The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-16
MIR. WEST WILL INSTALL
 A MODERN ICE PLANT
Also Will Furnish Electric Llghts--One Of Mont gomery's Most Progressive aud Valued Citizens Will Erect Up-te-Date
 Building for Supply of
 Public Necessities.

! Since Mir. D. P. West. the pioneer
 hotel keeper, restauranteur and for
 thirty years one of the foremost and
 most contemplating business men of the
 city of Montgomery, has given up the lease of the Exchange Hotel (which he made famous all over the United States. and was the first to make that property pay its stockholders), he has been looking around for a suitable place to locate his manufacturing plants.
 It Is known by all. who know what a strenuous and active business life
 Mir. West has been leading, that he has depended upon no man or monop- oly for what he has used in the con- duct of his vast business. but by his up-to-date, progressive, enterprising methods. he has made his own light his own ice and furnished his own wa I ter from a deep artesian we'll on lis premises. which has always given a | steady flow and an abundance of pure. sparkling water.
 On the Exchange Hotel property Mr. West has up to this time had an ice plant. an electric light plant. a laun- dry and other machinery that supplied all the wants and needs of that great hostelry; and he is looking around for other places to locate these plants. He has purchased the lot on the northeast corner of Bibb and Moulton Streets and proposes to erect there a
 modern and fully equipped Ice Plant. Electric Light Works and Water
 Plant; the well having already been
 bored for the purpose. The machin-
 cry for the ten-ton Ice Plant and the
 1900 Electric Light works, Is to be the
 most modern and improved that is
 made: smokeless and noiseless.
 Speaking about it an expert, who is arranging the plans, and Is to super intend the building, said: 'T will guarantee that the smoke will not be as much as that which comes from any grate in our neighborhood ana the noise will not disturb any one across the street; they will scarcely know that there is any machinery in our plant at all. so smoothly and noiseless- ly will 1t move."
 Mr. West is going to live on the corner and a two-story frame house is to be put in order to accommodate his family, and 1t is certain that he would not live there if he thought for a mo- ment that the smoke and noise would give him any trouble.
 Such men build great cities, and it Is not to be said that the real business portion of Montgomery may not con- tain modern and improved machinery, because, forsooth. some very nervous and old fogy people might possibly say that the smoke and noise will trouble them. Such ideas and such people have been superseded by progress and advancement, and 1t brings smile to the business man to mention such thing to him.
 why" said a gentleman who has noted the enterprise and activity that Mir. West has shown in his business methods. and what great good he has done in helping along the commercial interest of the city: T wish we had @ dozen men like Mir. West, and then we would have a real metropolitan city, and make here everything that we use. I tell you, know that MT. West has furnished the necessary com