The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-27
EDUCATION BOARD
CALLED TO MEET
SPECIAL SESSION THIS AFTER.
NOON WILL TAKE UP AGAlH
MATTER OF BIDS FOR NEW
SCHOOL BUILDING.

SGHQOE 6OlLQlNGs
Mayor Drennen, vice president Of the
board of education has called special
meeting of the board of education for this
afternoon at 4 o'clock In its rooms on the
fourth floor of tho city hall The object
or this meeting Is TO again take up the
matter of the bids recently received for
the construction of the new Birmingham
High school. When the bids were re-
ceived Saturday, thirteen were fled but
two, those of e. C. Bowman 4 Cos OF
Birmingham and j. C.Tetherow Of La
Grange, Ca, were found not to contain
the specified 500 certified check.
After the meeting had adjourned It was
announced that the stockmar Construc-
tion company of Birmingham had secured
the contract. Mr.. Bowman then went to
the office of Breeding & Whilden' the
architects, who drew the plans for the
new High school and announced that fhe
certified check was sent with the bid.
Upon a close search, a plain envelope
containing the check was found In the
desk of the architects.
The contractor then demanded that the
board reconsider the letting Of the con-
tract. 1t is understood that there was
difference of about $500 between the bid
OF Mr.. Bowman and the stocimar COM
pany, the latter being the highest.
The meeting of the school board this
afternoon promises to be interesting. It
is said that certain members OF the
board contend that neither the board
the architects nor the contractor were
to blame for the check being mislaid
and contend that the matter should be
reopened and Mr.. Bowman heard from.
Other board members, 1t is said think
that inasmuch as the board has acted,
that they should not reconsider their ac-
ton, as sufficient grounds for doing so
are not given.
Mayor Drennen will probably preside at
the meeting this afternoon as President
A. o. Lane has expressed the opinion
that his term of office as member of
the board, has expired, and that he
is therefore not eligible u act.
manity, the hand extended to help the
needy to alleviate the sorrows OF the
distressed give joys here and peace In
the hereafter. He, like the Salvation
Army, knew no creed but love. He was
welded to neither the Jew nor the gem
tile. the Roman nor the barbarian, but
to humanity. All were worthy of his
consideration and subjects of his ten
derest care.
Great Leaders In Religion.
There have been great leaders in re-
ligious thought in the worlds history
confucius, Buddah. Mahomet, Calvin,
Knox, Wesley and a host of others
whose wholesome influence has aided In
the elevation of man from the savage
to the more civilized being yet none of
these have Appropriated more closely
the unselfish, divine life of the Christ
than General Booth, the organizer OF the
Salvation Army, under whose auspices
we meet here this Christmas day.
His Greed.
His creed is as broad as the wants of
humanity, his love as boundless as the
habitable earth. Daniel Webster, In speak
ing of the power of England said: She
has dotted over the face of the whole
globe her possessions and her military
posts-her morning drumbeat following
the sun and keeping company with the
hours, encircle the earth with one con-
tinuous and unbroken strain of the mar
tial airs of England Yet the armies of
this nation are not so great, nor 80 far
reaching for good as Is the Salvation
Army under whose banners we sit today.
Their armies are marshaled not only In
the confines of England. but throughout
the length and breadth of the earth. In
over fifty countries and colonies, prin-
cipalities and kingdoms, wherever civ
ilization has planted her foot or found
habitation, there the flag of the Saliva
ton Army is ahoat her drum beat is
sounded and her war cry for the uplift-
ing of humanity and the betterment of
the human soul is heard.
Among the bravest, the most self-sac-
rifcing, the divinest lives that are being
lived today are those who are carrying
the banner, beating the drum and uttering
the warcry of the Salvation Army
throughout America and other lands.
They are giving their time and their
talents, their hearts and their souls with
out money and without price for the bet
terment of man.
Birmingham Police Court.
1.-THE police court of Birmingham sees
almost daily evidences Of the Salvation
Armys unselfish devotion to the helpless
and the forsaken, the distressed and the
suffering, the wicked and the hayward
In this great growing city. They are
doing a work that every preacher ap-
proves, every lover Of humanity endorses,
and every we'll wisher for the improve
ment Of social conditions in Birmingham
commends. The sympathetic glow Of the
Christ-love keeps them in close touch
with the distressed and the suffering. AL
WAYS on the alert with a helping hand
extended to want, they go upon the
streets, in the garrets and the attics. They
go down unto the very lives and hearts
Of distress and gloom throughout this city
with prayers upon their lips and love in
their hearts to cheer and to inspire. The
result Of their labors Is felt for good in
police circles, and give abundant evil
dences of the truth that in every human
being the divine life is latent, that 1t only
needs to be called into activity to dispel