The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-16
AERIAL qRAMWAY
 TO CONVEY WOOD
NEW SYSTEM IS TO BE INSTALLED BY QUINN FURNACE COMPANY. OTHER NEWS OF eADsDEN AND ETOWAH.

Gadsden, October 15.-(Special )-The Quinn Furnace company has commenced the construction of an aerial tramway to convey wood from the river barges to the charcoal ovens, and the charcoal from the ovens to the stock house. It now re- quires about thirty men to perform this labor, and the scarcity of labor has caused the company to devise this meth od The tram cars will be operated by a heavy overhead cable and will have a capacity of two cords of wood each. They were designed by H. F. Westcott, mas ter mechanic of the company, and will be the first of their kind in this section. The Quinn furnace Is now making fifty tons of high-grade charcoal iron daily. and has its product sold many months in ad- vance
 George Lindsey. negro porter. who was arrested sometime ago on a charge of robbing the safe of C. F. Cross & Bro. of S2O0, and was released at the time on S200 bond was re-arrested today and placed under $1O00 bond by the city court
 The Glen Oak Realty company have filed incorporation papers with the probate judge. The capital stock of the company is $50O0 The ineorporators are: D. P
  tary and treasurer. and c. K. Huntzell, all of Birmingham. These gentlemen have bought sixty acres of land in this city and will develop it.
 Judge R. A. Dunlap. commander. Emma Sansom Camp. |. C. ". left this morn ing for Memphis where he will attend the annual reunion of Forests calvary. These reunions are of more than ordinary in- terest to this section. owing to the fact that it was here that General Forrest ac- complished some of his most daring and heroic deeds. Judge Dunlap was one of his most valued men.
 Congressman John l.. Burnett, demo- cratic nominee for Congress, and C. B. Kennemore, the republican nominee, will close their joint discussions today at Gun tersville. The debates have been conducted upon a high plane and nothing disagree able has come out at any of them. It was conceded by all who heard the dis cussions that Kennemore was outclassed, but in spite of his youth he did as well as the average of his party. Colonel Burnett will devote the remainder of his time by conducting a canvass with the county nominees in his district, and will spend the remainder of this week in DeKalb county. Mir. Kennemore announced that he would make no further canvass.
 Prof. Joel C. DuBose of the State uni- versity faculty was in the city this morn- ing en route to Centre where he will deliver an address In behalf of the com mon schools. This is one of series he will deliver in this section of the state.
 The Rev. Joe Ramsey. the blind evan gellst who is conducting a revival at the First Methodist church, preached to three immense congregations yesterday Tho one at o'clock for men only was un- usually well attended. The Rev. Ramsey devoted the greater part of the first week here to church members, and will from now on go after the sinners. Two ser vices are held daily.
 Junius Prouty has fifteen new cottages in course of construction on Mineral ave nue, which will be rented to the employees of the Alabama Great Southern car shops and the Weller rolling mill. The cottages are five rooms and are neatly finished
 The handsome 200 volume library which was offered by a number of the leading merchants to the most popular contestant, was won by the Y. NJ. C. A., the contest having closed Saturday night. The Y. M C. A. won by majority of 62,972. The Y. M. c. A. total vote was 912 ,076 and the next highest was the Queen City Hose company with 249,104 The library goes to the r. NJ. c. A. free of any cost