The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-02
Enthusiastic Meeting of Con-
 mercial Association.
Transportation Facilities, Trade Ex' cursions and More Railroads Engage Their Attention-spe-
 
 cial Meeting to Consider Presbytesian College Fund.


 Montgomery transportation facilities what Montgomery has. what Montgomery needs, and incidentally. plans for Trade Excursion" by. Montgomery bus mess. professional and manufacturing men were discussed at length at well attended and enthusiastic meeting of the Commercial and Industrial Association last night.
 The matter of locating the Prcsbyte- rian College of Alabama in Montgomery was also discussed by the business men and special meeting of the Association was called for Tuesday night to consider ways and means of raising funds to as- sist in bringing the institution here.
 It was the first business meeting 1eid in the new Association home on Btbb Street. The members assembled in the spacious meeting room on the west side of the building. The contrast between the former limited quarters of the Asso' ciation was apparent.
 The meeting was called to order by President Alex Rice at s:30 o'clock Near ly forty members were present.
 Improved Telegraph Service. Secretary L. l.. Gilbert read his report of commercial and industrial progress since the last meeting. Tn the report he called the attention of ths Association to the change in the management of the Western Union Telegraph Company. Tho Association had investigated commercial teiesraphic conditions and found that tho call bell system was practically out or use. the messenger service was poor and unusual and unnecessary delay was ex- perienced In the transmission and deiiv- cry of telegrams to and from the Mont gomery office.
 Complaint was made to headquarters. he said, and change of management |immedIateiy improved. Secretary Gilbert expressed faith In the ability of c. A. Fonviile, the new manager.
 He also reported improvement of freight Canebrake section of Alabama, whereby delay at Selma and Meridian was avoid cd. Eighteen new members had been re- ceived in the Association. all men of high standing in the community.
 He drew attention to the entertainment of the Southern Railway officials and re- gently the house warming of the Asso- citation. dwelling on the importance of social features fin the work of the Asso- ciation.
 As to Insurance Rates. A written report from Charles P. An derson, Chairman of the Colemittee on | Insurance. was submitted to the Asso- citation. Mfr. Anderson reported that for | the past several months the Committee had been actively at work in an endeav- or to cause the Southeastern Tariff AS. sociation of Atlanta to lower the fire in- surance rate In Montgomery. He had meeting but the Baltimore fire had pre- vented his SC doing. A Committee from the Association was to have met the Southeastern Tariff Association directors in Atlanta the day after the fire. After the fire, however, he was advised that all insurance men had gone to Baltimore. The trip had to be postponed until tho middle of this month.
 President Alex Rice reported that the Montgomery Carnegie Library would be opened in about a month The Board of Directors had only recently granted the contract for the coping and fencing of | the lot and until this work was complet- 1 ed the doors of the building would not be thrown open to the public.
 T. J. Mattox called the attention of the Association to the prevalence of smallpox and other diseases in the city He said that the disease was growing instead of being under the control of the city sanl- tary department.
 F. S. Ball thought that the lax quaran- tine laws or the lax enforcement of these laws was chiefly responsible for the pres ent conditions. Persons in whose family and house there is smallpox are allowed to go about their daily work and spread the disease. He thought that some action should be taken.
 On motion of c. A. Lanier, the Commit tee on City Development, w. M. Hud- son. chairman, was instructed to put the matter before the City Council
 Transportation Facilities. | The meeting was then turned over to the Transportation Committee J. c. Haas chairman of the committee, said that the committee had had quite num- ber of meetings and had found the trans portation problem vast one. The com mittee. he said, has done little, but feels that it has driven the wedge from which good will ultimately result.
 J. M Kennedy of the committee read a paper prepared by F. F. Johnstone, who was unable to attend tho meeting, oil "Transportat ton Schedules" Tn the pa per. attention was called to the fact that | train No. S5 of the Seaboard Air Line leaving Fort Davis at S:l5 a. m., and train No. S6 leaving at 6:3O p. m., travel only thirty-nine miles. By having the train service extended to Hurtsboro or l Union territory of nearly sixty moro miles, could be brought within the Mont gomery trading territory. He also point ed out the bad schedules on the Western Railroad, causing four hours of lay over at Selma. and urged that the Association and the Transportation Committee en deaver to remedy this even and prevai
 on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad to have morning train coming from Tuscaloosa
 into Montgomery
 F.~S. Ball called attention to the un
 satisfactory schedule between Montgom
 cry and Wetumpka. Lawyers of Mont
 gomery. who practice in Fillmore County