The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-10

ernOr WOodfoW Nllsol anu boNeiiiol Judson Harmon with enough favorite sons in the race to make deadlock and with the shadow of William J. Bryan over the whole situation.
 More than one shrewd observer has said to me within the past few days that the situation was shaping up so that it would not be at all surprising if Roose- welt and Bryan were the opposing call ddates next year. And they supplement this with the suggestion that these two would put up a battle which could fairly be called historic.
 It is a common saying that few na- tive New Workers are numbered among the cities great men and this per baps Is true for New York attracts the cream of the country and the battle for success here means competing with the best brains of the world, selected men from all sections.
 It is gratifying to know, therefore. that the native. New Yorker has in many ways made good elsewhere
 travelling friend remarked the other day: "I was. selling goods In South Dakota a few months ago and in one of the 4numerous flourishins towns that have sprung up like mush- room in a night I was entertained hy the banker of the. .place. He was the real big gun in abis section of the state and besides engaging in banking he owned droves of cattle, dozen granaries and as many farms, not to speak of half dozen automobiles. lie was mayor of his town and his friends are talking of the senatorial toga for linn in the next year or two.
 frn chan operating a passenger elevator in low CT Broadway at a salary of $10 q week. He told me 1t required a lot of nerve for him 10 break away even from that job and rough it in a new country like South Dak ota. He did it finally and got start driving a wagon He be- came interested in cattle, traded a lit- tie and the first thing he knew he became a power in his section. In a l. dition to nerve to do things he was shrewd and these two qualities led to success"
 The travelling man told of a young woman who for years had been em- ployed in a milliner shop in Fourteenth street at something like $S week. She saved $150 and with this for her capital she went to a thriving town in western Kansas and opened a millinery shop and small store, paying $50 down on her stock and going into debt for the balance, amounting to several hun dred dollars.
 This woman was attractive, genial, obliging and courteous,' said the traN- cling man. "She did well from the start. and within years time she was doing a lucrative business l sold her some goods and her story of endeavcr and consequent success interested ne very much On my latest trip 10 her town I learned that she had married a grain operator whose wealth is eX- pressed in six figures. and that slie was the first woman of her town. She superintends her business and has a large force of clerks working for her If many millners I know in New York were to follow her example there wouldn't be so many old maids nor half starved working girls in New York
 These are only few examples of success achieved by New York men and women in the great west as observed by this travelling man. He found in Idaho successful contractor who left New York three years ago when he realized that he could no slonger pro vide clothing, food and necessary com forts for his family at his salary of Sis d week as a clerk in a wholesale house in lower Broadway.
 New York claims credit for being, at the present moment, the worlds largest toy market The annual volume of trade al wholesale prices is $75.- cO0, 900, a large part of which is shipped to the great fairs of Europe and Asia. Export trade from New York com mences in July and lasts until well in October. Toys in loads have been sent from New York to India for Dur bar celebrations. Six hundred Indian princes have resolved to give public 1,at xxri1l ina, 1,tIc he distribution of toys to children. Mil lions Of people are crowding from all the lengths and breadths of the land to the bazars at Calcutta, Bombay, Delhi and other places.
 When Capt. Robert Richard Randall left his farm and orchard land to es- tablish and maintain the Snug Harber for sailors on staten Island at the be- ginning of the last century, he stipu- lated in his will that none of it should ever be sold. That style of land lay between the Bowery what is now Fifth avenue and Eighth and Tenth streets, then well "out of town.' It contained little more than 20 acres and it is matter of curious interest that il was bought in 1T90 for S12,500, small fortune for sea captain In those days, and is now valued at close upon $20,- OO0O He left it in the hands of Il perpetual board of trustees consisting of the chancellor of the state, the mayor and recorder of the city, the president of the Marine society the senior rector of the Episcopal church and the senior minister of the Presbyterian church of the city. There Is no longer any chan collor or recorder and others might be- come functus officio; and the task of taking care of such an estate has be- come burdensomc.
 The trustees at this late day are anxious to "hrcak the will' and re- move the clutch of the dead hand lo