The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-04
TURN ATTENTION
 ID RESIDENCES EnsIey Notes LuII in Business
 Property PAY ROLL AT BIG PLANTS Report of Superintendent of Schools, Which Will Be Read Monday, Will Show Some Great Improve
 ments at Ensey.
BY CRAWFORD PERKINS.

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 Ensley, November 3-(Special. 1.-The real estate market in Ensley during the month just ended has been active | throughout, and the agents in unison re- port d steady demand. A feature of the business of late is a prevailing tendency to revert from sales of property of a business nature to that of the residence and home building kind, consisting of both the improved and the unimproved. review of the business recorded dur ing the month of October will show that , there was perhaps more home building by both the individual and the corpora tion than for any month of the past year. For many months the demand for tenant houses has far exceeded the sup ply but this deficiency Is being gradually overcome Ensley is no longer mere mill town, but it is fast merging into city of commercial importance of beau tiful homes of imposing houses of wor- ship and of a thorough and modern school system
 It has long been a matter for specula- ton as to why shortage of rental prop erty has existed, but now the moneyed men are coming forward and meeting the emergency, recognizing the importance of the city and of the field open to lucrative investments.
 In the mercantile lines Ensley is well supplied with active and up-to-date mer- chants, who recognize the importance at tached to modern and first-class stocks of goods and who are amply able to meet the demands of not only their home town, but they are able to compete with merchants of much larger cities. gen eral prosperity prevails in the city. and it can safely be said that there is not another city in the country which can boast of as few idlers as can the Steel i City Yet in view of this the industries are daily crying out for more labor. It is estimated that 800 men could find lucrative employment in the Steel City today.
 Regular Pay Day.
 Today was the regular semi-month thly pay day at the Tennessee Coal, Iron and 1 Railroad company's steel mill, and as is usual on these days of compensation to he thousands of employees who are num- hered on the company's pay rolle the "eets were crowded until the late hrlrs "itn busy shoppers, and the mereGants loved their customary lively trade The
 
 most prosperous the steel plant has ever i known, and in all departments Of this , great industry does this apply. Daily, semi-monthly and monthly records have been smashed and new ones established, both in the matter of production and in the quality of the production The great CT per cent of the output has been of the highest quality, which has been rolled into the now famous 'Ensey rail- and which in turn, by it's numerous excel lent qualities that go to make up the ideal rail has gained a national reputa- ton. This rail is sold in the valley of the Mississippi, in the east beyond the Alleghaneys, and in the west beyond the Sierras and the Cascades, and in all 1t is looked upon as a standard
 Board of Education to Meet.
 The board of education of the Ensley public schools will meet in regular ses- sion in the council chamber at the city hall on Monday night, November D. at 7:30 o'clock. Besides the transaction of a large amount of important routine busi- ness pertaining to the general work of the schools, the monthly report of Su- perntendent Thomas R. Walker wf1l be read and discussed.
 The report will show in many ways where advancement and Improvements | have been made in the school work in the month just past. A feature of the re- port lies in the matter of attendance, which is now close on to HOO, and an- other feature will show a new record in daily attendance, the number in round figures being 109S. This applies to the present year, however. The heating ap- paratus, which was in poor operating condition for some time. is now in first class working order. and all of the rooms are pleasantly and comfort bly, heated. The superintendent's report will l contain d number of recommendations for I the betterment and general welfare of | the school system. which at the present | time ranks with any in the state, and in several instances is superior to the sys-