m ",- WYPi -' -7?TWF'?m r-w "tt-nju11 slR .W ' .1WT '""T? : fn. vj'f'Mmf. ,. .? ?f wi- vmm.f A.sn,ti .tl.,Afe..ft ,.' '. . j, . i,.v, . , .. ... i;r-T - r :-- t.? 'vJKnrvi1 -w-h- s-Try-'w,7Kf?"r '. tir.i i f-' -j .. . r, .-:- .'i .. -v .. t a ., i ii . r .m .: .v i'' r. ft 'l t' v j . " t ' --- w. j' i ry " "Trnpr' .t:vt; - v cT!wintfWMKBfn .'.f ii i-Bwi m oi .rr-immr'fm , .T. UTI J ". -'' 1 JM" IPi -.-.. r i -,!. ( j . I"l.TIi '" .1 TKIC H.'f M.rEVC f,.W'),rr ..' 1 f ' -ft Vl "J . jl i.TL 1 1 JtJi; Jl'H 1 - S . I .Mil V..1 1 ' t -3-k -Ik ta . . 3T" .t. . '. LY- .t 5 A .- .li Hi! . b f . !. " ! I 1 . -n.. w A ' V Jl ' V 1 j J 1. . ' IVu 1 i ' - T. ,v.,i 1 12 THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE- SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1901'. HOLIDAY OFFERINGS. Practical Gift Things Are the most desirable after all. They bring greatest happiness at the Christmas time and greatest pleasure and comfort in the days that follow. That's why we give special attention to the "practical " when making up our Holiday stock. Smoking Jackets Beautiful styles and trade, in Smoking Jackets and House Coats, the biggest S ' and most comprehensive display we have ever made. 01 OC 67 CA Oft Eft They come in plain colors, plaids, etc ..... . Ot", v3, Ql .DU, gU.DU OvefCnflfcLong Chesterfields in the correct fabrics for holiday season, and by VTWivuuiJ the way, an overcoat makes a splendid Christ- 0 4. fry) rk mas present, finely tailored, perfect fitting, in black and grey . . . $0 10 tfLL.dV Children's QothinHP i Sftto tin W W uO Suits, Single and Double-Breasted Suits PLJJ IU $iJ Neckwear, Etc. A showing unrivalled in the city. Richest Silks and Satins made up in the newest swell Ascots, Imperials, Four-in-Hands and Teck Scarfs. All the new colorings ACn rn. TE- Al and latest patterns. Prices, . . tOG. 0UC, I DC. 01 Suits buits for all occasions, in Cassimeres, Cheviots, Worsteds. etc. ah tne correct patterns, made in fashion's latest styles Full line of Frock Coats, Sack Coats and Separate Trousers. Clothing for particular men at prices to please. ncics, oneviuis, worsteds. $7.50 to $20.00 Richards & Wirt lie Lackawann a Ave., Scranton BIRMINGHAM AND VICINITY Conclulod from Page 10. a score or more of private schools con ducted by flrst-cliiss teachers. The thorough and up-to-date system of the Birmingham schools received the high est a, ward at the Atlanta exposition In 1S9S. All political parties recognize the importance of education for hoth races, and planks favoring the maintenance of these schools are embodied in all their platforms. The Birmingham Age-Herald is joy ful over a bill Just passed by the Ala bama legislature, which provides for a live months' term In every year for the free schools of the state. No reference to education in Ala bama would be complete without ref erence to the important work being ac complished by President Booker T. Washington at the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial institute, of which he is the moving and controlling spirit. This institution may well bo termed the most successful of any in the country designed for the education of the col ored youth. It was organized in ldbl by President Washington, himself a folored man, and leader of his race, rind today it owns property valued at $200,00Q. which includes L',M7 acres of land, upon which have been erected by the handicraft and labor of the stu dents themselves forty-two buildings. It has 1,073 students, Stt instructors and every year young men and young wo men are sent out who, with their in tellectual and Industrial training, are willing to go among the ignorant of their people and labor, even though tho compensation Is hardly sufllcient to supply the ordinary needs of tho teacher. Birmingham is peculiar In tho splen dor of her public buildings and among the most magnillcent are tho court house, costing a half million dollars, the government building, tho postofllce, St. Vincent's hospital, erected by the Sisters of Charity, school buildings, hotels, theaters and tho auditorium. If there Is anything tho people are proud or, it is their beautiful auditorium magnificent In Its proportions, a noblo monument to ctvlo pride. It Is a com modious house. Tho stage is one of the largest in America, sixty feet wide, forty-five feet deep and capableof seat ing 400 persons. The building Itself, is HO feet deep by 100 feet front and (iO feet high, with a seating capacity of 3,600, while 5,000 can gather here to hold conventions. It cost $30,000. The gov ernment building and postofllce each cost $100,000. Tho south's industrial giant is the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Hallroad company the mofct extensive producer of pig iron for the open market in the world, and the largest iron, steel, coal and coke making corporation In the southern states. Some idea of tho vastness of its investment and tho great scope of its operations can bo had when It is stated that its capital stock Is $23,000,000, all of which Is com mon stock; that It alone produces one half of all the iron made in Alabama, over half of the total of all the coal mined; three-fifths of the slate's out put, and operates the only important steel plant south of Pittsburg, being the pioneer in southern stpnl nrirln. tlon. It owns fourteen Iron fni-nm-PH In this district in addition to the largest coal mines and coke plants south, be sides operating a steel mill with a daily capacity of 1,000 tons of steel made from Alabama iron. It has :s,GS" coke ovens, with a capacity (yearly) of over L'00,000,000 tons. Iron ore capacity is 2,300,000 tons, and coal, WSO.OOO tons yeany, anil tne lurnaces 1,300,000 tons. The employment of help runs well up into tho thousands. Tho Birmingham district Is seldom troubled with a scarcity of labor, owing to tho fact that nractieallv .ill nr tho labor employed at the furnaces, coke ovens, ore mines, limestone Quarries, and hair that at tho coal mines, Is col ored, and therefore very easy to re plenish from tho immense agricultural sections of the stnte. About the coal mines quite a per cent, of northern and some foreign labor Is employed. A fea ture worthy at special notice is the friendly relations existing between the employer and employes. Fixed scale of wages are In vogue, and consequent ly labor troubles are rare. This local ity is peculiarly free from strikes and labor disputes, and this practical Im munity from them comes from the fact that the negro is proverbially easy to get along with, and does not hh!.- m expect the high rate of wages paid in tho north. It is very evident that much, or all, of our labor strikes in tho mining centers north would hnvn iwmn averted had our coal and iron oper- 0i0 iOi ilil ill 0iSili Ui l ii ii is fe S FOR GOOD I SHOES I 1 AND S 1 SLIPPERS f if go to si 9 a a a a s W&MM, Cor. lacka. ana Wyoming Ave. & Si Si Si Si ntors imported "negro labor," instead of tho incorrigible Hungarian, Polander and Italian of tho socialist and an archist persuasion. While the claim is sometimes made that southern labor is not as efficient as that obtained at the north, tho numerous tests so far made have re sulted satisfactorily and proved that this contention does not hold good, tor negroes have become good mechanics, such as carpenters, bricklayers, en gineers, etc., but It Is admitted in woik which requires delicacy or manipula tion and taste, ability Tor skilled work manship, ho has not shown much apti- uuie, owing to lack of training and op portunity, but in ore and coal mining, as well as in iron-making industries, he is very largely employed and fills many little, though none the less im portant, niches in the conducting of tho numerous business of this section. This fact should not be lost sight of In these troublesome times of strlkns in Pennsylvania and elsewhere. Common day labor is paid ninety cents a day for ten hours, and skilled labor is proportionately low. The destiny of Birmingham is guid ed by an able set of men. The greatest single influence in the well-being of the city and most powerful factor in its material upbuilding and advancement is the aggregation of up-to-date huM ness men, known as the "Commercial Club of Birmingham," a model organ ization of Its kind. Wo are indebted to J. B. Cilbson, its secretary, and to (Jeneral H. X. Rhodes, member of the board of directors, who is also proprie tor of the ISIrminnhuin News, for val uable memoranda, and polite attention. Among tho two other dallies and tho fifteen weekly and monthly papers published in Birmingham theio Is only one straight Republican, the Birming ham Times, and It has established a good business. The News is Alabama's leading dally. It owns and occupies the most commodious building, it Is the largest sheet, and prints more news, local and telegraphic. It owns the Associated Press franchise and receives tho full day report, amounting to 1!, 000 lo 20,000 words, over a special wire rltnnltur Into tttj Pilitnrtn I rnmna ntiil has connections with local and long distant telephone companies through out tho count rv. It carries innrn nil. vertlsements for homo and foreign pat rons, It employs more people, and spends more money, and has tho larg est circulation of any dally newspaper in Aiaiiama. with its $(),ooo three decker press, It prints 21,000 complete newspapers per hour, IJIiCAPlTlILATION. Few northern people fully realize the resources of this great "boom city," and mineral district. It's inexhaustible, uiituinl resources are not more mar velous than tho development of the same, L,esH than twenty-live years ago the first coal mine was opened. In 1S7S, lires were lighted In t' (list fur nace. Thin- ale now in i a district 123 mat mines, with a capacity of 20, 000 tons per day, fi00 coke ovens, with a capacity of C,000 tons coko output per day, 2 furnaces with a capacity of 4.T.00 tons per day, two steel mills with a capacity near 1,200 tons per day, a wlro lod and null mill, with a capacity of M0 tons per day; also 30 foundries and machine shops, 3 rolling mills, 3 structural works and 12 brick works, besides 50 more small manufacturing concerns, Tho output of coal for 1000 was S,7."(),000 tons; coke, over 2,000,000 tons; lion oio, 3,000,000 tons; pig Iron, i,:iir.,0(nj tops. In tho vicinity of Birmingham dur ing tho last twelve mouths plants havo been completed, old ones enlarged nnrt extended, new enterprises begun and improvements made amounting to $7, 023,000, Nuw companies of various kinds not Included In tho nbnvo havo been orgiinUed with capital $1,053,000, nnd 1,700 now buildings have been erected, costing $2,000,000, making n grand total, $11,278,900, and throughout llio state it is not a rash claim to say fully $100,000,000 of outside capital havo become Interested In tho development of Industrial Alabama In tho last twelve months. All hail! Birmingham. J, K. Richmond. CLARK'S SUMMIT. Tlio farmcib' institute, ulilili vji htl.l i, Diq ilttlioilUt i:pK.0ul ihiinli on Sjiunlay anl Monday List, was nioic l.iritoly attfiulul tlian any of tlio imllnif uiios jt tlii (ilate. ltiiifciitJ tlvn 'rum all tlio ncjib touiu wcio irvM-nl uii'i general suotl tnuu m cnHcJ dining the m. tot (lutltutc. rEVRZSi w. If You Want Cheap Power a Motor i Scranton Illuminating:, Heat and Power Co. Board of Trade Building, Scranton, Pa. Mr, anil Mrs. Clnrli-j Miller, of IMclIu, iWtnl lilt mis in this plai'u i i-t rutty. MIsh Leonora Itortiee U trarhlni; In tlio 111,'h Mlinol in placu of her tinier, Minnie, tu Is still nnililo to attinil In her ilutiea, although iho h much better. lire. M, i:. II row n his UmiciI an nttiattlic holt, iliy "ail." talllnaf attrnlion tu the iorial reduc tion Kilo of holiday Kcodj ulilcli kho U conduit inir tills week, Dr. J, II. I.j mil has been in Alliens I'.i., for a fe- tlajM, atttudliii; tlio funeral uf his fcUtir, Mis. (J. V, MIiiKos. After an illi.eai of lull a little our u uetk our ruteomed nelulilior, Mi, M, A. Collin, tmcuuiliij to an attack of )iiieiiiiiuiil i, nauliu; auay on Thurmliy evening. The new o( lil.s ilutli is re ceiled unions his atiui.ilittanerii u'illi tiriiiiis of deep K.IT0W, llu was a nun of the Mmksl deposition ami film libelous com let ions. Uv.mi.s icady to faior lhoo In trouhlo or udiciilty i any kind, he iilll ho leineuihereil ivllli Kieat to t'peit 1'' the injuy in iiho.-c lieu It. lem.ilu tlii'-c neU U3 moiiiiuifuU to Ills memory, 1'uneial ar raiixiiuciiU liuio not I ten completed. The pupils of the Mull Mliool are preparing tu kIic uu enteitalmueiit on Friday etenlutf il next week. A drama is tho draitiuj; number on the procraiume, the inM of uhith fueludea the best talent III tlio higher Kiades. ('rofeor 'linker Is ably iecondlntr the elRrt and a tuucful pitv dilation Is assured. One of' the muat welcome. iLsitura to our tonu KfMe Every Womar ?isr r5J .. v .- . . - irauiucu.j ,k aur uibvliat tat II. Mi. oiiniioi kiipply llio IAItl KI.. iiofi i.t mi titer. Iml 6fiul Mnm for 11 llrnle.1 bnukkialrJ.lt L'lira I imtll"iilnruii'l . Infill. m-i n. ' iiMii.cn,, Room CSO, Times lids., Kcw Vcrk. In intereslLil mill vhoulil know liliuutllienotulerf MARVEL Whirling Snr llionew liylualHrlufr. Jiij tltH itliii .1'ii7i.)ii. iwtt i est .stout I'onreiuei iirtuitt lotiiii Is .Mr. i. I,, (iaiduei, of ratloijlllo, who ran aws Hits iliinlty In the iuleiotts of tho tor. ri'fpun. lento SthiHils ;Un ibouh be toiiiea lo liui'y In hi. ranit'lly as iolii-iir, Ills .njieeabbs in inner makes him limt a filtud and then i l.u.l. niKS uwocUtp, and the tiiie ic kteps rllit in ilolnc husiiieM is proof of his cnviollo mil io Kii'."Uo ipialltie-,. Ono of the uhle.t pipeis at the f.inuerV hull lute lias the ca) on "How to Hun a rami," ,iy Mis. liato lUuley, of Cliliulillla. The miiiaue. inent loiifiiinl Monk, of tjiulal iviiiinriiililloii upon Mrs. Ilanley' prodiuiiuii, mid Imllialtd Ihtlr deolie for a copy, that It might lie ptintd in the reiKiit of the .late board of aurlcultua. m SMITH PREMIER TYPEWRITER Occupies an Imperishable Posilion in the BUSINESS WORLD.' Unquestionable Superior Merit Annually odds thousands of names to Ihe long list of Smith Premier users, representing every line of trade and every profession .. ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE FKEC, r The, Smith Premier Typewriter Co., NO. 23 S. Eighth St., Philadelphia, Pa. Boranton Branch Onlce, No. 1 and 3, Aiciulo Duildinfj. v1(VflMBulPJB Jiijr Cupnuleii nr- ,Y -,., .,BuiFlt.i iiiyiunrciiouirinuiT i I lUICtllfllll IUII mr .'. r pror.u.hTNttLD2 r sT.ti IK J AwerIe4.Cralff tocarUob ntit I JT JmL !HtM.(rrnbrtM'4lOi(4)SifMfl4 fH -Sw uifipni. I a. uoi utrum opt IK J AwerIe4.Cralff tocarUob m T &EL IlMi.ifrtliM4lH)4M)Bft IrvrKStHo1'! I'oUoa. Attou UbllU, Imi tL-NLMN TtrlrufrU ft SIrlrUm ( futlUjl, I IiuritTsTrHaWit Or.Hd ttw Nr TrllHl ttrtMM.il IUI dtin lAlakli MBlUa pm ft .- JU.., juijJMdlfcc-maurf-. . V.; .jji... . .vt.aukt.
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