The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-15


 days has grown with regularity and with steadiness. But the city has not always had the vim and life or today the vim and confident hope of the pre- sent years. The notable manifesto tions of this spirit are merely effects. The causes are not for an. They are plainly on the surface. What has brought on Birmingham's new yitaiity and new assurances?
 For one thing there Is the Seaboard Air Line. It is a new railroad for Birmingham. It made its way into the rich and coveted Birmingham district only a few weeks ago. A new rail- road is a good thing, a fine thing for any town. no matter what else it may have.
 For another thing Is the new million dollar passenger depot. It is an as- sured fact this new depot The site has been purchased, the plans have been drawn and contracts have been made whereby the building will be com pleted by January 1, 1907. All the railroads doing business in Birmlng gham have gone into this new depot proposi- ton except the Louisville and Nash ville which owns the depot at present used by all the roads. The Louisville and Nashville will continue to do pas- senger business at the old stand. The contracts which the other roads have with the Louisville and Nashville will all expire. January 1907- and by that time the million dollar structure Is to be ready and waiting.
 Splendid New station. It is to be a splendid building. The plans for it were done by Architect Marye, the man who built the new At lanta station. The depot will stand some distance apart from the business of ptvff, ifter h nm away out according to the ideas of ten years ago. but the coal and iron city has epanded remarkably and 1t will be only a few years before the business district laps around the new structure. The site is out in the eastern portion or the city on 27th Street. The building will extend from 3rd to 9th Avenue. The big depot will be used by the Gen. tral of Georgia. the Seaboard Air Line, the Queen and Crescent, the St. Louis and San Francisco and the Illinois Gen. tral. The buying of the big site for the depot was a great real estate transaction and incidentally it might be said several small fortunes were ac- quired by those. who were let in on the ground floor. circumstance which was repeated when the Frisco, last Saturday bought $500,000 worth of Birmingham dirt to build terminals upon.
 And still another cause of, another factor in Birmin yham's industrial con- fidence and real estate excitement is the coming of the Illinois Central. the | first road to follow the Seaboard Air Line into the rich railroad harvest | fields of the Birmingham district What a rich goal to the railroads is that same district as well 1t may be with it's im- | mense mineral output and the richness and varisty of its manufacturing in- terests.
 The road has invested s200.0o0 in Bir- | mingham real esti.e and 1t Is believed that shops will bs erected here. The Illinois Central is an assured fact | for Birmingham. The purchase of the | terminal site only confirmed what was | already known. The Western of Ala bama Road was chartered the other | day and it is only the means, this sep | arate corporation, used to get into Bir-
 mingham in the simplest way. Stuy- vesant Fish is President of both the Illinois Central and the Alabama cor l poration inaugurated under the name | of the Western of Alabama.
 | Last Stage to Town.
 The last stage of the journey of the l I.lir ois Central into Birmingham will
 be from a point on the Mississippi line | in Franklin County. From there the
 new road will be built to the west to | Corinth, Miss. The Illinois Central | has already gone into an agreement | with the Mobile and Ono to use it's | lines from Franklin, Tenn, to Corinth,
 Miss. The new road having been con- structed from Corinth. Miss, to Jasper,
 Ala. the Illinois Central will run its
 trains over the Frisco line into Birm@ | ingham from Jasper. It develops, too, that the building of 1 this connecting link from Corinth, Miss, | to Jasper will result in the entry of two | A. | Birmingham business. It will not only
 bring in the Illin ois Central but it will l ( pen the doors O the Mobile and Ohio. | It has already been made to appear that | the Illinois Central will use the tracks
 of the Mobile and Ohio from Franklin, | Tenn, to Corinth. Miss. In exchange | for this favor the Illinois Central will permit the use of their New Orleans and Jasper line by the Mobile and Ohio people. Once in Jasper the Mobile and Ohio will come directly into Birming- ham over the tracks of the Ensley
 South ,rn. These. so good authority
 says. are closed and settled agree.
 ments.
 So much for the railroad development
 which is infiu sncing the era of good feeling in the Magic City.
 There are other influences, such, for
 instance, as the construction in the
 near future of the new sky-scraping
 
 | for this big building have
 been mdae. and the place to put
 it has been bought. They are going to
 build it on ne northwest corner of 1 Twentieth Street and Fourth Avenue.
 Dr. W. H. Woodward Is going to have considerable to do with the new build | ing. he and the associates who have | helped nim build the city's sky-scrapers.
 The lot to build the new hotel was sold
 to tn sm for $1o0Oc0. The work begins l with January.
 The other skv-scraper. Is to go up | rig 1t in the heart of the city. It will be fifteen stotries tall and 1t will go up on the corner of Twentieth Street and FIrs. Avenue. vhs.e the old First Ma ticnal BAnx bull ling now stands.
 The site is only 40 by 100 feet, and vet the promoters paid for 1t the huge
 price of $173,oo0. How is that for 1 iofty real estate figure? Eugene l Brown. a prominent real estate man,
 and otto Mark, an equally prominent