The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-14

Another budding millionaire has
started in to make his living. This
time 1t is William Seward Webb, Jr.,
| one of the Vanderbilt Webbs. He has
started out to learn the banking bus
mess as a clerk in the office of ]. T.
Morgan 81 Co.
II like it a lot" was his answer
to a query as to how he enjoyed his
work IT have been here since June
and intend to stay five or six
years.
After graduating from Yale last
year / went up to Nova Scotia and
roughed it in the lumber business,
my father having interests up there.
But 1 prefer this to anything I have
yet struck
Mr.. Webb looked like a real clerk,
alth ough his rolled-up sleeves dis
closed tanned muscular forearms of
the athlete rather than those of a
clerk.
Il work from o'clock until $50
or g." said the young man. Il am
living in the city, at our house, $50
Fifth avenue, which is open this sum-
mer only to the extent of being in
| charge of a caretaker
! 81 am greatly interested in the work
even though at this time of the month
we have to work evenings to keep
up"
|
| course of events, have good many
coupons of his own to clip, 1t is good
thing that he should learn how in what
| is perhaps the greatest coupon clip
ping concern in the country.
| The New York republican machine is
| still shy of former President Roosevelt
| Not only has it turned down his nephew
| for Congress and refused his advice about
| les
claring that they can name a state tick
| ct without help from oyster Bay.
A cynical friend of the colonel dryly
| remarked the other day, after reading
a statement from one of the machine
| leaders, to this effect: Very true they
| Oyster Bay, but how about selecting it.
If there is not a cry from Macedonia,
Come over and help u.s. before Novem-
| Der Tn a poor sign reader"
New York is soon to lose another of
| her distinctions.
The Old Belt line horse cars are to
| give way to auto cars, of the electric
| storage battery type. The Belt line horse
cars have been unique feature of New
York's internal transportation for many
| years, but the picturesque must at last
give way to the cheap.
While the cost of horse car operation
is high, in fact, exceedingly high, per
| car mile. as compared to receipts, and
| in another way against electric opera
| ton when the Metropolitan controlled
| the east and west belt lines, as the South
| and West street lines are known, it core
| tinually avoided the proposition to tear
| I'D the horse car tracks and replace them
with the usual Manhattan trolley sys-
| tenn
Various reasons were then advanced by
| IL, doxr rIov,
was the Ryan-Whitney combination, for
| refusing to convert the system from horse
mower to electricity. Chief among these
| was that the third rail channel could
| not be made water tight, and that owing
to the seepage of salt water through the
ground, constant danger of short cir
| cult would arise. At every unusually
| high tide the road would be temporarily
| put out of business.
Then, in addition. said the Metropoli-
tan officials, such a line would not pay.
| While the horse cars themselves were
anything but paying proposition, never
| theless, the first cost of installing cleo
tricity would be prohibitive, even If a
| plan could be devised to keep the electric
| channels free from water.
Now the storage battery has solved
the problem and the horses must CO.
One of the most interesting points about
New York these days is the aviation
grounds at Mineola. Men birds do all
sorts of fancy stunts with aeroplanes
there every day and the crowds who
watch these aerial stunts constantly grow
greater.
On the eve of his departure for New
York to take up his duties as general
eastern agent of the St. Paul the rail-
road men of Boston waited upon w. w.
Hall and presented him with a gold watch
in token of their esteem, and with best
| wishes for success in the metropolis.
Mr.. Hall is Californian who comes