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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-12

frum diametrcay different angul rum them This may fall upon them like a dull thudbut let it If it effects the stock market can't help it. l shall stick to this ressousion without feer favor-and almost without hope of it.
 What started out to illustrate is that accumu- 1ason of mummy changes Far be it frum to say that it makes them less patryottick, less loyal is in enny cents change for the worse-but it changes them they, air consious-moor survatve--less ventursome and They don't want anything to happen that will inperil theere riches. The talk of sends shvver up and down the fancy inlaid and plush upholstered vertibra of Wall street that shvvers theer till you heer the gold filings rattle in theer theeth. Sum of them get terribly exsitted about it and vehementy call upon Uncle Sam to avoid war at all costs They air willing to seperate themselves frum large chunks Of nasona honor--the same not being listed on the stock rrarkersther than face the gloomy prospects of shrinking dividends But this is only natural war is dredfu thing and must keep out of it. it is redfu for the miyunar who risks the mulasion of his fortune and it's dredfu for the plane citizen who fortune, but n,lis; risk the mutilasion of his fissical anatomy Let us remember that in wars
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past the rich man Las dun his part-he put up the coin for his country, without which could not be waged. and it's almost grate sacrifice to him and is quite paneful as the loss of a leg.
 Of corse sum when they get rich air called ex- sentricv. Hennery Ford for instins, is called ex- senrick-but mattur of fact all that is the mat tur with Hennery is, he is just plain evvery day nut.
 So it must not be wundered at if the milyunair, when he gets out wheere he can commune with na- ture-as did my frend aforemensoned-is constinty occupied with specualasion about what the ground he is walking contains in the of oil or uther fossfferus possibilities, rathur than enjoying the buty of the landskape.
 Milyunairs air essensal-just essensal to the good of the country the plain peepul-and they air just as good Americons-taken as a hole. While l belong to the plain peepul and am proud of t--l am reddy at enny time to becum milyunair-I realize that theere is or less stigma in being milyun air but I'd try bare it. I'll undertake to bare it long as can, enuy way.
 F ~ Yours trooly
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-12
UP AND DOWN BROADWAY---By Allen Griffin Johnson

with his greater brilliance; the side walks echo to human heels, all fashion clad, long after Hamlets fathers ghost the auto horn, the rumble of the overhead and underground railways. and the chatter and clang of the surface cars is as audi ble at 4 a. m. as it ever is at midday. And these vehicles are not going back and forth empty. Within the lobster pal aces, dance halls, certain restaurants, etc, what New York calls "the life," is often as much in evidence at dawn as it is at twilight It is never necessary to retire unless one--or ones wife-in- sists upon it, but there are those-or thus we reach the angle from which we now intend to view the far famed night life of the inhabitants of glorious, glar- ing old Gotham-the angle of those who fain would "knit up the raveled sleeve of care" with deep, unbroken slumber.
 Methinks chow insidiously the ancient Shakespearean style creeps upon a mod ern geniusD that throughout all the length and breadth oI th,s nonwarrng nation there is none more long suffer ing than the Gothamite sleep-seeker. Just why he does not register a complaint. it is difficult to determine. Perhaps he has grown accustomed to it all; perhaps 1t Is because what is everybody's business is nobody's business, Or 1t may be ssnt he remembers resgnedly that Rip Van Wrinkle slept while Hendrick Hudson's s men played nine-pins, and concludes that he will undertake to prove that Rip had nothing on him.
 Let's go through one night with New York apartment dweller: He retires at 10 o'clock. having no interest in the whi.s lights and caring nothing for the de- lights of the dance and the drunken. He is now in bed. and the lights have been sextinguished. At the same hour. how ever. virtually every victrola. plano. riano- player graphophone. phonograph.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-12
JUNEAU, THE CAPITAL OF ALASKA

and 1900 miles from San Francisco. It is farther from Nome than from Salt Lake to New York, and it's distance from Fair banks is greater than that from Boston to Omaha. The town is beautifully situ- ated It lies on the mainland at the head of the Gastineau channel, a narrow strait which separates it from Douglas Island, just over the way. The channel connects Stephens passage with the Lynn canal, at the northern end of which Skagway is located. It Is very deep and the harbor is so good that all of the ships that pass through Alaskan waters excepting those that ply between. Seattle and Nome call at Juneau. During the summer there are boats north or south every day, and tens of thousands of tourists pass through at that time
 Juneau is right on the water, with wooden piers extending out into the Gas tineau channel. It lies in nest in the DouataiTis, which rise almost perp sndic- uiarly behind it to a height of perhaps 2O0o feet. I have seeu cliffs of this height in other parts of the world. They were mostly straight walls of gray, red and black rock. as bleak and bare as the Desert of Sahara. The walls of Ju- near are covered with 0 vegetation as green as the Valley or the Nile. They are so steep that 1t would seem as though the trees could not find root.ng places But they cling to the precipitous cliffs and are so imbedded in moss that they give the place background of verdure.
 The city is cut out of the rocks or, rather, it is propped up by them. The most Of the houses and streets stand upon stilts. The irregularities of the rocky, foundation have been leveled by a. trestlework of piles. The wharves are on piles, and from the channel as the tide falls they make you think of an army of centipedes tramping out to the ocean.
 It is now planned to give the city substantial foundation by filling in the space between the piles with the tail ings from the mines in the mountains behind. These contain great masses of owgrade gold ore, and the waste rock dust from the gold mills will be run under the city to build up founda- tion of rock. In the town of Douglas, over the way, a beach of such tailings has been made along the edge of the channel and the baseball grounds are laid out upon them. There is still some gold in the sand, but millions have come from that lying inside the dia- mond
 I wish I could show you the streets of Juneau. The town has about 10 miles of planked roadways that run up hill and down. The roadways give no spring
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-12

Powtomack, with the brown hills of virginnia background, he would obsurve ill an absent-minded mannur that he thought that Bethlehem was getting top-heavy and mite sag off few points aftur the open.
 The bamly air-he butiful sceenery-Vrgnnias lovely mountains and the passid Powtomack-which rum lofty heights looked as though it had started out to spreed tsself the entire land scape and then changed it's mind; in the disnse the inspiring capital of the nason the dwelling phase of the proud and houghty guvvermint clerk and the humbul and plain congressman--w evven frum grate distance could be hurd the regular classic nsstent and profan conversation of the obbyest all inspired most of us with perfectly good throbs and thrills--the throbs and thrills may say of the verry joy of hvvng in grate and free countryfree to most everybody who wants to cum ovver heer and tell us how to run itand the adminnistra- sion if it is not run to suit thenI say it filled most of with throbs and thrills aforementioned exsept my mersenery frend-he did not throb single throb or thrill the faintest suspsson of thrill. He the most unsatisfactory throbber thriller evver saw. When a man gets rapped up in the stock mar ket and keeps his mind constantly occupied and ried ovver large of mummy that he has herd
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The citizens here are enthusiastic about the food possibilities of the country. Said Grover c. Vim. one of the lawyers of Juneau:
 Alaska is the hardest of countries to make fortune in and the easiest of countries to make living in. As to the matter of good living, you can go into any grocery store at the beginning of winter and buy $50 worth of flour, bacon, and condiments. You can take them into the woods and with the addition of the fish and game you can catch, you can come out in the spring as fat as par fridge. You can get fish anywhere by dropping a hook into the ocean or streams and the shore will give you crabs and clans fit for a king. Some of our clams are as big as mans hand, and we have little butter clans that will melt in your mouth. We have all kinds of game, in- cluding deer and bear and mountain sheen. Our islands. have gfszzlies amd the Kadiak bear is the biggest that grows
 Some of the other items of. the cost of living in this part of Alaska arc as fol- lows: House rents range from S1O a month for single unfurnished room to $25 cabin, or a four-room flat. Four room cottages may be bad for $35 a month. and larger houses command higher prices Living expenses per day are said to average from $1 to S1.50, exclu- sive of lodging, which may be obtained for about $20 per month. Household ne- cessities, including groceries cost from to 10 Der cent more than in Puget Sound cities. The demand for labor about equals the supply, and the wages range from s for common labor to 5 or $6 day for skilled mechanics.
 I am surprised at the sterling charac- ter of the people of southeastern Alaska They are as well educated and as well bred as those of any part of the states. More than half of the professional men are graduates Of colleges, and Juneau has a university club of 150 members. The majority are from western institu- tions but Yale, Harvard, Princeton and Cornell all have their representatives. The graduates of the University of Wash ington at Seattle came to dinner together the other day and 8 sat down to the table.
 The public schools are good, the high school having it's business branches with courses in public speaking and mechan- ical drawing and of sewing and cook ing as well.
 The high schools of Juneau give their graduates certificates admitting them to the University of California and other western colleges.
 I came here expecting to find popu- lation of men only. The sexes are al- most equally divided Many of the wom-
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a single order of cracked crab Is more than one man can eat. The crabs here are as big around as dinner plate, and as delicious as any sold in Wash ington city At some of the restaurants soup, potatoes and one kind of des- sert is served with each meat order, so that meal really costs less than similar one in the states. The menu is la carte, and as many of the dishes are given French names as the vocabu- lary of the restaurant keeper will per init. Among those on the bill of today, for instance, were "consomme en cup" and "beefsteak en platter" The walters were good natured girls imported from Sweden.
 Before I started to Alaska I was warned that the only fruit and vege- those that grow out west in cans" As a result I have bpaNeht Nvirh mo 2, let Of Gigestants of various Kinds, include ing remedies for ptomaine poisoning. I do not need them. The provision stores of southeastern Alaska are as good as those of the states This afternoon, for instance I stopped in front of gro cery and made a list of the vegetables on sale. There were fresh turnips. let tuce. onions, celery and new potatoes from the gardens adjoining the town, and fresh cauliflower, green beans and green peas that had come in by boat from Seattle. l saw ripe red tomatoes, bleached asparagus, pale green cab bages, red beets, yellow carrots and green corn on the cob.
 The store had all sorts of fruit. There were raspberries, salmon berries and huckleberries, fresh picked from the Alaska bushes, and Alaska strawberries ranging in size from an English wal nut to the average hens egg. There were ripe peaches and apricots, cher ries, red black and white and n'ums and loganberries. There were canta- loupes and watermelons from Califor- mia and also the fruits of the tropics.
 Oranges were selling at about the same price that we pay in Boston, and there were also fresh ripe figs and even pineapples. The vegetables were sprayed by a fountain which rose in their midst, and they looked IS though they had just come from the garden.
 Next door to the grocery was butcher shop where a quarter of red beef lay on the block, and a white-aproned, rosy / checked butcher was cutting off a steak two inches thick. In the window nearby was a great white halibut from which slices had been cut, and half dozen fresh salmon with flesh as red as brick dust There were gigantic crabs. oysters, large and small and other shellfish as well.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-12

uther feller has tucked away sum phase, devis- ing ways and how he it to find finel abiding phase amung his own assets-he is not suit abull companion for peepul who want to go out on purely pleasure trip.
 All of us, know, air prone to criticse the of weeth we cannot things rum his angul-he looks everything frm the viewpoint of gain and we do not We cannot put ourselves in his plase-I cannot for one-for I have frequintly tried oh ernestly to do so. One of my ambisons has always been to put myself in the rich mans plase want to see things as the rich thenl-in order that l may thoroughly sympathize with him, want to eat the things he eats-ware the kind of clothes he wares-drink the same brands of the deemun he drnksride in the kind of cars he rides in that truthfuly say that can things frum his standpoint But so far have across rich who desired me to take his pase-who anxious enuff for to share his veews--to put me in his shoes. If theere is rich man ennywheere who desires to win one of the plain peepu ovver to his way of thinking can recommend myself to him for his ernest eonsderasicn I am open to convict sion but unless sumthing is dun about it I shall tinuew rite aoTg--let the rich, without resurve, be warned-I shall continuew rite along to see things
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-12
Anti-Submariue Torpedo

To enable an air craft to effectively attack an enemy submarine, a New Jersey inventor has developed a rather novel aerial torpedo which will explode at a predetermined depth beneath the water. It is slender and cylindrical in form. and provided with sharp nose to insure it's rapid and straight descent be. heath the water after it has been dropped from a height A picture in the March Popular Mechanics Magazine shows how the torpedo operates. The head of the bomb is filled with high explosive while in a compartment at the opposite end are batteries and detonator. A light cable, several yards in length, iD attached to it and carries a pair cf wires connected with the batteries. At the free end of the cable is small parachute and immediately beneath it contact devices to which the wires lead
 ing from the batteries are attached. When this strikes the surface of the water it colapses, allowing two metal pieces to come together and close a cir cult. This actuates the detonator and in turn causes the bomb to explode
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number-and Jones was too hazy to catch his wife before she felD.
 Then comes an intermission. For G whole seconds there is hardly sound to disturb the stiffness save the rumble of the surface ears, the whistle of a few boats on the river and the striking of six or eight big clocks in the section (never say 'neighborhood" in Manhat- tam. The sufferer begins to hope. These sounds are almost like quiet itself, and he half closes his weary eyes once more but no; sleep is not to be his. From a near apartment comes a vail from the very soul of childhood. The infant is shrieking just as if the poor little thing had been given to understand, all at once just what it is to be up against in this life It grows louder, and there is no indication that it even stops to catch it's breath for a renewed effort. Surely, thinks the sufferer the father and mother will quiet the thing-er poor little child. But they do not From papa and mama there is no movement nor sound. But Smith, who occupies the apartment next to the child. has conceived a plan, and soon the strains of Enrico Caruso's voice penetrate the night air. The Victrola has been placed against the wall through which the baby's screams are coming, and battle royal ensues.
 Why is no complaint offered? Such has been tried. When 1t was taken to the sli- perintendent of the building he made a French gesture of helplessness, but in one instance the complaint was carried to the courts and his honor decided that the baby had right to cry and that Smith had a right to let Caruso warble. So thera you ara
 However, even a baby stops crying sometime, and so does this one, and with the cessation of his solo. that of Ca ruso likewise, comes to an end. and the chances are that both the baby and Smith felt that he had the better of the duel of sounds
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-12

to the feet, and your hips keep bobbing up to your waist and tire your anatomy
 As I write this letter they are re- pairing the street in front of my hotel and can see how the roadway is laid. The hotel is some distance up the side of the mountain, where a bed of earth and stone has taken the place of the piles. The street is about 30 feet wide Upon the earth and stone cross beams or rafters are laid, and three-inch blanks are nailed. to them, running from one side of the street to the other. They are fitted together almost as closely as flooring. Upon this founda- tion a second layer of blanks is put down with the boards running at an angle to the first layer. the whole form ing substantial wood pavement six inches thick
 The street has also sidewalks of plank and the central roadway and sidewalks are so tipped that the water rms off into gu4terS Of wood. Such streets are costly They need constant repair. The plan is to gradually eliminate them, and make macadani streets of the tailings.
 The business section of Juneau runs parallel with the channel. Close to the docks are sawmills, lumber yards, sheet metal works and machine shops, and further back are long streets de- voted to stores, banks and shops of all kinds It may interest you to know just what business is done. There are A stores handling groceries and four handling hardware There are four jew elry stores, five drug stores, two shoe stores and three devoted to furniture There are three department stores, each of which would be big for city in the states of three times the size. There is 8 music store, several cigar stores, three bakeries, three millinery stores and a number of photographic and curio stores. The town has up-to-date barber shops, cigar factories and steam laun dries. It has brewery and bottling works. It has two daily newspapers and three job printing establishments. It has three banks with resources of about $2,000,000 and annual bank clearings of something like s26,000,000. The bank deposits run into the millions. the pay roll of two of the Juneau mines aver aging more than $150,000 each month
 The best residences of Juneau are. on Chicken Ridge. This is the Mob Hill or aristocratic part of the city. I under- stand that the residents are not in love with the name, and that they talk of changing it to Bellevue or Bon Air or some other less plebian title. The ridge is at the upper end of the city, well back from the water The houses are pretty two-story structures, built on pa atches cut out of the rocks. The rich
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corEet, trombone and vocal chord in the building is going at full tilt. Music hath charm? No doubt, but if you use that word in connection with New York apartment house ensemble, then you've never lived any nearer Manhattan than Yonkers It is a bedlamized chaos of discord. chaotic coming together of all sounds sour and satanic; it is the in spiration of malevolent thought, the cre- ator of homicidal tendency in it's most malignant form, and this it is that first greets the ears of the slumber searcher upon lying down at the safe and sane hour of 10 D. m.
 Gradually, however, it grows dinner, and the sufferers eyes half close when what sounds like the entire artillery out fit of the German and French armies combined opens a bombardment in front of the building. Terror presents itself immediately, but the trained and trimmed apartment dweller banishes fear. know ing that the sounds proceed from the au- tomobiles that are arriving with those who spent the earlier part of the evening downtown, in various kinds of pleasure seeking. Then comes the ringing of the elevator bells, for the elevator boy has disappeared at that hour in similar endeavor to snatch '40 winks.''
 Soon after the various parties have reached their apartments. there is near accident on the 'L,' two blocks away, and the scream of the whistles sounds like lost souls shriek of eternal agony Naturally. 1t takes the sufferer in bed some 10 minutes to figure out how many people the papers of the next day will report killed in that accident. but he finally overcomes that line of thought, or has it eliminated for him by another. which tells him that bloody murder is certainly being committed In the room above his own. GOT course. he doesn't find out until the following afternoon that it was Jones wife trying to show Jones just how the oriental dancer they had seen that evening danced her last
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But he doesn't He wants sleep. and sleep only, and for 1t he would sign a paper surrendering Jess Willard to Frank Moran, or the entire European battle front to ,whomsoever would ac- scratched condition.
 When the steam gets going normally, and he once more entertains faint hope for slumber, comes the joyous milkman, with his noisy wagon, his clanking cans and loud voice. He is fol- lowed by the man TOT the ashes and garbage, and by this time there are the various but usual noises of early morning, throughout which sleep is rarely possible.
 Hollow-eyed and wan, the sufferer lies in bed yet little longer feeling that, if sleep has not been his. at least relaxation may help him to go through the days stern duties. But even with this determination, off goes his alarm clock-crowning noise of irony, sup posed to awaken him from. sweet slum- ber-and he arises and begins the pro- cess of shaving. wondering somewhat hazily just why in all thunderation the pipes and radiators were having such a jubilee of noise little earlier, since they have produced no heat as yet.
 What does he do. Call the janitor? Kick to the superintendent? Get sore on the world generally and tell his troubles to his acquaintance in the next apartment? Nothing of the sort. I said at the outset he was long suffering he proves 1t now. In some way he man ages to finish dressing, eats what his wife prepares for his breakfast puts on his hat and gloves and as he goes down on the elevator gives the eleva- tor boy a cheery greeting and proba- : bly 25 cents besides-just for being the elevator boy Then as he passes the janitor cleaning the snow off the side walk in front, he remarks. "Fine morn ing!' M
 And why. oh. why is this same suf-