The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-21
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the city with view elf making
his home here. The historical data
Is in tile form cf clipping
erom the "Keowee Courier published ait
WahaHa, S. c., under date olf June p, 1872,
and is especially interesting in comparison
with the present magnifcent growth of the
city. the clipping is yellow With age, and
was shown to a parity of gentlemen yester-
day by the owner. who says that when he
becomes fun-fedged Blrminghanlj.e ne is
going to r.ave 1t framed and hung in his
private Office. Tie clipping is as follows:
THE Fastest Town Yet-Atlanta Beaten
The following description Is given of the
new town of Birmingham, that has recent
ly sprung up on the Alabama and Chatta-
nooga railroad, in the northeastern part of
Alabama:
"a little more than seven months ago the
site of Birmingham was a cotton field.
There was not hut upon the place. When
the founder, the indefatigable and enter
prising Colonel Powell Qhe present duke),
with his surveyor, Mr.. Parker, and his
clerk, Mr.. Miner, landed at Birmingham
to lay off the streets, they were compelled
to go into camps. On the sth of August,
1871, the foundation for the first house was
laid and on the Goth of August it was ready
for use. On the 10Th of December thereaf-
ter the city was incorporated by the Ala
bama legislature duplication having been
made only three weeks before), and may
or and city council were Immediately elect
ed Colonel r. h Henley, talented young
lawyer and the editor of the Sun, has the
honor of being the first mayor of this
promising young city.
There are now over three hundred build
ings, eight framed store houses, twenty
brick stores and houses, two and three
stories high, and forty brick stores under
contract, and to Zoe built this summer.
There are also two planning mills, and SASH
and blind factories (being builb, one foun-
dry and machine shop, two hotels, five res
taurants, ten boarding houses, one Episco-
pal church, eight brick yards, two lime
ltilns, three stone quarries, two butcher
pens, two market gardens, six physicians,
six lawyers, two. newspapers, two Joo PRINT
ing offices, one livery stable, three black
smith and wabon shops, two paint stores,
two news depots, five bar and billiard sa-
looms, two hardware stores, two furniture
stores, and last, but by no means least, a
perfect M6hammeds paradise of lovely wo-
men,"
There fitted through THIS town yesterday
Thomas P. Grasty of the Baltimore Manu-
facturers Record, the best-knewn and most
influential OF all The writers upon southern
industrial subjects. Mr.. Grasty had with
aim -four dogs and three guns and was
bound fer western Alabama to do harm to
to 7 fx-ip tim
Sumter county, and doubtless he Will fail in
with Judge Sprost, Mr.. Seymour, the Nc
Mil1ans, Judge Smith, and others will
show him the brown fields. When Mr..
Grasty has enjoyed his cherished sport in
Sumter, he must go and make stay in
Greene At Eutaw ne will find the great
est hunting and fishing club in Alabama,
and find t1ereabouts such genial spirits as
Judge Roberts, DR.. l. d. Morgan, Hon. ].
p. Mcqueen, Judge Mobiey, Bernard Har-
wood champion representatives of the great
Nimrod, who are in a better position to give
Mr.. Grasty real sport ti-an are any c'tner
men in this state. Mr.. Gastry is after the
birds; but If ne will call upon DR.. Morgan,
Judge Roberts or Judge Mobley at Eutaw,
they can show llim the most richly stocked
deer forest in the south, and will permit
him to shoot at one Cur kwo. Mr.. Grasty re-
fused to be interviewed. Il have finished
up all the work l had in hand, got my
money, and am going to shoot birds till the
money gives out" he said, laughingly. II
am out for sport now and so saying, fit
ted ito sne fields cf Sumter. His sport Will
not be perfect until Gle shoots with DR..
Morgan, Judge Roberts. Judge Mobley and
MIR. Mcqueen.
State Senator w. J. Boykin, of Russell
county, who came within comparatively
few votes of being nominated for the office
of encouragement of the state in 1898, is
in Birmingham Senator Boykin has re-
moved from Russell to Etowah, and whilst
he retains a law partnership at Scale his
legal residence will be Gadsden henceforth.
Southeastern Alabama loses valued citi-
zen in Senator Boykin. Gadsden gains a
good man. For many months Senator Boy
kin has endured in a Montgomery hospital
a terrible physical affiietion. He is come
back now to e. fair measure of strength, and
is self-reliant and hopeful. There was no
man of all them that knew him that did
not tenderly sympathize with him in his af-
Fiction. There is none this side of the
Silurian line that will not give cordial well
come to Senator Boykin. He will do well
In Gadsden. They will receive him there
gladly He will be worthy and bright as
sociate of the men who have builded one
of the most beautiful towns in one of the
fairest valleys of our beautiful northland
of Alabama.
Clark Earl, an actor in material circum-
st ances not favorable to his own comfort,
is a patient at the Hillman hospital. 1t is
not understood by him or them that are
looking to his comfort at the moment that
he can enjoy the comforts or the ministra-
tions of the hospital without cost to HIM
self and he is destitute. st. Yincent's hos
pital is frightfully overcrowded. 1t could
not yesterday receive the patient. 1t was
pointed out in The Age-Herald several days
ago that the Sisters of Charity at st. Vim
cents were hard-pressed for space for suf-
ferers they longed to relieve. The story
came last night that every cot in the large
building the DeBardeleben mansion, was