The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-14
BAPTISTS TO HOLD
 RALLY TOMORROW

The Baptists of Birmingham will gather l at the First Baptist church tomorrow for the purpose Of celebrating the work of the Baptist church in Birmingham. At 3:30 o'clock in the afternoon a Sunday school rally will be held in the Sunday school room.
 The evening service will be especially attractive. It will be led by the Rev. A. J. Dickinson, pastor of the First Baptist church, and his talk on this occasion will be the first of series of the history of the Baptist church in Alabama for the past 100 years. The subject of his talk tomorrow night will be "Baptists of 100 Years Ago.
 The following notice which has been sent to the various Baptist Sunday school ] workers tells of the Sunday school rally: Next Sunday afterrioon, November 15, at 3:30 o'clock iu the Sunday school room of the First Baptist church will be held special conference of all the Baptist Sunday schools of the city and district.
 "Please see to it personally that your school Is represented by its superintend- ent pastor and a few leading workers. You are earnestly urged to be present yourself. Matters of interest and i'm; portance will be brought up and it is earnestly desired that every Baptist Sun day school-large and small-be repre- sented by it's keyworkers.'
 kindly read this announcement Sun day morning at both services.
 This call is signed by a volunteer com mittee as follows:
 ID. H. MARBURY,
 Superintendent Southside Sunday school
 "C. A. BROWN.
 Superintendent First Baptist Sunday
 school.
 "M. l.. BONNER, Superintendent Twenty-seventh Street
 Baptist Sunday school.
 SPRIGHT DOWELL, Superintendent East Lake Sunday
 school.
 "C. E. CROSSLAND. "Field secretary Sunday school board ' ~>~~-~-~~~~~>~~~>~-~~-~ ~-~~-~~-~-~~~-~~-~~- culty in supplying as many more, or five l times as many more. It is simply ques ton of installing more impounding ca pacity, machinery, boilers, filters and pipf lines It has been said that the rod mil at Ensley could not start up today because 1 of lack of water. Such is not the case There is in our pipe line at the door o1 l that plant all the water that it needs During the last few years of its oper- ation that plant secured all of its water from this company, and the same quan- tity, or double that quantity can be ob- tained by it at any time.
 The Semet-solvay plant at Ensley ob- tains it's water supply ordinarily from Will lage creek. This plant is also provides ] with a metered connection to our mains for auxiliary or emergency use. Last l month, without notice to us, this com pany opdned the valve to our mains, ant took S,560,000 gallons, or an average oi about 1000 gallons per day. We were | not aware of the fact that we were help ing them out during an emergency until the meters were read. The water they thus obtained by simply opening valve would be sufficient to supply 2l00 dwell lings for month
 Improvements Being Made and Planned
 We have just installed new triple ex- pansion pumping engine at Cahaba sta ton with capacity of S,0o0000 gallons pc. day. We have just placed contracts foi additional boilers and within few weeks l will purchase considerable SO-inch pipe te be used in largely increasing the pipe line delivery capacity from the Cahaba station to the city. All of this new work | is being done with view of meeting the increased demands that the near future l is naturally expected 10 produce. l hoy mot fai nrOmnilV needs of the district up to this time. Nc dwelling or industry located upon or with 1 ing reasonable distance of our line of ! mains has been refused water. Our policy as to extension of pipe lines has been very general as is evidenced by the fact that we reach even the sparsely settled districts in every direction. It was at l first feared by many that the flushing of sewers to be constructed by the different municipalities following the completion Of the trunk sewers provided by the county through the Jefferson county sanitary l commission would be serious problem, one that might require the construction l of a water works sytem by the county, but without any agitation or heralding in advance in the public print the sup. 1 ply of water for this purpose has been, is being and will be furnished by this company as application Tor water service | is made
 1 Quality of Water.
 serious blunder has been made by ] several in the heat of the discussion of the water supply problem. I refer to criticism made by the uninformed as to the quality of the water. No city in the United States today can boast of a safer or more wholesome water. The purifica- ! ton systems here, modern n every re- l spect and in charge of an experienced l chemist and bacteriologist. stand between accidental pollution and the consumer. Many cities are forced to filter water 1 known to be always polluted, while here | the unfiltered water will stand compari- 1 son with the filtered water of many cities l The city of Birmingham has a compe- 1 tent chemist and bacteriologist who, am | informed makes frequent examinations | of the water, so that the analyses of our analyist are regularly and systematical- ly checked. In this respect Birmingham l .,stl A