The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-11-08
BnMNeHAM AeEHERALp. TUESDAY NovEMRER s. 1g21


tr0.tlng ana bunny hugging Of his
uAy u.s. SVneerneu.
"noseNel, Nc empha sized. Il must
say That the Jazz OF those Gays coulo
hot equal tins Things tndt luS young
pSVpie " tnIs AiVl e4H ,lli4e w. 4 n.nAs
are 100 Iast anu loVse. 81, 49, ...us a
matt was caIieu. 1nlnss a.. 4rs eO4n-
nlVH now we never SOulu nave
dreamed 20 years ago ot ever BEING
eCssioie.
rssiiklon did everything for Sam
small II made him one Of the
worlds greatest good men.
his man interest In life Is to teach
The aocsrIne OF sslf-Fespect, self-con-
lrOi. tns aseencies OF CHRISTIAN CIV
iii-a ,loA, ana reverence to Gou. There
is gre IN everything he has to say
AO.ce, righteousness and downright
sVoN, hsru, common sense.
"Reminiscences OF AiFmtnshain
o. 80 many remini ScSnces OF Bir-
mile nam, Dr SnlAIl gave me, kor-
merry d newspaper man, he related
;nAiiy experiences OF Jhe old uays,
eAdemeiy entertaining:
said he:
1t just by a hairs breadth that !
missed Defng part owner OF Bfrming-
"~--fA%i A1 NNNt0ASNl NA4 "a AAC ~ va
age, which was ths newspaper out II
~ Ich Inc Age-Herald sse~.
Colonel Powell. founder OF your
city, came over TO Nashville to get me
TO come TO Birmingham TO run this
weekly paper he was going to start
he told me he would pay me enough
TO live on, and would give me az
bonuses some town lots.
Now said he, If at the end of
the YEAR you have made a go of the
paper, / will give II to you
Just about that time, however. l
received an offer from ex-Presldent
Andrew Johnson, asking me to be-
come his private secretary and edit
his paper for hirn--ths Greehville
(Tenn.) Reporter. And l went.
Birnsinaham Booster
However, in the meantime Colonel
Powell insisted | come over to Biz
mingham and write the city up any
way. He made arrangements with
the Nashville Banner to print thel
stories. and so / came. 1 think from
that / might label myself 'Birming-
hams first booster
When L got here the first thing
saw was an abandoned box car,
which WAS used as . s1a.scn. 1 went
to Colonel Powells residence, after
being shown red guilies. corn and
cotton fields and other prospects,
now realities. Colonel Powell showed
me maps and drawings tracing iron,
limestone and coal deposits He re-
lated that because of the natural re-
sources we could make iron cheaper
here than anywhere, and the time
would come when this town actually
fiw fnN nj ffr
the whole world. This has really hap
pened, am proud to say the old
coioners prediction has come true.
Colonel Powell went to Knoxville
next and got Col. Rolfe Saunders to
come down and rqn the paper here.
That was the beginning of The Age
Herald
About Ia years after that--in 1885
there was a big boom sale of lots
in Birmingham, in which Henry Grady
and old Colonel Adalr. one OF the
founders of Atlanta, figured.
II recall a humorous experience
connected with this. Henry Grady
bid off one of the lots, in some sec
tion of the city, and we decided to go
out and see It, We stumbled over
guliies and stumps and pushed
through wildernesses until we were
tired. told Grady he could go on
II he wanted to, but / was going back
to the hotel. Grady, however. said
he was determined to see the thing
through and would join me at the
hotel later. So went back.
When Grady arrived at the hotel
he was accompanied by three pos
sums. which, he said, had pre-empted
his lot. He hadn't done a thing but
split some sticks, puts their tails in
TO hold them, and brought them back
for the Florence hotel chef to prepare
for him. This was In 1888
Joined sam Jones
around about this time bad
aligned myself with Sam Jones. the
evangelist, and In 1887. we came here
for a revival meeting under a tent
which held 5000 people. Old Colonel
Sloss was hacker of this revival, and
a memorable thing for the south was
the fact that at this meeting, ! intro
duced Booker t. Washington. the
negro. probably to what was his first
big audience.
AT that time he was struggling
with a handful OF negro students at
and had come to talk to Colonel Sloss
about his work, and to ask aid for
1t.
Colonel sloss turned him over to
us. and l introduced him to that au-
dience. He made masterful
speech, telling how his aim was not
to put the negroes on social equality
with the whites. but he wanted to