The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-31

James Going. Mrs. Charles G. Brown,
Miss Annie Walker, Mrs. Robert H.
Pearson. Mrs. Virginia Ruffer and many
others. including many prominent MEM
bers of Pelham Chapter
Attends = Banquet.
The banquet rendered Gen. Lee last
night at the Hilman Hotel was one of
the most successful ever rendered any
guest of honor In Birmingham. About
100 were present, and after dinner lis
toned to the eloquent speeches of Gen.
Lee and a number of citizens
Ex-Gov. w. H. Sims made the speech
presenting Gen. Lee to the guests. His
subject was: Our Honored Guest and
the Name lie Bears" He referred to the
history OF the Lee family for the past
Ave hundred years and showed how they
had figured conspicuously In the history
of the mother country and then in the
colonies which they aided In making the
United States. He spoke of Gen Fitz-
hugh Lee as the focal point of all this
long line of men, as a man who was
born great. q man who had achieved
greatness and had greatness thrust upon
him, and deserving and living up to all
! of them.
Gen. Lee thanked Gov Sims for his
kind introduction and the guests for the
| long continued applause. a toast was
| proposed to him and drunk amid the
| shouts of the guests.
| Gen. Lee told several amusing Incidents
which had happened to him. The best
] was in regard to his name. He said re-
Gently man up in Washington called on
a man in New York and asked If Fitz
Hugh Lee was there. The New Yorker
I replied that he could not understand and
asked that the name be spelled The
asked If the New Yorker understood
that. 1t was o. X He then spelled
Hugh" and that was understood. Then
Lee was spelled out and the New
Yorker replied that he did not know the
man and never could understand those
| Chinese names.
Speaks of Birmingham.
Gen. Lee then spoke OF Birmingham as
the greatest iron, steel and mineral CEN
| ter Of the country, the place where the
| price of pig iron for the country was
| going to be set. He said he remembered
when the people of Birmingham made
| money with pig iron at Sc a ton and now
they are getting $16 for 1t at the fur
naces. He asked where the wealth of
this place would stop.
could iron ore coal and limestone be
found so close together, they going to
make pig iron, which In turn goes to
make Birmingham the Pittsburg of the
south.
Gen. Lee closed by thanking the Bir-
mingham people for the reception he had
received and speaking of Senator Nor
gan, OF Alabama, as the greatest man in
the Unit ed States in many ways. He
said:
Il am exceedingly glad to have met
you people. | shall go back to old Vir-
GINA and carry the warmest feeling for
Alabama with me- 1 appreciate your re-
ception of yesterday and shall tell my
people that If they wish to learn of iron
ore. iron. steel. coal and limestone to
| come to Birmingham"
He sat down amid great applause A
second toast to him was proposed and
| responded to-
Some Other Toasts.
Other toasts were as follows
The Blue and the Gray, Co-Workers
| for the Glory of the Republic ]. w. Bush.
Birmingham that Now Is, and that Is
| to Be, Major John w. Johnston.
Labor and Capital. Twin Pillars Of the
Arch Hon. F. 8. White.
/ The two armies at Appomattox. ]. Clvde
I Miller.
The Educated Mind and the Skilled
| Hand. ]. p Cunningham.
The American Editor His Opportunittes
| and His Responsibilities, Richard f. John
| ston.
The Evolution OF the Lawyer, A.
| Latady.
Judge James J. Banks acted as Toast
master.