The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-27
NORTH BIRMINGHAM
HAS PURE WATER
Fever Absent Where the City
Water is Used
NO FILTERING Is NEEDED
Cheapness and Abundance of Supply
Induces Location of Many Manu-
featuring Plants-Notes
and Personals.

North Birmingham May 26.-(Special)-
The virtues of North Birmingham city
water should be extolled by the practi-
cal business man as well as the poet
who sings of the stream that springs from
the rock and goes on to the river and the
sea. Clear, sparkling, pure, 1t issues from
the faucet in the kitchen sink or the
fire plugs of the town as impartially as 1t
bubbles up from the limestone floor OF
the rock quarry and purls along to the
sink where the intake of the pump seizes
1t and sucks it up to the reservoir on
the hill miles away
1t is a fact, say those who use the
water service in this dry town, that
IL is unsurpassed for purity and whole
someness. On account of the fact that
it is taken from such a source, no ILL
tering plant is necessary-what is pure
cannot be made purer.
prominent physician of the town
states that during the four years that
he has been located here he has treated
about thirty cases of typhoid fever, but
that he has never had a case from
home where the city water is used This
seems to be evidence conclusive in ia
vor of the healthfulness of the water On
the other hand, where the inhabitants
get their water supply from wells and
cisterns, several serious cases of fever,
dysentery and othed diseases usually i'm
puted to impure and germ bearing water
have been reported during the same pc
riod of time In community the size
of North Birmingham, wells and cisterns
are necessarily open to contamination
from sewerage and other unwholesome
agencies. and the use of water from such
sources is frought with danger from the
viewpoint of health.
The abundance and eheapness or the
supply is well known and needs little COM
ment In the bottom of the quarry are
fully six bold springs that serve as
feeders for the pool from which the sup
ply is taken. The volume In gallons per
hour has not been accurately reckoned
but from the amount that Is allowed to
run to waste, it is patent that the ca
pacity of the present system has not
been reached yet
All this gives the town an advantage
over the other places of the district in
the inducements ii is able to offer to
manufacturing plants that are seeking a
location, This is attested by the fact that
the majority of the plants that have
started up in the Birmingham district
during the last year have selected North
Birmingham as the proper place for oper-
atoms.
A city owned and operated water works
system is proving a great success in
North Birmingham.
Notes and Personals.
C. NJ Green, the well known real estate
man, is i'll at his home on Thirtieth ave-
nue. and Twenty-seventh street.
e. e. Frazier has returned to town after
several days of recuperaton in the coun-
try near Mt. Pinson
Miss Ethel Clay and Mrs. Jack Clay of
Bessemer. are visiting Mrs Shaw on
Third avenue.
activity In the local real estate market,
the fact is worth noting that one of
the large offices in this city reports that
1t sells on an average of fifty residence
lots per week.
The Holiness people are carrying on a
tent meeting on Seventh avenue between
Third and Fourth streets. A number of
the citizens of the town have attended
some of the meetings and they are tsruck
with the apparent deep earnestness of the
participants.
Mrs. f. c. Rosamond and Mrs. Dicken
took their Sunday school classes from
the Mt. Vernon Methodist Episcopal
church south, out to Avondale park for
a picnic today. They report that the
children were well pleased with the out
ing and that they themselves enjoyed
the happiness of the little ones.