The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-05
NEW YORK |S b|G
 INDUSTRIAL TOWN Output of Its Manufacturers
 Leads Country JOHN D. VERY QUIET Great Financial King Has Few Real Acquaintances-Wo Woman Can Be
 An Assistant Attorney.
 Bankers in Jail
ny ROBBERY LEE CARTER

activities that U IS next 10 lmposSlple to form any idea of it's tremendous industrial importance but the census | figures show that for variety of manu lecturers, number of men and women employed and value of output 1t leads the country.
 There Is hardly any line of industry not represented.
 It is not general known. for ex ample, thnt New York has a steel in- dustry with regular rolling mills lilxe they have in Pittsburg In those re- gions.
 | This will not be true very long. though, for announcement is made that the only active rolling mill on Man haitian island is soon to go out of ex- istence.
 The mill is at the East river and Avenue A, and has been sold to Philadelphia man. who will dismantle and scrap the plant. It has been run ning for years on orders for horse shoe iron, and working single turn. The other rolling mill on the island is located at Fortieth street and Eleventh avenue. and has not been operated for some years. with the
  llsIand is now barren of steel mills. l One of the best known men in tho city is one of the least known. his sounds paradoxical. but 1t Is true. No .lname in the country is better known | than that of John D. Rockefeller. but lthe man himself has but fewer ac- auaintances than many man wno
 
 home MT. Rockefeller is very quiet does not make acquaintances easily and lives largely in his own little circle.
 A business associate of the oil king said the other day and with truth; T doubt if more than 3 or 20 men m the whole financial district have speaking acquaintance with MT kocke- feller I believe he could circulate | through the entire community without being greeted by a single friend. It l Is only by hearsay and reputation, and not personally. that the man Is known evon in Wall street, where he has un- doubtedly had as much to do with things during his life as any other | individual"
 If is said that Miss Lucille Pugh, 1 formerly of North Carolina, can, 1T she l likes, have an appointment as assist ant attorney. Miss Pugh Is the young linwver who defended negro mur- darer so well as to attract the atten- lion and arouse the admiration of the shrewdest criminal lawyers In the city.
 There has long been felt the need. of a woman in the district attorneys II office, for there are many cases Tn which the services of shrewd woman la yyer would be invaluable.
 It is hardly likely that Miss Pugh would consider the acceptance or an offer from District Attorney Whitman. She has no hankering for the criminal side of the law and only accepted the lease in which she has achieved fame Ibecause the humble darkey who came from her own section appealed to her. heard a good story of Charles " Morse the other day. Shortly after the banker returned from Atlanta one of his old friends, who had served term in federal jail for what q congress sional committee regarded as contempt for failure to disclose confidential mat ters, took early occasion to call on the ex- banker As visiting friend ap- preached Morse, who was resting on l llonnge, the latter exclaimed, Wltn tears in his eyes:
 | Him. nobody knows how it feels to he jailed except those who have gone through it themselves and you're the first man that has come 10 see me whose expression of sympathy I regard as on the level"
 The fashionable part of Fifth avenue opposite Central park-is suffering from | an overdose of private detectives, and it has given rise to good deal of gos- sip It Is said there are operatives or no less than four well known asencles working there: for what purpose they Themselves know, as the infested dis trict includes the houses of some of the best known people in the city, there Is all sorts of talk
 New York wives may nag. their hns- bands just as much as they please and there Is nothing for the nagged to do | but grin and bear it. This is the de- cision handed down by supreme court justice the other day A citizen blessed | with wife who talked not wisely but too well, and too much, left her and she haled him to court "A man has to stand such treatment from his wife" de- olared the learned judge. He can't aban- don her simply because she nags him.
 met Hon. Thomas J. Carling of Ma con Ga the other day MT carling is supreme vice chancellor of the Knights of Pvthias and when the next meeting of inc supreme lodge is held in Denver tbis summer then will the natural course of things be placed at the head of this
 great order He has been travelling over the entire country during the past few months and is most optimistic as to the outlook. The people are cheerful and confident everywhere. He said: Even Tn tho heated political campaign which is I in progress does not interfere with bus | mess as much as might be expected. In fact I'm inclined to believe that the peo- | nIe as a whole do not take their, politics as seriously as they used to- l don't | ,.ish to be understood that they do not take a good, healthy interest In politics. as all good Americans should, but they are beginning to realize that no matter | which candidate wins nomination orI which party holds power. that the bus mess of the country must be done as usual and that they must do it. Aor this reason the influence of politics is not so great on the ordinary business of the 1 country as it should be-.
 | MT. Carling is retired business man | and when he was active in politics cut a prettv wide swath in Georgia, so his | oDinion is entitled to respect. | There are few men whose opinions on | inc navy are entitled to more considera- 1 ton than those of B. F. Tracy. who has recently celebrated his s2d birthday. Mr. Tracy was Secretary of the Navy in Pres l ident Harrison's cabinet and he began I the modernizing of the United States | navy He is a firm believer in bigger | navy He said the other day What we