The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-06

MT. MitchelPs residence Is 200 yards south of the town, set among the trees on the side of Lookout Mountain. It is beautiful and imposing home. A little distance east is the fine cot tage home of Superintendent c. H. Moody and his assistants.
 The houses in the town range in size from three to six rooms. The rent is low. Their occupants are charged a rent of dollar a room a month, s3 for a three room house. s6 for six room house.
 The tenants have ample room for both flowers and vegetable gardens. The lots are seventy-five feet front and they run back 175 feet. The houses set thirty feet back from the street. These figures apply to every lot in town. In nearly every instance the ten- ants take advantage of their opportun- ities for growing flowers and vegeta- bles. The company distributes flower seed free annually to all employees.
 The health of the town is carefully guarded. Every sanitary precaution Is taken. Through every block there runs an alley twenty feet broad.
 ''The Dwight Inn" Is the most impos- ing wooden structure in the town. 1t Is a broad, two-storied hotel of att tidNbNC thtbh "OahN bC eAeA ornament to a town much larger than Alabama City. The company gives this rent free to the proprietors of the Inn for the keeping of boarding place for the unmarried workers in the mill. These single employees are in this way enabled to secure board at a very low rate.
 The three buildings of special com munity interest, however, are the church, the library and the public school house. The church Is an espe- cially pretty structure. 1t Is in the Elizabethan style of architecture and is most handsomely finished. The res- idents of Alabama City claim that there is not so pretty church in any town of similar size in the State.
 Over the chancel there Is a splendid memorial window erected in memory of Howard Gardner Nichols by the sisters of that young man. It is beautiful ing of the Young Man of the Bible.
 The choir stand Is beautified by a fine replica in bas relief of one of Gum salous' sculptures of the Cherubim and the Seraphim. These figures stand out in bold relief and have aroused the admiration of the mill people, admira- tion, however, which is not unmixed with mild criticism.
 The old white care-taker of the church came one day to Mir. Mitchell. 'I don't want to find fault" he said. but some of the folks are saying as how them monuments had orter have on more clothes"
 The Baptists of Alabama City have recently built a separate and individual church. The company gave them the building lot and donated the sum ot S10O to the building fund. The com pany is prepared to be equally as gen. erous to other denominations.
 The library is a beautiful building oi pressed brick with marble trimming: and slate roof. The tastefulness and harmony of It's interior never fail tC impress the visitor. The library i: kept open from ' to o'clock eacf night. It is free in every meaning oi the word.
 The school building is itself a mode structure. There are few, If any, bet ter school buildings in the State 1T towns of Alabama City's size. Tht school has 325 pupils and a corps ot four teachers. Not a cent cost Is at tached to the school for any patron.
 The company sells coal to It's em ployes at a reduced rate. Citizens ol Alabama City buy coal for $s ton The company owns its own coal prop erty and 1t mines as fine a grade oi coal as can be found on the market.
 The water supply of the town Is got ten off Lookout Mountain. The reser voir there is 235 feet higher than tho level of the town. Water mains TUT through the principal streets of tho city and ample fire protection is given
 The company owns its own Ice plant A ton of ice each day is furnished tt the employees in the mill without charge.
 They have a band here, the Mitchell Cornet Band. named in honor of tht agent. pretty little band stand over looks the six-acre lake and on summer afternoons daily concerts are given All the members of the band are em- ployes of the mill. The band is hand somely uniformed.
 Hard by is a park, half woods anC half play ground. fine dancing pa vilion sits under the trees. There art dances and picnics there throughout the summer.
 The town is lighted by electricity There are 4.000 incandescent lightt within It's limits, including those fl the mills.
 The mill is the largest in Alabama and one of the very largest in thu South. It Is figured out that 1t hal over ten acres of floor space. The mil is four stories high. 1SS feet wide anC nearly 1000 feet long It has 5000 spindles and 2.O00 looms. It uses from 80 to 100 bales of cotton daily ant 1900 to 1.500 persons find daily employ ment within its walls. These figureI give a faint idea of the immensity O the enterprise.
 Its finished products are sent direc from It's store rooms to the markets O. the world The stamping machine, which mark the goods are made up ol every language. One of these stamp ing outfits contains a likeness of L Hung Chang, with an inscription that looks like a Chinese laundry ticket Another shows a Chinese warrior rid ing over another laundry ticket. Goods with these stamped upon them are shipped to Chinese ports. There are also stamps for goods that go to the West Indies. to Labrador. to Europe to South America, in short. there are goods turned out of this mill that go to all the markets of the world.
 It will be a surprise to Alabamians to know that the Sultan of Sulu, who has lately been much in the public eye gets his clothing from Alabama, but such is the fact. He is represented as wearing snow white cotton goods and most of these goods that go to SulU are shipped right out of Alabama City They have a special brand and special inscription on these goods for Sulu.
 After a tour of the town and the mill Mir. Mitchell was asked: ''Has Alabama City a municipal govern ment?'
 "Oh, yes" was the reply. "a Mayor and a board of five aldermen. They are elected by the voters of the town