The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-03
Advertiser Bureau.
 Mobile, Oct. 2.

! Mobile, Oct. z.
 As goes Mobile. so goes the state!
 remarked w l.. Henderson, land ana industrial agent of the Southern and Mobile and Ohio Railroads. with head quarters in Mobile. MT. Henderson. as recently noted in The Advertiser. made a visit to the Buckeye State, where he carried an exhibit Of Ala
 bama's products. Since his return home he finds evidences not onlf Of this last but other trips. as well as of advertising of Alabama's resources. You can say have at this moment requests for information as to the pos
 sibility of securing sites in this vicin- ity for three cotton mills. n cordage plant. iron and steel working factory, cutlery manufacturing establishment and three pottery plants. Or course"
 he said, I've do not hope to land all | of them, but we are confident of plac- ing several of them in the very, near l future"
 When asked as to the progress of
 his colonization efforts. Mir. Tender
 son replied: T have at least a half dozen inquiries at the present time from | realty companies who are prospecting in the South to secure lands for coloni- zation purposes. This regard as ono | of the greatest evidences of Southern 1 prosperity. You can truthfuily say | that more than 100000 acres of lands 1 have been purchased for such purposes recently In Alabama, west of the Ala
 bama river and within seventy-fve miles of Mobile. This land was not purchased for purely speculative pur- poses, but for the philanthropic pur-
 pose of locating people of most de- | sirable character" l Mir. Henderson was to have made a visit to two Pennsylvania counties this week to show his display of Alabama l hut hn Act tV,Ad pending the arrival of body of home-
 seekers.
 l Aside from the supply of the Bien- vile Water Supply Company. Mobile tonight has a supply of water sufficient | to furnish a city of more than one hum
 dred thousand people. An act of the
 General Council early in the year order
 ed the establishment of an auxiliary
 pumping station on the site of the old | Stein water works five miles west of
 Mobile, to make good the deficit should
 such occur, of the city water yorks plant
 It was intended to formally install
 this plant last Thursday. Weather con-
 ditions. however. prevented the formal | acceptance of the plant. This afternoon Mayor Lyons. Superintendent Soost of the Mobile waterworks. Aldermen John
 Craft. H. T. InRe. Councilmen Michael, Peter Burke. and representatives of the press. went to the auxiliary station and
 made a thorough inspection of the plant and water way.
 At 5:20 Mayor Lyons turned the wheel
 and started the pumps. The visitors
 watched with interest the action of the
 two mammoth pumps. Every stroke
 meant sixty-two and one-half gallons
 of water. pure and fresh, from Springs
 above the station. Three waste ways
 were running over with spring water
 and while the pumps were in action the
 How did not seem to diminish. All
 were elated over what they had seen
 The auxiliary pumping station was pro-
 nounced a success and all left the sta
 tion feeling that with the original city
 water works system and the auxiliary
 pumping station the city of Mobile was , well and thoroughly protected with an
 abundant supply of pure drinking wa
 ter.
 At noon today the City Court, for the fall term opened. Hon. Oliver J. Semmes presiding The grand jury was
 organized with the following qualified , jurors sworn in
 Benjamin F. Adams. Charles Cooper. James c. Chambers, Harry c. Toul-
 min, Stewart McRae, stephen A Car lin. Charles W McGram. John H. Mar tin, James M Duffy. William A. Rafield, Lawrence J. Leahy, Julian Lartigue,
 Benjamin I. McAtee. Sewel L. Freeland.
 Daniel Davis, John W. Balzli, John C. Pope.
 . Judge Semmes named Benjamin F. Adams as foreman and then proceeded to give his charge to the jury. It was virtually the same as given heretofore } l during his many years on the bench, but he was unusually cautious In warn
 ing the jurors that any one connected
 with defendant by affinity or business
 relationship should retire during the
 hearing of cause against said de-
 fendant.
 It Is now the opinion of members of
 Mobile Battalion, 1st Infantry. Ala , bama National Guard. that Captain ! John D. Hagan, commanding the Cult City Guards. will succeed Howard Gaillard as Major of the Mobile bat ' talion. He is senior commissioned off, ' ficer of the battalion and at present acting major.
 He stated this morning that while havin his company at heart. If it was the pleasure of the commissioned of hcers of the battalion and regiment
 that he should accept the promotion he would cheerfully do so. Rudolf Benz today had the draw
 bridge for the new Dog River bridge
 linear It's mouth, loaded on a f1atboat
 and taken to the bridge site. He ex- . poets to have the ID idge completed and y ready for service by Thursday . The approaches to the bridge will be f completed by that day and traffic by 7 modern methods. instead of the old
 fashioned f1atboat process, will be in-
 stalled along the new bay coast road from Mobile to Coden, a distance of Inearly forty miles.
 The Board of Revenue and Road Commissioners met in regular weekly session at noon today and transacted considerable routine business. The only especially important mat ter to come up was the securing of \ oyster shells for county roads. Com missioner Bauer moved this be referred to the Road Commission, and 1t was SC ' ordered.
 The remains of James OR. Barter lwere inferred in the Catholic Cemetery \ this afternoon, followed to the grave by host of friends of deceased and his family.
 The funeral services were held ir St. Joseph's church. Rev. Father Schu- l Ter officiating. Many pretty flora