The age-herald., 1900-05-01
A BRIGHT ALBANIAN
 AND HIS ENTERPRISES

AlNA llS GlN LIN A\A0AO Among the brainy Alabamians who have
 gone to the front in Atlanta MT. Charles
 J. Haden deserves more than a passing
 mention.
 Haden Is a lawyer with a fine practice but he Is also a promoter, an exploiter and a developer. He has numerous wealthy clients who follow his advice in their
 southern investments, and know of very few men in this section whose acquaint- ance and influence in the south equal his. This successful young lawyer and man of affairs is a native of Marshall county, Ala bama. He spent most of his boyhood in Madison county, served an apprenticeship on the Gadsden Times, and was for sev- eral months on the editorial staff of the
 Birmingham Age before 1t was consoli-
 dated with the Herald. MT. Haden and his clients are now pre- pairing to give Alabama an extensive sys- tenn of long distance telephone lines, heavy construction, furnishing full service with all the world, connecting with the South ern Bell company at Birmingham, and running along the Birmingham Mineral railroad into the counties of Blount, Gull | man, Etowah and Marshall. Mr. Haden and his friends will be associated with in- fuential people all along the line. They will place phones at almost every village and nearly every store and post office, from which conversation may be held with far-off Duluth and Boston. It is the intention of these gentlemen to construct an extensive system stretching from southwest Georgia through southeast Alabama, connecting with Montgomery, Ala, and Thomasville, Ga. This last-named line, when completed will probably be the most extensive in the United States, with the exception of the great systems centered in the east, of | which the Southern Bell is one. In the course of two or three years it is probable that MT. Haden will be interested in more telephone lines than any other man in the country except the great eastern companies just mentioned These lines will give the cotton news di- | rect from New York and New Orleans every thirty minutes, and exchange traffic I with the telegraph and cable companies, so
 
 | touched by these telephone lines can re- | ceive or send telegrams to any part of the | United States touched by the Western | Union telegraph service and the ocean l cables
 1 All the points touched by these telephone | lines become, under the traffic contract with the Western Union Telegraph com- pany listed as telegraph stations in its | directories.
 | It will have the effect of bringing remote places in close touch with every part of this wire-covered globe. | Haden is also attorney for a syndicate of enterprising capitalists, who are taking preliminary steps to build the Atlanta, | Stone Mountain and Dahlonega railroad. They have applied for charter and the road will be known as the Gold and l Granite Line"
 This name Is very appropriate, well as catchy, for the road will reach the rich 1 est gold fields and granite quarries in | Georgia.
 Did you ever hear of business mem- | ory?
 This young Alabamian has it. Read a l long price list once in his presence and
 he will remember the price of each item. l When he was a clerk in insurance 1 office, he was able to repeat from memory
 the names of 6,0OO policy holders and their l postoffice addresses.
 A self-educated, self-made man. he is a
 polished writer and an eloquent, magnetic | talker.
 | It is an encouraging sign to see a lawyer | who is willing to turn aside from his pro- fession to aid in the development of our
 business and industrial interests. In the l old days when our lawyers closed their of- | fees, 1t was to devote their attention rn I politics. but Haden is altogether differ | ent.
 l I have never heard him talk politics. i Business and material progress engage his attention most of the time and yet he has I literary turn, and is great reader. An interesting character. If he does not l collapse under the strain of overwork, he l will soon be one of the most widely known I men in the south, and he will be a po- 1 tential factor in financial and business cir l cles. WALLACE PUTNAM REED.