The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-18
CAST OFF CLOTHING. SOUGHT BY MINISTER
Good Will" Bags Being Filled For
 Distribution To Needy Persons

CaSt-Off SOleS Will prevent CdSt-olI
 souls, R. E. Tyler, pastor of the St. John Methodist Episcopal church, south, believes. He also believes the alarming of a hole in a sock will save lives because it gives morbid persons employment. Mir. Tyler is directing the preparation of thousands Of
 good will bags" to be distributed throughout the city.
 The bags are not quite ready. for distribution, he said Saturday night, and the church needs spring east offs to complete the filling of the
 bags.
 If folks will phone Main 7665, p
 he said, we will call, taking any
 thing from clothing to old automo- biles.'
 and may result in allowing certain tracks to remain at street grade un- til conditions justify their elevation
 There are two statements Tn My. Kirkpatrick's letter which l at tributed to clerical or typograpricnl l errors and consequently delayed this communication, expecting to sec q correction. One of these advocates starting the elevation of the trarKS near the Terminal station and the Twenty street anI extending the elevation to Twentieth street. Such elevation would prohibit satis- factory grade separation at eiLher Twenty first. Twenty second, Twen ty-third, Twenty-fourth. Twenty matter of fact, MT. Kirkpatrick plans provide for the elevatIpr to start west of Twenty third street, which is proper.
 Require Several Years.
 T do not agree with MT. Kirkpat- rick that the new Twenty first street viaduct should not have been bull, until after the tracks were ele- vated from Twentythird street to Thirteenth street. This elevation would require several years to com plete and must be carried on at near ly all points simultaneously, result ing in the closing of Fourteenth Eighteenth and Twentieth streets at certain times and very inconvenicut and congested conditions for traffic during other long periods. The old narrow steel structure at Twenty first and the narrow wood structure at Twenty second would have had to be elevated to the new elevation and at the same time take care of the | diverted traffic. In all probability | t new full width viaduct should be luilt at the proper elevation at Twenty-second street before the
 
 1 that the street cars might be di- 1 verted to il from Twentieth street whilst the tracks were being ele- vatod. Evidently Mir. Kirkpatrick s experience with railway officials has been opposite of mine. l have found them to be high-clas men. looking closely to tbe interest of their cor porations but at the same time will ing to recognize the city's rights and l interests, and when a contemplate ed 1 joint improvement was decided upon, even over their protests, it's execu- tion received their hearty co-opera- tion. However, one can readily con- clude that such needless expeditures of railway funds. as recommended by MT. kirkpatrick's plans and letter would not tend to create cordial re- ] lations.
 Tt Is regrettable that the city has not seen it's way clear to incur the i expense of extending grade separa- ! ton studies over 'a larger area. There has been much agitation for grade separation in the Ninth and Tenth avenue section. Before plans are adopted studies should be made of the various connecting railway lines between this area and the downtown railway areas"