The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-26
SIDEWALK PENcILINCS
rAree-y<ar-oId Took Car Ride.

Three-year-oId Took Car Ride. The sudden disappearance of the g. year-old son of Mrs. J. M Shetrer of Walker County, a delegate to the Sum oay School Convention. from the side or hfs mother who was standing on Dexter Avenue. about 6 o'clock yester- day afternoon, created some excite mcnt and gave Mrs Shearer inuch un- Mrs. shearer. with her little son, was waiting on a crowded corner for l friends. A Belt Line car stopped at the corner and unobserved the little IeIoT crawled upon the ear and was l When Mrs. shearer missed the child she was frightened and. at once q searching party was organized. IL seemed that no one saw the little fel- low when he boarded the car. The mo other remained on the corner sur rounded by friends while the search was instituted. hoping that if he had fol- lowed some one off he would be re- turned to that corner.
 When tine Belt Line car. on which the little fellow was enjoying rlde, made the circuit of the city and again stepped on the corner, the little fellow was restored by the conductor 70 his mother. He was happy over the ride Mrs. Shearer is staying with Miss Johnston on Madison Avenue. Rebuildins the Jail. Actual work began yesterday on the remodeiing of the county jail. rhe structure that has so long been an tic RS9ps prebnt 9d and ahs work to be done will be the construs-. I ton of a three-story annex During the progress Of the puiIrlng the; prisoners will be moved from place | to place until the building is .complet- ed. Yesterday the negro women who occupy the rear end of the jail were moved forward to the iron; portion or T am truly glad to see this work begin," said prominent citizen. The place has been a disgrace to the coun- ty and as careful as Jaiier McLeiilore has been for the past year, ne could not prevent the jail being disgrace from sanitary viewpoint
 When the jail is completed all this ventilation and light, while there will be hospital wards female wards ana a separate ward for juvenile offend | CTS, so that the young criminals may not learn of the things which become conversational items to the hardened jail birds."
 Great Ia Alabama, Says Visitors. from Michigan, who has been in Mont- gomery about q month. T have read in The Advertiser where twelve car loads of strawberries and four car one county in the southern part of the State in a single day. Then I read in the same paper that an Italian expert has declared that the white marble is . the finest in the world. Again read that one man has re- fused a half million dollars for tract of Alabama timber lands and that other men in the northern part or the State Is successfully mining gold.
 ''The mineral district of Alabama with its iron. coal, pyrites, graphite, mica. copper, and other resources or
 Surely this is a State of remarkable resources and the opportunities offered here to investors is beyond calculation. State is progressing so rapidly no won der your business men have resolved to increase the population to 100000 by 1910."
 Visitors Praise Montgomery.
 Delegates to the B'Nai B'Rith and the Sunday School conventions say that they have the largest attendance
 in the aistSsy or fne tbe wo so ment is the direct cause of the im- mense number of delegates that are now in our city," said well-known he continued, "some people were fool ish enough to scoff at the movement The people of Alabama through the advertising the raising of the fund
 
 Montgomery had, in reality woke up and they wanted to see the new Mont gomery.
 q understand that all of the dele gates have been charmed with the man. ner in which they have been enter tained, and will all return to their homes and sing the praises of Mont gomery,"
 The condition of Rev. c. ". Patter- son, D. D.. pastor of the First Pres byterian Church. who is dangerously i'll at the manse on Perry Street, was reported as somewhat improved last night. His condition. however, is still critical.
 Reports from the home of Gen. John w. A. Sanford, who broke his arm by falling few days ago, indicate that General Sanford's broken bone Is knit ting slowly.
 Rev. Frank Willis Barnett of Birm- ingham, editor and publisher of The Alabama Baptist, is in the city attend ing the Sunday School Convention. Capt. C. B. Ballard of Birmingham. a member of the staff of Col. w. H. McKleroy of the 3rd Infantry, was in Montgomery yesterday.
 Judge J. B. Gaston has gone to Washington and New York on recre- ation trip. He will be absent two weeks.
 Hon. John F. Proctor of Scottsboro- was visitor to the Capitol yesterday.
 Mr. John P. Tillman of Birmingham spent yesterday in Montgomery.