The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-18
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 Columbus Ledger: Birmingham's 15- story jail is filling up already.
 Baldwin Times: They are seeing snakes right in the heart of Birmingham.
 Atlanta Constitution: fine new jail in Birmingham. How that town is pro- 1 gressingl
 l Memphis -scImitar: Nay, nay, Bir- mingham, that bottom rung belongs to Memphis.
 | Savannah Press: Birmingham wants to have it's own district with congressman all to itself.
 Montgomery Journal: While Montgom- cry takes it easy. Birmingham will land that Masonic home.
 Augusta Herald: Jailbirds in Birming- ham will soon live high. They are build- ing a 15-story jail in that city
 Columbus Enquirer-sun: A Birmingham  derstood that 1t is rushed quite often. 1 Austin Statesman: Birmingham is build ing 15-story jail. This is the first ad- mission of a necessity, but others should follow quickly.
 | West Alabama Breeze: We do hope the 1 Greater Birmingham bill will pass the special session of the legislature and get on the records o. K.
 Coosa River News: Birmingham won one of number of ball games recently, and her friends have returned to second reading of the score. l Gadsden Times-News: The Model Li- oense league says the claims of the pro- hibitionists are greatly exaggerated. They must have reference to Birmingham. Montgomery Journal: Are those Bir- mignham prisons so bad men take poison rather than stay in them? No wonder there is a demand for better things Beaumont Enterprise; Birmingham is to have new 15-story jail. These new fangled public buildings come high, but towns like Birmingham have to have them.
 Opelika Post: Birmingham had the Con- federate reunion last year and Mobile will get it next year. The Alabama cities are strictly in the fight on getting the reunions.
 Tuscumbia Acknowledgements: When Birmingham gets her 16-story courthouse with jail on top, the violators of the law in Jefferson may expect to be sent up'' sure enough
 Walker County News: Birrningham's fad for skyscrapers is about to induce the erection of a ten-story combination courthouse and jail Next we expect to hear of skyscraper church in that town. However, the Birmingham churches are not so crowded as the Birmingham jails these warm days.
 F'ayette Banner: The arrest of 4S men one night last week in raids on alleged gambling places by the Birmingham po- lice has aroused considerable interest about that city and the belief is ex- pressed that the chief of police will make an effort to close all gambling houses in the Magic City.
 Ensley Sun: The Birmingham papers have made the Board of Revenue of Jefferson county agree to build new courthouse and jail; they also made Gov ernor Conner embody Greater Birmingham in the call for the extraordinary session newspapers can do most anything when they take a notion.
 Demopolis Times: One would naturally ask Birmingham why sine wants so much jail room and courthouse facilities if prohibition Is such a panacea as was and as is claimed. It seems to us that under prohibition and quiet business Birming- ham needs more jails and more police men. One would wonder what she would need under prohibition and good times. Tuscaloosa Times-G Gazette: Birning- ham, which has always been favored by the railroads, and perhaps justly, has now been made a weekend excursion point the roads granting special rates to persons wanting to go to Birmingham to stay over Sunday. This is a distinctly advantageous advertisement for Birming-
 
 ham, and will bring money into it's cof- 1 fers.
 | Sheffield Standard: Birmingham Is working toward the commission plan of ! municipal government. A bill with that end in view will be introduced at the special session of the legislature The plan has proven eminently satisfactory in every instance where 1t has been tried, and there Is no reason why the result should not be the same in Birmingham. The sentiment for government of cities and towns by commission is growing. GLADSTONE'S LONDON HOUSE. From Sixty years in the Wilderness by Henry w. Lucy. March 15, 1S90.-Dined tonight with Gladstone in St. James square, house