The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-18
RAILROADS BUILD
 ID MEET EXPANSION
Thousands to Be Spent on This Feature of the Work
 at Sheffield
By H. FouNTAINu r,ITTLE

Sheffield, March 17.-(Special)-T pro- vide for the additional growth that is
 rapidly taking place here, extensive im- provements and more adequate facili- ties are being put into effect by the rail- roads entering Sheffield The union pas senger station is being enlarged to take
 care of present needs. It is understood
 that plans are being made for building q larger and more adequate union sta- tion, and 1t Is not improbable that the
 new station will be designed and located
 so as to serve both Sheffield and Tus- eumbia.
 1 II. the local yards of the Southern
 and Northern Alabama roads more than
 20 miles of new trackage has been com
 pleted recently. Additions to the local shops will be made and the old Northern 1 Alabama yards will be rebuilt The Southern Railway company has award 1 ed contract to Reed & Lowe of Char lotte N. C.. to repair the Southern bridge across the Tennessee river here, which, will involve an expenditure of l SlOo,0O to S20U000. The structure will be given complete overhauling, and the | b piers will be rebuilt if their condition is found to warrant it. The consent of
 Director-General MeAdoo has been obs tained for the improvements to be made It is expected that announcement will ] be made in the near future to the effect that divisional headquarters of the South. efh system will be established at Shef- Ileld. In this event Superintendent Pei. 1 ter, trainnasters, roadmasters and divi- sion officers together with the train Uspatchers and office forces, will be To- cated here. These forces are at present i located at Memphis. There are indica- tions that the operating forces of the road are certain to be removed here. l Plans for making the territory contig- uous to Muscle Shoals sanitary have been completed by pr. S. w. Welch. state health officer. acting in conjunction with the federal government. Dr. H. Nj. Mus i tard reached here today to assume l charge of the work to be done While there has been no disease epi- demic at Muscle Shoals, save a number
 ot cases of smallpox, 1t is the disposi-
 ton of the government and state health
 officials to inaugurate preventative measures which will serve to safeguard ! the health of the men al work at the nitrate plants.
 ] Tn the tri-cities a rigid enforcement of ] the sanitary laws is being made and
 clean-lp campaigns have been inaugur- ated.
 i Prof Willis c. Waldo, who has been
 associated with Col J. w. Worthinston Tn the campaign to win recognition for 1 Muscle Shoals. has located in Sheffield. and has become identified with the shef.
 field company. Professor Waldo for many years held the chair of applied science at Vanderbilt university, which connection he severed to locate here It was Professor Waldo who prepared the
 Muscle Shoals brief, which set forth d complete analysis of the wonderful po- 1 tentialities of the Muscle Shoals 1 Preparations are being made by the city commissioners of Sheffield looking toward the beginning of work on several | civic improvement projects. Robert Chap
 mah of Birmingham, an engineer of wide 1 experience, has been offered the place l or city engineer, and which it is under stood he will accept Under the tenta- 1 tive plans of the city commissioners, a
 complete sewerage system is to be in-
 stalled and number of downtown streets are to be paved.
 T. H. Joy, well-known architect of 1 Birmingham, has been here the past week in connection with city officials and the city board of education, with a view of completing details and mak- ing plans for the building of the new
 
 be erected on the site of the present | high school building on Atlanta avenue. and will be large and modern building i in every respect and will cost to com i plete s5o,o00.
 | The Sloss-Sheffield company has begun tho erection of D four-room cottages in l West Sheffield, which will afford better 1 housing conditions for number of it's employees, and at the same time will re- 1 lieve largely the congestion which exists 1 in Sheffield. The Sheffield Iron corpo- ration is making plans to build a num- I Der of houses in Sheffield, which will be occupied by it's employees and operating ! heads l The Twin the war visitors from Bir-
 mngham who are expected to visit the tri-cities on the 2sth instant will be well con1ed here in a warm and cordial man. ner. Preparations are now being made l in Sheffield, Tuscumbia and Florence 1 for their entertainment while here They will be shown the wonders of nitrate plants one and two in Sheffield and 1 will be conducted on tour to Muscle Shoals. where the big dam is to be built
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