The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-17
CONFERENCE MEETS
 ON TUESDAY WEEK
Executive Secretary Murphy
 Gives Full Information
MANY VISITORS ARE COMING
Programme is About Completed for Seventh Annual Conference for Edu- cation in the South, Which Will be
 Held in Birmingham Shortly.

Edgar Gardner Murphy executive sec retary of the Southern Education Board, has gent out the following from New York. relative to the conference for edu- cation in the south which will be held in Birmingham the latter part of the month:
 Preparations are rapidly nearing com pletion for the seventh annual session of the conference for education in the south. This body met last year al Richmond, Va. It meets in Birmingham this year, l on the evening of Tuesday, April 26th, and continues in session through the evening of Thursday the 18th. All the meetings will be held in the Jefferson theatre A rate of one fare (plus 25c) for the round trip has been granted throughout the section covered by the Southeastern Passenger association.
 Those who expect to attend should inn mediately address Dr. J. H. Phillips, su- perintendent of schools, Birmingham, Ala. Private hospitality will be provid- ed so far as possible.
 Among the hotels at Birmingham are the following: Hotel Hillman, Hotel Morris, Metropolitan hotel, St. Nicholas hotel. Florence hotel and the Colonial hotel.
 Opening Session.
 At the opening session on the evening of Tuesday. the 26th, the conference will be called to order at o'clock The ad- dress of welcome will be delivered by the 1 Hon. T. G. Bush, of Birmingham on be- half of the mayor. the board of education and the reception committees The re- | e mill .a do hxr NIr Ipnbn Ogden of New York, who will then de- l liver his annual address as president of the conference. The evening will close with an address by the Rt Rev. C. B. 1 Galloway. bishop of the Methodist Epis- copa church in Mississippi. Bishop Gal l loway's subject will be The South and the Negro" This address was originally assigned to the evening of the 27th, but as the distinguished speaker feared he l could not attend on that evening" the change was made to the opening night The conference will again assemble in Jefferson theatre on the morning Of Wednesday, the 27th and at 10 o'clock will take up the general subject of Re ports from the Field" This will be one of the most interesting sessions. Author ltative speakers from many sections of the south will tell, in short. clear-cut ad- dresses. of the educational conditions with which they have been dealing. Among these speakers are the Hon. s. A. Mynders, state superintendent of ed- ncation of Tennessee; Lawton E. Evans, superintendent of schools, Augusta. Ga; the Hon. O. B. Martin state superin- tendent of education of South Carolina: 1 the Hon. l. w. Hill state superintend- ent of education of Alabama; the Hon. J. A Aswell, state superintendent elect for Louisiana: pr. Charles D. McIver, pres ident of the State Normal college North Carolina; Dr. II. B. Frssell. principal of Hampton Institute Hampton, Va. Dr. Charles W. Dabney president of the University of Tennessee: Dr. S. (. Mitch ell of Richmond college, Richmond Va; and Dr. Edwin A. Alderman. president of Tulane university. New Orleans, La
 On the afternoon of Wednesday, the members of the conference will be ac- corded a reception by the ladies of Blr- mingham.
 Second Days Programme.
 "Wednesday evening, at o'clock sharp, the conference wil be called to order again in Jefferson theatre. There will be an address on "'rhe Practical and the l Literary in National Life" by c. AL phonso Smith professor of English in | the University of North Carolina: an ad- dresss on "The Profit of Good Training | by Walter II. Page, editor of The | 1 Pages subject is the economic. practical value of education to the individual and to society. The evening will close with an address entitled "Americanism, by Woodrow Wilson, president of Princeton university Princeton, N. J.
 | On the morning of Thursday. the 18th, the conference will meet again in the Jefferson theatre vii meet again in the the discussions of the closing day The | nf will be that of Local Taxation for Pub lie Educaton." The discussion will be l opened by MT H. o. Murfee, of Marion, Ala. MT Murfee will be followed by the l Hon H. l.. Whitfield, state superintend- ent of education for Mississippi. Ad- dresses on the same general subject Will then be made by the Hon. w. B. Hill, chancellor of the University of Georgia; and by the Hon. sydney J. Bowie, mem | Der of congress from thee Fourth Ala bama district,
 l On the afternoon of Thursday there | will be brief session and a local eX- cursion to some of the iron furnaces and l other large industrial interests of the vicinity.
 | The conference closes with the meet l ing on Thursday evening" This session opens with an address by pr. John, Gra- ham Brooks, of Cambridge, Mass, on
 .The North and the South in the Con ference for Education" An address will follow from the Hon A. J. Montague governor of Virginia, and perhaps from l inc Hon. N. C. Blanchard. governor elect of Louisiana The closing address will then be delivered by the Rt. Rev. Davis Sessums LID, bishop Of Louisl- ana. Bishop Sessums' subject will be "Some Impressions of the Conference.
 President Ogden's Party.
 The president of the conference, Mir. Robert c. Ogden, of New York, will bring to the meeting special tram with Ia large and distinguished party of per sonal guests from the south and the north. This party in MT. Ogden's special train will visit number of educational Institutions in the tstate In addition to stons at Tuskegee and Calhoun, the par ty have accepted invitations to Nisit the State Normal college at Troy, inc oni- versity of Alabama at TUSCALOOSA. ana the Girls Industrial school at Mohte- vallo
 farence is as follows: B. B. Valentine, Virginia; Joseph G. Brown, North Caro- lima. Robert B. Fulton, Mississippi; E. ' Caldwell. Louisiana: John x. Knox, Alabama; C. R. Gibson. Georgia D. F. Houston, Texas R. II. Jesse' Missouri | q Glenn, Florida s. A, Mynders' Tennessee, N. H. Synder, South Caro- | lima.
 The general officers of the conference are. Robert C. ogden. president New York; Edgar Gardner Murphy. vice pres ident. Montgomery; Dr. B. J. Baldwin, secretary. Montgomery; w. A. Blair. treasurer, Winston-Salem. N C. |