The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-21
FURNITURE AND
 m CLOTH PRODUCTS
Second of Series of Articles On Bmghams Lesser Industries
By LILY W. LIKES

New York city cheaper than Birmingham
 can put them in Tuscaloosa Birmingham | tents and awnings are becoming so popu- | lar that enlarged factory facilities are
 under consideration, but Birmingham
 overall suits would not be in existence so
 far as local merchant patronage is con-
 cerned unless they bore the union label
 and were heavily bought by the corpora
 tions of the district.
 Within a stones throw of All Saints parish house on South Thirtieth street
 the Southern Manufacturing company is
 steadily employing 35 men and boys in the
 blaming mill finishing and vanishing de-
 partments to make kitchen sales, tables
 and beds of wood in quantities that recall
 the times when the higher cost of living
 was rara avis, and had not come to be
 the pet problem of the economists and
 bug bear of the hoi poloi. Here the evo-
 luton Of a plebian pine plank from the | forests of Alabama into an aristocratic | quarter sawed panel of handsome safe
 is done in the twinkling of an eye, and | turning of machinery that prints the
 aforesaid quarter sawed finish on the
 face of the homely lumber. Red gum and
 oak, however, form the principal lumber
 materials used.
 ] Mattress Factories
 l A trio of mattress factories the Bir-
 mingham Mattress company. on Avenue E
 and Twentieth street; the Perfection Mat
 tress company, on Ninth avenue and | Twenty-fourth street. and the Faultess
 Mattress company, on Joseph street and | elfth avenue, grace the industrial cir | cleS of this city and each has a pay- | roll of "A, 55 and Is men. respectively The | first produces the Ideal Down." with the
 trademark of the democratic party. n
 growing rooster; the second, the Perfec- l ton, that also a companion felt of the 1 same name. and the third, the Excel sior,' claims to lull the most conscience
 stricken into the land of Nod. Pillows. | bed springs, cushions, straw, shuck. cor l ton and excelsior mattresses and cots | form the output of these industries. The cornerstone Of the mattress business is | naturally the beds, which are made of l iron, here at the Birmingham Bed com pany, on Twenty-ninth avenue and For
 ueth street The best carbon tempered steel tubing with malleable iron locks and Bessemer round rods. are wrought
 into tangible sleeping accommodate by 1 the force of l4 men there. as are the bed l springs. hospital and institution cots. l The culinary art furniture is cou- l structed at the Avondale Stove and Foun- dry company. which also makes the pots. l skillets, and teakettles to accompany the
 ranges and heating stoves. The employees
 number 50, and the demand is all lacking
 to have this foundry doing twice as mucn work as it does at present
 l The Birmingham Awning and Tent com- l pany, on Twenty-fourth street and Third | avenue, is one of the few factories of Birmingham doing it's full capacity, and
 the Acme Canopy company, on Third
 avenue and Seventh street the largest ex elusive manufacturers of musquito bars
 in the country. is following as a close l second in this regard The 1912 models in | tents and awnings are now being shown.
 with green undersde as a protection
 against the sun for displayed merchan- | disc.
 Overalls and Trunks
 l The Phillips Tendon company, which 1 has a plant installed with 100 machines and a payroll of 75 men. extending from Morris to First avenues along Twenty third street, is the only local manufac- turers of the first aid to industrial clean Illness, the overall and coat. This, like the broom industry, experiences the com- petition of penitentary labor against their union employees and It Is but the irony of fate that oftenttmes union car penters and other tradesmen are uncon- sciously garbed in overall suits that have been produced in the penitentiaries of other states. [.