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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-15
NEW yoRK,s WONDERFUL STATION
From Leslie's.

FROM Leslie ..
Vanderbilt A gigantic enterprise IN
New York city is nearing completion.
The wonderful terminal building of the
New York Central railroad is a triumph
of engineering. The public has but faint
conception of what it means to excavate
nearly so acres-to an average depth of
As feet and build magnificent new sta
tom without disturbing existing traffic or
stopping train. Thirty-two miles of
track have been laid. Twice as much steel
has been used in erecting the new station
with its viaducts and auxiliaries as was
required in the construction of the exist
ing subway in New York City and Brook
lyn. The new station covers an area of
70 acres, which makes it over seven times
as large as the Boston South station. 1t
has a total of 6S tracks as against 80 in
the Boston and st. Louis stations and four
separate levels; first the gallery, below
this the great concourses with Al tracks
for express trains, then the third level
with q tracks for suburban trains and
below all these subways for the handling
of the baggage. There are no stairways,
as inclined planes or ramps with very
easy grades take their places. Inc new
station has IL separate entrances and the
arrangement of the ticket, Baggage and
other offices has been made with studied
care for the convenience of the passen-
gers. The concourse for inbound trains
holds 5000 persons and for outbound $4,000.
while the waiting room will accommodate
5000 more, so that 10000 persons can be
taken care of without crowding. Passen-
gers come in at one side of the station and
go out at the other. With the opening of
this magnificent new terminus February
q the public again realized what the
name Vanderbilt means.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-15
Civic Chambers New President

w. P. G. Harding is now president
of the Birmingham Chamber OF COM
merce. He was duly installed last
night at the annual meeting in which
enthusiasm and the real get-together
spirit prevailed.
While Mr.. Harding belongs to the
Younger set of Birminghams business
men, he has for many years been
recognized as leader in civic affairs.
And although he is busy man ne
can be counted upon to give the Cham
ber of Commerce all the time and
attention necessary for successful
administration.
The old Commercial club, which was
the predecessor of the chamber, was
a center of influence, and, in the ma
ture of things, the chamber is a much
stronger center. Not a few OF the
older members can recall the early
days when the Commercial club had
less than 800 names on its roll. To-
day the Chamber of Commerce has
over 1000 members. Few cities In the
United States of approximately Bir-
mingham's size have representative
commercial organizations numerically
as strong as the Chamber of Com
merce and not one, perhaps, has an
organization better equipped for do
ing effective work. 1t is potential
body and under Mr.. Harding's presi-
dency it will continue to maintain a
high standard in the matter of
achievement.
Birmingham, with it's varied natural
resources, grows steadily, but it grows
all the faster when organized effort
is put forth and when public spirit
is fully in evidence. The Chamber of
Commerce has developed public spirit
in Birmingham and with the hearty
co-opefatlon OIL the podru "a uiiee-
tors and the membership in general
President Harding will contribute
materially to the Chambers prestige
and potentiality.
There is every promise that 1918
will be banner year for Birmingham,
and there should be no question but
that it will be banner year for the
Chamber of Commerce.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-15
Grammatical Questions

Grammar is necessary to elearness OF
expression, but If the purist had his way
our English would soon become stilted,"
said a professional man.
"A grammatical symposium In the New
York Sun has brought out many interest
ing points, and one of the questions is
discussed in this letter or recent date: i
was much interested by the recent letter
in The Sun on the misuse of the adverb
"only" and the tendency of many writ
ers to put 1t ahead of its proper place
in the sentence. l must differ with your
correspondent, however, on one point. L
maintain that Jack" is right when he
says: "1 give my seat only to pretty
girls" Evidently he means that they
must be pretty, and that if they are
young. good, rich, poor or what not, no
matter If he said. as your correspondent
pretty girls" he would mean, literally, ITO
girls who are only pretty, and who would
be disqualified by the possession of any
other attribute" Surely he didn't mean
that.
The error, the misplacing of the ad-
verb. is common even with authors whom
1t would seem rash for me to criticise
Read Drummonds Natural Law in the
Spiritual World 1t is not a violation
of grammar; but the author. in such a
case, says something other than what he
means
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-15
THREE NEW DRINKS

From the New York Herald.
That trilogy of new drinks, the Infuria-
tor, the Singer and their bland antidote,
THE Queller. has come as a benison to
those who are athirst
The infuriator is all the rage. It gets
the appetite on a rampage, lashes hunger
to become as a ravening lion and inspires
the modern to vie in prowess with. valiant
trenchermen of old.
The infuriator is all the rage. A good
drink of brandy, dash of absnthe shake
well with ice, drain off and serve as a
cocktail. One will be enough for most
men. After that bring ON planked steak,
heaping plates of potatoes, loaves of bread
and any such unconsidered trihes, and
leave the infuriated to wreak his will.
The dinner proceeds and there is need as
the coffee arrives and the cigars are in
transit for a soothing cordial.
Then take the Stinger, which is COM
posed of white creme de menthe, with a
good dash of brandy, shaken together
with ice and drained off, Or it may be
served in the usual frappe form. Here is
something soothing and at the same time
not devoid of tang. 1t makes visions to
soothe the senses and warns the cookies
of the heart.
1t may be that in time the need of strong
drink seems 70 be. no more indicated.
One may awake In the gray dawn wishing
that he had never heard of these Amer
lean drinks with such dynamic names.
He may not exactly know his own name
or care whether or not he has one. His
shoes have not been properly tied, the
newspaper that comes with the morning
coffee has letters blurred and tangled.
II am nervous" one may say to Bar
dolph, who seems afar off in vague vista
of glasses and purple and green bottles
and pink armadilloes and red anacondas.
Let me make you a Queller," says the
barSeeper. all attention and sympathy.
Aromatic spirits of ammonia, strange
pinkish decoctions, a dash of bitters, or
anything, in fact, which the man of bot
ties may have in his medicine chest, all
shaken up with ice, and served cool as a
breath from mountain caves in which the
snow still remains in the heat of sum-
mer, and the queller has stilled the riot
of nerves and performed the last func-
ton in making man forget the fierce po-
tations of the night before in the dawn
of the day after
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-15
"RAGTIME. IN ENGLAND

From the New York Journal.
London-Britons are mad in two
senses of the word, over American rag
time dances. John Bull has begun to
write to the papers in violent denuncia-
ton of the growing craze for what are
described as the
Smuggling,
Sinuous,
Rackety, and
Shockingl
One-step dances of THE States"
Nevertheless, an all ragtime dancing
affair is soon to be given at celebrated
hotel, the programme to include:
Turkey trot
Bunny hug,
Tango,
Chicken flip and
Crocodile clutch.
1t is the first dance of its kind TO he
held in England. The ragtime fever here
is so intense it is hoped to secure the
presence and patronage of society leaders
tor the function, where exponents of the
most advanced styles of ragtime contor-
ton dances are to perform.
Byron denounced the waltz in verse,
and for a long time in more recent years
Britons refused to reverse in the waltz,
until American womens refusal to dance
with them in the old round and round way
compelled them to learn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-15
vAGARIEs OF SHAVING

Il
Talking of shaving the other night at
Doctor Taylor's, Doctor Johnson said:
Sir. of thousand shavers, two do not
shave so much alike as not to be distin-
guished." l thought this not possible, till
he specified so many of the varieties in
shaving-holding the razor more or less
perpendicular, drawing long or S hort
strokes. beginning at the upper part of
the face, or the under. at the right side or
the left side. Indeed, when one considers
what variety Of sounds can be uttered by
the windpipe. in the compass Of very
small aperture, we may be convinced how
many degrees Of difference there may be
in the application of razor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-15
Federal Aid for Good Roads

Senator Bourne, chairman of the
Joint committee on federal aid in the
construction of post roads, is seeking
expressions Of public opinion on the
subject in all its bearings. He will
find that Alabama is solidly in favor
of federal aid for this purpose, and
if the first government appropriation
be confined to post roads, no one in
this state will object. The exact pur-
pose and form of government ap-
preparation will not be closely studied.
What is needed is federal aid to bring
out expenditures in the counties and
by the state. Any fair apportionment
would be acceptable and the manner
of supervision need not be controll-
ing.
A big federal appropriation could
be so conditioned that it would induce
the counties to act ans, possibly the
state also. This should be kept in
view. Alabama has long way to
go before she is fully equipped with
good roads, and federal appropria-
tion could be utilized to induce the
state and the counties to act. This
point should not be lost sight of.
Local cooperation should, in other
words, be encouraged by federal
appropriation. Between the two excel
lent and satisfactory results would be
altogether possible and feasible.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-15

Isenger at Il. In six months he became
an operator. Then to a merchants Of
flee and thence to journalism. Munich
pal councillor at Il, a mayor at 25. he
was a member of parliment at 80. When
Dick Seldom died such man was OBJ
viously heir to the premiership of New
Zealand. One of the pleasantest incl
dents in Sir Josephs career is his re-
fusal of a public subscription of $780,
600, got together when a big under
taking with which he was, associated
failed. The money was offered to his
wife Sir Joseph replied: Il am young
and can work" He resigned his offices
and ultimately paid all the creditors
in full.
Queen Victoria had neither sympathy
with nor tolerance for the woman's
movement, and on one occasion she ex-
pressed herself in very direct terms on
the subject. In 1s70." G. w. E. Rus
sell writes, "a young matron, who bore
a name highly honored in English his
tory, suddenly became conspicuous on
political platforms. and the spectacle of
her performances produced this remark
able protest: The Queen is most anx-
ious to enlist every one who can speak
or write to join in checking this mad,
wicked folly of "womens rights" with
all its attendant horrors, on which her
poor, feeble sex is bent, forgetting every
sense of womanly feeling and propriety.
Lady - ought TO get a good whip
ping. 1t is a subject that makes the
Queen SO furious that she cannot con-
tain herself"
Many women novelists dislike to read
fiction Yet some distinguished writer's
in other fields have been voracious
novel readers. Concerning the author
of the standard work on the British
constitution, Grant Duff relates: "Bage-
hot, like Sir Henry Maine, Sir James
Stephen and George Venables, had a
perfect passion for novels, and would
read and reread them with the greatest
delight. He had been reading Rob
Roy half an hour before { his death.
Tennyson, too, according to William
Allingham, was a constant novel read
er.' What I dislike he once said, is
beginning a. new novel. I should like
to have a novel to read in a million
volumes, to last me my life.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-15
OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
Friends are a much bigger expense
than smoking and drinking.
The marriage tie that binds does it so
tightly it cuts right through to the bone.
When a man gets powerful yearning
to be farmer. it's a sign he never was
ne before.
The only way you can prize having a
right is for somebody else to want to get
I away from you.
What makes a widow so interested in
istening TO a man instead of doing the
talking is she's willing to take her turn
1ow when she has to.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-15
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Prosperity IN the Retail Trade

I Last year was notably prosperous IN
Birmingham's retail trade" said A. w.
B, Johnson, manager of Steele-Smith Dry
Goods company. but this year has started
or with even greater prosperity.
have been in Birmingham four years
ana last year was the best in my line OF
business, but January just passed was far
ahead of january, 1912. In February bust
ness has been remarkably brisk. There is
every indication that 1913 win be as far
ahead of 1912 as 1912 was ahead Of other
years. The outlook is simply splendid"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-15
Fourth Class Postmasters

The Senate committee on postof.
fices and postroads is headed by Sem
ator Bourne. 1t consists of nine re-
publicans and six democrats, and Sen-
ator Bankhead is the ranking demo-
cratic member. This committee has
decided to report an amendment that
will bring the fourth class postof-
fices within the primary system. As
it stands the amendment renders it
optional with the postoffice depart
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-15
LOST HUSBAND IN "MovIE.
Lansing Telegram to the Chicago Recor
Herald.

Lansing Telegram to the Chicago Record
Herald.
Asserting she recognized her husband.
who went hunting several years ago in
the North Woods and never returned, as
one of the marchers in moving picture
Of parade during the national republican
convention in Chicago, which was ex-
hibited in st. Charles theatre, Mrs. Mary
Brownell has secured a small section of
the film containing the best likeness of the
man. In an effort to locate the missing
man copies of the picture will be sent 70
all parts of the United States.
Representative Nash had the legislative
photographer make an enlargement. and
Nash and others who were personally ac-
quainted with Brownell say there can be
no doubt as to his identity with the man
in the parade,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-15
A TRUE LENT

By Robert Herrick.
Is this a fast to keep
The larder lean,
And clean,
From fat of veals and sheep?
Is it to quit the dish
OF flesh, yet still
To fill
That platter high with fish?
Is it to fast an hour,
Or ragg'd to go.
Or show
A downcast look, and sour?
MOI IT'S a fast to dole
Thy sheaf Of wheat,
And meat,
Unto the hungry soul.
1t is to fast from strife,
From old debate
And hate
To circumcise thy life.
To show a heart grief rent.
To starye thy sin.
Not bin
And that's to keep thy Lent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-15
IAUsoNNE.

The mule drawing the ammunition
wagon" of the suffragette army on its
march to Washington, is named Lausonne.
'Tis a sweet name, forsooth, and so poeti-
call Lausonne, however, is in no hurry
to reach Washington. having nothing at
stake. In fact, Lausonne would appear
to be afflicted with incurable laziness. A
veterinarian called in to examine the anil
NAL pronounced the patient capable. al
though apathetic." Astute man of scieneei
Maybe Lausonne is not in favor of votes
for women.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-15
Good Times Ahead

Business conditions seem to be good
throughout the country and as for the
Birmingham district. the outlook was
never brighter than it is at the present
time." said Robert Jemison.
This is a busy city but as great as
our prosperity was last year l believe
il will be even greater this year. Scarci .
ty of labor is always a good sign. There
is great demand for labor now and IL
has been so for some time past. The
pay rolls are larger than ever and every
branch of business is thriving"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-15
office Seekers WIN BE Disappointed

Democratic workers who will be ap-
plicants for federal positions after the
fourth of March will be disappointed,
for 1t is understood that the President
elect win go very slow in making
changes" said William ]. yelling of
Washington, d. C. 1T is safe to say
that Woodrow Wilson will not make as
many as so appointments during the
first six months of his administration,
and these will include the cabinet as
sistant secretaries for the various de-
partments and three or four diplomatic
representatives.
II recall in 1885 when Mr. Cleveland
went into office there was an army of
office seekers in Washington and in
spite of the new Presidents civil SER
vice policy thousands, by the aid Of
congressman, succeeded in landing good
positions. In Mr.. Cleveland's second
administration there were fewer
changes, but the civil service has been
greatly extended since then, and with
Mr. Wilson as a civil service reformer
party spoils will be reduced to a mini
mum.
'Of course, the more office seekers
there are the better it is for Washing
ton as a city. for great many who are
seeking Jobs will live at the national
capital for months and months before
they finally give up
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-15
INcANpEscENT BURNERs.

INCANDESCENT BURNERS.
When Orpheus went to Hades,
Says classic history,
To search among the ladies
For fair Eurydlce,
Who was his wife,
He failed to discern her,
For lack of an incandescent burner.
He wandered around through Hades
In shadows black as night,
And nowhere seeing ladies,
Sought Pluto for light
Mr.. Pluto replied,
With a smile like a crescent,
we have burners in plenty,
But they're not incandescent.s
William J. hampton, in Judge.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-15
ADRlFT WITH THE TIME

spending three weeks in England. ! stood
for him calling an elevator a lift and
saying 'bally rot every time he got
chance but when heard him call baby
carriage a pram.' 1 hit him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-15
INTERESTING PEOPLE

From the Chicago News.
Sir Joseph Ward, New zealand's most
famous citizen, is known In the anti
podes as the terror of stenographers..
AS prime minister he would speak 500
words minute. Everything about the
man has been rapid. Telegraph mes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-15

silk hats only are to be worn in the In
augural parade and a rule is needed re-
quiring them to be uniform in style. The
evolution of the silk hat should not be
shown in a pageant
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-15

Woodrow Wilson's postponement of any
cabinet announcements gives rise in many
a breast to the pleasure of hope.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-15
A MILD CURSE.

May fifty thousand devils leap
Upon his back and pinch
Ye printer who, with purpose deep.
Makes us use scrambled French
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-15

This is no three party country, and
either the republican or the progressive
party is marked to die.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-15

Premier Katsura of Japan was stoned
and that led him to believe that he need
ed a successor, and he soon got one in
Count Gombel Yamamoto.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-15

In Illinois every democrat except one
Lorimerite voted for John Hamilton Lew
is, the choice Of the primary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-15

The only child, daughter of John Plaa-
kinton, Milwaukee's pioneer packer. has
received a memorial in the form of book
which she has just completed as a trib-
Work on the book has consumed two
years Of the time of Mrs. Susan S. Frack-
elton Of Chicago. The book is of the
hnest vellum and is illuminated. in gold.
It's clasps are Of antique silver. set with
pearls and amethysts. The book is 26 by
l6 inches and its authors are friends of
Plankinton, whose contributions are
signed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-15

A Tokyo mob has little respect for a
semi divine emperor when he attempts to
violate Japan's constitution. The diet is
on deck in Japan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-15

BY vote of 112 to III the House has
refused to appropriate 100000 to aid the
San Francisco exposition of 1915. 1t was
Killed because of a provision for seven
commissioners at $500 year each and
travelling expenses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-15

Health Commissioner Lederle proposes
to make New York "a spotless town" as
soon as the weather will permit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-15

Kansas will have to have a good many
books written to take the place of copy
righted books. She has plenty of writer's
equal TO the task.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-15

A Scott fund is to be raised in London.
Two newspapers and the British Antarc-
tic committee are behind it. Admiral
Peary sent a check for s1O0
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-15

Madero must begin 10 be tired of the
Diaz family. All of his great troubles
sprang either from Porfrio or Felix.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-15

Andrew Carnegie has added s1,250,OOO TO
his foundation for the advancement of
teaching. This brings his total gifts up
to 1888, $50 900.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-15

Thirty-eight per cent of the people of
Mexico are Indians, 4S per cent are near
Indians, and 10 per cent claim to belong
to some white race.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-15
THE ANVIL CHORUS EXPLAINED

When Mexico has a revolution within
a revolution she is in a bad way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-15

Japan is troubled with reactionaries
duced them to accept the inevitable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-15

Mexico is greatly disturbed, and so are
Illinois and West Virginia. The seven
teenth amendment is needed to cure all
senatorial ills.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-15

Those who drive their automobiles the
fastest are slowest in paying for them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-15
GOING SOME.

Two negro roustabouts at New Orleans
were continually Dragging about their
ability as long distance swimmers and
steamboat man got up a match. The man
who swan the longest distance was to
receive So. The Alabama Whale immedi-
ate1y stripped on the dock. but the Human
Steamboat said he had some business and
would return in few minutes. The
Whale swan the river four or five times
for exercise. and by that time the Human
Steamboat returned. He wore a pair of
swimming trunks and had a sheetiron
cook stove strapped on his back. Tied
around his neck were d dozen packages
containing bread, flour, bacon and other
eatables The Whale gazed at his OPP
ponent in amazement.
9Whar yo' vittles?' demanded the HUI
man Steamboat.
.'yittles fo' what?" asked the Whale.
Don't yo ask me fo' nothin' on the way
ovah," warned the Steamboat. Nah fust
stop is New York an NAH next stop is
London. Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-15
A BAD CASE,

The bleacherite can hardly wait
For practice to begin;
The first ball thrown across the plate
VIII make him broadly grin.
So blithe will be his frame of mind,
He will not even sigh
When someone tips a foul behind
And hits him In the eye.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-15
PROVOKED.

'sWhy did you strike this MANI"
Your honor, he and 1 have lived to-
gether in the same Alabama town for 20
years.
"Well?"
Last week he came back home after
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-15
SHOCKING.

The bathing belle on sunny strand
Her wiles has not forgot;
We hear, to music of the band,
She does the turkey trot.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-15

The five republican legislators in West
Virginia We're trapped by a dictagraph
and special detectives. The evidence
against all five cannot be controverted.
The dictagraphs and telegraphones were
finally installed in their bedrooms.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-15
A VERY GOOD REASON


Jasper says there is only one thing
that keeps him from retiring to a farm
And what is that?'
He hasn't a farm
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-15

woman in Detroit has given $4,000 to
the Salvation Army, the money to be
used in Detroit The Booth memorial fund
now exceeds 100000, and pretty soon two
new training colleges ror the army are
to be built, one in New York and another
in Chicago.