The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-03

A new million dollar hotel is now pro- jected for the Magic City and 1t will be 15 stories high.
 Gadsden Times-News: This is the same month in which the baseball season opens and the diamond warriors are getting ready for the fray. Birmingham is hope ful but not markedly optimistic.
 Hattiesburg News Birmingham has l Get-Together club, club of boosters and a league of business men, numbering al- l together nearly 1000 men. And Birming- ham is a growing town.
 Washington Herald: "It looks like beer it tastes like beer, but it is not beer" is the way an Alabama dealer ad- vertises one of his pet beverages. This will probably be rated in Birmingham and Montgomery as fine example of the depressing anti-climax.
 l Selma Times: Birmingham does things up in the proper style no matter what the occasion may be. She is planning big celebration of the opening of her new Termanal station, and 1t will be almost as big an occasion as if it were soldiers reunion.
 Columbus Enquirer-Sun: Dentists in session at Birmingham warn against the fondling and kissing of artificial blondes. They say there is danger in the kiss of such a person. In other words should any one desire to fondle or kiss a blonde he should first inquire if she is home made or not.
 Ensley Sun: If we do not mind Bir- mingham is going to fall all over us and take us in whether we want to come or not and the bait they are offering suburban towns is the commission plan. Suppose they try it first and if it does not kill them then we will take dose out of the same bottle.
 Chattanooga Times: Nothing like the building boom now on was ever before known in Birmingham" say all the pa- pers of that city. Now, people of Chat tanooga, get busy; 1t is up to you to smile" and push" All that is needed here is the united effort that character izes the spirit in Birmingham. Limestone Democrat: Birmingham Is preparing to have a great day on April 6, when the Terminal station-"depot," in country town parlance-will be for mally opened. The railroads have made practically one-fare rate to the Magic City for the occasion and the day will be a great one-for Birmingham. Nashville Tennessean: Birmingham has made all the financial arrangements for the building of a million dollar hotel. Funny how foolish capitalists will invest their money in town like Birmingham, when Cousin Chawles and Governor Pat terson and the Model Liquor License league all tell them it Is surely dying of the dry rot.
 West Alabama Breeze: Tuesday April 6 will be an epochal day in Birming- ham. That day is set apart for the cele- { bration of the opening of the new two million dollar Terminal station, which is said to be the largest and handsomest one in the south. A programme elaborate and interesting will be arranged and peo- pie from far and near will flock to this always interesting city.
 l Chattanooga Times: Sheriff Higdon of f-Jefferson county, Alabama, sent out a 1 regular deputy into a rural beat the other day just to find out whether his "special' was doing his duty The regular made 2s | arrests in one day. Must be something l the matter with Birm,ngham's prohibi- l tion laws. For awhile conditions ap- peared to improve but in Birmingham, as in Atlanta, intemperance and disorders l appear to increase the further the citi- zens get away from the impulse of prohi- bition zeal that moved them to vote the city "dry.'
 Roanoke (vo.) World Down fin Bir- mingham the subject is carried much far ther by the mayor in advice to the peo- pie. 'The underlying idea" says The Age-Herald of that city, lis to make a sweeters healthier and in other respects better place to live into add to natures s charms all that man or woman can devise, especially woman, for, after all, | if we are to have The City Beautiful, the women must become the chief factors in the movement for it is the women who make the homes of the city, and the manner in which they do 1t will make or mar Mayor Wards plans."
 Chattanooga News: Birmingham set an example to the whole south last year. The citizens particularly the housewives,
 co-operated with the mayor and the city government to clean up house and make the smoky Alabama iron city beautiful
 Prizes were offered for the best kept busi- ness and residence property in each ward, for the best dressed flower windows and
 sidewalk strips, for the best sodded and
 weeded vacant lots, for the most at tractive vine-clad factories.
 Chattanooga has been working along
 similar lines for several years and much has been accomplished. The City Beauti-
 full club, and several associated organ izations, have stimulated the beautify- ing and cleanup desire among the peo- ple All such movements should be en- couraged by the press and the public. The
 cleanup movement inaugurated in this
 city last week has not received the at tention and the support 1t deserved.
 FABLE, PERHAPS.