The Birmingham age-herald. [volume], July 27, 1913, EDITORIAL SECTION, Page 31, Image 31

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SALVATION ARMY’S INDUSTRIAL BRANCH
HAS FINE NEW HOME WHICH COST $25,000
Property at 1516-18 Fifth
Avenue Equipped to Fur
nish Lodgings at Very
Low Prices
NEW YORK OFFICE
FURNISHED FUNDS
TO BUY THE HOME
Major French Tells Something About
the Work Being Done and What
His Branch of the Army
Is Trying to Ac
complish
By H. J. HOBART
Thu local industrial branch of the
Salvation Army is now established in
Its own building and home. It has also
given Birmingham one of the greatest
necessities of an industrial center, a
first-class popular priced working
man’s hotel. The new industrial home
and hotel is located at 1516-18 Fifth
avenue, near the center of the city and
in one of the most beautiful and de
sirable parts of downtown Birmingham.
The property was purchased about a
year ago from Mr. R. P. McDavid for
$15,000 and with the additions and im
provements made sine© now represents
An investment of $26,000. Not a dollar
of tills money came from Birmingham,
as the Salvation Army has never been
more than able to pay its actual run
ning expenses from its local receipts,
FRONT VIEW SALVATION ARMY INDUSTRIAL HOME
It is located at 1516-18 Fifth avenue. Maj. W. A. French is standing at the right with arms folded. The
men to the left of the column are workmen in the industrial department
and not often that, but was fumlsb'''* |
by the headquarters in New York. So
the industrial department of the 8a*
No Matter What You Want For
The House It is Always
Cheaper at O’Neill’s
We buy for cash and of course buy cheap; we
also buy in large quantities and always get the
benefit of the lowest prices.
Mrs. As
Potts bestos
Sad Sad
Irons Irons
$1.50 sets Mrs. Potts (Best in the world)
lrons 98c $3.00 sets Asbestos
, _ . . , Sad Irons $2.25
(3 irons, handle and ^3 iropSt handle and
stand.) stand.)
Celebrated Keystone Food Chopper
$1.50 Keystone Food Choppers 05c
$2.00 Keystone Food Choppers $1.25
$2.50 Keystone Food Choppers $1.50
$3.00 Keystone Food Choppers $l.OS
Everyday flome Needa
•
Good size Cotton Mop 23e
Best Tubular Lantern, 75c kind -40c
Best Turkey Feather Dusters 23c
2% yards fancy decorated Shelf Paper 5c
Good large size Ref. Lamp, complete 20c
Any size Lamp Chimney 5c
Any size Brass Burner 5c
Best Shoe Blacking or Black Ink 3c
Good Steel Fire Shovels 5c
Nickel Plated Poker Oe
Dime Roll Toilet Paper 4c
No. 1 and No. 2 Brass Burners at 5c
No. 1 and 2 Lamp Chimneys at 5c
600 Stone's Paper^Straws for 23c
Brooms
20c Whisk Brooms 10c
20c painted handle Hearth
Brooms 10c
35c four string House
Brooms .23c
65c five string House
Brooms « 48c
65c long handled Wall
Brooms 45c
Brushes
Good Hand Brushes, 10c
kind 4c
Durable TScrub Brushes,
25c kind 9c
Strong Counter Brushes,
50c kind 23c
Barge Whitewash Brushes,
50c kind 23c
Best Window Brushes, 75o
kind 48c
High Grade Floor Brushes,
75c, 08c, $1.25 and $1.50
Good Stove Brushes, 25c
kind, 9c, 23c and 48c
Hair Brushes, 9c and 23c
House Brushes, *9c and 23c
Wire Goods
Strong Wire Hangers. .5c
Faultless Wire Fly Killers ... 10c
Easy Fly Killers .5c
Wire Broilers ... Oc, 23c, 48c and 57c
Wire Tea Strainers.5c and Oc
Wire Tea Balls . Oc
Wire Bowl Strainers 5c and Oc
Wire Potato Mashers . Oc
Strong Wire Forks . Oc
Wire Egg Beaters 5c, 23c, 35c and 4^c
Wire Sink Strainers.5c and 10c
Wire Sifters . 10c
Wire Teapot Stands . 10c
Wire Frying Baskets, 25c, 35c ajptd 48c
Wire Extension Strainers
. 10c, 25c and 35c
Wire ’Waste Baskets . 25c
Wire French Mouse Traps.23c
Wire French Hat Traps .48c
Round Flue Dish Covers . 10c
Wire Cover Egg Beaters . 10c
Wire Coat Hooks . 24c
Japanned Water
Copiers
Nickel Faucet*
1 gallon Japanned Cooler, galvan
ized lined $1.25
2 gallon Japanned Cooler, galvan
ized lined $1.75
3 gallon Japanned Cooler, galvan
ized lined $1.08
4 gallon Japanned Cooler, galvan
ized lined $2.05
8 gallon Japanned Cooler, galvan
ized lined $3.75
10 gallon Japanned Cooler, porce
lain lined $2.08 to $8.50
Stone Water Filters
and Coolers
Two Piece* With Block Filter and
Cooler
3 gallon Stone Filter and Cooler $2.08
4 gallon Stone Filter and Cooler $3.48
Phone
Main
88
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R. ANDERSON, D. P. A.
Phone Main 979 2010 First Ave. Birmingham, Ala.
vation Army has a home of its own,
the city has a working man's hotel
that is without a superior in the coun
try and Birmingham has another ?25,
000 investment of foreign capital.
Handsome Piece of Property
The new Salvation Army nome and
hotel is decidedly the handsomest piece
of property between Fifteenth and
Sixteenth streets'on Fifth avenue. The
In our industrial department. He does
not feel like he Is on charity at all.
but that he Is earning what he con
sumes and can therefore keep his self
respect and never get that dangerous
poison of living on charity into his
system.
“The creation of the industrial de
partment of the Salvation Army is an
interesting story. General William
New working man’s hotel of the Salvation Army as the structure was
Nearing Completion
woodwork of tlie front is painted white,
ind the porch is studded with a half
dozen square natural stone columns,
while beautiful green vines climb ami
.lamor over the framework. The east
side of the building is occupied by Maj.
W. A. French and his assistants, and
tlie west half Is a reading and rest
room for the industrial workmen. The
original building, which is a two-story
frame structure, contains the dormi
tories and dining room for the work
men and employes of the department,
rhere are about 35 men now engaged
in the wo*k of the industrial depart
ment and Major French is enlarging
the accommodations so that he may
take care of several more when called
upon. As he puts it, he is trying to
arrange so that no one in need of food,
shelter and a helping hapd will ever
have to be turned away from the Sal
vation Army home.
Jn the rear of the industrial home
Is a large new modern brick hotel for
workingmen and others who desire
clean and comfortable rooms at a small
cost. The hotel is reached from the
second story of the home proper by a
broad and pleasant platform or pas
sageway, The new hotel is perhaps the
neatest and most attractive popular
price hotel in the sbTTth. It has 52 bed
rooms that are so clean that they glis
ten. Each room has a single iron bed
stead with first-class mattresses and
pillows that are covered with linen of
Immaculate whiteness and cleanliness.
The floors are painted and art squares
cover the center. There is a chair and
clothes racks in each room. There is
not a thing cheap or common in a sin- j
gle room, no matter what the price. In
fact, the rooms are all furnished alike
and the only difference In price is in
the inside and the outside rooms. There
is a large readiug room on the east side
with a long table which is constantly
filled wity good books and all the lead
ing current periodicals, and to the
north of this is the bath room and toilet,
shower baths and the equipment for
these is as fine as that in any hotel in
Birmingham. It also has a well equip
ped roof garden.
Prices for Rooms
The price of these rooms is 16 cents
and 25 cents a night w'ith a corres
pondingly low rate by the week. This
includes baths, fresh towels, reading
matter and reasonable service. They
can’t be duplicated in the south for
tho money, and the location and sur
roundings are equal to tho best resi
dence and hotel sections of the city.
That Is what Birmingham has to offer
laboring men and those here seeking
employment whose means are limited.
It is not to be understood that be
causetfte Salvation Army has built this
popular priced commercial hotel for
those who are able to pay their way
and are simply looking for clean, sani
tary and comfortable apartments for a
price within limited means that those
who have no money at all are turned
away. Those who are not able to pay
for rooms in the new hotel are taken
care of in the industrial home.
Major French Discusses Work
In speaking of the Industrial work
of the Salvation Army, MaJ. W. A.
French, In charge of the division head
quarters here, said:
"The Impression of many people that
the Salvation Army industrial depart
ment Is run as a charity Institution Is
entirely erroneous. In fact, we try to
keep It just as far removed from the
suggestion of charity as possible. We
regard charity In many Instances as
dangerous and a detriment to humanity
and an imposition on society. Let a
man once learn that he can live on
charity, and If he Is the kind who is
trilling to do It, he will never try to
earn another dollar for hlmsejf or those
dependent upon him. And if la Just as
true that the Idea of charity Is humili
ating to a degree to the Industrious
man who may for any reason be tempo
arrtly down and out.
"The purpose of the Salvation Army
Is to give a man who wants to work a
chance to find work and take care of
bin) while he Is doing it. If a man
comes to us with no money and no job
we give him shelter, food and money
enough to keep himself In clothes and
other little expenses till he can find a
Job for such service aa be may reader
Bootli and other Salvation Army offi
cers in their work in the great cities
became impressed with the immense
waste of wealth, labor and life and de
cided to find a plan to bring these
tilings together for the benefit of man
kind and the glory of «od. They saw'
the tons of wraste paper and old mag
Every Dollar You Spend Here
Does almost double duty in the way of saving. Be fair
to yourself and let us show you.
«<f\ For 5ft For
{12 and{15 „
(% SLITS ,2®“?23
\J Wool or Mills
Mohair 16 Models
$„ For
■ 241
c For all For c For ail
$1.00 $5.00 50c
U Shifts Trousers Neckwear
azines around the cities: they saw the old
and abandoned furniture, household goods
and pictures of the comfortable and
wealthy; they saw the castoff clothing
of the prosperous and fortunate anti
many other things going to waste that
they realized could be saved and
turned Into money to feed the poor and
clothe the needy. They saw thousands
of honest men out Sf work and suffer
ing for food and shelter and evolved the
plan to make the waste of the streets
feed the hungry and give employment
to those out of work, and the result
up to date Is the industrial department
as it exists today. Somebody has re
cently written an interesting article
on “the high waste" of living and it
was probably about that idea of Gen
eral Booth that gave birth to the indus
trial department of the Salvation Army.
The Salvage Department
“The industrial department of' the
Salvation Army might properly he
called the salvage department. Wo
gather the salvage wares from the
shores of waBte and the salvage souls
from the wrecks of sin and misfortune
and use the first to succor and save
the second.
"The whole plan is very simple, but
it is likewise very important in the
work of helping those who may be for
any cause temporarily unable to help
themselves. With the men who come
to us out of work and out of money we
gather up the w-aste paper from the
offices and other sources, the out of
date books and magazines from the
homes and the castoff clothing, fur
niture and other articles and work !
them Into marketable condition and sell
them for what we can get and use the
money in running the industrial home
and helping the me take care of them
selves and finding jobs. Much of the
clothing we give to the poor and to the ,
men but we sel what we can to carry
on our work. Here is an instance In
point: A poor woman came into the
Salvation Army store the other after
noon and bought a perfectly good skirt,
the color and style of which anyone
could see pleased her immeasurably,
for 20 cents. That skirt was given by a
Christian woman who did not want it
and did not have any use for it and
while it will serve the poor woman
who bought it for 20 cents as well as a
new $5 skirt. The money received
therefor can be given to some down and
out. man for car fare to go out and hunt
a job. I am surb if all the people fully
understood our work and its purpose
and results we would get along much
better than we do. Those who do help
us are very kind and generous, but
there are thousands of others who could
give us assistance in caring for the
weak and unfortunate if they would—
and T am convinced that they would il'
they only understood.”
Came Here Five Years Ago
Major French has been a faithful of
ficer of the Salvation Army since he has
been in Birmingham and a rock of ref
uge for thousands of men with neither
food nor shelter. When ho catne t«»
Birmingham five years ago the indus
trial department was a very small and
weak affair. It had only one horse
and wagon and found very little en
couragement among strangers to Us
purposes and benefits, lie struggled
along, often being far In debt with poot
prospects of immediately meeting his
obligations from the income of t h • •
work, but he has never turned a man
away who did not have a place to sleep
or who needed something to eat. Now
that the New York headquarters has
given him his own home with a com
mercial hotel to help him out lie hopes
to do better. Ho also hopes that the
people of Birmingham will he more lib
eral and send to the Salvation Army
the thousands and one things that they
do not need or want that he can use to
help some unfortunate man take care
of himself till he can find employment
to support himself and those who may
bo dependent upon him.
Major French wants to Impress upon
the public that not one penny of the
nickels and dimes given the Salvation
Army corps in this city ever has or ever
will go towards payment for the home
and hotel property on Fifth avenue.
That money all comes from the New
York headquarters. It takes all the
collections of the local corps to carry
on the general Salvation Army work in
Birmingham, and then much more is
needed. It constantly takes a struggle
for the corps to meet its actual run
ning expenses and to give such assist
ance to the poor as they are compelled
to give.
Major French 1s assisted in the exec
utive department of the Industrial work
by Capt. N. A. Gilbert, who is one of \
the strong men in the Salvation Army ’i
work In this section. Captain Gilbert
came to Birmingham about a year ago
from Chattanooga and has proved him
self a valuable aid to Major French in
developing the local field.
The Better Part
From Puck.
“Who’s that impressive looking woman
over yonder?”
"That’s Mrs. Packum. She's a remark
ably strong-minded woman, and they do
say that she commands a very large sal
ary."
“How does she earn It?"
“She doesn’t earn it. Her husband
earns it and she commands it."
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Another of Those Artistic Homes
To Be Built At
MILNER HEIGHTS
Coolesi Place in Birmingham.
Plans are being perfected every week for artistic homes to be erected in Milner Heights, and the
accompaning picture shows a pen sketch of the residence of W. T. Warren, the architect. Work will
commence in the near future, probably about the first of next month, and it will be the second house
to be completed.
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The house is featured bjT'its length
and shallowness, it being planned for
a special lot on which it is not desir
able to go very far back from the
street. There are a number of these
lots at Milner Heights, and this sketch
gives an idea of how certain types of
houses will look on these lots. %
The plans are noticeable for their
picturesque roof lines, designed to fit
into the mountain rising behind it,
giving the effect of nestling in the hill
side.
The Warren residence will be the
English style of architecture, with
dark red fireproof roofing and white
cement walls. The entrance porch will
be separate from the living porch. The
house will have six rooms and a large ,
sleeping porch, and will represent an
investment of about $10,000.
Most Desirable Lots, With All Improvements
Made and Paid for, as Low as
$35.00 Per Front Foot.
For information and the privilege of seeing the property with a representative to explain in de
tail to yCm, call Main 8038, or visit our offices, 1107-8 Empire building.
MILNER LAND CO.
1107-8 Empire Building Telephone Main 8038