The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-09
GREATER BIRMINGHAM
ENTHUsIAsTIC MEETING HELD AT
 MAGIC CITY.
Preu.r,ur for the Reception of Presi- dent Roosevelt-Much Ratiroaa Construction---Ye1Iow Fever
 Refugees.


 Birmingham. Sept. s.-tspeciaLl- Greater Birmingham. with popuia- ton of 10000. made possible at the next session of the Legislature, and SO recorded on the next government census of 1910. was the keynote Of an interesting and enthusiastic meeting held this morning in the Commercial Club rooms by representatives rom the Commercial Club, the mayor anu board of aldermen, the board of trade, the board of health, the board or rev enue, the board of education and oth- CTS.
 The meeting was filled with lively interest throughout and permanent plans were set upon foot for the car ryfng on of campaign for the suc- cessful conclusion of the movement to induce a Great Birmingham. Each person present had something to say regarding the movement. and some suggestion to make to carry plans to a succeeded issue. Motions to appoint five different committees were passed. the first one consisting of P. J. Sniyer. chairman, Eli P. Smith and Dr. J. H. Phillips, to eset together all necessary information and data and circulate It throughout the district in order to bet ter inform the people of the outlying
  which Greater Birmingham will be es- tablished.
 Motions to appoint committees on drafting the necessary Dill to submit to the Legislature, to confer with Gov ernor Jelks relative to the present. ing the matter before the Legislature, to obtain the cooperation in the sur rounding districts. to educate the citi- zens. of the various outlying districts as to the benefits of Greater Bir- mingham. were unanimously adopted. It was brought out in the arguments that a system of sanitation would be possible by this means which cannot be possibly be obtained otherwise and II in addition, to this they outlying dis tricts would nave the benefit of police protection, which at present is not obtained. It would also mean that the people in the various municipalities and also in the district not already incorporated would have access to the Birmingham schools, an advantage that cannot now be enjoyed by those dis tricts not in the corporate limits Of
 the city of Birmingham.
 More Railroad Buifdfmg. l. The Southern Railway will build five miles extension to the Flat Top mines branch, in the eastern part of the county, to reach a number of new coal
  next few months.
 This is but a part of the plans by the railroads in this section to assist in the big development in the coal fields in this State. According to fn-
 dications Alabama will be producing
 at least three million tons more coal
 at this time next year than at present.
 The construction work in this district
 will give railroad conractors steady
 work for several months to come.
 Habeas Corpus.
 "A petition for habeas corpus pro-
 ceedinE has been instituted in behalf
 of J. F. Ryan, the engineer on the
 Frisco System who last week shot and
 killed J. E. Davis, another engineer,
 and this will be heard tomorrow.
 The grandh jury yesterday indicted
 Ryan, and the habeas corpus proceed ings will be held for the purpose of securing the freedom of the prisoner op bond. A number of witnesses have
 been summoned tor the hearing. No Arrests Made.
 No arrests have been made as yet for the murder of Dock Anderson, the young white man who was shot to death night before last at Wylam,
 mining town in the western part of
 the county.
 Efforts have been made to get clue
 to the negro who is accused of conn
 hitting the crime. The home of the negro is being closely watched in an-
 ticipation of the wanted man coming back. If apprehended he will be rush ed to the county jail for safe keeping. It.. Another Big Building.
 Application was filed with the build ing inspector today for a five-story brick building, mill construction. on