The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-13
POWER HOUSE WILL
 SOON BE STARTED
Foundation Is Being Laid for
 Work At Chattanooga
CHURCH SLOW WITH CASE
Cumberland Presbyterians and Old Presbyterians Are Mixed on DI- vision of Church Property.
 Legal Action Awaited.

1 Chattanooga, August 12.-(Special) j. Concrete work Is now being done on the foundation of the power house and in the lockpit, and by this time next week such work will have been commenced on the dam proper. By November l we will have the lock finished and by spring we will complete the dam. if the river winter months"
 This Is the reply given by E. H. Baillie of Bai1lie & Dumary. who have the con- tract for building the lock and dam. in answer to an inquiry as to the progress that had been made upon the work at Hale's bar
 Fffty-one feet below the level of the sur face of the Tennessee river at low water workmen are now busily engagd in put ting In the concrete foundation for the power house. and at the first of the week structural iron workmen will begin to put into place portions of the heavy steel frame of the building. The foundation is being built upon solid ledge rock. and it was to reach such a base that the deep excavations were made. Upon such will be laid the concrete foundation of the dam proper. but further out from the shore of the river the solid rock is nearer the surface. and the excavation for the foundation of large part of the dam will not be so deep as the one for the power house. All along the one great hindrance to the work at the lock and dam has been the water coming from the high tide of the river or from the subterranean chan nels beneath the bed of the river
 There have been no new deveiopmnts during the past few days in the Cum berland Presbyterian church situation It is intimated that the loyalists or Cum berland Presbyterians. will wait for the Presbyterian church, U. S A. organ ization to make the first move toward giving over the possession of the Oak Street church. which has been the goal to which all of the legal procedure had been aimed. That there is considerable feeling in the city between the two fac lions Is evident. but prominent members of the loyalists, who have been seen, stated that they would make no attempt whatever to gain forcible possession of the church building. It will be their pol icy, according to these leaders, to wait until the unionsts voluntarily and un- conditionally surrender their church building to them. At all events there will be no action possible on the part of the 1oyalists until the church member ship have been called in regular meet ing, and the members nave expressed their individual opinions as to what method should be used of securing pos session of the church. In that event, no more radical measure is expected than the appointment of a committee to wait on the other body.
 Miss Laura Duffey has brought suit against the Chattanooga Railways com pany in the circuit court. The plaintiff alleges that as she was about to get on one of the defendants street cars she was thrown and fell into a culvert or ditch that was several feet deep. The falling woman landed in the bottom head first and was so badly injured that she demands s5o0o from the defendant com pany.
 As a part of the anti-tuberculosis cru- sade, the Chattanooga board of trade has determined to combine economic pro- gress with disease fighting. To that end, Dr. Ben II. Brown and the sani- tary officers employed by the board of public safety will inspect buildings all over the city and report to the board those which they consider inimical to the public health. The board will order such buildings condemned and destroyed at once. The city will pay for those of the buildings that are worth anything at all, but many of them are considered abso- lutely worthless. The fight against tuber- culosis in many other cities has been characterized by a relentless war on buildings that are so dilapidated or germ ridden as to be conducive to the spread of the disease. In this way, and at the same time that the public health Is bene- fitted many eyesores are removed and clean, up-to-date buildings rise up where once were novels in which a truly civil ixd person would hardly dare to risk himself
 J. B. Pound has been made the defend- ant in a suit brought in the circuit court demanding S5000. The plaintiff Is c. M Hickey. a stationary engineer employed at the Hotel Patten. He alleges that on May he was knocked down and run over by an automobile owned by the de- fendant and driven by a man employed by him. He was severely injured, and the injuries to one of his hips are claimed to be of a permanent kind.
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