American adventures : a second trip "Abroad at home" . t I was getting so much formy money. Next morning, after breakfast, we set out to see thecity. Having repeatedly heard of Birmingham as thePittsburgh of the South, we expected cold daylightto reveal the sooty signs of her industrialism, but in thiswe were agreeably disappointed. By day as well as bynight the city is pleasing to the eye, and it is a factworth noting that the downtown buildings of Atlanta(which is not an industrial city) are streaked and dirty,whereas those of Birmingham are clean—the reason forthis being that the mills and
American adventures : a second trip "Abroad at home" . t I was getting so much formy money. Next morning, after breakfast, we set out to see thecity. Having repeatedly heard of Birmingham as thePittsburgh of the South, we expected cold daylightto reveal the sooty signs of her industrialism, but in thiswe were agreeably disappointed. By day as well as bynight the city is pleasing to the eye, and it is a factworth noting that the downtown buildings of Atlanta(which is not an industrial city) are streaked and dirty,whereas those of Birmingham are clean—the reason forthis being that the mills and furnaces of Birminghamare far removed from the heart of the town, whereaslocomotives belch black smoke into the very center ofAtlantas business and shopping district. Moreover, the metropolis of Alabama is better laidout than that of Georgia. The streets of Birminghamare wide, and the business part of the city, lying upon aflat terrain, is divided into large, even squares. Fromthis district the chief residence section mounts by easy, 408 w 35 Crq !. A YOUNG METROPOLIS graceful grades into the hills to the southward. Be-cause of these grades, and the curving drives which fol-low the contours of the hills, and the vistas of the lowercity, and the good modern houses, and the lawns andtrees and shrubbery and breezes, this Highlands regionis reminiscent of a similar residence district in Portland,Oregon—which is to say that it is one of the most agree-able districts of the kind in the United States. Well up on the hillside, Highland Avenue winds acharming course between pleasant homes, with here andthere a little residence park branching off to one side,and here and there a small municipal park occupying anangle formed by a sharp turn in the driveway; and ifyou follow the street far enough you will presently seethe house of the Birmingham Country Club, standingupon its green hilltop, amidst rolling, partly wooded golflinks, above the road. Nor is the Country Club at the summit o
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