The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-17
CHANCE DAY WAS OvERBEAR|NG YOUTH Former SchsoImate Talks of
 Mans Eccentricities CANNOT RIDE ON PASSES Head of Syracuse University Formerly Had Passes Over All Prominent
 Lines-Btter Enemy of
 Roosevelt.
CANNOT RIDE ON PASSES

The Rev. B. W. Preble of Boston, who has been in the district for several weeks delivering sermons and lectures to the
 Universalists of Birmingham, will re- turn this week to his native state.
 MT Preble, while in the state, ac- quired a warm regard for Birmingham and Alabama, and states that the most hospitabe and pleasant acquaintanees he
 has made were among the old Confed- crate soldiers against whom, in the late unpleasantness'', he waged bitter war
 fare. Dr. Preble has an extensive ac- ouaintance and concerning some of the characters presently in the public eye, he talks most entertainly- Concernin g Birminghams future, he grows eloquent,
 and states that but for the smoke and dirt of this city, it would become fine
 winter resort for the wealthy of the north and east.
 Concerning Chancellor James R. Day of Syracuse university, who has taken issue with the President for his attacks
 on the corporations, and Charles w. Morse the alleged defaulting and bank rupt ice king, with both of whom Dr.
 Preble is personally acquainted, he made some statements that were more than interesting.
 q was q classmate of Chancellor Day
 in a Methodist school in Maine. It was there that I became a universalist. My ideas were exactly opposite from those
 of Day, and the statement of certain
 liberal views on my part. prompted the
 present chancellor to pray for me in public.
 "While Day is a man of fine intellect and a very successful educator and preacher, he impressed me, while we
 were students, as being a. trifie narrow, selfish. arrogant and overbearing. It was difficult for him to tolerate an honest opinion of another, if that opinion was contrary to his own views. He did not hesitateeto attempt to run over all whom he encountered, and succeeded in doing so in all cases wherever his man was
 weak enough to permit him.
 q have recently been informed by a friend of Chancellor Day that his antip- athy to the President and his views was accentuated by the necessity of the rail
 roads withdrawing their passes and free transportation. However this is hear say, and I do not vouch for it. MT. Preble was the minister of the
 Morse family for good many years. He l ascribes to the family niggardness to a great degree, in spite of the fact that 1t was a wealthy family. He characterizes
 Morse as interruptions in character as
 we'll as by reputation.
 "As an illustration of Morses business ability" said he. it happened that once he was given a position, paying cer- tain amount. He employed another to do this work for much smaller salary. and with the surplus went to school and educated himself. The niggardly strain
 in Morse extended throughout the same family, and was as well developed among
 the females as the males. Morse's father
 was a. man of fine mind, but 8 man who worshiped the dollar as his god. His
 mother was an exceedingly fine looking
 woman, but she, too, worshipped at the altar of Mammon to the exclusion of any other"