The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-04
Birmingham viii Welcome Him
With Open Arms.
CITY PUTTING ON HOLIDAY ATTIRE
Meeting of Military Committee Last
Night to Arrange Details-More Than
1900 Soldiers Are Expected
Everything in Readiness

Admiral Schley is in Atlanta today
He will arrive here Monday shortly be-
fore noon, to remain two days
The city is being decorated to welcome
him. All arrangements for a splendid cell
ebration In his honor have been perfected.
A small committee will meet him in At
lanta Sunday, and he will be met at An
niston Monday morning by a committee
of twenty ladies and gentlemen, who go
over in Superintendent J. s. B. Thomp-
sons private car to escort him to Bir-
mingham. At every station from Atlanta
to Birmingham crowds will turn out 10
greet him. Thousands of enthusiastic Bir-
mngham people will be lined up in and
about the union depot here to welcome him.
An escort of cavalry will be there to con-
duct him 10 the Morris hotel.
Monday he will be entertained informal
1y. Tuesday he will lead the magnificent
military procession of several thousand
troops, which he will review from a special
stand at the fair grounds.
The several committees in charge of the
arrangements are hard at work, and while
the plans have been practically completed,
the details are being looked after closely,
so that no hitch in the programme will oc-
cur.
The banquet
The banquet committee has been made up
as folIows: Culpepper Exum, chairman;
Rufus NJ Rhodes. F. Y. Anderson, M. V.
Joseph, e. w. Barrett, Ross c. Smith,
Erskine Ramsey, A. e. Caffee A. NJ Lynn,
P G. Shook and B. Steiner.
The banquet will take place at the Flor
ence hotel and promises to be one of the
most elegant affairs ever given In the city.
The Military Committee
The dining room will be handsomely deco
rated and the menu will be the best that
Birmingham caterers can prepare
Appropriate menu cards have been or
dered by wire and will arrive in ample
time.
The decorators have already begun work
and the city is beginning to take on
holiday appearance. A number of the street
decorations have been placed and by to-
night the entire business portion of the
city will be draped with flags and bunting.
A meeting of the military committee was
held last night in the office of General
Louis v. Clark, the chairman. The follow
ing gentlemen were added to the commit
tee: Colonels A. H. Stevens, Erwin Schil-
linger, Captains Paul Gilardoni, F. L. De-
mere, H. C. Vaughan, Earle Perkins. John
London, Jr., w. J. Boles( w. M. Walker,
Il. A. deFuniak, L. c. Morris and Dab
Luckie
Subcommittee were appointed to ar
range for housing and substance. 1t was
decided to make a proposition to the WIS.,
tting military companies to furnish trans
portation to all companies within radius
OF $50 miles, or, If they preferred, to fur
nish barracks and subsistence and let them
furnish their own transportation. 1t Is
thought that in the neighborhood of 1900
soldiers will be in attendance. 1t was de-
cided to give "How Social on Tuesday
night at place to be selected later, at
which Admiral Schley will be the guest of
honor to meet the various officers
of the national guard and the veterans of
the civil and Spanish-American wars. This
will not in any way interfere with the BAN
quet given Admiral schley on Tuesday
night
He will be escorted from the banquet
board to the "How Social by officers spe-
cially delegated for that purpose, whose
names will appear later.
The meeting adjourned, to convene at the
Office of General Clark, 2O2l First avenue,
at II o'clock this morning. Each member
of the committee is requested to be on
hand promptly.
The Confederate Veterans, veterans of
the civil war, the @. A. r. and veterans of
the Spanish-American war will be given
a. prominent place with the military In line.
Sends His Regrets
Secretary Rountree, of the State Fair as
ISOLATION, yesterday received the following
telegram from President E. L. Russell, of
the Mobile and Ohio railroad regretting his
inability to be PRESENT to deliver an address
6f welcome on behalf of the fair associa-
tion:
Mobile, November 3, 1899.
J. A. Rountree, Secretary Alabama State
Fair Association, Birmingham, Ala:
Regret exceedingly am unable to accept
the unanimous invitation of the state fair
board OF directors. It would not only be q
pleasure but a great pride to deliver the