The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-12
.LEWISBURG STEEL PLANT
is ALSO TO Be BUILT
Plans Contemplate Expenditure of
$4,000, 900 at Gate city-R. H. Ed
monds Makes Striking Speech
on Brmingham's Future.


company, announced that a locomotive
plant will be built in the Birmingham
district, to cost several hundred thousand
dollars, which will employ about 25o0
skilled laborers.
Mr.. Hoadley also announced that he had
just recommended to the board of direc-
tors of the Alabama Consolidated Coal
and Iron company that a steel plant to
cost a million and a half dollars be built
at Lewisburg. The announcements were
received with great enthusiasm by the
large number of representative business
men present at the meeting.
a Meeting Called to Order.
The meeting of the Commercial club
yesterday afternoon was the most en-
thusastic and best attended that has
ever been held by the organization.
The features of the meeting were the
address of Mr.. Hoadley, a ringing speech
full of great predictions for the future of
the Birmingham district by r. H. Ed
monds, editor Of the Manufacturers Re-
cord of Baltimore, and the election of one
hundred and twenty new members t.
the club.
The meeting was called to order at A
o'clock by President Robert Jemison, Jr.,
and on account of large amount of bus
mess before the body the reading of tho
minutes of the last meeting and the
calling of the roll was dispensed with.
The president made a brief report for
the past month, in which he stated that
the club had been so busy doing things
that he had had no time to prepare a
detailed report. He referred to the sue
cess of the club in securing the location
of the new sub-terasury, the work that is
being done in the preparation for the
entertainment of the delegates and visi-
tors to the cotton convention and several
other matters of large importance that
have been handled by the organization
through it's regular and special commit
tees.
Chairman Ferguson Reports.
Hill Ferguson, chairman of the member
ship committee reported on the work of
his committee In securing new members
for the club. He reported that Thurs
day, January 10, had been set apart as a
field day. and that special commit
tee of fifty had been appointed to make
canvass of the city for applications for
membership. He stated that only seven
members of the committee had reported
for duty, but that 12O applications had
been secured, and expressed his opinion
that had the full committee done its duty
the result would have been much better.
On motion of ]. C. Gibson the member
ship committee was voted the thanks of
the Commercial club for the good work
1t had accomplished in increasing the
membership.
Chairman E. ]. Smyer of the Greater
Birmingham committee reported that the
bill that had been prepared by the COM
mttee had already been introduced in the
legislature and that he had every reason
to believe that it would be taken care
of by the representatives from Jeffer-
son county
Chairman T. G. Bush of the special
committee on chronological school, made
a report in which he stated that while
nothing definite had been accomplished,
the committee had made a careful inves-
ugation into the plans and workings of
similar institutions to the one proposed
Tor Birmingham and would have some-
thing definite to report at a later date.
colonel Bush stressed the Importance of
| technoiogical school in the Birming-
ham district where skilled mechanics are
ing great demand by the industrial plants.
Mr.. Harding Reports.
W. T. u. Harding of the campaign COM
mittee having in charge of matter of Sc
curing the location of the new sub-treas-
ury at birmingham made an exhaustiv
report of the work that had been accom-
pllshed in this enterprise. He reviewed
the work of the two delegations that had
been sent to Washington in the interest
of Birmingham and the success that had
been achieved in the congressional eau
Gus when the Georgia delegation bolted
and Birmingham was selected by unani-
nous vote of the remaining members.
Mr.. Harding reviewed some of the mis-
statements or mschievous half truths
that had been promulgated before the
ways and means committee of the House
by the Atlanta delegation against Rir-
mingham in an effort to defeat the choice
| Of the congressional caucus.
Mr.. Harding said that two great suc
cesses had been achieved in the effort To
secure the sub-treasury, even though the
Institution is never established In Birming-
ham or the south. though he expressed
himself as confident that Birmingham
would get the sub-treasury. He said that
| the first great good Is the immense
amount of advertising that has been Sc
cured for the Birmingham district. The
second Nnefit is the impression the fight
has made -. the people of Birmingham as
to the great need for cooperation.
| by cooperation we can secure many
other large enterprises for this city, even
| though we are In competition against
much stronger opponents than Atlanta, .
said Mr.. Harding. THE fight for the
location of the sub-treasury has been a
hard one, though 1t Is not yet over I feetl
that we have won the most important
victory and final success, in my opin-
| ion, sure"
Mr.. Harding's speech was enthusia site
and was warmly applauded by those pres
! ent.
! Mr.. HoadIey Talks.
President Robert Jemison, Jr., intro
duced Joseph II. Hoadley of New York,
who was present.
| When he arose to speak Mr.. Hoad1ey
| was loudly applauded He said in part:
| 81 am proud OF lhis opportunity to meet
| with the representative business men of
| the Birmingham district. / am glad to
note the enthusiasm of your commercial
organization. | have long had a great
interest in the Development of the Bir-
mingham district, and must say that
though 1 have for some time had some