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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-14
MEETING HELD LAST NIGHT AT
WEST END AND IN DOWNTOWN
THEATRES - RESOLUTIONS
UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED

At a well attended public meeting in
West End last night the auditorium
was unanimously indorsed and the
West End civic league passed reso-
luton urging all voters to vote fa-
vorably to the proposition Monday.
Chairman Paschal Shook of the Cham-
her of Commerce auditorium commit
tee; Isadore Shapiro. Hugh Locke and
Henry f. Beaumont We're the principal
speakers.
At the conclusion of the speaking
President W. C. Gewin of the West
End Civic league called the league to
order and the following resolution was
unanimously adopted:
BE it resolved by the Wost End
Civic league. an organization composed
of West End citizens having for its
function the promotion of civic affairs
in West END. that the league go on
record as strongly favorlng the project
for the erection of an auditorium in
Birmingham and that we urge all cit
liens of West End to vote tor said
project ON next Monday and also to
urge their friends to do likewise"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-14
DECISION
OF GRUbb SAID TO
Be AGAINST |. & N.
Montgomery Report Is to
Effect That State Has
Won d Decisive
Victory

Montgomery. September 1s-tSpe-
cial.) l.)-Federal Judge W. l. Grubb OF
birmingham. one of the three judges
before whom argument was heard on
the application of the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad company for super
sedeas against the enforcement of the
railroad commisson's decree for n
lower passenger rate. Is said to have
rendered a decision in the case, deny
ing the petition. 1t is understood that
his order will be filed Monday.
The argument in the case was heard
by Judges Grubb, Pardee and Shelby
at Huntsville about three weeks ago.
The decision In the case is the most
decisive victory the state has yet
achieved
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-14
TWO OF THE VICTIMS
ONLY RECENTLY MARRIED

II searched about the wreck for friends
because l knew all the boys as they all
worked near my NINE Sam Bowers and
Tom Wooddie cousins. and both recently
married, and living together in the same
house in Parrish, were dead: Redford and
Fletcher were nearly dead and that wreck
certainly had hit me hard.
Il have no desire to be quoted on whom
the responsibility rests for this fatal
wreck. A WAS not there and therefore
cannot state. l know however, that there
was a gang Of laborers repairing the
trestle and that quite few of those men
were injured and one was killed.
At st. Vincent's hospital last night many
of Redford's .pnd Fletcher's friends and
relatives carie in from Parrish to see
them. They all were voluble in their ex-
pressions of the horror of the wreck. In.
particular Was their sorrow and sympathy
excited for the two young widows of Sam
Bowers. the fireman and Tom Wooddie.
the bridge foreman. who are cousins. These
young men have only recently married. 1t
seems. and live together in Parrish
From Jasper came the information last
night that the wrecSage will be cleared
some time today, but the trestle will have
to be rebuilt as the fire destroyed what
remained of 1t after the engine and coal
cars had plunged through.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-14
With Dramatic Stars, Seed
Vies In Pleasing Crowd

deliver his remarks in the crowded
tent under the auspices of the Dra-
matte company.
Seed spoke for 30 minutes expressing
himself about how, if elected, he would
run the office of govesnor When he
alluded to the name of Governor
Conner, roars of down with Conner
We're heard. He said he had asked
Conner while in Tuscaloosa the pointed
question of how he stood on prohibit
tion. He added that he had never re-
ceived an answer TO the question.
Mr.. Seed was introduced to the audi
enee by DR.. E. w. Harris. life long
friend and school companion
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-14

Sranfinncd from Page onep
what will be The gist of his arguments
before the government. mo man in the
world" he said. Occupies q more ano-
malous position today than Harry Thaw
occupies.
'They are endeavoring to eNtradite
under cover of charge of crime man
who they themselves must admit can
not commit a crime. for the purpose of
recommitting him in a lunatic asylum,
where if he be sane, he certainly should
not be kept, and which, even though
he be sane, has no legal right 20 keep
him.
Papers have arrived from New York
state charging Thaw with the crime
of conspiring to escape from an in
sane asylum and at the same time al
lie ging him as properly confined in that
asylum. II he were properly in the
asylum he must have been insane, and
every 1ayman knows that an insane
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-14

ceiving his sentence Monday he will be
taken to the federal prison at Atlanta.
The robbery of the Louisville and Nash
Vile northbound train between Birming-
ham and Calera created much excitement
in official circles on account of its bold
ness and apparent success. Rainer and
an accomplice bearded the train at Ca
lera and when a few miles out entered
the mail car and covered the clerks with
pistols.
Rainer's pal having dropped kit of
burglar tools in getting ON the mail car,
the two bandits had to be content with
what they secured from the mail bags,
which was about $3.50.
Rainer was arrested in Birmingham OH
a charge of vagrancy and it was while
in the county jail that the confession
was obtained by the deputY sheriffs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-14

Russellville, September 1s.-(Special.)
and candidate for governor of Ala
bama, spoke to a large crowd of show
goers this afternoon when the mana
ger of dramatic company consented
to allow the crowd the privilege of
hearing the candidate for governor.
Large crowds had gathered from every
part of the county to hear Seed point
out his Views in the gubernatorial
race and had expected to gather at'the
courthouse. Instead Seed consented 10
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-14
Engine and Coal Cars
Crash Through Trestle
to Gully Is Feet Below
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were working on the trestle were carried
down when the cars broke through
The engine plunged deep in the mud
of the gully and the tender bucl6led over
the engine into mass of unshapey iron,
while the coal cars spread their bitumi-
nous cargo over everything and the cars
themselves remained a mass of wreckage.
1t WAS a terrible scene and above the
kissing steam of the wrecked engine rose
the groans u the injured. Men begrimed
by the falling coal struggled painfully to
release themselves from the wreclSase
while others aided as they could. And
then the wreck caught fire. This neces-
STATED herculean efforts on the part of
the rescuers to get everybody out before
tlle..-1x cd a. :
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-14
Levy Claims Dersch Said
He Got $50, 900 for Sulzer
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Charles A. Stadler and some of his
friends. all of them friends OF Governor
Sulzer. had made up a little fund to con-
tribute TO Sulzers campaign fund. 1t was
about $1,000, certainly not more than $500.
took the checks down, a few checks,
and I really acted as the messenger in
taking the checks to Mr. Sulzer. That
was all there was to my testimony"
Mr.. Dersch said the naming of sum
anything like 5000 was preposterous.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-14
CITIZENS INDORSE THE
AUDITORIUM MOVEMENT

The resolution was adopted on the
motion of D. A. Hunt. which was sec
onded by j. T. Chamblee. Chairman
Shook made few remarks along the
line of the Importance of organizing
and getting out good vote. AIR. sha-
piro discussed the financial features of
the auditorium and Mr.. Locke talked
on account of the conventions. music
festivals and such events which it
would bring to the city Mr.. Beau
mont made a sort of summary of the
advantages of the auditorium for the
benefit of those who were appointed
to work at the polls Monday and We're
not entirely familiar about the propo-
sition.
The committee to work at she polls
Monday was named by Pres dent Gewin
of the civic league and is composed
as follows: W. c. Gewin. p. y. Hunt,
B. f. Allen. w III. Proctor ". H. Ma
kin, W. ], Bell, ]. 4. Chamblee, \. II.
Mackey. j. Frank Adams and III. f.
Beaumont.
President j. L. Shelby. Robert Ew
ing and Secretary w. c, Radcliffe
spoke at the Orpheum and Trianon
theatres last night. Mr.. Radcliffe in
troduced the speakers in the person of
Mr. Shelby and Mr.. Ewing. A vote was
taken at the Orpheum and it WINS unan-
imous for the auditorium. At the Tria-
non theatre Mr.. Shelby was received
with enthusiasm and was loudly ap-
plauded> at the conclusion of his speech.
Tho colored slides in behalf of the au-
ditorium have been on display in the
picture theatres for several days
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-14

cannot be guilty of conslracy or any
other crime.
"Qn the hearing before the governor
they cannot claim that when he COM
mitted this conspiracy Thaw was in
sane, because then he could not be
guilty of the crime With which he Is
charged on the other hand, If he was
sane, then Matteawan had no right TO
keep him and he could commit no
crime in getting away,
"On it's face it is apparent to every
thinking man that this whole con-
spiracy charges, all these extradition
proceedings, are merely a subterfuge
In the attempt to new Thaw up for
life in a lunatic> ASYLUM
Hornbeck at COlebro0k
Sheriff Hornbeck of Duchess coun-
ty, New York, in which Matteawan is
situated, arrived in Colebrook tonight
with the requisition warrant signed
by Acting Governor Glynn. Mr.. Jerome
inspected the papers to see that they
were perfect and will lay them before
the governor early next week.
A petition to Governor FellSer pray
ing that he refuse eXtradition in the
Thaw case on the ground that Thaw
had suffered enough for his crime was
circulated in Colebrook today. Up to
tonight it was said 105 signatures had
been obtained
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-14
Cordosa Man Reports HoIdup

John Gourson of Cordova reported to
the police that he had been held up
by two young white men at Twenty
fourth street and Morris avenue last
night about IL o'clock. The men got
from Mr.. Courson total of s65 and
left that gentleman in a highly ner-
vous condition. To detectives. MIR. Cour-
son announced that he would pay y
$50 reward for the capture of the high
waymen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-14
General Coates Dead

Washington, September 13.-Brig.
Gen. Edwin A. Coates. u. $. A., re-
tired. died at his home here early to-
day after an Illness of almost year.
He was ~ years old and native OF
New York. During the Civil war he was
In the Chicago zouaves and New York
DraGooua
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-14
HOPELESS TASK TO
EXTINGUISH FLAMES

At the wreck it was found that all the
workmen that had gone down with the
trestle had been rescued and the wreck
age was left to burn as it was a hopeless
tack to attempt to extinguisll the flames.
The dead were sent to undertakers at
Parrish and the injured rushed to Jasper
and Birmingham. Bedford and Fletcher.
also the negro Burs arrived in Birming-
ham about 1880 o'clock last night and
were at once rushed to the st. yincent's s
hospital in Warner & SmileX's ambulance.
At the infirmary it was found that the
men were all so badly injured that they
/ were unable to talk. However, A. Is.
Aldridge, manager and treasurer of the
Stith mines, said:
| II was seven miles away when the
| wreck happened and the moment heard
about 1t jumped into my automobile and
| sped across the country to the scene
| When 1 got there all the men had been
pulled out from the wreckage and people
were giving first aid to the injured while
the dead were stretched on one side of
| the gully. The wreck was on fire and
| the gully was full of dense black smoke
the scene was horrible and everyone was
| terribly excited,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-14
FOUND THEM BURIED
UNDER TONS OF COAL

The direful toll of the rescuers was find
ing that Tom Wooddie, the bridge fore
man, had been killed by being buried
under many>tons of coal Sam Bowers. a
fireman, had been Instantly killed by be-
ing caught between the engine and ten
der and being cut in twain. The uniden-
titled negro was found crushed beneath
the engine.
OF the injured, NJ c. Bedford the en-
gineer, had all his ribs crushed and there
is very little hope for him. Hamp Fletch-
Ger, the brakeman, also suffered it is
thought fatal internal injuries. The me-
gro Sanford Burs. who was brought to
this city is also not expected to live 1t
is stated, however. that the injured ne
groes sent to Jasper while seriously in
jured all have excellent chances to re-
cover
A few moments following the col1apsing
of the trestle men from the wreck reached
long distance telephones and calls for aid
We're sent in all directions; a rescue train
was at once made up and sent opt OF
Jasper, while doctors We're rushed from
Parrish to the scene.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-14
PERSONAL

Miss Dixie Wood has been visiting Rubie
Looney with Mrs. Phillips, 1920 Jefferson
avenue and returned yesterday to her
home in Waco, Tex
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-14

Chester g. Bandman. one of the best
known young men in Birmingham's edu-
cational field, has after an experience of
several years as a teacher in the high
school, been admitted to the bar. He
took the law course at the University of
Alabama and he and Harris Burns, a
graduate of the same law school, have
formed partnership as attorneys.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-14

Judge A. o. Lane was not down to his
office at the city hall yesterday on ac-
count of a slight indisposition. Commits
sioner Lane will probably leave for an
extended rest and vacation the middle of
this week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-14
THAW'S PROSECUTOR
LOSES POINT IN CASE
WITH VERY ILL GRACE

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-25
Executor Gets $4,000.
GLIDING ST. PAUL'S DOME.
Workmen High Over London Cover
ing Cross and Ball With Gold.

From London T1t-Bit5. -.
Four hundred feet above the pavement
of st. Pauls churchyard gang OF men
are at present engaged upon a task Of
unique interest. About ninety years ago
the ball and cross which surmount the
great dome of st. Paurs Cathedral were
gilded and the work apparently was Of
such an excellent character that 1t has
withstood the wear and tear Of time until
lately, when it was decided to regild the
cathedral cross.
From the pavement the ball looks little
larger than foot bali and the cross but
three or four feet high. AS matter Of
fact, however. the latter, which is said
thirty feet in height, while the ball on
which 1t is mounted Is six feet in diam
eter and will hold ten or twelve persons
Only the best English double gold"
leaf. as it is technically described, will
be used-that is, pure gold beaten out
and placed on transfer paper treated with
paratfin wax and double the thickness
ordinarily employed for outdoor work.
from which it will be obvious that the re-
gliding process will be a very costly one.
as a matter of fact. the total cost of
the job. which will take couple Of
months, to complete, will be considerably
lover 31,a0O.
The scaffolding which is being used is
extraordinarily simple, consisting Of lit
tie more than a few ladders, set up by
firm of experts In the fixing of lightning
conductors. A different method, however,
was employed when the original ball and
cross, set up by Wren. were gilded in
1921 On that occasion they were re-
moved. and apparently the scaffolding
was not fixed as 1t should have been; for
1t has been told how, owing to the bois-
ferrous weather, scarcely a day passed
without some part of the scaffolding or
the machinery connected with 1t being
deranged.
On one occasion, indeed, the greater
part of a circular framework Of heavy
panks erected above the Golden Gallery
which Is just above the dome, for the
prevention of accidents, was carried over
the house tops for considerable dis
lance, and later an observatory which
had been built above the usual site of
the cross narrowly escaped the same fate
1t might be mentioned that this OBJ
servatory was put up by a young artist
who was anxious to make panoramic
drawings OF the metropolis and the sur
rounding country. Before preparations
We're made for the removing Of the ball
and cross the artist had passed the whole
summer on the lantern under the ball,
climbing daily 600 steps to reach his
perilous position; and when the ball and
cross were removed he then obtained per-
mission to set up the observatory, sup
ported by platform, from which he
eventually made a complete panoramic
view OF London and it's environs on $50
sheets OF drawing paper. comprising a
surface OF 1,6sO square feet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-25
WHY TOES ARE VANISHING.
Some Pessimistic Prophecies-Freaky
Future Is Foretold by Scientists.

From Pearson's Weekly.
In spite of the skepticism Of tine age, the
days Of prophecy are by no means over,
and every now and then some scientific
or medical prophet rises up to utter pre-
dictions concerning the future-most of
which predictions, II is devoutly to be
hoped. will never be fulfilled.
Curiously enough, most modern prophets
are unanimous In believing that the men
and women of the future will be very
ugly to>1ook upon, and viii lose many Of
the ,redeeming features which now make
them passably handsome. ~ Z -"
According to Prof. kromeger, n Ger
man. for instance, 1900 years .heflce all
males of the human species VIII be COM
pletely bald headed, 1t is reassurfng to
know, however, that women will retain
their beautiful tresses.
!: According to Dr. Clement Lucas we are
likely to become a one-tOed race. In an
address which he gave on one occasion
before the Royal College of Surgeons he
stated that our big toes have undergone
an extraordinary development, while our
other toes, not being SO much used in
walking, are tending to become smaller.
IF the world goes on long enough,
said DR.. Lucas, ''in perhaps half a mill
lion years the useless outer toes, being
less and less employed, may gradually
disappear
Happily, we shall none of US be alive
to see the change.
Another prophet, NJ Brandt of Copen
hagen. has an even more horrid vision Of
tie future, It is his opinion that most.
of the wDrnen -in.years. to come will have
flowing. boards and long mustaches!
NJ. Brandt has taken the trouble to
write a book on the subject, in which he
gives many arguments in support of his
idea He says that, even at present,
quite 10; per cent of women have sprouti
ing mustaches, only we do not notice
this as the ladies are very careful to
pluck the hairs out! He says, also. that
the change will come very slowly, and
that a race of bearded women need not
be expected before couple of centuries.
A well known doctor recently made the
alarming statement that only about 30
per cent of our present population have
normal eyesight, and If things go on as
they are now he foresees a time when
practically the whole of the British
nation will be a nation in spectacles.
The doctor thinks that the best way to
avoid such a catastrophe would be to
give children only oral lessons in the
early days Of their education. When
lessons are written, they should be done
by the teacher on a large blackboard in
very bold style.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-25
FOR JEWS IN R0UMANIA.
Speaker Clark to Preside at Mass
Meeting in New York.

NEW YORK, September "a mass
meeting, at which Speaker Champ Clark
will preside, will be held here next Tues
day night In the interest Of the Jews In
Roumania. who are struggling for po-
litical, religious and educational freedom.
1t was announced today by the American
Roumanian Jewish emancipation COM
mittee. At the meeting a letter will be
read which is said to have been written
by King Charles of Roumania forty-six
years ago. when he was prince and heir
apparent, in which he promised to work
for the freedom of his Jewish subjects.
The letter has been obtained after sew
eral years Of effort by Henry Green. ex-
ecutive secretary of the emancipation
committee, IL Is said. 1t is addressed to
Sir Moses Montefiore. The promise in this
letter will be called to the attention of
the king By the committee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-25
CITY OF THE CAESARS.
Hotel Keeping as Rome's Chief In.
dustry.

From tie London standard.
The principal industry of Rome. if so
it may be called, is that Of catering for
foreign visitors, and. local enterprise in
that direction seems TO be profitable
one, judging from the large number Of
registered hotels and boarding houses
These, according to the report for 19l3
of the British consul, Mr.. Morgan
amount to les in a city OF DOL ,561 III
habitants, irrespective of other very nu-
merous unregistered private boarding
houses.
The consul continues: Laudable at
tempts have been made and are still be-
ing made to improve the industrial con-
ditions of the Italian capital in order to
convert il from consuming center into
productive one, but the process OF
transformation must necessarily be
slow one, and seems to be hampered DS
certain adverse local conditions, such as
the hign cost Of living and heavy house
rents, which have contributed to raise
the scale of wages demanded by local
workmen. who are to large extent I'M
skilled. not having had the training OPP
portunities afforded by other Italian in
dustfial districts. such as Lombardy or
Piedmont
One other grave obstacle in the way
he says, is the fact that notwithstanding
the vicinity of Rome to the sea there
does not exist any appreciable means Of
transport up river from the coast to the
city, as in other large European capitals
Those who are interested in the welfare
OF Rome have endeavored during recent
years to raise the necessary means for
building a harbor at Ostia at the estuary
of the Tiber;. and at the same time to
widen and dredge the river so as to rem
der 1t navigable for vessels OF high
tonnage. A preliminary step In that di-
rection has been taken by the construc-
ton of large bonded warehouses.
AS matters stand at present, Mr.. Nor
gan points out, the greater part of the
commodities imported to Rome Is carried
overland by rail as well as by means Of
carts for such supplies as are provided
by the neighboring districts. The exist
ing railway system cannot promptly and
satisfactorily meet the .eXigencies of the
increasing traffic: hence the necessity Of
opening 4 direct highway tos'the coast.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-25
Friday. Clearance of
WOmen'S Linen and
Wolfe Dresses.

We have assembled the re-
remainder of our Linen and Wolfe
Dresses. and have placed especial
" low prices on them Tor imme-
date disposal. Plain colors and
pretty figured effects, some with
peplum or jacket, others in plain,
one-piece model for morning or
house wear. Colors: Pink. light
blue, lavender, rose and white.
$3.50 each. Were $o.75.
Plain Colored Striped Wolfe
Dresses in several of the best
styles. Colors: Pink, light blue
and various stripes; sizes 10 to 40.
S3.o5 each. Were So.75.
Third floor, G st.
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Black Dress Goods Dept.

31a yards 44-inch Silk and Wool Crepe. Was
$S75. Now $500
!. 31S yards 44-inch Wool Cashmere. Was 1921.
Now 81 Is.
2ls yards 42-inch Wide Vale Serge. Was 81. 80
Now $1.75. ".
"a yards 42-inch French Serge. Wass 10.
= yards a2-inch Wool Mcirose. Was $3.50 Now
lM yards 47-inch Wool Maltese. Was $4.25.
Now $500.
%. yards 54-inch Wide Vale Suiting. Was
s. SIS. Now 500.
yards 6O-inch Priestley's Cracunette. Was
$500. Now 500.
Az yards 54-inch Fancy Suiting. Was 1913.
Now $500
81 70.
2la yards 44-inch Priestley's Serge. Was 1913.
Now 1925.
Z. Second floor. G. st.