The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-30
LOCATING BOARD
 HEARS FINAL BIDS
Lively Scramble Is On For
 County High Schools
FREIGHT BUREAU LEASES
The Interstate Commerce Commission Hears Important Alleged Freight Rate Determinations at Mont
 qomery-Many Men Attend.

1 Montgomery, April 29.-(Special )-About 1 300 men, mostly from North Alabama, i thronged the capitol today for the pur- 1 pose of urging locations of high schools
 i'll several counties. They came in twos
 and fours and twenties and fifties, just in proportion to the enthusiasm back of the l fights in particular cases. Notasulga, for
 instance, had 27, led by State Senator
 Henry F. Merritt, and they made fine | showing in the corridors, inasmuch as they were fired with enthusiasm for the contest, Tuskegee being the other asprant from Macon county.
 The places represented include Center,
 Round Mountain, Ft. Payne, Collinsville. Enterprise, Elba, Section, Pell City. Oden- vile, Notasulga, Tuskegee, Jasper, Flo
 rala and Brantley. Elba and Enter prise, in Coffee county, were the first ! taken up, the commission giving over much of the morning to them. In line
 then came many others, taken as they came. Offers are made and considered. No offer for less than 5000 and five acres
 of land Is considered. Green county is the only one that has not made applica- ton for a school. The state gives 5000 year to the maintenance of these high schools.
 It is not expected that any of the loca- tions will be finally made for several days.
 The delegations appeared before the high school loacting board, composed of Cover nor Conner, Auditor Brandon and Superin- tendent of Education H. c. Gunnels. Interstate Commission. Possibly for the first time ever, cer-
 tainly in many years, a majority of the interstate commerce commission is sitting in Montgomery, called here for the pur- pose of hearing complaints from the Mont gomery freight bureau, alleging that rates from Ohio river points are made so that Mobile, Pensacola and Birmingham have advantage over Montgomery.
 Several wholesale men and rate experts testified that it is possible, under the
 present arrangement, for Mobile to. ship
 goods 150 miles to within 25 miles of Mont
 gomery, cheaper than Montgomery can
 ship them, thus cutting the latter out of
 business that belongs to it.
 The commissioners sitting are Judson E..
 Clements of Georgia and E. E. Clark of
 Iowa. The railroads are represented by
 Judge Ed Baxter of Nashville and many
 local district officials Among rate ex perts present are: Lincoln Green, traffic
 manager of the Southern; c. B. Compton, in the same place with the Louisville
 and Nashville G. B. Bles of the Cincin-
 natl, New Orleans and Texas Pacific; c. E. Northup, Washington, for the South.
 ern Sloss Baxter, Nashville, for the Louisville and Nashville; S. R. Prince, Mobile, for the Mobile and Ohio, and R. E. Steiner, Montgomery, for several roads entering Montgomery, of which he is dis trict counsel were among the attorneys. Bureaus Attorneys.
 The Montgomery freight bureau is rep resented by Horace Stringfelow, attor- ney, President w. r. Vandiver and Man ager H. S. Kealhofer. Most of the direc- tors of the bureau are also watching the
 proceedings. as well as the officers of the freight bureau of Selma, which terri
 tory is in an essential way interested. Wit
 nesses are examined under oath, with stenographers taking the testimony. Gun ter & Gunter are associated with MT. Stringfellow in the conduct of the bureau case. President Vandiver and Manager
 Kealhofer, of the freight bureau, as well as number of wholesale merchants were
 heard.
 The roads which were made defendants in the suits are as follows: Louisville and Nashville, Mobile and Ohio, Southern, Cincinnati. New Orleans and Texas Pa cific. Illinois Central, Nashville, -Cnatta- nooga and St. Louis, Frisco, Mobile, Jack
 son and Kansas City, Rock Island, Chi
 cago, Indianapolis and Louisville, Mis- souri Pacific, St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern, Cleveland. Cincinnati, Chi cago and St. Louis Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul.
 Alabama News.
 James B. Miller has been appointed special judge to hold the circuit court of Marengo county, Judge J. T. Lackland having been cut off by nigh waters. Among the visitors to the high school locating hearing is McLane Triton, who seeks the St. Clair school for Pell City, He Is also secretary of the Alabama Bankers association and says the pro- gramme arranged for the meeting here is the best yet. He looks to a great meet ing next month.
 The Pathe Freres' of Paris has been
 incorporated in Alabama with c. w, Linn at Birmingham as Alabama agent It
 manufactures moving picture supplies. Governor B. B. Conner, who spoke to the
 state Sunday school convention in Bir- mingham last night, reached his office