The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-20
Interesting Project Be fore Commercial Club.
nusiness Men at Monthly Meeting Re solve to Telegraph Congressman a. to Persecuted Jews
 of Russia.

The Commercial Club of Montgomery will advocate the building Of eleetflc street railway lines from Montgomery through the wiregrass country ol Southeast Alabama 10 Geneva ana aiSo from Montgomery to Wetumpka-
 The club at its meeting last night showed enthusiastic interest in these matters. The Commercial Club will telegraph coprressman A. A. Wiley asking nm to oppose the Dillingham; and Gardner antf-immigration bills which are now uending before Congress insotar ds 4hev arc opposed to the landing or po- 1itical and religious refugees in Amer fca.
 This action was taken last night st the regular June meeting Of the cIuo pursuant to a call upon the club oy Mike Mohr. who said that the passage If these bills would practically pro hfbit the immigration of the outraged Jews of Russia to America. His plea for the persecuted Jews of despotic Russia was earnest and his words foun1 a ready response from Dr. Neal L. An derson, pastor of the Central FresbY- terian Church. who was the author or the motion to telegraph Congressman Wiley.
 Important Matters Considered.
 The club had a busy session and number of important matters were cor sidered. The Legislature was called upon to establish bureau of inmigra- tIon in Alabama and also to create the office of State Forester attached to the Alabama Polytechnic Institute The progress of the Montgomery Freight Bureau in securing concessions in rates was brought out and child labor in the mills of Alabama was under discussion, a resolution bearing on the situation being adopted,
 The Club went deeply into an inves- tfgation of various kinds of street pavement owing to the fact that the city of Montgomery is about to pave several streets, and batch of corre- spondence in regard to pavement ir a number of cities were read.
 The meeting was called to order at S:45 o'clock by President A. c. Forbes. Secretary Gilbert read two telegrams sent by the Commercial Club to J. R. McMullen who was holding a meeting last night in Gadsden in the interest of an Alabama Trade Schood for white boys The telegrams expressed hearty endorsement of the campaign inaugu- rated in the state for such an institu- tion and expressed approval of the movement
 Report of the Secretary.
 Secretary Gilbert then read and sub mftted his report which directed atten-  cisco sufferers. the entertainment of the Southern Publishers Association and publicity gained therefrom, the visit of President Forbes and the Sec retary to the Commercial Club of Sell ma, and other matters concluding with a statement of real estate transactions. This part of the report showed that in twelve months there have been 1900 transfers of real estate made in Montgomery, the. values of which amounted to S3,175,000.
 The activity of the Commercial Club in endea.oring to secure reduc' ton in fire insurance rates for Mont gomery was brought before the meet ing by the Secretary who reviewed the history of the lower rate agitation and the subsequent agreement of the Southeastern Tariff Association to grant a cheaper rate provided certain fire fighting improveme were made He read to the members letter, which he had forwarded to Mayor Teague re- garding this matter.
 On motion of Fred S. Ball, the secre- tary was instructed to inform the Southeastern Tariff Association that 8 part of the improvements had beer 7. completed, namely the installation oi an additionad water pump and to re- quest a reduction of ten points IT rates.
 Street Paving Improvement.
 
 paving that is soon to be done by thu city and bids for which are now IT the hands of the Council, the Club tool up the question and Secretary Giloer announced that. in order to gain th' necessary information, he had been il correspondence with the mayors anC city engineers of a great number O. cities whom he questioned regarding the good and bad qualities of brick bituIithic. and asphalt pavement l1' read a batch of correspondence iron the following cities: Savapnah, Ga Dallas Tex, Paducah, Ky, Asheville N C.. Columbus, Ga, Atlanta, Ga: St Louis, Mo, Mobile, Hattiesburg, Miss Shreveport, La, and New Orleans. Tn consensus of opinion seemer to be tha brick and bitulithic pavement wer both good. The former was more de sirabIe for downtown districts. and tn latter on account of 1t being almos noiseless, better suited for resideno streets
 MT. Ball moved that the contents O the letters be put into the very pes form as he thought 1t possible tn Council needed the information m motion was adopted.
 President Forbes suggested that th proper way to get the information pc fore the Council would be to invite th chairman of the Streets Committee t' the Commercial Club to look over tn letters Thus the paving incident wa closed.
 Work of Freight Bureau.
 Before going any further c. Morifz announced that he would llk' to sav a few words about the Mont Eomery Freight Bureau. It had dom a little more than the transportation committee of the Commercial Club. had succeeded in getting reductions or through freight from Eastern points First class was reduced from Sll4 t' s1Os. and tbere had been a reductlo' of five cents on other classes. He sait the new rates would go into effect to day.
 President Forbes said MT. Morit was wrong in his statement that th bureau had done more than the "ol'