The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-08
ABOUT BIRMINGHAM

Montgomery Journal: George Ward has made a good mayor of Birmingham and set the city on a higher eminence than it ever before occupied.
 Montevallo Aegis: Birmingham is rap idly becoming the metropolis of the south. But if it does not put a stop to the grist of homicides the word Metropolis will describe it better.
 Florence Herald: Twenty-three homi- oides in Birmingham for a single month makes us rather inclined to the opinion that the blind tiger has not been sup pressed in that city.
 Montgomery Journal; From New York to Tuscaloosa by water makes Birming- ham think there is a hope yet of seeing boats far above the present head waters of the Warrior river
 Centreville Press: Forty violent deaths for Birmingham during the month of April is a pretty good record Twenty three were homicldes, That Is travelling at pretty fast rate-and Birmingham prohibition at that
 Selma Journal On May Mayor George B. Ward retired from the mayors chair at Birmingham. He has been one among the best municipal officers of the state of Alabama. He is fearless and he seems to want to do the right thing all the time.
 Twin-City Telegram: Birmingham is to have a new theatre. Birmingham seems to be having things her own way. with two new skyscrapers being erected and a Carnegie library offered. But she is entitled to all these things and many more.
 Montgomery Times: Birmingham con- tinues her almost daily contribution to the catalog of killings but 1t can be said that Birmingham is measuring her ef- forts at justice to her capacity for crime This is more than can be said of certain other communities in the state.
 Florence Times: The Birmingham anti liquor people are now preparing>a cam- paign to educate the voters up to the proposition of eecting officers who will enforce the law in that city. They should reorganize the police force. There is where the chief trouble lies
 Florence Times The Age-Herald claims that the tonnage of the Birming- ham district is treble that of the entire cotton crop of the south including the seed. This fact shows the advantage to state of large manufacturing centers, which distribute their benefcent influ- ences to the remotest corners of the state.
 Gadsden Journal: If Mayor George B. Ward of Birmingham gets into the Jeffer- son county sheriff's race there will be something doing. He would certainly out distance some of the boys who now think they are very much in the game. When + comes to making bid for public favor George B. is a sprinter of no mean abil- ity.
 Tuscaloosa Times Gazette: Carnegie has agreed to give $100OOo to add to an- other S100,O00 to be raised by Birmingham for a public library. Birmingham is able to keep up a library of such proportions and ought to have one. Tuscaloosa is also able to have one of some smaller dimensions, but has not made the start yet.
 Chattanooga Times: The iron market at Birmingham appears to have stiffened up bit and inquiries have been supple mented by considerable buying. That's the kind of evidences of returning pros- 1 perity that will make business move. When iron goes off the yards actively we may be sure that railroads are doing bus iness, that shops are at work and that