The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-23
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 Birmingham the Mecca. Advertising men and Illustrators or advertising are certainly coming to vertiser yesterday afternoon.
 | vertser yesterday afternoon.
 George S. bowman came here from Atlanta and joined firm already In existence, and now Lake Smith is coming over from Atlanta also.
 ''Then recently the Barnes-Crosby company opened a Birmingham olhce, and the Mason Mann company of Kan | sas City has also local representa- 1 tive who has been here only short time Both of these firms expect soon | to have artists in Birmingham to han | dle the local work, which will be sent to their home offices for the cut mak- ing.
 "so it will be seen that Birmir gham | is attracting the attention of the ad- vertising men. and that Is abou' the | best prosperity sigL that one ooulc want. Advertising men are the forS runners of prosperity, because where there is no prosperity there is no ad- vottising. These men all come to Bit mingham for one reason, and one | only--that Birmingham is the best place for their efforts and that they expect Birmingham to develop more rapidly than any other southern city" Prohibjtionists Against Amendment.
 q voted for prohibition in the local | option election held here in Jefferson county two years ago, but I am against | the amendment for all there is in me-" | said Edgar L. Mitchell well known 1 furniture dealer. of Bessemer. And my wife is strong prohfbitionist too, and she is outspoken against the amendment.
 l q know not less than 60 persons who voted for prohibition who are go- ing to vote against the amendment. think the widest circulation possible hould be given to Judge Thomas W. l Coleman, Jr.'s, letter printed in The i Age Herald of Tuesday"
 Birmingham's Health Department.
 Birmingham Is certainly to be con- 1 graduated on the typhoid fever record of the past summer" said resident of the l southside. 'We have so often had trouble in our section of the city that it was with genuine alarm that I learned so much excavation work was to be done on the south side of the city during the sum- mer. I have always had the feeling that the excavations for sewers and pave ment. much of which has been done in the summer time. was in a way respon- sibe for part of our typhoid fever.
 q had the privilege of looking over the maps of Dr. Hardness, the city health officer, today, and they are a strong exhibit against the theory that typhoid is caused by excavations. In spite of the fact that there has been more sewer work done than during any previous summer, these maps show that there has not been single case of ty- 1 phoid along the routes of the new sew CTS. I think there must be some mis- take about the theory that new earth carries typhoid germs. Some of the doubting Thomases should look over those maps and compare some records | of former years.
 And by the way. want to take oc- casion to compliment the excellent sys- tenn pr. Hardness has for keeping the | health records of the city. It is worth any citizens time to go to the city hall and learn something about the fine sys- tenn Birmingham has for preventing the | spread of diseases"
 Storm At Gulfport.
 H. M. Daniel, resident of Gulfport, | Mss Is in Birmingham to remain in the city for week or 10 days. MT. Daniel was in Gulfport during the heavy storm which swept across the gulf states Monday and he states that the violence of the storm and the damage which it inflicted have probably not been exag- gerated.
 "The fact that Cat and Ship islands form about a six-mile breakwater in front of Gulfport is all that saved the town from destruction" he said. How ever, as matters were. although 1t seems remarkable, none of the ships in the harbor were damaged. I stood on the pier along the water front during the height of the storm. The wind blew at the rate of 70 miles an hour and the bay beyond the islands was very rough. The storm reached its height between 10 and 12 o'clock Monday, but by the next morning at oclock tho lumber shippers were busy again.
 'The storm played its greatest havoc right along the pier. although the water lacked only about six feet of getting up into town The pier and property imrae- diatey around 1t were damaged to the extent of about slo,ooo. There was no serious damage done in Guifport proper.
 "The traction company and the rail- roads perhaps suffered more seriously than anyone else. Between four and five miles of the traction company's line between Biloxi and LonE Beach was