The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-11
REAL CONDITIONS EXISTING
 IN AVONDALE COTTON MILL
Men Who Arc in Position to Know Facts Make Affidayits Regarding the True Situa-
 ton at Big Plant.

G. w. Robinet is employed Dy the sald
 mills to inspect the premises. includ-
 ing the houses and the rooms in the
 houses of the said operatives That he inspccts the same almost daily. That
 affant's instructions from the Avondale
 Mills are and have been all the while to
 notify the officers of the mills when the
 houses are not cleanly kept and when
 they are not clean1y kept by any oc-
 cupant thereof. the mill itself has them
 cleaned That the water used py .ne
 operatives is from q bored well over
 two hundred feet deep. through solid rock. The water Is pure and wnoie-
 some. far better than the water useu
 bv the people of Birmingham or us
 suburbs That he has been under con
 stant instructions from Mir, B b. Co-
 mer that if any case Of want or SUI
 fering is found. to, report the same
 promptly to him. and that Tn aii sueh
 ra ses inc said mills have supplied the
 wants or necessities of such persons
 ana this want has been supplied. 10 ar
 fiant's knowledge, in many cases. not
 oniv supplying their wants with tne
 n nAcessaries of life. but with delicacies.
 That MT. Conner himself IS unusuAily
 attentive to the wants Of the said op-
 eratives,. as we'll as unusuaily kihd in
 relieving such wants That 1ne nesi,n
 of the people in said village is excel-
 Ient ana will compare favorably with
 the healthiest cities in the State. ana
 better than 1t Is in the towns or East
 fake. Woodlawn and Avondale, lying
 rearhv. That the death rate in said
 village for the last three years has
 not been over five persons to the thou sand living in the village. and tnts in-
 cludes number of persons ayins IT
 sasS village who were brought there sick from other places During the years leo4 and 1905, there was not single case of typhoid fever in the village, ana onIy two mild cases during the year 1908 and one of those cases was brought there from another place one of these cases has been discharged and the other one is convalescent and out of danger That q free bath house IS IS maintained inNsaid village to which ail
 af the operatives have access, ha. ss there is a free library maintained Tn inc village consisting of at least 2 thousand volumes of books. That free school is maintained in the vil- lage for nine months in the year. as also a kinder garten school for the smaller children, the te9cher of which IS Mr B. B. Corners daughter. That nc washing Is allowed to be done In tne village, but all is done In free wasn house maintained by the miIIs TOT .na r,,rpose. where fuel and water Is furn- I ished free. That two churches are | maintained in the village. one Meth 1 oSist and one. a Baptist, where reiig- | ions services are held on every SaDoalh aod avery Sabbath night, and prayer l ., ea.inx once a week. That sunday school is conducted in each or salo churches every Sabbath. That the op. nratiyes in said mill are happy aho contented, and that large nuhpcr v. v. them have bank accounts wnere, tnS ss, have deposited by the nunareos, 2. uo a, l lars and in some cases by the Lnouss'.S. .,. 1. of dollars. That Mir. B. B. conner ,tns nresident of the mill. is not oniy neiu l in high esteem by the operatives. pu, ,e very much beloved by them. ino l shn houses occupied by the said opsr stives are more comfortable tnan .ns | houaes occupied by the average larlh- Are of the State. That they oniy, pay l si,oo room per month for the mousse and coal is furnished the operative. al cost to the mill That there nn' hssr no means of connecting this VI. laos with the sanity sewer unti .n, l cnyntv sanitary sewer IS compisteu rhSs village is on exactly the same TOO. lirg ss Ayondale. Woodlawn ana E Eas' i.ane with reference to sanitary sew
 a-aea neither of said towns navins
 eny hut the closets in none or sai.
 ss sns arA cleaned oftener than once
 s.sst< while in this village they af' cleaned daily. r,nch M ID. I e,,,orn to and subscribed before m .hss inc 7th day of August, isVe.
 shis '" Thomas J. Wingfielo,
 ! Notary Public