The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-21
HOUSE BILL 4413
 ST|RS BESSEMER Calamity Telegrams Sent to
 Underwood WANT MODIFICATION Civic Improvement Association Has Meeting-Long Distance Walkers Are Coming Today-Other
 Bessemer News

information given out Thursday that the work on the steel and wire mill al Corey was ordered discontinued by the United States Steel and Wire company, an affiliated interest of the United States Steel corporation, caused excite ment in the business section of the city. The following night letters sent to Congressman oscar w Underwood Thursday night mirror the definite steps taken towards the suppression of free tariff on wire goods and cotton ties.
 Hon. o. W. Underwood. Washington.
 D. C.:
 House bill No. AIS will have an immediate and serious effect upon in- dustrial conditions here. Please use your influence to obtain such amend ments as will avert this disaster to our district
 "BEsSEMER NATIONAL BANK" Hon. Oscar Underwood. Washington.
 D. C.:
 Many men out of employment today nending a vote on House bill No. 4413. Use your influence against this menace to your people, your friends, your con- stituents. l. A. LEWIS, Mayor" Hon. Oscar W. Underwood, Washing ton, D. C.:
 "The undersigned organization. com prising substantially the entire busi- ness interests of Bessemer, requests modification of bill proposing to put wire products and cotton ties on free Hist. Local plants, the largest in the south, will be unable to continue op- erations.
 "BESSEMER BOARD OF TRADE, By H. w. Crook, President" Hon. oscar W. Underwood, Washing ton, D. C..
 Understand that if wire products and cotton ties are put on free list, our focal plants cannot compete with Tor eIen and coast4points. Plants here dis counting operations, following report that your bill put these commodities on free list. Legislation injurious to business interests of Bessemer district is opposed by our people.
 "BESSEMER STATE BANK,
 By w. w. Hollingsw worth, President
 The plants of the Tennessee Coal and Iron company located at Bessemer will continue work. City Reported Clean | The Civic Improvement association met at the board of trade room Thurs day morning and F. w. Sterling, sec retary of the board of trade, accepted an invitation to preside, proffered by | the president, Mrs. W. W. Hollings-
 worth. A report from Mrs. Lee Moody, chairman of the inspection committee | for the First ward, showed that the conditions of that district were fairly | ftor tr,n "a hnf t1Ta aeAf1 | twentieth and Twenty streets and vacant lot on the corner of Twen- ty-second street and Carolina avenue 1 especially needed cleaning. Twenty
 seventh street and Dartmouth avenue along the South Bessemer car line was recommended for a cleanup as wis., itors to the city might be unfarvor- | hness.
 | Mrs. A. A. Persons, chairman of in- | spection committee of Ward g. reported I that a house to house canvass was made
 and cooperation promised; that about l two dozen school boys aided by piling | rocks on the vacant lot at the corner or Dartmouth avenue and that the pile of
 bricks still standing opposite the High school on the former Methodist church
 site, should be removed. The storm
 sewer at the corner of Clarendon ave
 nue and Eighteenth street was found t. overflow with water during the rainy l season and leave the sidewalk covered l with several inches of mud. com- I plaint was made of the Jack of drainage
 in the yards of a settlement of washer women on Exeter avenue, and com mittee appointed to investigate. l Mrs. w. l.. Rush, chairman of the Third
 ward committee, stated that no partic-
 ular spot was noticeable. but everyone
 pledged their support. Mrs. E. B. Hol | lingsworth reported for the chairman
 Mrs. s. E. Jones, of, the Fourth wari l that all business houses along Nineteen
 street from First avenue to Tenth ave
 nue, promised to purchase covered gar
 bage cans and otherwise clean up. Tft
 most evident complaint from every se, l ton of the city is the failure of ths
 trash wagons to cart off the garbage froE | the premises.
 I Mayor Lewis and Superintendent A. A l Persons were present and MT. Person. l made a short talk to the ladies, suggest | ing that school improvement society l for the High school be formed, com 1 mittee of ladies visit the various restau 1 rants and request them to screen the I pastry and bread exposed to the flies art | to work for the installation of medica
 inspection in the schools. Mrs John Per l kins and Mrs J. C. Perry were appoint l ed to organize the High School Improve I
 l ment association.
 Mayor Lewis promised the use of th' teams as long as there remains any rocks 1 to be hauled away. and that the trasf
 wagons would be sent twice week to al
 parts of the city.
 1 Local Items
 J. E. Vestal of Nashville, but a resident l of Bessemer for the past B years, wal picked up by an officer Wednesday nigh' | in a drunken condition and bleeding pro fusely from deep wound in his head. Ht l stated Thursday that he had started tt | his room in the Mcdonald building anc 1 had reached the corner of the building
 when he was struck from behind ant | knocked senseless.
 l The mayor ordered him to be taken care I of at the city jail, as he is in a wretchet
 physical condition and financially embar l rasscd
 The trial of Mrs. Eliza Sullivan wa' | postponed by consent of the mayor | court until Saturday as her attorney'
 were out of the city Thursday. Phoebe the cook causing the disturbance. wa placed under bond to appear Saturday. | President Smith of the Bessemer Ma | tional bank has announced that he vii
 give 8 in prizes to the boys of the Bes