The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-25

condition which m itself bespeaks the timeliness of the 1910 movement. It in- dicates that when so much of It's own accord comes, that an intelligent, sys- ternatic and aggressive movement VIII attain results that could hardly have been dreamed of ten years ago.
 If one stops a moment and reflects
 he will be surprised at the amount or development and improvement in the
 congested district. in the business quarter which less than any other part of the city represents Montsomerys
 true progress. It has not been so many months since the splendid struc-
 ture of the First National Bank was
 completed. The finishing of the hand
 some Pelzer building on Commerce.
 street is a recent incident in the ,his-,
 tory of Montgomery, even as IS the
 construction of the big Winter. Loeb and company building op Tallapoosa
 street. together with sevefal lsnetghhor- ing structures. The splendid building
 of the New Exchange Hotel was only last week turned over by the con tractors to the owners. The acotden- taI destruction of the kitchen annex by fire only delaying the formal open ing of the new hotel which competent judges declare to be the handsomest hotel structure in the South.
 The beautiful marble building of the
 First Baptist church is well under way and to the churches of the South It will be what the New Exchange is to
 Southern hotels. It has not been so many months since the $5o,00O Car negie Library on Perry street block nearer the business district was fin- fshed. On that same street some or l the costliest homes ever constructed in Montgomery are now building. Perhaps a dozen stores in the busi- ness section have been remodelled or
 had new fronts put to them, Withln tho past month the beautiful three story building of the Montgomery
 Light and Water Powef Company has been turned over to the company by
 the builder as finished.
 The enterprise of Moses w. Stuart.
 and his associates in erecting hand
 some modern apartments, is~-merely
 another milestone in Montgomery IS
 remarkable development of the past
 five years Two of these buildings
 are to go up on Dexter Avenue, the
 handsomest street in the South. The
 first. a five story structure, might be said even now to be under way, for the formal contract for It's erection
 will be let during the present week.
 The other apartment building whlch will be modern and of handsome archl-
 
 les, along the Avenue which for many years have been an eye sore to the reople of Montgomery. A third strue- ture of this sort is to go up on the corner of Clayton and Hoicombe street. A COngested City.
 It is a matter of surprise that such an enterprise as the building of mod ern apartment houses has not pre-
 vious to this been undertaken. For
 Montgomery Is the most congestd city in the South. An acre in the heart of
 Montgomery will contain more people than an acre in the heart of New Or leans. Atlanta, Birmingham or Mem phis. No Southern city is so closely built together. Modern apartment
 houses are improvements which will meet he demands of such a peculiar condition.
 And no review of present and recent
 development in Montgomery is com pIete without at least an allusion to the great contribution that the State of Alabama is making towards beauti-