The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-25
ASSOCIATION MAY !. BUILD TABERNACLE Sunday School People Want Place to Hold Convention MAY SELECT BIRMINGHAM Officers and Citizens of Montgomery Make an Effort to Stop DynamltIna
 of Cars-They Want the
 Strike Ended.
MAY SELECT BIRMINGHAM

Montgomery, April A-(special.)-
 George G. Miles, chairman of the exec- | utive committee of the State Sunday
 School association, has on foot a plan, 1 With the rest of the committee, to bring
 about the erection either at Montgomery
 or Birmingham, of a great tabernacle. in
 which to hold the state conventions, these
 having become large and unwildy to a great extent. It is anticipated that the
 erection of such a building would bring
 many other conventions to the city DOS
 sessing 1t, drawn by the facilities it | would provide in the way of meeting | space.
 i The matter was taken up at a meeting | of the state executive committee in the
 office of MT. Miles, Tuesday, at which time the following were present. G. C.. Miles, chairman, Montgomery; D. H. Mar bury, Marbury; J. B. Fuller, Montgom- cry; J. S. Carroll, Troy; R. F. Lewis. Bir-
 mingham; W. D. Dillard, Matthews; B. c. Bynum, Birmingham; Armestead
 Brown, M. Cody, w. E. Holloway, W.
 B. Davidson, R. O. Blakey, M. M. Sweatt and Joseph Carthel, Montgomery. Messrs. Lewis, Cody, Brown and Mar bury were named committee to confer i with MT. Miles and other interested 1 parties about the tabernacle and a later day will be set for reports. These gen. | tlemen, Mir. Miles included. will take up l these questions also: Place of meeting;
 basis of representation; advisability of delegates paying their own expenses. 
 Other Work Done. | In addition to the other work the ex-
 ecutive committee raised the salary of
 General Secretary Joseph Carthel to s15oo | and that of Miss Minnie Kennedy to 5000. A committee composed of Armes-
 tead Brown and MT. Miles, was named to
 select field worker in the place of J.. 1 A. Jenkins. It was reported that the
 work of the year looked to be very prom
 ising and the officers are busy getting | the lines laid for the best twelve months
 ever known.
 An interesting feature of the meeting | was the prevalence of the idea that dele
 gates pay their own way. or rather, that their way be paid, doing away with the
 old time plans of the people entertaining
 them. There were more than 1900 at | Birmingham and as many as 200o in Mont 1 gomery the year before and it is found that so many cannot be taken care of
 in the old way without inconvenience and l oftimes embarrassment.
 The tabernacle idea has grown out of
 the fact that there are only two cen
 trally located cities, Montgomery and Bir- | paip0 p0I1o oy,N fa Ira of ba
 ton and also that the convention desires
 a permanent home. Mir Lewis says that
 Birmingham will erect the tabernacle if 1 Montgomery does not do so at once.
 Appointments Made.
 F. M. Bennett has been appointed com
 missioner of the Fifth district, Madison
 county, to succeed F. s. Pulley resigned.
 These tax commissioners chave been
 named: County of Lee, Lloyd Robertson. Opelika; county of Lowndes, J. B. Ru-
 dulph, Hayneville.
 Constables have been named as follows:
 S. T. Black, beat 10. Limestone county; | N-. P. Aldredge, Addiston; J. c. Fike,
 beat ', Talladega county.
 1 c. IT. Burdeshaw at Kincey and D. L.
 Bridges at Birmingham. have been ap- l pointed notaries public.
 The Porter-Grant Hardware company ha. been incorporated at Columbia, with | capital of $6000. The incorporators are E. R. Porter, E. J. Buntin, J. W. Grant,
 s. E. Gillerslett and A. G. Grant. l The state board of assessment was en- | gagged today in the hearing of the Allan | tic Coast Line and the Frisco system,
 wit.l view of making assessments of
 property for the year. A. A. Wiley of | Montgomery and E. K. Campbell of Bir- | spective roads.
 Livingston School. State Superintendent of Education H. | c. Gunnells has returned from Lvings- | ton. where he attended a meeting of the l faculty committee of the Girls Normal | school, of which Miss Julia Tutwiler is | the president. The other members of the | committee are Governor Conner, R. B. | Barnes of Eutaw, and E. M. Elliott of l Moundsvile.
 Nothing Is given out with regard to the | meeting, the report being that the whole
 matter will be discussed at meeting | of the board to be held at the school on | May 6, during the commencement season. | This is one of the oldest schools of the | state, but has only recently come under | the direct control of the state. | Capt A. c. Sexton, deputy insurance
 commissioner. is in Atlanta, looking after | the business of the Atlanta Birmingham | Insurance company, of which he Is the re- | ceiyer. He will be away much of the time while this work Is being done and be- | fore the affairs of the company are final ! ly wound up.
 | citizens Aroused. | The citizens of Montgomery are more | thoroughly aroused than in many years | over the dynamiting of street cars. and | have felt the frequency of the offenses | is a reflection on the city. Hence, the mayor and the chief of police, and, in | fact every officer of the peace, of no matter what name, has become on the alert for the suppression of the wrongs. The strike of the street railway men has cost everybody money. time and ln- convenience and the hope Is generally that 1t will come to a speedy end. Naturally the service has been indifferent with new men who do not know the city and ex- pensive as a result of the sympathetic re- fusal of many to ride and the numbers of small collisions that have taken place. All these have added to the discomfort of things, as well making travel dan- gerous.
 There Is general hope that the end Is near. The police have been instructed to get at the bottom of the shooting and dynamiting, and this has had a good ef- feet on the peace of mind of the people. With their men unmolested the Traction