The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-26
REAL ESTATE MEN
 OPPOSE ORDINANCE Thirty Dealers Condemn Pend ing Plumbing Legislation IT WOULD COST SlOO,O0O Alderman Barbour, Bombarded By Al. derman Heidt and Others, Comes
 Out With Flying coIors-A
 Breezy Meeting.
IT WOULD COST SlOO,OOO

Thirty real estate dealers and property owners in the Birmingham field got to- gether yesterday afternoon in the offices of the Birmingham Realty company, on First avenue, and recorded their protest against the plumbing ordinance now pending in the City Council.
 Incidentally they took a shy at Alder man Barbour, who introduced the ordl- nance.
 At one time in the meeting it looked as though the real estate men had come to- gether tomahawks in hand, to take the political scalp of the alderman from the Third ward The threatened decapitation of Alderman Barbour failed however, to be pulled off per schedule, and Mir Bar bour was. permitted to leave the meet Ing with his head politically intact.
 Millions of Property Represented.
 Promptly at o'clock the real estate dealers who to quote the words of one of them, are the guardians of property valued at millions and millions of dollars in Birmingham" began to arrive at the DlliilliSidin ntdlty COlnpdIy Ollitt. A. L. Fulenwider, the president of the com pany, greeted the guardians" with a pleasant smile and showed them back into the directors room, where the decapitat- ing and other business was to be trans acted.
 When the fatal moment arrived. the handsomely furnished room in the rear of t toJ a hat ap1u a dramatist of high order could accurately describe At the head of the long table sat T. H. Motion of T. H. Motion & Co.,, the president of the Real Estate Dealers association. There was blood in MT. Mol tons eyes as he surveyed the scene be- fore him. His face was what the novelists call white to the lips, and his hands, to quote again from the yellow backs" "convulsively clutched' the arms of his chair. Behind him stood MT. Fulenwider with a straight flush smile Illuminating his mobile countenance. What he'd do to Barbour before the meeting was over would be a-plenty," was written in every line of Fulenwider's face. At his left stood young Beatty of the Birmingham Realty, with a quiet, cautious, Man-Fridays de- meanor. At his elbow was young Bob Jemison, who stuck his hands In his pockets and looked out con- templatively from under his clearly marked eyebrows giving sort of Sun day school touch to the picture. F. B. Fowlkes of Brown Bros X Co., was there also, as a disinterested onlooker. Across the room sat w. c. Oliver, grand, gloomy and peculiar" Nearby were Bal tlmore" Smith, who seemed to hold an ace up his sleeve; S. w. Sayton alert and intent on w.iat was going on; W. B. Leedy kindly and benevolent; N. II. Sewall frowning and smiling at the same time, and M F. Messer, who seemed to feel that something ought to be done, but he didn't know exactly what it should be.
 Barbour Appears.
 While the gentlemen were seated, in walked Alderman Barbour at 4:O7 o'clock, looking like a certified check and ready to be sent to the pilory or the block. Be- hind Barbour came Alderman IIeidt, walk ing as though he was stepping on egg shells Alderman John c. Forneys head 
 he was more interested in seeing than in being seen by those who were present. George B. Ward, the mGyor'elect, came into the room unnoticed and took a seat in an obscure corner. He was little late having gone around five blocks, 1t was explained, to dodge newspaper men and aldermen in fear that they would ask i, 1,~ oba of committees when he enters office.
 Fireworks Started.
 T. IT. Motion started the fireworks off at 4:1O. All the trades ard professions of the city had organized for self-interest. he said, and the real estate men must needs wake up and get together and stick to- gether if they expected to keep up with the procession. If they failed to unite they'd go to the demnition bowwows, and be made monkeys of by the other local trusts"
 Then Mr. Motion lit into the plumbing ordinance and into Alderman Barbour who had introduced it. The ordinance, said MT Motion, had been severely condemned by a great many persons-in fact, no ordl- nance in the history of the city had awakened opposition so universal.
 At this point Mir Motion caught his breath long enough to suggest that James Bailey be elected secretary.
 MT Bailey had no sooner drawn out his pencil, than MT. Oliver, red in the face and with trembling lips, got the floor. He held in his hand some typewriter pages