The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-29
ORDERS
 SURVEY OF C|TYS .SE WEIR SYSTEM
Warrior River Railway or Highway Will Receive Attention of the
 Commission

The city commission yesterday
 authorized City Engineer Julian Kendrick, through a resolution i'm
 treduced by Commissioner H. F.
 Burruss, and adopted by the cOm-
 mission, to proceed with a survey of
 the city for complete sanitary
 sewer system throughout Birming-
 ham, which is the beginning of i'm
 provement work that will run into
 the millions before the work is
 completed.
 The idea of the commission is to make it possible for every property owner to connect with a sanitary sewer, no matter where located in the city of Birmingham. The city engineer was instructed by the resolution to pro- ceed at once with the survey and to push the work as rapidly as possible,
 A committee, composed by w. D. Nes- bitt, B. M Allen, H. K. Miner and J. J. Jackson, appeared before the com mission and asked a hearing on the matter of a road to the Warrior river, either highway or a railway, and they were heard by the commission. The matter was finally placed in the hands of a committee of which pr. Bar rett, president of the commission, VIII be chairman, he naming other mem bers of the committee later This com mittee named by pr. Barrett will com fer with committee from the board of revenue and a citizens committee, and with the joint committee will thrash out the situation and decide upon the most feasible plan, then leg islative aid will be asked to give the city the proper authority to proceed
 HOSPITAL OF HOTEL
 The city commission took under ad- visement the proposition of purchasing the property located at Queenstown, l2 miles from Birmingham, to be used as rehabilitation hospital for women af- flicted with social diseases. This prop erty consists of 100 acres of land. hotel of 30 rooms. five cottages, an abandoned factory and a 35-acre lake, and is valued at s30,000, the commission to expend $23,730 for equipment and maintenahce for the first year.
 Firty women can be treated at the proposed hospital at one time, it is stated.
 When reminded that recently when a site was selected at East Lake citizens protested against the locating of such d hospital there, MT. Brockman pointed out there are no residences in the inn mediate vicinity of Queenstown, and there as well are no big industries
 HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN
 It is proposed the big hotel building there, containing 30 rooms, be turned into a hospital building that the five cottages on the property be used as dwell ings by nurses and other employees of the institution and that the abandoned fac tory be equipped as an industrial home, in which domestic science and other mat ters be taught
 This teaching it is pointed out, would help the women to pass away the time in which they spend at the hospital and at the same time it would fit them to enter some social line of endeavor when they~are released from the hospital as cured.
 The citizens committee reports that they have obtained 60-day option on the property to be purchased at $3o,OO0 Then, according to the report, the prop erty could be whipped into shape for s23 73O additional money. This sum will be used for equipping the buildings and to pay attendants for one year from date.
 For future maintenance of the institute it is suggested that popular subscription would pay all expenses. To raise the first sum of money it is suggested that Jefferson county pay two-thirds and the city of Birmingham one-third.