The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-05-09
NEW PLAN FOR THE
ALABAMA EXHIBIT
Najor Anderson Makes Sug-
gestion to Commercial Club
IMPORT MEETING HELD
Movement for Greater Birmingham
VIII Be Pushed-officers for the
Coming Year Were Nominated.
Club May Go North.


At a meeting Of the Commercial club
held yesterday afternoon a report was
made by the committee on Greater Bir-
mingham; Maj. F. Y Anderson proposed
a unique plan for an exhibit at the st.
Louis exposition, a committee was APP
pointed to arrange for visit of the club
to some of the northern cities and officers
and directors of the club for the COM
Ing year were nominated.
The committee appointed at a previous
meeting to report on the best means of
advancing the Greater Birmingham
movement recommended that the mem
bership of the committee be increased to
fifteen, and that the mayor be requested
to appoint a committee from the board of
aldermen to work in conjunction with
that from the Board of Trade and the
Commercial club.
The chairman, Joseph Betman, stated
that it was the sense of the committee to
leave nothing undone until Greater Bir-
minghan should have become reality.
The report of the committee was ac-
fifteen. The members now are: b. F.
Roden, Fred M. Jackson. B. Steiner,
Robert Jemison. Maj. F. Y Anderson,
Alex. T. London, R. N. Rhodes T. H.
Motion, e. w. Barrett, j. H. T. Mosley,
James J. Smith, M. ". Joseph. A. L.
Fulenwider, Sterling A. Wood and Joseph
Beitman.
! A request was made that Mayor Dren-
men appoint each member of the board Of
aldermen as members Of the committee
from the city council and the mayor
who was present, arose and stated that
he would take pleasure in doing so.
The Cincinnati Visitors.
Secretary J. B. Gibson made a report
to the club on behalf of the committee
which looked after the entertainment of
the recent Cincinnati visitors and said
that many of them stated that they had
had better time in Birmingham than in
any other city they visited. A resolution
adopted by the Cincinnati Commercial
club was read inviting the Birmingham
club to be their guests at any time in Gin
cinnati.
1t was then stated by President Roden
that since 1t was the custom of the clubs
of so many northern cities to take an
annual trip that the Birmingham Com
mercial club should also arrange for
something of the kind. This brought the
question up for discussion and upon mo-
ton, the president appointed the whole
club as committee to look after the
matter.
st. Louis Exhibit.
After the reading of a communication
to the club from J. A. Holmes chief of
the mines department at the ST. Louis
| exposition, in regard to an Alabama ex-
hibit, Major F. Y. Anderson made an i'm
portant suggestion in reference to an
Alabama exhibit for this state. He said
he was opposed to the usual method of
piling up some iron and coal and grain as
representative of the states resources,
because every other state did that and
people became tired of looking at such
exhibits. He said his idea was to get
something notwithstanding that would
convey the idea of the close proximity
Of coal and iron and limestone in this
district, and something that would show
why we can manufacture a ton of pig
iron more cheaply than any other district.
Major Andersons proposition was to
have, an immense map in relief made of
the state which would show the elevation
Of every section, and show the location
or iron. coal, limestone, forests and in
short, everything pertaining to the topo-
graphy of the state.
He asked the secretary to read the
following letter from the state geologist:
State biologists Letter.
Mr.. +. Y. Anderson, Birmingham, Ala.
Dear Sir:-Your letter of May has
been received. / have some parties COM
ing to Tuscaloosa to see me on the sth
so that 1t will be out of the question for
me to go to Birmingham on that day.
/ write, therefore, to say that l heartily
endorse the proposition to make some
creditable exposition of Alabama's re-
sources at the ST. Louis fair. Inasmuch |
as the state is not likely to appropriate |
a sufficient amount, II is much to be
hoped that private parties or corporations |
should contribute. Your suggestion as
to a relief map of the state is | think, |
a first-rate one, and If 1t could be carried |
out would attract great deal of atten-
ton to the state.
have noticed at other expositions that |
these maps are very much visited and |
closely examined. Mr.. Howells sugges-
ton of special maps Of limited areas is
also a very good one, because these spe-
cial maps can be made on a much larger
scale, and will therefore show things in
great detail. which would not be possible
on a map of the state unless that were
of such size as to make it unwieldy Mr..
Howell proposes model, or relief map,
about IA by S1s feet, the cost of which
would be about $4,000. From this many
duplicates could be made at a cost of $3.50
to 1915 each
1t is possible, therefore, that some Of
the original cost of the map might be
recnvered hv selling some of the dunli-