The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-09
BALL COMMITTEES HAVE BEEN NAMED Meeting of General Committee was Held Last Night WIli USE SKATING RINK Capacity Is Greater Than Any Other Place In the city-System to Be
 Used In Issuing In-
 vtations.

At meeting of the general committee in charge of the grand Home Coming ball the plans were discussed at meeting held last night at the Florence hotel and sub-committees were appointed to have charge of the arrangements.
 The committee decided to hold the ball at the skating auditorium on Avenue r and Twenty-fourth street. The doors will be opened at 9 o'clock and the grand march will commence at 10 o'clock. In the neighborhood of 5000 invitations will be issued and it is estimated that the skating rink will accommodate that num- Der.
 The skating rink was chosen because the arena will accommodate 300 couples at least, which is three times the number that any other hall in the city will ac- commodate. Beside the great floor space the seats will accommodate 400O people, making total possible attendance of something like 5000
 The rink will be beautifully decorated, and the committee plans to serve lemon- ade or some light drink. The committee adopted a plan for issuing the invitations. The chairmen of each county delegation, men who have already been appointed, will be requested to furnish lists of people from their county who will probably at tend the fair and the ball. After this list is received the invitations will be dis. tributed.
 Local Invitations.
 Local invitations will be issued through committee of which Ben Reynolds is chairman. Each member of the general committee is requested to furnish him the names of people to be invited. These lists will be checked over to see that no in- vitations are duplicated and the person making out the list will be handed the number of invitations his list calls for He will fill in the name of the person to use each invitation and mail 1t to that person. No one will be admitted to the ball without an invitation.
 General chairman Yeatman has request ed that all these lists be furnished by the end of this week, but the lists will be kept open to the last minute.
 Special cars will be Tn waiting at the fair grounds to carry the people attending the horse show on the night of October 19 from the grounds to the skating rink for the ball. These cars will be operated through from the grounds to the rink.
 Manager Whiting of the skating rink has stated that he would be able to wash, clean and wax the floor of the rink Fri day morning and afternoon, promising that the floor will be as clean as any ball room floor.
 The Committees.
 At the meeting last night John T. Yeat- man acted as chairman. and the follow ing committees were named by him after they were provided for by motion which was carried:
 Executive Commttee-John T. Yeat- man, chairman: Hill Ferguson. Lee Tilgh- man, Otto Marx, J. A. Emery, Carl Scales, Burks Savage, Sabel I.oventhal and Hugo Friedman.
 Floor Committee-Hill Ferguson. Jack Asbury, Bret Brown, Hugo Marx, Lee Tilghman, R. l.. Gregory, R. A. Brown, J. J. Smith, Hubert Drennen and D. B. Crawford.
  ders. w. A. Porter, w. R. Brown, E. w. Barrett. Porter Walker. Walter Phillips, w. w. Crawford. H. s. Badham, w. P. G. Harding, Culpepper Exum, John l.. Kaul, M. V. Joseph, Walker Percy, John L. Parker, Solon Jacobs, E. D. Smith, Harry Matthews, H. B. Gray, T. o. Smith, F. Y. Anderson, F. B. Fowlkes, R. N. Rhodes, Robert Jemson, w. H. Kettig T. H. Motion, J. w. Mcqueen, Eli P. Smith, Frank Nelson, Jr., R. F. Johnston, James Weatherly, c. w. Ufford. E. Wilkinson, Fred Dmmck, Eugene Brown. Ross c. Smith, A. w. Nelson, T. Tomlnson, Hubert Drennen, Mel Dren- nen, George B. Ward, Robert Brown. Leo Loeb, Erskine Ramsay E. B. Crawford. Eugene Fies, Robert Jemison, F., Lee Tilghman.
 Invitation Committee-Ben Reynolds chairman; Lee Tilghman, Jacob Asbury. F. B. Crawford, R. L. Gregory, R. G. Hiden, Herbert Levy, Frank H. Bell, Hor- ace Hammond Chase Perkins, J. G. Arm strong, J. NJ. Barnett, Romaine Boyd, Gen. L. V. Clark. Carl Scales. Dr. Paul Cooke, J. F.. Donelson, Herbert Tutwier. w. l.. Steele, Jesse Yeates, J. A. Clifford, C. c. Terry, P. H. Earle, G. C. Engstfeld, Henry Going, J. w. Hughes. Jr. Houston Davis, Hugo Marx, R. N. Rhodes, Theo Koenig, T. R. Fulton, Porter Walker, Lucien Brown, A. c. Birch, J. A. Nor man, Leon W. Friendman. Dr. T. A. Lup- ton, W. H. Manly. Erslin Ramsay. Leo Loeb, J. B. Babb, Culpepper Exum, Ted Joy, Frank Jones, Dr. c. w. Shropshire. P. A. Savage. Eugene Fies, Harry Mat thews.
 Committee on Decorations-Joseph Love- man, chairman; w. B. Savage, B. J. Saunders, Gen. l.. " Clark, Hugo Marx and John l.. Parker.