The age-herald., 1901-08-20
Mayor Drennen and Commet :
 ciaI Club Invite Him
OFFERSOUTHERN HOSPITALITY
May Entertain Him at Banquet and Ask Him to Speak at Auditorium. Daughter Undergoes
 Operation.

Telegrams inviting Vice President Roosevelt to stop in Birmingham during his Southern trip were sent last night by Mayor Drennen and President Culpepper Exum of the Commercial Club.
 The Board of Trade is also anxious to have the Vice President visit BIrming ham. At meeting of the board of con trol yesterday afternoon the matter was discussed and John L. Parker and John W.ONeill appointed a committee to con fer with Mayor Drennen and the presi- dent of the Commercial Club. The com mittee called on these gentlemen and offered the services ofstheir organization in providing entertainment in the event MT. Roosevelt accepted the invitation. Mayor Drennen's invitation is as fol- lows:
 "vice President Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, Long Island, N. Y.
 Speaking for all the people of Birming- ham and the Alabama mineral district, give you most cordial invitation to visit us upon your Southern tour.
 W. M. DRENNEN,
 Mayor of Birmingham" The invitation wired by President Exum is as follows:
 'vice-President Roosevelt Oyster Bay,
 Long Island. N. r.;
 "The people of Birmingham and sll Alabama would be proud to welcome you here on your Southern tour, which all Southerners will unite in wishing that it be happy for you.
 "CULPEPPPER ExUM.
 President Commercial Club"
 May Be Given Banquet.
 Should the vice-President accept the in- vitation 1t is likely that he will be given a banquet It has also been suggested that the Auditorium be secured and the citizens invited out to hear him speak. If MT. Roosevelt is in the city long enough the trade organizations would like to take him on a trip around the mineral belt.
 It Is not known just what time he will leave New, York. He has accepted an invitation to speak at Tuskegee some time during this week. The Age-Herald has received the following special dis patch from New York:
 Miss Alice Roosevelt, who is the eld- est daughter of Vice-President Roosevelt, and who was operated on in Roosevelt Hospital on Friday for an abscess in the lower jaw, is feeling much better. She will probably be able ito leave her room in the hospital in a few days. She was taken to the hospital on Thursday by Mrs Roosevelt. Colonel Roosevelt knew nothing of his daughters illness until he arrived in this city at 2 o'clock on Fri day He had planned to go directly to his home at Oyster Bay, but upon learning where his daughter was drove immedi- ately to the hospital. where he remained the greater part of thenight.
 Operation a Slight One.
 He went to Oyster Bay Saturday morning. but returned at night again and said that he and Mrs. Roosevelt ex- pected to remain at the hospital until Tuesday night Colonel Roosevelt said that the surgical operation on Miss Roosevelt's jaw was a very slight one. "The Vice President has arranged to T. Washington institute at Tuskegee, Ala. to attend the encampment of the National Guard of Illinois on August 20, the state fair at Minneapolis on Septem- Der 2, and the reunion of the Vermont veterans at Bennington, Vt.. on Septem- Der D."