The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-13

ones neighbors are cleanly the other neighbors will reap the results of that indifference and neglect.
 Barbecue Is Served
 After the talk of Dr. Rosser. the meet ing adjourned until the barbecue had been served. Headed by the band of the com pany employees. the guests filed up through the new city that is being created by the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad com pany. The delegation went across the plaza, which is being put into shape, to the play ground for the school children just in the rear of the school site. The commissary of the company Is nearing completion, facing the plaza. That cen tral parkway will also be faced by a school house, church and club for the employees. In the center will be a small park house similar in architecture to the old temples. It will be almost exclu- sively pillars of high dimensions sup- porting a roof The plaza will be the center of things at Docena. The streets of the new city are equipped with sani- tary sewers connected to a septic tank. and fire plugs are placed In all alleys at the rear of houses. The houses of the officials will be near the plaza, while the homes of the employees will face beautiful ly placed shrubbery when it is worked out. Each lot will he 10 feet front by 1fa | feet deep. The fences will take up the half way point of the houses and all 1 front yards will be unsupplied with i fences. In every detail the mine city will | be a model. and 1t will be one of the monuments to the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company for its welfare | work. That civic betterment was the | talk of the outing yesterday.
 Dr. Perry Speaks
 l After the dinner. which was served | by Al Campbell of Birmingham, the guests returned 10 the convention hall | for the afternoon session. The absence of William Bankhead caused the sub stitution of Prestly Toulman, who pre- l sided from that time on. Tho first speaker was pr Perry of the state board of health. As a representative of the state board he compimented the companies here and the operators association upon the work being done. He spoke of the detailed work of the state board and entered into n discus sion of the paper of Morris Knowles regarding the lack of appropriation for state health department After pr. Perry. II. NJ Wilson, engineer In charge of the United States bureau of mines spoke His ringing declaration was that he was to speak at two meet ings of the same kind practically dur Ing the next few days, and that he would praise Birmingham as she was never praised before on the fine work being done here. He spoke principal ly about fire prevention and was ae- corded the closest attention.
 Erskine Ramsay followed with pa per on his European trip, made with the government officials last summer His paper. throwing light upon the work in Europe, was the center of in- | ut ba aft
 | J. B. Mcintyre. chief engineer for the Birmingham Southern, closed the an nual meeting with a paper on model mine tracks, which was technical but received with great interest After the paper of MT. Mcintyre the gather ing adjourned to a model track where the experts present investigated and looked over the model
 The return to the city was made on special train over the Birmingham Southern, arriving at 5:30 o'clock.
 The papers presented follow in ab- breviated form:
 Mir. Roden Speaks
 MT. Roden said in part:
 No one will deny that health is essen tlal to good work Sanitation in a mining camp is the ounce of prevention that is worth pound of cure. As miners work in pairs to get out coal and In a small measure for safety, one mans illness means two men not at work Several mems illness on the same heading, where you have pitching seam, means re- arrangement of cars and haulage. Ty phoid does not come for day or limit itself to one personl More houses, more working places, more cars, more dead work, are the concrete results of oad sanitation A decrease in fixed charges and prompt service to customers. are more certain, if men can be counted on for work.
 sickness are: Sanitation proper care Of person. good food, a reasonable amount of work, and some play.
 Sanitation. as applied to mining camps does not imply expensive water, garbage and sewer systems. Wells, properly equipped and located, will do, If water from pure source cannot be piped with In reasonable distance of the house Garbage collections in properly construct ed retainers and quarterly cleaning of all refuse from under and around the houses should be made, not by the house. holder, but by an individual employed by the company. Chickens. hogs all animals in fact, should be kept as far away from the house as possible Closets of any pat tern, which do not allow the ground to become saturated, and so arranged as to
 
 stated intervals Most of our mining camps in Alabama have good. natural drainage and the houses are well scattered on the hill sides.
 Any idea that the miner Is an ob- ject of charity in all this talk of im- proved living conditions. must be re- moved. They are a self respecting in- dependent people, perfectly willing to pay for what they get, only they want to see the worth of their Money. Initial expense Is always en- cumbered upon the company. but the men always respond liberally to any de- mand within reason. They want schools and have to pay for them, as the Ala bama school money Is so small as to pay only fraction of the teachers salaries. So that our schools are more the result of the choice of teachers than anything else. Frequently. pupils are advanced so rapidly that they dc not understand their work. That in- stant they lose interest; but start them on something they know, and their in- test reyives. Flower and vegetable plots. cookery and annual training arc all desirable. but difficult to have with. out quite an expenditure of money but small beginnings can be made in all Children love pictures; so occasional H. lustrated lectures on their lesson sub | ject are bound 10 aid discipline and keep their attendance good.
 Most miners are members of lodges of good standing; so lodge rooms are greatly appreciated.
 | "At Marvel we have found the Satur- 1 day night moving picture shows a