The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-02
BY BRUCE KENNEDY


 2 month? To extend the plant the Southern Railway needed about five
 ceres of land, Failure to set tnts
 land a, might have sent the car works qnjred the land transferred 1t to the car works conpany and think they nave made good Investment.
 nem It is dGshttglit thers is ,,n anotnsF anei an abundant supply of water as Gads. den, With the Coosa river on the East and Wills Creek on the West, Is Unlimited. T;kke waterworks sys- tenn of Gadsden Is . private corpora ton, but negotiations are under way
 No vsc.as Houses h eadsden
 There iss not axvacant house in Gadsden and carpenters are busy Tn every section of the city preparing tracted to this beautiful country. Many of the newcomers are AiaOam- ians and South Alabamians. too; Names bour County. in Marengo County, III l Sumter County, in Wilcox County. ana other portions of Middle and souta 1t is said that the hotels and board, ing houses are filled with people ana as fast as new houses are completed.
 they gre occupied; This condition; ibo .saI Q i estate market and one hears tales of | interest here and there of small tors tunes made In day hy buying ana ana | ened a new street, .Turrcntine Ave
 a fashionable boulevard Once 1t was
 ola lane; TarrensiSs lssslns Ao@s sS sSs Row ns l is lined with costly residen-
 ces, many of which have
 thsr garsgs. n the most p,eStursesanSs ,Ss sssnS l new residence of Prof. W, F. Strirlin.
 Superintendent of the Gadsdkn Schools. was pointed out ProfessPr Stripiin. man in Gadsden, is widely known in
 middle Alabama. and his friends in tnis section will hear with pleasure that. while making the school system or Gadsden n conspicuous success, the 1 young pedagogue has Invested so .wise- l ly in real estate there that he is re- puted to be we'll endowed with the sordid gold of the land,
 Gndsden's Fashionable District. Turrentine Avenue Is full of prom l ise for the fashionables. but Forest Avenue is still the Perry Street or Gadsden. Here lives Capt Jim Elliott. Jr.. Stonewall Kyle. W. P. Lay. Judge J. H, Disque. the Bellingers and other | Gadsdenners who are known away from home. Congressman Jack Burnett was
 domieiled in a pretty home on the . Av. 1 time ago Now he and Mrs. Burnett and their 16-year-old son./Phi Burnett have apartments at q downtown hotel I MilnOudIIS ROpcrC hStcs thC iuui- herman and pioneer citizen of Gads- den. lives in a handsome house, said | to be the most beautiful spot Tn Ala. bama. over on Lookout Mountain hard I by the picturesque Bellevue Hotel. ot which more Is to be written.
 Every other man In Gadsden seems | to be dabblinH In real estate, It is ! profitable beyond doubt. One hears | of pretty piles of money made in day. I Those fourteen acres" said man, | pointing to suburban tract, were sold ] weeks ago three lots, less than half acre of the tract, were sold for $9,500. l And these are not boom" prices. 1 There is steady, healthy demand for | good residence property. and desirable Il locations come high.
 I Editor MoseIey Invests MOneyss One man of our party, Editor Mose- l ley of The Washington County News, was so impressed with Gadsden that valley. This was one result of the meeting of newspaper men in Etowah' $ Capital.
 The people of Gadsden have caught the spirit of progress, but they are not living too fast to meet the visitor with
 open-heafted courtesfes, and generous and genuine Inequalities. To come away from Gadsden without carrying grati-
 sude in the heart for skindnesses of
 Captain Elliott Colonel. Kyle, Editors Hofferbert and McCulIoch of The Jour mai, Editors Meeks, Martin and Rogers of The Time1-News, Captain Lay, Judge
 Disque, Loui Hart, Bruce Armstrong
 Louis Herzberg, Dr. McMullen, Alto Lee, F. W. Whips, and scores of other
 Gadsden good fellows would be an im- possibility.