The age-herald., 1902-05-13
Mayor DreRnen VIII Not Move TOdy Because t is
 Thirteenth BUILDING OPEN WEDN SDAY
Will Then Be Ready for Inspection By the PubIie--Miiitary Companies Find Trouble In Getting
 Sufficient Room.

- Y TOMORROW night all the city | officials will be installed in the
 new city hall, and municipal business will thenceforth be transacted at the corner of Nineteenth street and Fourth avenue.
 Yesterday City Engineer Julian Ken drick, Tax-Collector w. B. Carrel. City Treasurer 0. c. Engsfeld, License Col ieotor A. A. GambIl, City Auditor w. B. Copeland and City Clerk J. e. Murray broke camp in the temporary quarters on Twenty-firs street, which they have been using for about year, and moved into the handsome new building. Mayor w. M. Drennen was too busy to move and will move tomorrow. It is said the Mayor would have moved today except that it happens to be the 18th of the month, although the Mayor does not ad- init that this has anything to do with his plans. By tomorrow night, however, his headquarters will be on the second floor of the new city hall, his office being in the northwest corner of the building fronting on both Nineteenth street and
 
 Fourth avenue.
 MOVING NOT POETIC.
 The process of moving was not quite ss poetic as that of the Arabs, as described by Longfellow. The officials did not fold their tents, but they got few screw drivers, loosened up the partitions and railings which have barred them from
 xz.ttt t11oi- desks and books aboard and had the same hacked" around to the new head quarters.
 The new offices of the city officials will be on the second floor. The Mayors of flee, as stated, will be in the corner, and next to him on the Nineteenth street side will be the office of w. B. Carrel, col lector of real and personal taxes. City Treasurer G. c. Engsfeid will have an office next to MT. Cariel and beyond him will be the offices of City Auditor W. B. Copeland and City Clerk J. c. Murray. All of these offices are on the Fourth av- enue side of the building.
 City License Collector A. A. Gal bill Will have an office next to the Mayors on the Nlnteenth street side. City Engin- eer Julian Hendricks offices will also be on the Nineteenth street side, the mair COT ridor Of the building separating his offices from those of MT GambiIl. LAST OFFICIAL MEETING.
 The last official body to meet in the temporary quarters on Twenty-flrst street will be the city hall committee. which meets this morning at 10 o'clock in the Mayors office. The committee will have to decide several matters as to allotting space, etc.
 The most desired office in the building is the big room on the third floor just over the Mayors office on the corner of Nineteenth street and Fourth avenue. This is a large room about 34 by 56 feet and is wanted by the military and by the ladies who desire to hay$ a reading room for boys, and there are yet others who desire the room. So far the committee has not made up its mind what to do with it, and it Is quite probable 1t will be retained and used as a public meeting room. There is no other space in the hall which could be used for such pur-
 
 military companies. The council chamber will have desks screwed to the floor, and this would make 1t inconvenient for the holding of public meetings.
 MILITIA CROWDED.
 In spite of the fact that the new build ing is large and apparently commodious, it develops that there is not enough space for the militia. Armories nave been set aside for the three Birmingham compan- les, but the rooms are not large enough to furnish lockers for ali the men or hold the equipment of the cavalry. Heretofore these companies have had their own armories and the city has paid each com pany s25 a month presumably for rent. In addition to this sum the State pays each company $2O0 a year. besides furnishing them with guns and uniforms. This money has been sufficient to pay the rent and the companies have had ample room.
 rooms set apart for the military in the city hall. Che of these is large room, being 31 by 5l feet. The other four rooms are smaller, being respectively 16 by 14 feel and three rooms each II by % feet The Birmingham Rifles, of which MT. c. L. Ledbetter is captain, have from 80 to S5 men, the Jefferson Volunteers. com mandsd by Captain A. B. Kennedy have 4S men, and Troop D. commanded by Capt. E. J. McCrossin, has probably 40 nler in the city and also detachment at Ensley. It has been suggested that the large room be given to the rifles and two Of the smaller rooms each to the Volunteers of Troop D. The captains of