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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-06-05
WELCOME FOR FLEET.
Great Festivities Await Arrival of the
American Warships.

Auckland, June 4.-Festivities to last
over four days have been arranged for
the entertainment of the American bat
tleship fleet, and the governor of New
Zealand and all federal officials, the
mayors and the municipal authorities are
to participate in the welcome. On the
arrival of the American fleet August TO-
there will be an informal reception and a
review of the volunteers. to be followed
by dinner to the admirals and officers
OF the fleet in the evening. A municipal
welcome will he given the following day,
and will include a reception by the mayor
of Auckland
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DEATHS AND FUNERALS,
Joseph Morrill,.

Joseph Merrill son of DR.. and Mrs. c..
A. Merrill, died yesterday afternoon at
1907 Seventh avenue, north. Funeral SER
vices will be held this afternoon at /
O'Clock at the family residence, 60O1 First
avenue Woodlawn.
The deceased was student at the Biz
mingham High school and numbered
many friends in the district. He was also
connected with the delivery department
of the Birmingham News for several
years His death was somewhat unex-
pected
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-06-05
CONGRESSMAN WILEY MUCH
BETTER At HOT SPRINGS

Hot Springs, Va, June 4.-Congressman
A, A. Wiley of Alabama arrived here to-
day from Washington. Aside from a
severe attack of rheumatism, for which he
has come to take the baths, Mr.. Wiley is
telling very we'll He is accompanied by
Mrs. Wiley and their son. Lieut.. n. J.
Wiley, and his family
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Joseph McAnaIy.

Joe McAnaly, the 13-year-old boy who
was hurt at Bangor Wednesday after
noon by belt flying off cotton gin and
crushing his skull and chest, and who
was brought to Birmingham for treat
ment. ,succumbed to his injuries early yes
terday morning. His remains were sent
to Bangor at 3:15 o'clock yesterday aft
crnoon by Shaw & Son for interment
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Inez Crawford.

Inez Crawford the 12-year-old daugh-
ter of Mrs May Crawford died yesteT-
day at Avenue / and Twenty-seventh
street. Funeral services will be held this
afternoon at the family residence, 1901
Fourth avenue and interment will be in
Elmwood cemetery.
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Green Undertaking Co., \
: wallace c. Johns. Manager,
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E. 7. Shaw & Son, undertaRers.
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Balbriggans with long or short
sleeve shirts. Drawers to
match, all sizes. Also odd suits
of colored Balbriggans.
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these days hope to find one so badly
mutilated that 1 can refuse It, II l do,
though. we'll have to call the ambulance.
for he certainly will drop to the floor
with heart failure
I'VE may say Step lively there. please"
and Wait until the car stops and a
bushel Of other things that anger you
passengers" said a conductor on local
traction car yesterday, but just let me
tell you that If the average strap-hanger
had to put up with the things We do he'd
last about one trip-and I doubt whether
it would be round trip at that!
Let me tell you one as a little sample.
1t was harmless. admit. but there amt
none of US in this world free from i'm
patience and hot temper. And when the
merry ha-ha comes at you from every
last passenger on the car you can't help
losing your patience and wishing you
were anything else in the world but
fare puncher.
The other day my car was approach
in; certain high school in the city when
a dainty little miss signaled for 1t to stop.
She placed one foot on the running board
of the platform and grasped the handle to
step aboard. There was 1 awaiting at the
church with my hand on the bell cord,
ready to give the signal to go ahead.
And there stood the young lady with one
foot on the running board and the other
on the ground She stood stock still and
began to count:
"'One-two-three-fou
Il tried to say Step lively but I
couldn't do a thing but stand with my
mouth open and look at her: l was
locoed for fair.
"She finished counting up to thirteen.
bent over slowly and tied her shoe. and
then yelled something that sounded like
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"a,

night stands on the part Of acting people
who have never found out what real
work, real hardship, real fatigue is.
could never figure out why an actor
should get the idea into his head. as SO
many Of the later crop of them do, that
merely because he is an actor he there
fore is and should be above or immune
from the necessity of working. of stand
ing the gaff of life as other men stand 1t.
Of taking his medicine as other men take
theirs. OF taking even something approx
mating a sporting chance that he'll be-
come tired and sleepy.
"Why, take even a large class of the
chorus women-there are scores Of them
who could hardly be driven out of New
York with q gatling gun. If they can't
get engagements in New York well. then,
they won't play. SO there now. OF course.
the time inevitably speeds along when
they simply must quit New York If they
expect to make living-just as the time
arrives when nobody particularly wants
them to leave New York or to continue
their stage activities anywhere else.
We're always hearing a good deal
about the vast number of actors and ac-
tresses who are out of work in New York
Included in this class of voorhees, ones
are. of course, many who. If they could
catch on would go anywhere. and will
ingly. But. on the other hand. there are
fairish engagements comprising one
night stands are offered them, turn
up their noses at these offers of work.
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policemen. With drawn guns they ad-
vanced on the heap of black in the back
room, peering into corners for any pos
sible Dorsey Foultz who might be lurking
there.
The sergeant bent over the huddled heap
Of black and Strengthened with q foolish
grin on his face.
"'Taint nothin' but an overcoat," he
said.
My overcoat.' supplemented the bleary-
eyed photographer person. Guess l had
q little too much to drink he continued.
land when l came in tonight threw my
overcoat down after I had stumbled over
more picture frames than I ever dreamed
were in my boss shop"
:. x * X *
Not many moons ago poker game was
pulled off in one of the clubs of the city
which caused prominent merchant to
wander home in the wee small hours. Nor
is that all. Excuses were in order to
molify wiley. and of course-but listen
At half-past o'clock on the morning of
that game the young merchant had &C.
quired a pile of red, white and blue chips
which to see over he was compelled to
stand up. They represented about $500
velvet
He knew that in the cause of domestic
tranquility he should he going home but
called off then member of the House of
Representatives dropped a verbal pearl to
the effect that eff you've got cold feet,
puN 'em right up here in my bosom an
warm EN-"
There was no drawing out for the mer
ing he found his pile had grown to dou-
bile its size and he cashed in about 500 to
the good.
After he had gone to the Turkish bath,
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explained the old gentleman pointing In
the direction of demure cloak mode.
The floor walker Immediately saw the oh
Ject, but said nothing. and retained
wonderful gravity OF expression.
Il asked her to show me the way to the
shoe department continued the old gem
tleman. and she only smiled. Wouldn't
even answer. It's disgraceful.''
The floor walker said omething about
attending to the dummy and choked
back tear while he reverently led the
customer to the shoe department.
!; X &
Seeking redress for domestic troubles a
negro woman who resembled nothing so
much as she did the before taking half
Of an anti-fat remedy appeared at the Of
flee of one of the local Judges few days
ago.
Use wronged woman" she Kissed in
a give-me- back-those- papers Jack-Dalton
voice. "Ah wants redress"
What's the trouble?' inquired the SYM
pathetic judge.
ITS bout NAH ole man. He's done
been caayin' on high wifi lot NV deese
young niggah gals, an its got haad
twill I don see him more'n once a week.
Somepins got t be done
The judges eye held a crafty scam.
You are seeking a divorce-a legal sep
aration?" he questioned.
Go long. man. Divo'ce nothin Think
I'm gwine t gin i'm what he wants and
low dat man who, dispite all his cussed-
ness is de handsomest niggah I'm Willow
Tree alley t go skyhootin' roun' mong
dem gals? Ma sab, | doan want no di-
voice ner dat legal septitution yers talk
in bout. What l wants is "a injunction
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'Alpha-some recon- Omega skidoo."
Then she wheeled about and ran to the
sidewalk. where she was greeted by howls
of delight and approval from about
dozen girls who had been watching her.
We'll. the motorman had to come all
the way down the car and wake me be-
fore I knew where l was at. When
came to the passengers were splitting
their sides laughing. and the fresh young
guy on the back platform with the ciga-
rette stuck between his teeth kidded me
without my having the nerve to answer
him back even one.
For a week was plumb loony over
the thing, and l used to wake up in the
middle Of the night and wonder why that
young girl did it, for she was nice look
ing miss and not bit loud. Honest. it
got to be a regular nightmare with me.
And here this morning on my car heard
two Of those hooray guys with the dinky
little college caps talking about something
called sorority being installed at the
high school, and then they told about
seeing one of the pledged girls (what-
ever that means) being compelled to do
the same running board stunt on another
carline. Then l tumbled that it must be
part of the imitation for some secret So
ciety-but It's a darn phool stunt. let me
tell you that
A beSpectacled old gentleman who had
wandered into department store down
town several days ago approached floor
walker and with an irate look in his near
sighted eyes said:
Il want to know why you don't dis
cipline your young ladies?''
The floor walker was slightly puzzled.
Discipline them?" he asked. II don't
quite understand. What for?'
You see that young lady over there?"
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seas wash this American land. Between
those two seas there are a good many
burgs that require and are willing to pay
for theatrical entertainment. Some OF
them want the best and will pay the best
rates a-going for the best. Why should
they not have it?
Time was, and not so many years ago,
either. when the biggest people in the the
atrical profession took their overnight
stand medicine uncOmplainingly. Edwin
Booth did many long series OF one-nighe
stands John Mccullough played one
night stands-and the measliest kind of
intervening jumps-every season almost
up to the time he was compelled to quit
the stage. Mary Anderson never f1inched
from the punches of one-night stands that
were booked for her. Fanny Davenport,
who, fer several years before her death,
was anything but a strong woman. played
months and months of one-night stands
without a murmur.
Lawrence Barrett, never robust man,
took the plenteous -night-stand book
ing that they dished out To him without
a grimace. Sarah Bernhard did gobs of
one-night stands nearly every time she
visited this country. Henry Irving did
one-night stands in England for years
before he ever got into London theater,
and he did one-night stands in this coun
try, too. Robert Mantell did almost
twenty years of one-night stands before
he took his rank as a Shakespearean act
or-may be doing some of them yet, for
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demand that they do her legislative bid
ding or be cr-r-rushed and r-r-r-ruined.
and who sweeps with Messalina stride
through the corridors OF the Capitol.
whitening her enslaved lawmaking vic
tins with her baleful glares and at the
Now. there are old and shrewd and
tired men working in the midst of public
affairs in Washington who would give al
most anything in reason to have look
at just one of these superb creatures.
at just one of these superb creatures,
The only woman lobbyists they ever see
in or around the Capitol are tie occasion
al pitiable old women in seedy black
and twisty bonnets who intercept Sc majors
and representatives in the Railways to
invoke their aid in pushing purely mag
mary claims through Congress. The
tgress type OF woman lobbyist. who
scratches perfumed matches wherewith
to light her inevitable cigarette on the
high French heel of her lace-hidden
shoe, is as much an actual figure OF the
real life Of Washington as the dodo is
In modern ornitholosy. Only, unlike the
dodo she never was
But right along, every year. session
after session, men come to Washington
to attend to matters before Congress.
They represent certain interests, and they
make no bones whatever about acknOwl
edging 1t. Very often they come to
Washington upon the invitation of Con-
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They'll rstarve, but they won't do the
one-night stands. That, I think. is a
species of timidity. to call it by no
more emphatic name, which plainly does
not merit the pouring out of any sym
pathy for its exhibitors.
1.-The average actor. il ought to be I'M
derstood. has plenty of opportunity to rest
himself. good many of them, when 1t
comes to that have too many chances to
rest themselves. If what you see at the
agents offices tells any story. Those.
however. who are fortunate enough to
have engagements right along through the
seasons. have several months between
seasons in which to recuperate their phys
fcal forces. They have far more time
to pull themselves together physically
than the great bulk of men who perform
far more arduous labor than ever falls
to the lot of the actor. Therefore when Il
man of the stage gets into harness he
ought to be fit enough-granting him COOL
health. and most actors, you'll observe
are healthy-and willing enough to stand
for anything in the way of stage work
that comes his way, even if it revolves
one night-stand sprinting all the way
from Butte to Tucson and back again.
1T wasn't any disgrace in the old years
TO do one-night stands, and il isn't any
disgrace now. To my mind. the disgrace
consists in Sinking them. if it's still con
sidered disgrace for a man to shrk any
part of his work and I think IL is.
The Broadway stage barnacles create
within me a sensation Of distinct and I'M
miStakable WEAKNESS"
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81 per seat to see her. The actress, arriv-
ing in the town in her private car. took
look at the place out of her car window
and approved it not. for soft-coal towns
don't look particularly attractive out or
car window in the gray of the morning.
She decided that she wouldn't play there.
Some rumor Of this determination got
about, and the towns newspaper sent
representative to the actress on her car
to ask her about 1t. Absurd, she said.
With her hand on her heart she told
the newspaper interviewer that she'd
never entertained thought of not play
ing in the town at the opening Of the
new theater that night. The newspaper
printed this reinsurance. and it was all
right. The folks with the tickets got
themselves up in their best and went to
the gaIa-decorated theater. Then the
actress understudy appeared The news
paper had to come out on the following
day and apologize for having been mis-
led into misleading its readers. If the
atrical people of repute expect to get
away with those kinds of things without
irreparably, damaging the business from
which they extract a livelihood, what's
the use?
II merely recte this recent incident as
a method of showing in what regard the
moderns of the acting profession seem to
hold the one-night stands. / confess that
1T has a tendency to enrage me TO hear
all of this foolish talk about the one
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Doesn't the sun shine on either one
side or the other of Broadway every day
In the year when it's working? Sure!
Very well, then!
And isn't travelling on railway trains
just too mean and dusty and clinkery
and tiresome for anything? 1t is! All
right, then!
And doesn't the change in drinking
water and in diet incident to travelling
play hob with fellows innards? Yep-ee!
Well?
That's about their view 1t wouldn't
be SO inviting subject for comment II
only the big toads in the theatrical pud
die felt this way about 1t. But stage folk
Of all grades have of late years felt that
they're imposed upon by their managers
If they are sent out of New York at all.
They even object, IL you please, if they're
asked to make little tour of the major
cities, such as Chicago. Boston, Phila-
delphia, and SO on. And as for actual one
night stands-why, they'd die first, they
say!
Recently an English actress-distin-
gu1shed for her temper as well as for her
acting-gave d one-night-Stand audience
a slap in the face that makes an old
timer feel ashamed-well, no, not of his
profession, but that there should be such
bad-mannered people in that profession.
She was scheduled to open new theater
in Maryland town of considerable size.
All hands in the town had given up their
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~ He Broadway only actors and
actorines had still another chance
to rap the one-night stanos
when an actress of some note suf-
fered a sudden physical collapse in a
Louisiana town recently. owing to the
hardships and fatigues of playing one
night stands as the theatrical journals
expressed it." observed an adipose char-
acter comedian, a veteran who gained his
first stage experience while attached to a
stage coach outfit Of troupers touring the
mountain towns of California.
It's pretty nigh time for somebody to
come to the front for the one-night stands.
i don't play them any more; haven't for
years, but If the 'exigencies of booking,
as we say, We're to make it necessary for
me to hike out tomorrow morning with a
properly-managed one-night-stand outfit,
I'd be at the station with my bag at the
appointed hour. and / believe | wouldn' t
let grouchy chirp out of me from the
beginning to the end of the tour, either.
Il did my trick-a long one-at the one
night stands. / expected to serve my time
at that work when l got into the acting
business. One-night stands are part of
the acting game. All hands can't Toll
through all their days on Broadway. Man
haitian Island isn't the United States. Two
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istered mail the deed to his Thousand
Islands property which he had been
obliged to sacrifice to pay his debts.
Forthwith the senator took up the lobby
lists measure and finally damned 1t
through. This is the usual type of the
lobbyist tale of the panic of '73.
There are scores. hundreds, even thou
sands Of lobbyist stories. most of them
in a sort of perpetual. hereditary circula-
ton in the west and south. that are who'll
ly and ridiculously unbelievable by any
sane man familiar with legislative condi-
lions in Washington at this or any pre-
vious period. AS a matter Of fact. many
Of the yarns are more or less exaggerated
ard elaborated and befrilled stories OF
lobbyist happenings in connection with
corrupt state legislatures adapted to nom
existent conditions in Washington.
The mythical woman lobbyist in Wash
ington. too. has been ludicrously exploit
ed-very often in novels and plays that
pretend to portray official and legislative
Washington. The woman lobbyist is
generally strapping, queenly person.
with inky masses of hair and flashing
black eyes-the conventional stage adj
ventures of the "ten-twent.-thirt.' the
atrical circuit-who holds the destinies
Of dozens of madly infatuated senators
and repre- sentatives in the palm of her
lily hand: who visits them in their home
libraries in the middle of the night to
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obscurity and, as rule. in poverty.
Whatever influence they had ever en-
joyed and used for their own profit had
been taken away from them.
Around these few men clustered the
vast bunch of big-money stories in this
connection that have been handed down
through the years. Most Of these yarns
are absurdly incredible. The late John
Chamberlin, than whom no man of his
day knew more of the inside doings Of the
Washington of his time, used to lie back
in his big chair and laugh until his sides
ached when these mar. ltives were re-
peated in his presence.
For example, there is the old, fraZzled
yarn of the poor but stubborn represent
alive in Congress whose vote was badly
needed in connection with certain Pa
cif1c railroad legislation. He took dinner
with the sO-termed Pacific railroad lob
byist one evening. The lobbyist helped
him on with his overcoat when he took
his departure Out in the street the poor
but pig-headed representative dug his
hand into mis- right-hand overcoat pocket
to get his gloves. Instead of his gloves
he found some things in that pocket that
cracked most pleasantly. He took the
pleasantly cracking things out of the
pocket and carried them to the light Of
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of squeezing a penny until the eagle
screams. it gets to be vastly different
proposition parsimonious, it might be

of squeezing a penny until the eagle
screams. 1t gets to be a vastly different
proposition parsimonious. it might be
called.
dispensing stamps and postcards. etc, to
the secretaries and stenographers OF the
various representatives, when along came
one of them who has always counted MS
change carefully in purchasing from U.S.
We rather admired this in him and con-
sidered 1t evidence Of his business ability
and keen loyalty to his employers inter-
ests. He registered a letter for cents
and bought two 2-cent stamps. paying
for them from handful of dimes and
nickels and pennies he had i'm his pocket
I confess / was careless about the matter
and merely glanced at what he gave me
be fore showing it in the drawer.
"An hour later the same secretary hur-
ried to the window and asked for me.
"'You remember when you sold 1ne
register stamp and two 2-cent stamps
about an hour ago? Well, You know.
was not paying much attention to what
I was doing. and I always know just eX-
actly how much money etc.
after a fifteen-minute explanation I
finally understood that he had given me
IL cents instead of IL cents-and he want
ed that other penny back! Think or II!
was on the point Of telling him to wait
until we had checked up for the day. just
for fun. when 1 could have told whether
or not my cash drawer contained cent
more than would be required for the bal
ance But the smokers Of the rest of the
fellows in the room got me going and
had to get rid of the tight-wad secretary
right away or burst out laughing right be-
fore him. l dug down in my own jeans
and pulled up the desired copper. which
he took without delay. almost with avid
tty When he buys now I examine every
piece of money he passes to me. One of