The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-16
.BESSEMER PEOPLE ID BUILD HOSPITAL Will be Backed by FraternaI
 Order of Eagles A CHARITY INSTITUTION Miscellaneous Committee of City Coun- ell Is Preparing License Schedule
 for Next Year-Notes
 and Personals.
"A CHARITY INSTITUTION

Bessemer December 15.-(Special.) .)-"The
 charity hospital to be established in this
 city under the auspices of the Fraternal
 Order of Eagles will be one of the most
 beneficial institutions of the kind in the
 Birmingham district when 1t is opened to
 the public" said Dr. J. s. Winters, who { is the promoter of the movement, and
 who made the proposition to the Bessemer
 aerie Wednesday night.
 Our plan Is to raise 5000 by popular subscription from individuals, and the manufacturing plants located in the Bes- semer district. This amount of money will
 be ample for the opening of the institution and then we propose to solicit the pay
 ment of 10 cents each per month from
 the employees of the manufacturing plants i to help supplement whatever other fund
 may be secured by subscription Or other
 wise for maintenance.
 "The hospital is to be an absolutely free i institution, and there is no other section
 in the Birmingham district that stands more in need of such an institution. feel
 sure that the several thousand employees
 in the plants of this section will gladly donate the sum of ,10 cents per month for the support of the institution. and there
 is no doubt but that the manufacturers will subscribe literally to the fund. The
 Bessemer aerie of Fraternal Order of Eagles is pledged to cover any deficiency,
 and the thing Is a go.
 "The different manufacturing plants in 1 the district have their regular physicians l for the benefit of their employees. These
 physicians will manage the practice and
 wait upon the patients in the hospital.
 am convinced that the plan is absolutely
 feasible, and l am sure that the insti- tuition will be made a success. l Several committees have been select
 ed to solicit subscriptions and take the | necessary steps looking to the opening Of i the hospital, and these committees will l start soliciting at once. A committee has
 been selected to appoint committee Of
 women for a ladies' auxiliary to the hos | pital committee, and this committee will ! be named in a few days. It Is expected | of course, that the ladies' auxiliary will 1 be made up of the most enterprising and 1 publc-spirited women of the city who | will lend valuable assistance to the other , committees.
 1 We have a proposition for a very suit
 able and centrally located building, which
 will probably be secured for the hospital"
 Discuss License. The miscellaneous committee of the city
 council has been busy for several days 1 preparing the license schedule for the i year 1906 and will probably have re- 1 port ready to submit to the city council i which will meet in regular session next | Tuesday night.
 l It is understood that the license on sev- | eral utility corporations operating in the 1 city will be materially advanced. It Is l said by persons in position to know that | the committee will advance the license of the Birmingham Railway, Light and Pow | CT company and the two telephone com l nj ipo in Attorney James Weatherly of Birming- | ham and F. l.. Woodruff, superintendent l of this division of the Southern Bell Tee- 1 phone and Telegraph company. were in | the city yesterday and appeared before l the committee in the interest of that company.
 Notes and Personals. The old Bessemer National Bank build ] ing on Nineteenth street is being repaired | for the Rush Drug company, which has | leased the building and will move in Jan l nary l. The vault is being torn out and drug store furnishings are "eing put in. l The second floor of the bu >li = will be ] occupied by physicians offices and the office of the Rush Drug company. The 1 third floor is being used as lodge room | by the local lodge of Elks, which will | continue in charge until it builds a hall l of it's own which will possibly be done l early next year.
 Bishop Beckwith will conduct the ser vice at Trinity Episcopal church Sun | day morning at Il o'clock and will con l firm class.
 | The Bessemer District Sunday School | association will be held at the Baptist | church at Brighton Sunday afternoon at | 3 o'clock. An interesting programme has
 been arranged for the occasion, and the | attendance is expected to be large Every | body is invited.
 | A. A. Randle has gone to Mississippi l where he will spend few days on tdnt- I ing expedition.
 Miss Linnie Wilson and MT John Sapp were quietly married at the home of the brides parents. MT. and Mrs. J. 10. Will l son. at Jonesboro last night. l The women of the Bessemer Free Kin dergarten will give an entertainment next Wednesday night for the benefit of the l Christmas tree that they have arranged
 to give the pupils of the school on the 1 following day.
 | The Ladies' Social club will be enter | tained at the Elks' hall next Wednesday | by Mrs. Lacy Edmondson |
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