The age-herald., 1900-04-18
The Birmingham Assembly.


 an Assembly. Society gossiped over probable ball all winter, but with the As- sembly managers postponing their winter ball. the season closed without much pros pect of the reorganization of the old As- sembly. The notices for ball to be given Easter week were sent out the latter part of Lenti They announced that in future the Assembly lists would be limited to fif- ty members. As in the past invitations would be limited to the unmarried social set of Birmingham and to non-residents; the Assembly managers including Mir. Wal ker Percy, MT. A. L. Fulenwilder, MT Jack Johnston, MT. H. L. Badham, MT. E. W. Barrett, MT Webb Crawford. It has been suggested that this committee serve three years, according to the Phila- delphia or Baltimore assemblies and that the committee will be -perpetuating. When a managers time of service is about to expire he chooses for his successor some one whose fitness for the duty is likely to be recognized and whom he is conh- dent the rest of the committee will find agreeable. This method has evidently been found to be the only successful one of holding together an Assembly year after year. That it still meets with favor in the cities where assemblies are held each win ter speaks eloquently for its adoption in Birmingham. In the older cities the as- semblies guard the portals of society and invitations to the balls are prized by every one who is at all socially ambitious Each year the invitations are sent out with scrupulous care and each year there are many appeals made to find favors.
 The lists for the Birmingham Assem- bly" include a majority of the members at the ball of last year. Those who declined to assist in holding a second Assembly gave as their reasons the fact that the pre- vious Assembly was nothing more than a large dancing party and that the lists have not included a sufficient number of the non-dancing contingent to make the ball in any way a pleasure to the comparatively small number of persons who do not care for dancing, and yet whose names appeared on the Assembly lists. A number of the members of the former Assembly were therefore conspicuous by their absence at the ball last night.
 "The Assembly is not dancing club" said prominent member recently. While the balls should be the most important events of the winter, still the Assemblies are not held solely for the purpose of bringing together the dancing element. The occasion should be made one at which all representative persons in Birmingham so- cety should meet each other and welcome the newcomers. At the Assemblies in the east the managers select six patronesses for the balls, and these include mothers whose daughters to be introduced to society and probably bride of the season. The Blrm1ngham Assembly Shnn1d permanent organization, that will in the years to come be regarded as the occasion Of bringing together the representative ele- ment in society It should be managed with such dignity that all those who desire to be of consequence in society should de- sire to be included in the Assembly lists that are made up year after year"
 The following is the list of members:
 MT. and Mrs. Walker Percy, Mrand Mrs. w. H. Kettig, MT. and Mrs. H. H. May berry, MT. and Mrs. w. w. Crawford. MT. and Mrs. Roberts Jemison, Dr.. and Mrs. A. T. Henley, Major and Mrs F. r. Anderson, MT. and Mrs. H. B. Gray, MT. and Mrs J. D. Kirkpatrick, Mir and Mrs A. L. Fulenwider, MT. and Mrs John w. Tomlinson, Mir and Mrs. Charles O. Locke. MT. and Mrs. Allen W. Haskell, MT and Mrs. Hampton Smith, MT. and Mrs. Rufus N. Rhodes Mr. and Mrs. Robert Baugh. MT. and Mrs. H. L. Badham, Mr. and Mrs. B. w. Barrett, MT. and Mrs B. J. Dryer. MT. and Mrs. Richard F. Johnston. pr. and Mrs. l.. G. Woodson, MT. and Mrs. Jack w. Jonhson, MT. and Mrs A. A. Adams, MT. and Mrs. W. H. Matthew's. MT and Mrs. Maxwell Coffin, Mir and Mrs. c. E. Robinson, MT. and Mrs A. R. Dearborn, MT. and Mrs A. T. London. MT. and Mrs. Lee c. Bradley, MT. and Mrs. Edward Wilkinson, Mir. and Mrs. N L. Miller, MT and Mrs. Solon Jacobs, MT. and Mrs Hugh Morrow, MT. and Mrs. T. V. Boardman, MT. and Mrs Felix M Drennen, MT. and Mrs. Richard Randolph, Mr. and Mrs. c. L. Stickney, Judge and Mrs. John c. Carmichael, MT and Mrs. Louie Hart MT and Mrs. J. B. Cobbs, MT, and Mrs. W. P. Reid, MT and Mrs. A. w. Crandall, Judge and Mrs w. w. Wilkinson.
 The invitation lists included Miss yir ginia Walker, Miss Molly Jordan, Miss Anna Morrow, Miss Will Morrow. Miss Ethel Sharpe. Miss Edith Ward, Miss Lucy Morrow, Miss Josie Eubank Miss Daisy Moody, Miss Woods, Mrs Hillman, Miss oHeiity, MISS luclle Smltn, MISS Jenny Porter. Miss Amy Jordan, Mrs. Blount, Miss Lutie Sharpe, Mrs. Evans, Miss Hannah Elliott, Miss Kate Earle, Mrs. Fannie Arnold DeBardeleben, Miss Florida Graves, Miss Adele Brooks of Bal timore, Miss Annie Smith. Miss Mary Louise Smith, Miss zemma Webb, the Misses Johnston, Miss Hazel Dmmick, Mrs William T. Northington, Mrs. L. A. Shipman of Jacksonville, Fla, Mrs. Charles Caldwell of Bainbridge, Ga., Miss Nora Leary of Atlanta, Miss Alice Walton. Miss Adams: MT. Ross Smith, Mr. Jack Martin, MT. Morton Kirke Moore, MT. Culpepper Exum, Mir. William Walker, MT Thomas Watson, MT. Frank Ellis, MT. Foster, MT. William Ward, MT. Paschal Shook, Mir Hobson, Mir Ramsey MT. Gaut, MT. Rogan, MT. John Caldwell, MT. Barr MT. Warner Shook, MT. Carpenter, Mr. Thomas B. Paine, MT. William Mudd Martin. MT. Robert Curry, MT. w. T. Nor