The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-29
A. 7. 0. CONGRESS
WILL CLOSE TODAY
Chief Founder Otis Allen Glaze
brook Arrived Yesterday
HE WAS GREATLY HONORED
DR.. Glazebrook Makes an Address.
Robt. Bingham of Louisville Makes
the Congress Address-"My
Country, IT'S of Thee"

Today the twentieth biennial congress
OF the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity comes
to close. This afternoon the last bust
ness session will be held, and tonight, at
the conclusion of an informal dance at
the Country club, the congress will have
become a thing of the yesterdays
Today the biennial election of officers
will be held and place for the holding of
the next congress selected. 1t is very
probable that Worthy Grand Chief
Lyons will be reelected, inasmuch as
his term of office has been a short one,
no having been selected to succeed a
retiring worthy chief. OF the numerous
places which have entered bids for the
entertainment of the delegates to the
next congress, Washington and Pitts
burg are surging to the front. Last night
it was semi-officially stated that the
the favored city.
Chief Founder Arrives.
| Yesterday morning a telegram reached
Worthy Grand Chief Lyons to the effect
| that Dr. Otis Allan Glazebrook, the chief
founder of the fraternity, would arrive be-
fore the conclusion of the day. This
premise was fulfilled. when in the after
noon DIR. Glazebrook was met at the
Union station by a committee appointed
for the purpose. AS has been stated, the
attendance of the founder on the first
days session was made impossible on ac-
count of the death of his wife, which
sad event happened last Saturday in
Elizabeth, n. ].
DR.. Glazebrook was the person of honor
yesterday and on every corner was honor
done him. At the business sessions of
the fraternity he was seated upon the
right hand of the worthy grand chief,
and between the sessions he was the cen
ter of gatherings in the hotels, on the
streets, and everywhere. In spite of the
fact that the founder is now reaching ripe
old age, he still posses great love for
the national order of Greek letter college
men that he originated, and his attend
ance on the many congresses that have
been held since, has been the feature of
those gatherings.
DR.. Glazebrook Talks.
Concerning the founding of the A. T.
o. fraternity, DR.. Glazebrook talked free
| ly yesterday although the subject matter
of his discourse was already known by
the Alpha Taus. The founder spoke of
that September Immediately after the
conclusion of the war, when he was APP
preached as to the chances of founding
Greek letter fraternity at the Virginia
Military Institute. AS all Greeks know,
the war put an end to the fraternal life
among college men, and at first, DR..
Glazebrook did not look with hope on the
scheme. However, after serious consid-
GRAFTON, he drew up a constitution of an
| order which he thought would be suit
able to the college in which he then was
student, and afterwards, invited Erskine
Ross, and Alfred MARSHALL to his fathers
house in Richmond, where the matter was
gone over carefully between the three
| The three were all of one accord, and
or their returning to college the fratern-
ty was put upon its first legs. Several
other students were invited to member
ship, among the number being e. NJ. Tut
wiler, now the prominent steel and iron
promoter of birmingham.
DR.. Glazebrook and Judge Ross, now
of the supreme court bench of California,
are alone of the founders still living
Judge Ross was unable to attend the
congress in Birmingham.
The Banner Day.
Yesterday was the banner day of the
twentieth congress. The business session
in the morning, the public session in the
afternoon, and the reception at the Allen
school occupied the hours of the day.
The congress banquet was served last
night at the Hillman hotel, and 1t was
at a late hour that those attending sought
their couches.
Today the first session will begin
promptly at $3.50 o'clock and the second
will begin in the afternoon at 2;30 o'clock.
A nominating committee was appointed
yesterday and this committee will make
| its report this morning.
There will be an informal dance at
| the Country club this evening, to which
all the delegates and visitors are in
vited. 1t is expected that more than a
hundred couples will be on the floor when
the music is begun. After this dance,
| the congress Will NAVE TedCHcu It's emu.
Many of the delegates will leave for their
| homes this afternoon.
Most Successful Congress.
| It is tho opinion of the delegates that
| the twentieth congress OF the fraternity,
| this which comes to an end this evening,
| has been the most successful in the his
| tory of the organization. Everything has
gone through without the occurrence of
solitary hitch. The social programme
has been brilliant and successful In its
every department. Tho attendance on
the congress has been large and enthu-
sastic. The reports of the officers and
standing committee showed the fraternity
in excellent condition, and that during
| the last two years it has made rapid
progress, both as concerns growth and
| developments. The reports of the prov
ince chiefs showed the several provinces
enjoying a healthy growth, and the re-
ports from Individual chapters showed
there was not a single dead one in
the entire list.
As the fortieth birthday of the frater-
nitv was on the 18th day of last Septem-