The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-11
GADODEN PLANT
 STARTS UP AGAIN
WORK RESUMED IN FOUNDRY DE- APARTMENT OF CAR COMPANY. COAL MINING IS ON A BOOM. OTHER NEWS.

Gadsden. September 10.-(special)-rhe local plant of the Southern Car and Foundry company resumed operations Monday morning in the foundry depart ment after an enforced idleness of some six weeks, caused by throwing all the plants of the company into bankruptcy. The sheriff of this county received an order Sunday night from the court of Judge Jones commanding him to release all the property of the company in this city and same was turned over to Harry Montgomery. local manager here, and the plant was started up Monday moraing with a good force of men on the order of castings for the Louisville and Nashville road. A casting was made the same afternoon. Tuesday afternoon MT Mont gomery paid off all the men who were due wages when the plant was closed down under attachments, and a large amount of cash was distributed.
 The receivers for the Southern Car and Foundry company have closed contract with the Queen and Crescent system for repairs on six hundred freight cars and the entire order will be filled by the Gadsden plant. Every department of the Gadsden plant will be opened at once and
 
 ployment as fast as they can be secured. Already several of the cars on this order have reached the shops.
 The center of the coal mining in this county Is very likely to be in the Bristow Cove section where the veins run from three feet and nine inches to over four feet of thickness. Ven Zandt Baugh, Henderson, Knox and Boyd all have splendid coal lands and they are all min them uutt rra.. coal mines at Sligo will be ready to ship coal this week, as the mines are being worked and the tipple Is ready for load ing. Never before has this section seen such activity as Is now being exDerienced New mines are being opened on every side and fortunately for the promoters alI are finding good seams and have plenty of orders
 For the first time in the history If the city Gadsden has absolutely free schools. The fall session opened Monday with the largest attendance ever known and the two large school rooms for the use of the white children are crowded almost to suffocation. The whites enrolled $40 and the negroes 3S0.
 Chief White and his officers raided one of the dance halls on Broad street Monday night and arrested twenty-one of the de- voices of a dance that is said to be worse than the hoochee-cochee. John Stull col ored, Is the head of the dancing hall It Is said to be one of the worst eyer raided in this city. They all plead guilty before Mayor Campbell and were fined s5 aach The hall was closed and the license re- yoked. Stull was absent from the city at the time of the raid but nc will be arrested when he returns Chief White has issued an edict that all negro dance halls and boarding houses on Broad street and in the business section, mus. be closed All dives of every class are to be suppressed at once.
 The Attalla Mirror has been sold by J. l.. Meel1s to George B. Holder. The latter retires from the newspaper field of Attalla with no regrets, as the business men do not and will not support a first class paper MT. Holder is an old news paper man and 1t is to be hoped that the people will give him loyal support
 w. II. Barnes, one of the leading busi- ness men of this city has made the state ment that he has decided to build four story hotel on the corner of Chestnut snd Third streets MT. Barnes ownes the lot on the southwest corner The site is near the heart of the city. .Mr Ba1nes IS now working on the plans and the building will be modern in every respect
 Watson Whit age fourteen, an orphan was cut and seriously hurt by Newt Stewart, at Mountainsboro. Stewart ia 19 years old and from what can be learn ed was the aggressor.
 It Is very probable that Gadsden will have another incorporated suburb Tho particular section, which, it is proposed. to take in lies Just outside of :he city on Tuscaloosa road and up to the foot of the mountain. When the last scnool census was taken it developed that sev- eral hundred people were Just on the out side Recently many working people have purchased lots and have built homes n the neighborhood. They desire protec- ton either from Gadsden or a coruoration of their own. There are nc least one hundred and fifty tax payers in the 1is- trict.
 John Beard was arrested last night on warrent charging him with grand lar ceny. It Is alleged that he took s25 from John Kirby while the latter was intoxi- cated. The two men came from Lees burg several days ago.
 The officers of this city have been -. quested to look for Henry Stokely who is alleged to have stolen about forty dollars from a boss carpenter in Attala Tues day. He was given work on some build . ing in Attala and stole the money fl pm his employer.