The age-herald., 1901-09-04
LADY CLERKS AND TIE BR|CKLAYERS GET FIRST PLACE Judges of the Labor Day Pa rade Announce Their
 Decision THE FIRST PRIZE SPLIT Bricklayers Also Get Second Prize for Largest Number In Line, and the
 Horseshoers Come In
 for One.
THE FIRST PRIZE SPLIT

The judges of the Labor Day parade met yesterday and awarded the prizes for the union making the best display, the union having the largest number in line and the union having the largest per centage of It's total membership in line. The salesladies, the Bricklayers and the Horseshoers captured the prizes.
 The first prize of $50 for the best dis play was split between the Salesladies and bricklayers. the second price of $2O also going to the Bricklayers for having the most men in line and the third prize of $20 was awarded to the Horseshoers for in the parade.
 We'll Pleased With Day.
 Chairman White of the Trades Council committee on arrangements for Labor Day said yesterday that he was well pleased with the reception accorded the efforts of the organization. The only thing he had to regret was the trouble at the corner of Second avenue and Nineteenth Sli iCCt. I1o LildL lnOuodIuS LII PCOpiC were kept from the fair grounds on ac- count of this. He wanted 1t understood that the labor leaders regretted the dis turbance as much as any one else.
 There were more than 5000 men in line when the Labor Day parade moved from Capital Park on Monday. Many of the unions were not competing for prizes and large numbers dropped out before the reviewing stand was reached There were about 2600 union men exclusive of police and city officials when the procession passed the reviewing stand
 Committees Letter.
 The committee sent the following letter to Chairman White and Grand Marshal Williams announcing the award of prizes:
 Birmingham, Ala, Sept. B. 1901 Harry L. White, Chairman of the Birm-
 ingham Trades Council Labor Day
 Committee. and T. J. Williams, Grand
 Marshal Labor Day Parade:
 "Gentlemen-We the judges selected by you to award the prizes in connection with the Labor Day parade. have, en- deavored to discharge our task with a spirit of fairness and justice. The con- clusions herewith announced were not reached without careful consideration and much discussion.
 "The ingenuity and tact displayed complicated by the fact that nearly every union In line presented some feature which had to be taken into consideration; in fact, every organization is entitled to honorable mention.
 "The ingenuity and tact displayed by every local Is truly remarkable. It is evidenced that much care, thought ana money were expended in the displays which delighted the people of Birmingham yesterday The parade was in all re- spects the most remarkable demonstra- ton of strength and enthusiasm of or ganized labor which 1t has been our priv ilege to witness
 '-The judges regret that more prizes had not been placed at their disposal. If such had been the case they would have been able to make the awards with more equity.
 First Prize Divided.
 "As 1t Is, we have reached the decision after careful canvass of the merits or each organization to divide the prize of $50 for most creditable display, awarding S@ of 1t to the Salesladies' union and adding the other $25 of 1t to the prize of s20 offered for the union turning out the largest number of members The brick layers are entitled to the second prize, and really tied the Salesladies' union for first prize.
 The third prize of s20 to the union hay ing the largest percentage of member ship in line Is awarded to the Horsesho- CTS, who as reported to us, had their en- tire membership in the parade. While 1t Is true this Is a small union 1t Is equal ly true that 1t is the only one as we are advised by figures at hand which had all it's membership represented.
 Tn conclusion permit us to congratu- late the Trades Council on the magnifi- cent showing made by organized labor yesterday and to express the hope that the parade next year will excel yester- days, which was. as already said, the greatest demonstration ever made by or ganized labor in the South.
 .'Very respectfully,