The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-11
nrrInIlIn hHlUr .UfflUIRL0 MAKE
 INSPECTION TOUR
Robert JemiSon and Associates
 Pleased With Improvements
BANK OFFICERS ELECTED
Hessemer Looks Forward to Many I'm. provements in Its Manufacturinq ln- dustries During Present Year.
 Notes and Personals.

Bessemer, January 10-(Speeial. )-Presi-
 dent Robert Jemison, General Manager
 J. A Emery and Superintendent George
 H. Harris of the Birmingham Railway,
 Light and Power company were in the inspection of the improvements that have been made in the railway system in this city and that are now under way.
 They looked over the new freight and passenger station that has just been oe- cupied at First avenue and Nineteenth street and pronounced 1t good. The pas senger station was opened to the public convenient and most handsome buildings of the kind In the district The interior is handsomely finished and is very at tractive. The people of this city are proud of this improvement and appreciate the consideration that is being shown Bes- semer by the company.
 The freight department which has been convenient and meets the requirements of the companys business in this city. The freight business of the Birmingham Rail way. Light and Power company in Bes- semer has increased considerably during the past year and a larger store room be- came an absolute necessity.
 The work of completing the loop around from Nineteenth street by the depot and other improvements in the yard is being pushed rapidly and will soon bs com pleted. When this work is done the cars can be operated with greater dispatch and time will be saved in operating them in and out of this city.
 Work on the new line to the United States Cast Iron Pipe and Foundry plant
 out Ninteenth street Is progressing favor ably and 1t Is thought that service will
 be put on this line in few weeks. The railway company has spent consid-
 erable money in extensions and improve
 ments in and around this city during the
 past year, and still other improvements
 are expected during the present year
 Officers and Directors Elected. At a meeting of the stockholders of the
 Bessemer National bank, held yesterday afternoon, the following directors were l elected:
 Dr. T. F. Robinson, Vincent Ferguson
 James Trotter, T. R. Fulton, Chambers | McAdory, R. F. Smith, Louis McLain | w. J. Long, Louis Hoster, Sr., George
 H. Stevenson, G. P. Martin and W. H
 Lewis
 | Immediately after their election the board of directors met and elected the 1 following officers of the bank for the ensuing year:
 R. F. Smith, president; Louis McLain vice president; W. H. Lewis, cashier; J | R. Rutherford and George R. Davies, as sistant cashiers.
 The directors, most of whom are also directors in the Bessemer Trust and Bank | ing company, were pleased with the re.
 cent consolidation of the two banks and | the report of the business of the banks. Furnace Improvements. The work of refining furnace No. oi | the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company is about complete. and it is an | ticipated that the torchl will be applied within a few days
 It Is understood that when this fur mace is put back into commission No. will be closed down for extensive repairs | It is rumored that the company will re- build this furnace with a largely increased | capacity.
 Indeed the people of this city are hope.
 
 plants Of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and | Railroad company this year The promised activities of the Tennessee company to- gether with the Republic Iron and Stee | company, 1t is thought, will greatly effect l the Bessemer district, and the people are very much interested in every movement | that Is being made by these companies It is almost certain that many thou sands of dollars will be spent in and | around Ressemer during this year In the | enlargement and improvement of the 1 plants of these corporations School Troubles Settled. Prof. J. O. Morris, who was elected principal of the Jonesboro public schools night before last, to succeed Professor | Harrison, resigned went to Birmingham | today and closed a contract with the county board of education. It is announced that the school will re- open next Monday and it is thought that | there will be no more trouble in the Jones' | boro school district. The patrons of the l school are very much pleased with the election of Professor Morris, and will do all in their power to assimilate the fac | tions that have wrought disaster and con | tentions in the school for the past several months.
 The Jonesboro school is one of the larg- est and most important in the county out side the larger towns, and all concerned are hopeful that there will be no more
 dssensions or petty controversies there.
 Notes and Personals. Bessemer aerie of Eagles met tonight and installed the new officers elected at l the last meeting. State President Jerry