The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-13
WESTERN UNIONS
 MANAGER COMES
Brooks and Others Make In
 spection Trip
CONDITIONS PLEASE HIM
Talks of Reorganization of Company and Addition of New Features-Is Very Much Interested in
 Birmingham

Belvidere Brooks. general manager of the Western Union Telegraph company, and large party of other officers of that company were in Birmingham yes terday. They are making a tour of the southern cities getting in touch with local conditions and trying to get the recent changes in operationg condition.
 They spent the day here with Man ager George R. Calvert of the local of- several features of the work and con ferred with them regarding the conditions locally.
 The party was composed of Mir. Brooks, T. w. Carroll, assistant general manager New York city; W. c. Merly, secretary to the general manager; S. B. Haig, as- sistant traffic engineer, New York city; J. M. Stephens. district commercial super intendent. Atlanta; H. c. Worthum, gen eral superintendent at Atlanta, and others
 Recently the affairs of the Western Union have been divided under three distinct heads and the organization broad ened, thus introducing many changes. It was to get the organization smooth and the properties inspected that called for the trip by the higher officers. They left yesterday afternoon for New Or leans.
 MT. Brooks said after being here all day that everything in Birmingham was in the best of shape so far as he could learn and that he was we'll pleased with all conditions. He said all the south seems to be prospering and the outlook is exceedingly bright
 Recently we have reorganized the af- fairs of the company and introduced some new features" said MT. Brooks; and we are going ahead with many physical improvements. We intend to spend a great deal of money on our lines during the coming year so as to improve it to the limit. We feel that every condition warrants a broadening of the business and we hope to improve in every way.
 "One recent innovation made by our company is the ocean mail service. We have arranged that any business man writing letter abroad and finding that he has forgotten something may telegra ph a night letter to New York and we im- medately mail 1t in a prepared envelope to the steamer carrying the first letter. The entire letter may be sent this way. This service is proving of great value to business men Of the Pacific coast, as we save them five days by inaugurating the service. The same plan has been ar ranged for San Francisco, Seattle, Van couver and other ports of entry. The night letter service is also highly sat- isfactory and the Western Union Is feel ing extremely optimistic.
 Business during the past year has been far over anything we have done in recent years, both in volume and net earnings. Our officers think conditions will continue to improve and that all in dustrial trades will be busy this year.
 'Tn Birmingham I was very much sur prised. I have not been here before in some time and the remarkable showing made here instantly is phenomenal. I was interested in the census returns show ing your city to be so large and am inn pressed with the absolute correctness of those reports.
 Birmingham has created wide interest all over the country and there can be no doubt but that such publicity will aid the city in growing even faster than in the past years.
 ''I hope the ambition of Birmingham to reach the 25O,OoO mark may be real ized at the next census"