The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-21
TENANTS FOR NEW
 AMERICAN TRUST To Make Many Changes in Industrial Offices WHOLE FLOORS TAKEN Ross C. Smith, Who Has Charge of the New Structure, Is Now
 Busy Signing Up
 the Leases
WHOLE FLOORS TAKEN

When the new American Trust SKY
 scraper is completed and the tenants installed very marked change will be
 found in the location of various promi-
 nent industrial and railroad companies
 Ross c. Smith, who has charge of the
 building, is busy booking tenaats and
 signing up contracts for the new build ing.
 It is stated that in many cases entire
 floors have been taken by companies
 heretofore occupying modest suites lr
 other buildings However, their office
 forces have grown rapidly and the
 greater volume of business has caused 1 the need for additional space.
 It is stated that the Southern railway will have the twelfth floor of the new
 building. All officials, including the general agent, general freight agent general superintendent and their forces,
 will occupy offices on that floor It
 will be the endeavor of the company
 to assemble all of the general officials instead of having them scattered about
 the building as is now the case. The Pratt Consolidated Coal com pany will occupy the entire twentieth | floor. The offices of Erskine Ramsay will be those facing First avenue while George B. Mccormack will be located in the very attractive angle facing the Empire building.
 The offices of the Frisco lines will occupy the ninth floor, but whether that company will have an entire floor
 has not been announced The office Of 1 J. H. Doughty, general agent, J. II.
 Jackson, superintendent; R. R. Root,
 J. F. Liston, C. J. Barnes, William Sul- lylvan, chief dispatcher and his staff,
 will be close together.
 The Standard Home company, of which F. E. Whitehead is president, will occupy the fiifteenth floor of the new building with the large staff of that company. President Whitehead will have a handsomely furnished pri- vate office and reception room, while L. A. Whitehead, vice president. will occupy the adjoining suite.
 | The Bessemer Coal, Iron and Land pany, of which Henry L. Badham is president, will be in the new building, and perhaps the Sloss company. Other
 
 there include the Galloway Coal com pany, the Eldorado Coal company, the
 Fulenwlder companies, and others. | It Is stated that the bank will move into the ground floor along in the sum mer as scheduled while the tenants will go into the new floors about october l. and perhaps earlier
 The list of tenants is rapidly filling and emphasizes more than perhaps any other one fact how rapidly Bir- mingham has grown and continues to grow. It is well within the recollection of many citizens that there .was doubt and fear as to how the Woodward building. the first local skyscraper, was to be filled up. Not a bit of trouble was experienced in renting all the of fees in that building. When the First National was erected the limit had pos itively been reached. But it did fill in a hurry Then the Title Guarantee was built and filed. otto Marx and Eugene | Brown conceived the plan of building | the Marx, which, when 1t was announced. caused the doubting ones to gasp and 1t was only a few months later that w. II. Woodward purchased the building and then added big an 1 mex to 1t. Later the Empire and Farley buildings and the Chamber of Commerce went up and tenants apeared for all the space in them.
 i, The same developments will take place in respect to the American Trust
 and when 1t is opened all the rooms
 will be taken.