The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-30
bESSEMER NEWS

Bessemer, April 29.--fS fSpecial) )-The Bessemer Board of Trade held an in- teresting meeting this afternoon in the Board of Trade rooms on Nineteenth street at which time E. D. StrattOn, land industrial agent for the Queen and Crescent railroad was present and seeking southern locations and hal thought about coming to Bessemtr. MT. Stratton spoke of the railroad ta- cilities of Bessemer and was desirous of Knowing whether there were any available sites that could be utilized for the plants of the industries should they decide to locate in this city. A party composed of Dr. Curry, George II. Stevenson, MT. Johnson, J. F. Gam mon, Dr. E. P. Lacey, Hendon Cockrell and T. T. Huey took MT. Stratton over the city showing him the most desir- able sites available for these plants should they decide on Bessemer as .o- cation. Mir. Stratton will go from here to Tuscaloosa and will return to Bes- semer sometime next week.
 Work will begin at once on the
 
 buildings on the corner of Fifth ave- nue and Nineteenth street for Dr. J. C.. Curry. The contract has been award ed to the Central Lumber company. The stores will each be 20x50 feet. With the erection of these buildings cn this corner, which for so many year s las been vacant, the appearance Of The work will be rushed and the stores will be ready for occpuancy in a few weeks.
 Frank Schoonmaker of New York. one of the directors of the WoodwaI c Iron company, and connected with a number of large corporations, and T. s. Wright of Brunswick, Ga, arrived in
 Bessemer last night on private car of the Atlanta, Birmingham and At lantic railroad, spending the night in this city and leaving this morning for Tuscaloosa where they will join a fishing party on the yacht of A. H. Woodward and go down the Warrior river In speaking of conditions in the north MT. Schoonmaker talked most Interestingly of the rapidity in which things were getting back to normal and incidentally stated that the south had not suffered as much since the outbreak of the war as the north hal as it cost more to live in the north than 1t does in the south. At the con- clusion of the fishing trip he and A,r Wright will return to Bessemer 10 look over the property of the Woo l. ward Iron company and other interests in this district
 While riding on his motorcycle yes l terday afternoon near Brighton, Pal ! mer Keith struck low place in the road and was thrown from the ma .b u-ranChinp his lag Cuffinu his | face and otherwise badly skinning and I truising himself His injuries are pain | full but not serious.
 l The 800 feet of fire hose recently l purchased by the city from the Eureks | Hose company of Jersey City has ar rived and I. l. Reeder chief of the ilrt | cepartment, has already placed tho
 hose on the truck, where it Is ready 1 for use.
 The Bessemer Culture club held its regular meeting this afternoon at tn. 1 public library at which time the study l of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice was continued with Mrs. A. A. Persons study was read by Mrs. Kate lone.
 and was greatly enjoyed. Mrs. Gwy1yn Herbert, who will leave in a shor' ltime to make her home in Florida, re signed. Her resignation was accepted l with regrets and she was made sI' second honorary member. Those pres ent were: Mrs. John M. Martin, Mrs 4. A. Persons, Mr. l.. D. McCullom. Mrs Cecil Cowan. Mrs. J. F. Sturdivant, Mrs Kate Jones' Mrs. George Waller. Mrs l. A. Snider, Mrs. c. K. Gray, Mrs. F
 L Thornburgh and Miss Minnie Park
 The Kindergarten class of Miss An