The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-08
THE NEWS OF MOBILE
EXPORTS AND IMPORTS FOR THE
 PAST WEEK. More Cotton on Hand h the Gulf City Than for Many Years Past-Mar- riage Licenses and Build
 ing Permits.

ing Permits.
 Advertiser Bureau.
 Mobile, Jan. [.
 Exports for the week ended yester- day evening. as reported in the omce of the Collector of Customs. were as follows:
 American schooner Emma S. Lord for New York. s25.ooo feet cypress lumber.
 American schooner s, M. Bird for Baltimore. 335.ooo feet cypress and oak lumber.
 Norwegian steamship Aim for Pro- gresso. Mexico, 5000 sacks corn, { horses, head of cattle. 45.0o0 pounds of hogs IF crates of fowls.
 American steamship Sabine for New York 5000 bales cotton. 100 cases ce- dar slaks. s5.e00 feet pine lumber. 200 bales domestic. 100 packages merchant disc.
 Norwegian steamship Fort Morgan for Bocas del Toro, 10 sacks corn. to barrels, bottled beer, 4,50Q feet lumber and general merchandise.
 American schooner Josephine, for Sagua La Grand, .27s,s09 feet pine lum- Der: value, sS,626.
 American schooner A. Hayford for Neuvitas, 57.2S2 feet rough pine lum- Der. 24.296 feet dressed pine lumber, 50 bales tar paper, 325 feet dressed cy- press lumber;- value. s1.3oo.
 American steamship Saratoga for Havana. 2.5so sacks flour. 500 sacks oats. 250 sacks bran, 5.2s4 sacks corn, 592 bales hay, 57 bales broom corn. 2s packages household goods. 1875 cases packing house products, 100 barrels bottled beer, 54 head of cattle; value 5S.4ee.
 Norwegian steamship Harold for Las Ceiba; general cargo.
 Norwegian steamship Belize for Be- lize, general cargo.
 Imports as recorded were as fol- lows;
 American steamship Sabine from New York. 5000 packages general mcr- chandise.
 American steamship Saratoga, from Havana, 1,647 crates pineapples, b7O bales leaf tobacco. II bales stripped tobacco. 100 barrels honey. 1ss cpates tomatoes.
 Norwegian steamship viator from Puerto Cortez, 16,0oo bunches bananas. President c. Lawrence Lavretta, of the Board of Public Works. this after noon in reference to a recent decision of the Supreme Court in the case of the city of Mobile vs. Mobile Light and Railroad Company, relative to street paving, said: The future permanent paving on streets where electric or steam railroads traverse was out of the question unless the cost would not ex- ceed $4 per running foot for paving. curbing, household and subsurface con neetions The charter, he said, limits the board to the amount named, and if the streets are too wide, even though not trayersed by railI . ids. permanent Improvements cannot be made on them. The board, said President Lavretta, road Company for its pFo-rata of the subsurface and house drainage and substantial curbing, acted under advice of its attorneys. He feels, therefore, that the board should not be censured because of existing conditions.
 Hon. R. H. Clarke, acting as chair man of a joint committee of the mu- nicipal government, Chamber of Com merce and Commercial Club. tonight announced the following as a committee personally to present to the President of the United States an invitation to visit Mobile: Pat J. Lyons. Mayor of Mobile. Chairman; Hon. George ". Tay- Tor, member of Congress from the First Alabama District; Chancellor Thomas H. Smith. Judge of Probate Price Will Hams, Jr.. Hon. F. c. Bromberg, Max Hamburger. IT,, A. S. Lyons, F. B. Mer- Til, George c. Clarke, James K. GlenY non, Robert F. Neville, James S. Taylor. Stewart Brooks, Sigmund Haas, Will liam H. Sledge. John Craft, c. Lawrence Lavretta, Harry T. Inge. A. Proskauer, 2. M P. Inge. A. P. Bush, B. E. Bern