The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-19
MANY PROPOSALS
 ID REVENUE BOARD Additions and Changes to
 County Buildings
JAIL NEEDS IMPROVEMENTS
Judge Greene's Letter Not Yet Ready But Will be Completed and Forwarded in Next
 Few Days.

The Jefferson county Board of Revenue will meet today, but it is hardly likely that anything relative to the proposed addition to the courthouse will come up. The data which it is desired shall be placed before the board has not yet been gathered completely but 1t will be ready within the next few days.
 "I have not yet prepared my letter to the Board of Revenue" said Judge Dan A. Greene last evening. "The clerks are still working to get together the necessary information relative to the amount of business being done in the present build Ing, and will hardly complete that work before the middle of the week. Then will prepare my letter and present 1t to l the board"
 It Is the intention of Judge Greene to l show the board that the present court house is not sufficiently large to properly accommodate all the officers of the coun- 1 ty. He will show that the criminal court particularly is cramped for quarters ana Is thereby greatly handicapped in trans l acting all the mass of work before IL with due dispatch.
 1 The statement to be presented to the board will also show that the quarters of the inferior court are inadequate and in many ways unsuitable, and will sug- gest that in the proposed addition rooms be reserved for the two judges or that court.
 Number of Plans. A number of plans have been mentioheu as to the proposed addition. Prooaply 1 the most favored of these is to move lo- ward Fourth avenue the building now used partly as a woman's jail and partly as A hospital for the women prisoners Tn the iail. This will give large area or ground which Is to be added to the lawn outside the sherff's private office anu The circuit court clerks offce' upon which the addition may be erected
 The voters of Jefferson county have al ready voted for a bond Issue to delray the expenses of the proposed addition put up to this time 1t is said the Board ol Revenue has done nothing, though several times the question of carrying out Of the original plans has been agitated.
 Jail Is Too Small.
 Complaint has been made that the eoun- ty iail for some time past has been great ly overcrowded. The need of a larger iall was made manifest particularly when the prisoners In the Freeman case hNe in number, were brought in. Two were women and three were men. Solicitor lief lin wanted them so placed that they would be unable to communicate one with afl- other, but this was impossible because of the crowded condition of the jail
 The grand jury on several occasions has recommended changes and additions to the county jail. but nothing has been l done. It is admitted by the attaches oi the sheriffs office that the cramped con dition of the jail causes extra trouble in keeping it clean and in good sanitary condition.
 It has been mentioned that the jail could be enlarged and improved at the same Rme the addition was erected to the court house, and that the plans might even be so drawn that prisoners from the jail could be brought into the criminal court through a passageway instead Of having to go through the alley as Is now | necessary.