The age-herald., 1900-10-02
MANY RED EYES
 AND HEADACHES And Great Suffering on the Last
 Moving Day. AN UNPRECEDENTED RUSH That Makes Ton Cry All Day Long You Are So Unhappy-Just So
 Miserable You Would
 Like to Die"
 
AN UNPRECEDENTED RUSH

How many red eyes and nervous head aches, bruised fingers and sore arms there are in Birmingham this morning 1t would be difficult to estimate; but this will doubt less be busy day at the drugstores, and there will be most assuredly a greatly de- creased number of women down town, as compared with ordinary days
 Yesterday was called the moving day. in Birmingham. That was and is an er- roneous designation. Yesterday was one of the moving days" of Birmingham. There have been six of them, and yesterday was the last and worst one of the half dozen dozen all-bad moving days"
 The hearts of housekeepers compelled to change residences have been sorely aching for weeks; some of them have been in process of breaking for ten days; some of them are quite broken this morning.
 'Oh, it Is so perfectly terrible to have to move!' exclaimed child last night.
 The child was a Miss 'Tenyears, and very pretty and worldly-wise, and she sighed deeply, though she was not herself suf- ferer at the moment. She was in board ing-house safe and sound; mother couldn't get house of her own But she had been through the horrors, months before.
 'The packing up is bad enough, goodness knows; it makes you weep, for it injures your best things. But packing is perfect pleasure compared to unpacking and get ting your things like you want them in your new home. That makes you cry all day long, maybe longer; you are so unhappy just so miserable you'd like to die if it wasn't wicked to think about it. Oh-oh- oh! Did you ever have to move? do hon estly believe it is the worst thing in the whole worldn
 That ten-year-old child's words come very nearly to expressing what thousands of good folk are thinking this morning; and another remark she made may not please everyone:
 "Do you know, whole lot of folks were moving all day Sunday. That's awful. I'd be afraid to move on Sunday; 'fraid some- thing would happen to me. It's worse than cutting out things to make on a Friday"
 The rush of the movers was terrific on Saturday, and was kept up for into the night, every available transfer vehicle be- ing brought into requisition and kept con- stantly busy. The demands upon the trans fer companies and the "crawlers," as the English call stray vehicles that move about the streets for hire, were quite unprece- dented. It seemed that every first-of-Oc- tober mover desired to move on the 29th of September, and the scrambling for convey ances was wild.
 On Sunday the moving was kept up at lively rate, many people taking advantage of tine quietness of the day and the slack ened demand for drays and wagons to transfer their lares and penates to their newly rented houses
 Throughout all the hours Of yesterdays daylight and through most Of the hours of last nights darkness the rush of the movers continued In the wake of great transfer wagons capable of moving ton or two of household goods followed many wonderful one-hoss shay in the form Of a 'crawler" In every block they were seen and in every street women hurried afoot with their more cherished personal belongings in handbags or baskets.
 The confusion to many weary soul was maddening. Things of the ou tgoing tenant would get mixed with things of the incom- ing family, and there was feverish irrita- ton. This irritation and annoyance, actual grief, amongst movers, spread to others, and if there weren't murders in greater numbers than usual, even in Birmingham, it wasn't because the population wasn't ill., tempered enough.
 much as $250 being paid for single loads in some instances.
 Further than the misplacing and tenn porary loss of several babies; the loss of 1l44 family cats, I'll dogs 333 mirrors 403 lamps, and the skinning of thousands of knuckles, no very serious damage was re- ported to the police and fire departments.