The age-herald., 1901-09-01

is ever found active in the improvement and advancement of the city's interests. In the discharge of duties assigned him he is making a most enviable record and has already proven himself to be one of the best mayors Anniston has ever had.
 Board of Aldermen. The Anniston Board of Aldermen are all well known and successful business men having the best interests of the city at heart. The council members are as follows:
 w. H. McKleroy.
 R. Stickney.
 Geo. F. Wilson.
 Geo. W. Jones'
 L. B. Ritch.
 c. E. w. Robertson.
 | R. E. Garner.
 | L. M. Kapan.
 | D. c. Cooper.
 Thos Walsencroft
 City Officials. | Anniston has a very competent set of officials under the Mayor and Board of Alderman The list is as follows:. City Clerk-W. o. Ward. City Collector-Charles L. Quinn. | City Treasurer-P. B. Brown. | City Attorney-F. l.. Blackmon.
 Police Department.
 There is no city in the South in which | they law Is upheld better than in An | niston and there Is no better police organ | ization or one more thorough and effective | in its workings.
 Fire Department. Anniston has well organized fire de- pertinent, at the head of which is Frank | D. Brown. Fire losses for years have 1 been greatly below the average for cities 1 of this size Owing to high water pressure, available at all times, no engines are | necessary.
 City Hall Building. The city hall, built at an expense of | S20, 900, is one of the handsomest and best | arranged city halls in the State Here are located the offices of the various city offl- cials, the recorders court, the city council | chamber and city prison, also the head | quarters of the police and fire depart nlent.@
 | Every branch of the city government is l admirably arranged. The city's finances are faithfully looked after by the city treasurer. MT. P. B. Brown The taxes | of the city are collected promptly and | thoroughly by Tax Collector c. [. Quinn. Anniston's Schools. No city in the South has done more to- ward the education of the youth in pro- portion to it's size and wealth than has Anniston. It has always been the pride | of Annston to point to he~ educational | equipments, and the character of the 1 work along these lines has been so thor | ough in the past ss to leave no room for | doubt as to the future. The public schools l have taken prominent rank among similar | institutions in the South, apd much cred | it is due Prof F. R. Murphy the efficient superintendent of :he ciLy schools, for the l high standing attaa1ed. A Visitors Impressions.
 The following letter, written by a dis l tinguished Northerner. and conveying his | impressions of Anniston as d result Of his visit here will be read with interest:
 R. R. Cobb, Anniston, Ala My Dear Sir:--I writo you few lines | on my arrival home to thank you and through you the many friends who con- | tributed in making my stay among you so l pleasant
 In doing so I cannot refrain from ex- | pressing to you the feelings Of wonder and surprise that possessed me ol, my intro | duction to your beautiful city. | In looking over the maps Of the South I failed to find the name of Auniston 1 given by any geographer of comparatively recent date, and it was only upo;: the later and more recent maps that found the name of your young city at all. l was therefore expecting outJ to see a small town or, perhaps, an ambitious | village, but was not prepared to be set down in a real city. compactly built and
 equipped with all the comforts and con-
 veniences of a modern town.
 It was in the early evening that I aIighted from the western train at one of your central stations and was thence rapidly conveyed along past the rxten- siye works of the Rolling Stock Company | down by a number of your brilliantly lighted business houses to the delightful
 modern hotel quaintly named ''The fnn.'' | I shall never forget my first view of TOUT ha n
 niston Inn. The sun had just set behind
 the Western hills, the darkness succeed
 ing twilight had stolen across the Eastern
 sky; the shadows of the pale Western light were deepening fast into shades of night; the lights came twinkling out over the town at my feet, and a sudden glare
 of electric lights flashed out upon the | scecne like meteors bound to the darkest
 sky: the lurid glare of your iron furnaes
 against the dark background of hill and cloud recalled old Vulcan's forge and the
 Cyclops' cave to the ear came the steady
 tread of human feet the rolling sound or
 rapid wheels. the numbering motion of
 the moving car. while from the interior or
 those great lighted caverns came the
 heavy plunge and sound of continued
 motion of the great engines which pro-
 pelled the machinery of those industries
 before me
 Nature and art seem to have rfva1led
 each other in making this one of the most
 delightful views I have ever seen. Ma
 ture has done much for your town, and
 the busy hand of man is doing more.
 You have nof greater number of manu-
 factories than many towns wit us of
 several times your size. I was quite
 amazed at the amount and number of
 your industries and the product of your
 manufactories in comparison with the
 commercial importance and population of
 your town. Most towns have outgrown
 their industries-you have not yet over
 taken yours. Your growth ought to be
 permanent and rapid. You are favorably
 situated both as to climate and location
 You are nearly midway between the more
 important towns of Atlanta and Birming-
 ham on the east and west. and Nashville
 and Chattanooga and Selma and Mont
 comedy on the north and south. Your climate Is one that attracts the
 invalid and aged as well as him who
 would prolong his years of strength or
 grace of youth, Your summer Is not too
 hot nor your winter too cold. The me-
 chanic counts upon no vacation occasion
 ed by season or climate. The farmer
 recons upon the season as one of per lpetual spring. Your industries are favor