The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-07

"eSS "hish was not seen two weeks ago. The misunderstanding plant in which I am interested will show about the same prof It the last half of this year that 1t showed in the second half of 1913. In the first half there was a falling off in gross earnings of something like s6OOo as com pared with the first half of 1913. But this was very small in view of the indus trial depression prevailing throughout the country at that time.
 T look for high degree of prosperity between now and spring." .-., Louisiana Visitor
 | Samuel L. Hill. cashier of tht First State Bank and Trust company of Hammond, La, Is the guest of his brother, L. P. Hill He will remain here until next week.
 T had not been in Birmingham be- Tore for IA years. and of course I am greatly impressed with the growth and Improvements" said Mir. Hill. When I last visited this city there was not, n single steel frame building here Now Birmingham Is city of skyscrapers AS for the residence sections, they are wonderfully attractive. It is safe to say that the landscape effects here are not equaled by any other southern city and l doubt if any northern city is more beautiful than Birmingham.r
 MT. Hill in speaking of Louisiana said that business was Improving in that state. "The European war" he said, has caused a great advance in sugar, and the sugar planters are again coming into their own. One man who's sugar plant cost him about s250. 900 sold it year ago for $20,o00. The new owner has already cleared s20. 900 on it and very naturally he is congrat- ulating himself on his good fortune.
 The trucking industry in Louisiana Is increasing very fast. In the parish in which I live strawberry farming is carried on extensively and profitably, Within radius of 50 miles of Ham mond the strawberry crop of last spring brought from s2,250,Ooo to g. 800, 000 g.
 "The United States government is- sued a bulletin recently in which il was stated that the farms in our par ish yielded more on the average per acre than any, other parish or county in the United States
 Birmingham College . .e' , T am frequently asked the questions Has the tightness of the money mar ket and the low price of cotton af- fected the campaign for Birmingham , college" and What is the. outlook for the early beginning of work on the main building of that institution?' said II n Ct. ,fy~ for the college.
 Of course to certain extent the 1 financial stringency has hindered ouI [ progress in securing subscriptions and also in making collections. Neverthe- less we are moving on very we'll tinde i. the conditions. We have something over 7 $1s0,ooo subscribed, more than $3e, ,o0t
 Of which has been collected in cash
 But the trustees do not feel that Il
 would be wise to begin the. erection Q of the building, such as they wish ant
 such as the character of our work de . mands, with less than half the money in hand. So they have resolved to be- r gin building operations when. e tota 9 lof s57,5oo has been collected. Thi.
 means that we must collect S27 ,00,
 more before we can begin work on tn,
 main building
 We have on our books past due ac
 counts and others now due of more tha, i. l$3o,000.
 The college authorities have ar ranged for a collection campaign to in ! clude the week of November 22 to 2s 3 and expect to get therefrom most, i , not all, the money needed to begil building work. You know there Is won f derfui power in united and concen
 trated effort, and with all our peopl 7 pulling together. notwithstanding som
 unfavorable conditions, we can be read, r to begin early in the spring and pusl
 to completion during 1915 this work : which means SO much not only to tn q Methodist church but to the entire citi
 xenship of Birmingham and north Ala lbama-
 Meanwhile plans are being perfecte, for a personal canvass of the remainde
 of the territory within the bounds O . the North Alabama conference. Then l as agent, am to spend the months. O s December and January in the Decatu district, February and March in tn
 Florence district, and so on until : systematic canvass of the conferenc h has been made. This will surely brin
 the amount required to lay the founda . tons for what is bound ultimately t f be one of the greatest institutions o :. the south."
 7. The Iron Market a Matthew Addy ( Co.'S Cincinnati re
 port for the current week says in part n ITO indicate just where the pig fro r trade stands today a study of curren c statistics shows that furnaces are do ing . business of about 1s per cent C e their normal capacity; that is. sales c D. pig iron are about s7 per cent less tha if they should be if all the furnaces wer
 running and selling their output. Th y is the worst record for years. On tn r. other hand. foundries are all withou a stocks To the best of our knowledg