The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-26
MAYOR TERRY ON
 PROHIBITION LAW Warrior Enforcing Statute and
 Crime Decreases SOME OUTSIDE DlSTURBERS Marion Hustling Little City Where Modern Improvements Are Con- tempIated-Water Works Sys-
 tenn To Be Installed.
SOME OUTSIDE DISTUR8ERS S
BY WALTER HARPER.

Warrior, July 25.-(SpeciaL) War ferson county, and in flush times is one of the busiest communities in the en- tire Birmingham district. It Is 22 miles from Birmingham.
 According to Mayor E. A. Terry, War rior presents a striking example of what can be done in the way of en- forcing the prohibition laws when the town officials and the people combine in wanting prohibition.
 It is said that before prohibition went Into effect and when there were half a dozen saloons or more in the place it was one of the most rowdy communities in the district. There was an average of at least one arrest day for drunkenness and disorders growing out of drinking of liquors. I am told that since prohib went into effect age one a month. There has not been a killing in the town since the sa- looms were closed. Hardly a month passed before the closing of the sa- looms without one or two murders, in the community.
 Town Is Very Dry.
 Now 1t is so dry that the citizens have to leave town occasionally to get relief from the parchiness of the very atmosphere. Even the water in the town sends forth a dry dust when 1t is agitated. The colored waiter at the hotel begged me with tears In his eyes to just let him get one peep in my little red handbag. When he found out that I was from Birmingham he seemed to think there was something doing in my package. The case of thi poor negro was almost pitiful. He declared that he had had but one drink in year and a half. That was when a "soft drink" drummer allowed him to sample a bottle more than year ago. This drummer had not been back for more than a year for the fact that not even "soft drinks" can be sold in the town without a license that Is practically proh bitive. It is doubtful if they would be allowed to operate even with license
 But the case of the negro would seem to be proof positive of the ef fectiveness of the law in Warrior. If the hotel negro goes thirsty there is certainly nothing doing' in the town. Trouble In Country. Mayor Terry and the people who have assisted him in putting Warrior in the dry column flor keeps and sure" have ad ha rd at O1 Ia at is not yet over. While the town prop CT is dry and there is comparatively no disturbance, the rural section and small maining camps in the vicinity are causing considerable trouble, I am told. Indeed all the trouble now seems to coyle from the sections that have no police protection.
 Though Warrior has been deprived of the license derived from the licensing of saloons extensive public improve ments have been made during the past 12 months and still more Is being planned for the future. Twenty-two hundred feet of cement sidewalk has been laid along one side of the main street of the town. The same amount will be laid on the opposite side of
  months. These Improvements are not assessed against the abutting property but Is paid for out of the tax revenues of the town.
 Plan Water Works.
 The city officials are also planning for the installation of a system of wa ter works with filtration plant. Work will probably begin on this during the present year. The town has a nucleus for the system in an old system in- stalled some time ago by one of the coal mining companies, but which has been abandoned for somS time. The water will be secured from the War rior river about two miles away.
 Warrior has a fine school system with an efficient corps of teachers Prof. w. B. Lovejoy Is principal. Miss Mayete Albritton and Miss Nellie Collins are the assistants.
 The members of the city council are G. A. Bitter, J. F. Bradford, D. s. Fades, l. M. Hill and Ed Yessick.
 Important Industries.
 Five mining companies operate coal mines in the vicinity as follows: The Mable Mining company. Sibley Broth CTS, Southern Clay Manufacturing com- pany, Crescent Coal company and the Central Coal company, The Southern Clay Manufacturing company and Sib- ley Brothers operate mines. for their own consumption in their brick plants, which form an important part of the community's industrial activity.
 The Southern Clay employs 176 men steadily and has capacity of 30,000 brick per day. The company has just booked an important order for 4,OO0,- 900 paving brick which, with other orders already on the books and in sight. will keep the plant running iH- definitely. O. $. Adams Is general man aEer, F. c. Johnson superintendent and J. D. Black timekeeper.
 The Sibley Mingea Pressed Brick company has a daily capacity of 32,000 brick and employs S5 men steadily. This concern manufactures pressed building brick. J. W. Sibley is mana ger and w. L. Sibley is superintendent of the plant.