The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-05
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run no risks in business"
expect law, losses annoyance, and af-
Fiction; thy affairs will all go wrong, and
thou wilt have sad year in every way"
"A child born on this day will be very
rash and unfortunate in all it undertakes;
it should keep in employ
Bake bread; brew not strong drink"
Astrologer Raphael's prophecies for
Thursday, September ., 1900:
ASK fayors of women, travel, and seek
work"
Success will attend thy endeavors and
thy business and money will increase"
"A child born on this day will be quick
and bitter of temper, but fortunate in its
business affairs
This day is good for hiring menser-
wants"
I'VE receive from various states numer-
Gus letters of inquiry respecting our county
roads, said Colonel j. F. B. Jackson, Su-
perintendent of Roads for Jefferson Coun-
ty. within the past few days such letters
have been received from Texas, Arkansas
and other states distant from Alabama.
In most instances. the writer's county
officials who wish to know methods of
bodybuilding, the cost by mile, availabili-
ty of material, and so on; thereby showing
that the fame of our public roads has gone
far throughout the country.
I'VE are now mending the roads already
built and not attempting to build addi-
tional new roads, because there is no
money available for new work. Road
building will be resumed in November,
when we shall have funds in hand. We
built twenty-five miles and half of new
road the past year.
1.-THE roads, which now extend into
nearly all sections of this big county,
even better now than ever before, and are
the best in the country. The unprecedented
rains of the early summer, which it was
feared would be disastrous to the roads,
really served good purposes. The roads
were badly washed, hard and substantial
as they were, but we have been enabled to
mend them more substantially and throw
them up so that no future rains may harm
Them
The paving of South Twentieth street
from the foot of Twentieth street Hill to
the base of Red Mountain, a distance of
two-thirds of mile, has been at last COM
pleted. The material is vitrifed brick; and
thus, from Eighth avenue to Fifteenth
there is one of the cleanest, best paved
and handsomest streets in the states of the
South.
Now IL Highland avnue be paved from
Twentieth street to Buena Vista, and the
avenue be graded and macadamzed from
Buena Vista to Lakeview through the Biz
mingham Realty Companys splendid do
main, there will be given an impetus to
Apo
powerful influence for good on every block
within the limits of Birmingham.
1t is amazing that the owners of proper
ty which is for sale do not realize that the
only way to get the best prices is to build
the best roads. 1t is historic that Boss
Sheppard created Washington a city by
building paved roads through vacant prop
erty; and South Court street, Montgomery
now one of the most beautiful of all resi-
Dental streets, is a striking example near
at hand of the immense value of paving!
No man will build home in mud, with
rivers of mud leading to it, if he can pos
sibly build on the side of good road The
county road lying along the base of the
mountain on the right side of the valley
leading beyond East Lake is illustration of
the point. Along its far winding way are
innumerable homes that are attractive and
farms and gardens that are beautiful. 1t
is fact worry of consideration that JEFF
1erson County has two hundred miles of
country roads that are better than most
OF the city streets inside the county limits
and better than most o. the streets of the
average American city!
Paving brick have been placed along Sec
ond avenue between Eighteenth and Nine
teenth streets, and at the word of the CITY
engineer the work of laying the brick will
be begun. That is the worst section of
roadway in the city, and its pavement
will be a Godsend
1t is perhaps natural and perhaps true
of all progressive cities, that Birmingham
is constantly appearing to be straining ut
gnats and swallowing camels. The loud
est laundering is against strong drink and
gambling, whilst men of wide information
maintain that those vices are merely over
rated incidents connected with deeper i'm
morality. There is man in town who
spent many years in the West when it was
both far and wild and declares that
there is more real ''toughness' here than
he ever observed in any of the towns in
the West in the older days. BY this he
means that there is more crime directly
attributable to concealed weapons and
nameless concealed immoralities; and he
accounts the saloons and whatever gamb-
ling there may be as minor matters. The
deadly concealed weapon is the worst foe
to order and law. On this general line:
Il spent short time in Lexington, Ky,
the other day, and 1 saw more drunken
ness and more indications of grosser i'm
morality within an hour or two than 1
have ever observed in Birmingham" said
a citizen of distinction who is an official
of one of the principal churches of Br-
mingham "It was astonishing, revolving
Numerous men and women were reeling
and staggering around drunk, and the po-
lice paid no attention to them, thereby
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