The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-03
VULCAN DEFICIT
 AGAIN DISCUSSED  Commercial Club Takes Steps
 to Raise Money JACKSON SUGGESTS PLAN The Club Adopts Mir. Bowron's Minor fly Report Relative to the Price
 That Should se Paid for
 Casting Vulcan.
JACKSON SUGGESTS PLAN

Vulcan was the chief object of discus sion at the meeting of the Comme rciai club yesterday afternoon, and important steps were taken in regard to the Iron Man.
 President Jackson made a written re- port on the matter of raising the remain Ing s5o00 to pay for the making of the statue. bringing 1t back to Birmingham and setting it up in Capitol park.
 A committee of three, consisting of Major w. J. Miller, Escar Floyd and Ross c. Smith, was appointed to confer with the mayor and aldermen and the board of revenue relative to deciding on the place to locate the statue. and also about expenses of transportation and set ting the statue up when 1t arrives.
 Balance Due on Vulcan.
 The committee which was appointed to adjust the matter of paying the Birnf- ingham Steel and Iron company for the casting of Vulcan made two reports One was by the majority Fred M. Jack son and T. IT. Motion. ari 1t recom~ mended that the company be paid $7500 for casting Vulcan, instead of $10,071 asked by the company. It also stated that the company was willing to settle for about $S0O0. The minority report by James Bowron named $6s0O as fair and reasonable figure for settlement. In Mir. Bowrons opinion this would be just to both sides.
 
 After some discussion this last report was adopted and s6s00 was named as the clubs figures to form a basis of settle ment. The committee will make another effort to secure a settlement. If the committee fails it Is suggested that the matter be arbitrated. and that three prominent foundry men be asked to form the board of arbitration. the club to name one, the company another, and these two to select a third.
 Plan for Raising Money.
 MT. Jackson then submitted Q plan for raising the s5OO0 still necessary, which was adopted. It calls on the newspapers and industrial associations of the state to aid in raising the money, and with every S2 subscription statuette of Vul- can will be given free. The suggestions of MT. Jackson were as follows:
 s'The fund for the Alabama state ex- hibit at the St. Louis exposition lacks yet some s5OOO of the amount necessary to meet all the expenses. To make this exhibit with only $55OO from the public treasuries as a basis was a great, patriotic. and a praise-worthy undertake ing. The Commercial club undertook to raise the bulk of the fund from voluntary contributions with confidence on public fest cost of the exhibit was the building of Vulcan, which was very much more than the original estimate.
 "The, big iron man was built and the general exhibit completed and all put at St. Louis and is being maintained there from our local fund supplemented by small amount now being contributed each month by the state through Commission CT of Agriculture Poole. All expenses have been provided for and all the money raised except above amount that Is needed to pay the balance due the company who made Vulcan, to bring the statue back from St. Louis and erect 1t at some place in the city to be selected, where 1t will remain during the coming years as a perpetual testimony to the riches of the great district whose resources he was modelled and built to typify.
 IncalcuIable Benefit.
 "The final result of the exhibit at St. Louis from the point of advertising our district and state, is inealculable. The exhibit is @ credit to the state. It re- deems the state from the deplorable con- dition it would have been in had not the exhibit from Birmingham been made at this greatest of worlds fairs.
 There Is not a citizen in the state who has seen the exhibit at St. Louis with the towering form of Vulcan, but feels a just pride In the achievement wrought by the club. Every enterprising citizen of the state shares the benefits and his sense of appreciation should prompt him to make a contribution to the $500 now necessary to finish up the work. The Commercial ctnb therefore makes this appeal to the citizens of Bir- mngham and Alabama to contribute lib- erally to this fund in whatever amounts they may see fit.
 ''The subscriptions will be published as received and receipts promptly mailed. For every contribution of s2 CT over a statuette of Vulcan will be mailed to the contributor. We solicit the aid of every en- terprising newspaper in Alabama in mak- ing a success of this appeal
 "The aid and cooperation in this mat ter of the commercial organization of our sister cities of Mobile, Montgomery. Sel- ma, Anniston, Florence and Sheffield. will be cordially appreciated"
 The matter of an Alabama day at the exposition was mentioned, but no action was taken. and there will probably be no such day at the exposition.
 ITALIAN MISSION.