The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-01
Germans in Port Have Big Time Celebrating the
 Kaiser's Birthday
ALABAMA COAL IN
 GREAT QUANTITIES.
Navy Yard Is Active and Constant Work of Hydroplancs Is AL ways of Interest to
 Spectators

Pensacola, January 3l.-(Special)
 When Juliet declared that heaven is
 where Romeo is,'' I thought that the acme
 of human idolatry was clearly shown by
 Shakespeare, but I have today witnessed
 sight that has in it more idolatry and
 blind following than anything I ever saw,
 It came about over the dressing of the in-
 termed German ships here, who, with
 colors flying, announced to all the world
 that this was the birthday of the Kaiser
 Tonight I sat near a table where some
 of the men and officers of this informed German merchant squadron were eating
 supper, and all their conversation was about how their Kaiser was winning
 worlds war and how they longed to get
 back home and fight for the fatherland. Some new superlatives must be invented when one speaks of the patriotism of German.
 Several foreign ships were in port and from Norwegian sailor I learned that not all of the stuff we export to Norway i and Sweden is consumed by those coun- tries, but that some of it goes to other countries who need to draw upon Uncle ! Sam's storehouse in order to keep their popula ton eating. I had the great pleas ure of seeing a ship loading with coal for Tampico, and, in conversation with a petty officer, learned that it was quite likely that the heavy trade the port en- joyed in export coal was in a fair way of being restored.
 This was Alabama coal that came in over the Louisville and Nashville, and was in process of shipment from their docks. Talk about the old Louisville and Nashville-somehow their traffic men will get the business, and when they get | it the transportation departments set a record for prompt handling. I am really afraid that Superintendent Brooks and | his chief clerk, Goodwin, will have more l business than they can handle if things keer on improving. Travelling from Bir- 1 mi1:gham down to Flomaton I counted 21 | freight trains that we met. and goodness knows how many trains the dispatchers l had lined up in Montgomery to come out. TRIES HIS SPANISH | l had another great treat today 1 had
 a chance to try out my Spanish on some
 one else besides The Age-Heralds press
 man. A ship was in from Spain, and as
 a cabin boy came down the platform went up to him and said:
 | 'Habla Va. Espanol?"
 1 ''Si senor, pero no SC Inglese." he re- piled. I saw he understood me, and l chatted with him for quite awhile, and 1 managed to make myself understood. l learned from him that his ''vapor' was returning with a heavy cargo of cotton,
 grain, and as he put it. materials de guerra" In fact every ship that sails | from here carries war material They
 are still shipping crossties for military
 purposes, and enormous quantities of lum- 1 Der, rosin and turpentine.
 l You get to see one phase of the Flu | ropean war at close range here, and ] that is the precaution that ships take to , keep from being mistaken by an enemy submarine. The ships flying our flag have pictures of the United States flag painted l on the side of the ship that are several ] feet long, and can be seen great dis | tances Every other ship of every other
 nationality was similarly striped with the I cn1n