The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-11
NEXT JUDGE MAY
COME FROM WEST
To Succeed the Late Justice
David j. Brewer
THE PANAMA EXPOSITION
Eight Cities Are Asking for Honor Of
Celebrating the Opening of the Big
Ditch Down ON the Ithmus.
Democratic Seeming
THE PANAMA EXPOSITION
BY RALPH NJ. wHITEsIDE

bound to result in meeting more than one
old friend, no matter from what section
Of the empire south of the Potomac and
the Ohio you may come And every one
| of these southern visitors brings the same
story of good times now and bright pros
poets for better times in the future
However we New Workers NAV have
suffered from the era of high prices. it
is evident the people of the southern
country have not felt the pinch enough
to hurt With cotton lowering about 10
cents a pound on the farm, all other
| farm products away up, mines, mills and
| factories working on full time, the lum-
Der and other industries hourishing. pros
perity is solid and real in the south and
business is brisk. This accounts, per-
haps, for the unusual number of south
ern visitors For your southerner likes
his New York and the liking is very
warmly reciprocated.
| One of the most active state societies
In New York is the Georgia society. 1t
is always doing something to enable it's
members and it's friends to have a good
time. The other night it gave an en-
|
pose of increasing its philanthropic fund
and those who attended were delighted
| Among those who took part in the en-
tertainment were; Misses Mcclure, Kerr
foot, Stevens, Sarah Aiken, Lucille Fitch
Huff, Frances Bedell Parker, Ella Gray
bill Elizabeth Fitch. Grace Momand
| Tweat, Henton Harrison and Emily Bedel
Parker. Mesdames Lloyd Collins, Legave
| Walker, James Henry Parker, William
| Ward Childs, George n. Hartman, Bedel
Parker, George Howe Winkler, Martin
Hoban, Marie Allen Battle. Gress, Leon
ard L. Hill, Augustus NJ. Anderson, Her.
bert L. Borden and Lloyd Stewart Corbin
and Messrs Lloyd Collins, Chester Alex
ander and James +. Allen.
| 1t can be truthfully said a sweeter beVy
OF girls has never been seen at the Plaza.
To say New York stands aghast at the
| manner Mayor Gaynor has taken hold
| of the excise law and police graft can
hardly be said to be over-stating the
fact.
| If anybody else had thought of solving
the excise problem by simply instructing
| the police to make no arrests for excise
violations he had not said anything about
it. Under Mayor Gaynors plan the whole
|
| placed on the state authorities and, as
obedience of the mayors orders breaks
the hold of the police on the saloons
keepers, 1t looks as though the "sys-
tenn would be deprived of the millions
in graft 1t is alleged to have received
from this source.
just how the new plan is going to work
oul SO far as Sunday closing is concerned
remains to be seen, and Just how New
York, especially that section of it which
believes in a closed Sabbath, is going to
| look at the matter is another question
which the future will have to answer.
I am afraid there is trouble ahead for
| the mayor and his plan.
| New Workers, native and adopted, have
always been proud of Central park. Now
4 comes Carroll Beckwith, the artist, and
| declares Central park is a mass of spa
| ghetti paths. 1t is undigested nature.
| Not being formalized, 1t is. therefore, not
appropriate when brought into close con-
tact with formal architecture, such as
composes New Works buildings. We
should transform Central park into a
fitting adjunct to New York's architec-
| tural beauty"
Somehow. too much education along cer-
| tain lines in art, music, religion or what
| not. seems to get person out of touch
| with the great mass of common people,
| and they are anxious to change things
| to conform to their ideals, which may
bs lots better than those of the ordinary
or garden variety, of citizen, but which
the latter neighbor appreciates nor de-
| sires. ..
| Mr., Beckwiths proposed Improvement of
| Central park might make it much more
| beautiful from an artists viewpoint. but
| doubt il the vast majority of people
| who now enjoy the beauties of that great
| breathing spot would get anywhere near
| the enjoyment out of it they now do,
| ami that after all is what the park is for,
| Tennessee has about as much chance
to go republican at the next national
| election as Pennsylvania has to go DEM
ocratic." declares Thomas S. Logan of
| Knoxville
"All this talk about the old Volunteer
State going republican is wild surmise-
| there's not a chance There are only two
republican congressional districts in the
state-all the rest are democratic, and
| this state of affairs has prevailed for
years. These two republican districts are
| in the extreme eastern part of the state,
and Senator Bob Taylor was born in
| one of them. During the Civil war all
| the soldiers from Tennessee who Served
| in the union army were from those dis
tricts They were republican then and
have been that way ever since
| -
ever been In the Blue Grass section of
Kentucky?' inquired Col. James Mason
of Lexington, KY, the other day.
| "You have certainly missed something
| IL YOU haven't. That's Gods country for
| sure There the sky Is the bluest, the
| grass the greenest, the weather the calm
| est, and the people the best on this earth.
to say nothing in praise of the horses
and the liquor
i met John Adams of Vicksbure. Miss,
| the other day, I'VE are mighty busy in
Mississippi these days" he said. II think
| the farmers are clearing out the fence
corners to plant cotton In and with good
| seasons YOU may look out for bumper
| crop next year
at ought to bring good price even
| II the record is broken, for stocks are
| about as low as they can be and there
| will be a record breaking demand for the
| staple
''There Is a good deal of excitement now
| about the bribng charges In connection
| with the election of Senator Percy. |
don't think they will amount to much.
Mississippi Just wanted to be in the FASH
ion. you know" t.-
| Apropos Of Senator Roots determine
ton to limit pensions to widows of civil
war veterans to those who We're married
prior to June &c, 1890, it is interesting to
note that there are still some 500 widows
of the war of 1872 left and there are
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