The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-10
START NEW TOWN BELOW DESSENER Greenwood" to Be Exten-
 sively Developed A BIG RAID IS MADE Largest Amount of Liquor Ever Ob- tained in Bessemer Was Con
 fiscated By Deputies
 Yesterday
A BIG RAID IS MADE

Bessemer, September 9.-(Special.)-- A new era of agricultural development, q new village with latent possibilities of a future township, for the map of Ala banla and a new community for the Bes- semer district, are but the generalties of the creation of Greenwood, a stretch of land along the Southern railroad about a mile from Morgan. five miles south east of this city. The property, a tract of six miles, with a break of a mile and & quarter, is owned by and being opened up by the Martin Investment company which is composed of J. D. Martin, Griffin P. Martin of this city, W. L. Martin of Dora and others.
 Like romance reads the origin of Greenwood that is to be built with the homestead of the Martins as a corner stone and the man, w. L. Martin, who S4 years ago helped put the shingles on the old house, is the moving spirit in the work of evolving from 1200 acres of timber land, a chain of farms that will be peo- pied with the best examples of American citizenship. It is hoped it will be a factor for good in the progress of civilization. The purpose of the promoters is to de- velep the land, show what it can do in the line of growing farm products and then put it on the market for sale or tenants The manager in chief, w. l.. Martin, has been superintendent of mines for the Pratt Consolidated company for the past several years at Dora, but will move his family and residence next week to Greenwood.
 The present stage of work is pre- paratory, as a sawmil is in operation for the converting of the trees covering the acreage into lumber and railroad ties. A payroll of 90 men. now constitutes the labor engaged and the days of those in control of affairs are filled with sur veying, prospecting and pushing the work forward.
 The modern convenienees of city fife will be installed, as the water sources. wells and springs of freestone water, will be pumped to the houses and gaso- line lights will be the illuminations. Sur rounding Greenwood is mixture of high and rolling lands and it is planned to have within short while the name spelled with rocks painted white on the hillside near the railroad and the site of the station should the railroad an nounce that the trains will stop there,
 
 General News
 With the provisions of the Smith bill looming up in the near future and disregard of the fact that today being a general payday for the mines of the dis trict thereby increasing the trade, the Birmingham deputies raided five soft drink stands within three blocks of one another on Nineteenth street this after noon at o'clock and captured four wagon loads of whisky and beer. This is one of the largest quantities of the contraband seized lately and from one stand. The greatest amount ever ob- tained here was secured in the whole sale clean up this afternoon Deputies Metcalf, Chew. Steele, DeJarnette, Curl and DeJarnette composed the corps.
 The local agent of the Illinois Central railroad, J. H. D. Smith, in regard to rumors published that the trestle had been broken across Cane creek near Cor dova Thursday, because of an overloaded train, made the following statement:
 '"rhe reason given for the wreck Of the trainload of pipe for San Diego, Cal, from this place, that it was overloaded, is entirely erroneous, as my weekly re- port with the figures of the weight of each car, besides those showing the ca- pacity of the cars, discloses the Tact that in many instances the weight was 50 per cent under the capacity and not a single instance of the limit allowed us-10 per cent over the given capacity. These cars were loaded under the su- pervision of the officials of the pipe shops, and the, capacities obtained from the equipment guide, the authority on such matters"
 laos son. scheduled for this afternoon between Bessemer and Lewisburg, was a flulSe, as the last named nine did not show lhe,r uniforms at the park. The game was forfeited to the home team with a score of to o, and another step toward the league pennant was gained without the bother of so many home runs
 Today at noon a white man, giving his name q Mabee, was arrested at the Fulton hotel for disturbing the public peace He claims to be a painter by trade, and came from Chattanooga this Another catch of today was George Harris, a man who escaped from Street Foreman Ratliff of Brighton
 The court of Justice of the Peace Lopez was thronged with an assorted collection of humanity to hear the preliminary trial of John Williams charged with murder of w. M Freeman last Tuesday night on Red mountain, but the case was con tinued. as the state was not ready, until next Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock. Some delay was caused by the fact that prior warrants had been sworn out in the court of Justice of the Peace Lanier the witnesses subpoenaed and the hear ing set but he relinquished his case and the other court then took cognizance Williams was removed to the county jail after the trial by Deputy Edmondson, from the city bastile, where he has ben since the killing.
 The Bessemer branch of the Western Union Telegraph company is now in ti- rect connection with Atlanta, through d straight wire enabling better and quicker service for the east and eliminating 'he route.
 Mrs. T. T. Huey Entertains
 That very little folks have parties as pretty and charming in every detail as their older sisters was evident in the rhildren's affair of this afternoon given by Mrs. T. T. Huey at her home in com pliment to her niece. Miss Sarah May field of Montgomery, in celebration of her sixth birthday Twenty little people played games on the lawn, one of cspe-" ,ial beauty with the garden flowers in bloom and natural, setting for the romps of the guests On the porch, Mrs. Huey and Mrs. Mayfield dispensed fruit punch. The honoree woresa froclS Of ,m- broidered lingerie, over blue silk, with