The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-17
TWO ADDRESSES
 ON PROHIBITION
Hon. Seaboard Wright and F,
 |, SeeIey Talk at Anni8ton
TAKE RAP AT LAWMAKERS
Business Men Are Criticised for Their View of the Prohibition Question and All Opponents Get
 Playing.

Anniston September Special.)-Hon. seaborn Wright of Rome and Hon. F. l.. Seeley of Atlanta, publisher of the l Georgian, which paper took bold stand in the recent Georgia campaign for : hbition, delivered two important. a dresses before a very large audieraa l yesterday afternoon in the Noble street theatre, As a preparatory step, Mr. l Wright discarded his coat and later his collar. Before he had finished his ad- dress he had thoroughly saturated his shirt with precipitation, but his ardor l in the delivery of his speech had not suffered correspondingly with the starch in his shirt. Instead his closing sen tences were more brilliant and his thrusts more direct.
 He gave the lawmakers of the state a rap for disfranchislng the negro and leaving him the saloon Business men were likewise criticised for opposing the prohibition movement. In fact, mo- body escaped a hagellation except those who were lined up for the cause.
 The meeting was presided over by MT. s. A Russell, chairman of the county prohibition committee, who after the singing of the hymn beginning, All Hail the Power of Jesus Name" by the audience and a prayer by Dr. J. C. Coggins. introduced MT. Wright in feli- ctous talk, in which he outlined the work done by the committee up to the present, and told of the success which the l movement had already acquired.
 Mr. Seeley's Address.
 At the conclusion of MT. Wright's ad- dress MT. P. l.. Seeley, proprietor and publisher of the Atlanta Georgian. of whose presence on the platform the great audience was in ignorance, was intro duced and made short talk to the bus mess men of the audience on the business side of prohibition. He said he was not prohibition fanatic, but prohibition business man. He was for 1t for business. The woman had kept the question alive for forty years. It was now nus- mess proposition and the men had taken hold of 1t.
 Seaboard Plans.
 The Searboard Air Line railway has just asked for bids which may mean the re- sumption of the work of extending that road to tho Model City.
 The contract in question calls for tho extension of a branch line from the Sea boards tracks in Jacksonville to the plant of the Ide cotton mills.
 Of course, thls Is in the main intended to help the Seaboard in handling the fall cotton business, but the cotton mill Is located almost exactly on the Seaboard line to Anniston, and 1t is said to be probable that the work will be taken mp there and pushed on to the Model City, where everything is said to be now ready for the road to enter.
 Free Kindergarten.
 The free kindergarten will open on Wednesday morning at o'clock at the Kindergarten building on West Thrtleth street. north of the cotton mill. All pa rents desiring to enter children will please bring them that morning.
 Kindergarten No will be opened for mally the same morning at the Preshy teran chapel, on Seventh street, Miss Forbes teacher.
 The Kindergarten at the Noble institute. under the direction of Mrs. Walsh will be opened Thursday at ?. m.
 Mrs. Elizabeth Wyche Dead. Mrs. Elizabeth M wyche. who has been i'll for some time at her home at g East Thirteenth street between Noble and Will mer, died this morning at 5;3o The flu neral services will be conducted by the Rev ]. n. Simpson at the residence to- morrow morning at 10 o'clock and tho re- mains will be inferred in Edgemont ceme- tery
 Mrs. Wyche was one of Annston's old est residents, having been living In the city for nineteen years, coming 10 Ala bama from South Carolina, her native state. She Is survived by W. s. Wyche. a son Misses Annie and Sallie Wyche, daughters, and Mrs. Thomas H. Smith of Atlanta, a granddaughter, all of whom were at the bedside when death came. She was a member of the Methodist | church. iFfs The following palbearers have been se- lected: R. s. Nichols W. T. Williams, Dr. | A. A. Greene, J. M Cryor, W. T. Owens, | Dr. l. F. Walker. s. E. Scarborough and | F. J. Rudisill
 Good Cars Turned Out. W. F. Quinn, purchasing agent of the | Louisiana Railway and Navigation com | pany of Shreveport, was In the city again | today, and when asked about the cars built for his company by the Western l Steel Car and Foundry company in this city, he said that they showed better workmanship and were made of better material than any cars of the kind he l had ever seen.
 1 Katonia quarry and Davis place; thence | southwest to Woods; thence southwest via Flylees Pearson's. Enon church. wrteht's store and Vanderbilt furnace to | North Birmingham.
 | No. T-Northward Graves mine. Lewis burg (Mary Lee mines), to Kimbalfs s l store Northward to Watson and Mineral | e,.-,..,. cout, apd west via Timer Coal