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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-18

half seas over.' He would assume a
to quit newspaper work and break into
the bishop business
Roy McCardell, now long we'll known
in New York journalism. began his
newspaper career on The Age Herald
He was quite young then, under 20,
but gave distinct indication of the un-
usual qualities as a writer he has since
developed. He came to Birmingham
from Maryland. McCardell once wrote
hair-raising story telling how "a ven-
omous tropical serpent--cobra de ca
pelo, or something of the sort--had
been found in a bunch of a bananas
Just arrived from the south by local
fruit dealer. The story was a pure
and unadulterated fake, coined out of
ina agination The fruit dealer named
in the story kicked; Mr.. Pinckard was
much veXed at the imposition and or
dered McCardell suspended for week.
When McCardell had gone to New
York afternoon paper he repeated the
story in that journal with local color
Ing. The editor had thought SO much
of 1t as to give 1t startling illustra-
tion and McCardell mailed copy of the
paper containing the article to Mr.
Pinckard marked with red and blue
pencil.
I could write indefinitely about my
four years life in Birmingham. 1t was
a remarkable place in those days with
many unique happenings, some of a
ror, I best remember the killing of a
Mr.. Martin by his former sister-in-law
and her trial and acquittal in the Grim
inal court The great boom was on
when first went to Birmingham, but
soon after began to subside. A num-.
Der of men there had grown suddenly
rich on real estate deals / think they
were altogether the happiest lot ah1
could laugh the loudest and jolliest
of any set ever knew, but this did
not last long. Many of them lost their
money as rapidly. as they had made 1t.
especially remember one who was
accounted richN when I went to Bir-
mingham whom 1 afterward saw raf-
fling his wife's jewels to pay living
expenses.
One peculiar thing 7 noticed about
these men grown suddenly rich was
that none of them acknowledged the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-18
Real Estate Values Increase

Real estate values throughout the Bir-
mingham district have shown sharp ad-
vances every year since 1900, and there
is no indication that they will fall off in
the near future. In fact, it is believed
by men competent to Judge conditions,
that local property offers greater oppor-
tunity at this time than ever before
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know I now may be writing for the
waste basket. 1t would take 10 times
thousand words to tell of the incidents
OF the old days in Birmingham Journal
ism; OF Capt. Frank O'Brien and Bob
Warnock, both gathered to their fathers
OF Henry B. Gray, who later became
lieutenant governor of Alabama; of genial
Bob Watkins. of Colonel Rhodes. of Eli
Smith, of Hal Homiston, of NJ. Stuart
Cam, of Coroner" Babbitt and many
other geniuses of the quill of the old
ponce force, before there was a patrol
wagon; of the hilarious old Jail; of the
HaWes murder and mob, and other mobs
ana murders; and then of the growth to
the present day, when out of the seeming.
chaos of the old days great furnaces.
great factories, great buildings that
scrape the sky, and great newspapers
nave grown up that compare with those
OF the great metropolitan centers of the
earth.
Ana now I really must draw my re-
marks to close, though l have not vet
told OF my midnight ride on horseba elk
TO Bessemer-12- miles and back-leaving
Birmingham over a strange road at about
IL p. m, and returning at o'clock a. m.
Also 1 once had a railroad, country
wagon, horseback and pedestrian chase
of two Mormon elders and a mob, to Ok
moor, across the country to the Alabama
Great Southern railroad, on foot to Bes-
semer and then as a buccaneer on a
freight to Birmingham. l got into the
office again at a. m. and got my story
in. / entirely lost my sketch artist who
returned the next day; also the next dag
l got a 'cussin' from the general man
ager for having spent ss.
My most notable newspaper feat in
birmingham was the SCOOP on the mob
hanging of the Kellum murderer at Pratt
Mines. I had stayed up all night, wilt
messed the hanging and shooting and got
back In time to get out a IL O'Clock ex-
ira, hours ahead of both our competitors,
with the assistance of w. l.. Hawley.
who read my copy and wrote the head
lines. Capt. Frank OBrien and Bob
WarnoclS never grew tired of telling a
highly dramatic story of how the mob
wanted to hang me when they found |
was newspaper man, and how the fire
chief of birmingham spirited me away in
his buggy, making the distance from
Pratt Mines to Birmingham in 80 min
utes.
one of the notable office events of my
birmingham career was a glove contest
with Chappell Cory, one night about 2
o'clock, when I came near getting
knocked out"
Oh! painful memory. But 1 have al
ready written far too much.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-18
ARTHUR HUST TELLS SOME
EARLY DAY OFFICE SECRETS
BY ARTHUR s. HUST
Associated Press Operator

Looking backward 20 years. Today's
yesterday of associates knead friend
ships Of tom orrow that are enduring.
and we permit ourselves to drift in the
current of retrospection. OF score Of
years of conflicting emotions our pre-
ceptors of then are thinned numerical
ly today, but the prestige of our paper
now is equaled only by the veneration
for the individuals-its builders.
Had it not been for the breadth of
the base the pyrc mid would never have
been erected. We We're not satisfied
then with our old fashioned turtle back.
This was our press that William Neil
an, now a retired citizen with us, con-
site number of copies. While we look
back with pride on the old machine.
she would look like a job printing Of
hee outfit or a modernized ice cream
freezer with motor attachments as COM
pared to the Pacific type of engine press
now employed electrically in the plant
But all were eager to grab a first
copy. The ethics then, however, re-
main the newspa permens code of honor
today-no venom, no animus and no
breath of suspicion that would be pro-
ductive of 1ibel-all hard and fixed
laws.
Frank i. O'Brien was head of the
staff personnel. Then followed John
Sparrow, telegraph and city editor, and
Walter Lindsay, William Bowles and
Phil CosminsSey, street men, or aides
Our only lady attache was Miss Mar
garet O'Brien, daughter of the editor,
Good Fellow" society and paragraph
writer and beloved by all.
Her fellowship title was acquired
through a newspaper row. One of her
paragraphs elected the retort from
contemporary "the fellow who wrote
that article must have been drunk"
She was spirited little woman and
concealed her sex until she had lit
orally licked the real fellow. He now
admits the value of knowing your op-
ponent and the relative diminutive.
The telegraph service We had then
was the Southern Associated Press un-
der the mana cement Of Patrick Walsh
of Augusta. Ga. This association ex-
changed its southern news in such
wise with the United Press for Its east
ern budget In Washington until the
clientele became disrupted by a polit-
ical maelstrom.
Our little six-day-a-week sheet felt
the shock when the now Secretary of
State William Jennings Bryan deliv-
cred his famous Gross of Gold" and
Grown of Thorns' free silver speech
and a new paper was born in our midst
over night.
After hasty conference 1t was de-
cided to infuse new. blood or talent
into the staff to rout the enemy. 1t
was an easy matter to draw on the
L COuntrYsida for our ,oor,,i4, l,,.4 la.s
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Hageard had a wonderful Judgment
as to the value of news, and quickly
saw the possibilities of this IIobson
dope" He rewrote my little old story
and started out with r1Hobson never
cared TO bask in the sweet smiles of
the girls of the sunny southland" aud
so on with several columns of highly
colored stuff like that. The New York
Herald and other big papers fairly ate
up that story. 1t seems they had been
having trouble getting any local In
formation about Hobson and Sewall
Haggard's story came at the psycholog-
ieal moment. He made several hundred
dollars out of 1t and I didn't know
until 1t was all over that MIR. Dickey's
simple narrative, written. out by a cub
reporter, had been the basis of all those
wonderful stories l saw In the outside
papers
But enough of this! Stanley says cut
my story short. or will write all
night. l can't close, however, without
expressing the thought that the pres
ent staff of The ge-Herald-alI of
them highly trained, highly paid men
lin magnificent new newspaper plant,
have missed a lot of life by not being
with our little crowd that struggled
with The Age-Herald in the old dark
storehouse opposite the postoffice, these
10 years ago during the war;
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MdrmdduRe Morton Has ViUid
Recollections Of Early Associates
Continued From Page seven)

cepted belief the country over, the brains
and Drawn of this newly awakened iron
and steel giant were furnished by the
old south. 1t is true northern men and
northern capital were there, but the cor
ner-stone of the structure was the south
ern man from the cotton fields, wide
awake to the new conditions and envi-
ronment.
Every man, great and small, was easy
of access. 1t required no red tape to
gain an audience with the president of a
bank. the head of a great furnace plant,
or the general manager of a railroad. |
knew more people in Birmingham than
7 ever knew in any place where 1 have
lived, and now when I visit the city l
am veritable Rip Van Wrinkle, in the
house of strangers. I frequently walk
the streets all day and never meet a
man 1 knew 25 years ago.
You forget many people you once knew
in quarter of 81 century, and that is
the only excuse | have to offer for hav-
ing forgotten the Majors name, but l
have not and never will forget the
Major, and | hope Birmingham never
will forget him. He was manager of the
old Florence hotel, born hotel man and
a bachelor.
One Christmas eve l received an invi-
tation from the Major to eat my Christ
mas dinner at the Florence and having
no home in Birmingham l gladly accept
ed. When [ entered the dining room the
next day ! noticed that it was filled with
young men about my age. though that
was not remarkable then, for there were
thousands of young men in the Magic
City, away from father mother and
sweetheart, wooing tickle fortune. After
l had eaten to safety | noticed the Major
sitting over in one corner eating his din
ner all alone from a little table.
walked over to shake his hand and thank
ehim for his splendid hospitality and re-
marked:
Major, all the boys in Birmingham
seem to be your guests today"
mo, not ALL" lie said, Il only invited
those who are here away from home and
friends
You see it is this way" he continued
Il started out early to make a living,
. have never married, and was always u
way-from-ho home. When Christmas
time came around other boys were going
home for the holidays, and talking about
their Christmas dinners. l had no home.
and somehow it never seemed to occur to
anybody to invite me to a Christmas
dinner, and l never want another boy to
be as lonesome as ] was on Christmas If
I can help it. So since I became man
and hotel manager l have made 1t a
point never to let a boy-away -from- home,
In the town where have happened to be,
fail to get an invitation to Christmas
dinner with me. II there is one today in
Birmingham whom | have not invited !
could not find him.
The young men of Birmingham should
build a monument as high as Red noun
tain to the Majors memory, God bless
him.
, But have trespassed and transgressed,
presuming on the privileges of the an
cient fossil of prehistoric times, and ]
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Birmingham the Real Center

Birmingham is considered by every one
to be the real center of the industrial
south, and its financial distributor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-18
HILL FERGUSON ON
HANDLING WAR NEWS
Continued From PAGE seven,

Continued From Page Scven)
been one of his pupils, so he was we'll
qualified to give me half column or
more of facts about the bbyhood of
the man whom ninety-odd millions OF
people were discussing that day. To-
ward the end of the interview he re-
marked that Hobson had never cared
much for girls but had devoted him
self to his books, etc. which statement
l included In my story, and turned 1t
in to Haggard.
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1913-12-12
WOULD TAKE OVER
LOST RIVER LAND
Eastern BOndho|ders in Boise in
Connection with Sale
REPORT THAT THEY WILL BID IN
PROPERTY AT SALE.
Would Pay Corey Brothers Part of
Their $65O,OOO Lien and Give Them
New Mortgage for Balance.

George S. Spear of Chicago, repre-
senting the Priest committee of bond
holders of the Idaho-Oregon Light &
Power company, has arrived in Boise
for the purpose of taking up matters
in connection with the power COM
/pany. While in this state Mr.. Spear,
who also represents the bondhOlders
in the Big Lost river project, may act
at the receivers sale of the property
to satisfy the judgment held by the
Corey Bros. Construction company
In this connection Mr.. Spears attor-
ney, o. 0. Haga, said: HE will prob
ably take up other matters while in
the city,"
Mr.. Spear arrived early Tuesday and
spent most of the day in consultation
with Mr.. Haga. When he returned
to his hotel and was asked for an in
terview he said that he did not care
to make any statement regarding the
purpose of his visit, but referred the
reporter to Mr. Haga.
While no statement was fOrthcOm-
ing on the Big Lost river project from
Mr.. Spear, who swung the deal for
the bonds in the first place, yet 1t is
said that his visit has much to do with
the coming receivers sale of the prop
erty at HALEY by James E. Clinton,
the receiver, some time the latter part
of this month. The report is to the ef-
feet that the bondholders will bid the
property in and pay Corey brothers
part of their $650,O0O lien and then
give them new mortgage bonds for
the remainder OF the amount. If this
arrangement is carried through the
bondholders would go ahead and COM
plete the project, it is said. If the
bondholders do not get the property
and the Corey brothers do, it is the
intention of the Ogden contractors to
Immediately take steps toward organ
izing a company to complete the pro-
ject.
1t is needless to say that, regardless
of who gets the property at the receiv-
er's sale, it will be necessary for the
project to be completed in order that
any money can be taken from the pro-
ject. Whatever the result is, Idaho is
going to see the completion of pro-
ject that will mean much to her fu-
ture.-Statesman. n&
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1913-12-12
HOLD LODGE OF SORROW
Impressive Services Held By B.P. 0. T.
Sunday Afternoon
Splendid Tribute Payed to Absent Brothers by less hawIey
Of Boise

On last Sunday afternoon, Twin
Falls Lodge No. 1888, Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks, held the.i'
memorial services in honor of their
departed brothers. The services were
held in the high school auditorium,
and was attended by the members of
the order and large number of visi-
tors.
The program was one of the best
ever held in the city and was rendered
in magnificent style. The memorial
address was delivered by Jess b. Haw-
ley OF Boise, and was splendid tri-
butte to the Order of Elks. The" "Ab-
sent Brothers" of the lodge are Alex
ander D. McKinlay, Edwin Jones, P.
j. Costello and J. C. McCreery The
address of Mr.. Hawley is given in full
as follows
Memorial address delivered by Jess
Hawley at Twin Falls, Idaho, Decem-
Der 7th, 1913, before the Twin Falls
lodge, B. P. o. E., at their invitation.
Exalted Ruler, Brother Elks and
Friends.
No man may enter the portals of a
lodge of the Benevolent and Protec-
tive Order of Elks unless he believes
and, processes that there is Cod No
man who does believe in God is ever
further questioned as to faith or creed.
The Order of Elks does not assert
that every man who denies the exist
ence Of a Supreme Being is unfit to
sit In it's councils. 1t does, however,
say that he to whom the light of Div
unity is invisible-the light that comes
from the wonderful miracles of
growth, bloom and decay in the realm
of Nature; from the immutable, un-
changing course of the stars and plan
cts in the heaven; from the harmony
OF action and powerful, systematized
control of all natural forces-that
such man, to whom this light is as
darkness, cannot be trusted to con-
tinue in sympathy with an organiza-
tion which believes that the virtues it
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1913-12-12

one who believes or acts upon these
principles is entitled to an eternal re-
ward. 1t claims no right to interpret
how or in what manner God has re-
vealed his wishes and commands to
men. 1t stands mute, reverent and sill
ent IN the presence of those who claim
such holy powers and rights. 1t re-
spects them all and only wishes that
lts loyal sons live true to the faith
or creed that they embrace.
To me this attitude of humbleness
and respect is the most attractive and
powerful claim that our order has to
true greatness.
Ignorance and malice have slimed
their cunning, hidden ways among
many good men, and with lies and
slander have deceived them, both as to
our principles and our practices. You
who sit here as brothers in our Lodge
OF Sorrow today, know the nobility of
our aims and the secret charities of
lodges. Before you, our order needs
neither excuse, explanation or de-
tense, but to you, who come as travel
ers to strange places, l dedicate this
presentament of our principles.
When a man becomes a member,
certain virtues are recommended to
him for adoption as rules for his daily
life.
First is: Brotherly love- A quality
OF feeling which inspires man to hap
piness when joy attends his fellows
to sympathy when calamity overtakes
him or pain racks his sickened body;
to pity when sombre death has envel-
oped his fo> ca e., : in the cold, dark
shadow of its awful VEIL OF brotherly
love Mahomet spoke when he said "a
mans true wealth hereafter is the
good which he does in this world to
his fellowmen. When he dies, people
will say: What property has he left
behind him?' but the angels will ask:
What good deeds has he sent before
him?'"
Justice: That quality of mind stand
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1913-12-12
B|llyi(SINGlt) CLIFFORD co.
At the COtilliOn Hall in Musical Com
edy, Monday, Dec. Is.

AS in the instance of Billy (Single)
Clifford, the legitimate stage is con-
stantly recruiting from the vaudeville
stage. Mr.. Clifford is one of the best
known and most popular actors on the
variety platform and he has been a
headliner for many years. But the
demand for good actors on the drama
tic and comic stage has been great
and the supply has not kept up with
the demand. The result is that va
riety has had to relinquish some of
her brightest players. This season
Mr.. Clifford is starring in new musi-
cal satire in two acts, called Believe
Me-" 1t is a farce with a plot with
many complications, but 1t has other
features to recommend 1t, for it Is
packed with good songs, and they are
sung as only Billy Clifford can sing
snem.
The story Of the piece in brief con-
Germs an eccentric man who has great
wealth, and who wants his daughter
to marry some one of the nobility. She
has advertised for Butler and about
that time friend has sent him a pros
pective son-in-law The Butler arrives
first. The father thinks he is the rich
intended son-in-law and treats him to
the best in the house and then the
prospective son-in-law arrives and he
is taken for the new butler; in fact, 1t
is one long laugh from start to fin
ish.
The young star is surrounded by
competent company OF metropolitan
players. The production is elegant
and tasteful. The new offering will
be Believe Me" seen at the Cotillion
theatre ON Monday, December Is.
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1913-12-12
MAN SHOT TO DEATH
Henry Williams Lost River Rancher,
Met Death in Quarrel.

On tuesday afternoon, at the ranch
OF Henry Aldous, on the head of Lit.
tie Lost river, Henry Williams. 81 oIi
and respected resident Of that valley
met death at the hands of P. l. McCon.
nell.
The death dealing deed was commit.
ted by Mcconnell, following a dispute
that had arisen between the two men
which resulted in Williams discharg-
ing Mcconnell, who had been in his
employ for the past nine months. At
ter Mcconnell had left the Williams
ranch the two men met at the Aldous
ranch when they again became en-
gagged in quarrel.
Mcconnell, who, Immediately after
killing Williams, rode to Mackay in
great haste to give himself up to the
authorities, states that he was attack
ed by Williams with a pick, and that
Williams, who he claims was in high
temper, kept after him and that he
grabbed a rifle that leaned against a
cabin and shot Williams. Without
waiting to see whether the shot wound
had proven fatal, Mcconnell mounted
a horse and rode to Mackay.
The two men were alone, so McCon-
nell says, at the time Of the fatal end
ing of the quarrel.
Death resulted almost instantly. Nc
Connell has engaged counsel and will
undoubtedly build his case on self
Defense
Mcconnell had worked on Little
Lost river for five or six years and
bore good reputation The man he
killed was one of the early settlers of
Little Lost river and was one of the
most esteemed men of the section.
According to late reports, McCon-
nell has been taken to HALEY by De-
putty Sheriff Blair, and his prelimin-
ary trial has been set for December
Miner.
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1913-12-12

mas selected as the principles pro-
ceed from some divine source.
The Elks do not say. nor pretend
tnat they are capable OF saying what
religion 10 true, what creed is false.
Ihey have chosen world-old princi-
Pies OF ethics and morals which dis
agree with. the teachings of no faith,
and ON these have founded the order.
Denying efficacy a. substitute for
religion; claiming no man from his
church or tenets. this order il not the
rival OF any belief, sect or creed. No
man stulttfies his own religious pro-
feseions by becoming an Elk. He re-
mains . Protestant. = Jew, Z Catholic,
9 follower Of NO religion, and NO
place Of hdpcr IN tho lc4Gs rqos q
denied him.
The qpa2ittsa Of III human hind
and heart head-a a especially wortRH Of
admira4tqn a1d ilnjt sars brn1I r.
y nyes ~ 1a1 t1de| U. y
~ 9te 49, ~ pr1e1al M
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1913-12-12
DEMOCRATS TO HOLD SMOKER
Meeting Will be Held in Odd Fellow =
Hall Saturday Evening.

The Democrats of Twin Falls coun-
ty will hold smoker and talkfest at
the Odd Fellows hall in this citwSat-
urday evening of this week. The meet
ing will be held under the auspices of
Twin Falls Jefferson club. Besides
the local speakers there will be pres
ent Hon. M. Alexander and Hon John
F. Nugent OF Boise. 1t is expected
that r. H. Elder OF Coeur d'Alene,
Democratic national committeeman
for the state of Idaho, will also be
present and address the meeting.
Every Democrat in the county is ex-
pected to be present.