The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-13
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Firht fnr rreIght Rate...


 Fight for Freight Rates. While l regret" said Montgomery merchantt that the Freight Bureau has been forced fo resolve upon fight to secure better freight rates. l am glad We have been patient with the rail- | road ofiictais and we have tried, py ar i the determinations that have been l practiced against us, but all of our l emorts have been lost apen the, traiiic managers. No one who has studied the ] situation doubts that we will win the ] hght before the Interstate Commerce Commission, ana it Is pity it was not ' appealed to that body long ago. Reading the petition filed by Manager 1 KealhofeP with the railroad officials, I l was struck by the partiaiity shown by ]. certain railroads for Mobile and for i Pensacola. These railroad companics 1 have large Investments in these cities. They have even gone outside of their l crimiWating in favor of these cities. 1 they help to improve their other in | terests. This is we'll enough and we Of w9nG 5e 2d dS tS prosper at our expense. T am sure no reference to Mobile. pensacola or Birmingham would have been necessary to show that Illegal were being practiced"
 
 Capitol Work is Artistic, Do you know" said a Capitol woi ker yesterday. "that some of the most ex- pert plasterers in the country are dome?'
 '''It's worth any mans time to see what those plasterers can do with teri0r of the dome is, of course, in pure white. But the plasterers, through the complete mastery of their s4s4t oil k4,.rr and decorations on those white walls that would be an ornament to any building in the country, The plaster ing is of that sort that distinguished the Grecian and the substantial arehi- lecture of the old South. The old Capitol was built that way, and no tra- rations, But the old order has been Improved by the new development, in the plasterer's art
 When the work was undertaken. it was required by the Capitol Building Commission that all the Improvements should be of the highest order of merit, and the rotunda almost complete, it is now seen that the artistic work of the most artistic kind.'
 Much Building Improvement.
 When one rides about Montgomery with his eyes open" remarked man who is interested in the welfare of the
 
 with the fact that there is much work here for men who want to work
 To-day, for example, there has come under my observation the raging R the Teague buildings at Commerce and Bibb Streets, to make way for a hand some building; the old warehouses on Tallaposa and Coosa Streets are com ing down to give place to railroad im- provements; two stories are being added to the skyseraping .Yandiver building, formerly owned by the First National Rank. completion, and so is the handsome an- mex to the State Capitol These are that are giving work to, iaborers and putting money into circulation.
 "A visit to the residence section, es- pecially in the suburbs. discIoses the fact that residences are building in all parts of the city. As long as the hammer and saw is busy the poor peo- pie of a community need not feel the Hon, Arthur F. Williams of Elmore County, spent yesterday in Montgom- the last Constitutional Convention. and is well-known in Montgomery, where he has many friends. The friends of MT. w. T. Welch will be pleased to learn. that he has suffi- ciently recovered from his illness to re- turn to his home at Morgansviile.
 MT. R. A. Smitherman' of Gordo came to Montgomery yesterday evening, and spent last night in the city. He is ac- companied by Mrs. Smitherman,
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 Mir. Beal Travis, who is III at the home of his parents, MT. and Mrs. ?. A. Travis, is reported as much better.
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 Hon. William w. I9atender of Center ville former member of the =Legisla- ture from Bibb County, is in town. \.
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 Mir, L. Stein, Jr, of Mobile reached the city last night. He is staying at
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 Mr. John M. Garrett of EIba was among yesterdays visitors to Mont gomery.
 MT R. F. Kennedy, a we'll known citizen Of Abbeville, is visiting Mont
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 Judge J. c. Wood and Mrs Wood of Hayneville are at the Exchange.
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 MT. c. S. Chapman of Enterprise is
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 MT. r. w. Fitzpatrick of Selma is in the city.