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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-26
Steel Work Stops.

The Southern Erecting Company of Jacksonville, which has been putting m tbe steel work on the American National Bank building, has failed. and s1ts renresentative, c. B. Colby. left the city last Friday not leaving money to meet the pay roll. AS a conse- ouence all of the steel workers refused to 20 to work this morning.
 The Southern Erecting Company or Jacksonville acted as sub-contractor of MIlliran Brothers of New York, which Is aub- contractor for the Selden- Breck Company of New York.
 The work has been taken up by Mil- lIran Brothers of New York and will be finished bv them.
 -sIt is thought that thS' superintend- ent. c, B. Colby, representing the Southern Erecting Company, has re- turned to Jacksonville.
 Thomas Dawson Hurt.
 Thomas Dawson one of the employees of the Louisville and Nashville Rail road on Commandancia Street wharf. fell from a scaffolding into the deck of the steamer Matteawan this morn- ing about 10 o'clock and fractured his skull.
 Ir is probable that the man will re- cover. He has. however. received a severe injury in the head, which re- suited in coneussion of the brain,
 Dawson was working on scanold- ing on the dock of the steamer and made a false step. falling about twelve feet and striking directly upon his head
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-26

2 Ready To Serve Yeu from eur branch in Pensacola. Send your whiskey orders se
 GREIL TRADING co. ?. O. Box s37 Pensacola, Fla.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-26

Friends of Judge Hundley will be at the capital to counteract the oppo- nents, and an interesting light is prom ised.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-03-01
In other Days and Now.

"Those of us who have witnessed IN
aueurations every four years since 1877
have been struck with the large increase
in the size of crowds" remarked T. b
Cousins of Baltimore.
"I think it is safe to say that the
crowd at Cleveands first inauguration
was 90 per cent larger than that at Hayes
and that the crowd at McKinleys was
double that of 1877. The great increase
ia accounted for in a measure by the
changed attitude Of the south. When
HAYES was inaugurated the war was only
- wears in the past. The south was nat
urallv still full of bitterness and few
men living south Of the Potomac came to
Washington to see republican President
inducted into office.
president Hayes did everything he rea-
sonably could to placate the south, and
when Garfield was inaugurated southern
bitterness against the republican north
was beginning to abate, but yet the
south was not largely in evidence in
washington March q. 1881.
an 1885 the south poured itself into
washington to see Cleveland's Inaugural
ton. And now that sectionaiism has
practically died out altogether Taft Will
draw the biggest crowd of all. The south
will be greatly in evidence and patriot
ism will rule
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-03-01
S..
GERMAN STAGE

FROM the New iorh Wof Wachsner.
The name of the late L,.naeer. was
the Milwaukee actor and Yet during
not known to BroadwaXjbis control,
the quarter of a centuryHanv in tha
of the German stock Cor tba trna
Wisconsin city he did nj stage than
elevation of the Amerit aunted that
other managers who lasr did not ex-
as their mission. Wachtf ended him
plot MS theatre. lie of new and
self with giving the b{ the latest
old dramatic productidrienna along
comedies from Berlin all drama and
with the classical Gerrself.
he let the play speak fehas no need
A theatre so conductbf nub,ic;tv.
OF meretrlclous methoc advertising
1t is under no necessity salad with
an attraction as a denomination of
very little dressing" Istaee stand
maintaining the hlshenent.
ards is it's best advertlnolicv OF the
This appears to be tia vhouses in
managers OF the Gerihfy be success
this country. That it Irving place
full is illustrated in tried was the
theatre, which under tres and the
best of New York's Ia stock com
only one at which tlleserved What
pany traditions weress so varied a
other local playhouse3tam to sh ow
repertory OF hlgh-clash and Maeter-
for 80 years-S,iderrr1ch iller Calde-
linck, Goethe, LessinElewest foreign
ron, comic opera and u; for children
comeoles' christmas Ihhe passing of
The regret must be A,fter foo brief
the New German theatrulness on the
a promise of artistic
same lines. r or a Conried
AS between Wacr roadway man
ana the contemporaryuest which
ager there can be ny to the Amer
renders the better SEN
lean stage. -
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-03-01
A REAL MAINE WINTER.

From the Kennebec Journal
This Is a good, old-fashioned winter
throughout Maine, and a glimpse of con-
ditions up in Franklin county is given
by Phillips correspondent He writes:
Phillips is buried in snowdrfts 10 feet
deep, there being several of this depth
on the main street in front of the stores
The country roads are impossible for
the most part, and rural free delivery 10
uncertain In the extreme. The milk sleighs
are about the only ones that have come
in from the country districts for several
days. Two feet of snow fell in this
weeks storm, and this, added to the four
feet already in the woods, has given the
lumbermen at least all they want. The
narrow-gauge trains have been no later
than their connecting trains, but the en-
ployes have had all they could attend
to to keep the tracks clear. Half dozen.
snow trains are busy hauling off the tor
of the big drifts that are found every
where. LAUNDERING and log-hauilng BUS
mess, which is quite important at this
season, is now at temporary standstill,
and the woodworking mills are now at
great disadvantage because of such snow.
This weeks storm was by far the great
est of the season thus far
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-03-01
Greatest Port In The World

Nations have arisen and fallen and
yet London has been for 200 years
without a single lapse, the greatest
port in the world It's trade in 1907
reached the vast sum of $2,430 ,0O0,0 900,
while New York's total was s1,7O9,164,.
423.
And yet London spends but little,
comparatively speaking. on its docks
and wharves. Liverpool, Plymouth
and Southampton are spending great
deal of money to increase their facil-
tiles, and on the continent Hamburg
is very enterprising and so is Antwerp.
But London is about to begin a
great extension of its facilities, and
when the new works are completed
no doubt London will be able to hold
the lead in trade possibly 200 years
longer. 1t has rivals, however, and
the task of leadership in the next 200
years will be much more strenuous
than 1t was in the last 200 years.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-03-01
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Aaitators For Reform.

Some reforms are welcomed by the
general public said conservative man,
but in this day of fanatioism there is
such a thing as reform run mad. In
Ohio a preacher is agitating against kiss
ing. not on the ground of danger to
health, but because kissing is intoxicat-
ing and therefore immoral
"A member of the Illinois Legislature
has introduced a matrimonial reform bill
providing that no marriage license shall
be issued to a would-be groom unless he
swears that he has not been intoxicated
twice within the preceding year. If such
a bill were to pass the law would become
a farce just as many another law be-
come a dead letter. because it appears
unreasonable on its face. The man who
desires to get married when he finds the
woman of his choice willing will not let
a little thing like the oath proposed stop
him, even if he has gathered on a few
iags within the 12-month."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-03-01
AnqeIs are bright still, though the
brightest fell. Macbeth
San FanciSCO'S HetCh-HetChy Project

San Francisco has asked Congress
to let it store water in Hetch-Hetchy
valley in the Yosemite National Park,
the water in the reservoir to be con-
veyed to San Francisco and other Cal
ifornia cities. The Secretary of the
Interior is willing, but the consent OF
Congress is needed, and an agitation
has been begun to secure it. This as
it goes on will be known as the Hetch-
Hetchy scheme, and some will con-
slider it a scheme to grab valuable
privileges.
San Francisco proposes to purchase
its present water system and then add
to it the Hetch-Hetchy supply. No
one can reasonably object to this, al
though some do claim that the Yose-
mite National Park has been set apart
for the use of all, and not for the ex-
elusive use of any city. Some claim
the Hetch-Hetchy valley is the finest
feature of the national park and to
fill it full of water would lessen its
natural beauty.
1t is up to the city of San Francisco
to pledge itself to preserve the for
ests near the proposed reservoir and
the irrigation rights, and to demon
strate that it cannot procure a water
supply at any other place The con-
servation policy must be- maintained
and perhaps San Francisco can take
from Hetch-Hetchy valley the water
it needs without impairing the splen
did conservation policy of the national
government.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-03-01

executive. He bet freely on the races,
and now and then ran his own horses.
Any one who wished for a duel could
have It on application.
General Grant had an unusual love for
horses. He had Q stock farm near st.
Louis before he became President, where
he kept 100 horses. In the period imme-
diately before the Civil War; while living
on his farm near st. Louis, he was dis
tinctly an outdoor man, cutting down
trees and hewing and building with his
own hands, This doubtless had much to
do with his extraordinary endurance dur
ing the Civil War
President Grover Cleveland looms large
as an outdoor President. The country
knew and esteemed him in the double
capacity of statesman and fisherman. He
also penned charming essays in defense
of the piscatorial art. His flies were cast
upon many waters, and his impressive
shadow fell from banks of uncounted
lakes and mountain streams upon the
homes of finny tribes
Mr. Roosevelt as boy and man aimed
with unwavering purpose at health and
not at athletics for their own sake or
for competitive honors at college or else
where. Physical culture Is with him Sc
rious business in order that he may be
equal to his responsibilities. He is first
of all great worker, and for the works
sake he trains for bodily condition. While
he enjoys thoroughly his exercises these
are a means to an end.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-03-01
The Stock Market.

Henry CIews, in his Saturday re-
view, says:
ION the stock market the steel cut
was at first demoralizing. Prices fell
sharply, making a decline of 10 to IL
points on the present movement. rms
is an important shrinkage, considering
that recuperative tendencies are steadily
at work in various lines of business.
For weeks it has been insisted in these
advices that prices were too high and
that a substantial decline was immi-
nent Now that this has come, the mar
ket is on a much safer trading basis
and greater activity will probably re-
suit.
ALREADY there has been partial re
covery, and prices may be carried still
higher in anticipation of an encouraS-
ing inaugural address from President
elect Taft, who will no doubt reiterate
his we'll known views on the tarif, on
corporation reform and on the defects
of our currency system. The outlook,
however, does not warrant any very
pronounced recovery, and profits should
be taken on all good advances. AT the
lowest prices of the week there was
good buying of stocks. and the demand
for high grade securities continues sat
isfactory. Money is very easy in spite
of Withdrawals Of Treasury deposits and
gold exports to Argentina. For some
time to come the course of the mar
ket will be chiefly guided by tariff leg
islation and business conditions
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-03-01
vEx NE NOT WITH BROoDING
ON THE YEARS,
las Bailey Aldrich.

BY Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
(Reprinted from The Century for May,
1S90.)
1 vex me not with brooding on the years
That were ere l drew breath; why
should 1 then
Distrust the darkness that may fall
again
When life is done? Perchance in other
spheres
Dead planets-I once tasted mortal tears,
And walked as now amid throng of
men,
Pondering things that lay beyond my
ken,
Questioning death, and solacing my
fears.
Outlines indeed strange sense have
of this
Vague memories that hold me with .
spell,
Touches of unseen lips upon my brow
Breathing some incommunicable bliss
In years foregone, o soul. was all not
we'll?
2 Still lovelier life awaits thee. Fear not
thoul
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-03-01
Courtesy on Railroads

The travelling public cannot have
failed to notice the improvement in
the manners of railroad employees in
this country within the past 20 years,
IN the south railway conductors, as
a rule, have always been polite and
obliging to passengers, but ticket sell
ers and some others who came in
contact with the public were not so
courteous as they might have been,
There has been little or no cause of
complaint in recent years, but even If
an overworked or harrassed young
man at the ticket window should now
and then appear a bit cross or short
in his speech the average person
would make allowances and excuse
him.
In other sections of the country
courtesy in any department of pas
senger train service used to be the
exception to the rule. Conductors,
ticket sellers and station men were
proverbially gruff in the old days.
While the improvement all along the
line has been marked there is, doubt
less, still room for more.
On the Hartman roads a special
effort is now being made to raise en-
ployes to the highest standard of po-
likeness. Here is a circular issued
Jointly by the general superintendent,
general freight agent and general pas
senger agent Of the Southern Pacific
in Oregon, with the approval of the
vice president and general manager:
To Employees on the Line:
Courtesy costs nothing and yields large
returns. Cordial relations with customers
are an asset. You increase this prop
erty's value to owners and patrons, as
well as the value of your service, by
making friends.
Rules necessary in a business so COM
pick cause less dissatisfaction than UNI
fortunate methods of enforcement. Your
training renders familiar to you matters
not understood by the public, and in
quirers are entitled to prompt, courteous
and complete replies. If something seems
at fault beyond your power to correct,
explain how and through whom to seek
and remedy. Manner outweighs words.
The salesman of transportation should
make his customers as welcome as would
any business man, inspiring the wish to
come again.
If the officials of transportation
lines in the United States continue to
press the courtesy idea, and they are
apt 10 do so "as a matter of business -
it will not be long before our travel
ing and shipping public will be as
considerably treated as are the pat
rons of railroads in England where
employees are not only polite and
friendly but where they go out OF
their way and put themselves to any
amount of trouble, to oblige.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-03-01
PRESIDENTS AT PLAY
m the Century Magazine.

the Century Magazine.
4 fact as well as in order of time
j Washington has just claim to the
I very first place among our chieftains
|. a mighty out-of-doors man. He GER
l. My spent a much larger portion of
life in the open air than did any of
i e others.
: Thomas. Jefferson belongs distinctly
nong the physically strenuous Presi-
e ents, and he revievd the traditions of
- Washington, which had lapsed during
! ne term of John Adams. Like the first
resident, he was a notable horseman
D md fox-hunter. From his youth up he
followed the chase
President Andrew Jackson's physical
prowess was considerable. AS a boy he
became skillful with the rifle and hunted
in the woods of Woxham for deer, wild
turkeys and other kinds of game, which
We're then plentiful He did his killing
at that period of his life from necessity;
the household needed meat for the table
He seldom missed his mark. He was ex-
pert in all boys games and sports, and
was always ready for a wrestling match.
He exeelled> in running and jumping
A horse race was always a delight to
him, and it must be confessed that dur
ing part of his career he took more in
be deemed worthy of a coming President.
His horse racing was done before he
was elected to the office of the chief
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-03-01
a Perfect Day.

Yesterday was a perfect day for the
first Sunday in Lent. In the early
morning when many of the faithful
started out for church, the air was
bracing but spring like, and the sun
was shining brightly though the hazy
air.
All the churches were largely attend
ed and the afternoon the principal ave-
nues were filed with people. me
street cars were crowded, automobiles
were spinning in every direction, and
hundreds of men, women and children
strolled on the mountain and along the
country roads. 1t was a day in which
rich and poor alike rejoiced.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-03-01
-.TWaiter.
nna MAN "a Cat

From the PhiiadelphlH in big cafe
To get waiter quiet. but a Ger
is at times very difft learned a
mantoWn man recef friend which
method from New Y to hiring. not
is guaranteed instantThis German
one, but several waiter 1inner In one
town man was givingA cafes. with
of Philadelphia's sweDyomen as his
the New Yorker and telay a waiter
guests. After losr. Then one of
came and took the It she must make
the women decideGr. The host sig
change In hertfter another with
nailed one wafubout 10 minutes of
out avail. Alton on his part the
violent gesticuh
New Yorker said.pw to attract their
You don't KNOW IS can bring a
attention. III peTithin 80 seconds"
waiter to this tar said the Philadel-
'Ill take the his watch. The New
phian, drawing err into the middle of
Yorker reached up a thin, delicate
the table, p1cAtely dashed it TO the
glass and dell every waiter in the
floor. Instarng up to see what was
room came
the trouble tumbler up on the BILL"
"Chargw Yorker, laconically, land
said the of those oyster orders to
change s."
Blue Poaiters dispersed he added ct
As thbwe me five-spot, old man.
guess yo,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-03-01
No Forest Reserves This Year

Neither the proposed White noun
tain nor the Appalachian reserve will
be advanced during the present Con-
gress. The bill reported in the House
aims to apply the money received
from the products of the national for
ests-about two millions year-to
the purchase of reserves ION the head
waters of navigable streams" The
7 present forest reservations aggregate
170,000,000 acres, and the money re-
ceived from the products of these
acres would soon create reservations
on the White mountains or along the
Appalachian chain. The operation of
the bill would have been confined to
ten years. The reported bill is known
as the Weeks bill. Congressman
Weeks comes from Massachusetts,
and hefis on good terms with Speaker
Cannon, but the Cannon autocracy re-
fused to let the bill be considered in
the present Congress.
The subject goes over to the next
Congress, when it may secure con-
sideration always provided a ready
way is found to overcome the deficit
The adoption of an income tax would
wonderfully smooth the way for the
passage of a bill providing for two
forest reserves in the eastern part of
the country. The west has plenty OF
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-03-01
SCENES OF FRONTIER LIFE

mouptainsides The mornings and evenings
were chilly. Often we would find a thin
layer of ice on the pool of the spring
which we drank from and washed in.
In this section one does not have to fear
snakes-it being entirely too damp for
them. The RATHER, however, is found fur
Their over on the east slope of the Cas-
eades, some 40 miles distant. Bears were
commonly seen and often a deer could be
heard crashing through the underbrush-
scared, no doubt, by a proving cougar.
1t was not at all surprising to find deer
or bear meat on the table three times a
week. The men would often kill a bear
with an ak, and the nearby settlers fire.
quently traded us venison for beef, which
was brought to us by freighter twice
month. Wildcats were met once in a
while further down the pass. In one of the
nearby lakes a great colony of beavers
lived and flourished
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-03-01

GIRLS WHO ARE SHORTLIVED.
Many Who Work in Tobacco Die Be-
fore They Are IS.

"The Woman's Invasion" in the March
Everybody's.
81 wish you to follow me into my
office" said DR.. Abraham jacob, the
great New York physician, where,
amongst others, see goodly number
of young girls who work at tobacco
mostly in shops, many at home. The
latter are worse off than the former,
for to them there are no regular hours
at all. To them their cramped living
and sleeping quarters are also their
shops, filled day and night with to-
bacco dust and odor.
"All of these patients are anaemic,
sallow, thin, underweight. They are
poorly paid, poorly nourished, early
risers, for they begin work at 7, with
out appetite. Their breakfast consists
generally of what they call a cup of
Coffee roll, or a piece of bread. They
take their luncheon in the half hour
or hour of recess-a sandwich, per-
haps in cheap seasons an egg. Almost
every one suffers from catarrh of the
throat and catarrh of the bronchial
tubes, and the inhalation of tobacco
ton and fermentation of the lungs
Their sedentary occupation causes
obstruction of the abdominal and pelvic
organs, frequently causing irritation of
the kidneys. Bright's disease is be-
coming more common, partly from that
cause. The stomach and digestion suf-
fer invariably, partly from the same
cause, partly from the insufficient mus
cular action of the stomach and the bad
air inhaled.
"All of these causes cooperate to af-
feet the nervous system. Depression,
migraine, hysteria are the results Dur
ing the constant sitting, the chest does
not expand, is fattened, congresses the
heart, and prevents the lungs from de-
veloping. tuberculosis of the lungs
is very frequent among these young to-
bacco workers, who are carried off in
great numbers between the 18th and
25th year."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-03-01
Latest Estimate Of the Cost

The engineers who estimated the
cost of lock canal three years ago
staked their regulations that its cost
would not exceed s139,7O5,2OO. But
now they say they did not include
sanitation, zone government or the
payments to the French canal COM
pany and the republic Of Panama.
These items would carry the estimate
of three years ago up to 1927 100000.
But these same engineers now es-
innate the cost of the lock canal at
$3.50, 100000. In other words, they
were three years ago $143,00O,000 out
of line! Their professional reputa-
lions were duly staked on their first
estimate, but that is now forgotten
incident.
When we consider that military de-
lenses, Notifications, naval stations,
and lighthouses at the terminals and
along the canal are to be provided, it
is roInin the final cost Of the canal will
20 up to s400, 100000, and may easily
go to $4bo,o0o,0oO.
No one seems to be to blame. The
canal Is to be built no matter what
its cost may be. There is, however,
no particular reason why the truth
should not be told as we go along.