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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-09

delo gates i'm the best of humor, for his
remarks were apt and fun of humorous
allusions
Several other important addresses were
made on the technique of the art of the
embalmer among them that of DIR: w.
II. Sanders of Montgomery. who gave an
erlightening address which dealt with the
preparation of bodies for shipment. Others
who spoke were; DR., Robert Nelson of the
health department of Birmingham, and
DR.. II. M, Rosser of the health depart L
ment of Jefferson county.
At l O'Clock the delegates of the con-
vention sat down TO a delightful lunch
at which impromptu talks from various
delegates were heard as to the steps that
might be taken for the good of the Fun
eral Directors association
The convention adjourned Immediately
following the election of officers and the
trip to visit the Ensley steel mills was
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-09
NAMING DELEGATES
. FOR ROADS MEETING
Local Advisory Board Will
Meet This Afternoon to
Complete Details

Much progress is being made by the
local advisory board in arranging the
details for the meeting of the National
Good Roads federation in Birmingham
April "a and %. This board meets this
afternoon to hear the reports of the
various subcommittecs.
The jefferson theatre will be elab-
orateIy decorated for the convention,
both exterior and interior Every arr
rangement for the convenience of the
delegates will be made. Every mail
brings in lists of delegates that have
been appointed from the various states.
Gov. w. p. Hunt of Arizona has ap-
pointed IL delegates to represent the
state of Arizona at the coming meet
ing. Governor Hunt states 4that each
of the delegates named is deeply IN
terested in the good roads cause and
will undoubtedly attend the convention.
Gov George II. Hodges of Kansas has
appoinated 10 delegates to represent
the Sunflower state. In naming these
delegates he states that they have ac-
cepted with the promise to attend the
convention. He adds that he regrets
very much that he cannot be in at
tendance, but is anxious that his state
be well represented.
Lists of delegate from % towns and
cities in Alabama, FIVE counties and
three commercial bodies We're received
at headquarters of the federation yes
terday. These lists show the deep in
terests that. is being manifested by good
roads advocates. in Alabama.
Arrangements are being made for the
Tennessee delegates to assemble in
Nashville on the morning the the 23d
and come to Birmingham on a special
train. C. c. Gilbert assistant secretary
to the Nashville board of trade. writes
that already over 100 delegates from
the state of Tennessee have agreed to
attend the convention and come to Bir-
mingham In a body. He has written to
one of the leading hotels in Birming
ham to reserve rooms.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-09
PARDON BOARD IN
MONTHLY SESSION

Montgomery, April s.-(Special)-The
state board of pardons met In regular
monthly session today in the office OF
Secretary of state Cyrus B. Brown. The
board had large number of applications
for executive cemency under considera-
tion during the day, though many of the
cases had been taken up at previous
meetings of the board. None of the cases
before the beard today was of great i'm
portance.
All the members of the board were pres
ent, including the secretary of state, Cy-
rus b. Brown; Attorney General Robert
c. Brickell and State Auditor c. Brooks
Smith.
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ciargeable against us, we shall be for
tunate
: I'VE are called upon to render the
country a great service in more matters
than one Our responsibility should be
met and our method should be thor
ough. as thorough as moderate and well
considered, based upon the facts as
ther are and not worlsed out as If we
were beginners. We are to deal with
the facts of our own day, with the
facts of no other and to make laws
which square with those facts. 1t is
best, indeed it is necessary. to begin
with the tariff. ! will urge nothing
upon you now at the opening of your
session which can obscure that first
object or divert our energies from that
clearly defined duty. At a later time
may take the liberty of calling your
attention to reforms which should press
close upon the heels of the tariff
changes, if not accompany them, of
which the chief is the reform of our
banking and currency laws; but just
now I refrain. For the present I put
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-09
News OF Ensley

After being delayed for more than "a
hours the carnival shows engaged by the
Ensley Elks for the spring jubilee festi-
val arrived yesterday morning at 8
O'Clock The 16 high class attractions
composing the carnival, including a large
number of free acts were all in full swing
last night and will continue every aft
ernoon and night during the remainder
of the week. The show is under the aus
pices of the local lodge of Elks and is
guaranteed to be first class and showing
nothing that will be offensive TO the most
fastidious.
Lum Jack, we'll known member of
the local Chinese colony, was robbed of
his purse containing nearly $50 in cur
rency and gold coin last night in the
store of Piper & Phillips. 1t is said that
two negroes were involved in the rob-
berry. Shortly after the theft was reported
Dispatcher Tom Crowder of the Birming-
ham Railway, Light and Power company,
caught a negro who gave the name Of
Charley Thomas and turned him over to
Deputy Jim Bonner. Thomas was car
ried to the Ensley police station and a
portion of the money was recovered.
Thomas stated that he and another ne
gro worked the robbery together and that
the other negro had the remainder of
the money and the purse. About s21 was
found on Thomas.
The regular meeting of Evening Star
court, Tribe of Ben Hur, will be held
this evening. A number of candidates
will receive degrees. The local court is
a new organization in fraternal circles
of Ensley and has made rapid strides in
increasing membership in the last few
months.
Two games of ball were played yes
terday afternoon by the teams of the
Bush and Wylam schools on the Ensley
grounds. The Wylam seniors defeated
Ensley seniors to A. while the junior
team of the Bush school administered a
defeat to the Wylam lads on a Bryan
ratio-16 to l.
Mrs. James Galloway of. Sylacauga, a.
sister of c. H. BaXley of Ensley, was
operated upon for appendicitis at the
Birmingham infrmary at West End yes
terday.
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the treasurer of the city as special fund
or funds for library purposes, and it shall
be paid out by him on reauisitions or
warrants drawn by the director of the
library board and countersgHed by the
president or the vice president when act
ing in his place, and no requisition or
warrant shall be drawn unless in pur-
suance of a resolution of the library
board, entered upon its minutes. Vouchers
shall be taken by the director for each
and every item of expense whatever, to
be carefully preserved in his office, and
to the end that a uniform system may
obtain blank forms for reauisitions, war
rants, vouchers and other business trans
actions shall be devised and printed. Sets
oil books showing expenditure in detail,
and ledger accounts, differentiating ex-
penses, and other necessary books shall
be kept, so that at any time the exact
state of the business affairs of the
library board may be known.
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abandoned. A banquet in the evening at
the hillman ended the Birmingham con-
Nention and this morning the delegates
VIII leave for their various homes.
The following members attended the
convention Yesterday: John Angwin of
Ensley. A. M. Ashmore of Tuscaloosa, p.
b. Dickson of Mobile Oscar d, Dupre of
Alfalfa, D. A. Echols of Ensley, Wallace
G. Johns of Birmingham,sL Il. V Kolb of
Ozark, A. B. Legg of Jasper, r. C. Kel-
Ter of Union Springs I. f. Leake. Jr..
of Montgomery, /. l.. Mackey of North
Birmingham, 7. +. Proctor of Tuskegce,
Horace f. Shaw of Birmingham w. p.
Temple of Birmingham, A. NJ Woodlih
of Gadsden, Clifford W. Hardy, ESQ., of
Admission, w. Y. Jackson of Talladega,
Marvin Schoffert of Eutaw, A Il. King
of Demopolis. w. Howard of Sylacauga,
w. T. Tice of Montgomery, and Frank 5.
Noon of Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-09
ANOTHER AUTO FIRE
TRUCK FOR GADSDEN
Recommendation of Mayor
and Fire Chief Referred
to Committee

Gadsden. April ESPECIAL )-The
recommendation of Mayor Holcombe
and Fire Chief Stallings for the pur-
chase of second auto fire truck was
considered last night by the city coun-
Gil and referred to special committee
for investigation. 1t was shown that
the purchase of the truck would mean
saving to the city and also would Sc
cure a reduction in rate from the
Southeastern Underwriters association.
Dr. George S. Vann was elected MEM
Der of the school board,
The discovery of human finger nail
in we'll near Altoona on the old Dam
iel Nix place may lead to the uncover
ing of a crime. An old man named
hood last fall and the gruesome dis
coyery may clear the mystery of his
disappearance.
The Louisville and Nashville is plan
ming extensive improvements in and
around Gadsden. The west approach
to the bridge over the Coosa river will
be constructed in the near future. In
East Gadsden two new depots Will be
built. one at East Gadsden and one
at Fairhaven park
Allison Fryer and his 13-year- old son,
Knox Fryer, were arrested yesterday
at crudup, charged with violating the
prohibition laws. They are held 10
await the action of the grand jury.
Negotiations have been started for
the lease of a building on lower
Broad street for the establishment of
bakery
10. T. Hollingsworth, who returned
last night from Washington, says that
Congressman Burnett still is undecided
on the kquestion of holding primary
FOR the Gadsden postmastership.
Mayor r. A. Burns of Alabama City
has set apart April II, Is and 10 as
cleanup" days in that place.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-09

Following the election of officers the.
nineteenth annual convention of the Ala
bama Funeral Directors association adj
journed yesterday afternoon to convene
again next spring in Montgomery-th
officers elected were: T. F. Proctor Tus-
kegee, president; A. B. Legg, Jasper,
first vice president; Horace E. Shaw, Bir-
mingham, second vice president, and
Clifford Hardy, Admission, secretary and
treasurer
The annual convention of the Alabama
Funeral Directors association convened
yesterday morning at 10 O'CLOCK in the
Hotel Hillman. Frank II. Noon of the
Johns Undertaking company made the
welcoming address to the delegates from
all parts of the state. As Mr.. Noon is
of Celtic descent, his address set the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-09
Head-On Collision

Laurel. Miss, April s.-Two trainmen
We're killed and five others injured in a
ilead-on collision between two freight
trains on the New orleans, Mobile and
Chicago railroad at Loper, Miss, early
today. Brakeman Paul Walters and a
negro fireman We're killed The most seri-
ously injured were Engineers Bethel and
Perkins, both being badly hurt by scalds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-09

these matters on one side and think
only of this one thing-of the changes
In our fiscal system which may best
serve to open once more the free chan
nels of prosperity to great people
whom we would serve to the utmost
and throughout both rank and file.
WOODROW WILSON.
THE White House. April 8, 1913"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-09
New Lens In Old Frames

If your eyeglasses have lens
broken, Jas, Fl. finder will match the
broken piece accurately and scfen-
tifically at reasonable cost aO6 N.
Nineteenth street.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-09

House, ready for the business of the aft
erpoon.
President Wilson began his message as
follows:
Il am very glad, indeed. to have this
opportunity to address the two houses
directly and to verify for myself the inn
preston that the President of the United
States is a person not mere department
of the government hailing Congress from
some isolated island of jealous power
sending messages not speaking naturally
and with his own voice, and he is hui
man being trying to cooperate with other
human beings in a common service.
After this pleasant experience | shall
feel quite normal in all our dealings
with one another
Must Alter Tariff
ITO the Senate and House of Representa-
tives:
81 have called the Congress together in
extraordinary session because a duty was
laid upon the party now in power at the
recent elections which it ought to per-
form promptly in order that the bur-
den carried by the people under existing :
law may be lightened as soon as posi-
BILE and in order, also, that the business
interests of the country may not be kept
too long in suspense as to what the fiscal
changes are to be to which they VIII be
required to adjust themselves. 1t is clear
that the whole country expects the tariff
duties to be altered. They must be changed
to meet the radical alteration in the con-
ditions of our economic life which the
country has Witnessed within the last
generation. While the whole face and
rnethod of our industrial and commercial
life were being changed beyond recogni-
tion the tariff schedules nave remained
what they were before the change began,
or have moved in the direction they were
given when no large circumstance of our
industrial development was what it is
today. Our task is to square them with
the actual facts. The sooner that is done
the sooner we shall escape from suffering
from the facts and the sooner our men
of business will be free to thrive by the
law of nature (the nature of free busi-
ness) instead of by the law of legislation
and artificial arrangement.
I'VE have seen tariff legislation wander
very far afield in our day-very far in
deed from the field in which our pros
perity might have had a normal growth
and stimulation. No one who looks the
facts squarely in the face or knows
anything that lies beneath the surface
of action can fail to perceive the prin-
clp1es upon which recent tariff legisla-
ton has been based. We long ago passed
beyond the modest notion of protecting
the industries of the country and moved
boldly forward to the idea that they were
entitled to the direct patronage of the
government.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-09
Build Up Privileges

For a long time-a time so long that
the men now active in public policy hard
ly remember the conditions that preceded
five have sought in our tariff schedules
to give each group of manufacturers or
that they needed in order to maintain 81
practically exclusive market as against
the rest of the world. Consciously or un-
consciously, we have built up set of
privileges and exemptions from competi-
ton behlnd which it was easy by any.
even the crudest, forms of comblna ton
to organize monopoly; until at last moth
ing Is normal nothing is obliged to stand
the tests of efficiency and economy, IN
our world of big business, but everything
thrives by concerted arrangement. Only
new principles of action will save us from
a final hard crystalliza ton of monopoly
and complete loss of the influences that
quicken enterprise and keep independent
energy alive.
1T is plain what those principles must
he. We must abolish everything that
bears even the semblance of privilege or
Of any kind of artificial advantage, and
put our business men and producers un-
der the stimulation of a constant neces-
sity to be efficient, economical, and en-
terprising, masters of competitive SUI
preinacy, better workers and merchants
than any in the world. Aside from the
duties laid upon articles which we do
not, and probably cannot, produce, there
fore, and the duties laid upon luxuries
and merely for the sake of the revenues
they yield, the object of the tariff duties
henceforth laid must be effective com
petition, the whetting of American wits
by contest with the wits of the rest OF
the world
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-09
Can't Move With Haste

1T would he unwise to move toward
this end headlong, with reckless haste.
or with strokes that cut at the very roots
of what has grown up amongst us by
long process and at our own Invitation
Ii does not alter a thing to upset il and
break 1t and deprive it of a chance to
change. 1t destroys it. We must make
changes in our fiscal laws, in our fiscal
system, whose object is development a
more free and Wholesome deve,opment
not revolution or upset or confusion. We
must build up trade, especially foreign
trade. We need the outlet and the en-.
larged field Of energy more than we ever
did before
I'VE must build up industry as we1l
and must adopt freedom in the nlace az
artificial stimulation only SO FAR aa
it will build. not pull down. In deal
ing with the tariff the method bv
which this may be done will be a mai
ter of Judgment, exercised item bv
item. To some not accustomed 10 the
excitements and responsibilities ar
greater freedom our methods may in
some respects and a some points seem
heroic, but remedies may be heroic al,
yet be remedies. 1t is our business "a
make sure that they are genuine reme-
dies. Our object is clear. If our no-
tive is above just challenge and only
an occasional error Of judgment 4
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-09
Appropriation for Maintenance

3. Be il further ordained, That the
library board shall adopt at it's Novem-
Der meeting in each year a detailed
budget of estimated expenditure for the
coming year. which shall be transmitted
IN formal communication TO the city
commissioners Upon its receipt the COM
mission shall set aside and appropriate
for the use of the said board for the
maintenance of the library system of the
city, either all or such part of the said
estimated budget as may be available,
or by the said commission deemed proper.
The amount of the appropriation made
from time to time by the city commits
sioners for the support and maintenance
of the library system shall be held by
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-09
LAY UNCONSCIOUS
OVER THIRTY DAYS
Collie Baker of Dothan, Hurt
in Auto Accident, Returns
From East Improved

Dothan, April ESPECIAL )-Colie
Baker, who was injured in an auto
mobile accident near Dothan February
2S, when the machine he was driving
at about 60 miles per hour went into a
ditch has been brought home from
New York, where he was taken to Sc
cure the services of a specialist and is
now well on the way TO complete re-
covery.
Bakers case has been most re-
markable one. His most serious in
jury was fracture of the skull. While
his general condition improved he con-
tinued unconscious for over 80 days.
He was in this condition when taken
to New York. While there he under
went an operation which proved very
successful. He has now regained his
senses and il is expected that he will
soon be entirely we'll
The other victims of the accident,
Mrs. Miles Miller and Miss Jessie Bun
tin! Bakers sister and cousin, have also
entirely recovered.
At the regular meeting of the local
lodge of Moose the following officers
were elected for the ensuing year:
c. H. Moreland. dictator; w. j. Rem
frOe past ulclatof; IL w. Wneatley,
vice dictator, w s. Bonham, prelate;
T. A. Reid, treasurer; C. R. Talley, sec
retary; J. NJ. Cooper, sergeant at arms;
Foy Mizell, inner guard: T. j. Brown
outer guard: J. s. Talley r. r. Muir
ray and S. T. Wilkes, trustees.
c. L. Shepard, former agent of the
Southern Express company at Miami,
Fla. has been transferred to the agency
at Dothan and w. J. Weleh, former
agent at Dothan, has gone to Miami
TO take charge of the company's agency
at that place.
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the library board prior to the expiration
of his term of service, the city commits
sioners shall proceed forthwith to elect
a successor who shall serve out the un-
expired term and shall enter upon his
duties at the next regular monthly meet
ing of the board.
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Allison Fryer and his 13-year- old son,
Knox Fryer, were arrested yesterday
at crudup, charged with violating the
prohibition laws. They are held 10
await the action of the grand jury.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-09

Negotiations have been started for
the lease of a building on lower
Broad street for the establishment of
a bakery.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-10-18
JLZER ISSUES
HIS STATEMENT

aicial TO The Tribune,
kLBANY, n. Y, Oct. l7.-William
zcr, twenty minutes after he had
In served with notice of his removal
IN office at $50 this afternoon,
ye TO the public statement in
ich he denounced his trial as a
iching and declared that Charles T.
,hrphy was Judge, jury and bailiff
u had written the verdict Of the
nrt
FHad I but served the boss with
1f the zeal / did the state, William
nzer would never have been i'm
hched,' was the keynote of the
ktemcnt.
Bnlzer asserts:
4. That Murphy began war on him
len he refused to call off the investi-
Hon of graft by which the state had
h millions of dollars.
3. That he never speculated in
cks.
b That he did not appropriate cam
Ign contributions to his own use.
4. That he paid to campaign commit
5 all Of the money he collected.
u That he is poorer today than he
b was in his life.
h That he was in debt $4,000 when
became a candidate for governor.
I That Duncan w. Peck and Allan
Ryan falsely testified against him.
That the proceedings OF the court
l6 held i'll secret.
That he was lynched by all assem-
and a senate controlled by Charles
HMurphy, whom he charged with
ling the ultimate verdict.
he former governor also declares
purpose 10 90 on the lecture plat
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-10-18

have fought good fight against trc-
mendous odds for honest government.
| have kept the faith. I have been
true TO my official oath. / have
stood by the president. ! have dared
10 defy Charles +, Murphy and l did
this in the face OF threats of cX-
posure and personal destruction.
Had | but served the ''boss" with
half the zeal l did the state, William
Sulzer would never have been I'm
peached.
y some future and more opportune
time | promise 10 make further
public statement, and ] ain Inclined
to the conclusion that. I would rather
express my Views from the platform,
where I can look Into the eyes OF the
people and they can look into mine
and judge for themselves whether l
am telling the truth.
Looking bnclc over II all. ! am frank
to say that I now realize ] should
have been more careful In some mat
ters last fall, but ] was so busy In
the campaign that ] gave no heed to
details and trusted others. some OF
whom proved treacherous. but so far
as my administration or the governor
ship is concerned, l have no regrets.
as my conscience is clear and tells
me truly that I have done no wrong.
but my whole duty, fearlessly and
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-10-18
GLYNN PROMISES TO
PERFORM HIS DUTY

ALBANY. n. Y, Oct. 1.-Two features
unique In the history OF New York state
marked Lieutenant Governor Martin II.
Gynus assumption OF the office OF gov
ernor today. He is the first occupant OF
the executive chamber to reach that posi-
tlon by reason of impeachment OF a
predecessor, and he was sworn into Of
fee by the chief judge OF the court OF
appeals, II was at the suggestion OF
Governor Sulzer that the legislature re-
Gently passed a law comforting upon the
chief Judge OF the court OF appeals au-
thority to administer oaths TO public OFF,
cials Judge Cullen. who had voted
against the conviction OF Governor Sulzer
on every one of the articles OF impeach-
ment and who but a few hours before
had excused himself from voting on the
question OF his removal from office. ad
ministered the constitutional governors
oath TO the new chief executive.
Governor Glyun said &c tho newspaper
men that he had no aspira tions TO be-