The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-09
SOUTHERN NOTES
FROM NEW YORK
Opposition to Lees Monument
In Washington Amusing
ADAMS0N Is ON HIS JO3
Georgia Boy Assumes Duties of Private
Secretary to Mayor Gaynor With
Characteristic Grace-Per-
smmon Popular.
Is ON HIS lO3
BY ROBERT LEE CARTER.

BY ROBERT LEE CARTER.
| New York, January S-lSpecial.) 1.-The
ex-Confederates in New York with whom
| have talked, and most of the es>fed-
erals as well, in point of fact, are rather
amused than otherwise at the vociferous
protest made In some quarters over the
placing of the statue of Gen. Robert e.
Lee in the capitol at Washington.
| 1t Is the general opinion that the out
! cry comes, as rule, from professional
! veterans, who see the crumbling away
| of their influence and notoriety as the
sections of the country are drawn closer
together. Recently 1 had something to
say as to the position taken by Gen.
Horatio C. King of this city on this
question. General King was gallant
officer in the federal army and has no
patience with this new effort to wave
the bloody shirt. His opinion is shared
by many union officers and soldiers with
within l have talked since the Chicago
ebullition.
The feeling among the ex-Confederates
is pretty well summed up by Gen. Roger
| A. Pryor, who, when asked for opin-
ion on the Chicago resolutions of protest
against the placing of Lees statue in
Statuary Hall, said ''It is astonishing,
and little sad. 1t cannot have any per-
manent effect, and I cannot believe that
/ the passage of the resolution protesting
against the presence of General Lees
statue in the Memorial Hall in Washing
ton was the work of men who ever
smelled powder"
Bob Adamson, the young Georgia
! newspaper man named by Mayor Gaynor
! as his private secretary, has settled down
to his work like veteran. There are
| few New York politicians with whom
Adamson has not personal acquaintance
and he has a nice, quiet suave way about
him which sometimes surprises an ex-
pectant Tammany office seeker to say
thank you,' when he is softly turned
away without seeing the mayor.
Nearly every day Judge Gaynor and his
secretary take dinner together in the
Hardware club. in the Postal Telegraph
building, just across Broadway from the
city hall. and the fate of many an office
| seeker Is settled at these quiet little
| lunches.
Adamson is going to prove mighty
valuable man for the mayor, and unless
/ miss my guess he will, at the end of his
York politics which will have to be reck-
oned with in the figuring.
The death of Maj Mason Carter at San
Diego, Call recently caused sorrow here,
where the dead man had many friends.
| Major Carter was son of Dr. John
Carter of Augusta, Ga. He graduated at
West Point 81 years ago. and, although
southerner, remained loyal to the fed
| eral government, serving with distinc-
ton in the union ranks throughout the
civil war while his three brothers en-
| tered the Confederate service. After the
civil war Major Carter served In the In
dian wars under General Miles. After his
retirement he was appointed commandant
and tactical instructor to the cadet corps
OF the University of the South at Sc
| vance, Tenn, where he served until
| years and infirmity forced his resignation.
| In 1907 Major Carter and his wife went to
California. He is survived by his widow
and his sister, Mrs. Sophia Flournoy Car
ter Johnson of sewanee. Tenn, and the
| latter's children.
A friend of mine who has just returned
from London was greatly amused to find
the persimmon. the plain, everyday,
piney- woods 'simmon, the latest luxury
in the front line in the English capital.
They sell at something like cents each.
and NATURALLY oniy the iich COLL "iloio
them.
He had clipping from one of the
English papers, a sentence of which will
appeal to all those who know the SIM
mon It says: This fruit cannot be
eaten until thoroughly ripe. and in COM
mon with the medlar, is better for hav-
ing undergone the process of betting"
Prof. Booker 7. Washington will doubt
less soon be able to make more improve
ments at Tuskegee I note that public
meeting in the interest of Tuskegee In
stitute will be held in Carnegie Hall Mon
day evening, January "a. under the au-
spices of the Armstrong association. Seth
Low, ex-mayor, will preside.
1t Is planned to show moving pictures
| of the work at Tuskegee, and a chorus of
Hampton students will sing plantation
| songs.
Professor Washington would have made
a fortune as an industrial promoter.
Veterans of the Blue and Gray and
thousands Of descendants Of the Revolu-
ton have been mustered into the RANKS
OF the George Washington Memorial as
ISOLATION that has mapped out q national
campaign to build at the country's CAPT.
tai a s2,5oo,000 hall in honor of the first
| President.
| Reports from the headquarters of mis-
| new movement show that many mem oers
| Of the Grand Army of the Republic, tho
| United Confederate Veterans, the Daugh-
tiers of the American Revolution, the
| United Daughters of the Confederacy,
| the Sons of the American Revolution, the
| Society of the Cumberland and other pa
| triotic bodies have volunteered to present
to the people In every part of the coun-
| try this opportunity for paying tribute to
| the memory Of George Washington by
| helping to give all of the nations head
quarters an auditorium as they have
| always needed. Within the opening year
| the fund required to erect this George
Washington Memorial Hall will be raised
| by popular subscription. 1t 10 expected.
! Charles N. Smith of Louisville, who
has been in the city during the past
| week, is enthusiastic over the business
outlook in the Blue Grass State: :! an