The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-05
GOOD RECORDS ARE
 MADE AT ENSLEY Pay Day Makes Business Good
 With Merchants FURNACE ABOUT FINISHED City Physician Robbins Is Painfully Injured In Runaway-virginia Re-
 lief Fund Will Go
 Over 5000.
FURNACE ABOUT FINISHED

Ensley. March 4.-(Special 1.-The indus
 tries of Ensley made good records dur
 ing the month of February, notwith-
 standing the bad weather. The construc-
 ton work, which has been delayed by
 the unfavorable weather, has been re-
 sumed and is progressing rapidly
 This was pay day at the steel plant
 and several other industries and the
 merchants and business men have en-
 joyed one of the best trades of the year.
 No. furnace, Which has been in
 course of construction for several months
 is drawing near to completion. The im-
 mense amount of machinery which has
 recently been installed at the furances
 has greatly facilitated the manufacture of
 pig iron.
 The adverse conditions not to the con
 trary, the steel plants output for last
 month was as good, according to the
 days in the month, as any previous one.
 The new process, now in vogue, In
 the manufacture of steel at the plant, has done away with the use of scrap
 iron. Under the system the hot pig iron is brought directly from the furnaces and dumped into the converter. After being thoroughly heated and mixed the ' molten metal is carried to the open hearth furnaces.
 The improvements which are being made at the steel plant include the con struction of a new open hearth furnace, installing additional gas producers and a vast amount of repairing. The rod mill which is owned by the Ala
 bama Steel and Wire company, Is making record breaking runs every day. The l steel billets shipped from Gadsden are be- l ing used by the rod mill, and are proving | very satisfactory.
 | The Empire Flow Works is running over time filling the rush orders on its books. I This plant makes all kinds of agricultural | implements, and the recent installing of l a complete wood works department ena- I bles 1t to turn out the implements ready I for use.
 | The Raible Cooperage company's plant, which has been closed down for several | months, is being completely repaired and overhauled.
 pr. Robbins Injured. Dr. J. E. Robbins, city physician, was painfully injured late last evening in a runaway near the Ensley Brick company. | He was carried to the Cunningham hos pital and later to his residence When his horse became frightened and he lost
 control of the spirited animal, Dr. Rob- bins started to jump, when his leg was caught In the wheel of the buggy, break ing several fragments around the knee and causing a severe strain on his ankle | Will Go Over $1ooo. l Mayor Scott, who has charge of raising the funds for the relief of l the widows and orphans of the unfor-
 tunate Virginia miners, says that the 1 fund will be increased to over sl000 Last | night the ladies of the Methodist church l realized s100 from their benefit enter | tainment at the opera house, which | sweiled the amount to 800.
 l Wrestling Matach. 1 Next Wednesday night at the Ensey | opera house the fire department will give | an entertainment, the proceeds to go to l wards the fund to purchase Chief Hol- l lingsworth a new buggy. The chief fea- l ture of the entertainment will be a l wrestling match between Guy Weir of l Chicago and Henry Freeter. a local man. l Both of the wrestlers are well known | athletes and are about evenly matched. An interesting contest is promised.