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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-02
Generous Patrons of Music


 In almost every way musical art in the United States is coming into its own. Every year brings numerous benefactions to conservatories or musical departments of colleges.
 Recently Bryan Lathrop of Chicago bequeathed approximately $7OO,oOO to the Orchestra association, as nucleus of a fund for building and maintaining a school of music to rank ultimately with the best in the world. MT. La throp had been one of the most llb- eral contributors to the Chicago or chestra and only short while before his death gave $25,OO0 to the or chestra's pension fund.
 The first impulse of prosperous Americans in the early period of their country's development, even when millionaire was a thing unknown, was to contribute to an endowment fund for the upbuilding and broadening of some established but struggling col lege. After individuals began to ac- cumulate vast fortunes benefactions became startling in their munificence. As a rule the more bountiful of the henefactors have displayed business Judgment in distributing their gifts for educational purposes.
 When money has been given away in huge sums for the benefit of innu- merable worthy causes, the multimil- lionare has had to restrain himself so as not to add to the endowment of in- stitutions of learning already "gorged" with financial aid.
 Twenty-Five years ago benefactions in the United States were not only common but were large enough to be called "princely." And within the past four or five years individual gifts to educational or humane institutions have increased with astounding ra- pidity.
 Last year the total was about $512,- O0O,O00, an increase of something like $2OO, 100000 over the known benefac- tions in 1914. No form of philanthropic activity or "uplife" is overlooked; and when it comes to art or culture gen. orally music has been we'll remembered within recent years. About year ago, Miss Dow of Cincinnati died and left $700,000 as an endowment for the Gin cinnati orchestra; and when the La throp endowment for the founding of a Chicago school of music is made available the plans are to be worked out under the direction of the Chicago Orchestra association, whose aim it will be to bring it up to the standard of the Paris conservatory.
 The first great benefactor of ar orchestra was Colonel Higginson, g wealthy banker and music lover o1 Boston, who founded the Boston Sym .phony. He is, still living at the age o1 S1 and has not only not grown tired o1 paying the annual deficit, amount ing in some seasons to $5O,OOO or more, but he has provided permanent endowment to become effective after his death.
 The late Joseph Pulitzer started ar endowment for the New York Phil harmonic orchestra, and his sons have added largely to it. About three years ago Henry Flagler, who had been one of the guarantors for the Damroscl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-02
Kicks Against Speeders

R. S. Matthews appeared before Chlef of Police Martin Eagan yesterday after noon with a loud and raucaus squaWA against automobile "speeders' at Avenue and Eighteenth street. According to MT. Matthews, owners of automobiles have the impression. that Eighteenth street south of the Louisville and Nash vile tracks, is a section of the new speed way, and he earnestly hopes the police will be active in correcting the motorists on this idea:
 Say, Chief Eagan," said MT. Mat thews, "do you want to see a second edi- tion of the Indianapolis speedway race! We'll, if you do come up to Avenue and Eighteenth street and watch the imitators of Barney Oldfield go whizzing by. They nearly killed woman last night, and may probably kill one In day or two, so come along and see the fun'
 "Ill send the motor scouts sad Chief Eagan.
 Better provide aeroplanes for them as those are fast boys on tine Eighteenth street speedway answered Mr. Mat thews, '-the speed limit looks lKe an April fool joke to them"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-02
FayOrs the Bonds

Former Street Commissioner Frank Il. Gafford came out openly for the three bond issues yesterday. MT. Gafford was on visit to the city hall, and he as- sured the commissioners that he was heartily on their side.
 "Of course I favor the bond issues. said MT. Gafford, "as they stand for prog ress, for the go-ahead spirit in this town Only the knockers are against them.
 "All three of the bond issAes are fair measures to the great majority of the citizens, as it is recognized fact that we-need more schools and better schools. It is also a fact that we have the right to start in business in competition With a corporation, and incidentally if private ownership cannot survive against mu- nicipal ownership then the Birmingha11 n Railway, Light and Power company has a mighty weak argument. l will vote for the $5OO,OOO municipal electric light plant.
 ."As for the auditorium we need it badly and in my opinion the voters are for 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-02
THOSE CANDIDATES
he New York Telegram.

From the New York Telegram.
 ''You seem to be popular with your ''Yes,'' replied the uneasy statesman. I'm afraid they like to hear me tell funny stories so well that they would rather keep me at home than send me back to Congress for another term" Age-Herald.
 Yes. lot of stories told about some of the statesmen are not bit funny. Quite the opposite, in fact.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-02
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
srRANGE-vERY STRANGE

STRANGE-vERY STRANGE A rivers not a Snoppyquop,
 And yet my books all said, "The Mississippi has it's mouth
 Some miles below its head"
 Stanford Chapparal. There's something funny bout a tree" Said William Arthur Sims For every blessed one I see
 Has it's trunk below it's lmbs.' CONGRATULATIONS IN ORDER Mrs. Twobble says she has found her metier at last"
 "Do tell" exclaimed Mrs wadley. 'Im glad to hear that So many of our best people are having their cars stolen these days"
 VERY LITTLE "CLARET' SPILLED "A promoter says prize fighting has be- come a refined exhibition" Guess he's right about that" said the red blooded individual Plugs these days take such precious good care not to get hurt that there ain't any more fun for the spectators
 A CONSIDERABLE ITEM What war fund are you contributing to now?"
 "Wey-er-none but the civil war fund.-, You must be joking" Not at all. I pay taxes to the gov- ernment and the government is still pay ing pensions"
 BY PROXY 'Tis good to clip little lawn And rise each day at break O. dawn. Iris healthful, too, but ne'ertheless. I'm not unwilling to confess. I'd rather hire a colored man To come and do the best he can.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-02
TRAINS NEED OF OIL


From the June Popular Mechanics Maga-
 zine.
 For sometime past, according to re- ports, international trains arriving in Holland from Germany were found to run very noisily and to be in need of more lubricant. Investigation by the Dutch railroad officials revealed the fact, it is said, that the lubricant con tainers on the trains from across the border had been emptied of oil and grease before leaving Germany, where lu- bricants are now scarce. or else were provided with just about enough to carry them into Holland.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-02
LAsHING DAY IN DELAWARE

From the Wilmington. Del. News.
 Samuel Barnes who was convicted of highway robbery and sentenced to 4o lashes and three years imprisonment, re- ceived his 40 lashes at the workhouse on Saturday. John and Edward Kovitch, convicted of breaking and entering, were lashed also on Saturday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-02

BEGINNING THE DAY - AL mighty and ever gracious God, turn my sensitiveness away from myself that | may use it not for my own discomfiture but to avoid woundinS my fellow men. Keep my feelings tender that I may touch men to help and not to hurt. Let love teach me understanding and give me sktIi
 For Christ's sake. Amcn.-H. M' h'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-02
CLERICAL CHATTER

From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
 Boston papers tell of clergyman who, in defending breach of promise suit for s20,0O0, says he talked only about antiques. If he referred to the lady in question we're surprised at the moderate amount she asks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-02

According to Commercial Attache Ar mold, in a report to the department of commerce, there are tens of millions of Chinese who have never seen or tasted rice, although it is believed to be the staple food of Mongolians. There are vast areas of country in the northern
 part of China where rice cannot be grown and even in the rice district mill lions are too poor to buy it. The report states that about 95 per cent of China's population is confined to one-third of the country's area, where the density is 2OO to the square mile. Five per cent of the population inhabts 65 per cent of the area with a density of 10 to the square mile. The sparseness of settlement in the outlying dependencies is due to the lack of transportation facilities and the inadequacy of protection. The provinces south of the Yangtse river have den- sity of 23O to the square mile. The area of this territory is twice that of the orig inal states of the union and it has four times the population. Except on the Can ton railway, there are no wheeled ve- hicles south of the Yangtse. Neither are there any roads. The rice cultivated in this section is transported over paths. Water buffalo and oxen are the only ami mals used in farming and goods are car ried on the backs of men. The outlying provinces which constitute 65 per cent of the total area of China have density of population less than that of the mid dle west in the United States.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-02

frOm A voyage or DlSCoVeTy, py TTeS-
 ident Nicholas Murray Butler of Colum-
 bia, in the June Scribner.
 ZINE can never be young but once. and one can never make the first O trip to Europe a second time. There is something quite unique in the anticipation with which one first ap- breaches the old world in the endeavor to make its acquaintance. From his tory and from literature. in both prose and verse, as well as from anecdote and books of travel the whole scene is intel lectually familiar, or at least it seems to be so. Contact with it, however, dis pels this illusion and reveals for the first time real Europe. whose heart is beating underneath the surface with the blood flow of centuries in a way that cannot be recorded and described on the printed page.
 Then. as now, too many Americans went abroad without ever getting to Eu- rope at all. They got to hotels where only Americans went: they got to bank ing houses where only American news papers were on file; they got to summer resorts where Americans predominated; but too rarely did they get beneath the surface of Europe to come in contact
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-02

Contrary to the expectations of blase New York, the federated clubwomen from remote districts proved that they were able to take care of themseves- and a husband as well.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-02

The Kaiser and his suite rode on a troi- lev car the other day and the motor- man took extraordinary care not to Jolt his imperial passenger more than was A absolutely necessary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-02
EUROPEAN IMPRESSIONS

with the rich, fine, cultivated life of the people. The student bent upon getting the best that a European university had to give was more fortunate. He was lit- orally forced beneath the surface of Eu- rope, and was compelled to enter into the familiar and institutional life of Eng land, of Germany, or of France, just as an Englishman. German, or French man would do. In Germany, to be sure. he was apt to want to live on a little higher plane than the usual German stu dent. He wished for somewhat better food and was satisfied with somewhat less beer. He liked a better warmed room during the cold days and nights of a north European winter, and he could not subsist without some measure of that ventilation which the European re- gards as one of the most mischevious manifestations of the evil one.
 Nevertheless, the American student particularly in Germany, was able in those days to come very close to the life of the people. to enter into their joys and their anxieties, to read their newspapers and their books, to go to their concerts and their theatres, and to hear their re- flections upon the world at large, and particularly upon that new world from which the student himself had come
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-02

General Carranza writes in & rather belligere'it vein, but he will hardly go so far as to tweak Uncle Sam's nose.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-02

Henry Fords business manager has gone abroad, but this time he isn't look ing after the comfort and safety of a flock of pacifstS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-02

Soldiers in the trenches lavish affection on their mascots, but being a mascot in a trench has obvious disadvantages.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-02

Just to show that there is nothing whatever the matter with his health, Charles w. Morse has made another pur- chase-this time one of the largest ship building concerns in the country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-02

At last reports Coney Island was struggling along with Its recently ac- quired conscience"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-02

There is nothing that quite equals the fine condescension with which traffic COD permits a millionaire in a $'ooo car to go about his business. m
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-02
contract the s

There are thousands of young women ambitious to follow in the footsteps or Ella Wheeler Wilcox, but fortunately rew of them break into print.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-02

The country is full of bare-footeo uah- cers capering about in the open. IT some of them aren't careful they are gong 10 contract the ground itch.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-02

Gadsden Journal: Too bad Carranza can't see some of those preparedness pa rades in New York, Boston and other eastern cities
 Selma Times All the preconvention in- dications are the republicans will inject more ginger Into their big pow wow than will the democrats. For the democrats the cloth is all cut; it only needs to be fitted on.
 Troy Messenger: And now we have it. A half million rabbits from New Zealand have been shipped to the war zones to feed the English soldiers. They ought to enjoy the rabbit hash, but it is tc be hoped that they will not take up any of the sprinting qualities of the rabbit thereafter.
 Mobile Register: The New Decatur Ad vertiser persists in saying, notwithstand- ing The Birmingham Age-Heralds dis claimer, that the veterans were given the back seats in the entertainment pro- vided at the Birmingham reunion, but softens the blow by saying: Those who live at Louisville and Memphis and other cities, as you think of them, will remem- Der, in their case, tvo, that every at- tention to honored guests meant about the same thing" It may be added to this that at the first Nashville reunion, in 1S97 good many of the veterans camped on the sidewalks. We have never heard the old soldiers complain, however. They probably have never ex- fad to h1 or fed at public expense in the swell restaurants"
 Mobile Item: The United States has been very slow to provide necessary funds for army and navy aeroplanes. This tardiness has brought about a movement in many states to have a ma chine purchased by popular subscription, and to train several miltiamen as avia- tors
 The need of machines is great enough, but the need of trained flyers is even greater. It is possible to build factories and turn out machines with almost any degree of rapdidity, but six months training, at least, is needed to make an aviator useful to the army or navy
 ~ASAO oSSOSidlioIio nave agreed SUD- ply the money for the training of these civilian aviators and a number are now at various aviation schools learning to fly The United States has fewer than 100 trained men in both arms of the serv- ice; Great Britain has more than 5000, and France upward of 5000
 Alabama may well join this movement. A fund for the purchase of an aeroplane could easily be raised, as they are no longer very expensive. There would be no trouble in getting the men to offer Tor the service, and the Alabama Ma tional guard would be the first in the south to have a machine.
 Mobile would be an excellent place to start such movement. A hydroaero- plane might be purchased and kept here, for use in coast defense work as well as Tn cooperation with her troops Now is the best time to begin to raise the needed fund for Alabama's aeroplane
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-02

E. Phillips Oppenhem is credited with saying that he didn't understand ms pop ularity in America. Easy enough to ex- plain We have weakness for the Kind of stories that keep a person up when he ought to be in bed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-02

The man who writes moving picture scenario, unless he happens to nave f.n,ous name. gets about as much credit as the man who writes vaudeviile sketch.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-02

British firing squads have reduced the number of Irish poets considerably but a new crop is coming on.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-02

At any rate, the war has not cut off shipments of that rare old orange mar malade from Dundee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-02

Mr. Morgan is right. The office boy who runs away with a paltry $10,O0O or so deserves a spanking rather than a prison sentence
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-02

There are times when the office really does seek the man. Consider the case of Justice Hughes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-02

New York is just now taking notice of with true topic intensity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-02
JUST THE THING

My boy" said the man of millions with note of pathos in his voice, T hoped when you became of age would be able to relinquish some of my busi- ness cares and take little rest'
 Good old dad! And so you shall." re- piled the gilded youth. Come with me and take cruise in my yacht"
 REASONABLE ASSUMPTION
 What do you think of a scoundrel who would drive nails through board and lay 1t in the road to puncture automobile tires?"
 "If anyone should play a trick like that on me-" said the man, who reads the Presidents diplomatic notes, q would consider his act deliberately unfriendly."
 COULD BE MORE EXTENSIVE
 Some of those oriental monarchs have great many wives"
 True"
 That's rather expensive way to live" So 1t is but don't suppose any of those potentates are so foolish as to present each wife with an individual mo- tor car''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-02

be found in the dictionary Might not you and I put them together again? Only as we might reconstruct the man. moth; he will stand here bravely in his
 cold bones. but he will not trumpet for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-02

And begin to patch up thine old body for heaven. Henry As'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-02

From "A Voyage of Discovery" by Pres ident Nicholas Murray Butler of Colum- bia, in the June Scribner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-02
SUCCESS TO HIM

The college grad, with confidence
 Goes forth to make sounding name; His hopefulness is no pretense-
 He knows just how he'll play the game And he will climb to dizzy heights
 While lesser mortals plod along, The fate of inefficient wighth
 To toll unnoticed mid the throng. Let's speed the lad upon his way,
 However slim the chances be; Alack, it seems but yesterday
 We started out as brave as he.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-02
ALABAMA PRESS

Gadsden Journal: Too bad Carranza cant see some of those preparedness pa rades in New York, Boston and other eastern cities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-02

Selma Times: All the preconvention in- dications are the republicans will inject more ginger Into their big pow wow than will the democrats. For the democrats the cloth is all cut; it only needs to be fitted on.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-07
FOR BRIDGE CON. SEDUCTION AT BRIDGEPORT,
 CONNECTICUT.

Sealed proposals will be received at the office of the Board of Contract and Supply, in the City Hall, up to 12c noons May 6, 1916 at which times they \ will be publicly opened and read, for the construction of the sub- structure, superstructure and ap- breaches for the proposed Grand St. Bridge over PeQuonnock River This Proposal shall be marked Proposal for Grand St. Bridge" Also for the removal of old Bridge and construc- ting new substructure and superstruc- ture at East Washington avenue over Pequonnock River. This proposal to be marked Proposal for East Wash ngton Ave. Bridge
 l: Contractors may submit one bid covering both bridges but must state therein the amount chargeab1e to each bridge therein. The Grand street bridge is entirely 8 new proposition. Contractors will not be required to maintain traffic over the East Wash ington Ave. bridge when the new structure is being erected. The bridges are less than one quarter mile apart.
 The Commission reserves the right to let each bridge separately if they so desire also the right to reject any or all proposals. All proposals not conforming to the proposal blanks shall be rejected. . MT. J. B. Etratss, Consulting Engi- neer, 10A s, Michigan Ave-, Chicago, Ill.,, enclosing certified check for s25, S20 of which will be refunded if plans ara returned. The remainder shall be retained as cost of printing plans. A set of plans will be on file, for ref ersnes only, at the office of the Board of Contract and Supply,
 Grand St. Bridge, Bridgeport, Conn, Mayer c. B. WILSON, Chairman, HOWARD s. CHALLENGES, MALCOLM MACFAYDEN, JOHN O'CoNNELL, JOHN E. BRADY.
 D. Wash. Ave, Bridge, Bridgeport, Conn.
 Mayer c. B, WILSON, Chairman, WILLIAM D. PRIMROBE, MAURIFz OLSEN, DANIEL D. WALKER.
 PATRICK Fl, BRADY,
 J. B. STRAUSS, Consulting Engi- aaer, Chicago, III.
 c, IT POLAND. Secretary. Both GeHznissiaas
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-07
DIED.

DIED.
 KEILiY-In Fairfield, April 6, 1916, Nora T., wife of Edward Kelly.
 Friends are invited to attend the funeral from her late residence, Spring street Fairfield, on. Satur day, April B. at 8 80 d. nl., and from St Thomas church at a. nn., with solemn high mass.
 Interment St, Thomas cemetery. FairdeId.
 Kindly omit flowers. a% lAULFIEID-In this city. April 6, 1916, Dorothy Jane, daughter of EWilIian B. and Mary V Sullivan fCaufheld, aged 4 months. 20 days.
 Friends are invited to attend the funeral from the residence of the parents. Harrison court, on Satur- day, April 8, at 2:30 p. m. Interment St MichaePs cemetery NABER-tn this city. April 6. 1916, Rudolf Naber. aged 72 years. 3 months IT days. ssss1
 Friends arc invited to attend the funeral from his late residence, 54 wi1Iiston street, on Monday after noon. April 10. at 2:3O o'clock, and from German Baptist church on Burroughs street, corner Kossuth street, at 8 o'clock
 Interment at convenience of the family. U bf" DARGAN-In this city. April 5. 1916, Michael J., son of the late James and Mary Dargan, aged 29 years.
 Friends are invited to attend the funeral from his late residence. 126 Austin street. on Saturday, April 8, at s:3O a. m-. and from Sacred Heart church at 10 a. m., with soleann high mass.
 -Interment St. Michaers cene- ter~v. U6 bs WAISH-In. this city. "Wednesday, Apru 5. 1916. sBrdset4 Ealsfa @zs-esz-1Eariends are invited to attend the funeral from her late residence, Nc. So Garden street, on Saturday. April 8, at 8 :3o- a. m. and from Sac- red Heart church where solemn E high mass of reqni eTn will be offered for the repoSe of her soul at 3 o'clock. Burial at St. AGtclaaeFs cenne- tArw. US be
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-07
An Amiable Charlatan
by D Phillips oppenheirm


 Imagine a man who is wealthy, who reads detective stories whenever he can get hold of. them, and who goes to England to amuse himself by consorting with -crim- inals!
 Imagine his daughter helping him, and a young Englishman helping her! And then imagine things be- ing stolen and jewels disap- bearing wherever this unus- ua1 man went!
 And this just hints at the story Oppenhei1n has told. Ready now,-$1.5O.
 Main floor. rear.