The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-08


 lionaires. Our broad streets. paves
 with the best material, something not
 yet invented but sure to come, and roads just good throughout the
 county will give our able mayor tho
 chance to speed his machine beyond the
 danger of arrest by the rural police
 who will then gaurd all our country
 side.
 Our present newspapers. great as
 they are, The Age Herald, the Ledger
 and the Birmingham News, will eclipse
 In magnitude what the Ladies' Home
 Journal claims to have. I see the Bir-
 mingham News in 2O-story building
 of its own, holding the attention of the world with a circulation of 1,203,000, and fully 5000 of these paid In advance
 by ardent young men in order that some
 fair maiden may win an automobile br a diamond ring. The proportions of
 this great paper will then be in keep
 ing with the physical attractivenes,
 of the genial and rotund toast master of this occasion. I see the Atlantf 4. Birmingham and Atlantic with fosi' tracks from Birmin gham to the sea
 and the agents and officers of this great system will grow in proportion
 Its able attorney will then be a 1S companionpiece to our toastmaster. and will no longer be known as the little
 but great MT. Bradley 2 Language fails me further than that to give you an idea of the swelling pro- portions of my dream. But coming down from the clouds to the sweet re- alities of this occasion, the best thing about 1t all is the, friendships we are forming with our neighbors whom we have invited here, and who will now come to love us and to know with us that Great Is Birmingham and The News is it's proph et"
 Roanoke's Mayor. Mayor John P. Hefiin of Roanoke was introduced as one of two citizens. the other. w. A. Handley, than whom the little city could have no better representa- tives.
 He said that the prime object of tho road was to connect Roanoke with Bir- mingham. With considerable humor, he described the spirit existing between the two cities. He told of the various kinds of people in his county, saying that Alex Bonnyman, in passing through locating the road, saw an old gray-headed man sitting on a log crying. What's the matter?' he asked. My father whipped
 me-" was the reply. To the question,
 What did he whip you for?" the old man replied: Because I sassed my grand father" He told of the efforts of Roan-
 oke to get the right of way for, the road,
 and closed with an appeal to alNAlabama
 to join in the struggle for upbuilding the south.
 R. W. Ewing, president of the Board of Trade, the next speaker, MT. Rhodes de- clared to be an example of the fruit of a
 young life of activity. MT. Ewing said: Mir. Ewing Speaks.
 MT. Toastmaster, Gentlemen of the A.,
 B. & A. and Our Neighbors of East Ala bama.
 "As president of the Board of Trade, representing the retail merchants of Bir-
 mingham, will add to the welcome which
 has already been extended you most
 cordial welcome to our city. We are
 glad that the entrance of the splendid
 Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic system
 at this time has made this welcome and celebration possible.
 We are especially pleased to be able to extend the glad hand to the officials of
 the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic
 railroad, because 1t is primarily a south CONTINUED ON PAGE 4.)