The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-05

some fellow pfetenued ne mlsIOok the lights ahead.
 Wonders Chattanooga, fellers,' he said. And immediately a head poked out of every window. But they soon realized the mistake.
 But in the course of time, and at about 9SO, at that half-hour- till closing time, Chattanooga was reached. Then came the grand rush.
 Boys, I know where there's one right across the street from the depot. Let's go there."
 They joined the fellow who had made the proclamation and after the thrush they lined up as big as life. There fol- lowed what has been expressed as "one long. gurgling silence''-nothing more. No body said a word.
 And this was only the beginning. There was another section of IA coaches loaded with thirsty Mississippians, and when they arrived 20 minutes later the excursion crowd was swelled to 210O. They took the town by storm, and only evacuated I take nourishment ~-fsfH
 Most of these 2100 faces were strange in
  Chattanooga but if Thames could have been called, it <4s safe to say that the liquor iealers would have known quite lew of them. Nevertheless, that matters not
 Chattanooga is booming Property is in the air. The Tennessee city is the only irrigated spot within circle of radius of 15O miles and she is benehtinf in a bus mess way by the extreme drouth which prevails in the surrounding country
 Business on Market street, the main thoroughfare, is lively, and on the adja- cent streets there is no laxity. Every thing is apparently going forward with bounds, and the city really looks good.
 There is probably enough liquor in Chattanooga to flood the city, were it all turned from the barrels at once, and it is understood that there are 65 saloons there. Yet msbehavior is not rampant. The rec ords of the police court show that there were only 2O9 arrests during the month of June. This is considered a very low | figure.
 Building in the city on the Tennessee is at the present extensive. The handsome new $1, ,o0O000 Terminal station needs only the finishing touches to make 1t complete. | The structure Is a beauty. It will re- place the old Central and Union depots, as all railroads. running into Chattanooga will enter the new station. ] The new Y. M. C. A. building, one of the most modern in the country, is under 1 course of construction, and there are many other structures going up which are of minor prominence. Most of the building is of substantial nature.
 There has been no ban placed on liquor but the Chattanoogans have prohibition 1 of cigarettes Under the police regulations | a person may be fined as much as $5 | for giving one of the ''coffin nails away Smoking tobacco is sold freely, but cigar cite papers are as scarce as hens teeth unless one knows where there is a blinC "something" where he can buy then unlawfully.
 Chattanooga is very much elated ove | the outcome of the recent gubernatoria race. The city boiled a very heavy yot, for Patterson who. favored local optior against statewide prohibition. The vic tory of Patterson therefore suited 'e1n | A great many of the citizens believe tha the turn in the tide in Georgia, followed by the result in Tennessee's election sounds the death knell to radical prohibi tion, even though the sale of whisky ma! be restricted to some extent.
 There is a very much mistaken idle; now prevailing in Chattanooga that Bir