The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-10-27
DOES A. B. & A. SEEK
ENTRANCE TO SELMA
Party of Surveyors Will Be in
the City Today
TAKES NORTHERN ROUTE
Cotton Men and Farmers Are Com
planning of Compress Service and
There Is Talk of Build
ing Another Plant.
TAKES NORTHERN ROUTE

Selma. October 26.-(Special9-Is the At
lanta. Birmingham and Atlantic railway
seeking an entrance into Selma, and if so,
is it an indication that the Louisville and
Nashville and the Atlanta. Birmingham
and Atlantic are one and the same sys-
tenn? These are questions agitating Sell
mians today. They are occasloned by the
appearance in this city of Mr.. Alfred C.
Olney, chief engineer of the Atlanta, Biz
mingham and Atlantic railway. Mr.. Olney
sought out President Peacock of the Com
mercial and Industrial association and
asked his aid in securing a site for the
location of a camp of engineers for his
road
Secretary Slater, to whom the matter
of the site was referred secured a SPLEEN
did location on the Robbins place west of
the city. The corps, consisting of twenty
two men, will reach the city tomorrow,
and win Immediately go to work ON a sur
vey of line north of this city. The spec
ulation is that the survey is to be of the
old Cahaba valley route TO Blocton, from
which place into Birmingham there will
be no trouble. Such a road will mean
great things for Selma. 1t will mean that
soon the banks of the high bluffs of the
Alabama river in thsi vicinity will be
dotted with manufacturing plants and
that Selma, with its imperishable and
never-failng resources guaranteed by the
magnificent agricultural country sur
rounding it, will have added to it manu-
featuring Industries whic.. will make its
prosperity phenomenal
Cotton Men Complain.
city are making strenuous compla ints
against the mana cement Oh the Gulf Conn
press company over the service being
given them in this city. The factors COM
plain that they cannot get prompt service
in the matter of receipts for cotton
shipped them, and the buyers complain
that they cannot get cotton compressed
and shipped. The banks and merchants
have Joined in the matter and today a
prominent buyer teegraphed Mr.. Hanson,
the head of the Gulf Compress company,
demanding relief. MIR. Hanson promised to
look into the matter. For three years the
Gulf Compress company has been in
charge of the press and warehouse here,
and each season there have been many
complains made, until the merchants are
beginning to tire, and there are many who
talk of establishing another plant here.
All Ready for the Fair.
The board of directors of the Central
Alabama Fair association held a meeting
| at noon today and went over the matters
preparatory for the opening of the fair
next Tuesday. Everything is thoroughly
organized to start off with on the opening
day, and there is every reason to expect
that Selma will have the best fair of the
three scheduled to be held in Alabama
this year. Tuesday next at 10 o'clock there
will be a parade throuPs the principal
streets of the city, participated in by the
local military, the fire department, floats
of merchants, etc.
Local and Personal.
I. L. Rosendorf returned last night from
companied him, will not return until a few
days later.
Daniel Mayer of Lower Peach Tree
Wilcox county, was a visitor to the city
today.
Last night the Harmony club gave its
thirty-eighth annual opening ball Il. j.
Schuster and Mrs Schuster led the grand
march, Mr.. Schuster being the president
of the club. Four debutantes made Their
bow to society on the occasion of the
opening event of the season. These were
Misses Bertha Schuster, Saidee Meyer
Jeanett Hyer and Irma Wolf.
Mr.. and Mrs. George l.. Waller left
Yesterday afternoon for Baltimore, ac-
companied by DR.. w. w. Harper Mr.
Waller goes to enter Johns Hopkins hos
ptal to undergo an operation for facial
neuralgia. from which ne has been a
sufferer for some time.
Judge Mabry this morning, upon habeas
corpus proceedings, released A. c. Ellis
negro on a bond of $1,000 for killing John
King, another negro, at Orrville several