The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-11
ABOUT BIRMINGHAM

Talladega Mountain Home: Why don't Blr1ningham's booster club work on the citys ball team?
 Atlanta Constitution: It will require more steam that Birmingham can com mand to lift the lid there.
 Montgomery Journal: Birmingham Is going out after the trade that lies within it's territory. Montgomery should do like wise.
 Columbus Ledger: Birmingham expects great things from the Atlanta, Birming- ham and Atlantic railroad and she will not be disappointed.
 Houston Post: They have pulled hun droed locker clubs in Birmingham. They must have been seriously interfering with the blind tigers.
 Montgomery Journals: Birmingham is making a double system of law enforce ment that bids fair to increase the income of the undertakers.
 Arkansas Gazette But If Jacksonville drops the "ville" we trust that Birming- ham will not be seized with desire to slice off the ham,"
 Montgomery Journal: Birmingham Is leading in the matter of legislation at the present session, the rest of the state taking things as they come.
 
 Huntsville Mercury Banner: Ensley broke out of the Greater Birmingham bill. This is too bad. All the suburban cities should be in or all out.
 Columbus Ledger: Birmingham is de- termined to become a Greater Birming- ham, If she can get the Alabama legis- lature to give her another lift.
 Pensacola Journal: Those Birmingham locker club men who have been sentenced to imprisonment will have more to do with the locker business than they bar gained for.
 Montgomery Journal: Birmingham shows it's progress by organizing 16 new business enterprises in July with capitals of s277.- S90. For the previous seven months the total was $5,194, ,390
 Montgomery Journal: Alabama riflemen are making records at the Birmingham shoot that show them to be great shots. These are the real soldiers, men who can shoot if they are called upon to do so.
 Houston Post: It is now up to Birming- ham, Montgomery and Mobile to say if they desire all projected itineraries ob- served, and if there is protection for the stranger within their gates who neglects to bring his rations with him.
 Columbus Ledger: Birmingham's banks show an increase in clearings of s60,0O0, 900 for the first seven months of 1909. Pretty good showing for town where 1t had been predicted that prohibition would kill 1t.
 Sheffield Standards: In Birmingham, says an exchange, you order tea; in Nashville, you wink your eye; in Charles ton, you just smile; but in all of them. by all reports, you get kind of demon rum" that was distilled by Belzebub him. self.
 Greenville Advocate: There were .o vio- lent deaths in and around Birmingham during the past month. This is, Indeed, a fearful record. The city of Birmng- ham itself does not fall heir to any of these, but they come from all around that great Alabama town.
 Florence Times: A Birmingham cor respondent says 1t is estimated that there are now 12,000 people employed in the manufacturing industries in the Birming- ham district, as against half that number six months ago. That is substantial improvement surely; and the tendency is still even more favorable. according to all reports.
 Mobile Register: Mayor OBrien and the city police court of Birmingham, aided by the prospect of the operations of the Carmichael prohibition law, have closed out all the locker clubs in Birmingham and made Birmingham actually "dry'' for the first time in the history of that city. Mayor OBrien is not reputed a prohibi- tion1St, put ne IS a reSpecter or tne ldW and of his oath of office, and has succeed ed in doing what he undertook to do. namely to close up the establishments that were operating in violation of the law. It is much to his credit. Gadsden Journal: Mayor O'Brien of Birmingham has issued 200 warrants for the arrest of violators of the prohibition law. That looks like a real declaration of war on the blind tiger and the plucky Mayor may yet hear it said that Bir- mingham is enforcing laws as they are written. MT. or Brien is not a believer in prohibition, but he does believe in law and order and the dictates of established society and does not intend that any ele- ment in the Magic City shall bring 1t into disrepute by openly and fiagrantly tramp ling underfoot the will of the people of the state. Similar action on the part of the officials of Montgomery and Mobile would clear the atmosphere wonderfully. REAL SPOTLESS TOWN.