Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-12
BUSINESS WAS THE WORD The Board of Managers Gets
 Right to Work. ALABAMA BUILDING GOES UP As Soon as the Plans Can Be Drawn and Con
 tract Is Let. BIRMINGHAM ARCHITECTS DESIGN WILL GO The Site Next to the Florida Building Is Approved-A Board of Lady Man agers to Be Elected-Othcr Inn
 portant Action.
ALABAMA BUILDING GOES UP
BIRMINGHAM ARCHITECTS DESIGN WILL GO

Montgomery June 11.-(Special)-The Alabama. board of managers of the At lanta exhibit met at the rooms of the Commercial and Industrial association as per call issued by President Ander- Ison some days ago, and was called to or der by the president at 10 o'clock a. nl., with the following members in attend ance: F. Y Anderson, Birmingham Hon. Hector D. Lane of Athens and H. c. Davidson of Montgomery, Seere- tary Thompson being in attendance.
 The board went at once to work, decid- ing that the outlook justified the immedi- ate letting of the contract for the Ala bama building at Atlanta. Several plans were submitted, all of which were care fully examined, when the following res olution was submitted by MT. Davidson and seconded by MT. Lane, viz:
 Resolved, That the design marked No. g. drawn by Architect Wheelock of Bir mngham, be, and the same is, hereby approved and accepted by this board as the most suitable plan for the Alabama building at the Atlanta exposition, and said architect is hereby instructed to prepare working plans for said design; also to advertise for bids for the erection of said building at once, all bids subject to the approval of this board"
 Adopted.
 On motion of Mir. Lane the following resolution was adopted:
 Whereas, In view of the valua ble as- sistance which the ladies of Alabama have always been known to render when the welfare of the state was to Ie ad- vanced and in order to secure that aid for the Alabama exhibit, be it
 Resolved by this board, That a cen tral board of lady managers be elected hU thio hna r6 pononOSa6 of bers. and who shall be author.zed to SC lect their own chairman, and who will be further empowered to appoint honor ary members throughout the state"
 On motion of MT. Lane the secretary was instructed to request State Biologist Dr. E. A. Smith to cooperate with this board to the fullest extent possible in se- curing creditable representation of the states geological and mineral re- sources for the Alabama exhibit at At lanta; also that the president and board of control of the Agricultural and Me chanical college at Auburn be requested to likewise cooperate with the board in their effort to obtain a suitable display of Alabama's resources at the Atlanta exposition.
 On motion of MT. Davidson, seconded by Mir. Lane, the secrtary was in structed to notify President Collier that the site selected next to the Florida build ing be and the same is approved, and that the building will be erected on the same at the earliest moment possible
 The board held conference with the soliciting committee of the Commercial and Industrial association and the entire matter was entered into with much en- thusiasm
 Montgomery will certainly go to the sum assessed against her, for these com mittees will now get down to substan- tial work, and the business men of Mont gomery will do their part towards this, the greatest of all southern expositions
 Treaty Signed.
 St Petersburg, June 1.-The com nercial treaty between Russia and Ja- nan was signed tOday