The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-07
FIRST RUN Is MADE AT SOIL PIPE PLANT New Industry Promises to be
 Great Success kENNEDYHURT IN RUNAWAY Man Going to Gadsden With a Load of Melons Was Badly Hurt.
 Other News of
 Etowah.
kENNEDYHURT IN RUNAWAY

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 l Gadsden, August 6.-(Special. )-The first l run of soil pipe by the Coosa. Pipe and l Foundry company was made last Thurs l day afternoon with six floors in operation | The cast was a decided success in every respect and was made after everything | was placed in readiness. Morris Bush,
 the energetic manager, and Robert Camp
 bell, the superintendent and pioneer pipe
 maker of Gadsden, were both present and
 had everything in ship shape for the run,
 which was made without a hitch of any l kind and perfect lot of pipe was the l result.
 1 The plant as at present constructed con sists of twenty-one floors with daily
 capacity of fifty tone and 1t is the in tention of the management to have these floors in operation at the earliest possible
 moment. Without doubt this Is the most complete plant in the south for the manu- facture of soil pipe and will be the largest
 when completed, as it Is the policy of the company to continue the extension so as to be able to consume the entire output of the present furnace as well as the one be- Ing constructed alongside that completed some few years ago. With this object in view it Is likely that a plant for the man. ufacture of water pipe will be later put in. The company is now making 5000 tons of pig iron per annum, and this will be doubled by January, when the other fur mace is completed and the consumption Of pig iron by the soil pipe plant will be very small as compared with the output of the furnaces.
 The turning of the raw material into the finished product is where the money is made as well as the cause of more and better wages being paid to the iaborer, and 1t Is the intention of the Alabama Consolidated Coal and Iron company to utilize every ton of pig iron made in Gadsden and turn it out in the finished product. It Is an enterprise that every citizen of Gadsden is proud of and one In which all take an interest
 Real Estate Is Good Investment.
 Gadsden real estate has been moving some the past few days at reasonable prices and papers telling of the following deals have been filed In the probate of flee: S. S. Caldwell to W. P. Cooper, house and lot on Walnut street. consider
 ation $1s0o A. H. Barnes to Jeff Davis. house and lot on corner Birmingham and
 
 E. Snead farm near Boaz, for a consider ation of s3500; G. s. Womack to T. l.. Johnson lot near Hokes Bluff, $2OO. Other deals are under way and will be made soon. Real estate Is good investment In Gadsden just now.
 w. c. Smith Is Dead.
 W. c. Smith, prominent farmer of Coats Bend, Etowah county, died yes- terday morning after long illness with brights disease. MT. Smith was about 4S years old and had been in bad health for the past few years, but since the death of his wife last winter he has been going down rapidly. He returned from Hot Springs last week but was weak and death overlook him before he reached his home, dying at the home of pr. J. w Lawrence in Turkeytown He was a member of the Methodist church and was a splendid citizen. He leaves one son, M. M. Hughes Badly Hurt in Runaway. John Kennedy was badly hurt in runaway early Saturday morning near the city. MT. Kennedy was coming to Gadsden with a load of watermelons and was driving horse hitched to one horse wagon As he neared the home of Crockett Garrison he met the outgoing R. & D. passenger and his horse be- came frightened and ran away, demolish- ing the wagon, crushing his load of mel ons and throwing MT. Kennedy out and fracturing his hip. He was taken to nearby house and physician called. He is stated to be in a serious condition. Erect New Bank Building.
 The First National bank of Gadsden let the contract Saturday to w. T. Chris topher for the erection of a handsome three-story brick structure on the corner of Broad and Fifth streets to be used as a bank building. The building will front thirty-two feet on Broad street and run back eighty feet on Fifth street. The first story will be of native stone and the interior will be designed especially for the needs of the bank, the ceiling to he of steel tile flooring, and all fixtures to be of the latest. The second story will be office rooms and the third floor d lodge room, the third and second floors being constructed of grey pressed brick. Rearden & Freeman of Chattanooga, Tenn are the architects. The contrac- tor is assembling the material for the hui,d,np and will commence the active construction on the first of September and if will he completed and occupied by the | first of January, 1906 The building IS | to be erected on the property or the hank purchased a few months ago at | cost of s10,00O The building Is to cost | s15 Oo0 and will be one of the prettiest | in the city.
 Taking School Census. The school census of the city of Gads- den is being taken by Prof w. E. strip
 lin of the city schools, in order that the Gadsden free schools will receive their share of the state appropriation. Profess sor Strplin is making a close and pains taking census and It will be complete ono as he Is securing the names of every ,,a,.son in the city the age and occupa- tion and when he completes his work the city will have a perfect directory or | the city's population. something which | is badly needed.