The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-23
ABOUT BIRMINGHAM

ready to furnish Alabama's next gover- nor The supply seems to be inexhautible.
 Pine Belt News: Birmingham is said to have. 100 blind tigers. Wonder who count ed them? Atlanta has not been heard from.
 Tuscaloosa Times Gazette: If Birming- ham doesn't get her King bill in order soon it will be too late to count in the census.
 Talladega Reporter: Birmingham's lat est move Is for s1,0OO,OoO hotel. We had thought Big Sis was all right on hotels and soft-shell saloons.
 Memphis News-Scimitar: They are mak- ing ready to erect a new steel frame skyscraper hotel in Birmingham-which fact is somewhat reassuring.
 Talladega Mountain Home: The one wrinkle in Birmingham's otherwise happy face at present is the poor prospects for a baseball team of winning capabilities
 Nashville American: Birmingham and Alldnld resent lHe IttiiONdl Ol lilSil bdSO of supplies without their aid or consent Their dry srins require heroic remedies from a distance.
 Mobile Register: Taft will and Taft won't. This makes the Birmingham mind very uncertain as to Taft. The President elect himself says it is unlikely that he will be able to stop there.
 Montgomery Times: The Birmingham basketball team handed it back to our crowd with little interest added In ad- hitting it we are of the firm opinion that the whole thing was an accident.
 Florence Times: The Birmingham papers report that s1,OOoo0o hotel is soon to be erected in that city. Should this be so, a Hong felt want will be filled. There is no doubt that such a hotel is needed in the Magic City.
 Selma Times: Birmingham boasts of a very quiet Sunday in that city and a paper there says Judge Feagin only had 50 cases to come before him Monday morning. What do you call a "heavy" docket in that town?
 Opeika Post: The Birmingham Com mercal club will endeavor to see that the next Greater Birmingham bill has no leak in it. It is a shame for a piece of legislation to be robbed of it's usefulness by carelessness on the part of officials paid to do their duty.
 
 Tuscaloosa Record: It is to be hoped for the peace and happiness of the inter- ested city, that the legislature will help Birmingham out in its trouble over the Greater Birmingham bill. It cannot pos sibly be satisfied with just simply being big; it wants all of the right, title. claim and interest as regards it's bigness.
 Wilcox Banner: In a mass meeting of prohibtionists held in Birmingham last week Governor Conner announced that in case the prohibition law was thrown down, he would call the legislature to- gether in ten days thereafter, and the breaks in the law would be repaired. It would be hard to say which of the two evils would be the greater.
 Huntsville Democrat: Big blooming breezy, bold Birmingham has big navy baby named for it, and on February 1 the cruiser will be in Mobile and chris tened and a handsome silver service will be presented to it by Birmingham citi- zens who will all be represented by proxy or In person. and stand sponsor for the illustrious namesake.
 Tuscaloosa Times-Gazette: If Taft will consider coming to Tuscaloosa the trip to Birmingham had better be made at the same time, had it not? A journey to in- clude both places will be much more like ly to attract the big President -to-be than for the university alumni and the Bir- mingham people to get together on the subject.
 Montgomery Journal: If the legislature is called together to consider a Greater Birmingham bill, there will be great many other subjects that will force them selves to the point If measure receives a two-thirds vote 1t can be passed at the extra session and anything under the sun can be considered. It ought not to take ten days to give all of Jones valley to Birmingham.
 Marion Standard: If Birmingham don't put a check on her mu .'derers the state will begin to think prohi iotion only checks crime until like the IrIshnian, he can spit on his hands in order to grasp better hold. Us 1t "near" beer or soft drinks at the bottom of this cevilment? Fig ht to 10 murders and three or four suicides world bc going 1t too fast in the days of ''bad Birmingham
 Demopolis Times: Birmingham Is in trouble and an extra session of the legis- lature is necessary to relieve her of the perplexing situation she is in. The gov ernor has never gone back on his home town and should by all means call-the session, which is desired to straghten out the Greater Birmingham bill. The King bill for the enlargement of the iron city was "monkied'' with or careessly han dled and is void.
 
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