The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-31
SIDEWALK PENC7LINGS
critici.ss siaev.Ik paving.

against the street paving department" remarked an observant citizen yester- day.
 T sometimes pass along Pelham street mad motive they are paving the sidewalk on the north side. between Jackson and Ripley. There Is round : two streets and they have cut the sur race duwn until some of the front Yards are four feet at least above the sidewalk In more than one of these places they will have to build steps reaching almost back to the verandas In order to set from their yards to the walk. If the surface had been smoth- cd on and paved just as 1t was. the lent as 1t will be the only difference heinz that higher retaining walls would have been required. But doubt 1T that would have cost the city more than 1t did to cn< tho walks down as "Another thing I object to is the ruthless destruction of shade trees. There were a dozen or more ftne elms growing on the edge of the side' 1 walk in question. and not a single one was left standing. l hold the city has no moral right to sacrifice fine tree to make room for paving stone. On a side street like that. pavement five or six feet wide, with the trees left standing, would be better than a ten-foot walk with all the trees de- stroyed.
 rms IS put one oI Wha is going on all over the city, and contend that it is not right or just to the owners of property or to the pub lte am as anxious to sec the clty improved and made beautiful .as any man in it. but I do not think 1t right to destroy so many of the fine old trees nor to put residents to expense and inconvenience by leaving their front yards up in the air. am not a kick CT. but if l am not right l should ike to know the reason"
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 Decrease Federal Court Business.
 If one feature of the Lusk bill, in reference to corporations, is passed by the Legislature, the United States Court for this district will lose about half it's civil cases said a Montgom- cry attorney yesterday.
 'Lusk proposes that a foreign cor- poration. doing business In Alabama, shall forfeit it's right to do business in this State in the event the corpora ton should remove case from the State to the Federal courts. or course. there Is no law prohibiting a foreign corporation from removing cases, bui the corporations will hesitate to do so if they know they will forfeit their rights by the transfer.
 Under the Federal statutes, sults ln the State courts. involving parties or diverse citizenship. can be removed to the United States Court on petition or either party. provided the dama ges claimed is as much or greater than Numbers of cases are continually being removed from the state to the Federal courts now under this statute' and the foreign corporations are gen orally the parties who apply for the removal"
 Wants Names i'm Book.
 Officials in the City Hall complain their names are not conveniently oata- iogued in the new telephont directory because their titles without their names
 Tt makes it hard for people to find us sometimes" said one of the ofh- cials yesterday '1n the book there are merely our titles and the numbers or our office and residence phones, ana as some people do not know our onlciai designations. they have difficulty in knowing where to find us, either at the City Hall or at our homes. The only way to make the matter clear, l sup pose, would be to advertise our loenti-
 ''No, do not know that l can blame the phone persons. You see they give us half rates at the request or the Mayor and I guess tnat that haTtng e,S,n xs e nfSn cial rating in their books, too
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 President MOhr Goes to Birmingham'
 Mike Mohr, President of the lnde- pendent Order of Rnai B'rith' plstriSt ,I,lSL l.. ham Lodge this week, the occasion being the initiation of larg class or candidates. MT Mohr will assist Tn the work. ,,, ,,.A s. address to the Birmingham lodge after the ceremony of initiation Is compiet- ed, and he will then be entertained ae
 MT. Mohr was elected District Presi- dent at the annual convention or the Grand Lodge which met in Montgom cry last April. He is manifesting m9cn throngtomt thIe inc several Southern States
 The term of office of MT. Mohr will expire this spring. when the Grand Ladge meets again Tn heihp"'''
 Mir. Pratt Returns Home.
 Mir. C. w. Pratt of Pell City, leLt last night for his home after spena- ing several days in M9ntgomerS ont HnttaS mills mL in PeI City, and is the president or the Alabama Manufacturers Associa, ton. He was in Montgomery Tuesday to attend the banquet given by pr J' P McMullen. secretary of the south ern Immigration and Industrial Assos citation. to Hon. D. C. HeyWara' ,1 or Pratt made speech upon ilnmigra- ton.
 Hon. Duncan c. Heyward former Governor of South CarollnR Wuo Cdnhe fo Montgomery to address the Legisla, ture upon the subject of Immigration Jeff Montgomery yesterday morning.
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 Hon. James IT. Nunnelee. formerly ed itor of The Selma Times, and MT. M O. Walker, a well known citizen Of Selma, are visitors to Montgomery. Ss < Se
 Judge R. l.. Blanton. of Haleywile former probate judge of Winston coun- tv was in Montgomery yesterday.
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 Mir. C. NJ Wood and Mir. B. NJ. Her lony of Fort Deposit. are in the city and are staying at the Imperial F E <
 MT. George w. Jones of Mobile is a visitor to the Capital City.
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 Mr. x. Shelley of Eufaula is regis tered at the Imperial
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 Mr NJ. F. Brooks of Brewton. is reg istcred at the Mabson.
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 MT s. K. Gotten ot Athens. is Mont '''''' 3s s 2.
 MT. J B. Lyons of orelika is at the ''e" > 3s & 3l
 Mir. J. D. Carter or Atmorc is at | the Mabson.