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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-14
ATHLETIC CLUB AND
 LOUISIANA STATE
 QU|NTETS ID MEET
Locals Will Have a Hard Fight With Dr. StrOud's Five TOnight-Dance
 After the Game

The Birmingham Athletic club five will clash with the strong Louisiana State university tonight in the clubs gymna- sium. The visitors, on their annual northern tour. are supposed to have the strongest team in their history and will Undoubtedly give the local quintet a hard battle.
 The club five has appeared very weak of late and interest in the team has been Slightly lessened because of the series of defeats. Their last swamping was from the University of Alabama, team which they had expected to conquer with ease.
 The game tonight however, should be fclose The L. s. U. team, which is coached by Dr. c. c. Stroud, who is Jwell known here appears here annually. Last year the club five won by a large score. A different tale however, is ex- pected as the result of tonight's con- test
 Tommy McGowan and Shine Montgom- so y will probably start at the forwards
 ith Strange at center. Seals and Gill
 w will play the guards. Referee for the
 lnle has not been announced.
 The game will start at S:30 o'clock md will be followed by the usual dance, n Following tonight's games the club will n, egin preparation for the contest Satur- =. ay night with the Atlantic Athletic club. a his game should be one of the best of 7. he season.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-14
Former Montgomery Man
 Jumps From Fourth Floor
 of a Hotel in New York

Montgomery, February 15.-(Special) Samuel Adams, former Montgomery man, took his own life in New York Monday by jumping from the fourth floor of hotel He was we'll known in Montgom- cry and resided here until few months ago, when he moved to Providence, R. l., and accepted a position with a shoe com pany. He recently was made manager of a branch at Trenton, N. J and it is sup posed that he became ill from overwork resulting from large orders for the entente allies.
 MT. Adams left his home last week for New York with the statement that he would be treated. His wife followed him and found him Monday morning in a delirious condition at a hotel He jumped from the bed, ran to the window and jumped to the sidewalk below, the fall resulting in instant death.
 MT. Adams married Miss Kennie Norris of Brazil last year after a romance which began in correspondence between himself and Miss Norris father about business matters. Miss Norris father died and she answered letter which MT. Adams wrote to him. The answer brought on the correspondence, the couple met in New York and were married.
 His wife, father and n4ther, three brothers and one sister survive. The body will be brought to Montgomery for burial.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-14
LETTERS TO EDITOR
Indorse Our President

To the Editor of The Age-Herald: 1, Your editorial indorsement of President Wilson's policy ill German war matters entities The Age-Herald to the highest patronage and commendatioh and it's CO., incident with the views of all our real patriotic citizens of the United States.
 Permit me through The Age-Herald to suggest a move that will help to unite our people of Birmingham and Alabama still more firmly in support of President Will son and reasonably conservative peace and defensive policies.
 It is that each and every clergyman in Birmingham and Jefferson county (also throughout the entire state) do give out notice that he will deliver next Sunday tor the next Sunday following) a talk, in dorsing the excellent peace and war pre- paredness policies of President Wilson also calling attention to the duties of citizens of our country in the event of war with Germany.
 There is in the matter of a thoroughly united President and people something for Germany to consider carefully before starting war with them, and, immediate action by the clerby (be they Congrega- tional, Catholic, Baptist Methodist or some other denomination should be taken.
 If war does not ensue it will be most excellent step; while. if war occurs, it will be still more valuable affair.
 Recently the Methodists at their con ference in Atlanta, selected and sent to Birmingham that acknowledged leader and wheelhorse in church upbuilding, Dr. James B. Crippen of Florida. to build up the Simpson Methodist church of Bir- mingham in it's membership and efficiency and pr. Crippen had very extensive ex- nerience in Florida and the Cuban bor- ders during the Spanish-Ameriean war
 pr. Crippen today informed me that war information and preparedness were excellent subjects to arouse interest by the people, and next to real war itself in bringing the public to drop their diff ferences and indorse and support the gov ernment and its policies and that the Spanish American war brought the best of harmony to the people of Florida.
 JAMES F. SLATER.
 Birmingham. February 13, 1917.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-14
Ordinance No. 462-C
An ordinance to regulate the taking III
 of cattle running at large.


 Be it ordained, by the commission of the city of Birmingham as follows:
 Section 1. That any person in the city of Birmingham finding any horse, mare, mule, COW, bull, OK, hog. sheep or calf running at large about his residence, or the residence of which he is in charge, the owner of which is unknown, may take up such animal as an astray
 Sec. 2. That it shall be the duty of every person taking up an astray to immediately notify the city pound keeper. giving the name of the person taking up such astray and his residence ad- dress, including street and house num- Der, and a description of the animal so taken up. whether horse, mare, mule, COW, calf, OK, bull or sheep, or what ever said animal may be, and the loca- ton where said animal has been placed.
 Sec. 8. It shall thereupon be the duty of the pound keeper to immediately make demand upon such person at the address given for the possession of such animal, and it shall be the duty of the person in possession of such animal, on demand, to deliver the same to the pound keeper, and the pound keeper shall thereupon impound said animal in the city pound.
 Sec, f. It shall be unlawful for any per son in the city of Birmingham to take up any such animal unless such person shall immediately comply with the provi- sions of this ordinance within the time herenabove stated.
 Sec, 5. Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall, upon conviction, be punished within the limits and as provided by section 12l6 of the code of 1907
 Sec 6. Be it further ordained that ordi- nance No. 455-C be and the same is hereby repealed.
 Approved February 14, 1917. GEORGE B. WARD President Board of Commissioners. A true copy.
 c. B. LLOYD. City Clerk. Age-Herald, February 14, 1917.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-14
Bahaman Shells and Living Coral Richard Le Gallienne in Harpers Mag

Richard Le Gallienne in Harpers Mag
 azine.
 We picked up many beautiful and curious shells. especially some fine conchs. There were two kinds of conchs, the king conch, and the queen conch. They are large, beautifully modelled shells, inhabited by snail like animal very like our wrinkle" and, like it, used largely for bait, and making, too, an excellent salad The queen conch is pure white with a yell low tip and dark brown interior; but the King conch is the handsomest crea- ture, with it's light-cream ground va riegated with brown, red and black in lovely decorative patterns, as by the hand of some self-conscious Japanese artist. In these conchs, buried in the flesh of them, is found a pink pearl of some. if no great value-for which the natives, as they cut up their bait are constantly on the watch, as half dozen of them would seem like a small fortune to them. Presently, as we poked along the wet sand or pranced over the lodges of sharp rock, Peter called out, excitedely, Would you like to see some living coral?"
 Think of the poetry that lay in the suggestion-and of course, remember that there is coral and coral, some very lovely and fairy-like indeed. But this I humble kind of which the islands are mo$tly buiit--and, alas. it was neither lovely nor fairy-like. It lay in splodges
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-14
Ordinance No. 461-C

An ordinance to provide for the cus-
 tody, control, expenditure and ac-
 counting of all funds appropriated
 or contributed to the department of
 relief and corrections of the city of
 Birmin Rham.
 Be it ordained by the commission Of the city of Birmingham as follows:
 Section l. That the city comptroller, in addition to his other duties as now pro- vided by law, or as may hereafter be provided by law, shall be the custodian of all funds, moneys. donations of money or choses in action bonds, mortgages. etc., of the department of relief and corrections of the city of Birmingham, and as such custodian, it shall be the duty of the city comptroller to keep a separate account of all moneys received and all expenditures made for the department of relief and corrections.
 Sec. 2. Be it further ordained. that 1t shall be the duty of the superintendent of the department of relief and correc- tions to receipt for all moneys contribu- ted to the department of relief and cor rections on a special receipt to be pro- vided by the city comptroller and to de- posit with the city comptroller each week all funds which may be contributed to said department and take his receipt for the same.
 Sec. 5. The funds of the department of relief and corrections shall consist of the appropriation made by the city and all contributions received as above outlined and shall be expended upon the order of the commission on acquisitions drawn by the superintendent of the department of relief and corrections, countersigned by the commissioner of public safety and the city comptroller, and such expendi- lures shall be reported to the commits sion as all other expenditures are now reported
 E. Sec. A. That the city comptroller be and he is hereby authorized and empowered to furnish the superintendent of the de- partment of relief and corrections a petty cash fund of not exceeding fifty ($5O) dollars, which fund may be used by the superintendent of the department of re- lief and corrections for the relief of urg- ent cases; provided that all such expen- ditures from said petty cash fund be ac- counted for to the city comptroller with receipts for such expenditures, which Shall show in detail the purpose of such expenditure and to whom same was made: provided that no single expendi- ture to any one person shall exceed in the aggregate $5.
 Approved February 14 l917.
 GEORGE B. WARD,
 President Board of Commissioners. A true copy:
 C. B. LLOYD. City Clerk.
 Age-Herald, February A. 1917
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-14

New York, February I3.--The Ma tional league and the Baseball Players fraternity came to the parting of the ways here late today while Manager John J. McGraw of the New York Ma tionaI league club and President David FuItz of the players association were in secret conference endeavOring to reach a common ground upon which the so-called strike of the players could be compromised.
 The league passed unanimously resolution abrogating the agreement made with the fraternity at Cincinnati on January 6, 1914, and when McGraw returned to the meeting, it first ap- peared as if his self-imposed mission had been in vain.
 LaterAPresident Tener explained that the leagne would no longer recognize the organization and that all dealings in the future would be with the play CTS as individuals, but that fraternity members would not be diseriminated against. As this was the principal re- quest made by Fultz in his conference With McGraw, as guarantee before taking steps looking toward the lifting of the strike order insofar as it af- fected the major leagues, it appeared that his request had received consid- eration.
 That the magnates realized the se- riousness of the situation was shown by the fact that the debate writers were called into the meeting of the league frequently and the following resolution was read, after which the managers stated that they were ready to answer any questions which might be asked:
 Whereas, the Ball Players fra
 ternity has violated the letter and
 spirit of an agreement made be-
 tween National agreement leagues,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-14
CITY ORDINANCES Ordinance No. 458-C

An ordinance providing for the issu-
 ance of bonds of the city of Bir-
 minghan, i'm the amount of fifty
 thousand. five hundred dollars (s5O,-
 1OO) for the purpose of paying out
 standing contractors' estimates for
 public improvements.
 Whereas, the assessments for the cost Of improvements made under improve ment ordinances Nos. S63, SIP, SS3, SS4. S94, s95, S97 900, 9O2. 9OS, 912 914, 915 and 993 were made final more than thirty days prior to the enactment of this ordinance, and the balance of the cost of said im- provements remains unpaid. as evidenced by certain outstanding contractors esti- mates; and
 Whereas, for the purpose of providing means to pay for the part of the work remaining unpaid it is necessary to issue and sell bonds of the city of Birmingham in respect of each of the Improvements made under the said improvement ordi- nai1ces, respectively, to an amount suf- ficiAnt to pay tho cost of said improve
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-14
CITY oRnINANcEs

ments after deductfng the amount paid by property owners, the said bonds az gregating the amount of fifty thousand, five hundred dollars (s50,5O0}.
 Now, therefore, be it ordained by the commission of the city of Birmingham as follows:
 Section l. City public improvement bonds of the city of Birmingham to the aggregate principal amount of fifty thou sand, five hundred dollars (s50,50O) shall be issued in series, each series being numbered to correspond to the improve ment ordinance under which the improve ment was made The said bonds shall be of the denomination of $500 each and the numbers of the said series and the num- bers of the bonds of each series and the aggregate amount of each series shall be as follOwssF
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-14
Citv Comptroller.


 Sec 3. The city comptroller and .eX officio treasurer of the city of Bir- mingham shall keep an accurate ac- count of all funds arising from all assessments for the public improve ments hereinbefore specified and shall carefully and accurately keep a sepa- rate account of the fund arising from the collection of assessments under each particular improvement ordinance and the proceeds arising from assess ments levied for each of the above inn provements shall be applied to the payment of the bonds or coupons is sued in respect of such improvements and the city comptroller and eX officio treasurer of the city of Birmingham is hereby authorized and directed without any further action by this commission to pay the interest upon the said bonds and the principal there of when the same shall mature out of the proceeds arising from the said assessments and out of any other funds of the city in his hands.
 Sec. A. This ordinance shall take eff feet immediately.
 Approved February 14, 1917.
 GEORGE B. WARD, President Board of Commissioners. true copy:
 c. B. LLOYD. City Clerk.
 AgeHerald. February IA, '1917
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-14
NATIONAL LEAGUE
 DEFIES FRATERNITY
Johnny McGraw David Fultz Hold Conference to Adus Dfferences-Amercan League Will Follow Example
 of the Senior Organization

clubs and players entered into of
 date of January 6, 1914; therefore
 be it
 "Resolved, by the National
 League of Baseball clubs, that in
 solar as that league is concerned,
 this agreement be and is hereby
 abrogated and all relations be-
 tween this league and said frater-
 nifty are hereby sevTed and ter
 minated"
 When the resolution was shown to Fulz he refused to state what action the fraternity would take until he had consulted other officers of the organi- zation. Before he left McGraw ar engagements were made to meet again tomorrow, when F'ulz hoped to go be- fore the National league but the ac- tion of the organization virtually barred the way for such a move.
 Whether Fultz will decide to call off the strike upon the strength of the National league resolution could not be learned tonight.
 President Tener said that the Amer ican league would take similar action at it's meeting tomorrow and the Ma 'tional commission would have no fur ther dealings with the federation.
 We will not give it any further recognition,' said he. we have not dealt unfairly with our players and nowhere have we violated our under standing with them In case of q strike, players who do not respond to the call of the clubs for training on stipulated dates, will be put on an ineligible list and other players pro- cured. These players will not be de- clared ineligible until so reported by the club to the league headquarters.'
 The National league named the fol- lowing umpires for next season: Henry O'Day, William Elum, Charles Rigler, Robert Emslie. William Byron, Ernest Quigley, Al Orth, Peter Harrison and William Bransfield. The only change is that the veteran first baseman. Kitty Bransfield will relieve the former Brooklyn pitcher, Nal Eason.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-14
CITY oRDINANCEs

istration being noted upon the bond by said comptroller. after which no trans fer shall be valid unless made on the treasurer's books by the registered owner and similarly noted on the bond, but the same may be discharged from registration by being transferred to bearer and the transfer to bearer noted hereon. after which it shall be trans ferable by delivery, but it may be again registered as before The regis tration of the bonds shall not restrain the negotiability of the coupons de- livered, but the coupons may be sur rendered and the interest made pay able only to the registered holder of the bond.
 Date of In Whose City Registration. Name Comptroller Registered.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-14
Ordinance No. 459-C

An ordinance to further amend sub- divisions s1. sS. s9. 1O3 "A and ID, < 1s2 (A and B), PAS A andl m, POI (A and B). and 282 of section of oraf- nance 444-C. entitled, An ordinance to prescribe and fix licenses for busi- nesses, occupations and professions in the city of Birmingham. Ala. for the year 1917.
 Be it ordained. by the commission of the city of Birmingham. Ala, that sub divisions s1. Ss, s9 1OS GA and B), 1s2 "A and B, 246 A and B), 291 GA and B and 292 of Section of Ordinance 444-C, be and the same are hereby amended so as to read as follows:
 Section l. S1-COAL, ORE, STONE, SLAG OR
 GRAVEL-(a). Each person, firm or
 corporation engaged in selling coal,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-14
Officers Mess at Verdun

Walter Hale, in Harper's Magazine.
 It was in a reverent spirit that We threateded our way through the silent streets of Verdun, up to the entrance of the citadel. We were late and the garrison was at luncheon. The officers mess in Verdun might have been a me- dieval banquet hall. Below the salt-fig- uratively speaking-sat the junior officers on enther side of tong table ina vaulted gallery. Overhead were draped the flags of the allies. At the farther end was q smaller table set at right angles to the first. This was the table of the com mandant and his staff. In the remote
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-14

'recesses beyond were the glowing fires of the kitchen, where shadowy forms bent over the ranges. A ventilating shaft that ran up 1O0 feet through the solid stone to the sky above carried away the smoke and fumes of the cooking. It also served, at times to apprize the garrison of the activities of the Roche gunners. During the luncheon it echoed the heavy detonation of a 320lnm. shell that splin- tered the rock on the ramparts over head. The reverberations of the explo- sion shook the stone-valuted gallery like an earthquake.
 They had scarcely died away before the commandant rose to propose a toast to his guests from overseas. His was the calm of a man accustomed for months to the noisy interruptions of the Ger man artillery. He had all the easy self possession. of a toastmaster at a New York banquet. He lifted his glass to us. In the simple speech that followed we were welcomed into the garrison fam lily we were made part of it and lived its life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-14

recession from the programme already being carried out.
 In view of this it is declared in authori- tative circles that any further barley or exchange of notes with the United States may be dismissed as unwarranted and improbable
 The origin of the report is ascribed to the recent announcement made through the Swiss government, that Ger many was willing to negotiate respecting the American treaty of 1799
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-14
GERMAN TROOP
 MOVEMENT IS w
 FULL SWING VOW
Dispatch From Copenhagen States Preparations Are Being Made for Spring Campaign and Ac- tivity in Army Much Increased Forces Are
 Now Being Concentrated on Various Lines

ruary 20 new and still further restric- tions on train schedules will be issued and, according to rumors current in Der lin last week before the Associated Press correspondent left there, an en- tire suspension of passenger traffic was contemplated for a period of maximum intensity of troop transfers
 These and other signs would indicate that the German leaders expect the opening of the 1917 campaign quite as early as in the previous year, which began at Verdun February 20.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-14

Copenha gen, February 13-The troop movements in Germany preliminary to the spring campaign are now in full swing. The movements of troop trains and the requirements in cars for the transportation of regiments to the places selected for the new concentrations are responsible for the coal shortage, for there are also great restrictions upon ordinary traffic. '.
 German newspapers say that on Feb
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-14
FURTHER PEACE
 EFFORTS DENIED

Washington, February 13.--It is abso- lutely denied here that Germany in note to the United States, or through other mediums is inviting suggestions for the avoidance of actual war. It is reiterated that the imperial government is not permitting doubts in any quar-
 ters regarding the position actively as- sumed in the U-boat warfare and that there can be no talk nor thought of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-14
Washington Much Disturbed ODer the Revolution In Cuba

Washington, February 13.-The American government is much dis turbed over the revolutionary out break in Cuba, and although it stands ready to take any steps which may become necessary to protect it's inte-- ests there, no apparent preparations have been made so far for active i'm tervention of any sort.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-14

Tonight neither the state department nor the Cuban legation had received any information to clarify further the situation described in press dispatches. The department is watching develop ments anxiously. but officials still hope the Cubans will work out for them selves a satisfactory solution
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-14

City Comptroller and Ex Officio City Treasurer of the City of Birmingham Alabama,
 (FORM. OF COUPON
 On March 1-September l. l9--, the city of Birmingham. Alabama, will pay to the bearer at the Hanover National bank in the city and state of New York, thirteen and seventy-nve one-hundredth dollars (s1a75). in gold coin. being six months interest then due on its city pub lie improvement gold bond, dated March I. 1917 No. Series -.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-14

In accordance with a provision in this bond, the coupon sheet issued herewith has been surrendered by the holder of this bond and the coupons have been cancelled by the city comp troller. Semi-annual interest on this bond is hereafter to be paid to the registered owner or order upon the proper acknowledgement of the re- ceipt thereof.
 Dated Birmingham, Ala.,-, 19-.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-14

David R. Stubblefield Of Blooming ton. H., is the possessor of some loaf' of bread. In VISTA two cousins went to France and as souvenirs brought home several loaves. Mr. Stub- blefield still has one of them It is six feet long,