The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-11
BOARD OF TRADE HOLDS 4 SESSION J. E. Shelby the New PreSi- dent in Charge HIS INAUGURAL ADDRESS
  Points Out Some of the Things That Should Be Done-Discusses Mall Order Business-Labor Day
 Celebration.
HIS INAUGURAL ADDRESS

DtSlhSS ldhiti6 up otN ti al uldNAtAo bA Ali- portance, the Board of Trade at meeting held in the First National Bank building yesterday afternoon at 1 O clock installed it's new president, J. E. Shelby. elected several weeks ago, to succeed John l.. Parker, whose term in that office has expired. In the absence of Mir. Parker on account of illness. Mir Shelby presld- ed throughout the session and at the close thanked the board in an appropriate speech for the honor conferred upon him.
 A committee from the Trades Council In behalf of Labor Day, was present at the meeting. It was composed of c. c. Houston, chairman, L. K. Scherry, secre- tary and II. c. West.
 Coleman Blach, chairman of the com mittee appointed to interview the mer- chants in regard to the most desirable date for moving day made the follow Ing motion which was carried:
 Whereas, April will cause more incon- venience to merchants as a moving day than October l. be it resolved that Octo- Der 1 is preferable to April 1 and that, therefore. all business leases be left as they now are.
 Labor Day.
 L. K. Scherry, secretary of the Labor Day committee of the Trades Council, then spoke. At our last meeting," he said, i've decided to go before the Board of Trade and the Commercial club and get them to assist us in raising funds to have an elaborate programme for Labor Day. September 3. With the ex- eeption of the last two or three years this has been customary. We are going to celebrate at East Lake with a barbe- cue, games of all descriptions, with prizes to contestants and also offer a prize of $4yO to the organization making the best appearance in the parade. There will be numerous prizes for athletic contestants. We are now in communication with c. P. Neill and Samuel Gompers with ref erence to their being with us. One or the other we feel sure will come. We ask you to appoint a committee to act in conjunction with us in raising funds for that day. The programme as now planned will cost $70O
 ''rhe Birmingham Railway, Light and Power company have already contributed $l5O We expect to make the celebration this year the most elaborate of any Labor Day yet enjoyed in the Birmingham dis trict. We have secured from the railroads rates within a radius of hundred miles of one fare for the round trip.''
 John w. O'Neill moved that the board nd committee to assist the Trades Council in raising the necessary funds naming Secretary Roy Mccullough and Ben r. Barbour as the committee, which carried.
 Legislative Candidates. J. D. Collins presented the motion that the legislative committee take up mat ters of commercial interest and ascertain how different candidates for the legis- | 1ature stood on questions affecting the merchants.
 It was resolved that the board endorse the home coming movement and instruct | the president and secretary to request the governor to issue proclamation in favor of the Alabama home coming at Blrming- ham.
 J. w. O'Neill as chairman of the Je- rome entertainment committee, reported that the Country club had been engaged i for the banquet to be given on July 20. ] He stated that 300 invitations had been | sent out and that a number of promi- nent men had been asked to respond to | toasts, whose names as soon as they were heard from would be published. President sheby's Address. President Shelby then made an ad- dress:
 "Gentlemen of the Birmingham Board of Trade: l can but express in A feeble way my superlat1ve gratitude for the l honor you have seen fit to bestow upon me in making me the president of your l ing to me as 1t did, unsolicited, and so unexpected, makes 1t doubly an appre- ciated honor, so much so, that am unable to find words adequate for expression
 Tn assuming the office, am conscious of the responsibilities accompanying it, and while to my mind, you have men among your membership who are doubt less more competent, I promise you to conscientiously and fearlessly champion any measure coming before the board of trade during my administration, which Is intended for the good of the organiza- tion and the public generally. My prede- | eessor has made us a. most excellent off, cer, and my wish is. that mine will be as successful an administration as was his We have before LIS many matters of importance which should. and doubtless | rcf ttI I