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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-10
CASCADE PLUNGE
WILL BE SCENE OF
CONCERT SUNDAY
CARRIER Davis ColIegians Will
Play At Pavilion-Dinner
Planned

Garber-Davis Collegians orchestra
will give a special concert Sunday
afternoon and evening at Cascade
Plunge and Pavilion. Blrmingham's
new pleasure resort which opened it's
doors to more than 5000 visitors
Thursday. A table d'hote dinner will
be served in the dining pavilion
Sunday evening.
Undaunted by torrential down
pours of Saturday afternoon, large
crowds made their way to the resort
heralded on all sides as a distinct
civic asset and much needed sum-
mer recreation feature. The Bir-
mingham public has been rejoicing
over the fact that Birmingham now
has a pleasure resort of really met
ropolitan character, both in its pro-
portions and it's fittings and ap-
pointmentS.
Since the big swimming pool
opened Thursday it has been popu-
lar place for cooling off from the
first heat of the summer wave which
struck Birmingham at almost the eX-
act time the doors of Cascade Plunge
opened. Work is also proceeding
rapidly on the parking space, which
will afford ample accommodation in
it's ~ acres for the cars of patrons
o. F. Whittle, general manager of
Cascade Plunge and also of the
Whittle Brothers system of pleasure
resorts, has been the recipient OF
Throughout the summer. attrac
lions featuring all kinds of water
sports will be on the weekly pro-
gram.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-10
OVER 1900 WOMEN SEE
MODEL HOMES UNDER
AXIS CLUB AUSPICES
Exhibits Will Remain Open
Sunday And Public Is
Cordially Invited

More than 1000 women visited the
model homes, demonstrated by mem
bers of the Axis club during the past
week, in carrying out what was ma
tionally known as Better Homes in
America Week." and on Saturday aft
ernoon the consensus of opinion was
that the campaign had been de-
cided success from every viewpoint.
The purpose of the campaign is to
establish better homes in America,
for better homes mean beatter citi-
zenship and better business, and ac-
oording to officials, as is the home.
SO are the community, the city and
the nation.
The model homes demonstrated by
the club were attractive, comfortable,
convenient and wholesome. Their
furnishings, which were contribu-
tons of the various furniture dealers
of the city, were not only beautiful
but dignified. and each of the model
houses was the envy of every woman
who inspected them.
The campaign in Birmingham has
awakened lively Interest in better
homes and better living conditions,
and the financing OF these better
homes. A feature was the splendid
lectures on Financing Home
ELECTRICITY in a Home" Home Lii
braries," demonstrations in domestic
science, Interior Decorations" Fur
niture and Draperies," Music in the
Home" and "Beautifying the Home
Ground"
The campaign will close Sunday
night, and during the day Sunday the
Axis club house, 1919 Eighth avenue.
north, and the model bungalow at
1903 Thirty-frst street, north, will be
open to visitors. A cordial invita-
ton Is extended to the public to visit
these model homes.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-10
HOME RULE WORKERS
DISCUSS PLAN HERE
Harrison Says Interested COmmuni-
ties Will Be Lined Up At Once

While not believing as much ex-
element will be entailed over home
rule for Birmingham and other Ala
bama communities as was the case
in seeking similar laws for Ireland,
Commissioner w. l.. Harrison said
Saturday morning that those in Ala
bama seeking the legal readjustment
were Just as much in earnest.
With Mr.. Harrison in conference
Saturday were Senator Walter
Brewer and City Attorney w. J..
Wynn.
Mr.. Harrison said that as but 80
days remain before the converting Of
the legislature in adjourned session.
no time is to be lost in getting tho
interested communities throughly
lined up and their forces correlated.
Mr.. Wynn has had no small part
in preparing the desired bill to grant
the interested towns more leeway in
handling their public utility affairs
and the bill is now in the hands Of
Senator Brewer who will intro
duce it.
In brief, the bill seeks for more
city and less public service commits
sion control in all matters that deal
with the services of public nature
rendered towns by corporations. espe-
cially in regard to street cars. electric
lights. gas, water and other convent
ences and necessities.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-10
WEIGH COMPLIMENTS
COUNTY HEALTH WORK
State Officer Says Jefferson Being
Noticed By National Authorities

DR.. S. W. Welch, state health officer
spent Saturday in Birmingham on
tour of inspection with DR.. ]. D.
Bowling, city and county health Of
ficer. DR.. Welch said Jefferson
county, of which Dr. bowling has
supervision, was pointed to at the
North American conference of health
officials. held under government au-
spices, recently as the best handled
area in the land.
The state health officer said Ala
bama's mosquito control campaign.
now well under way, is drawing ma
tional attention and states are maxi
ing inquiries about the experiments
and established methods being APP
Piled
Swamp, pool and lowland drainage
is IN progress in many parts of the
state as is oiling of water that en-
tails too high cost to drain. Ala
bama has six sanitary engineers at
work with county officials and two
doctors sent here by the government
to cooperate In the work and later
to report it for the benefit OF other
states.
Mosquito control work as 1t is
being applied Is very similar to that
used by General Gorgas in Riding the
Canal Zone of mosquitoes, DIR. Welch
said. and only there are variations
necessary. peculiar to the character
of the land and climate.
DR.. Welch left Birmingham Sat-
urday evening for MONTGOMERY
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-10

Records OF the business inspectors
office show that Birmingham has
passed the period of wooden construc
ton for practically all forms of con-
struction save dwellings and the per-
centage among that class of struc-
ture. other than wood, is increasing
rapidly.
Three years ago a building permit
for wooden store was common and
for storage building not at all un
usual, but now practically all such
permits issued call for concrete, brick
or hollow tile.
John Hunter. assistant building in
spector, who was chief clerk for a
number of years, says the percentage
Of increase is clearly definable al
most in the monthly reports
In the case of the dwelling houses
the increase of non-inflammable ma
terial use is not SO pronounced, es-
pecially in the dwellings of bunga-
low type, but modern architecture is
calling for moro and more use OF ma
terials other than wood. the change
being especially noticeable in the
fronts Of the buildings, where stone,
brick and concrete floors, porches
and porticos are steadily gaining in
popularity.
Since the end of the World war
there have been built in birmingham
and its enyirons some ten or twelve
thousand new dwellings,, the great
ma jority of them of the bungalow
type, although in the better residence
sections ! new palatial homes are
much in evidence,
A getting away from pattern
types, inspectors say, Is another pro-
t.,
stances, this motif has been carried
to extremes and freak houses have
been the result.
Mr.. Hunter. who spends practi-
cally all of his time touring the city
in the line of his work, said Satur
day that the change the city had
undergone in the general style Ct
architecture in the last few years OF
longer, is like moving from one world
to another. Sixth and Seventh ave-
nues. fifteen years ago. the best resi-
dence sections of the city, when
visited after a trip through the
newer parts of the southside, seem
to belong to as different a world as
they belong to different period.
Despite the newer and more at
tractive architecture of dwellings. the
greatest change is noted in the great
shops, striking example being that
Of the Pizitz stores, the old and the
new. The old corner building was a
smart and impressive business house
a decade or so ago. The new build
ing, in the course of erection, not
only dwarfs it in size, but shows the
modern demand for light. perman-
ent construction and modern &C.
commodation.
A pioneer of the new style of store
buildings that is a landmark of ad
vancement. the inspectors say. is the
Saks store. concrete throughout. and
all the window space possible being
used.
The building inspectors office has
not issued a permit for a wooden
warehouse of any size for several
years and it Is the belief of the In
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-10
PETITIONS IN BANKRUPTCY

WIN McElrath Ensley. Ala, June !.
Liabilities, s72.b0; assets none
win Jenkins Birmingham, Ala, June 6.
LiaDiiltes' 1855; assets. wages from A. c.
Walter shelton, Bessemer, Ala. June 6.
Liabilities. s1o520; assets, wages from
T. G. L. S25. Attorney. Benton & Bentley
Henry shelton. Birmingham. Ala. June S.
Liabilities. $l2o5; assets. wages due by
T. l. Co. s25. Attorneys. Benton &
Bentley.
VIII Thompson. Birminkham. Ala. June
2. Liabilities, 3S7. assets wages due by
5. $. S. ]. Co.. $40. Attorney, T. 8.
l.. B. Hodges. Birmingham, Ala. Juno 2.
Liabilities. s21s; assets. furniture lease,
800. Attorney, d. D. Trimble
c. W. Cosby. 1923 Edward street.
Brighton, Ala, June 6. Liabilities 500;
assets. household furniture. claimed as
exempt Attorney Pinkney Scott
Carter Fowlkes Bessemer Ala. June Z.
Liabilities 1880; assets, wages due by
Woodward Iron company. $36. Attorneys
Goodwin & Ross.
Ulysses s. Wilson. birmingham Ala,
June s. Liabilities $685.: assets none
Dave White, Route 2. Bessemer, Ala.
June s. Liabilities s35; assets. wages due
by T. C. I. Co.
C. A. Otte. Birmingham. Ala, June g.
Involuntary. Attorney. R. Dupont Thomp-
son.
Will Jones. Bessemer, Ala. Liabilities,
sSa.so; assstA wages by T. c. l. Co.. 313.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-10
MISS lATHR0P WEEDS
WILLIAM P. MOORE
Couple Leave For White Sulphur
Springs On Brief Trip

Miss Eva Conner Lathrop. daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank II. Lathrop,
1923 Fourteenth avenue, south. and
William Provost Moore. son of Mr..
and Mrs. ]. D. Moore, Sr., were mar
ried at 6 o'clock Saturday evening at
the brides home. by Rev. George r.
Stuart, pastor of the First Methodist
church.
Only close relatives of the couple
attended. including Mr.. and Mrs. J.
d. Moore, Sr., ]. D. Moore, Jr., Ben
Moore. DR.. and Mrs. Marye Dabney,
Mr.. and Mrs. w. c. Sterrett, Mr.. and
Mrs. j. A. Smith, Fletcher Conner, Mrs.
Donald Conner, Mrs. Craig Smith, Miss
Jane Smith, Mrs. Morley Buck of Port
Dover, Ontario, r'r. and Mrs. Frank Z.
Nabers. Mr.. and Mrs. ii. C. Ryding
and Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Conner.
Elk Governor B. B. Conner. grand
father of the bride, was unable to
attend the welding. He is in Vir-
ginia.
MIR. and Mrs. Moore left at 7:oo
o'clock Saturday night for White Sui
phur Springs, w. Va. They will be
gone about ten days,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-10
TWENTY-SX REALTORS
PLANNING TO ATTEND
CLEVELAND MEETING
Entertainment Features OF
Convention Are Outlined
By Hosts

Twenty-six Birmingham realtors
will attend the sessions of the Ma
tional Association of Real Estate
Boards in Cleveland. June 81 to 80,
it was announced Saturday by o. H.
Horton. secretary Of the local board.
The Birmingham contingent will
leave over the Southern railway in a
special car for Chattanooga, where
they will be attached to the Dixie
is the unanimous opinion of Birming-
ham real estate men that the coming
convention will be the greatest event
both from standpoint of attendance
and of interest ever held in the south.
The Cleveland convention commit
tees have worked out the most elab-
crate entertainment program in the
history of realtors conventions.
Every minute not taken up by meet
ings of the general association and
the "sevem little conventions" will
be occupied by the entertainment
committees plans. Seventy-five hun
dred delegates are expected.
Entertainment Program.
$50 Here is a skeleton of the entertain
ment features. as arranged by COM
mittee headed by Dean c. Mathews OF
the Cleveland Real Estate Board:
Tuesday, June 26. 1880 p. NJ
Luncheon to officers and directors of
the national association. The Union
club. p. m.-Reception to dele
gates and ladies of Ohio association.
informal dancing, public auditorium.
Wednesday, June 81. 4:30 p. NJ
Automobile Sightseeing trip for dele
gates and women visitors. $50 p. M,
box supper and informal party at Eu-
cid Beach, amusement park.
Thursday. June %. 10 a. m.-Shop-
ping tour for ladies. 1915 D. M,
luncheon to secretaries of visiting
boards, Hollenden hotel. 3 p. M,
garden parties at Cleveland Yacht
club and country clubs for ladies.
T:4o p. m, organ recital in public
auditorium SIS p. M, minute
oratorieal cup contest, public audi
torium.
Friday. June 20, 10 a. m.-shopping
tour for ladies. AIS p. m, theatre
party for ladies. 4:30 p. M, inspec-
ton of Keiths Palace theatre. $3.50
p, m, presidential dinner at Hotel
cleveland. p. m, concert by Glove
Iand symphony orchestra, in public
auditorium. s:45 p. M, grand ball in
pubic auditorium, led by Miss Amer
lean. Miss Canada and Miss Cleveland,
wlners OF official beauty contests.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-10
TWO J|TNEy LINES
DROPPED IN PLAN
OWNERS ADVANCE
Terms OF Ordinance To Be
Submitted AT Initiative
Election Made Known

Elimination of two Jitney bus lines
and reducing the number of cars on
three lines by IT cars are among
the provisions of the ordinance
which members of the Birmingham
Jitney Owners and Operators as
ISOLATION will seek to have adopted
through an initiative election, &C
cording to the terms of the ordi
nance as set forth in connection with
the petition being circulated, 1t was
learned Saturday. Notification of
the ordinance recently adopted by
the city commission, embodying the
peace treaty with the receivership
of the Birmingham Railway, Light
and Power company Is provided for
If the jitney men win in the election.
Actual count of names of persons
who signed the petitions. more than
the required 1900 qualified voters
by Saturday. will be announced at a
mass meeting of jitney men Tuesday
nigh in Woodrow Wilson park. Gus
Prosch. attorney for the jitney men,
announced Saturday,. Attorneys are
legal phases of the fight to keep jlt-
ney buses in Birmingham. The Pc
titions will be turned in for filing
Wednesday night, according to Mr..
Prosch.
Members of the committee OF Pc
titions who will call upon the city
commission when the lists are COM
pleted are Charles Hill. 1905 Ala
bama avenue, West End; p. ". Tubb,
1000 Tuscaloosa avenue, West End;
j. R. Burke. 1901 Tuscaloosa ave-
nue., West End; w. B. Lassiter, 618
Alabama avenue; T. A. Robinson,
3517 Twenty-seventh street: r. Ed
monds, 1915 Twenty eighth street,
north; John Wall, 27O9 Thirtyfif
avenue. north; John Bessire. BAIT
Twenty-seventh street, north; L. A.
Prosch, 619 First National bank
building: V. T. Brown, 2700 Thirty
fifth avenue. north; II. w Wilson,
204 Thirty second street, Ensley; T.
II. Crowder, 7011s Third avenue,
north, and C. w. Hickman, 6o7 JET
ferson county bank building.
Hickman and Prosch are attor-
= neys representing jitney bus oper-
ators and the others are operators on
various lines.
The proposed ordinance sets forth
the routes of the lines as now out
lined, dropping the South Highlands
infirmary and the Mountain Terrace
lines. Number Of cars on the Nor
wood line is cut from 10 to 10. on
the Ensley line from 35 to rs and on
the graymont line from 20 to 16
cars No mention Is made of fare
changes.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-10
CONTRACTORSsSTUDY
AUDITORIUM PLANS
Bids On Structure Will Be Opened
June 26-No Outside Bids Yet

Never were Birmingham's prospects
brighter for eventually possessing
municipal auitorium than was the
case Saturday. All plans in every de-
tail are in possession of the city. The
site has been bought and cleared. The
money to pay for the structure Is In
bank and Saturday. four Birmingham
contractors had put in their $500
certified earnest money checks and
received complete sets of plans from
the associated architects. No outside
bids have been received. so far, 1t
was stated Saturday. 70
June &c, at noon. In the city hall
bids will be opened and, if suitable,
an award will be made. But two
things now stand in the way of see
ing the start made upon the build
ing the city has wanted for so many
years-bids to do the work, in the
first place, and the selection Of a
satisfactory bid in the second. The
municipality reserves the right to re-
ject any or all bids that may be con-
sidered undesirable. Until June 26
municipal officialdom cannot and
does not say work will be started
in July.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-10
UNCLE SAM HAS PAY DAY

Moro than a million dollars will
be paid in Quarterly income taxes,
according to estimate Saturday by w.
e. Sneed, collector of internal re-
venue.
The second quarterly payment on
income taxes for the last year will
be delinquent after June 10 and 8
per cent penalty becomes effective on
that date, Notices have been mailed
to all taxpayers. payments are
coming in slowly, it is stated.
Fearing great rush will be made
on the last day, with no provision
for additional office help. Mr.. Snead
urges all taxpayers to make their
payments promptly and avoid both
the rush and the penalty.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-10
BUILDING PERMITS SOAR
seven Days In June Bring Total OF
$S64.0O0, City Records Show

Up and over the s36o,OoO mark
mas gone the Birmingham building
record for June, with one of the best
seven-day listings in the city's his
tory.
The two main items in the list are
the Glen Iris school. calling for an
expenditure of $4,000, and the Moore
Handley warehouse. $4,000.
Most of the other seventy or eighty
permits are for dwellings,.
II. NJ. johnson. inspector for build
ings In the business district, is maxi
Ing a close survey of structures in
the business center some of which
must be improved Immediately or be
condemned.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-10
BOXES BURGLARS EARS

CHICAGO, June 9-Mrs. Anna
Norton, rs, and a grandmother. boxed
the ears of burglar whom she
found in her home last night and
said afterward her only regret was
that she did not have an opportunity
to spank him. The silver-haired
lady said she grappled with the
burglar and boxed his ears good but
he broke away and ran when she
told him she had "a notion to thrash"
him.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-10
MOOSE CHILDREN,s DAY

Birmingham lodge No. 447, Loyal
Order of Moose, and chapter No. $50,
Women of Mooseheart legion, will
hold Children's Day exercises sunday
afternoon at o'clock at Moose hall.
The program will include instrument
tai and vocal selections, Rotations
and dialogues. The public is cor
daily invited to attend.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-10
USE OF WOOD HERE AS
BUILDING MATERIAL
FOR STORES SLUMPS
Records Of Building Inspectors Office Show Concrete
Brick Or Hollow Tile Popular And Prevailing Types
Of Construction Among Birmingham Builders In
Recent Years

spectors that wood construction for
such places has passed for all time.
Despite the permanency of con-
crete and steel construction, hollow
tile and brick for smaller business
property are leading. though the
largest buildings of a business char
acter being built here are invariably
cnncrete and steel.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-10
JAPs TO MEET RUSSIANS

TOXIC. June 9.--(By Associated
Press. Japan and Russia today
agreed to open negotiations for re-
sumption of relations between tina
two countries.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-10

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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-10

Largest prehistoric city IN the
United States has been located as
being near what is now East st.
Louis, Ill.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1923-08-27
Alcohol and Gasoline
Bad Mixture i'm Maine

Intoxicant motorists are shown lit
tie mercy in courts in the state of
Maine, according to a letter received
today from Harry G.. Hancock, who,
with Mrs. Hancock, is spending his
vacation in Bangor Mr.. Hancock
sends clipping from the Portland
Press Herald which gives an account
of the arrest of an alderman and for
mer tax collector in Old Town
charged with driving an automobile
while intoxicated. The alderman was
sentenced to 1870 days in jail. fine of
$3.50 and suspension of his license.
There was no suspension of sentence,
but in addition to the above penalty
he was given $40 fine and costs for
getting drunk, Tho clipping adds
that the highway commissioner will
take further action, The clipping says
that each week sentences will increase
$50 in fines and five additional days
for similar offenscs until the regular
sentence will be $1,000 fine and six
in Jail.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1923-08-27

temperamentally akin to Roosevelt in
many ways, Senator Hiram johnson is
of the type which is at its best when
in the, thick of such a fight as Roose-
welt waged against the G.. o. p. bosses
in 1919. AS the man who looms
larger each day as the ultimate choice
of the successors of the Bull Moose
heads of 1912. against Mr.. Coolidge,
the choice of the successors of the
Penrose New Crane organization.
Senator Hiram johnson seems des-
tined to run into just such combna-
ton of circumstances as led to the
birth of the Bull Moose party in 1912.
Stage Being Set
The stage is being set; the denoue-
ment promises to be interesting. The
old play ended in disaster for all the
characters; but political playwrights
are prone to forget the lessons of ex-