The age-herald., 1898-08-06
NEW INDUSTRIES KNOCKING AT DOOR Agent Miller Reports to the Commercial
 Club. TALK OF A NEW PIPE WORKS Hell-KnOWn Firm Getting Information AS
 to Tax Exemptions. COMMITTEE WILL WORK FOR THIS President Conner Reports That the Cot ton Mill Is About Completed and Part of the Machinery Is
 in Operation.
COMMITTEE WILL WORK FOR THIs

l E. B. Miller. the newly elected agent of 1 the Commercial club, is a hustler, if his
 first report made at the regular monthly | meeting of the club held yesterday after | noon is guage.
 The report showed that he had not been | idle since assuming the duties of his office.
 Through his efforts negotiations have been l opened with several small, but substantial
 manufacturing industries towards locating 1 in Birming gham, with every assurance of | success.
 | The meeting of the board of directors
 was called to order at 3:3O o'clock and rou- l tine business transacted. | B. F. Fitzpatrick and Henry B. Gray | were elected to membership. The appica-
 tion of John Jager the well known con l tractor, was before the club, but on ac-
 count of the death of that gentleman early
 yesterday morning his application was not acted upon.
 | The resignation of Leon emper. who will
 shortly remove to Baltimore, and of John | P. Tillman were read and accepted. President Steiner reported that the | tail trades committee was at work on the 1 colored fair, but up to the present time
  l ton.
 Red Mountain Boulevard Major F. Y. Anderson reported that the committee on the Red mountain boulevard | had at it's own expense had a survey of | the proposed route made and was waiting l for fair weather to take the board of coun- | ty commissioners out to see it. He stated | that if the weather permitted that the trip would be made early next week. The committee commercial agent re- ported that E. B. Miller had been engaged | as commercial agent a proposition sub
 mitted by himself and that he was pres ent in person and would report to the l meeting.
 There being no further business the board l adjourned.
 Regular Club Meeting At o'clock the club was called to order l by President Steiner with Acting Sacre- l tary Grace at the desk l President Steiner, in rendering his reg 1 ular monthly report, stated that he had 1 written Dr. W. B. Phillips the newly l elected secretary of the club, who was alb. l sent at Omaha, to return at once and as- l sume the duties of his office. He also | stated that the club had inaugurated a l system of writing to every concern which l It was thought could be induced to come 1 to Birmingham, and that letter had been | addressed to the Aherns & Otto Manufac- turing company, of Louisville, which re- | gently bought the plant of the Birmingham | Pipe Works, and that a reply had been 1 received, asking as to exemption from mu- nicipal taxation. The gentlemen further stated that they were undecided, but that | it was possible they might erect entire ly new plant on much larger scale than l the old pipe works if conditions were fla vorable. They also stated that they would not ask the citizens of Birmingham to subscribe any stock in their plant, as they l had ample capital to conduct their busi- ness.
 President Steiner stated that the legis- l lative committee should take the matter l up at once and see what could be done in ] that direction. He called attention to the l fact that Louisville and other cities had | recently passed ordinances exemp;ing new | industries from taxation for period of | years and thought that Birmingham l should do the same. He also suggested | that the legislative committee take up the | question of having the telegraph and tee phone companies placed under state commission similar to the railroad com mission.
 Another important suggestion to the leg islative committee was to work in the in- terest of securing a state depository in Birmingham. President Steiner called at- tention to the fact that at present large sum of money was in the state treasury, which was being guarded. He said that | he had seen the same bag of money which had been sent to the state treasury from | this city returned unopened, on which ex- press charges had been paid both ways | He urged the committee to bring these
 matters before the next legislature. | Commercial Agent Miller Under the head of miscellaneous busi- | ness MT. Miller, the commercial agent, was | introduced to the club and rendered verbal report He stated that, repre- | sentative of the Tuscaloosa Commercial | club, he had been in correspondence with | several manufacturing concerns but that | Tuscaloosa had been unable to entertain l any proposition, and he therefore thought | that Birmingham might be interested. He l reported the propositions of several con cerns who desired to come to Birmingham and said that he was negotiating with others but was not ready to report on them.
 MT. Miliers report was listened to with
 marked attention, and on motion of Mr.
 Gibson, the several propositions were re-
 ferred to the manufacturing committee to l take further action.
 l On motion of Major Anderson the sec
 retary was instructed to deliver to the LadieS' Helping Hand society the old I magazines and periodicals belonging to the club for distribution among the charitable l institutions and prisons. l President B. B. Conner, of the Avondale mills, was present and was called upon to