The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-04

l e Two carloads Of DOHS, washers
 = and nuts-three carloads. {
 . 90 iron frogs for railroad cross {
 q ings-full capacity. {
 = D iron switches for transportation {
 . lines-full capacity @ MISCELLANEOUS {.
 e Birmingham averages about 15 z
 = artificial limbs and numerous (
 . artificial aids to injured hands and (
 . feet every month. The automo- z
 Q mile output from this city totals z = 800 per year, which is the full ca z = pacity of the local plant. Ss.socoococsscoSSotscs, otscs,sssoCccooS
 .Ts a sad pity, to echo Mark Anthony'i exclamation when he had digested Cleo l patra s night letter bearing the full con fession of her infatuation methods and l the news of her leap into eternity via | the self destruction route, that Diogenes I the Woodrow Wilson of the ancient l Greeks, does not live in Birmingham today to go on one of his personally con 1 ducted Investigating tours. He would de l light ill peerlng among the hooks and 1 corners or the Magic City and surprise some hardworking industry with a nasn l or his lantern for his efforts in that line l here would meet with pleasurable sense 1 Of success that, acoruing to common l opinion, he never experienced in hia lit Ire prope conducted in Athena for bring l ing human honesty eXempllfied in d concrete form of the species, to light.
 l or course, a Birmingham made auto | mobile equipped with 100 horsepower searchlight and an automatic eXnaust I that would warn him when he was over 1 looking an industry and d properly sealed | commission from the Chamber of Com merce would be his preparations for q 1 browse among Birminehams miscellany | Of uncommon manufactures which marx | q departure from the beaten track and l place this city to the fore in this class | of products BirminghamIis the only city cars of several types on the market ol | of Alabama placing home made motor I the world. Birmingham is the only city l of Alabama counting within her pouh- 1 dries a plant devoted exclusively to the | making of artificial limbs. Birmingham l is the only city south of the Ohlo rlVer l manufacturing railroad frogs anu l switches. Birmingham is the one city Of | the south in the manufacture of bolts, l washers and nuts, as well as iron cattle l p.uards that save many cows and other | domestic animals from an untlmely ueatn | on railroad crossings from Florida to | Maine and from Texas to Canada. BIT l mingham is one of the three cities or the United States engaged in the sole mahu- | facture of coupon books which have Il 
 | many as four different national languages l are printed on the covers
 l While there is not sufficient local demand for nuts, bolts, washers, frogs | switches, cattle guards and automoDlles | to support these respective mahulac- l furies Birmingham is endowed Wlth the raw materials for these products and Is a splendid distributing point Tor the m land commerce, a combination that iS sfrong enough to cause such plants to be established here. The coupon book in- dhstry is one little patronized by nome trade eitha- because of unwillingness or local merchants and commissares 10 adopt this plan of exchange mat mas l become very common in the north and
 west. or because the particular mission of this plant is not widely known In this district The Birmingham made automo-
 bile also suffers from @ home tracing
 inertia and could almost serve as a lat
 ter day illustration of that phrase, prophet is not without honor save Ill HIS OWL country"
 Manufacture of Coupons
 | When Mary the housemaid or many y homes in these United States, drops a
 rairbow tinted ticket into the empty milk
 bottle on the doorsteps. she unconsclous- | 1y nlaces therein product of the South- ern Coupon company Of this elty anu
 at the same time, perhaps, aushS
 maiden on a sugar plantation or iloil,
 duras is bartering similar coupon pau
 for by her fathers labor Tor a prlgil'
 red ribbon or calico dress pattern at the eonmissary. This concern is located on tho corner of Nineteenth street and Ave me D. with force of 20 men ana glrls' converts several carloads of blank paper and pasteboard annually into festduraht slips. merchandise, laundry, lce' street car. bakery, milk, lodge bui1et aha any
 .s. a large amount of bookkeeping entries in inc operation of business The Southern | Common company Is not a trading stamp arranpement but the medium or dls- cbargine obligations between cofpofatloHS and their employees. of selling quahues of goods with one ledger insertloh' o' keeping check on the amount ol ihohey paid in at restaurants or passehsei i.a uaN el for school children, and others ehutieu to street car tickets. and numerous other features promoting the relationship oi the patron and patronized.
 | TO sec the latest piece of machinery invented for the printing of six pages m blue lettering and red numericais oo 'oo. of these sections an hour witn all ai'iios1 s human intelligence, the sewihs oi ,.'s ,ne | nages into the books on machines Wlth l u,ire thread and the binding with tape ,hat is scut the desired length by an at 1 tached device and then to watch the | shower of confetti from the contrlNahce | for nunching a hole in certain classes oi inc hooks is to appreciate in measure | a versatility of the industrial heid'
 | The Birmingham residents are more Ia | niliar with this portion of thelr nome i production in the use of ice and car uek- ets. which form the principal use or the | Southern Coupon goods in thls olstrlct' on every coupon book and on every page of many of the books goes the Woras' "Tyho southern Coupon company DIT | ,ningham Ala" and for one who hhes statisties. it might be a pastlme to esu- noate how many million times this IS seen i',, tha nassing show from Pudget Sound to Mexico. even going into Spain. Chlna ana India on special occasions. fhe nlant is on the eve of securing larger nuarters, as it's present site IS shshels overcrowded. The local need TOT eNpei' labor will also be increaseu' sNn poss.- ble means of protection in trade marks
 Sorresnondine denominations and indivld- nai n,,nnhers for the book and the de-
 tschable common are employed Tn tnls
 manufacture and in order that there ma y
 Inc fanltless accuracy, since tnousanor
 and thousands of dollars are represehteo
 in these tickets. three young laoie ih'
 snectors. m,iN O. K. them before they are even bound. The Fred Harvey chaif . of lunch rooms. the lumber caHRS VI
 Texas and Louisiana, the mlnlng com
 panies of West Virginia and Pennssi !,
 vania and the railroad news depar.iieh'
 of many transcontinentaL as well as
 foreign countries, are mainly responsipie for the existence of this very interest
 ,ne smaller industry of Birmingham.
 Making Artificial Limbs
 To attribute fascination to the art of lr,anufa curing artificial limbs from such