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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-14
MAJESTIC OPEN
DURING SUMMER
WelI-known Playhouse Well Be oper
ated as High-Class Motion
Picture Theatre.

Karl Hoblitzelie. president of the Inter
state Amusement company, arrived In
Birmingham yesterday morning and an
nounced that the Majestic theatre would
be open for the entire season. A change
of policy will however be inaugurated for
the summer months, and the Majestic will
be operated as a high class motion picture
the2ter. In speaking of the matter yester-
day Mr.. Hoblitzelle said:
recommending next Monday there will
be the change of policy that mentioned
We will give one matinee every afternoon
and three performances every night. The
matinee viii commence at 4 o'clock and
continue for an hour, and the night per-
formances will commence at o'clock
and each one will be one hour long. The
admission will be reduced to 10 cents, with
a scent admission to the gallery.
1--WE expect to give two high class vau-
devile acts and three motion pictures at
each performance with probably an Illus
trated song. We will have nothing but
the first run pictures and songs.
1.-The Majestic will be operated in con-
nection with our string of Majestic thea
tres and also new houses which we will
have in Savannah, Jacksonville and Tam
pa, the last three greatly increasing our
string of theatres. The Majestic will be
delightfully."- cooled with number of cleo
trio FANS and as ventilation is perfect the
theatre should always be comfortable. Our
object is to afford the highest class of
amusements for the public during the
summer and at a. price that will permit
every one to enjoy the privilege. The Ma
jestic is convenient, the seats are comfort
able and we will present a line of at
fractions unequalled in the SOUTH
Mr.. Hobitzelle will be in the city several
days and will probably remain through
the opening next Monday afternoon when
the new policy will be inauGurated.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-14
Real Estate Transfers.

Deeds of conveyance were filed In the
office of the probate court yesterday in
the following transactions in real estate in
which amounts of $1,000 or more were in
volved:
$55OO-Mary A. wylie and husband to
d. T. Davidson, lot and 1892 feet Of lot
8 in block 71e, being a lot 1872. rs feet by
1892 feet on Highland avenue, between
Thirty-second and Hickory streets, Ely
ton Land companys survey of Bir1ning-
ham
sS675-c. FL. Glasser to Ella B. CHASER,
lot in block T. Woodlawn Realty COM
panys first addition to Woodlawn.
$25OO-Birmingham Realty company 70
Fanny Florello, ct al. lot 20 and eastern
half of lot % in block 413, being lot 5Ox145
feet on corner of Avenue b and Twenty
ninth street, south. Birmingham.
$10O0-R. H. Hagood and wife to Ella
B. Glasser, lot in block 3. R. II. Ha-
goods survey of West Tlyton.
$1065-Bessemer Coal, Iron and Land
company to Mrs M. J. Perkins, lot s
In block So. Bessemer
S3OO0-H M Henderson to w. G. Tyler.
lot 160x50 feet, near corner of First ave-
nue. and Second street. survey of Bir-
mingham Land company.
$3OO0-W. D. Tyler and wife to B. D. Nc
Arthur, lot 160x50 feet, near corner of
First avenue and Second street, survey or
North birmingham Land company.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-14
CHAMBER TO HOLD
MEETING TODAY
ANNUAL ELECTION WILL BEGIN
AT NOON AND MEMBERS ARE
URGED TO COME oUT-REPoRTS
SUBMITTED TODAY.

This afternoons meeting of the Cham
Der of Commerce will be one of par
ticular interest in that annual reports
have been prepared by nearly all the
committees and many of them deal with
big subjects.
The election of officers will begin at
noon and every member of the cham
Der is urged to come out and vote. Here
Is the official ticket:
President, Frank Nelson. Jr.
First vice president, John l.. Kaul.
Second Woe president, Sterling A.
Wood
Trustees, Rufus N. Rhodes, r. NJ. Jack
son. r. N. Goodall. F. Y. Anderson. I.
c. Bush. A. Fl. Ford.
Directors, Robert Jemison. Jr., James
Bowron, w. N. Malone. ]. ]. Smith. Her
man Beck. Gordon Crawford, T. o. Smith.
w. P. G. Harding. M. v. Joseph, W. w.
Crawford. J. w. Mcqueen, G. B. Nc
Cormack.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-14
FIGHT is BEGUN
ON LOCKER CLUBS
len Special Officers Detailed
TO Duty
SIX ARRESTS YESTERDAY
Business Was Dull Last Night anu
Proprietors of All Places Now
Insist That Membership
Cards Be Presented.
SIX ARRESTS YESTERDAY

The fight which the new police commits
sion stated it would wage against the
voators of the prohibition law was start
ed in earnest yesterday morning The
first step was to authorize Chief Bodeker
to assign 10 men to plain clothes duty,
whose sole business is to be the hunting
of blind tigers.
Following the detailing of these men to
this duty arrests followed at three diff
ferent establishments. Each Of the places
is known as a locker club,
There We're six arrests two in each
place. The alleged proprietor of each
place was arrested, while one man was
arrested in each club for not having a
membership card.
The first arrests were made at the Ter
mlnal club, Jim Labracas, the proprietor,
and L. e. Cherbash being taken in here.
This clubroom Is located at the corner
street Next were the Union club and
Planters club, both on Second avenue
between Twenty-ffrst and Twenty-second
streets At the Union club ]. A. Evans.
the proprietor, and j. G. Cooper were ar
rested. while at the Planters club ]. N.
Keeplin, proprietor, and C. D. Hurley
were taken in.
There were other men in the clubs at
the time the officers visited the places,
but they were equipped with cards. The
officers allege that the men arrested for
not having cards were drinking beer.
Their cases will come up before Judge
Feagn in the recorders court today, but
will probably be passed to the higher
courts, the men ARRESTED having demand
ed jury trials.
These trials will cause another interest
ing feature of the prohibition law to be
contested An actual cash transaction, it
is said, was not witnessed by the officers
and the question as to whether a man is
violating the law by drinking in a club Of
which he is not a member will be the
point at issue.
Following the talk of Mayor O'Brien at
the first meeting of the new commission
last Tuesday night, when he stated that
a vigorous fight was to be maintained
against violators of the prohibition law.
CLUB members have not been wont to
linger at their respective clubs, and last
night was particularly one of slack bust
ness.
The doorkeepers at the different clubs
evinced a desire to read the member s
card, and those that had left their cards
at ''home" found themselves on the out
side looking in.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-14
RAILROADS OFFER
COMPROMISE PLAN
Would Adjust Lumber Refund
Gut of Courts
ANSWER MAY COME TODAY
All-Day Conference Held Yesterday at
HilIman-About 214,0oo Cars of
Lumber Involved in the
Controversy.
ANSWER MAY COME TODAY

After an all day conference yesterday
by prominent railroad attorneys of the
south at the Hotel Hilman a compromise
proposition was submitted to counsel for
the Central Yellow Pine association look
ing to an adjustment of the famous two
cent refund claims in this territory.
The proposition of the railroads was
submitted to I. NJ Miller of New Or
leans and Marcelus Green of Jackso,
Miss counsel for the lumbermen and
these men now have it under considera
ton. Efforts to learn the nature of tho
proposal made by the railroads brohght
forth no information last night Both
sides in the controversy thought it best
TO say nothing about the proposed terms
while the negotiations are pending An
answer to the first overture of the rail-
roads will probably be submitted today.
1t is stated that something like 214OO0
cars of lumber shipped between 1903 and
1907 are involved in the controversy. the
claim being made that an overcharge OF
cents was made by the railroads on
all shipments during that period Hun
dreds of thousands of dollars are Involved
in the matter and there is probably not
lumber shipper in this section of the
south who has not greater or less per-
sonal interest in the adjustment of the
claims. They have been pending In the
courts and before the interstate commerce
commission for several years and if an
agreement Is reached it will relieve the
courts of the land of an enormous bur
den.
Among the railroad attorneys who took
part in yesterdays conference were Sid
ney Andrews of Nashville, general coun-
sell for all the railroads in this special
matter; A. s. Brandeis of Louisville, gen.
eral solicitor of the Louisville and Nash
Vile; General Attorney Prince of the Mo
bile and Ohio, Mobile; j. F. Titus, assist
ant to the president of the Illinois Cen
trale of Chicago; Vice President Jones of
the New Orleans and Northeastern of
New Orleans; A. F. Rodes, manager of
the Macon Railway Clearinghouse of
Macon, Ga; Gustav Lemle, special at
torney for the New Orleans Railway
clearinghouse.
The territory in which the claims now
under adjustment arose is known as the
Central Yellow Pine association territory.
It includes all the territory west of a line
extending from Chattanooga to Birming
ham, from Birmingham to Selma, along
the Southern Railway, from Selma to
Montgomery and from Montgomery to
Pensacola along the Louisville and Nash
Vile. 1t also includes the entire state of
Mississippi and the eastern part Of Louis
lana
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-14
WELLER SAYS BESSENER
MUST IA VI COURTHOUSE

MY impression is that the voters OF
Bessemer and the entire southern end OF
the county will stand almost unanimous
against the courthouse and jail propo-
sition as far as Birmingham is concerned
unless the Board OF Revenue gives them
a courthouse to be situated at Bessemer'
said Turner A Weller, general land agent
of the Bessemer Coal. Iron and Land
company, yesterday.
1.-The citizens OF Bessemer and the ad-
joining territory feel that they have been
neglected and badly treated in the mat
ter of court facilities and the question
seems to have grown quite lively since
the agitation of the matter Of a new court
house In Birmingham WAS begun.
my opinion is that Bessemer is Dig
enough and that there is court work
enough coming from the southern end OF
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-14

the county to warrant the Board of Rev
enue erecting a 100000 courthouse In the
Marvel City. If this is done the PROPOSE
ton of the erection of a skyseraper court
house and Jail In Birmingham will be
met with approval in the southern end
of the county.
The voters of Besseuer and the adj
joiping territory were mainly RESPONSE
BILE for the defeat of the last bond issue
for courthouse and jail purposes and
they opposed 1t partially because they
wanted courthouse. The old feeling
still prevails and the vote of the south
ern end of the county is not to be trif1ed
with. Unless the Board of Revenue de-
cides to give them courthouse I am of
the opinion that the electors of the Bes-
semer territory will vote strongly against
a bond for courthouse purposes"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-14
ADJUSTMENTS
At the BiIou.

Edna May Spooner and her company
continue to please Bi1ou patrons with
their clever performances of THE
Masqueraders'' at the Bijou theatre this
week. Miss Spooner takes the leading
woman's role with credit and she is
given admirable support by Mr.. La Rue
and Mr.. Chesterfield, who play the hero
and the villain, respectively This
Masqueraders' is one of the strongest
and one of the most brilliant plays seen
at the Bijou in quite a long WHILE
There viii be performance tonight.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-14
Investigating Oil Field.

Sapulpa, Okla, May ia party of
Pittsburg and Chicago capitalists, who
have been investigating the oil situa-
ton In this section for the past few days,
left for Bartlesville. James F. Guffey.
the well-known financier, heads the
party. 1t Is believed the movement in
dicates a plan to pipe oil and gas from
Oklahoma through Texas on large scale
as an effort to obtain such a concession
is now being made at Washington.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-14
NEGRO SHOT AT
BASEBALL GAME

Clifford Avery, negro youth, was Sc
riously shot yesterday afternoon by Tom
Pope, another negro. The shooting hap
pened on a field atthe conner of Avenue
1 and Twenty-fourth street, which is used
by negroes as a ball ground.
From all accounts large crowd of ne
groes had congregated on the field and
were in the midst of the game when the
Avery negro secured the ball and refused
to give it up The Pope negro became an
cry, pulled his gun and shot Avery, then
took to his heels and disappeared, and has
not yet been captured.
Avery was taken to the Hillman hospi-
tai and his wound will probably prove IA
tai.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-14
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

Good comedy, good singing, good stories.
good acrobatic stunts and some pretty
costumes, with some of the best motion
pictures of the season, compose the bill
at the Majestic theatre this week. and it
is proving very satisfactory to every one
who has seen the offering. Miss Alice
Mortlock has one of the best comedy
sketches that the Majestic has seen In
"Billy's Girl" which Is alive with witty
lines and good situations. Miss Mortlock
is very clever, and she has in her cast
a real Japanese actor. There Is a mat
inee every afternoon and performance
every night at the Majestic.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-14

DunlSirk, May 18.--The war department
at Washington has awarded to Amos
Weaver of this city a medal for conspicu-
GUS bravery in the Philippines. Weaver
formerly was sergeant in Company C.
Thirty-sixth United States infantry. and
on November g. 1899, he alone routed
band OF Is insurgents, killing four and
wounding several others.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-14
DEATHS AND FUNERALS,
LEROY 3. Mcdonald.

eroy B. Mcdonald, aged 80 years, died
Wednesday afternoon at Blount Springs.
The remains were brought to Birmingham
yesterday and will be sent to Augusta.
Ca, today by Shaw Son for interment.
The deceased had been at Blount Springs
for about a week and his death was
rather sudden. He is survived by a
widow and one childd He was formerly
connected with the Alabama Mutual Stock
Insurance association. and his residence
was at 1904 North Twenty sixth street.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-14
"The Road TO Yesterday"

Next week the Spooner company will
appear at the BiJou theatre in the great
Shubert success, :" The Road to Yester-
day. a charming play and one that will
be presented in frst-class style. ''The
Road to Yesterday is a genuine novelty
and it created widespread comment when
it was first presented in New York. The
play will be well staged.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-14
PERSONAL

Mr. J. FEEDER Of New York, member of
the firm of FEEDER & Berk, Is spending
few days in the city.
Louis Arnstein, manager of the French
Dry Cleaning company, will sail for Eu-
rope this week. While abroad Mr.. Arm
stein viii visit Paris, Berlin, Vienna and
other large European cities.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-14
Killed In a Bakery.

San Antonio, Tex, May 13.-Otto Pull
ger, aged 25, was caught in a dough
mixer in local bakery here today and
crushed to death. When discovered half
of his body had been drawn through the
mixer and every bone was crushed.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-14

The following marriage license was is
sued yesterday from the office of the
probate court:
Fate Joseph of Birmingham to Miss
Rosey Morisse-
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Local office United states weather
CITY ITEMS.

Boys Bound Over.-Ray Gilmore,
Clarence Lange and Andy Ramage,
three white boys, were bound over from
the mayors court of Ensley yesterday
ION charges of highway robbery ana
were committed to the county jail with
out bail. The young men are alleged
to have robbed W. J. Kittinger near
Ensley some time ago.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-14
THE WEATHER.

Washington, May 1S.-Forecast for
Alabama and Mississippi Fair Friday
and Saturday; light south winds.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-14
Held on Murder Charge.-Henderso

Smith, a negro, was arrested yester-
day by Deputy Sheriff Beverly Chew
on charge of having murdered ne
gro named Cal Morris, near Ketona,
several nights ago. In the investiga-
ton of the coroner's jury yesterday the
murder was fixed upon Smith and his
arrest followed shortly afterward. He
Is being detained In the county Jail
without bail on a warrant issued by the
oroner.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-14

e. 7. Shaw s. Son. Undertakes.
Green Undertaking Company
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-14

Fire on Morris Avenue.-Fire broke
out in the kitchen of the Lathem
restaurant on Morris avenue between
Nineteenth and Twentieth streets about
o'clock last night. but was extin-
guished before any material damage
was done. The entire fire department
responded to the call. The streets were
crowded at the time and an immense
throng gathered on Morris avenue. 1t
took but a minute to put the hre out.
1t caught in some rags in closet.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-14

Banquet for Employes.-The first an
nual banquet of the Burger Dry GOODS
company employees, held in the grin
room of the Morris hotel, proved quite
an ENJOYABLE occasion for the attaches
Of the big store. The menu was good,
and the speeches were bright, full OF
good fellowship and suggestion for the
promotion of the firms business. me
Following gentlemen were the speakers;
S. Addison Jones, Benjamin b. Lock-
hart. Louis Phillips, Jacob Burger, l.
Phillips, A. B. We'll. Joseph ]. Morris,
Samuel Phillips, Samuel q. Hope. X.
Gulbanlxian Ernest Kohner ana MAX
Morris.
Evening journal., 1909-11-04
POSTAL DEFICIENCY
BECOMES LARGER

WASHINGTON. Nov. "A postal de-
hciency Of Si7.479. 40, an increase OF s56s,-
491 over last year, was announced in the
annual report of Merritt o. Chance, the
auditor Of the Postofhce Department
which was made public yesterday. The
audited revenues for the fiscal year ended
June 80, last amounted to 1888, an
increase Of 6.31 per cent. over the pre-
ceding year. The audited expenditures in
creased 6.07 per cent, including losses by
fire. burglary, etc. There we're 67o0 addi-
tlonal postoffces authorized to issue
money orders. In round numbers slOSe,-
100000 represents the value Of the 72479,-
400 issued and 7O50S,459 paid domestic
money and international money orders
with the fees prescribed by law.
Compared with the volume OF domestic
money order business in 1899 the number
Of offices increased a per cent. the num-
ber of orders 1SS per cent. and value of
orders 1856 per cent There have been over
$40 100000 in money orders sent to for
eign countries during the past twenty
years About so per cent, OF that sum
found lodgment in Austria, Great Britain.
Hungary. Italy. Norway and Russia. and
was evidently the surplus earnings OF for
eign labor employed In the United States.
Evening journal., 1909-11-04
HAND PAINTED
CHINA EXHIBIT
Much Interest in the Display
Of Mrs. W. II. Heine'S Class
at the New Century Club

An exhibit of hand-painted china, the
work Of Mrs. William H. Heine' and her
pupils, was held in the New-Century Club
on Tuesday and yesterday. The first i'm
preston visitors gained was of room
full of ripe fruits and delicate, frag ant
flowers. After moment came the real.za-
ton that the softly-tinted roses and vio-
lets, and the richly-colored grapes and
plums, we're the decorations Of useful and
ornamental dishes and vases. The display
showed dexterity and skill OF hand pro-
fessional rather than smateurish, and
Mrs Heine attributed this to the fact that
several of her pupils had studied six or
eight years with her. A number Of visitors
congratulated the artist on the marked
advance Of this exhibit over the one held
last year. Mrs. Heine exhibited but one
piece Of her own work--a brown and
white stein, upon whose polished surface
two mediaeval friars Of orders brown
partook of q cheering cup.
Many Of the callers we're heard to re-
mark that they couldn't tell which piece
they liked best. all were 50 pretty Indeed.
comparison as to merit would be quite i'm
possible.
An attractive display was pale green
salad set, with border and central mono
gram Of gold. the work of Mrs. Horace
b. Harrison.
Miss Leila Stoeckle exhibited a beauti-
ful set of rose-Wreath and gold-bordered
plates. also a goblet and mugs, very in
dividually treated in dun greens and
browns with gold monogI grams.
Mrs Davis Grier had a uniquely shaped
vase with delicately tinted lilacs.
Mrs Briggs showed an exceedingly
dainty FIVE o'clock tea service. with mar
row gold brims and wreaths OF tiny, pale
roses.
Mrs. Mitchell Greenwood had a number
Of nnely-executed pieces, notably a set Of
plates with rose wreaths and deep, raised
eold borders. A beautiful five O'Clock tea
service in white and gold and pink roses
was the work of Mrs. John D. Kurtz, IT.
Miss Kelly exhibited a large punch-bowl'
richly decorated in gold and in cluste, s
and leaves Of grapes. Miss Morrow dis
played a number OF attractive pieces,
among them dainty violet sugar-bowl
and creamer.
Mrs. ". W. Knox. Miss Joslyn, Mrs
Van Trump. and Mrs. Pullen Bennett, ex-
hibited strikingly beautiful cups, plates
bowls. sandwich trays. etc. In white anc
gold with flower motifs.
The fruit sets were appropriately de-
signed. There were cups and pitchers fol
fruit-punch, bowl bearing plum leaves
and fruit, a green bowl with yellow lem.
ons, and a handsome set of fruit plates. A
number Of ornamental vases in iris. DAT.
fodil, and red rose motifs, we're of Belleeh
ware. which is characterized by tho higf
polish It gains in firing. Much Of the
china was English ware, heavy make sS
expensive that undecorated white plates
cost two and a half dollWs apiece.
Particularly interesting was the new
work IN raised gold. The parts outside
Of the design are protected by a coating
of black grease. Then the pattern is etch
ed away by an acid. tho fumes of which
are SO powerful that the worker mus
wear a glass mask.
Evening journal., 1909-11-04
STATE DROPPED
LARCENY CHARGE
Charles German, Accused of
Stealing Trousers, Expected
to Present an AIibi

Deputy Attorney-GeneralW Wolcott at the
afternoon session Of the Court Of Cen
eral Sessions yesterday entered a nolle
PROSE- in the case Of Charles German,
who had been indicted on the charge Of
larceny of six dozen of trousers from a
car Of the p. b. and W. Railroad Com
pany.
Captain Grant Smith testified that while
two cases Of pants we're enroute from
Fredericksburg. Va, to Newport, r. L.,
one box was stolen. It was found near
Folly Woods and the same day a young
man sold several pairs Of trousers TO men
working In the gang on the trolley road
at Richardson's Park. German. who Is
from Chester. was arrested and IDENTIFIED
by some OF the men who bought the tsous-
ers as the man who sold them.
James II. Knberg produced a pair OF the
trousers he bought from German for half
a dollar.
The Identification Of the trousers by
Morris Boudel. general manager OF the
mills that made the trousers. was made