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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
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Lackawann
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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-
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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.
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Scranton
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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
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In intereslLil mill vhoulil know
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ri'fpun. lento SthiHils ;Un ibouh be toiiiea lo
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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.
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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 ..
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