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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-04
AirshIp Seen at Night

Clinton, Conn.,, September 3.-A large airship, carrying lights fore and aft, maneuvered over the town tonight for several hours. Residents of the town were first attracted by the sound of the motor, and as the ship approach ed from the direction of New London, flying about 1000 feet over their heads. The ship eventually went away in the direction from which 1t came.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-04
Texas Rivers Rising.

Houston, Tex, September 3.-Specials from Kingsville and HarIingen tonight and the Arroyo rivers, caused by the overflow of the Rio Grande which has not yet reached its crest after fortnight rise A railway bridge between Harlin- gen and Brownsville. on the Browns vile road. was washed out today and train service to Brownsville is suspend ed. Dispatches say that the Arroyo river is on 20-foot rise. Tiocana lake, nine miles to the west of Harlingen. Is over flowed and will cut off traffic on the main line of the Brownsville road to liar lingen
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-04
New Warships To Be Built.

Washington September 3.- The award of the contracts for two new American Dreadnoughts of 26,000 tons each-the Wyoming and the Arkansas which are expected to be announced next week, will be made to William Champ & Sons of Philadelphia and the New York Shipbuilding company of Camden, N. J. The Maryland Steel company of Sparrows Point, Md, which submitted the lowest bid for the new fleet collier to be constructed for the navy, will get the contract for that vessel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-04
Injunction Is Denied.

Roanoke, Va, September 3.-Judge Kegley, sitting today at Tazewell, re. fused to grant the injunction asked for by Dr. Bogle to prevent the New Riv- CT, Holston and Western railroad from passing through his farm in Bland county, and the construction, which was halted 10 days ago by temporary injunction, will now proceed. This will be the first road to enter the county.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-04
Killed In Collision,

New York September 3.-By a col lision today in the East river between the tugboat R. D. Little and two trans fer floats owned by the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, John D. O'Donnell, of Bayonne, N. J., a deck hand on the Little, was instant Iy killed and John Lavin of Jersey City was probably fatally scalded. The Lit- tie was badly damaged. Capt. R. l.. Robbins of the tug which was towing the floats was arrested.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-04

at great length and finally it was decided to propose to the Manufacturers asso- citation that the issue be referred to ar bitration before special meetings of the individual unions were called to take ac- tion on the refusal to raise wages. There is much unrest in local textile circles and it Is the general opinion that the majority of the unions will declare for a strike unless concessions are made.
 The manufacturers in their reply to tho demand of the textile council stated that present conditions did not warrant an advance. With one exception. they said wages were higher than ever paid here and are 3S per cent above the low sched- ules of 1898.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-04
River Steamer Burned.

Paducah. Ky, September 3.-Fire of mysterious origin totally destroyed the packet Gracey Childers at the wharf here tonight In 50 minutes the boat had burned to the waters edge. Bremen had narrow escapes while fighting the flames. The boat was owned by the Tyner line o< Nashville, and was valued at $l0.000. It was insured for 5000.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-04
vanderbIIt Goes to Europe,

New York. September 3.-Cornelius Vanderbilt sailed suddenly for Europe today on his yacht North Star. With him were a lawyer and personal friend. Mrs. Vanderbilt and three chil- dren are in Germany. So hurriedly did the North Star sail that she will have to stop at Halifax to take ca moro coal for tho voyage 1t is said.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-04
FataI Cyclone In Sicily.

Catania, Sicily, September 3.-The village of 6cordia was almost wiped out today by cyclone. Five persons wore killed and fifty injured, ten of whom suffered grave hurts. One hun dred houses were completely demol- ished and many others unroofed. The cyclone was accompanied by tor rential rain.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-04
wIII Represent Government.

Washington, September 3.-Assist- ant Secretary William Phillips of the state department and Captain Joseph B. Murdock, commandant of the New York navy yard, have been selected to represent the government on the re- ception and other committees in con nection with the approaching Hudson Fulton celebration
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-04
In an Open Boat.

"Now we spent day and night in an open boat 10 miles from shore. This last ed for two months while storms often ragged over our heads At last we got ashore again. but we had no fuel and were obliged to eat birds raw. One day we found fuel and what a feast we had
 But we suffered much hunger during this period. One night a bear came and stole
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a0oHnkAHnD ON PAan Al
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-03-02
. Southern Railway Situation

In 1906 the Southern Railway COM
pany authorized the issue of S200,OOO,-
600 of bonds with which to take up
outstanding obligations and make
needful improvements. Only $20,00O,-
900 of these bonds mad been issued,
but last week $2O,000,00O more were
sold to a syndicate headed by J. P.
Morgan & Co. The price at which
these A per cents were sold is said to
have been rs.
The sale of these bonds will enable
the Southern to take up the $16,O0O,OoO
of trust notes which mature April l..
This will leave the company free from
pressing obligations-free to develop
its business and to strengthen itself
in the year to come.
Although its earnings are increasing
no immediate attempt will be made to
resume the payment of dividends on
the preferred stock. All excess earn
ings will be used to extend and i'm
prove the property, and to purchase
additional equipment against a rush OF
business which is sure to follow re-
vision of the tariff and good crops.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-03-02
Extra Session Problems

On Monday week the Sixty-f1rst Con-
gress will meet in extra session. 1t is
to be convened ostensibly to revise
the tariff. but as it will be free to do
other work no one can say what it
will or will not do. The only known
restriction on the length of the SEES
sion is the desire of senators and
members to get away from the damp
hot air of Washington in the later
summer days.
Chairman Payne and Mr.. Dalzell
will be ready, it is said, to present
their tariff bill as soon as Congress
meets, and it is believed that Speaker
Cannon, who is their friend, can I'M
load 1t on the senate by April Is. But
what will the senate do-the senate
in which three or four determined
men can create a great deal OF de-
lay? 1t is said that Senator Aldrich
representing several large interests,
including Standard Oil, anticipates a
long session. He proposes to fight for
the interests he represents If 1t takes
all summer.
A scheme much discussed at pres
ent looks to the making of the Payne
bill a party measure and the pulling
of it through the house without
amendment. This plan would be with
out precedent, but the Cannonites care
little for precedent and the special
interests nothing at all.
The senate cannot be handled by
the special interests as the house can
be, and the senate will hereafter hold
a goodly number Of free and indie
pendent republicans who care very lit
tie what Aldrich, Hale & Co. desire.
The tariff commission amendment and
the maximum nd-minimum scheme
will be freely discussed, and summer
will be we'll advanced before that bill
goes back to the house.
What will the house do in the mean
time?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-03-02
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
A Great EVANGELIST.

THE Rev. Wilbur Chapman, the distin-
gnished evangelist, seems to be filling
the place of the late D. L. Moody" said
a layman. He is drawing the same
crowds that greeted Mr.. Moody and his
success is notable wherever he goes.
HE has made a deep impression in
Boston and the great revival which he
has just been conducting there has caused
the most wonderful religious awakening
known in New England in the last 80 or
40 years.
"one of his assistants in newspaper
interview said a policeman told him that
Mr.. Chapman's meeting had made the
work of the police much lighter, the in
ference being that evildoers had become
rare. While all God-fearing people re-
ioice in the revival. yet in a city as
large as Boston crime is not appreciably
diminished by an evangeistic campaign
of a few weeks. Such revivals in towns
of 10000 or $4,000 population have an effect
equal to that suggested by the Boston
policemans remark, but in the great
cities such ideal conditions are never
attained. But that fact does not lessen
in any degree the good effects of evangel-
istic movements in a general way"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-03-02
DUCKS AS GOLD MINERS.

From the New York Press.
Perhaps you did not know that the
idea of the steam dredger was sug-
gested by the common duck Maybe
you have forgotten that the original
notion of sailing ship was derived
from the flight of buzzard. OF course
no goose ever lived to lay a golden
egg that was fairy story. But out
in the vicinity of the Lucy Jim mines
in Colorado a man has working for
him 40 common puddle ducks. They
are kept on short rations till very hun
CRY; then they are turned loose, in care
of a duckherd. and allowed to root
for a living. The creek is very shall
low except in spots. where the pools
are inviting. These ducks dive all
day, and at night are driven into a
barn, where their craws are stripped
of all contents. The average gain is
about thpee-eights of a pound of gold
to each craw. AS much as three
quarters of pound was recently
taken out of the craw of big, lusty
drake. This beats the goose of the
golden egg several miles.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-03-02
DUEL WITH WAX BULLETS.
Novel Contest Takes Place In New
York Athletic Club.

From the New York American.
In the presence of a score of members
of the New York Athletic club a duel
with pistols took place last night, in the
gymnasium, between one of the members
and James Murray, the fencing instruc-
tor who recently brought from Paris a
pair of "A caliber French duelng pistols
and some composition wax bullets and
fuse cartridges. Each of the principals
donned black robe and adjusted a wire
head mask, fitted with an Oblong piece
of thick plate glass to protect the eyes,
nose and mouth.
All the conditions of a genuine duel
were In evidence and the scene was
striklngly realistic. At signal the two
men, back to back, stepped out ten PAGES
and then, facing about. took deliberate
aim at each other and fired. One bullet
struck the left side of the members head
piece and the other hit Murray over the
small ribs on the right side, causing him
to finch ever so little at the moment
OF the impact.
Several of the members then tried their
skill with the pistols, which have a light
steel shield inclosing the hand and the
trigger guard, to protect the hand from
a shot coming toward the shooter. 1t Is
the intention to introduce pool matches
with dueling pistols loaded with these
wax bullets, the invention of M. De-
yiller.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-03-02
ANOTHER BOSTON IDEA

From the Washington Post.
Unquestionably Boston wots of much
which it is not given to the rest of the
world to know. The Boston wells of
learning are deep. her founts of speech
profuse, her springs of inspiration Sc
cret and unquenchable, her imagination
boundless as the fields of the stars Oc-
casionally, withal Boston, in her eager
search for truth, gets only part of truth;
the rest eludes her by a scant tails
length. but she misses it. Lately one of
her literary lights has been exploring the
life of the "co-eds'' in a certain western
university, and the following rules per-
tanning to the college girls of that insti-
tuition are published as the result of
the search:
Women must not appear on the quad
or about the university buildings
wearing frou-frou skirts.
Women students must not wear no.
siery of light or pastel shades
Light dresses, and particularly peek
aboo waists, must not be worn at
university exercises.
Men and women must not stroll to-
gether in the evening in single groups.
Remarkable as are these four must
nots" resulting from the Bostonian in
vestigation, they are true. The faculty
authorities at that university were COM
PEELED to resort to these measures to
protect the men students. Before they
were adopted a number of sweet young
fellows of tender age and without the
protection of their mothers were lured,
frisked, kidnapped and weaned away al
together, both from their studies and the
croquet matches, by the wiles of the CO.
eds. The only way to prevent the COM
plete decentralization of the young men
was for the faculty to compel the girls
to make themselves unattractive.
These are the facts, as any student who
ever attended that university can testi-
fly; but they are not all the facts. The
Bostonese should have ascertained all
the restrictions it was necessary to put
those western college girls under. From
the same source he might have acquired
knowledge of these rules also:
Young ladies are requested to re-
move their SOmDrerOS ana spurs upon
retiring. 1t saves the furniture.
Girls caught smoking in the class
rooms or carrying cocktail bottles
concealed in their hair will be given
five dement's for each offense.
Ladies will not sic with their feet
on the table during recitations, nor
carry their pistols into the chemical
laboratory.
1t can be easily seen that the co-eds
have tough time at that college. Since
they cannot wear what hosiery they
please. nor silk skirts, nor peekaboo
waists, nor f1irt, they are not allowed to
be women, and, in spite of their best en-
deavors, they cannot be men. But this
is the Boston idea. Fortunately, how
ever, such rigid rules are not necessary
for the circumscribing of the average
Boston coed, who takes care that her
native charm shall not be enhanced by
feminine trick and device.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-03-02
The Atlanta Spirit.

ct had thought that Atlanta was out
growing its hot air stage" said trav-
cling man, "but from the way Its forth
coming music festival is being boosted
1t is plain that the policy of exaggera-
ton is still prevalent.
Atlanta has had two or three credit
able festivals, but the best was not up
to the last two festivals held in Birming
ham under the direction Of Benjamin
Guckenberger, with the late Theodore
Thomas and his matchless orchestra as
features Atlanta has never had a band
of singers equal to the Guckenberger
chorus or equal to the Spartanburg
chorus. This year. however, Atlanta is
to have Caruso as the big star. But
that of itself will not place the festival
on an especially high plane. Many things
are required to make music festival
several acceptable soloists, a we'll trained
chorus and a high class orchestra; and
yet because the distinguished operate
tenor has been engaged one of the At
lanta papers says, in Hill Billy fashion,
the forthcoming festival will be the most
brilliant in all the musical history Of
this country
I'm reading such wild claim as that
we'll informed folks will ask, Where is
Cincinnati and where are number of
other great festival cities?"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-03-02
Mr., MaCVeigh'S Eligibility

Way back in General Grants term
In 1869 the nomination of A. T. Stew
art, the merchant prince of New York,
was sent in for Secretary of the Treas
ury. At once a section of the revised
statutes coming down from the first
Congress in 1889 was unearthed, read
ing as follows: mo person appointed
to the office of Secretary of the Treas
ury shall directly or indirectly be
concerned or interested in carrying on
the business of trade or commerce"
This section of the law astonished
Mr.. Stewart Awho was anxious to
round out his career in high office.
AS soon as he had gotten his second
wind he offered to transfer his vast
business as a dry goods merchant to
trustees with the provision that DUR
ing his term in office all profits of the
business should be distributed to char.
stable institutions. But the lawyers of
hat day held that Mr.. Stewards de-
vice would not render him eligible to
the Office in question. He would still
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-03-02

From the Outing Magazine.
Messina's streets were a great attrac-
ton, for, though of rather squalid type.
they housed a most interesting popula-
ton. The Marina teemed with life-with
fishermen in stocking caps and knitted
smock- frocks: with stevedores loading
and unloading the motley craft that filled
the harbor Back from the port, the city s
streets were filled to oyerrowing with
curious figures, vendors of all kinds; fruit
sellers and peddlers of pottery; iron
mongers and acquajuol carrying their
water stands from house to house. Then
there were the barber shops, rendezvous
for the lower classes, as the drug store
was for those of higher stations. In
the salone, men would talk before, dur
ing and after their hair was being
brushed, and with eyes and hands even
more than with words, arrange all sorts
of little combinazioni.
And as was to be expected In an H.
literate country, every now and then a
public scribe would be encountered, sit
ting in the angle of a doorway. l never
remember seeing so many of them as
saw in Messina They were a queer relic
of bygone age, with their old-fashion-
ed dingy tophats, their faded frock coats,
their goose quilts, their green umbrellas
and rickety tables aften decorated with
the inscription: Isl traduce il francese."
By them you would see young peasant
girls debating letters to faraway sweet
hearts doing their military service, or
women greeting absent sons, or sailormen
sending word to distant homes
The hills back of the town were gay
with orchards and vineyards and charm
ing villas set in pretty gardens, any one
of which would make a poets dream or
lovers paradise, twined over as they
were with oeanders or mougainvillea and
walled with hedges of fichidindia The
nightingales sang by the hundreds In the
aloes. Under foot the marigold and as
phodel, the pale immortelle and the cy-
clamen, with its scarlet petals, carpeted
the hill slopes with varied colors
In the country beyond and to the south
ward you will find the same primitive
life. Tibet women still carry water in
Greek amphorae balanced upon their
head. At house doors you would see
peasants spinning in the fashion i'm
memorially antique; thus spun the daugh-
tiers of the kings of Greece, thus the
Fates and thus the scilians of today.
On hillside you would find Pasqualuc-
clio playing his reeds (the real pipes OF
Pam while he tended his flock of goats.
And great OK carts would go patiently
by, drawn by true oxen of the sun, tawny
and robust as Homer depicts them, with
great broad foreheads and long curved
horns.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-03-02
Prohibition Fiqht in Virainia.

THE prohibition campaign is well on in
Virginia. said James NJ. Huffman of
Washington, D. C. Il spent two weeks
in February in the Old Dominion and
found the people intensely interested in
the question of wet or dry, or rather
statewide prohibition or local option
"A governor is to be elected this year
and the two strong candidates are Judge
Mann, prohibitionist, and ex-Congress-
man Harry st. George Tucker, who
stands for local option and against statu-
tory prohibition. Judge Mann has long
been an aspirant for the governorship,
but this is the first time that Tucker
has been a candidate for the office. The
latter is known for his frankness, as
well as his ability. No one stands higher
as gentleman and he is strong with the
people. He says that If he is elected and
the legislature passes a statewide bill
he will veto it.
"A few months ago it looked as il Vir-
ginia would fall into line and have state
swide prohibition. but find that now the
-prohibitionists are gaining ground
and are hopeful of victory. The cam
paign will be one of the bitterest waged
since Mahones day."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-03-02

be indirectly interested in trade and
commerce. And SO the nomination
was withdrawn.
Franklin MacVeigh finds himself 40
years later in Mr.. Stewards shoes.
The later aspirant to office is a whole
sale grocer in Chicago and an importer
of coffee, tea and spices. He leads
the list perhaps of Chicago's grocers.
And yet he proposes, it is said, to
qualify for the secretaryship of the
treasury on March 4, or soon after
wards. In the meanwhile he will no
doubt unload his grocery business, but
unless he does so unqualifedly he will
still be ineligible. The rule that was
applied to A. T. Stewart in 1869 should
also be applied to Franklin MacVeigh
in 1909.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-03-02
New Bill of Ladlne in tha South

On April l the Louisville and Nash
vile, the Southern and other lines will
put into use a modified form of the
so-called uniform bill of lading. 1t
will be known as the standard" bill
of lading.
The standard differs from the uni
form bill in three or four respects. 1t
was adopted, say notices to shippers
on the Southern railroad, lin order to
meet conditions of rail and water
transportation and to make the bill
of lading adaptable to the needs of
the SOUTH"
The new forms are being printed
and will soon be ready for distribu-
ton, and shippers will soon be able
to study the new provisions devised
to fit southern trade.
After April l no other bill of lading
can be used on the chief railroads in
the southeast 1t is expected that all
railroads in the southeast will use
these bills of lading, thus shutting
out from this section the uniform bill
now used on northern lines.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-03-02
WHY FOAM is WHITE.

From the New York Press.
How white the foam is" said the
pretty girl, in a voice nuffled by the
sable stole drawn across her red
mouth. yet the sea is green. Why,
then, isn't the foam green?"
The young sophomore laughed in de-
rision.
Gee, you are Ignorant" he said
Beer is brown, but its foam is white
too Shake up black ink and you get
white foam. Shake up red ink and the
result Is the same. A body that re-
fleets all the light it receives, without
absorbing any, is always white. All
bodies powdered into tiny diamonds
form, so that they throw back the
light from facets, absorb none of 1t
and are white by consequence. Pow
dered black marble for instance, is
white. And foam is water powdered
into these small diamonds, and hence
its whiteness."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-03-02
Mr.. Taft In Wall Street

Wall street will not celebrate on
Thursday next It has ceased to ex-
spect a boom because of Mr.. Tafts
election, and it will simply sit still
and await developments. The inaugu-
ration of new President is generally
regarded in Wall street optimistically,
but that locality no longer looks at
Mr.. Taft in that way. It's Taftian ex-
perience has not been pleasant and
it is in a waiting mood at present.
1t does not feel like celebrating an
event that has not up to the present
time brought in a boom in stocks and
brought back to be sheared a big lot
of lambs
Wall street hopes to read on Thurs
day evening statements from the new
President that will lift the pressure
from corporations and send prices up.
1t is not altogether optimistic, how
ever. 1t has its misgivings. The prom
ised Taft boom in stocks did not crys-
tallize, and there are not a few in
Wall street who have ceased to be
admirers of the man from Ohio.