The age-herald., 1898-10-30
BIR MINGHAM WAS COMPARED TO H. East Lake Ana.annexatQnlStS tAe Katm'
 est Yet
  THE MEETING LAST NIGHT
  Citizens Rill Cooperate With WOOdlawa and ApOndale to keep Out
THREE FRIENDS uf EXTENSION
Dn Finch Defendea the Expensieni Idea Said That They Made Fhen hiVings in Birmingham and Did Net
 Support City

By far the most Mtefesliha ef the AAAs annexation meetings which haNe heeA heM in the district Of eeeatef elrmlAshaM within the past rev weeks teek eiaee last night at East Lake About AlftyssS eAslz zens, Including four oe i've tfem AVeA0aN and Mooalawn, turned eut,, and While ue great majority Of them weFe suiesA "anti," there we're thfee adNeeales VI Greater Birmingham at the meetlhA, Whe kept the Dot boiling an the tAAA
 Justice ol the Peace A W, Nlllams WAA elected chairman of the meetlhg, aAa E \ prude, secretary, The following reselatleM which was nhaly carried, with M. ehe dissenting vote, that of DN !. h flheA, was offered by n. R. Dnls
 Be 1t Resolved,
 First, That we the eltlsehs hefe ass
 sembled, believing that We voice the
 sentiment Of the eitisenshn oi Gest
 Lake, are opposed to anneNatloM
 Second, That a eommlttee ef seven he
 appointed to eo-epefate with the elus
 zens Of the towns Of Avehdale aud
 woodlawn anu use an honorable meahs
 to prevent annexation
 The committee which Was hnally aenoihls ed in accordance with this resolution wasl n R. Dill, chalfmahl Clahtoh Mlleh John T. Shugart, l. M doodfieh, w, !, ffaweh, w. ]. Martin, w. A Williams amt bh |, H. Finch
 Diseusslon Was het
 The discussion which followed the lhtrez duction Of the resolution was het John T. shugart made a long speech, pretty el.s ter against Birmingham Whey say they win drain our property for us,N sald he, but about the only thlha they'll drain Wlll be our pockets"
 pr E NJ. Allen, Of Birmngham but who owns property In East Lakel |. F, nedew, of Avondale, John B. Kennedy, Of Woeaz lawni Clanton Miller, and n, A, bll ah made speeches strongly fav0flna the reses lutlon. They jumped on B. btelAer, because they sald he owned large share of the Birmingham bonds, and said he was at the bottom or the whole movement
 Birmingham was compared to "h=l" by one or the speakers, anu one ef hls friends now suffering the tortOres of the damned in this Internal city a MR Austiil, by name, Dives like, was shouting te Mm, the speaker, and other citizens ah the outs side to keep out of the flames, Alderman Henry Gray was quoted as opposing aAa nexation, because 1t would cost BlrmMAs ham more to give Avondale and Weealawn police and lire. protection than the city would receive from the taxes ef these twa places.
 "1f 1t Is an assured think that We are ta be annexed" said another speaker, then we should incorporate Mast Lake at once, issue ali the bonds we can ana make our own Improvements befefe Birmingham tal pa TAatiA tha anlk xtA kkl ever get them."
 Il. R. Dill humofously said that one al the disadvantages of being annexed waa that East Lake would have 40 M the same municipality with Avondule and Woodlawn.
 A Eriend of Esteusian
 Joe II. Montgomery, Of Birmingham, whe was present. said that he didni think the suburbs should be forced n unless ,heS wanted to come, but spoke in glowing terms of the Greater Birmingham which must in a comparatively short while hes come glorious reality
 On the other side, Dh !, II, Finch anu ', W. Hale, of East Lake, and Jack Graves, of Woodawh, showed plainly that they favored annexation. They said that this sentiment among the citizens of the sua burbs was much stronger than meat of them supposed, They charged that the 'antl" movements In W0odlawn and Avonz dale were being run by the mayors of those two cities, and that they were not repres sentative, pr Finch wanted Co know why John Kennedy and others had asked Chairman Montgomery, Of the city aemez cratic executive committee Go be allowed to appear before that body with reference to having the suburbs represented in the city primary, If lt was settled thma that 1t was to be Greater Birmingham, tie strongly lntimated that Kennedy and hts crowd were simply making way Co get into the "band-wasone Of Greater Blrming- ham.
 "i have never heard such trade ef abuse," said pr, Finch, "aeaihst q city which supports every one of us, l dent see man in the hail who doean't make his living in Birmingham The only thing In the shape of school which We have out here is a lot Of desks but nothing to run the school with, We have no impreyes ments and no prospect of getting any, l want to go on record as being emphatieal- ly in favor of Greater Birmingham, tViA- orous applause from Hale and afaVes,l
 The East Lake meeting was the spieiest yet.