The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17
NEW FURNACE ID BE ;. COMPLETED SOON Will Increase Steel Plant Ca
 pacity 250O Tons CONTRACT IS AWARDED Fischer & White Will Erect the New Carnegie Library Building at
 Ensley-Work Will Be-
 gin at Once.
CONTRACT IS AWARDED

Ensley. October 16-(Special.)-T new furnace that is being built in the steel plant of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railway company at this place will be completed early in December and Will materially increase the output of the con cern.
 It is said that the new furnace will in- crease the capacity 2500 tons per motnh. A number of other important improve ments are being made at the steel mill and other plants on the Tennessee Coal Iron and Railway company at this place calling for the expenditure of thousands of dollars. all going to show that this concern has faith in the district ana the present industrial activity.
 Work of rebuilding furnace No' is progressing well and the company hopes to have it completed within the pre- scribed time of eight months, when was WI" estimated at the beginning or the wolA as necessary for the reconstrucuon. ms is less time than is usually requireu io, the construction of such furnace pus at the time No. was built copnec'iohs were made for the enlarged No' ?, lie building of which was con'eliipia''esu @s the time.
 The combined capacity of No. ana NO. 6 when No. 5 is completed VIII pc ofo, 800 tons daily. They will be twins anu the largest furnaces in the sQulh
 Contract Awarded.
 r,o c.rneoie library commlttee met at Mayor Scotts office at the ciiy haii ',''s a fternoon at 5:3O o'clock ana awaips' the contract for the building to fiscnei S White. Their bid was litte less than s94oo. .,
 If is announced that the contract VIII be signed and necessary bonds nieu 'o morrow and the actual work is to heshi on the building at once. Breeding whilldin of Birmingham are the archi- tects and the plans of the building h"'' already been drawn and approVeo,
 The library will be erected at AVeiiue H and Eighteenth street on one oi 'he prettiest and most convenient lots III 'he city for the purpose. It is in the center of the residence section and more suit a ble location could hardly have been se- lected
 While the plans have not been definite ly announced. the library building will be erected with view to building on the same lot and adjoining 1t s25ow fouhs Mems Christian association building.
 This building has been announced as certainty, but it is hardly probable that work will begin on it until some time next year.
 The following building committee was elected by the Carnegie library commit tee this afternoon t9 take active charge of the building operations: M. H. Sher- man. J. w. Minor and Prof. w. H. Bowen.
 Notes and Personals.
 ". N. Malone was in the city today and looked over the property that he has Just purchased at the corner of Seventeenth street and Avenue E. Ii is said that he made the announcement while in the city that the old building now occupying the property would be torn down within thirty days preparatory to the erection of new business block on the corner.
 Oliver Chalifoux of Birmingham has purchased the Drake property at Seven teenth street and Avenue F and it is said that he contemplates the erection of new business block on the property within a short time.
 Miss Lotta Sawyer of Montgomery Is the guest of her sister Mrs. Felix Fuller, on Avenue E.
 Mrs. Emmett Ray is reported to be quite i'll at her home on Avenue r.
 About twenty-five or thirty members of the local Cunningham club attended a meeting of the Cunningham club at the county court house at Birmingham to- night. They were accompanied by num- Der of the members of the Wylam club The street car that had been promised by the Birmingham Railway, Light and Power company for the party failed to materialize for some reason, and several who would have attended did not go on account of the lateness of the hour and the crowded condition of the regular schedule cars Those who attended the meeting report much enthusiasm