The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-22
BY WILL T. SIBERIAN.

Greensboro, June 21.-(special Cor respondence.) ce.)-Greensboro may be compared to fine old Southern home. whose hedges are kept trimmed, whose lawns are moved. whose walks are clean and tidy and whose interior and exterior are always inviting and rest full.
 A well kept mansion of the older days with freshly painted walls, with hall, dining room, verandah, with every detail looked after and every feature maintained to its olden standard is refreshing and wholesome sight, wheth- CT the old home be upon the planta- tion or one of the thousands that lend interest to the many small towns of Alabama The up keep of the old places under adverse circumstances, the sacrifices that some of the own CTS of many of them make to keep them in harmony with their pristine glory and to maintain them in keeping with family traditions attach honor and credit to those who do it for the credit of the family and of his com munity. They present always an at- tractive sight, these reburnished homes and the stranger never fails to accord them instant praise and interest.
 Like one of these old-places keep Ang alive ancient traditions, and main- faining always an air of cleanliness and wholesomeness, Greensboro has Its own distinction. New towns, too often look garish and half-baked, streets in- pocent of trees, sidewalks half made, horribly built stores. and homes of cheap and nasty construction. The old towns, too often look unkempt and blovenly, with fences reeling. lawns. ,h tangie of weeds. steps broken and the bare walls of the house scaly and tunpainted. Greensboro with a history hpf more than four score years and ten lis today better kept than at any time ,during its entire life It is an ag- srfcultural town, a plantation city, one Inf those places which has more than ats per capita share of wealth, and If the expression may be used more than its per capita share of intelligence and of culture. As 1t takes years to broaden a mans character and develop his individuality, so 1t taxes years for a city, large or small, to attain It's Individuality and have recognized its own peculiar distinction. In the march of years Greensboro has come to be looked upon as typical of the true Southern town, the Southern town of the plantation owner, of the banker. the town which has managed to get more than it's share of wealth and of culture.
 The City's Neatness.
 Nothing about the place has been permitted to descend into slovenliness. Ehey are building today new town hall, The old one was peculiarly rich in historic interest. It was the forum ln which occurred the fierce contro- Nersies between the secessionists and khe anti-secessionists at the outbreak of the war for in justice 1t should be remembered that the South was not unanimous upon the question of secession and that some of those who rendered services of the most distlnc- tion when the die had been cast and the Confederacy had been formed were men who had opposed the disruption of the union. The old town hall was the scene of some of the very bitterest controversies and arguments on the huestion of secession. It had. too, oth- er claims to historic interest.
 But the, old building went the way If all nature and became old and un- Inviting. It therefore had to come nown and a modern structure in keep