The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-01
MILL OPERATORS
 ARE GATHERING Spinners From South to Meet
 in New York HAVE GREAT PROBLEM Plans Are Being Perfected for Nation- wide Celebration of Horace
 Greeley Centenary on
 February3
By ROBERT LEE CARTER

l New York. December 31.-(Special)-
 That crowd of southern cotton operators
 are beginning to gather in New York and
 what Brown, Scales, Haynes, etc, are
 going to do is a pretty live question down about Beaver street
 What are they going to do? I wish I l knew and am not the only one by long jump. Uu to this time the cotton market
 has been as sedate and regular as that
 for coal, clothes, steel, groceries or any
 other of the great staples of life. But
 there is an impression abroad in the land
 that before the fruit begins to ripen in the
 summer there is liable to be fireworks
 and Brown, Scales, Haynes, etc., are lla
 ble to do some of the shooting. Where
 will it begin, and how is 1t going? Again | wish I knew
 Had Horace Greeley lived he would
 have been 100 years old February next.
 and plans are being perfected for a na-
 tion wide celebration of the centenary of
 the great editor and publicist | Colleges and schools in all parts of the
 country have been asked to celebrate the
 day with appropriate ceremonies. Many
 of them have signifed their intention to
 reply to the request.
 l Naturally MT Greeleys old home at
 Chappaqua will be the scene of the most elaborate celebration. It is expected that
 nation state and city will be represented
 at the ceremonies there by President Taft. Governor Dix and Mayor Gaynor. | The City club has set aside the luncheon
 of February for commemorative press
 luncheon. President James Tole of Ty
 geographical union No. states that the
 union is working upon a plan to honor
 it's first president, Horace Greeley. The movement of the Greeley centenary
 originated at Chappaqua, where 1t IS planned to erect a statue of the editor.
 It is the spot MT. Greeley loved. His
 daughter Mrs. Gabrielle Greeley Clenden-
 in, still lives on the old farm. Speaking of the noteworthy old men,
 calls to mind John Jay Woodward, who
 recently celebrated his S3d birthday. MT.
 Woodward taught John D. Rockefeller
 when the richest man in the world was a
 boy and if Mir. Rockefeller were as chip per as the man who wielded the birch rod or the goad of moral suasion over
 him the recent boom in indigestion cures.
 hair tonics and wigs would have collapsed | at the start
 | Mr Woodward is still teaching school at Ulstervile, N. T., and maybe is now installing the rudiments into some future | king of finance.
 | It was in 1851 in little one-room
 school house near the line between the | townships of Moravia and Niles. In Cayu- ga county, on Lake Owasco, that the fu-
 ture richest man in the world went to the
 oldest active school teacher. Of that pe-
 riod MT. woodward says:
 | ''I had about 9 lively pupils and among
 them were John D. and William Rocke-
 feller. They were little fellows, about and Ii years old. respectively. just plain,
 ordinary little fellows. with nothing mo-
 ticeable about them to distinguish them
 from their classmates.
 l About John D. I recall that he was | fond of apples and that in those early days he did not manifest any broad dis
 position to charity. Yes, John D. loved
 his apples, and. however much he may
 have loved his neighbors, they didn't ex-
 pect to go partners in fruit. Well, most
 boys prefer to have a monopoly upon
 their own apples.
 "Of old MT. Rockefeller, the father of the boys, have some pleasant memories. 1 He was a jolly. hearty, well-to-do far mer, with a great liking for hunting He was a good marksman and liked to shoot at target Mrs Rockefeller I remem-
 Der as a pleasant, motherly woman. | My school salary was 75 cents day, with my board. I boarded round. district. school fashion. you know. among the l homes of my pupils. I've always been sorry that my school term broke up be- | fore 1t came my turn to stay with the Rockefeller family. But I've always watched the career of those two boys with interest"
 Have you ever heard from either of them since?'' "No, I never have I've often wished that I could talk to John D. for few
 minutes. but I have never had the chance"
 | 'There is no class of foreigners which struggles harder with the English lan- guage than the Swedes' remarked Col. | I. J. Richmond of Mobile, Ala. Down | in Mobile. Ala there are aliens from
 nearly every country in the world. and it l is interesting to observe how they try to master the language. They simply can
 not get on to the idioms and the slang | We haven't a great many Swedes in the south. They generally go west, and they make the best kind of Americans Their greatest difficulty in learning our tongue | ia In the interpretation of our idioms and slang phrases. It's an old story, per haps, that of the recently arrived Swede who was employed by merchant in one of the western towns, but it Is worth re- beating and serves to show how they misunderstood our language The mer- chant had a lot of old bills outstanding and he sent his Swedish employe out to collect The man came back beaming. and told his employer that he had done good days work.
 "Ay bane a pretty lucky feller," he said Then he told of one man he had visited.
 ''He promised to pay in Yanuary,' he said Upon being asked why the debtor had set January for payment, the Swede said:
 "Oh, he say 1t be mighty cold day when he pay the bill, and so I go back in Tan uary."
 The committee on national rivers and harbors of the New York board of trade and Transportation submitted a report at the last monthly meeting upon the propo- stion to construct an intracoastal canal through the Atlantic seaboard and gulf states and connecting the bays and rivers which indent the coast line from Boston, Mass, to Galveston, Tex. The committee fex vnA uv,r1 a