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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-27
END OF CAMP AIGN
IS NOW IN SIGHT
Canvass for Good Roads Fund
Ends To-Day-Work of
Yesterday.

The canvassing campaign for sub
scriptions for the Richmond Newport
News good roads fund will end to-day.
and those interested in the movement
for better highways in the vicinity of
Richmond are busy impressing upon
the public the necessity for liberal
support If the object hoped for is to
be attained.
The committee at work yesterday.
mond; J. A. Potts. of Barhamsville. and
Mr.. Boxton. OF Newport News. secured
$3.50, bringing the amount in hand to
St,ssl. It is believed that with the
be available for furthering the work.
Yesterday was considered a fairly
good day for the workers, but they
hope to exceed the sum contributed
YESTERDAY in the closing day OF the
The Subscriptions secured Yesterday
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-27
AUGUSTA DROPS
OUT OF LEAGUE

Augusta. Ca July 26.-Augusta is
no longer a member of the South At.
lanttc League OF Baseball Clubs. Soc.
rotary Oliver wired r. c. Williams,
specially commissioned agent OF the
league, tonight that the local owners
surrendered the franchise.
The Augusta Club goes to Columbia
to play the next three games, original
ly scheduled here and from there Will
go to Charleston. Thereafter It will be
operated by tho league as a "floater b"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-27
Wing ONT Ami Ninth.

Especial to The Times Dispatch.J
Hampton. Va. July 26.-The wildness
of Wolfe in the ninth gave the Nor
folk Rockies a 6-to-5 victory over the
Old Point Gunners this afternoon
Wolfe walked six men In the last ses-
sion, netting the visitors three runs.
Score by innings: Ri L.
Old Point 30 21010-5 ~ o
Norfolk ........l ! 30 001 3--8 8 9
Batteries: Wolfe and Dean: Harden.
Hosue and Hudgins. Umpire. Doug
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-27
SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE

At Columbus: First game-columhus
!; Albany. 5. Second game--Columbus,
&; Albany, l.
At Columbia: Columbia. S; Charles
ton, /.
At Augusta: Augusta. 3; Savannah. 2.
At Jacksonville: Jacksonville Macon,
no game; was played last SUNDAY.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-27
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION

At St Paul; st. Paul. g. Indianapolis
At Minneapolis: Minneapolis. 6. To-
ledo, !.
At Milwaukee: Milwaukee, 8; colum-
bus. g
At Kansas City: Kansas City. Al;
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-27
Tidewater League
stnndlng of the clubs.
Vail Is Effective.

lSpecial to The s-Dispatch.l
SUFFOLK. Va. July 26.-Vail could not
be hit effectively. and Suffolk won from
Newport News. 10 TO l. The game waa
called after eight innings to allow the
visitors to catch train.
Score by innings: RHC
Newport News 100000 o-1 q
Suffolk .........1 $4,000 10 10 &
Batteries: Thompson. Drumm and
Rogers Vail and Klock
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-27
CAROLINA ASSOCIATION

At Greenville: Greenville. 4; Win
ston- Salem. .
At spartanburg: spartanburg, A; An
a. Greensboro; Greensboro 4; Char
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-27
APPALACHIAN LEAGUE

At Bristol: First game--Asheville /:
Bristol. !. Second game--Asheville. Z;
: AT Johnson City: Johnson City, 5:
Knoxville 8.
AT Cleveland: Cleveland a; Norris
town,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-27
EASTERN LEAGUE

At Toronto: Toronto. Il Baltimore, G..
At Montreal: Montreal. 3: Jersey
City. 1.
At Rochester: Rochester, 3; Newark,
i.
At Buffalo: First game-Bunalo. ~:
Providence. .. Second game Buffalo.
3; Providence, 9
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-27
SOUTHERN LEAGUE

AT Nashville: Nashville, Z. Mobile, o.
AT Atlanta Atlanta. >; New Orleans,
AT Chattanooga: First game-Chnt.
tanooga. 8; Montgomery, I. Second
game--Montgomery, /: Chattanooga, q.
at Memphis: Memphis, /: Birming-
ham g.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21
The Fire Department

Birmingham is to lead the world In it's fire-fighting equipment. Com missioner Culpepper Exum, who has charge of the city's fire department affairs, has, in ordering S40,000 worth of automotor apparatus-nine combination chemical engines-put this municipality in the way of saw ing $30, ,o0o per annum.
 Commissioner Exum and Chief Bennett have been working together for the purpose of improving the physical condition of the department and the purpose, too, of inauguratine ] large practical economy. The pur- chase of the nine chemical engines will have big results. Birmingham has a highly efficient body of fire men. In no department in the United States is discipline more thorough And now that it is to be equipped with the latest in the matter of ap paratus it will be looked to by the country at large as Americas mode fire-fighting city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21
Sunday Train Service Demand


 The Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis railroads passenger train ser vice between Gadsden and Cutters vile has done much for the develop ment of Alabama's great Sand noun tain section. It is an excellent ser vice, but it is operated only on week days. What is demanded now is a Sunday passenger service as good as that in operation at this time six days in the week. Railroad Commis- sioner McCord, in an interview in The Age-Herald of Saturday, in speaking of the territory between Gadsden and Guntersville, said:
 T believe our people deserve Sun day service. The daily service is satisfactory because we now have it arranged so that the travelling public can go up to Boaz, Albertville and Guntersville and make the return trip within about twelve hours. A man can leave Birmingham and visit Guntersville and get back the same day. What we want is to have the same facilities on Sunday that we have week days"
 The demand is natural and proper. No agricultural part of Alabama has prospered more than the section re- ferred to. Boaz and Albertville have recently grown to be large towns. In 1900 Boaz had a population of only 253, whereas in the last census it had grown to 1910. Albertville was not reported at all in the census of 1900, but in 1910 it had a population of 1544. Guntersville grew from SIS in 1900 to 1145 in 1910.
 These flourishing towns are indi- cative of the growth and prosperity of the Sand mountain region gener- ally. The people along the line of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis railroad are uniting in peti- tions in flavor of the Sunday train service, and it is hoped that the rail- road company will install the service so urgently needed without further delay.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21
What Next in Mexico?

After six months of civil war and unceasing agitation it will be strange indeed if peace be ushered in without a hitch in Mexico, and there is very natural desire to ascertain what will come next in that country. As mat ters have been planned Diaz is to re- sign without leaving the country, and Senor De La Barra is to succeed him pending the holding of an election for president. The new president is to be Francisco l. Madero, Jr., the in surrecto leader.
 Congress, too, is in session en- deavoring to put into statutes the re- forms to which both Diaz and Ma dero stand pledged. Congress, too, is expected to take care of the in- surgent army and to carry out in due form other agreements made between the powers that sat, and still sit, in Mexico City and Juarez, the capi- tals respectively of the regular and the irregular governments of the re- public.
 It seems pretty certain that all ob- stacles will be cleared away, and that the programme wisely arrived at in Mexico City and in Juarez will be carried out. An election under a new election law cannot be held in less than thirty days, and the summer may be ended before Madero is in augurated president for term of six years.
 Mexico has shown Npore common
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21
Colonel Gorgas of Alabama

Col. William c. Gorgas, chief san- itary officer of the Panama canal mission, is to be honored by Tulane university. The degree of L. L. D. is to be conferred upon him.
 It will be strange indeed if the government does not signally honor the Alabamian who made the canal possible. He destroyed the deadly germs of the canal zone so that men could safely live in it while they built the canal. He did what the French did not do and perhaps could not do.
 He had made a study of sanitation | in Havana, which became, in his hands, one of the healthiest of cities, and when he was sent to Panama he won new laurels. The canal prom ises to be built without the interven- tion of an epidemic-without the oc- currence of scarcely case of yellow fever or malaria.
 Who in all this republic has ren- dered it a greater public service than this son of Alabama? The govern ment will certainly reward him prop erly when his great work is done and the canal stands complete from sea to sea. Not even Colonel Goethals has rendered greater service, and no one on the mainland is within hailing distance of the man who saved thousands of lives and made the building of the canal under a tropical sun feasible.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21

sense in this revolt against the gov ernment than most Latin-American nations have displayed under like cir cumstances, and much of the credit is due to the aged Diaz, who accepted the will of the country with reasona- ble promptness. He has prevented additional bloodshed, and he has kept General Carter from marching on the Mexican capital as General Scott did in 1847. The settlement is therefore a good thing for both republics. We do not want Mexico, and intervention has been avoided because there was plenty of sense on both sides of the Rio Grande.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21
He sits high in all the peoples hearts
 -Julius Caesar.
Mexico's Great Standpatter

The revolution in Mexico has found its chief victim in the man who res- cued his country from disorder and Ibrigandage to place it on the road to wealth and prosperity. He fell not because of these things. He fell de- spite them because he had become a standpatter. In these days of change and revision and progress a stand batter is always out of place. He is a square peg in round hole. Diaz came to power at time when a strong hand was needed in Mexico, and he used his power unsparingly and, as a rule, beneficently. And he did not change with the years or even the centuries. He remained a nineteenth century man in the twen- tieth century, and the time came at last when the people wanted many reforms. Diaz stood pat and that is why he became the victim of the revolution. The republic grew away from him. His autocratic ideas be- come misfits, and then the revolution came.
 The tragedy of it is that it came when the aged president who had done so much for his country was on the brink of the grave. It came when : he could no longer rally his support CTS or command an army. He will stay in Mexico, however. No one questions his integrity He was ar honest man and in his best days a great man, and if he had not become . standpatter he would have died nnourhed by all Mexicans, the hero of the republic.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21
Good Roads and Waterways

A series of large representative gatherings will be held in this city this week. The fire underwriters of this state assemble here tomorrow to stay in session two days, and the Mobile Basin and Tennessee River as- sociation will meet tomorrow also. The music festival which opens Mon day night will bring many visitors to the city. On Tuesday representa- tives from sixteen states will gather here to see what plans can be devised to better the roads of bigzcountry. The chief object of the good roads convention is to direct and build up public sentiment on this deeply inn portant subject, for when the people appreciate good roads and demand them they will get them either from the state or from the federal govern ment, or from both working cooper atively.
 The waterways convention that is to meet tomorrow is secondary to the good roads convention only. It comes here to make plans for the inn provement of the rivers of the state, and of Mobile Bay, which constitutes the states big harbor. This harbor is large enough, however, to hold the ships of the world, and all of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21
THE JACQUARD LOOM

Thaddeus S. Dayton, in Harper's Weekly.
 Practically alr figured or brocaded goods are still woven by the Jacquard loom, T machine invented by Joseph Marie Jacquard of Lyons, France, about 1So9 but so much improved by American in- senuity that not much more than the name now is left of the original inven- ton. Jacquard's discovery did not attract general notice until 1894. when he ap- peared before Napoleon as man perse- outed by his fellow workmen in Lyons because he had invented a contrivance for tying a knot in taut string. Ma poeon found time to give him hearing, examined his apparatus appreciated his ingenuity and placed him in charge of Arts ct Metiers.
 Before the time of Jacquard the weav- ing of figured silk was a complicated task. For scores of centuries it had taxed the patience and the pains of the work men. The loom that had been used for 200 years before Jacquard's time required the constant attention of at least two work men, and it was a heart-breakjng task to fix or unfix the silk on the frames. The weaving was tedious. Jacouard's loom needed only one man. It was an appendage to the old loom, or an ordinary loom with a modified harness consisting of set of strings, one for each of the warp threads, every string suspended from a bearing at the top. pattern could be worked out by cards pierced with round holes. The greatest part of Jac- guards ingenuity lay in the cards. for through them any number of patterns could be produced. With the addition of some minor inventions In other divisions of the industry the manufacture of SIX by hand looms went on for the next half century without any radical change.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Bushes. Outlook Grows Brighter


 President W. P. G. Harding of the First National bank of Birmingham has returned from a northern trip. He was in New York and Chicago, and reports improved business conditions in those two great cities.
 Business began to improve imme- diately after the United States supreme courts decision in the Standard oil case, and in view of the splendid crop situation there is every reason to pre- dict that we will have a summer Of marked prosperity" said MT. Harding h my travels stood on the rear plat form and looked at the work being done in the cotton fields. saw great deal of farming in North Caro- line, and also between Birmingham and Jackson, Tenn, having gone over one route and come back by another. l never saw cotton plants so well ad- vanced and The weeds so well chopped out this early in the season. It is es- timated that the cotton acreage is larger by 10 per cent than it was last year.
 The railroads will be in the market for large buying in July and alto eether the business future of the Bir- mingham district and tho country at large looks exceedingly good"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21

1 splendid rivers of Alabama empty into it, save the Tennessee and the Chattahoochee.
 While the waterways convention is in session it should appoint a com mittee charged with the duty of as- pertaining the causes of the perplex- ing and embarrassing delays in the construction of two dams in the Tom bigbee river. As soon as the facts are ascertained they should be laid before our senators and representa- tives at Washington. The delegates from Demopolis can perhaps explain some of the causes that are rendering all the other improvements in the Tombigbee and Warrior unavailable for the time being.
 The waterways and water powers of Alabama are big feature of the state, and the convention that meets in this city tomorrow will perhaps be able to prepare a programme looking to the gradual development of these great wealth producers and trade promoters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21
--ss.------ THE OPEN DOOR TO SUCCESS

From Leslie's.
 Success is not. limited to any class or condition. An estate valued at close to s1 100000 was recently disposed of by the will of John Lahey, of New Hyde Park, .Long Island, the document being signed with an X, as its author could neither read nor write. When Lahey. without any money, came to this country forty fvesyears ago. he secured job at one dollar a day and with the first money sa ved he began to purchase real estate. This enhanced rapidly in value and he continued to buy in the same farseeing way, until at the time of his death he was worth almost a million dollars
 Peter Agsergard, a Danish farmer of South Dakota, has been even more sue cessfu, his fortune in lands, stock and farm mortgages exceeding at the pres- ent time s2.00e,c00 He. too, arrived Tn America without education or money, but endowed with natural business gifts and tremendous industry. Taking up homestead in Dakota. he steadily put his profits into more land, until now he owns 24, 4s0 acres. When no longer able to buy at fifty dollars an acre. he put his sur plus into farm mortgages
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT PECULlARGT1ES
 AND CASUALLY EXPRESSES HIS OWN V1EW

would not appreciate, and enjoy and en- thuse over these pretty things of life? # 4 4
 | So 1t be with a city or country! England has grown great because of its pride of itself and its internal spirit to be generous, to beautify and to help one another. That spirit is taking hold in this Birmingham. and we who have been doing to help one another at home are now preparing to make good unto those who would come to visit us.
 We are going to give them hotels and comforts, and make them, when they come, feel that Birmingham Is sec- ond to no place on this continent.
 There is to be no public campaign, no newspaper hurrah, but Birmingham Is to do the proper thing, and 1t shall not be many months before the visitor here may be as comfortable as he
 
 would be in New York or anywhere else; and when he shall be able to re- tire of a Saturday night in that com fort, both internally and externally, which shall be an incentive to him to seek the church on Sunday morning where he may listen to the best pre- pared and delivered sermon.
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 And right in this connection 1t Is well that we have the music festival of this week. Nothing is so inspiring as well toned melody, and the appeal of sweetly and delicately rendered music. Think for an instant and recount in your memory how much more exhilerant became your pastor-after the beauti- full and artistic musical rendition of hymn-when he walked to the pulpit and cited his text; and how much more eloquent and enthused he was in his
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21
FILLED WRONG TOOTH

From the New York fress
 A verdict of $100 against dentist for pulling the wrong tooth was returned by a jury in the supreme court. The plaintiff, Henry Hamilton. went to, the office of Dr. Morris P. Hart and told pr. Ostrowisky, the dentists assistant, to pull tooth that ached. He asserted he designated the aching tooth as the third molar on the left side from the back, but the second molar was pulled Hamilton sued for $2500.
 pr. Ostrowisky testified Hamilton said he had a gumboil and asked the dentist to remove the tooth that wac causing the pain The dentist asserted the tooth he extracted was causing the trouble. The next day, he went on. Hamilton returned. had the old root ex- tracted, and charged that the dentist drew a good tooth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21
Important Conventions

Birmingham will entertain two con- ventions of great importance next week. said W. P. Lay of Gadsden, who was In Birmingham yesterday. They are the waterways convention which meets on Monday and the good roads convention which meets the following day. They are both very important to the business and commercial interests of the state and the attendance at both should be large and representa- ticve. The indications are that both will be largely attended from all sec tions of Alabama.
 "The improvement of the waterways and the dirt highways ssh hould go hand in hand. They are closely connected, affecting as they do the movement of the commerce of the country. The rivers are the natural channels for the transportation of cotton and other heavy farm products. and good roads are essential to the economic as- sembling of these products. All this freight must be carried over roads at some time in it's movement to market and it is very essential that those roads be built for the maximum demands of traffic"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21

way, played cello in the orchestra under Tschakowskys baton, and among the works performed was the fiat minor concerto.
 "Tschaikowsky was a man Of pe- culiarly sensitive temperament.
 towing to his delicately strung nerves Tschaikowsky was not success at the conductors desk. A member of the Russian Symphony orchestra, who had played under the composers leadership, said to me recently: 'Tschaikowsky was a genius and was thoroughly trained in harmony, but he was not good con ductor He got unduly excited and went all to pieces
 According to a critic who knew Tschaikowsky, he was quite gentle and inclined to melancholy, but withal man. ly and firm This same writer says one feels that his music is an unusual 1y true expression of the thoughts and emotions of the composer. His soul finds it's best means of expression in orchestral music He wrote six sym phonies. six suites, an elegy for string orchestra, and several overtures. He died in 1S93''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21
Prohibition In Georgia

From what I could observe in Geor- gia would say that the local op- tionists will win in the next cam paign and repeal the so-called state wide prohibition laws now in effect, said Ezra F. Thornton of Cincinnati.
 .Tennessee and Georgia have suf- fered less from statutory prohibition than any states with which I am fa- miliar, because in the first place the laws were not so drastic as those of Alabama, or even Mississippi. Beer Is sold freely under license in Georgia and in Tennessee hotels in cities have elegant bars that evidently pay big license, although the liquor traffic be illegal
 II spent several days Tn Georgia week before last and the people there are not satisfied with statewide prohibit ton. An enterprising. ambitious state like Georgia, containing growing and ambitious cities, will certainly never be comfortable with statutory prohibi- tion. Local option Is the democratic doctrine, and it is one that~appeals very strongly to the patriotic American voter. l would be willing to bet good money that in Georgias next election the state-widers will go down in de- feat"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21
The South and the West

Now that the whole country is about to witness a revival of business" said John B. Atherton of Chicago, most of the people one meets have a cheer ful look.
 T have spent a good deal of time
 in the far west since early this year, and l h~ iii close touch with the SOL 10th of those sections are pros pering greatly and in my opinion any prolonged commercial or financial stag nation in the east would have been re- garded with more or less indifference, although the time will never come, per haps, when New York as a financial center can be ignored. But my idea Is that with the great natural resources of the south and the west, and with fla vorable seasons for the making of crops, no part of this country will be without prosperity. look for good deal of business activity in June. From now on things will be improving, and by July we will have something like boom but it will be healthy sort of a boom and not at all inflated"