The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-11
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Our MlllIonnires mad Near MiIIiOnair

- age. twenty-five years ago a NanueI-
oilt or an Astor attracted attention at
ne moved along through the streets, A
was pointed out and st.red
1t. But not so now Millionaires have
become SO numerous that they are no
onger regarded as curiosities. Even null
oer-neck as was the case some years
ago.
About two years since I saw a man
worth upwards of s100,0O0,0oO riding quiet
y through the streets of Birmingham on
1 bright Sunday forenoon. The gentle
man referred to was the late Edward
Il. Hartman.
. There goes one of the richest men
IN the world said one citizen to an
other. Abr was the reply; and the two
men soon resumed their conversation
about the weather or whatever else they
had been discussing.
And this brings me to a question of
ocal interest How many millionaires has
accumulated? Recently
heard little group of clubmen discuss
ing this city's progress and incidentally
one of them said
" I'll bet there are not five individuals
In this town worth as much as $780,
)0o.'
I'll take the bet said one of the
party.
well, no one undertook to appraise
with any degree of authority or accuracy
rich men, but the majority
Of the group agreed that, belonging to
The millionaire class, were these persons
u. H. Woodward w II. Woodward
George B. Mccormack, Erskine Ramsay,
B. M. Allen, Morris Adler, Edgar L.
Adler, Gov. B. B. Conner, R. S. Munger,
w. II. Hassinger and Mrs. r. T. Hill
nan. u
''The topic of local wealth had grown
somewhat animated and as result
here is a list of near- millionaires-
to be worth at any rate up
wards Of $500. 900: Robert Jemison, ]. c.
Maben, Richard W. Massey, w. J. Mil
Ter, James F. Leary, Mrs Paula Kauf-
nan widow of the late H. Simon, Frank
Nelson, Jr., Leo K. Steiner, Frank Y
Anderson Gen. Louis V. Clark Arthur
W Smith. Otto Marx, w. H. Sims, C. f.
Inslen, T. H Motion, E. N Cullom, Mrs
R. Fl. Pearson, w H. Kettig, Judge Oscar
B. Hundley and Maj. George H. Nc
United States army, retired.
There are several rich estates, such as
he DR.. Smith, the Roden and the Earle,
nut the list of millionaires and near
was confined to individuals
Mr.. w. B. Leedy, one of the club men
n the group, jocularly observed: That
list of millonaires is not long enough;
or II all the men who ride In automobiles
lave paid for their machines are not mil
ionairies, or at least millionaires,
hey ought to be-
LAS some one said, Birmingham has not
My more rich citizens than most cities
II its size, but all of them, SO far as COM
non report goes, came by their money
1t is safe to say that there is
no tainted wealth hereabouts."
Exciting Experience Fishing
81 went for days sport fishing
lew days ago to Lock 8. on the Coosa,"
;aid an amateur fisherman.
II had never had much experience ex-
sept landing a catfish or an eel, and this
work on the farm, In my boyhood. Well,
ny wife accompanied me, and following
he advice of my fisher friend, Percy
Clark, / carried two or three kinds of
oait
MY wife was afraid of the cock
reaches and the wiggling earthworms.
and l had to do all the batting. I my
self was trying all my art to catch a
great big trout with live minnow for
bait. My wife was trying her luck in
a eddy of back-water with an earth
worm. All of a sudden, and just as
Tad a big strike and snatched my pole
breaking the tip off for about
scream. Forgetting big fish, pole and
all. / rushed to her assistance. She
was standing about 80 feet from her pole
gesticulating toward the end of 1t, which
was back in the reeds. Gaspng, she
said: oh. hun, I've caught something ter
rible. Go see what 1t is l approached
cautiously, being myself squeam-
ish about snakes, cells and strange bugs.
After looking carefully I discovered a
small wiggling thing about the size of
a Waterbury watch, with brown back,
a yellow belly and claws, fastened to the
hook. / learned afterward that twas a
terrapin. | cut the line Off about two
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that my wife had no hook. / FASTENED
back to my stand to see what became
of my piece of pole and hook and line.
1 spied 1t travelling upstream not far
from the bank.
II secured a boat and set out in pur-
suit. My wife and l both padded We
chased that piece of pole for two hours,
and ever and anon when we almost had
1t. down 1t would go, and out of sight,
to reappear like diadapper. l felt sure
that had a 12-pound trout on the hook.
We finally chesed that fish into rather
shallow water and under some brush.
The water was about four feet deep. l
in my arms, came UP full of water and
mud. 1t was 10-pound catfish.
How long? About so 1ong-foot and a
half.
I'VE came home with our catfish, ate a
hearty meal and retired, thoroughly ex-
hausted, but once or twice In the night
my wife would cry out In her sleep:
Hun, don't let that terribel thing drag
me out to sea- This I attributed to the
sequential psychology of experience and
suggestion--the catching of that little
terrapin and the chasing Of the catfish, y