The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-14
SWAN LAKE WILL
 HAVE ATTRACTION New Union Passenger Station
 Opens Today RAILWAY IMPROVEMENTS New Tracks and Retaining Walls Are Being Built By the Southern Rail- way at Decatur-Annual
 Encampment.
RAILWAY IMPROVEMENTS

l Decatur July 13.-(Special)-T De- catur Steam Ferry company has made ] arrangements to add d number of free attractions at Swan lake. just across the l Tennessee river from this city.
 A contract has been closed with George 1 Chayest, a high rope walker, for a num- Der of feats at the lake commencing within the next week. One of these feats i win be a slide for life Another will be the walking of a three-eighths ot -n inch rope stretched fifty feet above the water and crossing the lake.
 For the past few years MT. Chayest has been fishing on the river here, but for many years he travelled with almost all the big circuses on the road as a high rope and wire walker
 To Open Station. The new union passenger station in this city will be opened to the public tomor- row. The building Is the property of the Southern railroad, but will be used by the l Louisville and Nashville railroad as we'll The building has been completed for several months, but owing to number of injunctions which property owners near the station filed against the company, restraining the railroad from closing Vine and Lafayette street by building cement sidewalks across them, the building has not been opened before. These cases are still in the courts but. the railroad com l pany has decided to use the depot and ! allow the streets to remain as they for 1 the present.
 ] The depot is one of the handsomest l and most conveniently arranged of any depot in this section of the state. The building together with the sheds, etc. cost about $4O0OO. There are two large train sheds in connection with the build ing.
 1 The old depot building which stands near l the site of the new building will be torn down and moved away at once This building has stood here for more than quarter of a century and long ago be- came too small for the accommodation of the travelling public.
 Mayor Henry A. Skegg has been the mayor of Decatur for more than eight years and during all these years one of his hobbies has been new depot for De catur. After much work and planning his wishes will be fully realized on tomorrow, when the handsome new depot is opened.
 Road Improvements. The Southern Railroad company brought | large force of men her yesterday to re- | sume work on the retaining walls and spur tracks which are being built here, | but on which work was suspended d few l weeks ago.
 1 Several new tracks are to be built, one l being u long spur entering the union depot, q distance of about four squares, the Southern tracks run through a deep cut. This cut has been wdened and more tracks added Retaining walls are neces- sary to keep the walls from caving.
 Annual Encampment.
 About fifty members of Company E.. Dick Adams Rifles. Alabama National Dick Adams Rifles. Alabama First Lieut.. Raymond R. Brown and Second Lieut. Clifton Penney. will leave here on July r for Huntsville, where they will go into annual encampment with the Third regiment for ten days. Maj. William H. Long, Jr., of Decatur, l who is a member of the legislature, will get a leave of absence and will go into encampment with the regiment at Hunts ville He is one of the majors of the Third regiment
 New Filtering Plant.
 It is expected that the new Altering plant, which is being built by the Decatur Water Works company, will be ready for use within the next two weeks.
 The water company has been somewhat handicapped in the construction of the plant on account of the difficulty experi- enced in getting freight cars to transport the necessary machinery and material.
 Will Improve System.
 The Decatur Light. Power and Fuel company is making arrangements to add extensive Improvements to their plant here. Several thousand dollars will be spent in rehabilitatng the present system and in extending the service of both gas and electricity.
 There has recently been q change of ownership in this company and it is the intention of the new company to make many Improvements in the system.
 Mrs. Sanders Entertans.
 Mrs R. F. Sanders entertained at the Tavern hotel in New Decatur at fare well party to Mrs II. B. Scott. A packed trunk in miniature. containing many things useful to a housewife, was pre- sented to Mrs. Scott MT. and Mrs. Scott go to Atlanta. Ga, where Mr. Scott will engage in the insurance business.