The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-06-17
Letter from the South,
ADMISSION, June 10, 1898.
Dear SIR
EDITOR SENTINEL.

T. Dear Olr.-
l promised to write you q description
OF the country down here, for pnblica-
tion, but have not had time as yet to
collect as much information MS 1 would
like to give you.
Admission is u beautiful city twelve
years old and of about $4,000 popula-
tion. The buildings. streets, electric
lights and water works would be ere.
dit to any city five times as old. 1t is
situated on a plateau of the Blue Ridge
mountains of northeast Alabama. It
is called model city and think it de-
serves the name for several reasons.
First, it has perfect drainage and sewer
age system, the best in the south, that
cost $150,000. / have seen it rain very
hard and in half an hour the walking
would be perfectly good. Second, it
has a good system of water works.
They can have pressure enough to break
the pipes, if they want to, from stand
pipes on the surrounding hills. Third,
it has gas works and good electric
light plant, electric and horse cars, run
ming in all directions. 1t has two fine
avenues, Quintard and Leighton, that
are a pleasure to walk or drive on; in
fact all OF the streets are good, being
covered with cinders fiom the furnaces
and rolled smooth.
1t has excellent public schools and
two high schools, Noble institute for
boys and Noble institute for girls, whose
courses OF study almost entitle them to
be classed as colleges. The buildings
and grounds are fine. / have visited
the institute for girls and think it one
of the best conducted schools I ever
saw.
Admission is city of churches. There
are in actual use twenty-five churches
Three of them cost from $50. 900 to S50,-
600 each and one of them 1926, 900. None
cost less than 81 900. There are con-
gregations of Baptists, Christians,
Episcopalians, Catholics, Presbyterians,
Methodists, Congregationalists and
Hebrews.
There only two good hotels, the Ann
iston Inn and the Hotel Wilmer. The
former is very large hotel. Nothing
on Lake Superior to compare with it.
The Wilmer. is small but nice.
Admission has three railroads, the East
Tennessee, Virginia e. Georgia, the
Richmond & Danville, and the Louis
vile & Nashville.
Of manufactures L can only mention
those l have been through. The Wood
stock Iron Co. has two charcoal and
Two coke furnaces. The charcoal fur
naces are out of blast. One coke fur
mace is working and making 40 tons of
pig iron daily. The other coke furnace
is being repaired. When both are in
operation they employ about 300 men.
The Hercules Pipe Works has moved
here since came, from Pell City, near
Birmingham. They make cast iron
water and sewer pipes, and employ
about 400 men. Redford Pipe Works
is very large concern and turns out 200
tons of cast iron sewer and water pipes
daily, from four inches up to the largest
size. The works are built of brick, and
are complete Gin every particular. They
employ nearly 500 men. The car works
are the largest in the country. They
are owned by the United States Rolling
Stock Co. and employ now about 500
men. When running full capacity they
give employment to over 1000 men and
turn out twenty-five cars per day, doing
all the work on them even to making
their own axles and wheels. They also
make axles and wheels for their other
shops in Illinois and Ohio, and at De-
catur, Ala. This is done on account of
the superior quality of the Admission
iron. They use 81 acres of ground, and
nearly half of that is under roof. The
cotton mill was built in 1881 by the
Admission Manufacturing Co. It has
oyer 1000 splndles and 375 looms. 1t
is one of the largest in the south. There
are two lime works here doing good
business, The stone is quarried four
miles from town.
The works in operation that haye not
visited are the Barbour Machine Works
the Admission Boiler & Sheet Iron
Works, broom factory and two planning
mills and manufacturing shops.
visited one of the iron mines located
in the city limits, and saw something
new to me in iron mining. They we're
running plow along with six mules,
followed by wheeled scraper which
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