The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-12
'ENSLEY HAS NEED
 OF MORE HOUSES Building Active But Demand
 Seems to Increase A CONTRACTOR TALKS Three or Four Large New Business Blocks Are Probabilities for the
 Future-New Business
 frms Coming.

EnSley, SeptemDer ll.-(Speclal. )-''1 1nere seems to be no end to the building oper- ations in Ensley.' said prominent con tractor today.
 "It Is claimed by some who do not seem to understand the true condition here that we have reached the limit for a while in the matter of house build ing but that is not true.
 Every day there are demands for res- idences that cannot be met and I know of several business concerns that hesi- tate to- come to Ensley for the want of desirable business houses. Some are coming and will try to be satisfied with the best they can for a while, but they must have better and larger quarters than the town will provide at the present time.
 T feel confident that the business and money interests of Ensley will wake up to the opportunities and the needs of the times and will supply the buildings that are needed.
 Within the last week have beeen ask ed to make estimates on business blocks that will, if built (and believe they will bel. that will help to supply the demands that are heard every day. But the do- mand does not seem to lessen as new houses are erected.
 Before the Morris block at the corner of Seventeenth street and Avenue K was begun some crokers predicted that 1t would stand vacant. I understand that before the contract was signed with the contractor that MT. Morris had leased every available foot of the structure and those leasees are now clamoring for the completion of the building. Others who failed to apply in time are calling for more room elsewhere.
 'I am told that two large mercantile concerns are coming to Ensley from Blocton October 1. They had difficulty in finding adequate quarters and under stand that they desire more room than they were able to secure. Not a week passes but that prospec- tive concerns come to this city and look over the field for locations Many of them would locate here if they could be supplied with proper room. Tt is almost a certainty that two or three large business blocks will be erect ed in the near future and the owners
 need. not fear but that they will all be occupied. Seventeenth and Nineteenth streets are both to share In the distribu- tion of new business blocks according to present indications"
 Notes and Personals. Mir and Mrs. A. B. Fields of Blounts- ville are visiting their son. pr. E. T. Feilds, in this city.
 ~G .xrfl1 be the guest of his daughter, Mrs. Payton Eubank, tomorrow.
 J..I. Blount of Birmingham, spent to- day in the city.
 The Carnegie Library committee will meet at the mayors office at the city hall tomorrow night at o'clock. It Is expected that final plans and specifications for the new library building will be adopted at this meeting and it is desired
 that all members of the committee be present.
 Little Miss Ethel Gross of Birming-
 ham. is the guest of Mrs c. T. Keenan, in this city.
 The Bearers Sunday school class of the Cumberland Presbyterian church was entertained tonight by Mrs. Carl Nell
 heran on Nineteenth street. | The Rev. l.. A. Reagor. pastor of the 1 Cumberland Presbyterian church, will be- gin a series of revival meetings at his | church next Sunday, assisted by the Rev. | F. E. Hendrick of Tennessee. The meet | ings will be held under a large tent which the Rev. MT. Hendricks carries for the purpose. They will be assisted in the meetings by a noted singer. Addison W. Lynch is in South Carolina for a few weeks on business. Professor J. D. Williams has returned from Chicago where he has been taking a summer course at the University of Chicago and is preparing to open the Bush school of which he Is principal. Prof.. J. Henry Hill, principal of the More school, has returned from North Alabama where he spent his summer va cation, and Is ready for the opening of the fall term next Monday.
 The Ladies' Aid society of the First Methodist church met with Mrs. R. M Cunningham this afternoon at 8 o'clock.
 The new Elks hall on Avenue E has been completed and the furniture Is being put in place. The lodge will be organized iu a few days. No announcement of the time for the organization has yet been made.
 Judge c. H. Mandy left for Livingston today where he will spend a few weeks for his health.