The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-06
COLLIDES WITH CAR
MOBILE FIRE PATROL IN A SMASH
Driver E. B. Matthews Receives Inju- Yfes Which are Serious-The Meeting of the Alabama Li-
 brnry Association.
Advertiser Bureau.

| this morning at the intersection of l Dauphin and Joachim Streets. The
 salvage corps was answering a tele- phone call to lire and going south on Joachim Street at great speed. Mat
 thews driving. At Dauphin one of the largest cars of the Mobile Light and Railroad Company's system, No. ~. of
 the Whistler line, was making the Ecrossing. The car and wagon struck,
 Matthews being damned between the
 two. One of the fire horses fell and
 the end of the car rolled on him. | Matthews was extricated by Dr. s. s.
 Tam and others, who were close at l hand, and taken to an office and given
 attention. He was found to be badly 1 injured about the head and face and was suffering great pain from his
 shoulder and chest. pr. Tam could not | fireman was internally injured. He
 was taken to his home on Lawrence, | near St. Louis Street.
 Chief of Police Rondeau ordered the crew of the car arrested. which was done. The motorman claims that when
 he saw the fire wagon coming he re- versed, but the big car continued to roll. He expressed regret. How he escaped injury is not expIainable. as the side of the vestibule was badly damned and the window knocked out.
 The fire to which the salvage corps l was called was fruit car at the Lou l isville and Nashville fruit wharf. An | oil stove in the car was overturned and l the straw bedding ignited. The inte- l rior of the car was badly burned. Hose | Company No. 2 of the salvage corps re- | sponded. but only the former reached | the scene.
 Tonight reports from Matthews are not very encouraging. He has been vom- iting blood and he is now declared in- | formally injured. Motorman Naples and | Conductor Smith are under bond to an- | swer the charge of violating the ordi- nance giving right of way to the fire department.
 Ice nnd Killing Frost.
 Deputy Sheriff Charles Green, who lives in Toulminville. reported this morning that the thermometer on his gallery at sunrise this morning regis- tered 27 degrees. He also stated that there was thick ice on standing water and on the edge of Three Mile Creek. He declared there was thin ice in his neighborhood. which is higher than the city. yesterday morning.
 Deputy Sherin John Brown came in from Plateau and reported good quan- titles of ice in that vicinity, especially in clear places near chickasabogue Creek.
 The Weather Bureau reports q tenn perature this morning of sl degrees. and ice, together with a heavy. killing frost. New Orleans reported to him a killing frost.
 Library Association.
 The second day of the convention of the Alabama Library Association in the Y. M. c. A.. building opened very Auspiciously. President Thomas Mo Adory Owens in the chair. His first announcement was that owing to the absence of pr. c. c. Thach. of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute. last evening, his paper would now be pre- sented by that distinguished friend of library association work.
 The Library as an Educational Force" was the subject of Dr. Thach's paper. It showed great care in prep aration and proved a valuable acquisi- tion to the instruction of the library workers
 After the report of the executive council papers were ready by title. as follows:
 Fiction in. Public Libraries" Strs. Teresa Miller, librarian Carnegie h. l! brary. Eufaula.
 The Library Spirit. and How it May be Advanced in Alabama" Dr. J. H. president Birmingham Public I library and superintendent Blrmlng- ham public schools.
 Practical Suggestions on School Li- braries." Miss Nimmo Greene, princt- i ysI
 The Rural Library Movement" Dr. ( Clarence J. Owens, president, Anniston College for Young Ladies.
 Miss Addie c. Moses, librarian of Mo- ! bile Library, read an exhaustive, amus- q ing and instructive paper on 'The I Trials of a Library Pioneer" This | paper was most cordially received. r
 At the request of President Gwen informal talks were made by Prof. D. J. Christenberry, Southern University, l Greensboro; Dr. E. F. Buchner, Univer- slty of Alabama, Tuscaloosa; Miss Sara | Callen, Industrial School for Girls, X Prof. George W. Duncan, h Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn. t
 President owen then announced that ii the boat ride would be called off for p Lhis evening in order that the hours t could be spent as guests of Hon. Peter N ]. Hamilton. at his hospitable home s ,n Government street. Here said the J president. could be seen a magnificent N ibrary, charming host and hostess and D he best of entertainment. This an- Il met the approval of all S present. N
 At the invitation of Secretary A. c. darte, of the Young Mems Christian the members of the asso- Il ,iation partook of tea and light re- m reshments in the building after the ci recess. It was 1 o'clock when R he tea was concluded and the party o It o'clock repaired to Mir. Hamiltons P 'esidence. F.
 Tonight in the lecture room of the al Association building a large audience al assembled. President owen gave a 'plendid stereopticon lecture on Ala M oama, which proved most interesting A md entertaining.
 Alabama Visitors. SC
 Alabamians visiting in the city to- iay were as follows.
 W. z. Rodgers. E. P. Wilson, J. W. A Calhoun and daughter w. w. Waite, ol Q. Pitts, Selma; W. A. Moseley, St. b. It Klosky's. m
 Frank Mattock, St. Elmo; MT. and g Mrs. s. Patterson, James c. Donald m Pine Apple; L.. H. Fitch. Snow Hill; M 3. S. Lacey, West Bend; Leslie Hail s' Bay Minette; N. J. Miller. Pine Hill; 1T lack Freeman and wife, Salitpa, at the W
 J. Laubentha1 and wife, Sunhower; Il ,. P. Jackson. Birmingham; Mir. and Ars. J. B. Wilson, Selma.
 David Freidman of Birmingham is M listing his brother. Jacob w. Fried D nan. M
 Lavretta Resigns. g. It leaked out this afternoon that c. e' lawrence Lavretta. President of the soard of Public Works, had resigned b, Iis position in that body. His reason G or resigning was that the vote fin the tf ecent primary showed lack of conh- a, ence in his administration and he felt. | ms duty to retire. He stated he had