The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-01

and Montgomery Raiirods and the Ge- neva branch of the Louisville and Nashville and the Luverne branch of the Atlantic Coast Line.
 This leaves but little to be desired for freight facilities. And yet, in ad- dition to all this. there Is the Alabama river navigable all the year round. A bill of ladins for freight may be had at Montgomery wharf direct to Liver pool or London.
 Labor and power are elements ab- solutely essential to successful factor- les. Without either the wheels could not turn and no clerks would be need ed to make out bills of lading. If 1t is electrical power that is needed Mont- gomery is better equipped than any city of the South. She has exhibits in the electrical lines that may not be duplicated in any other Southern city. The quantity of electrical power which may be turned into a factory in Montgomery Is hardly to be estimated. And the claim Is made, and no doubt justly. that the factory wheels can be turned in Montgomery cheaper than in any other Southern city.
 There Is untold electricity for the city in the plant of the Tallassee Wa ter Power Company, thirty miles north of the city on the Tallapoosa River. On the side of great dam that stops the river, sits this great plant, and from 1t can come electrical power for a city ten times or twelve times as large as Montgomery. As to electricity Montgomery's future is secure. Moreover. the city has the advantage of cheap prices which follow keen eom- petition. In addition to the company | which controls the Tallassee plant a second company makes and sells elec- tricity from a modern and splendidly equipped power house.
 Coal and Wood Supply. But both coal and wood are turned | into power. Again is Montgomery for tunate. The Alabama coal fields, with all their untold riches, are but two hours run from the city. The factory man can get his coal at $1 a ton rate for the hauling
 If wood should be needed, as 1t is in some lines of industry, 1t can be had in any quantities. Wood can and will be shipped to Montgomery to meet any | demand. The woods and forests of middle and South Alabama are waiting for the drafts of the future.
 Labor is neither dear nor discontent- ed. It has not fallen to the lot of any newspaper here to chronicle labor trou- | bles in Montgomery. The Montgomery manufacturer. so far as Is known, has no labor problem.
 But it is in discussing Montgomery as place of residence that the city man becomes enthusiastic. He is liable to lay down the proposition and stand upon 1t. that as a city for a home Mont gomery Is not to be excelled. It has every attraction which makes city desirable for a home. A favor able climate, healthfulness, cleanliness and ideal social center. splendid edu- | cational opportunities. all are attrib- utes of Montgomery when its claim for a home are considered. An Equable Climate. The climate Is one that has no ex- tremes. It Is neither oppressively hot throughout the summer nor are its win ters bleak and forbidding. One might live a comfortable outdoor life in Mont | gomery nine months of the year. Mont gomery Is in truth a favorite of na- ture. A map of Alabama shows its splendid logical location for growth and prosperity. Its place upon the map might meet every requirement. that commerce and industry might demand. Yet the sight of the city, its immedi- ate surroundings. might be forbidding and intolerable- But nature has law ished its best gifts upon the city. The horseshoe of hills that encirc1e and
 
 bama River was a splendid location for city long before the Spanish ad- venturer. De Soto, set foot on Alabama l soil. The hills, in themselves, gave | assurance of healthful breezes, pure and unexcelled drainage.
 | Montgomery has never been unmind- | full of its duty of cooperation with nature. It has built and wrought for the best advantage. The physical city is worthy of the site that was set aside and prepared for 1t.
 The city's sanitary system Is a thing of pride. It can be extended but 1t can hardly be improved.
 Pure Artesian Water. l The city's water is as pure as any ithat the earth gives for the refresh- ment of man The basis of the fine lwaterworks system Is artesian water. No other water Is pumped through the great pipes which underlie the city. It is artesian water. pure and clear as crystal.
 The streets are cleanly and beautiful. The streets of Montgomery are the first feature of the city to be noted and admired by visitors. There may have been visitors to Montgomery who have failed to admire and give voice to their admiration of Montgomery's clean and wholesome streets. but they are so rare that they have gone unreCOrded. | Montgomery's social life is as pure and wholesome as its artesian water. Its educational opportunities are as un- excelled as It's natural advantages Il Montgomerys homes and Montgomery's factories are not jumbled together. The peace and quiet of It's homes are not disturbed by the whirl and whirr of its wheels of industry. The purity of the city's home life is not darkened nor af- fected by the smoke of its factories. | The line of demarkation between manufacturing Montgomery and resi- dential Montgomery is clear and dis | tinct. The one does not intrude upon the other. Two sections of the city in- dustry has marked for it's own. l Montgomery's factory district Is like a huge hammock twisted in the mid dle. the narrow twist at the Union Railway Station with both sides faring. To the north, east and to the west the | sides flare out wide and broad and between the railway lines In the i'm terstices of the huge imaginary ham mock stand the mills and factories. the monuments and the milestones of Mont gomery's progress.
 The past of Montgomery is secure, its strength and pride. It's present is rich and prosperous and earnest of its fu- ture The future is hope and promise. It is rainbowed in the sky with the smoke from West End and Riverside. It's song is sung with whirring wheels and flying shuttles. The changer and the clamor of measured sounding strikes of hammer and anvil are har- monies and chords in a swelling chorus |