The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-02
DID NOT CUT WEEDS
 AND WERE FINED S1 Court Imposed Penalty on Each
 Vlolator of Clean Up Law JONES G. MOORE PAYS UP
President Of Birmingham Southern En' 6orses Mayors Enforcement of Law-Three New Arrests Made.
 Col. Tom Smiths Views.

Jones 0. Moore. president of the Bir- mingham Southern railway; Dominica Barnes, a white man, and nine negroes were fined S1 each in the inferior criminal court yesterday for violating provisions oi the city code regarding the cutting oi weeds on their respective property R. A l Burch was fined $5 for not obeying the sanitary law.
 The case of T. l.. Anglln of T. L. Anglin S Co. who was arrested Monday after l noon, was not tried. Three new warrants for similar offenses were served yesterday. The persons ar- rested were
 T. S. Smith of Elyton
 R. H. Hagood of the Walker Land eom- pany.
 William Walker administrator of the estate of w A. Walker.
 Each gave bond In the amount of $50.
 All warrants that have been served were issued for violations of the city code that has been found in the southwestern sec ton of the town.
  consistently the policy 1t has adopted on this subject, and other arrests will, it is said, be made whenever the property owners fail to obey the law.
 Moore Endorses Mayor.
 Jones G. Moore stated yesterday that he heartily endorsed the efforts made by the municipal authorities to enforce the law ,ot,o h. ern would gladly cooperate with the mayor in the work he was doing, and he explained that, though the company had failed to cut the weeds on It's First avenue property, it had already begun the work of drainage, intending later to cut the weeds.
 Mir. Moore's friends got great deal Of amusement out of the incident. one after another of them rallying the genial presi- dent of the Birmingham Southern as they met him throughout the day
 Colonel Smith Defends Moore.
 Col. Tom Smith, the president of Bir- mingham Trust and Savings company, in commenting on MT. Moores arrest. had this to say:
 IL 6OtS Wlthoht oa5ihB thoe WC eNAt ehAA in favor of enforcing the law but 1t does seem to me that an exception might wise ly have been made in the case of the bu- collie statesman from the good county of Bibb.
 Jones Moore is proud of the fact that he was a country boy and he has reason to be proud of 1t. I never see him that he doesn't seem to be longing for the good old happy days back on the farm ''The only trouble with Jones Is that though he has lived number of years In town he cannot quite get rid of the habits he formed when he was In the hay field. He carries with him always the sweet aroma of the plantation.
 Only Side Line.
 with Jones, ralroadng is all very well in its way, but agriculture is the real thing. I suppose that no man in the state really enjoys nature and likes to live close to natures heart as well as Jones Moore does. The truth is Jones had gone in for raising hay down there on that First avenue property.
 'sThe secret of Blrmingham's power,1 duutu 1OlOnti oHitH, IS tiiht II ID iHiuc up of all sorts of people, and one of the best clements of the population is com posed of these men from the country these horny handed sons of toil-who. like Jones Moore, have come here and won success in everything they have attempt ed What is it that the poet says?
 "A bold husbandry-their country's s
 pride,
 "'When once destroyed, can never be
 supplied
 Those lines" added Colonel Smith, were evidently written of Jones Moore s prototype"