The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-23
THE BOOK DEPOSITORY
MATTER HAS BEEN ADJusTED
 SATISFACTORILY.
Fowler & Co, of Montgomery VIII Resume the Contract and Suits
 May Not be Filed.

The State depository was yesterday restored to Montgomery for wholesale distribution of school books and the publishers who are alleged to have allowed it to lapse will most likely escape the States suit which was threatened by Governor Jelks few days ago.
 Fowler and Company. the original agents, again have charge of the de- pository. The publishers representa- tives who have been in Montgomery about a week looking alter the matter held a conference with the Governor yesterday in his private office They informed him of their joint decision on Fowler and Company and asked for his approval Of the depository as chairman of the State Text Book Commission. This the Governor gave when satisfied that the depository will be re-estab- lished and run according to the statute and the contracts with the publishers.
 While there was no positive an . nouncement by the Governor that the proposed suit of the State against the publishers would be suppressed as the result of the action of the latter yes- tkrday 1t is almost sure that there will be no proceeding in the courts now that all things have been squared.
 The only considerable damage that resulted from the two months lapse of the depository here was the incon- venience of the people in the southern part of the State fin having to order books from Birmingham. The books that were to have been sold from the depository of Fowler and Company were tied up during the lapse caused by some business misunderstanding be- tween the agents and the publishers. For part of the time the people of the counties in South Alabama had to pay extra freight on shipments from Birm- ingham Some time ago the publish CTS were made to deduct this freight and the South Alabama counties have been supplied from the North Alabama depository without any extra charges.
 From the selection of Fowler and Company it Is evident that the proposi- tion with the Montgomery Fair fell through. The Fair people were offered the depository in it's entirety. both for wholesale and retail purposes. but their terms did not suit the publishers and Fowler and Company were again ap- pointed. The law requires the ap- pointrneht to be approved by the Text Book Commission before becoming ef- fective. This was done yesterday by the Governor It will require a few days, however, for the depository to be stocked and ready for the usual busi- ness.
 Meantime the Montgomery Fair on North Court Street wifl continue to re- tail the books to the people of Mont gomery. The new arrangement may make them the retailers for the whole year though this could not be con- f1rmed yesterday. This Is a matter that will be fixed up later the main thing that has interested the publish CTS being the re-estatlishment of the depository.
 The representatives of the publishers in the city all the week were: H, Stevenson, of Silver, Burdette and Company; S. J. Cole, of Ginn and Com pany; c. ". Duncan, of the University Publishing Company; Dr. J. K. Powers, of B. F. Johnson Publishing Com pany; J. D. Matlock. Of the American Book Company and L. H. Putney, of the McMiIlan Publishing Company.
 These gentlemen before the end of the week will have left Montgomery for the present satisfied with the agree ment reached for the depository for another year. Some of them left last night and others will go today.