The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-13
MANY WANT ID BE
 SCALES FRIEND Texas Cotton Man Is Called
 "The Silent" LEWIS FINE PROPERTY New York Man Now Owns Original Homes of Doth Thomas Jefferson and Jnmes Mndison-Flings
 at New Orleans
LEWIS FINE PROPERTY
By ROBERT LEE CARTER

New York. November 12.-(special)-
 There Is one man in New York these
 days who is being keenly watched by | good section of the community. His
 name Is Eugene G. Scales, he comes
 from Texas and has gained for himself
 since he came to New York the name of
 ''The Silent Man."
 There are of course. many men in New
 York who are reasonably silent, but Mir.
 Scales has them all beaten to a frazzIe
 to borrow an expression from 8 gentle
 man who Is far from silent, when 1t
 comes to keeping his thoughts to him. self.
 He can refrain from saying what he thinks of the cotton situation in all the
 known languages and then some. He is cruel in this because there are so many people who are actually suffering
 to know what he really does think of cot
 ton.
 During the last year many stories have
 been circulated about the health of the
 big operator People opposed to him in
 the market and who had never seen him,
 knew all about the dyspepsia he is sup
 posed to suffer from.
 Many times has the story been started
 that MT. Scales was going away from
 here; but he Is still here, and If he has
 any trouble with his stomach his health
 is not So poor as to at all interfere with
 his market activities.
 No man ever had more kind friends
 ready and willing to do his thinking for
 him than D. c. Scales has discovered
 since he has been in New York; but he
 seems to be one of those stubborn peo- pie who insist upon doing their own thinking. Sometimes when people bore
 him with advice he does not even take the pains to conceal the fact that he is irritated.
 Scales has the reputation of being a good friend to his friends; but he is not man who feels the need of society. His cigar Is his best friend, and no one knows better than he how to say noth- l ing.
 He puts his whole being into the game s when he plays the cotton market It is his only hobby. He plays quite as much for the love of the play as for the money
 he plans to gain. He would not enjoy
 himself out of the market, and all stories
 of his thinking about getting out of the , market can safely be put down as un- true.
 The market will probably be talking about E. c. Scales and his operations, his f health and his plans for many years to ] come.
 Through the good offices of R. c. Og- den of this city 16 prominent southern . educators will start on a trip next week to study the schools of Indiana.
 November IA, 15 and IS will be spent In , Indiana and the trip then will be ex- 3 tended into Canada
 5 Jefferson M Levy of this city now has completed to the smallest detail the res toraton of Monticello, the home of 5 Thomas Jefferson in Virginia It is called l the most perfect piece of colonial archi- } lecture in America. and the interior dec : orations and furnishings have been so thorough and accurate that William Jen- nings Bryan sought to make It's perfeo-
 tions a national possession. Thousands of people yearly visit the
 place and Mir Levy keeps access open.
 At the time of Thomas Jeffersons death
 the estate came to be owned by Capt. J. P Levy, who was placed in command l of the United States ship America, in
 the Mexican war; and after hostllties
 ended Gen. Winfield Scott made him l captain of the port of Vera Cruz. It was due to the captains admiration for the 5 founder of democracy that the present owner of Monticello was named Jeffer- son.
 The family has been identified va- rously with patriotic causes. It was , Commodore Uriah F. Levy, at one time
 ranking officer in the United States navy
 who gave bronze statue of Thomas . Jefferson to the United States, now in the Capitol. Jefferson M. Levy, present
 owner of Monticello, gave to the city of l New York the replica of the D'Angers
 bust of Washington which stands in the governors room city hall Four years
 ago MT. Levy purchased from the Metro politan Museum of Art 1500 acres of the farm of President James Monroe, in AL
 bermarle county, Virginia, to preserve it. This property had come to the museum as a gift from Jason s. Rogers, and the museum wished to sell it. It Is three miles from the Monticello estate, and was once before in the Levy family Commodore Uriah N. Levy purchasing 1t direct from President Monroe in 1927 and beoueathing it to A. S. Levy, who sold it for 0,O0o in 1866 In MT. Levy's appre- oiative hands there are therefore, the homes of two of the Presidents of the colonial period.
 q read with astonishment the remark able statements made by MT. George H. Brock, who claims to have lived in New Orleans and is now a resident of San Francisco" said r. D. Armstrong. Tn justice to New Orleans, I would like to say that MT. Brock has evidently never taken the trouble to acquire the slightest idea of the conditions that really exist in my city. He tells the pub lie that the water used in that city is filthy when every well informed person knows that New Orleans has installed, at an expense of something like $500. 900. the most modern and extensive filtration plant in the world. The drinking water of New Orleans has been pronounced by
 the best chemist in the United States to be absolutely pure.
 '"ro give an idea of the modern New Orleans, I would like to say that from 1897 to 1903 inclusive. we have spent on sewerage, water and drainage systems II s19, 900, ,O00 We spent for street paving | and sub-surface drainage $4,000 OO0 upon