. Jefferson County and Birmingham, Alabama ... he social side ofthe community is wellrepresented by a scoreof clubs, four ofwhich have handsomehomes, and by manysocial and fraternalassociations; amongstthem are several Ger-man and Italiansocieties. This birdseye viewof Alabamas metrop-olis—a metropolis inthe broadest sense—would not be com-plete without men-tioning its splendidcivic institutions forthe protection of itscitizens, its excellentnewspapers and itsgreat public utilitysystem of street-rail-ways, light and powerfacilities, with its 133miles of track, reaching in everydirection and kn
. Jefferson County and Birmingham, Alabama ... he social side ofthe community is wellrepresented by a scoreof clubs, four ofwhich have handsomehomes, and by manysocial and fraternalassociations; amongstthem are several Ger-man and Italiansocieties. This birdseye viewof Alabamas metrop-olis—a metropolis inthe broadest sense—would not be com-plete without men-tioning its splendidcivic institutions forthe protection of itscitizens, its excellentnewspapers and itsgreat public utilitysystem of street-rail-ways, light and powerfacilities, with its 133miles of track, reaching in everydirection and knitting city and dis-trict within a radius of fifteen milesso closely together, as to makethem almost one. The potency ofthis factor in the development ofthis city and district will be better BilM realized when it is cited thatwithin the territory and along thelines traversed by the Street Railway,comprising about 100 square miles,there are located eighty large plants,exclusive of those which are locatedin the central part of the city, and. CITY HALL BUILDING, BIRMINGHAM merce
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