The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-16
A AN[BULANCES
 RENDER SERVICE
 FOR BIRMINGHAM
68 Men Constitute Corps Of Crews To Manning
 Fast Automobiles
IS HOSPITALS DOTTED
 ABOUT CITY DISTRICT
$166,00 Invested In Emergency Aid Equip 1ent-PayroIl Of
 $3,000 Weekly

W ACA AhtAS yVNAS StuD1 HIS tVCs Tom breaks his neck, father drives off the bridge, mother slips on the grease on the kitchen floor or when there is any sickness or accidents in the family, 34 ambulances in the Birmingham dis trict are lined up waiting to carry them to any of the 15 hospitals in the city.
 Sixty-aght men are on duty day and night, with the sole purpose of caring for the sick and injured, besides the corps of the 15 hospitals and hundreds of doctors scattered through the city. With 34 relief ambulance drivers ready for emergencies.
 Ambulance drivers work in crews of three, two on the machine and one for the relief when man has served his 38-hour stretch. The payroll for all the ambulance men for a week will run oyer 5000. A value of $160, 900 is placed on the ambulances of Birming- ham,.
 Nineteen Cars Of the 34 ambulances, 19 serve ex- clusively the white patronage, four ex- clusively go to the negro calls and one to mixed service. There are 10 white uuuGEtdAcEb, H uckIV uuuCkthACNbt the board of health, which also main- tains such services.
 Johns Undertaking company at 2011 Fourth avenue, north, has four ambu- lances for their service, at present two They may be reached in case of acci- dent over Main 1902.
 Lige Loy at 2210 Third avenue, north, has three machines in their fleet, but at present two of these are out for 7ss. 7sssir'' They are reached at Main Ridout at 2117 Fifth avenue, north, has in service two ambulances, which may be secured by calling Main 9 or 6. Eastern Section Walter c. Vice operates two stations, with an ambulance at each station. One is located at 2330 Fifth avenue, north, and can be reached over Main 872. The Woodlawn station at 6601 First avenue is reached by calling Woodlawn 40.
 Brown at 1130 North Twenty-sixth street, in Norwood, has two machines in readiness for action. He is reached by calling Hemlock 722.
 Echols and Angwin have located their service in Ensley. They are operating one machine and are called at Ensley 1O6. Womack has his service in that locality also and is operating one ma- chine. Telephone, Ensley 313. The Bell Undertaking company has within the last year inaugurated a service in Fairfisld- They have two ambulances which may be brought into action by calling EnAley til. Morrison Undertaking company has also recently begun an ambulance serv- ice. He is located in Tarrant City, (near several good pikes). His tele- phone is Woodlawn 0158. All of the white, ambulance services have placed a value of 5000 and up- ward on their machines. They cater to whites exclusively.
 Negro Service Bradford operates two ambulances for negro service only. His place is located at 1908 Fourth avenue and his services can be secured by calling 3011.
 Davenport and Harris also carry the double service at their station at 1512 Seventh avenue. They are called at Main 1869.
 Two ambulances may be secured from Nchols and Strong by calling their place at 400 North .Fiftieth street over Main 1918.
 The other negro undertakers run an ambulance each, they are c. H. Cooper, 1901 Avenue E, south, who may be reached on Main 7237: Jordan Under taking company of 2725 North Twenty seventh street, can be called at Hem lock Al; McMilliam and Howard of 23O7 Avenue c, north, are called at Main 8999; Eughen Shortridge's place at 313 Seventeenth street will answer to a call of Ensley 114O; The South ern Undertaking company will send carriage from their place at 251S Second avenue, north, if the call is Main 1251; Stalworth and Johnson, 1917 Avenue G, answer Ensley 1441 ; WeIch brothers Undertaking company at 2711 Twenty-ninth avenue, north, are called at HemlOck 82, and Young's Undertaking parlors, 2328 Avenue C, at Main 6164.
 These ambulances handle negro trade exclusively. The services are using up- to-date cars and have placed values on them ranging from $500 to $6,000. The board of health runs an am bulance for its own services, and will convey either white or black when the need arises.
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