The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-08
NEWS OF ENSLEY

Despite the cold weather last night large crowd was present at the concert given by the Tennessee company band in celebra ting the relighting of the Ensley white way. Dr. R. M. Cunningham, city health officer. was the principal speaker of the evening and spoke on the sanitary
 conditions of the Birmingham district
 In his talk he gave the principal causes
 of the contagious diseases and stated
 that they were due largely to the lack of
 sewers. He urged the citizens of Ensley
 to vote for the bond issue to have sewers
 installed all over the Birmingham dis
 trict which would make this district the
 most sanitary in the south.
 The next speaker on the programme
 was M. H. Mcdowell who gave short talk praising the merchants for their public spirit in relighting the white way. D. J. Hummer was the next speaker and
 urged the citizens to trade with the mer- chants of Ensley and to boost Ensley as
 much as possible T. ]. Roe was the last speaker of the evening and praised the | interest the local merchants were taking | in their city. The concert given by the | band was very enjoyable The programme I opened with new selection entitled The Great White Way and also rendered selections following each address. The opening Of the white way adds much to the attractiveness of this city at night I and it is taken by the business men of | this city as evidence of the return of prosperity.
 l An important meeting of the board of l directors and the stockholders of the l Puro Ice Cream company of this city was held in their office on Avenue E and sev- eral matters of importance were taken l up. It was decided to increase the ca city of the plant five times it's present I size and to make it one of the most mod l ern in the district. Work will begin on enlarging the plant which is located on | Avenue E between Twentieth and 1 Twenty-first streets during the winter | and have everything in readiness for next summer. W. J. Abele. president presided over the meeting, which was well | attended
 l A. W. Nickerson. who for the past Il I years has been connected with the Semit- | Solvay company at Ensley. has beer l transferred to Syracuse on promotion 1 MT. Nickerson has many friends in this | city who regretted to see him leave this 1 district, but wish him much success IT his new position.
 I Arlie Barber of Birmingham, candidate for city commissioner in the coming cleo ton to be held next Monday. was in Ems ley last night and delivered an address ir the interest of his candidacy before 2 | large crowd on the corner of Avenue ]. and Nineteenth street.
 Yesterday afternoon about 2:30 o'clocl the Ensley fire department was called t' l Hiberian avenue and Church street t' answer an alarm while the Pratt Cit, department was answering an alarm a | East Thomas. A house which was oc cupied by negro named Will Green hat caught fire from a spark on the roof ant about $10 damage resulted. The fire a | East Thomas was caused from char coal fire and small damage was done. Capt. M. ]. Donlon of the Ensley police department was put in charge of tn policemen and detectives at the fair grounds yesterday and will handle th' crowds during the fair. Captain Donlor has been placed in charge for the pas several years and has handled the crowd! and kept order at the fairgrounds with out any difficulty and has been awarded a diploma by the fair association for hi
 efficient service.