The age-herald., 1900-05-13

Park It has not really been many actual years since this charter was applied TOT and granted, for the construction or street car line from a central point in Bir- mingham to that beautiful spring with It's groves, then called Milner Spring The idea seemed to be that right there was to be reserved a woodland park, and around it was to be built homes for the people or busy Birmingham; and so 1t seems It should be so.
 Another chapter and the North Birming- ham Street Railroad company and the North Birmingham Land company became possessors of the franchise and of the great property, which presented such an inviting field for investment. The land was plotted as originally intended, the street railroad was built the boom came values were inflated, speculation ran high-lots likewise. There was imitation all around, and the immediate results which followed need not be here recorded. The street railroad barely existed dragging its weary way along under heavy pressure barely existing-its dummy engines repre- Senting what seemed to be the agonizlng throes of an enterprise once so promising, now fading away. Building at North Bir- mingham ceased. Yet with all, there was attraction at that beautiful natural park, and the people continued to gather there for rest and recreation. The carrying ca- pacity of the worn-down dummies so meager now, was supplemented by priVate and public vehicles; for the people yearned for the shade the flowers and the ife- giving waters of North Birmingham Park, and never ceased their visits there It was still the favorite resort for picnic and general outing parties.
 Perfect Street Car System
 Time passed on The light again began Pirnainpham. The Birmingham Traction company, new or ganization with life, vim and determina- tion became possessor of the North Bir- mingham street railroad, and at once equipped the line with all modern ap- pliances in fact rebuilt it and through the agency of a perfect street electric car system drew North Birmingham to within an eighteen minutes run to the center or great Birmingham, thus making doubly valuable every foot of ground in the suburb under consideration. And then the Traction company's lines all went into the great system known as the Birmingham Railway and Electric company, which op- crates a perfect network of lines through all parts of the city and reaching every important suburban point Let 1t be re- membered that this very system the best equipped and most superb in the south, passes through the very center of North Birmingham.
 Reorganization of the Comp ny Last October the North Birmingham Land company which had been inactive | for years, withholding it's lands from the | market, was thoroughly reorganized and paid every dollar of it's indebtedness. The company resolved to pursue active and | liberal policy and to vigorously present its claims to those in search of sites for l manufacturing, for business and for | homes. They knew the demand was here l a demand for lots close to the limits of | Birmingham proper. A demand for manu- | featuring sites close 10 business, to popu- | lation, to railroad lines, to water; and they l knew that North Birmingham came up | to all requirements more fully than any l other part of the great Birmingham dis l trict.
 l locality in or near Birmingham presented 1 such an inviting field for the building of l suburban homes as North Birmingham and | they at once set about to vigorously prose- l cute their plans, and to make a great suc- | cess of North Birmingham. How we'll 1 they have succeeded is attested by the fact | that during the brief six months just l passed the North Birmingham Land com | pany has sold perhaps more lots than any | land company in this district, and that it's
 officers and agents are kept busy every | day in exhibiting properties, and passing | deeds to purchasers.
 Twenty-Five Reasons It is not very difficult for one to under
 stand why there is such large and | growing demand for North Birmingham
 lots if he will only examine into the long | line of inviting features which the com
 pany presents. Let these few be enumer- | ated:
 1. Close proximity to Birmingham busi- | ness center. Only IS minutes.
 2. The excellent electric street car sys-
 tenn already established.
 g. The great manufacturing institutions
 already established there, and a certainty
 of more to follow.
 A. The superior natural location there Tor
 large and small manufacturing concerns.
 B. The natural rapid drainage afforded | by Village creek.
 6. Free water for all manufactures.
 T. Perfect healthfulness, for which North | Birmingham is noted.
 8 The beauty of the place.
 9. The quietness, peace and order whlch
 has ever prevailed there, and ever snail.
 10. Freedom from dust and smoke.
 Il. Beautiful groves of natural shaoe'
 Trees already grown.