The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-03
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 SENT ID MEMPHIS Represent Gadsden at Deep Waterways Convention MAY GET UNION STATION President Henderson of State Railroad Commission Is Working with
 Railway oniciajs-Bryant
 Beverly Makes Bond.
MAY GET UNION STATION

Gadsden, October 2.--(Special. At the meeting of the directors of the | Commercial club. held yesterday, for the purpose of selecting representa- l tive to attend the deep waterways con- vention in Memphis and sppear in the interest of the Coosa, 1t was decided to | send a delegation of several members and Capt. W. P. Lay, Congressman Bur nett President c. S. Ward of the Com mercIal club and Mayor John D. Dunlap were chosen to perform the task Mir / Burnett has already gone. to join the Presidents party at St. Louis and the other members of the delegation will probably leave for Memphis on Thurs day.
 A letter from President Henderson of the state railroad commission intl- mates that he has tho question of union passenger station for this city well in hand with the hallway ofnciais and tn at there Is every reason to nope | for success. It will not be the poicy of President Henderson to employ any official pressure but to get the rail- road people together on what they themselves acknowledge to De much needed Improvement.
 He has freely expressed n1mself to the effect that Gadsden has the poor est depot facilities in the slate TOT town of it's size and importance ana that a hundred -thousand- dollar struc- ture is necessary to care for me tralnc 1 of this city. The railroads pave rec | ognized this and have made some CT forts to get together on such F prolec'' but thus far have failed ana Freslaeht Henderson believes that as a alsinter- ! ested party he can assist Tn prlhgins them all together on basis lhat VIII be fair to all interests.
 Work on the foundations forthe new 1 Stevenson building was begun yester- { ao,, ,,d oorcrete will be put Into the | trancbes hv tomorrow This work is 1 under the supervision of Engineers hlIl ! & Smith and is being hustlei rlgnt along. Much of the material Ifor the structure is already on the ground ana 1t Is hoped to get the building com 'pleted before the first of the year
 The Ward Weller Manufacturing company has just received lare> horse power gasoline engine ana VIII have it installed at once. rms ntpl
 
 machine repair business and hfs rs- centIy moved into new quarters on South Second street.
 Bryant Beverly, vr> was afres'ea | yesterday on indictments chargifg asi sault and battery and attempt to mur1 | der, succeeded In making ponp af
 night in the sum of $2300 and was re- lea sed. The charges of crime grew out of a family TOW in which Beverly stabbed one Pedro Sligh, his brother
 in-law, and cutting his own whe m the back. Beverly was said to nave been intoxicated at the time and eX-' pressed great regret at the occurrence next day.
 Engineers of the Louisville and Nash vile Railroad company are al work on l the grade of the spur track to the | furnaces of the Alabama Consolidated l Coal and Iron company establlshlng | the level for the track which vii soon be laid. The work on this spur was we'll along nearly year ago, when l some legal difficulty arose over some l titles delaying it's completion until now. i Considerable other work or tracks In the Ninth street yards and at the plant 1 of the Southern Steel conpany has been authoriz and 1t Is ioped that all of this will now be taken up and | carried forward.
 | The committee on civic improvement 1 appointed by the Commercial club some 1 weeks ago held a joint meeting with a I numb CT of the city's prominent ladies and it has been decided to ell a mass meeting for next Saturday which all the women of the city are uIged to at tend. The meeting will be feld in the auditorium of the Carnegie lbrary and
 ha oraA 5,,,.a ay,I iu confidently expected. Mrs. J.\D. Mat lock of Birmingham, Q noted Saworker for municipal improvement in tfe Magic | City and elsewhere, will be present and | will address the women on he city l beautiful work in this city. t is the intention at this time to forn per 1 n,anent organization to carry on the work in Gadsden and all the ladies Of the city are asked to come outand get l the inspiration that Mrs. Matlock Is well able, to impart
 Tine Y. NJ. C. A. reception tS be held next Thursday night promisei to be function of more than ordinary inter-
 ast Tbe ladies' auxiliary has, tr nlsN-
 charge and a strong progranmse ss haan arranged. Especial musical en- | .ar.a,nnent has been provided ana the
 ttar of refreshments has not teen
 nyariooked The reception last year was
 most successful affair and interest in
 i e,,ng mems organization in Cads-
 .nio as been wonderfully developed | since that time.
 ,r,,rner Lewis. charged with petit
 oanv and who was out on bord, haN
 la..s..ad for parts unknown. leaving his
 hondsmen to hold the bag ana settle
 with the state.
 IF ,uas hailed out of jail soms week s ago by MT. Brown of the Hetderson- cturpess Piano company, w. M Chand- , | ler and Cato D. Glover.
 STOCKHOLDERS MEET , HartseIje Will Install Electric Lighting