The age-herald., 1902-02-03
Mayor Drennen Will Call a Meeting for the Latter
 Part of Week
GENERAL MANAGER LATER
Executive Committee Will Start Out With Confidence and Enthusias. tic Determination to to Make
 Exhibition Great Success

Mayor W. M. Drennen, vice president of the State Fair Association and chair man of it's executive committee. will call a meeting of the committee the latter part of the week. He would have called a meeting for Tuesday but he expects to be absent from the city on that day.
 "A fair will be held this fall" said the Mayor yesterday. That much is a cer- tainty. The executive committee is com posed of live business men. Several of the members have had no little experi- ence in managing fairs. and their ex- perience will be valuable When we hold our first meeting I will have number of plans to submit that I think will be worth considering but I will not say anything about the nature of these plans until they have been submitted.
 1T feel that we are going about the work of getting up fair this time with more confidence and enthusiasm than ever before. We will need only about $750O and that amount can easily be rais- ed. Few investments pay the merchants of Birmingham in the long run better than contributing to the state fair. The fairs held heretofore have brought crowds to the city and as the exhibition next fall is to surprise in variety and ex- tent anything of the kind ever attempted in Alabama we can count on a much big ger attendance than in past years.
 l. ltxrf6 6Ad and each subcommittee will look after par ticular details. In this way we can get good results We mean to get right down to work
 Asked if the committee would at its first meeting select a general manager, Mayor Drennen said the selection could hardly be made as early as that. He said that out of the whole number of men who were being recommended for the position there should be no doubt about getting first class general manager.
 It is understood that the general man. ager will be required to direct his ener- gies during the spring and summer chief ly to canvassing the state for exhibits. He will be expected to go from county to county and see the farmers In per son. In this way 1t is believed that ex- hibits of the agricultural products Of Alabama can be assembled which will open the eyes of everybody who attends the fair to the variety and extent or the states farming interests.
 Attention will also be paid to the min eral, manufacturing and timber interests of Alabama. The railroad companies will be quick to aid the fair, not only in the way of reduced rates of transportation, but in making special exhibits of the re- sources along their respective lines.
 The number composing the executive committee was increased from five, called for by MT. E. Lessers motion. to eight, after the Mayor had conferred with MT. Lesser. The Mayor said there were as many as eight energetic, useful men who had more or less experience in work re- ouiring organization, who were willing to serve on the committee, and he felt that he needed every one of them. The com mittee is constituted as follows: w. M Drennen, E. Lesser, Oliver Chalifoux, John w. O'Neill, Robert Jemison, M. ". Joseph, Thomas s. Pounds and c. D. Me- glemry.