The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-30
MUCH INTEREST IS
TAKEN IN PLANS FOR
REMAINING STREETS
Changes Only an Extension
OF Present System, Says
Mr.. kirkpatrick-Ex-
plains Changes

Much Interest is being taken bv the cit.
liens of Birmingham In the announced
plans of the city engineering department.
for the remaining OF the streets of Greater
Birmingham. The members of the city
commission are going over the plans in
detail and at the meeting next Tuesday
are expected to adopt them with probably
few If any changes
''The proposed system of street names
is. with slight modification, an extension
of those now in use" said City Engineer
Kirkpatrick yesterday. 'and II is so ar
ranged as TO make the least possible
change In the present number of the
streets and houses. Generally speaking,
the streets and avenues in old Birming-
ham. North Birmingham, Avondale,
Woodawn and East Lake win be uu-
changed; but those in Graymont West
End and Ensley and Pratt City and Wy
lam will all be changed.
THE highways running north and south
WILL as heretofore, be called streets and
the alley parallel to them will be called
lanes. All the highways running east
avenues and the alleys parallel to them
Will be called alleys A certain dividing
line which runs north and south through
Broad street in Elyton, near the Elyton
school, is called Center street and all
streets east of it are called East First
street, East Second street, East Third
street, etc. while those west are called
West First street. West Second street.
etc. Another dividing line runs east and
west along the Alabama Great Southern
railroad In old Birmingham and along
Woodlawn avenue in East Lake, and
TwentysiXth street In Ensley.
Are Four Divisions
This line is called Division avenue, and
all avenues north of it are called North
First avenue, North Second avenue. North
Third avenue, etc, while those south OF
1t are called South First avenue. South
Second avenue, etc. Each of these dl
vision lines cuts the streets it crosses into
two parts, therefore we have the north
end of East Nineteenth street, called
Northeast Nineteenth street, and the
south end of Nineteenth street, called
Southeast Nineteenth street and on the
west side Northwest Nineteenth street
and Southwest Nineteenth street SINH
larly there are Northeast Third avenue.
Northwest Third avenue, Southeast Third
avenue. and Southwest Third avenue.
This use of northeast, southeast, south
west or northwest ON every numbered
street or avenue is, therefore, necessary.
although it is undesirable In addressing
a letter or parcel. if the address should
be simply written $40 Nineteenth street,
it would be uncertain whether it was for
the northeast or southeast, northwest or
southwest.
Various methods for avoiding this Use
of northeast, southeast, etc, have been
devised. but all are more Objectionable
than the use OF these letters. and 1t Is
believed that the people will soon become
accustomd to them. In some places there
are short Intermediate streets between the
streets regularly numbered. These viii bs
numbered and called place instead of
street and. second such Intermediate
street If amy, is called way Similarly
avenues are numbered AMI
the first one is called court and the second
one terrace.
Roads to Retain Names
There are 10 streets which were oris.i-
nally county roads. and, as they run di-
agonally across the other streets, they
cannot be numbered ThSS are still called
roads and given such names are best
known. as Huptsvlle road, Jasper road.
etc. There are few streets Cthree in a1b
which for other reasons could not be NUM-
these given nanapS