The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-06-09
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
The Brightest Spot

east after an absence of nearly three weeks. He was in New York when the stock market became Hurried over the railroad rate situation, but as he was leaving for home the feeling in financial circles was decidedly better
 ''In New York I found general trade quiet" said MT. Steiner "The national administration and national politics gen. erally are having a temporarily depress- ing effect on business. A prominent busi- ness man in New York who has inn l portant interests in the east and also in Birmingham, said to me: The Birming- ham district is the one bright place in this country. Birmingham is all right. While this gentleman may have been too pessimistic about the business situation at large, he was right in thinking that Birmingham was in good shape.
 "Just as soon as I reached home I found everything looking bright. The vast amount of money which the United States Steel corporation is expending in new construction in this district Is having a splendid effect here. I never saw con- ditions in Birmingham better"
 Jack BroWn's Remarkable Dream
 "There have been many odd dreams come unto mankind, but Deputy Sheriff Jack Brown, erstwhile candidate for county road supervisor, had the most pe- culiar one on record the other night" said Ed Newman, warden at the county jail This brain visitation to Jacks sleep resulted from the overeating of r1 w bah n VI ha ha- came addicted in early youth.
 He went down on Morris avenue yes terday to serve a paper and the outlay of vegetables there was so tempting that he just had to partake of a turnip. His hunger appeased, he returned to the of flee, and seating himself at a desk, im- mediately became very busy with some papers. The turnip. however. produced drowsiness and Jack quickly fell asleep. Soon he began to moan, his right arm shot cut i'll awkward fashion and his left followed suit. Then his feet began to switch and kick about. The moaning grew louder and the threshing about of his arms and limbs resembled whirl- wind
 Suddenly his hands shot to his head and clinched tightly to it. He began pull ing upon his head with terrific force. bracing his feet stubbornly against the wall The moaning by this time ha6 assumed the proportions of a roar, and rushed to him. I pounded upon him in the effort to awake him, but without re- sult. and was compelled to empty the contents of the water cooler upon his head before he came to his senses.
 "A half hour afterward he explained to me that he had dreamed he was a turnip planted in the ground and was trying to pull his head out of the ground in order that he might eat himself"
 As to the Associated Charities
 'T see that Mayor O,Brien has directed the police department not to send any more applicants for charity to him, but to refer them to the Associated Charities said a citizen.
 "The police department does not know where the Associated Charities ofac is located. How do I know? Why. tried to find out through that department Tues day night as I had two applicants in few minutes of each other for food. They were able-bodied men. One of them was honest enough to say that he was Just out of the city jail for riding a freight train into town. I gave him an order for meal. The other had on a fraterna1 badge, which he pointed to and showed horny hands: also he had a breath that smelled of blind tiger I sent him on to find an easier mark.
 What wish to say particularly is that I tried to find the Associated Charities through the Bell telephone connection, but the book number brought me an an- swer from seed house instead of the refuge of 'seedy persons in need of char ity Information said the Associated Charities did not now have a Bell phone. The present location is not in the direc- tory; the police don't know where to di- rect mendcants-and so there you are."
 Birmingham Is Cosmopolitan
 Birmingham is truly one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the south." said Frank Corbett yesterday; land to prove that I am correct, an observer has only to remain in our store here for short time and watch the convincing types that float past on the human wave that in- cessantly rolls by this corner.
 "I have often wondered at the various types seen in Birmingham. One single day I noticed Japanese. Chinaman, many Germans, score of Italians, many Swedes, host of Englishmen, one In- dian, a Scandinavian, Pole, one Bohemi- an and, in fact, every type of civilized man.
 'erhe very fact that such large cosmo- politan class serves to make up the pop ulation of this city is one reason for the widespread wave of buoyant sentiment that has been felt several months and which believe is to continue. I wish every one could view tho passing throng heresone day, in order to form conclusions about Birmingham's wonderful list of cit izens."
 Mr. Turnbull Returns