The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-23
DROP OF MERCURY
OPPRESSIVE WEATHER
 FOLLOWED BY COLD sNAP.
Southern Hallway Making Many Tm- provements at Mobile and Has Others In Contemp1aticn--New
 Saw Miii Under Constructfon.
Advertlser Bureau.


 and knowing ones predicted verifica- tion of the signal. as it fioated from the mastehead on top of the City Bank and Trust Company building, the high est in the city.
 Late in the evening the wind began blowing from the southeast and soon the rain began falling. occasionally in blinding sheets All during the night this continued. This morning the fall of 1.77 inches and a high wind velocity of 24 miles per hour. At noon today the temperature began falling very rapidly,
 southern Railway Improvements.
 When the Southern Railway Company first made entrance into this port through purchase of the Mobile and Birmingham Railroad, many feared the worst. Men of broad imagination predicted that the great system would use Mobile for convenience, or, by the purchase noted. keep some rival railway system from securing this con- meeting link with Selma and Birming- ham. When the railroad shops were removed from Mobile to Selma, the usual "I-told-you-so" was heard. But this class of chronic kickers have had reason to change. Tho Southern today Is making extensive improvements in Mobile. besides having others in con temptation. There is the s300,000 pas senger depot. the outlines of which are already sufficiently advanced in con- struction to give one an idea of what is to be on the spot selected for the handsome structure. Then there Is all most as important work in progress by the Southern on the river front, at the foot of Lipscomb Street. Here a small brigade of carpenters and other laboring men are busily engaged in erecting immense piers and docks for the accommodation of ocean-gotng steamships Already the piers are down and the framework for the docks placed, the whole giving one an idea of what can be expected there.
 And this is not all the Improvements contemplated by the Southern. Since coming into Mobile this road has been using an old rookery at the foot of Adams Street as a freight depot. From outside appearances if appeared to be better suited as a hiding place for bats, rats and owls, rather than for offices and storage purposes. Some time ago your representative ventured the pre- diction that the railroad company had an eye on more desirable property and freight depot and offceslfor the array of officials and clerks of that depart ment. The spot then designated was the splendid property of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company at the north east corner of Beauregard and Royal Streets, formerly the terminus of that road and used as the passenger depot. It is but a stone's throw from the new passenger station, now being erected by the Southern. An evidence that the prognostication is correct is that the stockholders of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. are called to meet February 21, next, first, to elect a Board of Direc tors, and, second, to consider a propo- sition from the Southern Railway to purchase the property designated above. Tn event the stockholders vote to make the sale, the Southern will erect a thoroughly modern freight depot upon the property.