs you IS cents, and on top of all this
No interest, no taxes, no gas bills,
and only five cent Car fare to any
part Of the city.
These choice building sites, which were
placed before you a little over year ago,
are almost all gone. Our prices are still the
Same
Five dollars will start home of your
own. See me and let's talk it all over.
Evening journal., 1907-08-03
REAL ESTATE
For Sale and Rent.
FoR SALE.

New houses, w. sixteenth St, 1901,
1908. 1905, etc, 6 rooms, bath, all im-
prov ements, heaters, cemented cellars,
etc. These houses are particularly
we'll built
FOR RENT.
House. Pennsylvania ave-, IL rooms
bath, $45.00-
House, 17Os Bronze. 10 rooms, bath,
$500.
House sos W. Eighteenth. II rooms
and bath, so.
Houses. 1O11. 1913 Clayton, 8 rooms
bath, $500.
House 217 West, II rooms, bath, $40.
House at Gordon Heights. rooms
bath $500.
14i1 shallcross ave-, 6 rooms and bath
$500.
Stable, PIG washington street.
stable SOS Jefferson street
store. 2f16 Market street.
Offices, 1925 Market street, and
apartments, rooms, Offices, etc.
Evening journal., 1907-08-03
MEETING WAS
LARGELY ATTENDED

Thomas H. Flynn Addresses Gather
ing Of Federal Union Members.
Members Of Federal Union No. 1854
held a largely attended meeting at head
quarters last night. Thomas H. Flynn,
Grand Organizer Of the order, being the
guest Of the evening, and delivered an in
teresting address,
Samuel Gompers. the well-lnown labor
leader was to have been in attendance bus
was unavoidably detained.
During the meeting the committees to
take charge OF the Labor Day celebration
for the Federal Union were appointed and
delegates to the central body were also
named.
This union is composed Of men who have
no trade, and the membership is rapdiy
increasing.
Evening journal., 1907-08-03
FELL DOWN AND
STRUCK AN ALARM

Failing down stairs with a wheelbarrow
al the plant of the Jessup and Moore
Paper Company yesterday afternoon. an
employe OF the company hit an auxiliary
fire box and caused an alarm TO be sent in
from box No. 145. When the fire apparatus
arrived no fire was found, Of course.
Evening journal., 1907-08-03

Latest Of vast fortunes sought by
seekers Of lost treasure is the Trans
vaal war chest containing $4,000. 600.
The chest was taken from hiding at
Delagoa Bay in 1898 and shipped on the
Dorothea, which vessel was lost on a
reef I'm the Indian Ocean. Now the
steamship Alfred Nobel has been spe-
cially fitted up by a syndicate for the
work of recovering this treasure.
Evening journal., 1907-08-03
sf.O0 to Baltimore and Return.

Sunday next, August 4, via. Pennsyl-
vania Railroad. Special train leaves
Wilmington 9.45 a. m; returning, leaves
Baltimore Union Station, 6.3S p. m.
Similar excursion August 1S."
Evening journal., 1907-08-03
Watch! Watch! Watch

1t IS coming. All the leading physicians say
so-the typhoid fever germ. In a few months
1t Will rage IN our city. One will say, boil
the water, another, strain the water, and an
other get filter and purify it. Just think
OF IT. Living where these fever germs are
drawn from your hydrants daily. The idea
OF boiling every drop of water you usel The
trouble The expensel You can buy nat
urai spring water at 10 cents gallon. This
makes the expense too high. What is poor
man going to do with the high prices of liv-
ing with the charges OF water at 10 cents
per gallon? Now this can be overcome.
There IS place, and ii is only twelve min
utes from the heart of the city, on top Of
Evening journal., 1907-08-03

The most unusual method Of deliver
ing mail doubtless is that employed
by steamers passing the islands of the
Tonga group in the Pacific. On ac-
count of many reefs, landing is ex-
tremely dangerous. and the few letters
to be delivered are attached to large
sSyrockets. which are fired and reach
the shore in safety.
Evening journal., 1907-08-03

FOR RENT-Seventh and eighth floors
of the Equitable Building; win make real
sonable rates until March o. 1905
CHARLES c. KURTZ.
101i Market street,
al-eod-u Opposite Court House)
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-21
CRAB MEAT SEASON OPEN.
Regular Spring Shipments of crusta'
ceans Reach Here.
From the Washington Post.

From the Washington Post.
The crab meat season opened yester-
day in full force. Lovers of this luscious
crustacean have been looking forward to
the event with much anticipation, and as
soon as the first shipment was received
there was a grand rush among the con-
noisseurs of this particular variety OF
sea food. The crabs this year are big and
fat healthy but as ugly looking as usual.
and, in fact just about the same as they
have appeared every spring for the last
hundred years. But the crab habit has
grown on the Washington people to such
an extent that now the season is con-
templated as regularly as Easter Sunday,
or is compared faVorably with the ankle
ty of the children for Christmas.
Restaurants along the water front and
uptown stores that make IA business of
handling oysters during the winter
months have prepared for the crab sea-
son and made ready for the summer.
Weeks before the crabs have been
brought from their haunts in the water,
these dealers are sought by crab fam
ciers, who want to know Just when the
first load will arrive. The one goes
around from one fancier to another. the
opening night takes place, and ITS all
set" for the crab feast every night for
the entire summer All that Is needed Is
the crab, q knife and the appetite.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-21
Doqs as Life-Savers.

1.-THE dog as life-saver has been re-
discovered write William G. Fitz-Gerald
in the Technical World magazine for
May. A thousand years ago Bernard de
Mention great-grandson of a Paladin
of Charlemagne, founded his Hospice on
the bleak 5000 foot peak that bears his
name, and installed his dogs as aids to
the Alpine wayfarer. And today the emil
grant laborer lost in deep painless snow
owes life and succor to these superb
brutes.
But the ambulance dog seeking the
wounded on the battlefield; the dog as
policeman and rescuer from the waters
these are institutions of yesterday-in-
vented, SO to say, to meet changing con-
ditions of modern life The war dog was
wanted, and you will find him now with
every army on earth. He runs errands,
and carries dispatches through an enemy $
lines, where a trooper would surely per-
ish under a pitiless fire.
But, above all, he smells out the fall
len who have crept into holes and corners
to escape the rain of shot and she'll and
the cruel wheels of galloping guns and
charging squadrons. The Russian gen
eral, Count Keller, employed troop of
ambulance dogs in the late war; and his
medical staff were by their means en-
abled to find hundreds of the wounded
who must otherwise have died miserably
In remote corners of a battle front ex-
tending for forty miles,
An interesting article of considerable
length follows describing the work of
the dogs under mems guidance, and some
of the record performances.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-21
From Appleton's Magazine.

From Appletons Magazine.
IN PHILADELPHIA has never been
without public spirited citizens
eager to do everything to enable the
city to come back into her own, and it
was through their efforts that the project
of the Pennsylvania railroad was con-
ceived and hailed as the salvation of the
ports declining commerce. BY the middle
of the nineteenth century we find the hopes
of a great metropolis centered upon this
great trunk line, then nearing completin
to the lakes and the western waters. as
the means of winning back her maritime
activities.
The Pennsylvania railroad has not only
repudiated every moral obligation to the
commonwealth which gave it birth, bat
has debauched the state and city govern
ments of that commonwealth in order to
deprive it of tie very advantages the
prospect of Which originally served as d
reason for its franchise Having obtained
almost at a stroke absolute hold in its
own state, and aiding it unnnecesasIy to
exert itself to secure the traffic of the
port of Philadelphia, the corporation be-
gan early to reach out for a sold footing
in New York. There competition stared it
In the face. The already completed Erie
and the assured projection of the New
York Central presented foemen worthy
of it's steel, and spurred 1t to secure it's
share of the commerce of New England
and the port of New York.
That was perfectly natural ambition,
and the necessary steps to secure its full
fillment were backed eagerly by capital
in the home city of the road. Too late
1t became apparent to the popular mind
that the fatal flaw in the theory of the
benefits to be deprived from the aggran-
dizement Of the Pennsylvania railroad
was the fact that it had at Philadelphia
absolutely no competition.
Perhaps nothing illustrates more for
chilly the policy of the railroad to neu-
tralize competition at whatever cost, than
the manner in which it has crippled the
canals of the state. The methods are
described in Appletons magazine.
Showing that the corporation took steps
to prevent even street railways from
even becoming competitors in freight
carrying is a Philadelphia ordinance of
1859, passed by its influence. which pro-
vides that "No passenger railway shall
at any time be used for any other pur-
pose than passenger travel No excep
ton has Never been made to this aside
from that in statute of 1895, which per-
mts the street railways to carry the
United States mails. This would seem
bar to the realization of the dreams of
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-21
FOUR HANDKERcHIEFs A YEAR.
What Mexican "Ambassadress" Thinks
Ought to Suffice.

From the New York American.
Madame Creel, wife of the Mexican
ambassador. in an interview said
My income is probably 100000 a
year. You ask me what l thing a woman
with unlimited money should spend on
herself. She should. spend anything she
likes; but she should not be extravaganza.
l will give you the list"
Nine. Creel enumerated the following:
Three dresses at $I4 each.
Two hats at SO. rs each.
Shoes or boots. IA pairs at $l8 pair.
Two embroidered bags for confectionery.
Silk stockings, $50 pairs at IS a pair.
Two handkerchiefs.
Two alternate handkerchiefs.
Four opera cloaks.
Three purses, leather and silk.
Il do not think, continued Madame
Creel. that any woman should spend
5000, 900 a year on her dress, as your
Mademoiselle Morosini says. When my
father had 400, 900 cattle on the plains of
Chihuahua, / did not have dollar a
week spending money. l wore cotton
gowns-and danced in them, too. | never
again had such lovely time In my life
Madame Creel is the daughter of Gen.
Louis Terrazas of Chihuahua. Terrabas
won honors in the Macmillan Incident,
and was rewarded with large tracts OF
land in Northern Chihuahua He owns
more than one-twefth of the state His
wealth has been estimated at more than
100, 600, 900. He still conducts many busi-
ness affairs, although more then 80 years
of age.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-21
CLEVELAND BELIEVED IN HIM.
How James H. EckeIs Became Comp
troler of Currency.


Washington Dispatch in New York Sun.
James II. Eclels, who died suddenly in
, Chicago, was one of the very few men
regarded as proteges of President Gleve-
land
Mr.. Eclkels came to Washington in the
early spring of 1893. and was a familiar,
boyish figure around the Arlington ho-
tel lobby He was pale, thoughtful and
studious and practiced regular hours and
habits.
Secretary Lamont proposed to Mr..
Cleveland that they make EclSels director
of the mint.
Il will not bury that young man in
bureau place." said the President II
am going to give him a place that will
lead to something"
Ben" r. Gable, a White House ia
vorite, called to drive Mr.. Eckels to the
capitol to hear the news. Mr. Cable had
his friend in tow in the Senate press
gallery when the White House messenger
brought the "himsy" inscribed "Nomina-
tons" A newspaper man conveyed 20
Mr.. Eckels the news that he had been
named for comptroller of the currency.
That's strange" suggested Mr.. Eek
els. I'm a lawyer, not banker. Why.
l never even read the national banking
act: | never had n bank account"
Probably the President meant to NOM
mate you for comptroller of the treas
ury-that is a judicial office" suggested
the newspaper man.
"Do you think SOP" Mr.. Eckels inquired
of Ben Gable.
II think President Cleveland knew what
he was doing" remarked the sagaeious
Gable.
But the idea spread that President
Cleveland had made a mistake. All of Mr..
Eckels' predecessors were experienced
bankers. Senator Vest of Missouri con-
stituted himself committee of one to
wait on President Cleveland and inform
him that If he had really made error
it would be wiser to withdraw the nomina-
ton.
The President informed Mr.. Vest that
he would insist upon the nomination. The
nomination of Mr.. Eckels was confirmed.
He read the national banking act and
started to work. He found himself in
the center of trying scenes. Within a few
weeks after he took office national banks
began to fail. Within a single month
tn re were nearly as many failures as
occurred during the entire history of the
office He met the situation and meas
ured up to 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-21
How Admiral Evans Saved His Legs.


In the attack upon Fort Fisher Mid
shipman Evans, now Admiral, Fighting
Bob was shot. He was hit three times
before he fell. Then he was shot a fourth
time as he lay on the sand, and he saw
the sharpshooter getting ready for NTH
shot Bob felt that the proceedings were
becoming monotonous. and he addressed
a few emphatic remarks to that effect to
the sharpshooter. AS the remarks seemed
insufficient. he did u little sharpshooting
himself that ended the matter. But u
fate worse than death to Bob soon seemed
imminent, for he was taken to the hos
pital at Norfolk and he overheard the
surgeon in charge say to his assistant
Take both legs off in the morning Bob
slipped a revolver under his pillow and
waited with set teeth for the morning. He
was only Is and he felt that he had use
for those legs. When the assistant came
to prepare him for the operation, Bob at
first protested earnestly, but In vain.
Then he pulled his revolver from under
his pillow, and told the doctor that 1t had
six cartridges and that II anybody en-
tered the place with a case of instru-
ments six men would be killed before the
operation began. The legs were saved.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-21
SLOW PHILADELPHIA

Philadelphans who hope the traffic prob
lem will eventually be solved by the grow
ing expansion of the trolley.
Let it be understood that Phladel-
phians have not always rested content
under these conditions. From time to
time for years past there have been popu-
lar agitatlons for betterment of the har-
Dor and its facilities, but they always
have come to naught because only by
legislation could relief be had, and this
rested solely in the hands of railroad
elected and controlled politicians. 1t has
been the history of the machine-ridden
state that the political leaders have gone
hand in hand with THE Pennsy,' each
maintaing power through the other.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-21


People $ Savings Bank and Trust conn
pany, as,to my honestysfors my contractsl
Fully three-fourths. or my patients have
been treated by some one else before CALI
ang ON me to BIZ cured. Why not comesaa
soon, AZ afflicted You will save money!
distressing pain and valuable time: be-
aides, there Ia satisfaction In knowing
that the very BEST treatment Is being
sfventyoughy an honest. competent. phy1
nician3 ihnvs treated private troublea
e a speciality in the city OF Birmingham
Ala, since August q. 1887 1 cure all rnanI
Asr OF private diseases. T cure many pas
tisnts by rnaitrtreatment.4W Write for prioea
and tslsns.
/ do ,noth use large advertisements and
kaIse stat ementnt to attract patients swhioA
merit has failed to secure. IL you fail To
be c,rtds by such methods, give me q oa1&
and set well. A
My offices areg tho most private ana
quietAin the city tenth story of the new.
First ational bank building, corner OF
Sscom avenue and Twentieth street.
RoonHl 1909 and 1907. Take one of the fnG
elevations to tenth floor. 4
Office hours: $3.50 a. M to $40 ,. ~
0Waag M.a1~x,-L to Il m y
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REALM or COOKS


and other famous contests by the world S
great champions; classification of pug
lists and vocabulary of terms used in
boxing and pugiism. 1t is fully illus
trated by reproductions of pen sketches
of notable fistie battles with portraits of
famous champions and ex-champions, in
Guiding Sullivan, Corbett Fitzslmmons,
Wilson, Burns, O'Brien, Melody, Ryan.
Cans and others.
1.-THE Events Man." by Richard Barry.
Published by Moffat. Yard & Co.
In the preface of this new volume 'The
Events Man,, Mr.. Barry explains the
book in these words. This book is not
fiction, 1t is not war correspondence, not
history, not memoir. There is here the
portrait of a man painted ON the back
ground of a tale of romantic achieve
ment The man is Stanley Washburn, war
correspondent, writer of cable news for
a syndicate of the chief American
dailies"
Stanley Wahburn Is typical of the real
news-getter of the American press. little
known personally to the public, but re-
sponsible for the supreme news accom-
pishment of the world The background
of the story is the operation of the Chi
cago Daily News dispatch boat "Fawan"
through the months of March, April,
May and June of 1904 during the Russo
Japanese war. Victor +. Lawson, pro-
prietor and editor of the Daily News
stood behind the expedition with his pa
pers, his money and his influence. The
adventurous story here related under
the caption THE Events Man is one
of intense interest and is just as he told
1t to Richard Barry one summer in the
trenches of Manchuria.
A number of attractive books ON nature
study and outdoor life, published by the
Frederick A. Stokes company are "A
Guide to the Wild Flowers" by Alice
Lounsberry illustrated by fun page color
drawings by Mrs. Ellis Rowan the
worlds greatest painter of wild flowers,
Southern Wild Flowers and Trees" by
Alice Lounsberry with an introduction
by Chauncey D. Beadle, director of the
Biltmore Herbarium, Asheville, n. c.
1.-The Fern Collectors Guide" by Will
lard Nelson Clute, little volume de-
signed to aid the novice in telling the
name of any species of fern that he may
find IA Guide to the Trees" by Alice
Lounsberry, with an introduction by DIR.
Nathaniel L. Britton, director of the New
York Botanical Garden
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-21

1.-THE Turn of the Balance" by Brand
Whitlock. Published by The Bobbs- Mer-
rill Co.
1t will be remembered that Brand
Whitlock's first novel, The Thirteenth
District" has been called by President
Roosevelt, former President Cleveland
and Mr.. William Dean Howells, 1.-THE
best American political story that has
ever been written" In Mr.. Whltloeks
latest story 1.-THE Turn of the Balance"
just from the press in March, 1907, we
have another most remarkable story and
one strangely apropos, at the present
time. AS a preface a quotation is given
from William Dean Howells, describing
a boyish conflict in which the victor
felt abashed before the weeping, dis
tressed face which covered before him,
and ending with these lines: In fact
it seems best to be very careful how
we try TO do justice in this world, and
mostly to leave retribution of all kinds
to Cod who really knows about things,
and content ourselves as much as pos
STOLE with mercy. whose mistakes are
not so irreparable' While these quoted
lines give the keynote of the dominant
thought of the work, no doubt it is also
to be found in the widespread feeling in
lulS country that Justice Is HOT duinlll-
istered as it should be. This arraignment
of the law of our land as it is admins
tered today is expressed through many
channels and none more forcibly than
by means of the many forceful and
thoughtful editorials of our daily press.
The medium of fiction very naturally az
fords an appealing one for the presenta-
ton of a vital thought or crying need
and in 1.-THE Turn of the Balance" we
have most strikingly presented vivid
picture of the savage cruelty at the heart
of our boosted civilization today. The
human interest of the story clusters
around the bounded criminal and The
mserably poor, but the author reveals
a wonderful knowledge of all classes. of
society. including the rich and powerful.
The love story of Gordon Marriott and
Elizabeth Ward that is inspiring and APP
pealing in its purity and strength is
ray of sunshine in the story.
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