The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-21
PLANS PREPARED
 ID IMPROVE HALL AnniSton Public Building Will
 Be Enlarged SENT TO REFORMAT0RY Emory Moncrief Aged t2 Years, is Found Guilty of Burglary at Annston-Was Leader of
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SENT TO REF0RMATORY

Anniston August .-lspciall-Archi- tect (. w. Carlton has drafted plans and is receiving bids for proposed alter aton in the Anniston city hall. which mean much in the way of sanitation, safety and convenience of the city ol- fcials, at the samo time considerably enlarging the capacity of the city prison. The alterations include rearrangements and enlargement of the city Council chamber the installation of desks to take thep lace of chairs and tables now used; the enlargement of the wardens of flee and other minor improvements.
 The chief alteration, however, is in the arrangement of the prison cells The cages are now damned up against the wall, and it is claimed that filth. refuse and bugs find Judgment there, resulting in the spread of much disease through out the city. According to the alterations this will be done away with by the low ering of the floor, making room for two stories, and so arranging the cages that they will be completely encircled by corridor. The cages will be several feet from the outer wall, thus making pos sible more light and larger windows.
 Furthermore, il is proposed to Install shower baths new lavatories and other improved convenienoes. All prisoners will have to pass through the wardens office, and no one can communicate with the inmates of the cells without the war den's knowledge. The new prison will be  oners.
 Emory Moncrief, aged 12. the oldest of a quartette of boys who were recently arrested for burglarizing stores in this city. was ordered sent to the reforma- tory at East Lake by Judge James T. Greene this morning. Beryl and James Summers, aged S and years, and Earl Miller. aged 5 who were also arragned on the same charge, were given whole some lecture and dismissed
 A kind of railroad love feast was hold in the traffic department of the office of the Louisville and Nashville railroad in this city this morning. at which it Was unanimously agreed that the south is becoming less anti-railroad. and that Ala bama particularly is breaking away from the so-called thraldom of commercial ism. It was predicted that Anniston would lose her traffic offices if the re- gently enacted legislation became effec- tive and that accommodation trains in the Anniston district would be dlscon- tinued. Judge Jones of the federal court was fguratiVely given the glad-hand, and the utterances of Railroad Commissioner Brown of Georgia about the failure of lover rates to help the consumer were Ina lpiy cited Gadsden commended for her public demonstration in favor of the carriers.
 Terry Richardson of Montgomery is act ing solicitor of the Lowndes circuit court
 At a meeting of the building committee of the trustees of the Girls Industrial school at Montevallo, held in the library of the supreme court today, the contract for the new dormltory was let to the E. C. Seiz company, of Atlanta, for sS0.000. This will add 120 rooms. increase the ca paclty to accommodate 250 more girls Ian at present and enlarge the dining room to accommodate 500 girls. The building must be complete by the 1st of July, 1908. Those present at the meeting were the governor, Col. s. w, John of Birmingham, ". E. w. Yerby of Greens boro, J. T. Mangum of Tallassee, trns- tees and President Palmer and Assistant President J. A Moore.
 
 pushed very rapidly, the need for not only this room but much other is very apparent. President Palmer said today that he had received so far applications from more than twice as many girls as can be accommodated. He regrets very much that the facilities are not adequate to the situation and is doing all in his power to bring the school up to the high est standard
 af ba vict board was held at the office of the president in the capitol today. Only rou- tine matters were taken up. There are very few new contracts to be let just now.
 Railroad Conference.
 There was a meeting in the office of Governor Conner today attended by lead ing officers of the Atlantic Coast Line and the Central of Georgia railways. It was in line with an effort to get together and secure the acceptance by the state and the railroads Of an agreement by which recent state acts would be put into operation Another conference will be held later in the week, at which further talk will be had. A man who ought to know said after the meeting that the Coast Line might accept the passenger and freight acts. as have %he Southern and several others, but he did not believe the Central would.
 The representatives of the Central were Maj. J. F. Hanson, president; W. A. Win burn, yice-president; T. s. Noise, general manager, and T. M. Cunningham, general counsel and R. E. Steiner, local counsel Col. Alexander Hamilton, first vice-pres- ident and general counsel of the Atlantic Coast Line, represented that road.
 Governor Conner was in conference with the attorney general much of the after noon and afterwards said that he had nothing in the way of a statement to give out. IL was thought that he would have something to say about the conference at Birmingham, but did not He intimat- ed that later in the week he would have something, but not Just yet
 Strike Situation.
 The strike situation is reported at both of the local telegraph offices to be grad ually improving Managers Sheppard and Fonville, of the Postal and Western Union companies, respectively, say they are very much encouraged with the con ditlon of affairs, and that there Is very little delay in getting messages through to other places, and that indications point to a speedy victory for the two companies over the striking operators.
 Manager Sheppard said he had been in- formed that one of the strikers in Br- mingham went back to work last night, and that two others would do so today. He said that his company would pick their men, and that none of the extreme