The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-02
ROD MILL ID START
 MONDAY WEEK Plant at EnSIey Will Soon be in
 Operation WORK IS BEING RUSHED All Preparations for Resumption Are Being Made and Much Material
 Is Already on Hand-No-
 tce Given Yesterday.
WORK IS BEING RUSHED

Ensley, April 1.-(Special)-At con- ference held this afternoon in the city hall between a committee from the board of trade of Ensley and George H. Schu- Ter, head of the Schuler plants In Gadsz
 den and Ensley, it was definitely announc- ed that the rod mill of the Alabama Steel and Wire company in this city would be put in full operation Monday week. The machinery department of the plant Will be started up tomorrow and the entire plant will be in operation Monday week. Mayor Scott, L. H. Waldrop J, N Per kns and G. R. Byrum, and MT Fettle or the Frisco system, composed the com mittee from the board of trade while MT. Schuler represented the Alabama Steel and Wire company. An amicable agree ment was arrived at on both sides and it is now certain that the big plant will be running on full time within ten days.
 Preparations are being rushed forward for the resumption at the rod mill and everything is being put in readiness 10
 begin work Steel billets, coal and other
 materials are arriving daily. Several carloads of steel billets arrived today ana a big supply of coal Is already on hanq
 Some extensive repairs have been maoe since the rod mill has been idle ana the plant will be in shape to do good WorF when operation is resumed. The piahe employs about 1500 men when in full ops eration. although the force usually em- nIoved is about 800. It was claimed by tbe company that the rod mill was closed | oil v nf
 has been remedied now and the plant will have plenty of material on nano when the time to start up arrives. There is much satisfaction expressea among Ensley people at the prospect ol an early resumption at the rod mill rnis l Is one of the towns largest industries 1 and plays an important part In the S'eei | City's prosperity.
 Strike IS Unbroken.
 | The committee appointed py the poaio of trade to take some steps to end the strike among the open hearth furnace
 workers of the Tennessee Coal, Iron anu
 Railway company met in the clty haii lthis morning and made report 10 the
 bord. but no information was given out
 concerning the work accomplished. The general uneasfness continues but there is no dispostion on the part of either side to yield. ,
 Five furnaces of the company were in oneration today and it is reported on the streets that negroes are being empioyeu at s1 a day to take the places of the strikers. Heretofore a foreman and two helpers have been employed for each open hearth furnace. Now the white foremen
 already secured are being supplied with negro helpers It is stated that the com pany is graduelly getting enough men on .Il. aaaft
 The strikers are holding out for an in- crease of s15O a day and ask that their pay be raised from s to $4.50 a day. The 1 introuction of negro help at $1 a day has therefore caused general surprise and there Is much speculation as to what the result will be. However, no violence Is l anticipated and the citizens of Ensley will continue their efforts to bring about | an amicable settlement between the | workmen and the Tennessee company.
 Wonderful Bottle Invented. | George II. Scherer. proprietor of the Ensley hotel has just perfected bottle which cannot be filled a second time and l he is confident that his idea will bring him a fortune MT. Scherer has been working on his invention during odd mo- l ments for great many years. A few Idays ago he was sitting in his room when | a new lQea DdSneQ dCrOSS HIS Ilnu. f1t immediately set to work and in about l three hours had constructed a model
 which works perfectly He hopes to make
 an application for patent next week. | MT. Scherer was formerly a saloor- | keeper in Macon, Ga, and 1t was while l there that he saw the need of a bottle to 1 be used in the liquor trade, especially, which could not be filled second time l by an inferior grade of liquor. and sold under the brand on the bottle. Large
 sums have been offered from time to time 1 by distllers for such a bottle, and the
 demand for a perfect contrivance of the | kind is very pressing.
 | MT. Scherers bottle cannot be filled a
 second time pours a stream that never
 varies from the time the bottle is tilted
 until 1t is drained of its contents, and no
 dire or insects can get in the bottle 1 when 1t is uncorked.
 Police Court Items.
 l Jennie Slater and Sarah Scott, two ne~
 gro women were fined s each in the po-
 lice court this morning on charges of
 keeping late hours.
 Charles c. Wright was before his honor on a charge of reckless and negligent driving. but the case was dismissed. A suit for the same offense has been filed III the inferior court of Ensley against Wright by J. D. Strickland of Pratt City.
 Case Set for Today.
 The quo warranto proceedings instituted by certain citizens of Ensley in the city court of Birmingham against Aldermen M, H. Sherman and Charles s. Vaughn will be heard Saturday morning in the city court of Birmingham. Captain Ro-
 maine Boyd and Frank Deedmyer, attor- neys for the aldermen have filed de-
 murrer to the charges made by the cfti-
 zens, basing the demurrer on the charge that the information of the relators does
 not show cause why the defendants snail make answer in court.
 | The citizens instituting the quo war
 ranto proceedings claim that Aldermen
 Sherman and Vaughn are not entitled to their seats In the city council because
 there was no vacancy in the Fifth ward
 at the time of their election from that
 ward and they were elected by ballot in-
 stead of by viva voce vote, as required by law.
 City Attorney Boyd will also make motion in the city court of Birmingham Saturday morning to have the appeal made by the citizens of West Ensley to the supreme court and also the injunc- tion against Ensley dismissed This ac- ton was taken by the residents of West
 Ensley through their attorney, w. J. Martin, in their fight to test the consti- nationality of the act passed by the last legislature which empowered Ensley to incorporate West Ensley.
 Notes and Personals.