Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-29
some grace of effect So they don't cut a garment according to the cloth, but

a garment according to the cloth, but wrap according to the stuff.
 Among the stockholders and directors of the company are such well-known Coolidge, president, who was minister to France under Harrison's administra- tion; George P. Gardner. William Mars ton, Arthur T. Lyman, J. Howard Nich- ols of Boston. and Amory Lawrence. head of the Lawrence company of BoS- ton. the largest dry goods commission house in the country. Mynot, Hooper & Co.,. in Boston. Philadelphia and New York, are the Dwight's selling agents.
 In Alabama their superintendent, or agent, as they say in old England and New England Mir. H. Gardner Nichols, is a young man apparently not much over 25 years of age. Having had the best educational advantages, being grad uated from Harvard university, and hav- ing been brought up, as it were, in the cotton mill business, with an inherent yankee wit and shrewdness, he seems ad mirably fit for his responsibility, great though it be. He has a most pleasing ad dress keeps a cool head. with answering devotion to business duty and it is it. self an inspiration to see the enthusiasm with winch he takes hold of every detail of the business. watched him with iu terest In little amicable contention with building contractor about small mat ter and saw him turn the latter down on the reading of the contract. You may say" said MT. Nichols, turning my way when the little controversy was ended, that our contractors are J. M. Stewart & Co.,, of St. Louis, and they are six months behind with us. The next time we want contractors we'll get them nearer home"
 I took walk up one of the streets of the new town over whose future MT. Nichols is having no end of pleasant speculation. He declares 1t shall be model village, with no concealed weap- ons, no saloons, concealed or unconceal- ed, that there will be ample public schools, a public library and reading room and handsome union church, in which all denominations may have an opportunity for worship. There are 150 cottages building and completed. A pleasing and striking feature of them will be the absence of sameness or mo- notony that is often characteristic or the homes of operatives about cotton fac tories. The houses of Dwight, as the town is to be called, will be of architec- ture and painting so varied that no two of them will be alike. The dwelling houses will be single cottages and have from three to six rooms. They are very neat houses, look roomy and even styl- ish. on lots 75x180 feet. The streets are 60 feet wide and we'll shaded, and 20-foot alleys add to public convenience. The town will start off with a population of I as operations begin. about 800 hands. For the good of the town they will be of the very best class of working people, and, as MT. Nichols, laughingly added, must bring their characters with them. The houses will be all ready for occupa- ton before many days. The location is as healthy and wholesome as it is grate- full to the eye, being naturally drained. Excellent water Is obtained from pure, bold mountain stream, Black creek, whose famous and beautiful falls are but a few minutes walk from the mill. The mill will be well protected against fire. A 1000, ,000- gallon reservoir supplied by an 8-inch main from Black creek 5000 feet away, and automatic fire sprinklerS in the big building that will drench it from top to bottom, are some Of the features. In so admirable a town and manufactur- ing plant electricity of course supplies the light and 8, great deal of the power. The mill will be amply provided with stock and warehouses.
 Dwight is bound to be famous south ern town. As soon as it's 30,000 spindles. each capable of 10000 revolutions min ute, and it's 800 looms, with 190 beats minute, get to moving alright and MT. Nichols most approved yankee notions are made manifest with the sweet infiu- ence of his happy southern environ ments, Dwight is bound to come to the front and be an exemplar of urban thrift and comeliness.
 MT. Nichols is a bachelor, handsome enough and trim enough of figure to lead a german or a football sprnting chase. and with remarkably winning expres- sion for a republican, which he avows is his politics as though it were something to be proud of! Yet he is spending his second winter in this democratic coun- try and says he is delighted. He is keeping bach in very pretty cottage not more pretentious than his neighbors, but which just now evinces in chickens. cats, dogs and vegetation an interest Tn animated nature that is most gratifying evidence of man and brother.
 - R. H. W.