The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-22
HOOD MACHINE PLANT
 NOW IN NEW HANDS
McWane & Adams Purchase Property. Name Changed to Birmingham
 Iron and steel Company.

The deal for the sale of the Hood Ma chine Works, which has been pending for several days was consummated yes terday. The plant, which is located on First avenue between Fifteenth and Six teenth street was purchased by J. R. McWare of Lynchburg, Va, and w. T. Adams of Cornth, Miss. The price paid for the property is not given.
 The new owners will take charge next Monday. J. A. Hood stated last night that he expected to operate a special ma chine business immediately. He intimat- ed that he would probably erect plant in or near Birmingham.
 The Birmingham Iron and Steel com pany will be the name of a new corpora tion to be organized by MT. McWane and MT, Adams. The capital stock will be s5O.oOo. and articles of incorporation will be filed in the probate court within the next few days. In addition to confirming the foundry and machine business of the Hood company the new firm will manu- facture steel castings.
 There will be no stopping of work at the plant. w. w. Crawford has been ap- pointed trustee by MT. Hood and he will wind up the affairs of the old company. porate limits; but I am equally anxious that this laudable work be conducted in A strictly business-lixe manner allowing no tribute to any one not fully entitled thereto.
 Btuminous Macadam.
 When asked relative to his attitude in opposing the use of bitumlnous macadam, MT. Notion said:
 MY position in this matter Is fully de- fined in the circular letters which l ad- dressed to the property-owners on Fifth avenue several days ago. The following reference is made in this circular to bi- luminous macadam:
 MT. G. M. Ingram, in an article pub lished in all three of our daily papers, undertakes to answer my objections to having Fifth avenue paved with bitu- minous macadam, but he does not touch several of the most serious objections which I have heretofore presented.
 "A statement from MT. 1gram that tar pavements have not been a failure, is to disprove the claims of the owners or the patent for this bituminous macadam pavement Every well informed and ob- servant man knows that tar pavements have been greatly condemned. We have had A. few samples here in Birmingham, and call to your attention the sidewalks 1afd inc O Rripn Opera House. and also at the northwest corner of Fifth avenue and Eighteenth street.
 The Repairs.
 The answer which MT. Ingram makes as to the matter of replacing places to be torn up from time to time when 1t IS necessary to put in new and repair old pipe, will hardly satisfy the people who have the bills to pay. Just think of the proposition of giving to any man, or corporation, monopoly-an exclusive right-for ten years to do such work! IL would be an outrage to place such burden upon us We want the right 10 nave all such work done by competitive bidding and to give us a pavement that takes from us this right would be an in- justice that can not be too severely con demned. It is for this same reason that I place my honest objection to the orig inal construction of such pavement It is true that the city engineer has in his specifications put in some words or made some changes Gone allowing soft limestone instead of requiring granite or flint rock), from the specifications made by the company owning this patent ed right, but he at the same time knows, and so does the mayor and aldermen know. that no one else, except those con- trolling this patented right, is engaged in the business of putting down this kind of a pavement.
 No doubt MT. Ingram is much pleas ed with his experience in Birmingham. He is now working under contracts for paving blocks on Second. Third and Fourth avenues, and these contracts were awarded to him without any competition whatever He is getting t2.00 per square yard for brick pavement, as against $1.571z which was paid for paving South Twen- tieth street.-the latter work being done q fter a Io,,a and hard ff0f1t bv f1na ,or,r,