The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-07-20
Mammoth Electric
Sign Presented to City
Immense 7hrongs Witness First Light
ing of Magnificent Gift to
Montgomery.

long, In ALL and about seventy-nve feet
from top to bottom. by the local force
of the light company. under the SUPER
vision of II. c. Farmer, o local con-
tractor.
And last night 1t was flashed on.
Hundreds gathered at Court and JEFF
ferson streets. and the band played
there, and the rockets flashed on the
dark horizon, and civic pride and pat
riotism was rampant And through
1t all the sign blazed forth. inspiring
and pregnant with a promise that Ii
more than an IDLE boast.
The music fitted the occasion. The
Cavalry band, already the pride OF
Montgomery, started 1t OF with the
Under march, Montgomery Your
Opportunity" and Dixie" and all the
rest Of the soul stirring melodies
The presentation was made, formally
by Major r. z. Stiner. and City
Attorney McIntyer in the stead Of
Mayor league. responded for the city.
Maj. r.. E. Steiner in behalf Of the
Montgomery Light and Water Power
Company. said:
81 am deeply sensible Of the priv
elege of appearing this evening as
the representation of the Montgomery
Light and Water Power Company.
There are some good corporations still
freely ana literally and among them
Is this company. For about twenty
years the Montgomery Light Company
has enjoyed its existence under q
franchise from the City Council of
Montgomery and during this entire
time neither the Council nor its legal
department has been called upon to
insist upon this company's complying
with it's contract to the City and
g. Ice
citation of the fair treatment from the
governing body Of the munincipalite,
this company conceived the idea of
presenting to the people OF Montgoh-
cry the most beautiful ana notistic
sign, south of the Metropolis OF the
Western Hemisphere. ana there you
see It.
The slogan was selected w a COM
mittee of twenty-five business men of
Montgomery from over 1000 sugges-
lions. and the choice fell upon tho
suggestion of one of Montgomery
| most beautiful daughters.
ave may differ In business and in
our everyday transactions. but here
after we are as one for Montgomery
Hundreds of thousands of people pass
through Montgomery not knowing the
| name Of the city, but hereafter this
| will be impossible, and no one will
live long enough TO forget ne passed
through our city and will never tire
of telling others that this is the city
Of opportunity. progressiveness and
hospitality. The National Magazine
has already requested pictures and
descriptions of this sign and will
hungrily reproduce them and give to
our city a prominence that money
would not buy.
81 am glad to say to you in con-
clusion that in presenting the sign to
the city of Montgomery, 1t is but one
| of many original artistic schemes that
our company has in prospect for the
| upbuilding and prosperity Of our city
1.-THE interest of the city of Mont
gomery is the interest of this com-
pany."
Mr.. p. C. Mcintyre City Attornes
was requested by Mayor league tc
accept the sign and in doing SO sait
that the city of Montgomery accepted
with great pleasure the beautiful slo
| gan.
~ Il feel that this is symbol for neq
era Of continued but greater prospect
ty for the city of Montgomery. I tax,
| great pleasure In testifying to the fac
that the Montgomery Light and Water
! Power Company has always dealt mos