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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-02-02
DECLINE IN LUMBER
SHOWN IN REPORT
THE AVERAGE OF OPERATION FOR
THE MONTH OF JANUARY is
ONLY FIVE DAYS IN EIGHTY.
ONE MILLS.

Hattiesburg, Miss, February 1.-(Spe-
cial 1.-The incredible decline in the lum-
Der operations of South Mississippi is
shown officially in a monthly report just
issued by E. A. Walker secretary of
the Mississippi Pine association, who
shows that of 81 mills reporting to him
the average of operation was only five
days during the month of January. The
total production was only S.9S1.3s5 feet.
but as to 69 mills reporting there was
an increase of stock on hand of per
cent, the total stock ON hand being 81
913,52S feet, which is unusually low for
the time of year. The total shipments
for the month to all points was 1915, 533
while the total sales was about 100000
feet less than the shipments. During the
month tie export shipments amounted to
7,S94009 feet, and the sales for export
were per cent less than that amount
The salvation of the mills has been the
export trade, which in some respects has
been quite active. During last week from
the point of Moss Point there were Il
sells cleared, carrying a total of 900, 0o1
to various parts of the world.
ecretary Walker announces that the
li-annual meeting of the Mississippi
ie association will be held on Marcn
at the Hotel Hattiesburg in this city
that time the election for the year
! take place. Set papers will be read
- men prominent in the lumber world.
S. n. AGREE, vice president Of the
o-Hoo, has arranged for a coneatena-
of that order at the same time.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-02-02

of Anadir and the Sea of Oktohotosk to
Vladivostock, the eastern terminus of the
Trans Siberian railway.
From Vladivostock the line of the
Trans Siberian railroad would be fol-
lowed, as being of the least resistance,
through Irkutsk to Moscow, a distance
of 1900 miles, thence to Berlin, over the
same route as the Peking- Paris race, a
distance of 1925 miles, and to Paris, $50
miles, making the total for the distance
measured in air-lines ON the atlas 1916
miles, although by the roundabout ways
the machines will have to take In many
places the distance travelled will proba-
bly, reach $4,000 or 10000 miles.
There have been automobile races for
short distances that have brought out
marvels of speed. There have been races
for long distances that have proved mar
! wells of endurance of men and machinery.
There have been men who have crossed
the great American continent in automo-
biles, taking in the first instance three
months and In the last eighteen days:
but the greatest of all feats with the au-
tomobile up to this time is the race of
the machines from Picking, China, to
Paris, last summer. a distance of $500
| miles through the widest kind of coun-
| try. which took two months to cover.
+, 1t was the success of the Peking-Paris
| race that led to the greatest of all races
which is soon to start.
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the toughest nut he ever had to crack
during his entire experience.
What, then, can be expected OF the
balance of the journey, which will con-
tinue through the Rockies, up through
British Columbia in the Yukon territory
of Alaska to Dawson, a distance of 1900
miles through a country the greater part
of which has never been traversed by
wheeled vehicles, but knows only the
sleds drawn in small trains by dogs?
From Dawson the route will continue
over a fairly good government road
through to Fairbanks, where 1t ends,
and thence to Cape Prince of Wales, on
Boring Straits, a distance of 80 miles, If
possible, the strait will be crossed on the
ice.
No definite plan has as yet been made
for crossing the strait although it is more
than probable that the race will be start
ed at such time in the spring as will adj
nit of the machines reaching the strait
when it is navigable and they can be
taken to East Cape on the Siberian side.
a distance .of about 80 miles.
From East Cape there are two tentative
routes both of which would lead on to
IrxutslS, distance of $500 miles. They
can skirt the Arctic ocean for a distance
of a THOUSAND miles to Olensk, and then
run almost due south to Irkutsk, or they
can run down the shore line of Berine
Sea around Holy Cross Bay and the Gull
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to and bought a considerable number of
tickets but on the evening of the con-
cert the large block of seats purchased
by white people was conspicuously vacant.
Northern white people would seem to be
more interested in the distant southern
negro than in the negro at them doors.
Before / take up the cruder and more
violent expressions of prejudice on the
part of the lower class of white men i'll
the north | want to show the beginnings
of the cold-shouldering as 1t exists In
varying degrees in northern cities, and
especially in Boston, the center of abe,
litionism
"Superficially, at least the negro In
Boston still enjoys the widest freedom;
but after one gets down to real conditions
he finds much complaint and alarm on
the part of negroes over growing restric-
TONS"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-02-02
FIRE AT EuFAULA.
sidence of T. N. Clayton Is Totally
Destroyed.

ufaula. February Special. THE
mer Henry Bloom residence on Cherry
get was destroyed by fire here tonight.
: building was owned by Mrs. j. E.
lrien and occupied by T. n. Clayton
family. Origin of the fire is IN
wn. The fire was under full Roadway
IN the alarm was given and but few
he household effects were saved.
he building was a two-story frame
lcture valued at $500. A policy for
is held on the building and the eff
s were partially covered. Only a por-
of the lower story is left but lit
of which can be utilized in rebuild
Z
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-02-02

ALI the Horses and Mules
to be sold at Fies & Sons
Big Auction Sale Wednesday,
February 9th, at 1870 a. NJ,
are seasoned and acclimated.
You can buy one or a carload
at your own price.
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The forthcoming automobile race from
New York to Paris should prove interest
ing. Starting out from New York, the
machines will make for prearranged
point on the Canadian frontier, and they
will find comparatively good roads. Only
eight automobiles ever crossed the Amer
lean continent on their own wheels. OF
the seven who tried for the speed record
one crossed In sixty-three days, another
in sixty-one, another first crossed in sew
enty-two days, and twice again in forty
four days and forty-eight days. another
in thirty-three days and last. driven by
L.. L. whitman. which left San Francis
co August 2. 1906. little more than fif-
teen days, and Mr.. Whitman says 1t was
The Washington times., 1908-08-14
THINKS NEW SERUM
SAVED FIVE LIVES
DR. Rambaud, at PaSteur In
stitute, Uses Recent Dis
covery With Success.

NEW YORK, Aug. Alt seems prob
able that hve persons have been saved
from death in the last ten days by the
new serum obtained by DR.. G. @. Ram
baud. OF the Pasteur Institute, for
treatment in advanced cases Of hydro
phobia.
There were thirty-e:ght patients at
the institute yesterday suffering from
mad dog bites. In one case Dr. Ram
baud used the Paris serum.
IT is too early TO say what this
new serum will do, said DR.. Ram
baud. but it appears that 1t viii do
all that is claimed by the Paris physi-
clans. I have used it in five cases
where people were bitten on the face
by a mad dog-the most dangerous
place a person can. be bitten-and with
good results. If I had not had this
new serum NJ doubt the patients would
have died.
1T will take some time TO demon
strate the complete value OF the serum.
and it is Just as dangerous for a per-
son 10 delay the treatment OF hydro
phobia nov as it was q year or a
month ago. We have hope that the
new serum may save patients in ad-
VdnCed cases or hyorophoDia. II We
had had this serum 10 use on Mr.
Marsh. who died in Brooklyn some
months ago. il is possible that he could
have been saved"
For a time yesterday. Dr. Rambaud
was a much worried man. He thought
he had lost his first patient out OF 1000
cases. According to telegram he re-
ceived, Harry Clemens, of Camden, \.
J, had died at his home from hydro
phobia.
Il was so sure that some mistake
had been made that I took the matter
I'D with the Camden doctors, and now
find that the young man died from the
result of an operation. If he had died
from hydrophobia, IL would have been
our first case lost in Just one thousand
treated that IS, when we get the pa
tent within a reasonable length Of
time after the bite"
The Washington times., 1908-08-14
AmalgamatiOn of Naval Line and
Staff.

Reports Of the progress of the battle
ship squadron across the Pacific are to
The effect that throughout the entire
voyage there was practically no break
in the formation, except once or twice
when for a brief time a ship fell out
of line to effect some trihing repair.
This remarkable record is unpreeedent-
ed, and is attributed by expert observ-
ers to the 4malgamation of the naval
line and engineer corps.
At the time when this alteration in
the naval personnel was made, a few
years ago, the change was received with
doubt by many, and with derision by
more. The suggestion that an engineer
might become a rear admiral ticlled
the superficial disabilities of many of
the old timers. But the growing i'm
portance of the engineering force IN
the navy had created a situation that
was not foreseen in the days of sailing
craft. The time had come when the
mechanic supplanted the sailor-not
that navigation and seamanship were
less important but that the main
tenanoe Of the ships speed, strength,
and condition were now the work of
highly skilled, specialized, craftsmen
and experts.
This rise in his rank and dignity
commensurate with the Importance and
responsibility of his duties, has doubt
less raised the self-esteem and ambition
of the naval engineer. His work is
better done, cruises are better made,
and, for the same reason, if the occa,
sion ever arises, battles are likely TO be
better fought. The result justifes the
amalgamation of the line and staff.
The Washington times., 1908-08-14
MARVELLOUS ADVANCE
IN VALUE Of FARMS
Increase for Past Seven
Years Is Unmatched, Even
by Manufacturing Growth.

BALTIMORE. Aug. IA-Under the
heading Americas Amazing Agricul-
turaI Advance" the Manufacturers'
Record in this weeks issue will say:
The increase IN the value Of farm
property OF 5000 O00 900 between 1900
ana 1907 is nearly nine times as great
as the aggregate national banking cap
ital OF the United States.
1T Is nearly three times as large as
the aggregate savings bank deposits OF
the whole country. In all the records
Of American development, nothing Is
more remarkable than the advance
made during the last few years by the
agricultural interests of the country.
The story Of what the farmers are doing
and OF what they have accomplished
within the last few years is unmatched
even by the marvellous growth in manu-
featuring In 1890 the S,565.OO0 people
engaged in agriculture IN this country
average Of S2S7 per capita.
In 1907 the 1885, 900 engaged in agri-
cultural pursuits produced a total OF
s., AZ, 10000 or an average Of S61s per
capita. During that period the number
of people engaged in agriculture in
creased by - per cent, while the value OF
farm products Increased by 200 per cent
and the value of ali farm property in
creased by 50 per cent.
In the brief period between 1900 and
1907 the value Of farm property ad-
Vanced in value from so, 439. 900. 900 TO
s., 81. go 600 a gain of nearly s. 900, CO.,
people engaged IN agricultural pursuits
increased. say 10 per cent.
The Washington times., 1908-08-14
The South American Situation.

Brazil is having the three most DOW
erful naval vessels in the world built
in England; Dreadnoughts greater than
any other country has undertaken
They have caused much concern at
times, because every country with an
enemy on the map suspects they are
really being built for that enemy, and
will be transferred as soon as COM
pleted. Germany has feared they might
be intended for England; England.
that Germany might be in this fashion
eoncealing part of her naval expansion
program; Japan has worried lest may
be they would go to the United States
and so on.
Now comes explanation that Brazil
wants them because Brazil expects
war with Argentina before long. Uru-
'gaay Is the bone of contentious hat
back of this is the inevitable y1-uCgle
for South American leadership. That
struggle was for a long time between
Chile and Argentina. They exhausted
themselves with wars, and sensibly ar
bitrated. To-Day there is between them
the best peace agreement in the world,
and both have been disarming.
But no such agreement exists be
tween Argentina and Brazil, one or
other of which is surely destined to
South American pre-eminence. Chile
cannot in the end hope to compete; it
has not the wealth, population, or
area. Between the Argentine and
Brazil struggle for supremacy is inevi-
table; it may be only industrial and
moral, or it may be by force of arms.
Plainly Brazil believes a clash at arms
is near, and is preparing for it. When
that war comes, if ever, the police
patrol job of Uncle Sam will be one of
especial interest and animation.
The Washington times., 1908-08-14
TRAVELLERS MEET,
BOON PROSPERITY
Delegates in New York for
Convention From All
Parts of Country.

NEW YORK, Aug. lh-Five thousand
commercial travellers, members of the
United Commercial Travellers and the
Travellers Protective Association, began
a TWO day. convention at the Mer-
chants Association Auditorium today
with the sole end in view Ito boom pros
perity."
The representatives came from all
parts OF the United States. and while
they are assembled they will devise
ways and means for a lightning canvass
of the country 10 spread tidings that
the good times arc here again and IN
cidentally viii endeavor 20 sell more
goods.
The travelling men aAe especially
strong in the belief that the meeting
will have a strong influence throughout
the various States because the business
men generally have confidence In their
ability TO bring about brighter com
dtiOns
Comptroller Metz welcomed the guests
on behalf or the city and informed them
that as the key had been thrown away,
they might do IS they saw 1T.
Commissioner Bingham" he added
has taken a vacation that you men
might run things your own way"
Acting Mayor MCGOWAN welcomed the
delegates officially and the session be
gan in earnest
The travellers will attend a perform
anCe OF the Travelling Salesman to
night and after tOmOrrOws business has
besn conducted they viii go TO Manhat-
tan Beach, where they will get rid of a
banquet.
Two hundred and fifty men out OF
work, bent on parading 10 the meeting
OF the prosperity congress Of the Com
merCial Travellers at the Merchants As
ISOLATION, "a Lafayette street, today.
gathered at the headquarters OF the
committee II the unemployed at 20
Duane street, but when forbidden TO
parade by the police, sent a COMMITTEES
of FIVE instead.
The committee. " IN DR.. Benjamin
Reitman as chairman, went TO the
Merchants Association Auditorium and
succeeded in getting inside. They were
stopped within the door by officers OF
the Merchants.
The Washington times., 1908-08-14
AT RABIES.
NOW DYING OF BITE
North Bergen Man Said That
He Was Not Afraid to
Handle Mad Dogs.

JERSEY CITY, Aug H-In Christ
Hospital. this city, Conrad steingruber,
a manufacturer Of embnoideriss. whose
home is IN Center street, North Bergen.
lies dying OF hydrophobia. The doctors
say he cannot live more than one day.
Mrs. Steingruber and DR.. Menger. OF
224 Hudson boulevard. North Bergen
said the patient was bitten by dog
eight years ago, and neighbors say he
was bitten more recently.
on last Monday Stsingruber began 70
show symptoms of hydrophobia- He
went TO see DR.. Menger o.. Tuesday,
and the Doctor told the manufacturer
TO call again on the next day.
On Wednesday DR. Menger showed
him a glass Of water, and steingruber
had a 1T, He frothed al the mouth and
barked like q dog.
He was sent TO Christ Hospital Il
was hardly expected he would 1--we
through last night.
The mans neighbors say that he men
toned having been bitten in the leg by
a dog few weeks ago. They sa" that
SJeingruber said he was not afraid Of
dog bitfs. He did not believe there was
such q disease as hydrophobis, he is re-
mem bereE 10 have said.
I wol ID take two mad dogs and
knock their heads together" said the
manufacturer, according II q bartender
In a saloon at the corner q the Hudson
boulevard and Center street.
The Washington times., 1908-08-14
The Case of Judge jenkins.

1t is curious circumstance that the
most radical and Independent Senator
in the upper house, and the most con
servative and subservient member of
the lower house of Congress, should
both come from the same State, and
both be of the same political party.
They are La Toilette and John j. Jenk-
ms, chairman of the House Committee
on Judiciary.
Wherefore it is good news which
comes from jenkins district, that he
viii probably be defeated in his fight
for denomination. In this case the Re
publican party is rising up to prove its
power to purge itself, as it has done
in number of other notable cases Of
late. Jenkins, according to reports
from Wisconsin, is going to be defeated
by Lenroot, once speaker of the La
Toilette house in the Wisconsin Legis-
lature.
Judge Jenkins is head of one of the
most powerful committees in Congress.
He is one Of the chief cogs in the House
machine for the asphyxiation of Iegis-
lation. 1t is a magnificent mechanism,
tbs House smothering organization. To
the Judiciary Committee may be sent
almost anything. There is a legal as
pect to any law, manifestly. Even the
bills for creation of forest reserves in
the East were sent there, on pretense
of ascertaining whether the Judiciary
Committee considered them constitu-
tional The committee was not 70
report on their merits; simply on their
constitutionality and it dutifully found
them bad. In the House organiza TONS
view of things, the fact that there are
courts 20 decide these questions is IN
important; the real question is how to
prevent undesired legislation; and one
way Is to find in advance that il is I'M
constitutional.
The Jenkins Committee on judiciary
opposed labor legislation, forestry leris-
lation, Federal supervision Of insurance,
anti-injmction measures-pretty much
everything which savored Of progress or
OF Rooseveltism. So the various inter
ests and sentiments which were offend
ed have made common cause, and are
fighting jenkins for denomination. He
Is one of the men whom Congress would
better be without. It is earnestly to be
hoped that he viii be retired, as it is
certain he would be if the whole peo-
pie o. his district could know all about
him and his record as they are known
at close range.
The Washington times., 1908-08-14

HARTFORD. Conn. Aug. 4-Deputy
Sheriff J. L. Sheffield. of Glastonbury
has begun search for George c. Thomp-
son. organizer OF Widows Syndicate
who induced Mrs. Jane Eliza Tillot-
son, of Plainville. TO marry him after
she had known him four days. He
suspects that Thompson is the man
with sandy mustache, gray eyes, and
peculiar nose who on April 3 asked
Antony Urbansky. a well-to-do farmer
OF Glastonbury, in Hartford, If there
were any farms for sale In Glastonbury.
Yes. there were, said the farmer, and
If the stranger wanted to so out lie
would drive him. On the way the
stranged asked about elderly women
owning property. Then he told Urban
sky that he was Andy Welsh, owner Of
Charter Oak Park, and was going 10
buy up Glastonbury. Now, Mr.. Welsh
is a reputable citizen, one Of Hart
ford's solid men. He isn't looking for
farms OF real estate.
on the way they stopped at the .>1fae
Of a woman who knew Andy Welsh
and the stranger admitted he had made
a mistake. He was not Welsh hut
Walsh, a horse breeder and millionaire.
Urbansky introduced him to Mrs. W.
r. Stead and Walsh" told her ne had
four automobiles at home, and would
she lend I'm her gloves. She lent them
and he wore them three days.
Tried To Buy House
He .yent to Mrs. Allena T. Sampson,
a ycGng widow. and tried to buy her
no sc, saying he wanted TO tear it
down and build a mansion in its place.
She refused to sell. Then he tried 70
buy the house OF an Austr' an widow
The Washington times., 1908-08-14

Tagging the public as no other business
on earth would dare do.
But our correspondent reilly has no
kick coming; not CONSIDERING that he is
dealing with the Washington Gas No
nopoly. He doesn't claim that he
didn't get the gas. Let him contem-
plate this case, which has core to the
attention of The Times:
A mans home was locked and his
family out of town throughout the
period covered by the last meter-read-
ing On the day the meter was read a
servant was in the house preparing it
for the family's return, when the meter
reader came. The bill was duly sent !;
q little above average summer bills for
this family.
When the bill came, the house was
still closed and family out of town.
The mystic 10th of the month passed
with the bill unpaid; and now the man
finds that he not only must pay for
that gas which he didn't use, but also
pay a penalty for not paying it
promptly.
And this man finds, moreover, that
there's no help for his case. He will
pay, or have his gas shut off.
The case of our correspondent quoted
above really seems to be very mild,
when compared with this incident of
paying for gas that wasn't used and
paying penalty besides.
As to remedy for such impositions,
we are unable to suggest one. 1t would
help if about 1000 Washington house
holders would get together NEXT De
cember and march up TO the Capitol to
protest to the District committees.
The Washington times., 1908-08-14
ToQUn Had WidoQ0s' Syndicate;
Police Hot on Organizers Trail

and asked her If she would ike him
for a husband. She slapped his face.
He induced Mrs. W. r. Stead TO board
him three days and wen of without
paying. He offered Urbansky $4,000 for
his tobacco farm If Urbansky would
drive him 70 Hartford so he could get
the money from the bank. 1t was chilly
and would he lend him his overcoat.
The men drove to the bank walsh
went in with the coat and out at a
Urbansky hasn't seen them since. but
on June u Mrs. w. r Stead met the
millionaire" face to face at the circus
IN Hartford He looked unconcernedly
the other way. She couldn't find po-
liceman and he got away.
Police Take Up Scent.
Here is where Capt. Walter Smith
of the Hartford police force. takes up
the scent. on July % an old fellow
answering the description OF 'Thomp-
son" and Walsh hired team OF
James Cronin, of 40 fremont street,
Hartford 10 take a widow lady TO
ride" He was seen riding around town
with a sour looking old woman He
brought the team back and paid for
il. Next day he hired a span OF black
horses. giving his name as Gibson Gil
bert. and saying he wanted to take
three women out TO Rocky Hill to sell
them farm. He had an auto, he
said. hut IL was out of gear. The team
didn't come back. and the owner got
nervous. lie telepaoned all over The
country The New Haven police
found the team on the New York boat
that night just as it was leaving. The
man with the sandy mustache and
stiff leg and another man with him
escaped There were no widows in the
party so far as known
Tonight Deputy Sheriff Sheffield has
a promising clue to the identity OF the
organizer OF the syndicate.
The Washington times., 1908-08-14

donated fOur years before : Ephrlam
Nash, 70 the Woman's Home Missionary
Society, as deaconess' training school.
The hospital grew out of the effort
on the part Of the managers OF the
Woman's Home Missionary Society, q
Methodist Episcopal organization, to
found a memorial to Mrs. Rutherford
3. Hayes. the first president of the
society IN the form of a training school
for deaConesses.
Following the annual meetings OF the
managers IN Indianapolis in 1899. Miss
Jane NJ. Bancroft. now Mrs. George O.
Robinson, CT Detroit, at that time sec