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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-01

five story building was found to be necessary and every foot of space in this large building is utilized.
 Perhaps there Is no business house in Alabama under better system than that of The Advertiser Company. The nature of the business is such that it must be divided into numerous depart mepts. Each of these departments Is in charge of chief who reports direct to the. General Manager.
 The business departments, those de- partmepts coming into direct contact with the public. are located on the sec- ond or ground floor. Here are the offices of the General Manager, the Cashier, the Circulation Msnager, and the Advertising Manager. Tn the rear of the second floor is the press room where the great three deck Goss per fectipg press is located.
 In the basement, or first floor is the mailing department. where a large force of men Is employed. the fur naces. the storage rooms and the file rooms.
 The third floor is occupied by the writing force. Here are the rooms of the Editor in Chief the Managing Edit or, the Associate Editor the Exchange Editor, the City Editor, the Society Ed itor, the reporters rooms, the library and room set apart for the two proof readers. Each of these editors has a room to himself provided with rolled top desks, pneumatic copy lifts, interior and exterior telephones, type writers and other conveniences.
 The typesetting department uses nearly all of the fourth floor where the seven Mergenthaler machines are located. This room is brilliantly light ed aud splendidly ventilated. In the rear and immediately over the press room is the stereOtyping department which Is provided with all of the latest appliances for making plates.
 The fifth or new story to the building is used by the engraving department, the art room, the News Editor and the telegraph office. Here all out of town news Is received by wire and edited by the Telegraph and State News Editor.
 All the front of the building is occu- pied by the engraving department. which has been pronounced the most complete in the State. Employing the most competent artists. engravers, and cartoonists in the business. this depant- ment of The Advertiser has steadily grown until 1t required nearly one whole story of the building to accom- modate 1t. In addition to the half tones and cartoons which are printed m lne paper, the department Is coh- stantly engaged in preparing commer- cial work. The facilities of The Ad- vertiser engraving department for pro- ducing picture work of all kinds has attracted the attention of the whole South and orders for half tones. draw ings, etc, reach the department daily from far away States.
 It is the aim of the management of The Advertiser to continue to improve. Advantage is taken of every new de- vice for newspaper making. A trained corps of men is constantly on the alert for all of the news and new depart ments are added as they are found to be necessary
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-01

Not only were receipts for the past year larger, but prices were higher than for any crop marketed in the last twenty years. It is safe, in fact, more than conservative to average the price for the crop at 12 cents per pound, or $60 per bale. This for crop of 17O,00O bales yielded for cotton handled here 910,420, 900.
 The increase in local receipts over preceding year was 40,779 bales
 It is estimated by some who have had much experience in the cotton bus iness that receipts here in the current year will exceed those of the past The damage done by excessive rains Is the only item to be now estimated, and If that Is not as great as now apprehend- ed, Montgomery may reach the 100000 bale mark
 So far, practically none of the new crop has been received, one bale was received from Hartford, Geneva coun- ty, the last of July. The receipts for August were 1.713, which with one or two exceptions was the smallest for that month in many years.
 Those who are interested as purchase CTS or cotton are counting on a twelve million bale crop. but where 1t is to come from is yet to be developed
 The crops of American cotton since the war have been as follows.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-01
Some Future Buildings.

On October 1st, the old Exchange Ho- tel is to be razed and handsome mod ern hotel Is to be built on that site It's erection will be. completed within a year. The First Baptist Church con- gregation is also planning to build a
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-01
The Advertiser Building showing story during just

principal thoroughfares of Montgomery and the line to Pickett Springs, four miles north of Montgomery is one of the most popular of the pleasure routes.
 The Perry Street. the High Street and the Ludie Street lines of this com pany were completed fn time for busi- ness last summer and very little build ing has been done by the company dur ing the twelve months just closed
 The Traction Company employs sev- enty-five men who are paid chree times each month
 With the improvement of the street car service of Montgomery, two heauti- full new parks were established and within the practically short period of two years. Montgomery emerged from sleepy city In the summer season to city with attractive resorts which has had an increasing tendency to keep the citizens at home during the summer months.
 Pickett Springs has been transform ed into one of the most popular resorts in middle Alabama. A cosy and mod ern summer theatre is maintained there and each night during the past two seasons first class theatrical attractions have been provided. There is also a commodious pavilion of handsome de- sign in which a splendid brass band discourses music each afternoon and evening Then there are flowers, cool walks, a bowling alley and billiard parlor, a natural lake and an excel lent spring of water, The Capital City Gun Club has its club house adjacent to the park and Athletic Park for base ball plA%ers Is near by.
 Electric Park Is the new resort on the line of the Montgomery Street Rail way. about four miles East of the city. Several hundred laborers have been at work there throughout the summer and the place will be formally opened to the public within a few days.
 An attractive feature of Electric Park is the great lake and the natural ter races. Eight handsome new buildings have been constructed and the whole place is to be brilliantly illuminated. One hundred arc lights and five thouss and incandescents have already been installed. Every device for the pleas ure seeker has been provided and next season a theatre will be buElt.
 Cnk Park owned by the city. Is in the Southeastern part of Montgomery and is adjacent to Highland Oval, where the baseball games of the Southern League are played. Oak Park is one of the prettiest natural resorts in the State. It is cared for by keeper ap- pointed by the Mayor and the place is popular, especially with visitors to the city.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-01
CAR LINES AND PARKS
THIRTY-SEVEN MILES or STREET
 RAILWAY TRACKS.
Montgomery Has Two Companies With Splendid Equipment Reaching Four Attractive Suburban Resorts.

With thirty-seven miles of tracks on which are operated ffty-six cars of modern design, Montgomery people have just reason to be proud of the street railway service provided for the Capital City.
 During the business year just closed the two street railway companies of Montgomery-The Montgomery Trac- ton Company and the Montgomery Street Railway-have expended many thousands of dollars in improving their properties and considerable other im- provements are in contemplation.
 In modern times suburban resorts have come to be as much a part of sue cessful street railway plants as the cars and tracks. There must be places for the people to go and the suburban resorts are established as q business feeder to street railway lines. Each of the Montgomery companies maintain attractive parks for white persons on their lines and during the past six months the Montgomery Street Rail- way has established picturesque park for negroes in the extreme Southwest ern part of the city.
 Within the twelve months the Mont BOmeTy street KdllNdS H"S pidctiCdiiy rebuilt It's tracks and has added a a number of new and comfortable cars. But one and a half miles of new tracks have been actually laid by this com pany. those reaching Washington Park for negroes-but the company has con- structed new switches, new turn-outs and has laid heavier steel rails almost throughout its system.
 The Montgomery street Railway which Is owned and controlled by Rich ard Tilfs has twenty five miles of tracks radiating from Court Square. It has twenty-five new cars which are operated regularly and ten additional cars for emergencies. The company employs one hundred and thirty-hve men who are paid semi-monthly.
 The Montgomery Traction Company of which Major E. E. Winters is Gen eraI Manager has twelve miles of tracks on which are operated twenty one handsome new cars. The lines of this company traverse some of the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-01

An Inspiring Story of Progress.

cotton year night according annual custom
  for the year September Ist 1903 to August 3, 1904 Special edition supplement intended eater advertising What here presented and forth such concise
  forthcoming porous Montgomery preceding Our
  preceding The value this figures  is the prestige Montgomery enjoying the leading markets of the South
 The remarkable herein forth that closed
  during people Montgomery home To this no houses Montgomery >i there Montgomery
  full share prosperity enjoyed whole South We have taken advantage of this supplemental edition especial
  tn of Montgomery here proved beyond Mongom-
  muchi for Every of Montgomery Alabama South should read these statements They inspiring
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-01
Fiction and Facts.
Philadelphia Record.

Philadelphia hecofu'
 The Republicans just know they are
 going to win, but they do wish that Root would help them get New York, They can't be beaten, but they are busy with statistics of elections trying to prove to themselves that they can win without New York. It is all over but .the shouting, says Speaker Cannon. but after all he confesses that 1t depends on the ability of the party to get it's vote out. There isn't weak spot in the Republican lines; but they arc sending their biggest speakers Into Maine and Vermont. The business men of the country wouldn't think of voting anything except the Republican ticket; but Republicans are disappoint- ed that it Is so hard to get money There aren't any doubtful States; but Lodge is so busy in Massachusetts that he cannot leave 1t long enough to make q few sp Neches elswehere.
 On the whole, the sort of condolences that the Republicans are showing is very much like that of a New England farmer who had just espoused Cniver- salism. then new development Tn re- ligion He was overheard muttering to himself: 'Yes. I believe in univers sal salvation. but I'd give i've dollars if knew 1t was true"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-01

The total for 1903-04 will not be known for several days.
 It will be noted that only twice have crops reached over II, 900, 900 bales. viz. : s7-9S and 9S99, and only three times 1900-01, l901- 1902-O3, have the fig ures gone over the ten million mark. The consumption of cotton has wonder fully increased and the supply in the next twelve months will hardly be equal to the demand It will certainly not be more than will be needed.
 The figures indicate that the last crop will be ten million one hundred and fifty thousand bales. The amount exported brought into the United States $S63. 000, 900. The whole crop. it is esti- mated by the United States Department of Agriculture. yielded $86O. .0O0. 900. in cluding the value of cotton seed. This. however does not include the cotton seed oil and cotton seed meal made from the cotton seed. which is esti- mated by Richard H. Edmonds, of The Manufacturers Record at $l25O0O co or a total value of $7S5, ,OoO 900 for this crop produced in the cotton States.
 MT. Edmonds also makes the follow ing statement: 'I estimate the amount of capital invested in the cotton mills of the world at S2, 900. 900, 900. and inc total value of the primary output of manufactured cotton goods (that is the goods as they come out of the cotton mills), at $2,o00, 900 900 or about the. same as the capital. The total value of the primary output of the worlds iron and steel trade (that is, of iron and steel as 1t comes out of the fur naceA rolling mills and rail mills. be-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-01

Within the past twelve months end- ing last night, two hundred and eigh- ty-eight dwelling houses were con- structed inside the corporate limits of Montgomery. more building than during any other one year in the history of the city.
 The record of building permits kept by the City Engineer Is remarkable in many ways. While no skyscrapers were built in Montgomery during the year just closed the value of new build- ings and the number of new houses constructed is far in excess of any pre- vious year. Indeed the most valuable house built in Montgomery during the year cost just a fraction over $22.000 and yet the total amount of money ex- pended in constructing new buildings and for repairs to buildings during the twelve months was $43S.3s1.10. This is $94, ,447.e0 in excess of 1903 when the to- tai amount expended for buildings and repairs in Montgomery was ss43.s3s.5o. As an evidence that building improve ments are growing with each year in Montgomeryy the total amount ex- pended in 1903 was a gain of $34,571.55 over 1902, during which year the expenditures for building improve ments was s3os.361.95.
 Activity in all Trades.
 Best evidence of the steady, healthy growth of Montgomery is the state- ment that two hundred and eighty eight dwelling houses were built in the city during the past year. A large proportion of these houses were of the better class. The statement means that contractors. carpenters, brick ma | sons, glaziers, filters. plumbers. and all men engaged in building pursuits were busy throughout the year. Again 1t means that lumber dealers. brick works, dealers in builders supplies and in fact, nearly every avenue of trade was benefited by thts steady. continuous activity in building. In 1908 when the total amount ot building in Montgomery represented | S348,9a3.5o the record included the handsome new Standard Club house, the Pelzer buildings on Commerce Street. the winter-Loeb building, a 1 large ice factory and numerous other structures reaching large sums. A very large proportion of the build | ings constructed in Montgomery during | the year just closed were of @ residen- tial character. True there have been factory buildings outside of the corpo- rate limits, but they are not accounted for by the City Engineer. The past year has been distinctly a year of resi- dence-building with Montgomery con- tractors.
 Among the building Improvements in the business district during the year are the annex to the Federal building, costing s75.000, of which no record Is made fin the Engineers office and which is not included in this statement; an additional story to The Advertiser building and the new plant of the Citi- zens Light. Heat and Power Compa- ny in North Montgomery, and the re- modelling of the Temple Building on Commerce Street.
 Some Future Buildings. On October 1st the old Exchange Ho- tel is to be razed and handsome mod ern hotel Is to be built on that site. It's erection will be completed within a year The First Baptist Church con- gregation is also planning to build a
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-27
WARE & LELAND
Weekly stock Letter.

New York, Nov. 26.-The long
looked-for reaction in the stock mar
ket came this week and prices were
knocked down from to points,
which was perfectly natural, and has
left the market in a much healthier
and safer position, and the sharp
rally of Friday and Saturday only
goes to prove what we have told our
friends all along-this is a bull market
proper and will continue so for a long
time yet. In our last weeks letter
we advised purchases of the steel
stocks, and the marked advance in
both its common and preferred has
borne us out. Republic Iron and Steel
should follow the advance and we look
for higher prices in that stock. Also
Colorado Fuel and Iron, which closed
to-day at 529s. That stock in 1902 sold
as high as 100, and it is likely to go
above par at any time because the
United States steel trust must even
tually control it. The Changers have
been hanging back for while, but
closed strong. We look for advances
in Atchison, st. Paul, and Rock Is
land, especially Rock Island. The trac-
ton stocks are a law unto themselves
and we would not advise purchases for
some time yet. " G. is tipped for so
before January. We have good infor-
nation on this stock, and it is safe to
buy. Chesapeake and Ohio should go
to 60, and Southern Railway is a slow
but safe investment. Norfolk and Wes-
tern will gradually advance. But our
favorite for next week is Amalga-
mated Copper. We have the best of
information that it will sell at par be-
fore January. The bank statement was
considered favorable and tight money
is long ways off yet. London is a
heavy buyer in Wall street. and that
helps considerable. 1t seems strange
that the public will persist in buying
cotton on a declining market and lose
money, when the greatest bull market
Wall street has ever had is going on
right under their eyes, and all they
have to do is to buy some stock and
make sure money. We have advised
our friends to buy stocks since last
June and we are still of that opinion.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-27

Trains arrive Savannah as follows:
No. 20, daily, from New York, Wash
ington, St. Louis and Cincinnati, 1850
a. m.
No. 80, daily. from all points West,
via Jesup, 1910 a. m.
No. 49, daily from New York ana
Washington, $3.50 p. m.
No. "a, daily from all points West.
via Jesup, 1855 p. m.
THROUGH CAR SERVICE, ETC.
Trains 33 and "a, The New York
and Florida Express. Vestibuled
limited trains carrying Pullman
Drawing-room Sleeping Cars between
Savannah and New York. Dining Cars
serve meals en- route.
Trains 20 and 80, The Washington
and Florida Limited. Vestibuled linz
tied trains, carrying Pullman Draw
ing-room Sleeping Cars between Sa-
vannah and New York. Dining Cars
serve meals en- route. Also Pullman
Drawing-room Sleeping Cars between
Asheville and THE Land of the Sky. :"
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BROOKS MORGAN. A. G. P. A..
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Agent, Union Station, Savannah, Ga.
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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-27

Thomas, Caen and st. Nazaire; Dord-
recht (Br), Freeman, Dunkirk.
Barcelona, Nov. 23.-Arrived. II Pie
mente, Savannah.
Barry Nov. 24.-Sailed, steamer
Felbridge, Charleston.
New York. Nov. 26.--Arrived, steamer
Arapahoe, Jacksonville, and Charles
ton.
Antwerp, Nov. 25.-Arrived. steamers
Onslow, Darien, via Portland; Trident,
Pensacola, via Bremen.
Port Royal, S. c., Nov 26.--Cleared,
York, windbound.
Beaufort, S. c., Nov 26.-Cleared,
Chehaw river, schooner Brazos, for
New York. windbound.
Charleston, S. c., Nov. 26.-Arrived,
steamers Sa.rk (Nor), Hansen, Fernan-
dina; Algonquin, Staples, New York,
and proceeded for Jacksonville;
schoonersl Clara E. Bergen, Edwards;
Helen Montague, Adams, both from
New York; tug Wellington with barge
Southland in tow. from Jacksonville
for New York, put in for harbor.
Cleared, steamer Langfond, Hansen,
Eshjerg.
Jacksonville, Fla. Nov. 2e.-Cleared.
steamer Apache, Staples, New York;
schooner William c. Tanner, Johnson,
New York; schooner Roberts and Rus
sell, (Br), Russell, Nassau, N. p.
Sailed, steamer Mohican, Devereaux,
Boston.
Key West, Nov. 26.-Arrived, steam
er Olivette. Allen, Havana and sailed
for Port Tampa.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-27
shippinE sIemoranda.

Baltimore, Nov. 26.-Arrived. schoon-
or Lizzie II. Patrick. Savannah.
Sailed. steamer Frederick, Savannah.
philadelphia. Nov. 26.-Arrived.
steamer Berkshire, Savannah, and
cleared.
brunswick, Ca. Nov. 26.--ArrIved.
schooners William s. Shustor. Croker.
Portsmouth,; Judge Boyce. Bskridge,
Bath; Maggie N. Keogh, Tilton, New
York.
sailed, steamers CairncraR, Hyslop.
Manchester. Colorado, Risk. New
york; schooner I've y. Douglass, Ben
nett. New York,
Pensacola, Fla, Nov. 26.-Arrived.
steamers Eva fkOr), Meyer, PfOgresao
Brayhead (Br), Moore, Aainburg;
Dordrocht (Br), Fr0man, Apainchic0ia-
Cleared, steamers LowclaDd OBJ.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-27
STOCKS SOLD WELL
srrEL AGAIN LEADER IN NEW
YORK STOCK MARKET.
MOST STANDARD ISSUES
IMPROVED IN TONE AND PRICE
DESPITE SHORT SESSION.

Heavy Buying Movement Began
shortly Before Bank Statement
Was Made Public-IiveIy Demand
for Many Railroad Stocks, Includ-
ing Southern and l.. a N.-Banl<
abatement Regarded as Favorable
steel Made New High Records.
New York, Nov. 26.-Initial trans
actions in to-day's stock market were
made up largely of United States Steel
;ssues. but before the end of the brief
session business increased in volume
and the market broadened until it en-
braced a great number of the stand
ard stocks
At the outset large blocks of Steel
common and preferred came out at
fractional advances and the bonds also
Gained. There were slight advances in
such specialties as Colorado Fuel,
pressed Steel Car and American Lo-
oomotive. Amalgamated Copper re-
snonded to buying by houses supposed
70 represent Boston interests. The list
Auctuated narrowly for a brief period,
but shortly before the publication of
movement set in.
Railroad Stocks Active.
There was a lively demand for Union
Pacific. Southern Pacific, Missouri Pa
cific, Erie, Southern Railway, Rock Is
land. Louisville and Nashville, Penn
svlvania and others in the same group.
Pacific and the extensive purchases of
Erie were probably for account of the
professionals short interest.
The market remained active to the
close, and prices of many issues were
then the best of the day. The bank
statement was regarded as favorable
in the sense that the loan decrease, as
well as the cash loss showed better
than had been expected.
New high prices were registered by
the steel issues. Atchison made a
slight gain, in spite of it's poor Oc-
tober report. Great Northern preferred
advanced points, making 17-point
gain in two days.
Total bond sales to-day, par value,
$5.020,o00.
Sales of Stocks.
Total sales of stocks were 1886, zoo
shares, including: Atchison, 1900;
Canadian Pacific, $500; Great West
ern, 2O,SOO; ST. Paul, 6,1OO; Delaware
and Hudson. 5000; Erie, 1890; Illinois
Central, 1880; Missouri Pacific, $4,000;
Norfolk and Western, 1890; Pennsyl-
vania, S45OO; Reading, 21,7OO; Rock Is
land, 29,100; Rock Island preferred, s.
600; Southern Pacific, $4,000; Southern
Railway $780, Southern Railway pre-
ferred, 600; Union Pacific 46 900: Com
per, 74,100; Locomotive, 1900; Sugar
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-27
OCEAN FREIGH,rs.

COTTON-Savannah to Boston, De.
100 pounds, Csc; to New York, per 1Ot
pounds, zoe to dock; Csc lghtered; tc
Philadelphia, zoe per 100 pounds; Bal.
timore, zoe per 100 pounds.
COTTON-Foreign direct to Liver.
pool, Csc; Manchester. csc; Bremen
24c; Hamburg. 24c; Rotterdam, 26c;
Barcelona, 3Sc: Havre. 35c: Antwerp
Csc.
LUMBER-By Sail-Freight, active;
to Baltimore. $500; to Philadelphia,
s4.75; to New York. $5.621a; to Port
land, $500.
LUMBER-By Steam-Savannah to
Baltimore, $3.50; TO p. r. r. or 3. and
o. Docks, 5000; to Philadelphia. $500;
to New York, 1925 per NJ. to dock;
lightered. $500; to Boston. to dock
S725.