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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-01-27

route lying in Arizona passing through
Yuma and Maricopa counties, needed
much repairing For more than n
month the territory had a force in the
field between Phoenix and Yuma. re
pairing the worst spots along the ROAD
A East" Road.
1t is only within the last rev
months that Arizonans have really re-
ceived any great benefit from the eN-
penditures that have been made dur
ing the last two and a half years. me
road from Bisbee to Douglas was
opened In December. That particular
stretch of road is 2A miles long. one
brave automobilist just to prove now
good the road was, passed over IL ID
% minutes and made wide detour ~
one place where concrete bridge hau
not been finished. This is merely one
example. of the excellent work thar
has been done.
Among the scenic wonders that
gradually viii be made accessible as
work on tie highway system pro-
crosses are the Grand Canyon. natural
bridge petrified forest Spanish mis-
sions, ice caves of COconino. cllII
dwellings HOpi and Navajo villages.
no limit TO the wonders which can be
opened to the tourist Largely because
she has not had the good roads with
which she is today supplying herself
Arizona has remained to a great eX-
tent an unknown land. Few eastern
people know that the scenery or Arl-
iona LaE sufpaSseS tnat OF SWllAeI IAN u
That IL does there can be no doubt,
but there has been no means provided
to take the tourist to that scenery and
II gemains practically unknown The
Grand Canyon is merely the widest and
deepest Of score OF canyons more
beautiful impressive and majestic than
those found anywhere else on the
globe.
Influence OF the Auto.
The automobiles must be given his
share Of the credit for the era of road
building and of good roads enthusiasm.
The automobile owners We're the first
to agitate the highway question I'VE
want good roads that we may visit
all parts OF the territory in our cars"
they said As they. were able TO show
the farmer the mining man and the
stockman that their interests also
would be served by good roads, the
bill was passed
There are numerous organizations OF
autOists IN Arizona Among the first
was the Maricopa County Automobile
club, which eXerted powerful influence
to have the territory take up high
way building. Since then many other
clubs have been formed and last spring
the Arizona Good Roads association
was organized
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-01-27

1aFapai county. between Prescott and
Phoentx; in Havapai and COcOnino be-
tween camp Verde and Flagstaff: IN
CHA between Roosevelt and Globe: in
Cochise between Douglas and Bisbee
II IS the pOlicy OF the territorial gov
eminent to build roads first where
they seem to be most needed. then to
connect the sections as fast as time
and funds available viii warrant.
Substantial Bridges.
Three concrete bridges. models ~
their kind, have been built. for there
are streams in Arizona that must be
bridged IL a highway system is to he
Of its greatest practical value. One OF
these bridges is across the Verde
river, at Camp Verde. and another is
across the ella at Florence. The lat
ter was built mainly with convict
labor. COnvicts in the penitentiarV
who chose to do so were permitted to
FOR each days work a convict received
two DAYS credit on his sentence
ANOTHER such bridge is being buiif
under the same plan across Salt river.
Maricopa county and public spirited
citizens thereof have built q rein
forced concrete bridge across SaIr
river one mile south of Phoenix This
completed only last summer ana is
in reality a part of the territorial
highway system. The first automo-
bile that crossed over il carried ~
passenger That was the dav after
he dedicated the Roosevelt dam, March
10, 1911.
County Cooperation.
One factor that has greatly assisted
in making the road building crusade =
success has been the cordial coopera-
ton of the county authorities with
the territorial officials. Boards ~
Supervisors and county road superin-
tendents have done all in their bower
TO give assistance and in many in
stances work that could not have been
ACCOMPLISHED without their assistance.
has been completed. In some cases
the counties have built sections of fbs
road as far as the funds at hand woHIS
permit. leaving the rest to be done
from the territorial fund A part Of
the road south Of Prescott, now being
extended rapidly toward Phoenix. was
built with Yavapai county funds
In cases where road repairs are badiv /
needed and there are no county funds
to pay for them. the territory gives
whatever assistance is possible For
instance, when it was decided TO
change the route of the Los AngeIes-
Phoenix road race to pass through san
Diego, FL Centre and Yuma ii was
found that that section OF the new
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-01-27

poses. New Mexico has many otner
roads planned, but the main effort is
being devoted to completing the hlsn-
way from north to south, which VIII
enable people Of the new state to reacn
1l PasO and Colorado.
Once in Colorado. they will have fair
ly. good roads through that state 10
Cheyenne, Wyoming. and in connection
with the Wyoming good roads system,
on into Canada.
ArlzOna's Road Plans.
The Arizona system OF good roads,
while il has not advanced very rapidly
is one of the most pretentious under
taken bv any state in America. The
plans already decided upOn call for two
great traps-state roadwayss one nom
north to south and one from east TO
west Some work has already been
done upon each Of these, and annually
a large amount viii be done. The legis-
lature provided for the levy Of a tax
each year for this work and Gov. elect
Hunt says ne is heartily in favor OF
continuing il and not only completing
the Two great Translate highways, but
building Iaterals from these main lines
Of travel into all the settlements that
need them. Mr.. Hunt says he is in
favor OF completing the road from east
to west, just as soon as possible from
Duncan and Clifton to yuma so that
connection can be made on the east side
with the New Mexico road to Silver
City. Las Cruces and Ell Paso, and al
Yuma with the road which the San
Diegans have pledged themselves to
build from Yuma to their California
coast metropolis
Roads Are Substantial.
The roads which the territory of Ari-
iona is building are Of a substantial
character; so they are in New Mexico.
In each instance, macadam is being. used
as the basic material and all bridges
are being built Of reinforced concrete
nd steel; all culverts OF concrete.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-01-27

- ORNAMENT road building in Ari-
~ iona and New Mexico has been
placed upon q systematic basis
and the next few years promise TO de-
veIop q splendid system Of highways for
the two new states. El Paso win profit
largely By the road work to be done
In the two states. and within a few
years at most, the people Of this city
should have an outlet to the Pacific
coast over a system of roads as rlne
as suy in America; likewise, they
ehou1d be able to reach Canada on q
n1acadamized roadway uneXceIleo II
durability and light grades.
The New Mexico system OF state h1gn-
rzsvs IS developed more largely than
fhat Of Arizona, but il Is not as gigan-
liz 7e that planned for the latter. state
The New Mexico highway at present
Blamed and under construction runs
IRON north TO south and viii soon be
completed from the state capital az
santa lie. through Las Vegas to the
Colorado line. Considerable Work mas
been done south OF Albuquerque and Il
Is the plan 10 extend the road to the
Texas line at anthony, lS miles north
OF II Paso. 70 connect with the II
Faso county road, already completed to
rl1at place from this city The New
Mexico plans also contemplate road
across the southern part Of New Mexico
from q connection with this north and
south highway % Silver City and the
lIogOIIon mountain mining region.
From there an extension Of q few miles
VIII complete the road TO the Arizona
line near Duncan. at which point the
east and west Arizona n ighWay VIII be
built This IS the road that viii give
Fl PasOans an outlet for automobiles
To California and at the same time con-
meet the two new states in practical
manner for freighting and other pur-
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-01-27

would raise an amount NOT excessive.
although 1t is more than 81 per capita.
How Funds Are Spent.
The law not having provided for a
highway commission, all work is done
under the direction OF the territorial
board OF control, OF which the cover
nor IS Chairman. the auditor eN-Officfo
member, and the citizen member is
secretary The board authorized q
survey across the entire territory from
the east to west which II IS expected
VIII be link in a rans-contfnentaI
highway, and e north and south road
which is 70 be used in connecting the
populated districts with the scenic
wonders.
Then the task Of locating more than
1000 miles Of road began and the
engineers have about completed fhfs
work The roads were located on a
maximum grade OF six percent. and i
was an arduous task in mountain
ranges from three to nine thousand
feet high The beginning o. the NORTH
and south road at the Grand Canvon il
at an elevation Of 1900 feet above sea
level and traverses the Colorado
plateau, which practically maintains
this elevation for nearly 100 miles
WheFeupon an abrupt descent Of abouT
5t0O feet is made This is known 40
me Mogouon hill and the engineers
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-01-27

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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-13

In a theatrical article on THE First
Night Ordeal published in the August
American Magazine. Walter Prichard
Eaton, the author, writes as follows:
Not all authors can be induced to at
tend the first nights of their plays.
Others cannot be kept away. Augustus
Thomas, an old stager, used tot success,
Is usually Oh hand in New York to make
a curtain speech. Mr.. Thomas makes
oven better speeches than he writes
plays,. His younger. namesake, A. E.
Thomas, the other hand, creeps up
into the top balcony, whence he wit
ressed The Rainbow. The late William
Vaughn Moody saw The Great Divide
from the same elevation. Austin Strong
attended a performance of IL Trovatore
at the opera house the night his Toy
Maker of Nuremberg was produced in
New York. When Galsworthy's The Pr
geon' opened The Little theatre last
spring, Mr.. Galsworthy was said to be
walking in Central Park. At any rate.
he was not at the theatre. 1t is a rather
silly and cruel custom in New York to
drag an author before the curtain
MHCliol TIE pay - q SuttcSS VI u jdii-
ure. Many authors shrink from that or
deal, as well as from the ordeal of seeing
their brain children judged. Mrs. De
land saw tho stage version of The
Awakening OF Helena Richie from a
box. and was summoned to the stage
New. Mrs. Deland is a woman of great
experience on the platform, and of fine,
iignified presence, yet few who were
present that night will forget her awk-
ward bewildered aspect, as, pale, with
out makeup in the pitiless glare of the
footlights, she had to exhibit herself.
Edward Sheldon, the boyish author of
Salvation Nell and The Boss when
he is called for, is preciptated upon the
stage from behind, grabs the proscenium
arch for support, bobs his cherubic coun-
tenance like a startled robin. and then
acss out OF sight. There should really
be a law that no dramatists except Au-
gustus Thomas and George AIDE be al
loved to make curtain speeches. and mono
other except Beiasco be compelled to
come before the footlights. The footlights
hold no additional agency for Mr..
Belascoi"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-13

government will show how the crop
stands up to August rs, and the be-
lief is that a marked improvement
will be reported. The plant is fruit
ing well. -
The time of the first killing frost
is important this year, for the crop
is two to three weeks late. In some
fields grown hollis are still unknown.
The fields are spotted. The crop has
been well cultivated, however, and the
outcome will be largely due to wealth
er conditions in August and Septem-
Der.
The cotton markets are quiet. The
spinners are awaiting developments.
The decline in cotton does not induce
them to become buyers. The weather
is the thing and both buyers and SELL
ers, both bulls and bears, will study
the weather reports with wary eye
in the next 60 days.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-13
Money for the Fairs

\. When the legislature had voted
$40, 900 to secure at the fairs of the
state creditable agricultural displays,
and when the governor had duly
signed the bill, it became law and it
should be so regarded. There is no
string tied to it.
The state treasury is not overful,
and it has not been since the days of
Governor jerks, but still the state has
a balance in the treasury, and while
it has the money the appropriation
of $4,000 to the fairs should be paid
This money is, in substance, an ap-
peal to the farmers to raise more per
acre. 1t is. an appropriation to in
duce Decentralization and better fer
tilization and seed selection. To re-
fuse to pay this appropriation would
not only be contrary to law, but it
also would be a distinct step back
ward The farmers should keep their
eyes on this appropriation of $4,000
TO the farmers, and the manner il
which it is met by the present ad
ministration.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-13
Courthouse Proposition Defeated

The vote in this great county yes
terday was small but the opponents
of the courthouse and Jail bond issue
were numerous enough to defeat the
proposition by a decisive majority.
1t will be two years before another
courthouse bond election can be held.
In the meantime the people must be-
come aroused to the necessity of re-
lieving the congested condition of the
courthouse and Jail here.
The 100000 proposition for en-
larging the Hillman hospital carried,
and there will be general rejoicing
over that fact. When this money is
expended the county will have a char
ity hospital property representing an
outlay of something like $250,000. 1t
will be one of the best hospitals in
the country, and something that our
people can point to with pride.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-13
Interest in Riley's Sketches

The Rev. DR.. B. F. Riley's sketches,
which appear in the Sunday Age-Her-
aid under the title of "The Men Who
Have Made Alabama" have naturally
attracted statewide attention, and if
the demand for their reproduction in
book form is sufficiently urgent the
author will have them bound in a
volume and, perhaps, embellished with
portrait cuts.
Attention is called to a letter from
DR.. Riley in another column of today's
issue in which he tells of suggestions
made for book embodying the
sketches and the conditions upor
which volume might be published.
Dr. Riley is an Industrious chroni-
cler and a felicitous writer. Few
writers are SO familiar with Ala.
bama's distinguished member strong
men of other days-as he. 'T'he Mer
Who Have Made Alabama by DR.. B
F. Riley, bound in permanent form
would certainly be an acquisition t.
any library.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-13
Ornamental Trolley Pole.

About two weeks ago I read an ar
ticle in The Age-Herald protesting
against the large, clumsy looking poles
that the Tidewater line was erecting on
Fifth avenue, and I was In hopes the
company would substitute ornamental
iron posts as suggested" said a member
of the Chamber of Commerce.
These tall wooden poles are certainly
unsightly. 1t may be taken for granted
that Fifth avenue, from the Terminal sta
ton to Eighteenth or Seventeenth street,
will have white way. This avenue is
one of the most beautiful in Birmingham,
and is one that visitors who arrive on
most of the lines entering this city first
see. and since it is one of our great
show thoroughfares IL must be brilliant
ly Illuminated at night, and present as
attractive an appearance as possible in
the day time.
Combination trolley and electric light
posts could be made and installed with
out any great cost on the part of the
Ti6ewater. Ornamental posts should be
used all the way from Seventeenth street
to the Terminal
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-13
wilson for Local option

Woodrow Wilson was sound on the
prohibition question even before he had
become prominent as candidate for the
democratic presidential nomination. and
he made II clear at the start that he was
local optionist, said an old democrat.
IAN effort was made to draw him into
the pending prohibition fight in Maine.
but his reply was tactful. as we'll as
morally and politically correct. The DEM
ocrats of Maine are working to strike the
prohibition clause out of the constitution
Tho republicans of that state stand for
constitutional prohibition. Woodrow Will
son we'll says that prohibition is moral
and social question.
- I am In favor OF local option, said he.
I am a thorough believer in local self
government and believe that every self
governing community which constitutes
a social unit should have the right to
control the matter of the regulation or
OF the Withholding of licenses.
mo President or no man big enough
to be President has ever favored state
wide or constitutional prohibition. True,
Mr. Bryan indicated that his sympathy
was with the statewide prohibition move
ment In Missouri, but Mr.. Bryan-well he
never got to be President.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-13
Thou hast described
Iron Ore Reserves

In the Engineering Magazine Ed
win C. Eckel says that the Lake SUI
nerior ores cost the United States
Steel corporation from 20 to SO cents
a ton in the ground, while the Cuban
or southern ores cost from one-tenth
of a cent to 2 or cents a ton. He
finds that the Steel corporation has
a supply in the lake district for the
next AZ years, and in the combined
lake and Alabama deposits for s.
wears. Against this the Pennsylvania
Steel company at its present rate of
consumption, only fraction, how
ever, Of that of the great corporation,
has in Cuba a reserve which will last
for GAP years, and the Bethlehem Steel
company, with a still smaller con-
sumption, has a reserve for thee next
1873 years.
The Ore City, Tex, News claims
that there are vast quantities of
brown ore in east Texas that will
average 30 per cent in metallic iron
This is claim that is not fully
proven, and Ore City itself as an
iron center is new and undeveloped
1t has, however, direct trackage TIC
deep water at Port Bolivar, and the
News claims this will give it advant-
ages as against the Alabama anc
Pennsylvania mills. The east Texas
brown ores remain to be fully tested
Alabama has brown ores also, and the
Cuban ores are perhaps more readily
accessible than any ores in eastern
Texas.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-13
IN HOTEL LOBBIES~
New conztitution Needed

Alabama needs new constitution,
Eiad a prominent upbuilder of the Biz
iningham district. Our constitution Is
not very old, as constitutions go. 1t has
only been in effect about 10 years, but
this is an age of progress, and the Or
ganic law, like most other things, needs
an overhauling every few years.
Every time the legislature meets a
constitutional amendment Is submitted
to the people. Why not have new
constitution? The next constitutional con-
vention would doubtless improve the tax
ing system of the state; would provide for
school taxing districts, provide. >e6r bien-
NAL sessions of the legislature, and render
the organic instrument somewhat more
elastic. The call for a constitutional
convention should be an issue in the next
campaign
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-13

John Ashley. in the August Outing.
Let your opponent remain not an OPP
ponent but merely someone to practice
on, and confound him with your internal
control and accuracy. If he lags back
and contents himself with sending back
your deep drives. try dropping one over
the net as an exercise in showing how
we'll You can manage tennis ball. II
he's up in time to just reach 1t, see if
you can send him back with a lob. Force
him up to the net again with short one
so short and we'll placed that he can not
reach it until he has to lift his return;
then before you GO in to take shower
bath put nice deep drive down his back
hand line that just grasses his racket as
he springs for It and see now It makes
you smile to find that you've made the
white dust fly.
These are delicate little pastimes that
Show you what are the possibilities~of a
game that is lacking In pace.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-13

but I would have preferred voting for
81 10000 rather than for 100000 outlay.
When this county does have new court
house 1t should be as handsome as the
one in Memphis. which cost about $780,
Co., and is one of the most beautiful
works of architecture in America.
There. never was much doubt about
the IIilIman hospital bond proposition, for
the need for an addition to the hospital
was so great that no thoughtful citizen
could we'll vote against 1t. With 100000
the county will make the Hillraan one OF
the best hospitals IN the SOUTH"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-13
EMMA MCHEsNEY,s ADVICE

In the August American Magazine,
Edna Ferber writes another Emma Nc
Chesney story. Emma McChesney is a
successful travelling saleswoman, attrac-
tive, about 40 years old, and possessing
high spirited son, IS years old, who Is
something of a problem to her. On the
subject of college education Emma Nc
Chesney lays down the following advice
to her son:
Jock, you're going to college. No
wait minute. You'll have a chance to
prove the things you just said by getting
through in three years instead Of the
usual four. IF you're in earnest you can
do it.. I want my boy to start in to this
business war equipped with every means
of defense. You called 1t game. It's
more than that-it's battle. Compared
to the successful business man of today
the Revolutionary Minute Men were as
keen and alert as the Seven Sleepers.
know that there are more non-college
men driving street cars than there are
college men. But that doesn't influence
me- You could get job now. Not much
of position, perhaps, but something self
respecting and fairly well paying. 1t
would teach you many things. You
might get a knowledge of human nature
that no college could give you. But
there's something-poise, self confidence,
assurance-that nothing but college can
give you. You will end yourself in those
three years After you finish college
you'll have difficulty in fitting into your
;eb1 n
curse the day on which you needed my
advice. TIN look as though you had
simply wasted those three precious years.
But in five or six years after, when your
character has jelled, and you've hit your
pace. you'll bless me for it. AS for a
knowledge of humanity, and of business
tricks-well, your mother Is fairly familiar
with the busy marts OF trade. If you
want to learn folks you can spend your
summer sselling Featherlooms with me.
After all. remember you're only IS.
You'll probably spend part of your time
rushing around at class proms with a red
ribbon In your coat lapel to show you're
en- the floor committee. And you'll be
girl fussing, too. But you'd be attracted
to girls, in or out of college, and I'd
rather just now, that it would be some
pretty, nice thinking college girl In
white sweater and blue serge skirt,
whose worst thought was wondering IL
you could be cajoled into taking her to
the freshman-sophomor basketball
game, than some red-lipped, black-jet-
earringed siren gazing at you across the
table In some basement cafe. And, good
noss knows, Jock you wear your clothes
so beautifully that even the haberdash-
eis' statesmen eye you with respect. I've
seen 'em. That's one course you needn't
take at college"