The age-herald., 1901-10-01
RUMBL|NG IF THE MOVING VAN IS THE MUSIC TODAY Hundreds of Families Are Co.,
 ing Into New Homes BEGAN TO MOVE SUNDAY Real Estate and Transfer Men Declare That the Number of Movers
 Is On the De-
BEGAN TO MOVE SUNDAY

This is moving day in Birmingham. That is to say, 1t Is moving day formally and officially, but as a matter of fact many families, in their eagerness to have 1t over with anticipated the time honored date, October 1, and got into their new homes as far back as Thursday By Sat urday all the furniture vans were in line and they have been kept on the run ever since.
 Church folk may regard Sunday moving as a violation of the commandment which says Remember the Sabbath day to keep 1t holy" but not less than half hundred households, presumably Goddess of course, were on the move just the same as if it had been a week day; and vest erday the rush continued. It is req sonabe then to say that today's work will not total more than one-third of tho moving business of the season.
 Number of Movers Decrease.
 Real estate men and transfer companies agree that the number of families moving this year Is considerably less, perhaps 25 per cent less, than it was last year. This is good sign, say the real estate agents. for 1t shows that more people are owning their own homes. Five hundred new dwellings have been built In Birmingham since last spring and they are all occu- pied. very many of them by the owners.
 "As to the number of families that will move this week, I cannot tell exactly" said George c. Harris. the transfer man. "but I hauled good many loads of fur niture Saturday, Sunday and Monday. I moved over forty families yesterday, and l have contracted to move fifty odd to- day. As I own nearly all the vans in town, my business will give pretty fair indication of the number of moverssall told. There is more office moving this are changing base'
 While annual moving may decrease comparatively speaking, in a great grow ing town like Birmingham the October will never come that does not find hun dreds of families, from one cause or an- other, getting into new quarters. The moving habit gets such hold on some families that it can scarcely be shaken off.
 Wants to Move Every Year.
 My wife believes in moving every year.. said a Second avenue. merchant. T protest against moving, but she will not listen to me. We had a good house in Fifth avenue. but we are moving to Fourth avenue to a house that is scarcely as desirable as the one we gave up. We came to Birmingham five years ago and this makes our fourth move. It Is a terri be bother to me. I had almost as soon be hanged; but my wife likes it, and that settles it. l know a dozen men in my fix. Many people have excellent reasons for moving, but doubtless scores of families are like ours-move simply because the lady of the house likes the excitement of 1t.
 My wife began to talk about moving this year as early as last May. She spent weeks house hunting, and before Septein- Der was half over she was busy getting ready for this day. The packers have been coming and making a racket before o'clock every morning for a week. and have been knocked out of no little slum- Der. But what's the use kicking. I am not henpecked but wife is boss
 Carpet Tack Market Busy.
 It would be as useless and as we'll nigh impossible to arrive at any thing like a correct estimate of the number of carpet tacks used here every first of October as it would be to account for all the pins that disappear in the course of a year. By the way. a cynic hints that the hard ware men and the house furnishers com bne, and in some mysterious way foster the moving spirit of our women Be this as it may the merchants aforesaid reap a rich harvest Hammers, tacks, stoves, window shades and furniture of all sorts are in brisk demand about now for every one has some pride and must buy some- thing for the new home.