The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09
CLUB WILL HOLD
ANNUAL MEETING
PRESIDENT MOTION AND sEcRE-
TARY BABB WILL MAKE AN.
NUAL REPORTS AT MEETING OF
CLUB TUESDAY NIGHT.

The annual meeting and smoker of the
Commercial club will be held Tuesday
night in the club rooms. Robert Jemlson,
Jr,, the president elect, will be installed,
and retiring President T. H. Motion will
read his report for the past year.
1t is expected that at this meeting Mr..
Jemison will outline his plans for the en-
suing twelve months.
Secretary Babb has almost finished his
annual report, which will be one of the
most interesting ever made by the secre-
tary of the club. 1t will show great devel-
opment in the Birmingham district during
the past twelve months.
It Is doubtful IL Mr.. Jemson will an
nounce his committees at the meeting
Tuesday night. The other officers of the
club chosen at the annual election were
as follows
Vice presidents, j. w. Mcqueen, Frank
Nelson, r. M. Goodall, Culpepper Exum
w. w. Crawford, George Griffin, T. o.
Smith, F. M. Jackson, James Bowron. w.
p. G.. Harding, w II. Kettig. Otto Marx.
Directors. Sterling A. Wood, Robert
Jemison, T. II. Motion. r. w. Dixon. j.
8. Gibson, NJ. V. Joseph, Rufus N.
Rhodes, F. Y. Anderson, T. G. Bush.
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of the state association, and on the right
B. B. Conner, candidate for governor of
Alabama Many delegates from all parts
of the state were present. The speeches
were as happy as they were numerous.
While there was faint touch of business
discussion such as rates and the like, the
air which characterized the occasion was
anything but fraught with heaviness. By
all 1t was agreed that the banquet was a
fitting finish to the two enjoyable days
spent In Birmingham.
Captain Smith, after a few appropriate
remarks called upon Mr.. Glennon, who
said: Probably some of you know in
days past L was an auctioneer. I used to
sell furniture. II was my custom to start
in the kitchen, keeping the best things for
the last, which l think is the way of our
POSTMASTER. For this reason he puts me
up first. / am very glad to meet the fire
insurance agents of Alabama. It Is pleas
ant not only from a social but from a bus
mess point of view. ! have met men I
should never have met otherwise and I
am extremely glad that / came, I am
not going to make long talk because
] know there are plenty of long talks be-
hind
Mr.. Conner followed. He said in part:
~ hereby appoint every one Of you to
underwrite me in my campaign for gov
ernor. Captain Smith has Just said that
some of you would be glad to see me
elected move we make II unanimous
He then said in a more serious vein that
the fire agents should stand by the farmer
and see that he got his full dues-strilke
hands with him. Chief OF Police Wier
was next called upon but was absent. J..
b. Babb, secretary of the Commercial
club, spohe as follows:
Talked of Birmingham.
"There is a difference between fire and
life insurance One is an underwater and
the other Is an overtalker. When I re-
ceived the invitation for tonight they
warned me against being long winded, so
I shall talk brifly about Birmingham.
''The only criticism l have to make is
that we don't talk enough about Birming-
ham wish every citizen were an
oratorical smoke stack or like one of our
furnaces lighting up the very heavens
with flames OF praise. We have the big
eest furnace in Dixie, the biggest coal
mine nesting near by. the biggest iron
statue and the biggest dispute In the
world. We have the tallest skyscraper In
Alabama, next to the tallest In the south.
Some say we have the tallest liars. We
practically fix the price of steel. hav-
ing the unprecedented privilege of charg-
ing 81 a ton more than Pittsburg. We are
young in years but mighty in achieve
ment. We have been fed upon giants
food If were limited to the use of one
descriptive adjectivel would say gen
erous' Birmingham. When dream of the
future I see her population overfiowing
Red mountain into Shades valley
Chief Of the Fire Department Bennett
was the next speaker. He told of the
many improvements In his department.
His talk was pronounced eminently APP
propriate and able, and he was roundly
applauded.
Resolution of Thanks.
Other speakers of the evening were Ed
ward K Mcdowell, f. r. McDavid In
surance commissioner; c. w. Austin, John
e. Morris, Joe Raine, George Adams,
Mr.. Reynolds and George A. Thomas.
The following resolution Of thanks was
then read:
.9The Alabama Fire Underwriters Asso-
cation:
your committee on resolutions begs to
make. the following report:
Resolved, by the Alabama Fire Under
WRITER'S association that vote of thanks