The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-08
Doi.r work in fontgolnery.

II CHAN-t@ | ;rhel great raliroad improvements to i be made in Montgomery have already | begun ,afld dirt and debris are being
 Ti,e besinnEne of the S250,00o shops to De built by the Western Railway on the site of the present shops in
 North Montgomery is now well under l way. and the contractors. Cook and l Laurie are tearing down some of the present buildings at the old shops prep | aratory to the erection or the new ones.
 The old brick pipe house IS the hrst soon as it is razed and the ground IS cleared the erection Of the first or tne l wooden buildings will begin, This ola pipe house with the brick building now used as a carpenter shop is one ol | the oldest buildings in Alabama and possibly in the South. During the wal between the States these two buildings were the only ones that the Western Railway had for it's shops over there, lthe round house being several hundred feet distant on the other side of the 1 present main line of the Western. | During the celebrated Wilson raid these two brick buildings, the present pipe house and present carpenter snop were burned with nearly exerything l of that kind in Montgomery. The walls of the two old buildings withstood the ravages of the flames and so substan- l tiaI were these old brick walls that \ 1oors were built in them and the inte- riors were completely renovated, the walls standing as good as new to this i day.
 rapidly torn down, and when tt is gone another of the landmarks linking the historic past with tlfe progressive pres-
 carpenter car IT shop wifi be the next build | ing torn down and when that Is gone Inothihg put memories and priceless re- cords will remain of the old shops of the western Railway, as years ago the
 old round nouse was torn down by the Western Railway management to give place, to the magnificent modern round- house built back of the pipe house. M. nnd Q. Improvements,
 The other work of improvement that | has begun is the grading of the trf- tangular block of property bought some ferson Streets. This property extends | from the triangle formed by the in- tersection of Coosa, Jefferson aud Tal-
 lapoosa Streets and includes the block Streets and the hlock adjoining. bound I ed hy North Court, Columbus, North Perry and Jefferson Streets.
 The Mobile and Ohio will build two lines of tracks through this property extending from tife Coosa Street tri- angle to the, limits of the property at the corner of Perry and Jefferson I d storage and houae tracks for the oars of the. Mobile and Ohio and will greatly relieve the pressure of loading Ii and uniOAQl1K 3QEdl CdE5 NHG yuA us l Of the Mobile and Ohio at the corner l of Moulton and Taliapoosa Streets. A l spur from theAtracks of the Belt Line
 on Tallapoosa Street will be built into
 Mobile hS eandsSa and Ohio. Urn There Viii be paved roadway between the two tracks for the use of the trucks and loading ana
 unlcdaing the ,; Sars r goTd s,da deai of Of M sSe two tracks and this space will be leased
 to business people.
 The work of grading the first block
 bounded by Tallapoosa, Jefferson and
 Perry Streets Is being pushed by the contractors J. M. Sullivan, who has a number of blows, wagons and the same
 road machine that he used in building ls work. This machine is combined har- row, plough and steam shovel, pnlieo by a very powerful traction engine. A
 wagon is driven slowly along the side
 of the machine, the steam shovel at
 tachment loading the wagon to its brim fin exactly ten minutes.
 The average grade to be cut down IS three feet though in several places a solid bank of earth will have to be cut away so it can be seen how many tons of earth will have to be removed. l As fast as the wagons are loaded they will be driven to the extension of l North Court Street. where the west 1 End line of the Montgomery Traction
 Company crosses that streeE eets oint gus, 9l ;s
 q large ravIre which the Street RalI-
 way people cross on a trestle about for- | ty feet in height. This ravine is being ] filled in, the dirt from the Mobile and | Ohio property being dumped in there, and when 1t is' done the street car men will have solid ground instead of tres tie work 10 run over
 | Criticism of Tntersfate Commerce Law. | Judge Clements staight-laced inter pretafion of that clause of the new 1 Hepburn Interstate Comerce law (which relates to the accepting of any thing eyeeot cash for tran sportation on | American railways, is coming in for much discussion all over the country. 1t is being rather severely criticised | by railroad men who have Tor years change of transportation for adver- ltising space as legaN Transportatlon land Advertising are considered commo- dities and as such have for time out | road men been exchanged on a "dollor I for dollar" basis, and the contention 1 is strongly advanced that Judge Glenn ent's decree destroying indIseriminate-
 stirred up no small measure Of cen
 ssSIfi The New york Commercial. one of the recognized authorities on matters I pertaining to finance and commerce. prints the following expression from a prominent railroad man on the sup- | ject:
 Exehnnge, of Commodities.
 "The railroads manufacture one
 commodity. Transportation, and It has value which can be exchanged for money or it's equivalent the same as anyl other commodity. No government, no law, can declare that commodity is not the equivalent of actual money without inviting ridicule upon itself.
 Personal services or commodities are
 exchanged between two parties Tor a9 entire manufacture and commerce or the United States. the credit between .f