The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-15

spirit" he said. My first visit here was
 in the fall of 1872. when I came at the
 invitation of Coloned Powell to write an
 article about the prospect for building
 a future city on this site. If the colonel
 and l could then have visualized on that
 corner a building such as the Jefferson
 1 think we would have both fallen into
 cataleptic fits. Atlanta was then consid-
 cred some husting town, with an ap-
 proach to 20,0OO people, and the colonel's
 dream was to see city here fully that
 big and lively. l sprained my youthful
 imaG Gination in conjuring up that sort of a
 picture. But to look on the Birmingham of today is also to laugh at that early and crude cartoon of phophesy
 The late Rev Sam Jones and l came here in 1885, and held big tent evangelis- tic meeting on a vacant square right in the heart of the present business dis trict. Just before that Henry w. Grady had come over her to attend sale Of city lots. He came back to Atlanta and wrote of how he bid off a lot at the cor her of Fifth avenue and Twenty-fifth
 street, and when he went out in the even-
 ing to see where it was he caught a sack full of possums out of the trees
 standing on the lot.
 s.Rirmingham's name and phenomenal
 importance are spoken everywhere from
 Maine to the Pacific coast. I am trav- cling constantly and people everywhere ask me questions about this city, many of
 which I am unable to answer for lack of information. believe well handled ad- vertising campaign in the north and west would quickly add large increases of pop ulation and capital to this city"
 On the subject of his present visit to Birmingham Dr. Small said:
 'I am a national lecturer of the Anti Saloon League of America, and Alabama has been upon my schedule many months. am here simply to speak on the theme of nationwide prohibition as I have recently been doing in Ohio and Michigan, and go from here to do likewise in Colo rado and Oregon. We are organizing and instructing our forces everywhere be- tween the oceans, making every county and state that we can into an anti-saloon unit, and pushing for the amendment to the national constitution that would out law the liquor traffic on every foot of
 na ational territory.
 "Oh, yes, not only believe that condi- ton is coming, but l know it will come
 more speedily than the unobservant can understand. The thinking people every where have grown tired and disgusted with thu evils the waste and the law iSSSHeSS ol tht hi"oi ehe' U 10 " 'i 'he on civilization, destroyer of domestic prosperities, heavy tax on honest m- dustries and a degenerating influence in civic affairs. Public judgment has con- demned it as the enemy of all valua ble progress and it is doomed to die the death of the ingrate-the enemy of God and mankind"
 Dr. Small will speak at Ensley Meth ! odist church this evening.
 | Dr. Small & Speaking engagementS for Alabama are as follows: Monday, March | 16, Roanoke. 7:30 D. m.: Tuesday, Marcf | IT, Lafayette, 7:30 D. m.; Wednesday March IS, Sylacauga, 7:30 D. m.; Thurs day, March 19, Selma, s D. m.; Friday March 20, Tuscaloosa, 8 D. m. Sunday morning. March p. Bay Minette; Sunday night. Mobile; Monday, March 23, Unior l Springs; Tuesday, March 24,' Ozark l Wednesday, March 25, Dothan.