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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-06-06
New Preparatory School.

Huntsville, June 5.-(Special.)-Prof. S.
r. Butler, county superintendent of edu-
cation, has purchased a building lot on
Randolph street and will reject $4,000
school building. He will establish pre-
paratory school for boys and girls. The
new building cannot be finished by the
opening of the next session and tenn
porary quarters will be secured. The
announcement of Professor Buffers plans
will be received with interest in educa-
tional circles. There are several other
school projects on foot and they indicate
that Huntsville will soon become an ed
vocational center of greater Importance
than ever before.
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MEN To REPORT At
MILL NEXT MONDAY
Will Be Rolling Rails By
the 18th
FINE STREET DECORATIONS
EnsIey Intends to Do Her Share In
Giving the Veterans a Warm Wei
CONGRESSIONAL and Gen.
eral News.
FINE STREET DECORATIONS

Ensley June 5.-(Special.)-It is stated
that the several foremen at the steel
plant have been instructed to get the men
in their departments together by Monday
and report at the mill for duty. The
gas has been turned on the two new open
hearth furnaces to dry them out and the
other will be lit up Monday. 1t is under
stood the mill will be rolling rails by the
18th, as has been officially announced
heretofore. The blast will also be turned
on two more blast furnaces next week,
and it is predicted the entire plant will
be in full operation Monday week. A
prominent mill worker stated that when
the soaking pits are completed the plant
will be ready for operation in a couple
of days, and that the rail mill is superior
in equipment to any. mill In the coun-
try,
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Street Decorations Elaborate.

The decoration committee of the Com
mercial club, headed by w. r. Stewart,
president, are decorating the business
streets of Ensley. The Birmingham Rail
way, Light and Power company gave
them permission to use the railway poles
along Avenue E and Nineteenth street
for decorative purposes. Long stream
ers in national colors are extended the
full length of the poles, while the stars
and bars and stars and stripes are sus-
pended between the poles. giving a splen-
did effect.
The streets when finished will probably
surpass any street decorations in the
district. One of the prettiest decorations
is that of the Ell1s home, which is TASTE
fully decorated with national colors sur
rounding a pair of antlers, with an cleo
trio light in each prong in the center of
the building.
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NO, 4 ROBERTSTOWN
TO START MONDAY
BeSSemer Hopes Rolling Mill
Will Resume Soon
SONS Of VETERANS MEET
Many In Bessemer Pleased at News of
Browns Election In Georgia-Per-
sonaI and General News
of Bessemer
SONS OF VETERANS MEET

Bessemer, June 5-(Specal.)-It was re-
ported around the city this afternoon that
No. / furnace at Robertstown lad been
.put IN blast, but this proved to be an
error. However 1t was learned this even
ing from an authoritative source that No.
furnace would more than likely start
up on Monday. 1t has been mentioned
before that the coke ovens at Robertstown
are at work The news that a great many
men in Bessemer are looking forward to
at the present time is the news that the
rolling mill will resume operations. The
rolling mill affects particularly great
number of men that live in Bessemer
proper
w. w. Hollingsworth of the Bessemer
State bank said today II have, of course,
seen business lots better than it is at the
present time, still when everything is
taken into consideration | believe the
general outlook is very encouraging. | have
some business interests in both the states
OF Mississippi and Georgia, and the re-
ports l am receiving from these places
would tend to indicate that business is
slowly but surely on the mend
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PIPE CONCERN IS
BACK IN OPERATION
MATTE BRIDGES is FINED $500
ON CHARGE OF ASSAULT WITH
DEADLY WEAPoN-BOB PUGH
SUSTAiNS SHOCK.

Gadsden, June 5-(Specal. 1.-THE plant
of the Gadsden Pipe and Fittings coma
pany, now the property of the Coosa Pipe
and Foundry company, was put back in
operation yesterday after being idle some
six months or more. Five floors have
been placed in commission and so men
put on the pay rolls. 1t is said that the
remaining three floors will go in oper-
alton within a few days.
Matte Bridges, charged with assault
with intent to kill, was found guilty
of an assault with a deadly weapon in
the city court today and given a fine of
$500 by the jury. AS the woman will not
likely be able to pay her fine it will
mean two years for her at the county
farm.
While attempting to cut an electric
wire that had fallen across the track,
Bob Pugh, a fireman on Louisville and
Nashville engine No. so, received a severe
shock at Alfalfa yesterday
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Mrs. w. T. Edmondson, Jr., Mrs. j. A.
DuBose and Mrs. Belt White was
named. They will canvass the city next
week in connection with the membership
committee, which will continue in the
field.
The final examinations have come to a
close at the Alabama Presbyterian col
lege, and the following students have
been awarded grades of distinction in
their respective classes: Collegiate depart
ment, oliver Carmichael, 91.7; John Simp-
son, SSS: William A. Davis. S7.6; Hub
bard Carlton, IS. Preparatory depart
ment, Oscas Kilby, 939; Steptoe Keith,
92.S; Grady Kirby, S7.S
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Y. M. c. A. BANQUET
In Honor of the Membership Contest
Clubs.

New Decatur, June 5.-(Specal.)-A
banquet was given last night at the
Young Mems Christian association hail
in New Decatur in honor of the members
of the contest clubs of the association.
These clubs consist of the Reds and
the Blues" and each club is making an
effort to get more members than the OPP
posing club.
The banquet was attended by both
ladies and gentlemen, and it proved to
be one of the most enjoyable affairs OF
the season. Mayor Samuel Blackwell
acted as POSTMASTER and the following
toasts were responded to: THE Futui
Leaders of the Decaturs' w. w. Gala
han; 1.-THE Y. NJ C. A." Secretary Peake;
Greater Decaturs,' Mayor Henry A..
Skeggs of Decatur Toasts were also re-
sponded to by Prentiss Blackwell and
several others.
The menu was one of the best ever pre-
pared in the Decaturs and was arranged
entirely by the ladies.
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PLANS COMPLETED
FOR THE LIBRARY
FINAL EXAMINATIONS ARE MADE
AT PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE AT
NIsToN-GRADES OF DIsTINC-
TON ARE ANNOUNCED.

Admission. June 5.-(Special.)-A a
meeting held in the parlors of the Ala
bama hotel this morning, the organiza-
ton of the Admission Library association
was perfected, a constitution and bylaws
adopted and arrangements made for the
opening of subscription library by Sep
TENDER. This was the best attended and
most enthusiastic meeting of the asso-
citation yet held.
Mrs Louis Kidd, chairman of the MEM
bershp committee, reported that her
committee had made a very thorough
canvass of several parts of the city since
the last meeting, with the result that IS
new members have been added to the as
ISOLATION, making total of 147.
After Mrs. E. w. Ledbetter had made
her report on the constitution and by
laws, a book committee consisting of
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Vivian Notes.

Chief of Police Clint Eubanks captured
a blind tiger yesterday. or to speak more
correctly three of them. They were of
the walking variety, sometimes designated
''bootleggers.' They gave their names as
Henry Butler. Bob Chapman and Pat
Coleman, all negroes Mayor J. e. Nolan
fined Chapman $1OO and 80 days extra,
continued the case against Coleman, and
discharged Butler on unsufficiency of evil
dence.
Henry Lynch has been appointed mine
foreman at No. s, vice James Johnson,
resigned. Mr.. johnson leaves for Texas
in a few days.
The Board of Education will meet Mon
day to adjust differences about the teach
ers' salaries. The board is composed of
Mayor Nolan, Joseph Martin, Peter Neill
and William Muir
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Personal and General

An enjoyable dance was given al the
Hippodrome this evening. The dancing
set went out in large numbers The
music was furnished by the Bessemer
Lara and the boys made a good i'm
preston. Refreshments were served
during the intermissions and the larg-
est crowd of the season was on hand A
special car was provided and the dane
ers returned to the city at late nour,
thoroughly tired but happy.
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wife of former Mayor Scott, will regret
10 learn that she is very sick at her home
on Ensley Highlands.
31r. H. C. Kilgore will leave tomorrow
Tor Pueblo, Colo, having secured a posi-
ton with the steel works at that point.
Mr. r. c. Hoehn. who was injured by
a fall from his engine, continues to inn
prove.
F. M Grner and A c. Tice are in
Tuscaloosa visiting friends.
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Burial In Columbus.

Columbus, Miss, June 5.-tSpecial.)-
The remains of Mrs. Emma Dancy, who
died in Atlanta Tuesday, were buried
from the arrival of the Southern train
here at noon today. Mrs. Dancy is re-
called by the older residents.
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ST. BERNARD COLLEGE.
Commencement Exercises viii Be
Held June 1917.

st. Bernard, June 5-CSpeclal)-lhe siA-
tenth annual commencement exercises OF
st. Bernard college will be held June ID
and II. Following is the programme for
the occasions:
Tuesday evening, June 16-"Richelieu, or
the Conspiracy" A drama in five acts,
under the auspices of st. Bernard dra-
matte club
Wednesday morning. June 1l-Com-
mencement exercises. Solemn high mass
coram Episcopo, 8 a. M Salutatory ad-
dress Comforting of degrees, Awarding
of medals. Distribution of premiums.
Valedictory. Address to tie students by
the Rt Rev. e. P. Allen, ID. d., blshop
eof Mobile.
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Reception to DR.. Lovett.

Daphne. June b. Especial "A re-
ception was rendered DIR. ]. A. B.
Lovctt. retiring president of the Daphne
State Normal school. at the Mckenzie
hotel tonight. DR.. Loyett has worked
hard for the successful establishment
of this school.
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Grand Fireworks Display.
Alabama State Fair Grounds.
Pains Celebrated Fireworks
Company will give two mag
nificent displays of fireworks
Tuesday, June 9, and Thurs
day, June II, $50 p. m. Gen
eral admission, 25 cents. Re-
served seats, 30 cents. Tickets
on sale Florence Hotel Cigar
Stand. All ex-Confederate SOL
diers admitted free of charge.
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Did you stop and think about this? Where
is the money you have been earning all these years?
You spent it and somebody else put it in the bank.
Wouldn't it have been better for you to put your
money in the bank for yourself and not let the other
man save what you earn? Is it fair to let him
your money? Start account with this bank and
have your money to your credit when you need it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-06-06
Grand Fireworks Display.
Alabama State Fair Grounds

Alabama State Fair Grounds.
Pains Celebrated Fireworks
Company will give two mag
nificent displays Of fireworks
Tuesday, June 9, and Thurs
day, June II, $3.50 p. m. Gen.
eral admission, % cents. Re-
served seats, 80 cents. Tickets
on sale Florence Hotel Cigar
Stand. ALI Confederate sol
diers admitted free of charge.
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You are liable to an attack of some form
of Bowel Complaint and should provide
yourself with the best known Remedy.
Dr. Seth Arnold's Balsam. Warranted
by Jacobs Pharmacy.
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Official.

Decorations and signs for Vets, Please
send your orders early. Low prices. Her
mitage, signs, city. 5-31-tf
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]. Finley Howard, who was convicted
at Andalusia this week and given a sem
tence of 80 years in the penitentiary, has
been brought to Montgomery, pending an
appeal to the supreme court AS the
court will not be able to get to his case
this term, no decision will be reached
until next winter. In the meantime ne
will have to STAY in jail.
The San Francisco call., 1908-08-24
DEL MONTE COLE sCHEDIrI,U

The schedule for Del Monte golf
tournament is as follows:
Monday, August 31-9:3o a. m.-Del Monte
cup for men; qualifying rounds over SO holes,
medal play. the best 10 scores to follow first
Tuesday, September 1880 a. m-Del Monta
cup for men; first match round over 1S holes
with handicap. 2:15 p. m.--Del Monte cup for
men; second match round over 18 holes with
handicap 2:30 p. m.-Del Monte Gun for
women; qualifying round over is holes medal
play, best eight to qualify.
Wednesday, September 2-9:30 a. m-Del
Monte cup for men; seminal match round over
'lS holes. with handicap 10 a. m-Del Monte
cup for women; first match round, over IS holes
with handicap.
Thursday, September $3.50 a. m.-Del
Monte cup for men; final round first Is holes
with handicap. 10 a. m.-Del Monte cup for
women; semihnal match round over is holes
with handicap. 2:50 p. m.--Del Monte cum
for men; final round, second Is holes with handi-
cap.
Friday, September 4-10 a. m-Del Monte
cup for women: final round, over Is holes
match play. with handicap. 2:30 D. m-Handi
cap mixed foursomes, over IS holes, medal play
Saturday, September 5--9:30 a. m.-Consoa
tion event for who failed to reach fnal
round of cup competition; handicap. over so
holes. medal play. 10 a. m.--Consoiation event
for women who failed to reach final round
OF cup competitions: handicap over is holes
medal play 2:30 p. m.-Consolation event for
men; second is holes, ties in either cousola
ton events TO be settled over Is holes IN
Sunday. September 6, or Monday Septemher
as the competitors may agree
The San Francisco call., 1908-08-24
MAGOON READY TO
SEE CUBANS RULE
Provisional Governor Tells Taft
People Are Qualified for
Self=GOvernment
Vote on Proposed Law for Tele-
phone Lines Favors Gov
ernment Ownership


HOT SPRINGS, Va, Aug 23.-Charles
=. Magoon, provisional governor of
,Cuba, talked today with Judge Taft
regarding conditions in Cuba.
That the people of Cuba are qualified
Tor self government is the positive as
serHon of Governor Magoon. He said
the complicated law which has Just
Deen put into practical operation in
the island was a rigid but successful
test OF Cuban intelligence. He indi-
Gated that the Cuban people were
heartily in favor of government own
ershlp of public utilities. They now
own the telegraph lines, and the test
OF the popular will recently made on
the question of private concessions for
telephone lines, he believes, demon
strated their desire for government
ownership.
The test referred to was made at
the suggestion of President Roosevelt
and consisted in the submission to the
81 provinces of the draft of a law
which, If approved and enacted, would
have resulted, according to Governor
Magoon, in the telephone business of
the island going into the hands of the
present Havana telephone company
The concession of this company expires
in 1910, whereupon the telephone lines
and plant of the company in that city
will revert to the Cuban government
Governor Magoon left tonight for
Oyster Bay, where he will see the presi-
dent on Tuesday.
The San Francisco call., 1908-08-24
Hayes and Rose Given
Big Ovation
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL

NEW YORK, Aug. 23.-More than
10000 persons cheered themselves
hoarse when little Johnny Hayes of
the Irish-American athletic club, who
recently captured the Olympic Mara
thon race in London, gave half mile
exhibition run this afternoon at the
eccentric firemen's games at Celtic
park.
Never in the history of the park was
such crowd gathered within its gates
and seldom was such an ovation ac-
corded an athlete. Every inch of room
in the stands was filled and thousands
were unable to see more than the
heads and shoulders of those in front
of them, but despite this they yelled
as vociferously as the more fortunate
ones in the stands and on the rail-
Previous TO his run the hero of the
Olympiad was carried around the park
on the shoulders of a dozen of his
clubmates, led and followed by bands
which played the national anthem.
Another Olympian winner who was
honored was Ralph Rose, the California
shot putter, who heaved the IL pound
iron ball the unprecedented distance of
90 feet inches, beating his own world
mark by three inches.
The San Francisco call., 1908-08-24
GENSEA LEADS FLEET
BricknelI's Speedy Yacht First
in COrinthian Handicap Race

j. c. BrickneH's speedy yacht, Cen
sea, won the annual handicap regatta
OF the Corinthian yacht club yesterday
afternoon. 1t made the start at 1905
and finished at 2:27. Close behind
sailed the Vixen and the Mike. The
former started at IL and finished at
2:19, and the latter started at 1888
and finished at 2:22:30
The race was over the regular handi-
cap course. The boats started at the
Belvedere cove and cruised around the
Goat island buoy, then out to the shoal
buoy and back to the starting point
The race was pretty one all the way,
and was viewed by many of the mem
following six yachts finished after the
first three: Pronto. started at 1905,
finished at 2:l9i Kathleen, started at
1920, finished at 2:25:15; Discovery.
started at 1928, finished at 2:23:10:
Speedwell, started at 1891. finished at
2:51:0 Yankee. started at 1894, fin
ished at 2:31:20; Presto, started at
1885, finished at 2:27:01.
The San Francisco call., 1908-08-24
The Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous

held by the same car of five miles in
o:19, made at Sacramento The fastest
mile was 1:02. one of the two fastest
miles of the day.
In the % mile free for all the
Stearns led in all but the first and fif-
teenth lap UP to the close of the eight
eenth, when Driver Bonney hugged the
turn into the home stretch too close
and caught board of the fence in
his rear wheel. A bad spill was mar
rowly averted. and the car had to
drop out Summary:
% mile. motorcycles-Thor Chelinf driver.
won In 27:lS. fastest mile 1:O2% Curtis. Kars-
lake, second.
10 miles. cars 1880 or undet-Comet won.
Buick second. Time. HOS and IL :OS. respec-
lively: fastest mile, Comet 1:02. Lambert dis
tanced.
Five miles, $500 list or under-Comet
won, Buick second. Time, Sal 2-5 and 5:44
fastest mile, Comet 1:06 2-5; Buick los.
One mile novelty. engines dead. operators
100 yards in rear, to and start engines
stop on starting line, operators run 100 yards
ahead-Comet won, :55; Aut0car second 2:l2.
Buick third. 2:02 Is.
10 miles. cars s.. 500 hst-Stearns won. White
second. Peerless third. Time 1904; fastest
mile 1:02.
25 mile free for alI-Stoddard DAYTON won
ave other cars did not finish. Time, Pest The
comet broke Its record, a mile in :59 with
mile IN :5S In this race.
The San Francisco call., 1908-08-24
BRYAN REALIZES
HIS HARD TASK
Declares, However, He Never
Entered Fight With More
Hope of Victory
Democratic Candidate Plans
Speaking Campaign in East
and Middle West

CHICAGO, Aug. 23-Now that William
]. Bryan has set his seal of approval
upon the plans made by the democratic
national committee to work for his
election, the democratic campaign may
be said to be in that period of transit
ton in which practical organization is
completed and the skirmish fire of the
battle has begun.
There will be a meeting of the ma
tional- committee and subcommittee
and Bryan September to consider
where the line of action taken is prov
ing effective.
To the national committeeman and
friends who spoke to Bryan of the
hard struggle that Chairman Mack and
the campaign managers had outlined,
he replied:
Il realize the task ahead of me and
what it means. 1 am not minimizing
the demands that 1 know will be made
upon me, but 1 feel that can do what
is expected of me, for my health is
fine, and 1 never entered a fight with
more hope of victory 1t is the peo-
pies fight, and to battle for them gives
added courage and strength in the try
ing hours of a campaign"
Political developments in the last "a
hours since Bryan's arrival here show
that the managers of the democratic
campaign have put the fight into the
hands of Bryan and the people. Bryan
has already made two speeches-his
address of notification and the tariff
speech at Des Moines-and this week
will find him making several speeches
in the middle west, where Chairman
Mack has decided to make the main
fight of the campaign.
New York is to be invaded, and in all
possibility New Jersey, Delaware,
Maryland and West Virginia, and in
these states, as well as in Indiana, Ill
inois and Ohio, the democratic candi-
date will make his principal struggle
for victory. After Bryan has chosen
each of the several planks of the party
platform as the theme of an extended
speech he will, in speeches to be made
later in the campaign, elucidate upon
these various subjects in greater detail
The San Francisco call., 1908-08-24
SHOTS ATTRACT CROWD
OF MIDNIGHT Jewellers
Argument of Three Men Ends
When One Draws Gun and
Fires in Street

Three pistol shots fired in rapid sue
cession at o'clock yesterday morning
in the heart of the new tenderloin dis
trIct at Ellis and Mason streets added
considerable excitement to the revelry
going on within the nearby cafes. Three
young men arguing in no soft tones ap-
preached Stacks cafe on Ellis street
and as the remarks grew warmer one
OF the trio attempted to strike his COM
panion. The misdirected blow caused
one of the party to draw revolver
which he fired into the street.
The shots were plainly heard at the
police station and a squad of policemen
rushed around the corner
A large crowd, composed OF the mid
night reyelers, had gathered on the
scene, but the trio had disappeared.