Birmingham age-herald., 1895-05-09
HUNTSVILLE.
Gadsden May Get the Female College-An
 Illustration of Industrial Success.

Gadsden May Get the Female College-An
 Illustration of Industrial Success.
 Huntsville, May 7.-(Special Core spondence.) .)-It seems to be about settled that the Huntsville Female college will not be rebuilt, at least not by it's late president and the owner of the buildings that were burned some months ago, Rev. A. B. Jones. He has had number or fine offers made to him by several points to come to them, and it now looks like Gadsden, Ala, will be the fortunate place to get him and his school, which he will reorganize and build up at the place he selects A prominent and lead ing citizen of Gadsden has been Tn thls city several days in conference with pr. Jones' and the latter said this afternoon to your correspondent that the contract would, in all probability, be signed today that will take him and his school to Gadsden. Should this be the result, it
 will not be very long before great te-
 male college will be built here, as this
 city now is one of the most superior To- cations in all the south for such school, and parties are now looking at the sub-
 ject in that light. Among them is the
 Episcopal church denomination, and
 that church will most likely be the one
 to take advantage of the rare opportu- nifty.
 Showing what the south can do in the line of new industries, the West Hunts
 vile Furniture Factory company of this
 city is one of the most notable examples that has recently deserved the attention
 of the public at large. Started less than
 one year ago, it has been compelled to
 double it's capacity and duplicate its first
 large building. It now has orders for it's
 output for several weeks in advance. It
 employs already 100 men and it's inn
 mense machinery saw up car of lumber
 each day. Car loads of furniture have
 been sold and are being prepared for
 shipment to the leading cities of the
 south, embracing among them Richmond, Va, Charleston. s. C., Augusta, Ga, Mo- bile, Ala, Tampa, Fla, Atlanta, Ga,
 Little Rock, Ark. and other places. The
 great firm of Rhodes, Shook & Haverty, with headquarters at Atlanta, Ga, and
 branch houses in eight Of the leading cit ies of the south, has purchased carloads for each of its houses Two carloads
 were shipped to this firm at Atlanta q few days ago and a telegram came today for another carloaad. One of the largest | cars ever seen at this depot will be sent out tomorrow with banners. The West Huntsville Furniture company was re- organized in March last, it's capital doubled and Capt. James A. Ward placed | in control It is now one of the best plants in the United States, and stands out living, thriving and prosperous ex- ample of what the south can do, and is
 destined to do, in the new line of manu- featuring which is destined to be, in the | near future, as great and prosperous a | source of wealth production as the south was in agriculture in it's palmy days of | the long ago past.
 The fact has been demonstrated that manufacturing in the south is as great, | if not greater, success as in the east or l north, and the next five years will Wit l ness a wonderful revolution along these | lines, and the revolution to be seen Will | be as great a surprise to many Of our own people as it will be to the outside | world. to many of whom the south is rising up as a new vision and new world of great activity.