davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-29
Improvement Ordinance No ea7-C

N q. II
supplemental, to amend section 8, of an
ordinance entitled Improvement Ordi-
nance, No. 637-C, New Series" to pro-
VIDE Tor the construction of certain
storm sewer mains and branches
thereto.
Whereas, The Board Of Commissioners
Of the city of Birmingham on, o-wit,
the 2Sth day of March. 1913, adopted
an ordinance entitled Improvement Or
dinance No. 637C, New Series to pro-
vide for the construction of certain
storm sewer mains and branches there
to- which said ordinance was duly con-
11rmed, on to-wit, the 18th day of April,
1913, and.
Whereas. Said ordinance failed to
correctly describe all of the area to be
drained by said sewers; now, there
Tore, IN order to supply said defects, be
" Ordained by the board of commits
eioners of the city of Birmingham, as
follows:
Section 1. That section of said ordi-
nance. entitled Improvement Ordi-
nance No. 637-C, New Series" to pro-
vide for the construction of certain
storm seve er mains and branches there
TO- be and the same Is hereby amended
20 as to read as follows. to-wit:
That said sewers are constructed for
= the purpose of draining the territory
or area bounded as follows:
Fifth avenue and Seventh street; thence
eouthward along the west line of Sew
enth street to the center of Third ave-
nue.: thence eastward along the center
81 Third avenue to the center OF Eighth
street.; thence southwark along the cen-
ter of Eighth street to the center of
First avenue: thence eastward along the
center of First avenue to the center of
Ninth street; thence southeastward to
point 240 feet east of the center of
Ninth street and 139 feet south from
FIRST avenue; thence eastward parallel
n 70 First avenue to the west line of
y Eleventh street on the south side of
First avenue; thence southwark along
SAID west line a distance of 40 feet;
tnence westward parallel to First ave-
ward parallel to Eleventh street to the
north line of the general railroad reser-
vation; thence westward along said line
center of the Alabama Great Southern
railroad; thence along a line between
NE last named point and point on
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-29

Matters other than the work on the
Tombigbee will be taken up in the tu-
ture. but for the present Its efforts
Will be devoted to secure the compile
tion of the work on the Tombigbee at
the earliest possible moment.
The cause for the meeting of the
convention is that the contractors VIII
have in charge the work on locks ,
and have delayed completing the Jobs
and as a result navigation In the VI
cinity of these locks is hampered II
time of very low water and with a
heavily loaded boat. II Is pointed out
that by putting on an extra shift of
men the work can. be completed in
half the time.
News was received in Tuscaloosa today
of an accident at the Price sawmill near
Rue Thursday, which resulted in the death
of two white men, Joe Walker and John
. Duncan, and a negro, all of whom We're
instantly Killed. Two other negroes,
whose names could not be learned, were
also badly injured, and one is expected to
die from his injuries. The mill is some
miles from Tuscaloosa and only meagre
details of the accident have been received
here.
Thanksgiving services We're held here
Thursday at the Christ Episcopal church
and the First Methodist church. The Rev.
e. A. Penick preached at Christ church
and the Rev. c. NJ. Boys occupied the pull
pit at the First Methodist church. the
latter service being participated in by the
Methodist Baptist and Presbyterian
churches of the city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-29

of office he named a new board of pub
lie safety. The members are Hugh 81.
Love, Schuyler Haas and Edwin IL. En-
rich, all we'll known business men. Fred
3. Akin was named city comptroller The
mayor then went to police headquarters.
where he said he would put forth every
effort to reorganize the force which, h.
said, has become demoralized owing To
disorders growing out of labor troubles.
Thomas ]. Farrell general organizer, IT.
charge of the Teamsters' and Chanffeurs
unions in this city said tonight that g
meeting of the two organizations haa
been called for Sunday afternoon, When
they would vote on the question of callin2
a strike. 1t is generally believed the
strike will be called
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-29

in that vicinity, five families and several
single persons, to decide to leave for the
United States. An American chauffeur
returning from Victoria today, said that
the Americans were to start for Mata-
moras and Brownsville in a wagon train
today Several women missionaries have
asked United States Consul Johnson at
Matamoras to furnish them automobile
transportation, from Victoria to Mata-
moras
Victoria is cut off from all points and
there is no chance to obtain provisions.
With the departure of the Americans
from Victoria it is believed there will be
none left in Tamaulipas except at Tam
pico.
The chauffeur today said that in cap
turing Victoria, November 19, the consti-
tutionalists burned the state capital and
razed the penitentiary after liberating all
the prisoners. but destroyed no other
property in the city deliberately.
The Mexican National railroad bridge
over the San Marcos river was partly
destroyed. shutting off the stone supply
for jetty construction at Tampico
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-29
EscuderO Arrives

Nogales, Sonora, November 2S.-Fran-
cisco Eseudero minister of foreign reIa-
uons in the constitutionalists cabinet, ar
rived here tonight from Hermosillo Escu-
dero, who took leading part i'm the re-
cent conference between William Bayard
Faie. representative of President Wilson
and General Venustiano Carranza. would
otfer no explanation of his return to the
border
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-29
Deaths and Funerals
f. 3. Strickland

Funeral services over the remains OF
F. B. Strickland aged 5S years, who died
Wednesday night in a local inflrmary from
injuries received by being struck by a
street car, were conducted yesterday aft
ernoon from the family residence at 7311
Sloss avenue, East Lake. Interment fol
lowed in East Lake cemetery. The de-
ceased is survived by widow, two sons
and four daughters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-29
Thomas MOffett Flournoy

Columbus, Ga. November 2S.-(Special)
Thomas Moffett Flournoy, prominent
Russell county. Alabama. planter, who
sresides at Broken Arrow. nine miles from
Columbus, died in the City hospital this
afternon after an illness of malaral fever.
His wife and six children survive him.
MIR. Flournoy was one of the leading
planters of east Alabama, farming on an
extensive scale, and had substantial busi-
ness investments in Columbus.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-29
Rebels Move Southwark

Ell Paso November 2S.-The movement
of Gen. Francisco Villas troops to the
south to attack the federal stronghold
at Chihuahua. was begun today. when
nearly 1000 men under Gen. Rosalio Her
nandez departed from Juarez. They ac-
companied a work train used to repair the
railroad line which was destroyed in
places below Juarez by the federals when
they retreated southwark after the TERRA
Blanca battle.
Another troop train Is being loaded in
Juarez tonight and will probably leave
for the south tomorrow morning. Gen
eral Villa will leave with the remainder
of his troops, going toward Chihuahua.
Rebel leaders believe they will have q
fight with the federals al Villa Ahumada.
So miles south of Juarez, as the federal
troops defeated at TERRA Blanca are
marooned there
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-29
Mrs. Thompson Ill

deus A.'Thompson, wife of the United
States minister to Colombia, entered
Johns Hopkins hospital here late to-
night for medical treatment She VIII
be operated upon probably in a day
or two Minister Thompson accompany
led his wife to Baltimore from tn
South American republic.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-29
Clarence Wilburn Thornburph

Funeral services over the remains of
Clarence Wilburn Thornburgh, aged 4s
years, who died Thursday at the residence
of his sister, Mrs. Felix w. Vought, 1928
Thirteenth avenue, north, were conduct
ed yesterday morning from the Vought
residence. Following the services the re :
mains were sent to Raleigh, N c., for
interment by Warner & Smiley. The de-
ceased is survived by three children, three
brothers and four sisters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-29
$4,000 VIOLIN rs
USED IN CONCERT

Mountain Creek, November 2S.-(Special)
Last evening the people of Thorsby had
the pleasure of attending a concert in
which Miss Estelle Gray took part and
used her 5000 violin. Miss Gray has re-
Gently returned from a tour of Europe.
During her absence she appeared in Lon
don, Paris. Berlin and other places
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-29
ADJUSTMENTS
Maud Pow ell

Americas greatest violinist, Maui
Powell, will give recital at the Or
pheum theatre Sunday afternoon ).
80 o'clock. There has been brisl
advance sale of seats and the indiea
tions are that there will be capacit,
house.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-29
Fred J. Ransom

The remains of Fred J. Ransom, who
was shot and killed last Monday at
the residence of w. Leroy Reeves at
Conner station. will be sent to Newark.
N. j., this morning for interment by
Warner & Smiley.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-29
Mrs. Ethel La Porte

The remains of Mrs. Ethel La Porte
aged 81 years, who died Thursday morn
ing, were sent to Prattville yesterday
morning by Shaw & Sons for interment.
The deceased is survived by her husband.
F. A. La Porte, and two sisters
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-29
.SUFFRAGISTS FLOCK
TO WASHINGTON FOR
HUGE CONVENTION
CONTINUED From Page one)


--~~0@-~~~-@-~-~-~---~-~
reach the man voter suffrage as il
affects the home and other subjects VIII
be treated. Mrs. Robert LaFollette viii
lecture on "how to reach the rural voter
in n suffrage campaign"
Men to Lecture
The lecturing, however. will not be con.
fined to women. DR.. Harvey w. Wiley
Senator Chamberlain. Representative Vic
tor Murdoch, progressive party leader Of
the House; Assistant Secretary Post Of
the department of labor. and many othes
men of public life will address ths
workers.
Next weeks convention however. prom
ises to deal with the internal affairs
of the organizations, plans for filling tho
war chest. new campaigns and making
of converts 1t probably will be the most
important suffrage gathering ever heti
in the capital. Suffrage leaders chosa
this time for the rally because they fell
the converting of Congress and Presl
dent Wilson'S delivery of his first an
nual message was psychological mo
ment for concentrated strike for thei.
cause.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-29
House Is Burned

At 12:O1 o'clock this morning fire fron
sparks on the roof destroyed Il house oc
cupied by negroes at Fifth avenue an
Twelfth street. No. | fire compau
answered the alarm, hut could not saw
the frame building. The damage Is est
mated at about $500
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-29
Mrs. Rebecca Tarence

The remains of Mrs. Rebecca Tarence,
aged 80 years, who died in a local in
frmary Thursday morning, We're sent to
Warrior yesterday morning for interment
by Lige 10y.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-29
Danger of Starvation

Brownsville. Tex, November 2S.-Immi-
nent danger of starvation at Victoria.
capital of the Mexican state of Tamauli-
pas has caused all remaining Americans
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-29

alton owing to their inability to get
from Tampieo the coal, coke and oil
stored there
Strength Increasing
Reports from the north continue TO
indicate increasing rebel strength
south of Saltillo. Since the dynamiting
of a troop train yesterday no effort
has been made to resume traffic, the
railway men refusing to take out the
trains.
1t Is reported that after dynamiting
the train the rebels attacked the SOL
diers, who numbered about 100, and
80 or 40 women and children belonging
to the soldiers, killing every one of
them. This report has not been con-
firmed
The Chamber of Deputies approved
tonight the committee report on the
20, 900, 900 peso interior bond issue.
asked for by the late President Madero
which was not acted upon by his Con-
gress. 1t is said that certain foreign
governments are willing to accept pay
ment of their indemnities in these
bonds and 1t is regarded as probable
that more will be authorized and
printed
The, American embassy has obtained
from high government officials assur-
ances that Manuel Madero. uncle of the
late President, who started tonight un-
der guard for Vera Cruz, would reach
there in safety.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-29
MEXICAN FEDERAL
GENERAL SUICIDES
WHEN CITY is TAKEN

CONTINUED From Page one)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-29
Appeals to Embassy

ADDtdlS w IhtDdooy
Madero is one of a group brought
from Monterey on charge of sedition.
He has been held in the penitentiary
and was ordered transferred to Vera
Cruz, presumably for Incarceration ill
San Juan de Ulua prison. Relatives
learned of the order late today. and
fearing he might be shot while on the
way appealed to the American en-
bassy.
An official of the embassy tele-
phoned to two members of the cabinet
and to Enrique Zepeda, nephew OF
President Huerta, who was recently
released from the penitentiary, where
he had been held until an investigation
lcouTd be made of his killing and burn
| ing of Gabriel Hernandez at Belem
| prison. while governor of the federal
district There three officials commu-
nicated with the Presidents office and
| then notified the embassy that Ma
dero's relatives might rest assured of
| the prisoners safety.
Gen Porfirio Diaz. eX-President of
the, republic, may be called upon for
active service at any time Several
months ago he was invited by PresI-
dent Huerta to return to the army IL
accepted and has been placed on the
| list of available unassigned generals.
Washington, November 2S-Secretary
Bryan said tonight lllal Ho olliSiai Soii-
munication had been received here from
Rear Admiral Fletcher or John Lind, the
special American envoy to Mexico, relat-
ing to conditions in the oil fields near
| Tampico.
The fact that nc report had been re-
ceiyed since the cable from Admiral
| Fletcher relating to conditions in the
| vicinity of Tuxpam several days ago was
regarded in official circles as an assur-
ance that there was no immediate cause
for alarm.
When President Wilson left Washington
| for New York at noon, Secretary Bryan
remained to receive official dispatches On
conditions in the revolution-torn republic.
| The only developments concerned the ac-
| tivity of the rebel forces reported to be
advancing toward Tampico from Victoria.
Secretary Daniels early In the day is
sued an order directing the fourth division
| of the Atlantic fleet now In the Mediter-
| ranean to proceed to the east coast Of
| Mexico via Guantanamo. The ships Jo
| make the trip are the Connecticut, Kansas
and Ohio, ordered to replace the Louisl-
| ana, Michigan and New Hampshire, now
| in Mexican waters. The division will
leave the Mediterranean December l and
| should arrive off Vera Cruz about two
weeks later Rear Admiral Badger, COM
mander- in chief of the Atlantic fleet, will
| direct this maneuver.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-29

JOHNS Undertaking Co. Phone 1902.
LICE 10y. Undertaken. Phone -
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-29
OUR GUARANTEE

The Age-Herald guarantees 70
refund the amount paid by any
reader who finds after receiving
Everybody's Cyelopedia that it
is not entirely as represented.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-29

alton owing to their inability to get
from Tampieo the coal, coke and oil
stored there.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-29

The members of the st. Cecillie club
of Fairview will be entertained at their
regular Monday evening meeting by Miss
Jessie and Miss Angie Ruter on Ann
street.
The daily sentinel., 1913-03-04
MASTERPIECE Of ENGLISH IS
WILSON'S INAUGURAL ADDRESS

sight into our own life
: We see that in many things that
life is very great. II is incomparably
great in It's material aspects, in It's
body of wealth, in the diversity and
sweep OF its energy, in the industries
which have been conceived and built
up by the genius OF individual men
and the limitless enterprise of groups
OF men. II is great. also. very great.
In Its moral force. Nowhere else in
the world have noble men and wom-
en- exhibited in more striking forms
the beauty and the energy of SYM
pathy and helpfulness and counsel in
their efforts to rectify wrong, allie
yiate suffering, and set the weak in
the way of strength and hope. We
have built up, moreover, great sys-
TEN of government, which has stood
through a long age as in many re-
spects a model for those who seek to
set liberty upon foundations that will
endure against fortuitous change.
against storm and accident. Our life
contains every great thing, and con-
tains IL in rich abundance.
But the evil has come with the
good and much fine gold has been
corroded. With riches has come in
eXcusable waste We have squander-
ed great part OF what we might
have used. and have not stopped to
conserve the exceeding bounty of ma
ture. without which our genius for
enterprise would have been worthless
and impotent, scorning to be careful,
shamefully prodigal as well as ad-
mirably efficient. We have been
proud OF our Industrial achievements.
but we have not hitherto stopped
thoughtfully enough TO count the
human cost, the cost of lives snuffed
out, OF energies overtaxed and brok-
en-. the fearful physical and spiritual
cost to the men and women and
children upon whom the dead weight
and burden of 1t all has fallen pitt
lessly the years through. The groans
and agony of II all had not yet reach
ed our ears, the solemn, moving un-
dertone of our life. coming up out
of the mines and factories and out
of every home where the struggle had
Its intimate and familiar seat. With
the great government went many
deep secret things which we too long
delayed to look into and scrutinize
with candid, fearless eyes The great
government We loved has too often
been made use of for private and sell
fish purposes. and those who used II
had forgotten the people.
A New Vision.
'At last vision has been vouch-
safed us df our life as whole. We
see the bad with the good, the de-
based and decadent with the sound
and vital. With this vision we APP
proach new affairs. Our duty is to
cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, to
correct the evil without impairing the
good to purify and humanize every
process of our common life without
weakening or sentimentalizing it.
There has been something crude and
heartless and unfeeling in our haste
TO succeed and be great Our
thought has been Let every man look
out for himself, let every generation
look out for itself. while we reared
giant machinery which made IL i'm
The daily sentinel., 1913-03-04
OFFICIAL REPORT
ON HARVESTER
TRUST MADE
Associated Press.

. AGoOildNtd ItSS.
Washington March 4.-The power
OF the international Harvester Com
pany-the so-called Harvester trust
which the federal government is
seeking to dissolve under the Sher-
man low. lies in its monOpolistic po-
sition, its superior command of capi-
tai, including its connections with ].
p. Morgan and Company and John ID.
Rockefeller, and certain Objectionable
competitive methods. according to
Luther Conant, Jr.. Commissioner of
Corporations, Ia his report on the OPP
erations of the giant corporation,
submitted TO President Taft today.
THE chief features Of the Interna-
tional Harvester Company's opera
tions. says Mr.. Conant. ARE the sub
stantial maintenance of its monopo-
listic position in the harvesting ma
chine business, originally acquired
through combination, and its extern
sions on n large scale into new lines
OF the farm-maehlnery industry The
company has been able to do this in
part through the acquisition of some
of its chief rivals in the harvesting
machine business; in part by using
its mopololistic advantage in these
harvesting machine lines to force the
sale of its new lines; in part by GER
tain Objectionable competitive meth
ods; and especial ythrough its excep-
tional command OF caDital. itself the
result of combination.
The hervester investigation was
made in response to a Senate resolu-
tion passed several years ago. Re-
Gently request was made by repre-
sentatives of the company that the
report be withheld pending the out
come of the antitrust suit. but Presi-
dent Taft decided to make it public
The combination, the report de-
ing c)lcerns, and was not, las fire.
quently asserted" mere sale of
their properties to new interests. On
this point Mr.. Conant says:
1T has been represented in formal
testimony by officers of the company
and its financial promoter, G. w.
Perkins, then of the firm of ]. p. Nor
gan & Co.. that its organization was
not the result OF concerted action by
the former competing owners, but
merely of the purchase of their prop
critics by new and outside interests.
Documentary evidence gathered by
the Bureau eompletely disposes of
this contention and shows that the
principal competing interests con-
sidered and discussed among them
selves the formation of this combina-
tion and were active in bringing 1t
about
The daily sentinel., 1913-03-04

high course of action
This is not a day OF triumph; 1t is
a day OF dedieation Here muster.
not the forces Of party but the forces
of humanity. Mems hearts wait upon
us; mems lives hang in the balance;
mems hopes call upon us TO say what
we will do. Who shall live up TO the
great trust2 Who dares fail to try?
! summon all honest men, all pat
riotic. all forward-looking men, TO
my side God helping me. / win not
fail them, If they viii but counsel and
sustain mel"
The daily sentinel., 1913-03-04

possible that any but those who stood
at the levers OF control should have a
chance to look out for themselves.
We had not forgotten our morals.
We remembered well enough that we
had set up policy which was meant
to serve the humblest as well as the
most powerful. with an eye single to
the standards Of justice and fair play,
and remembered il with pride. But
We were very needless and in hurry
TO be great.
We have now come to the sober
second thought. The scales OF heed
lessness have fallen from our ewes.
We have made up our minds to
square every process OF our national
life again with the standards we so
proudly set up at the beginning and
have always carried at our hearts.
Our work is work of restoration.
The daily sentinel., 1913-03-04

Dan Easement of Colorado Surings,
left for his ranch in the Unaweep
canon this morning, after short
stop in the city. He was very warm
ly clad in Klondike-like clothes to
stand the rigors of his mountain
ranch which is covered with so
INCHES of snow. ,,
The daily sentinel., 1913-03-04
icontInued dom page 1l

VOUHIIIIUtU IIUHI IaEF II
old things with which We had grown
familiar, and which had begun 10
creep into the very habit of our
thought and OF our lives. have alter
ed their aspect as we have latterly
looked critically upon them. with
fresh, awakened eyes; have dropped
their dIsguises and shown them
selves alien and sinister. Some new
things. as We look frankly upon them.
willing to comprehend their real
character, have come to assume the
aspect OF things long believed In and
familiar. stun of our own convictions.
We have been refreshed by new in
The daily sentinel., 1913-03-04

The High Line Mutual Irrigation
company held meeting for the
stockholders yesterday afternoon for
the election of five directors. The
following gentlemen received the
highest number of votes and were
declared elected: d. r. Crosby, R.
H. Bancroft, f. NJ. Berger and C. w.
Steele.
The daily sentinel., 1913-03-04
Expecting visit from Daughter.

Judge and Mrs. Walter S. Sullivan
are anticipating visit soon from
their daughter, the young Mrs. Jas.
McKinnie. nee Miss Elsi Sullivan, of
Los Angeles.
The daily sentinel., 1913-03-04
Go to Delta.

Go to Delta.
berry, players of the trap drum,
clarinet and violin respectively, left
yesterday for Delta to accept posi-
tions furnishing music in a theater
there.
The daily sentinel., 1913-03-04

John Holland, well known cow
boy from the Unaweep canon and
Hannah Creek section, was among
today's visitors in the city. He is
working big homestead claim about
% miles from this city.
The daily sentinel., 1913-03-04

f. E. Chambers of Hannah Creek
section is in the city, coming down
from his Purdy Mesa ranch yester-
day on business.