The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-07
BOOK WILL BOOST
 HOME PRODUCTS
DATE HAS BEEN ASSEMBLED SHOWING EVERY ARTICLE MAN. UFACTURED IN BlRMIN CHAM DlSTRICT-NoW IN HANDS OF PRINTER.

"The Directory of Manufacturers and
 Buyers Guide" containing a list of all
 the products manufactured in the Bir-
 nlngham district, which the Manufac- turers' association some time ago appoint C c a committee to compile, Is now prac- tically completed. Tho committee who had this work in charge was composed of Lotus Conn, Joseph s. Babb and R. w.. Ewing
 The work of compiling this information has been an arduous one, as there were very few lights for the committee to go by, as nothing just like this book has ever been attempted in this district before. In deed, the residents of the state and of this
 district especially. will be surprised at
 the number of factories, small and large,
 which are located in the Birmingham dis trict and the great variety of items which are manufactured. Owing to the fact that most of these manufactur- CTS do not supply the trade di- rect themselves, but through agents or
 merchants the people generally do not know where the goods are manufac- tured. It is claimed the citizens of Jefferson county are loyal crowd of peo-
 pie and would readily give the preference
 TO home manufactured products if they knew where to find the goods and know positively just what was manufactured
 In this district This Directory of Man rfacturers" will give this information
 completely and accurately.
 Messrs Cohn, Babb and Ewing have been ably assisted in the compilation Of the valuable information contained in the directory by Dr. w. B. Phillips, MT. George W. Hayes, MT. Thomas Ellis and | others.
 The book is being published by the Manufacturers association and is being paid for by the advertisements of the | wholesale merchants and manufacturers, and by the sale of the books to those ad- vertisers If there is any surplus after | the publication of the books has been paid | for, which it is hoped there will be, this
 surplus will be used in pushing the work l and in booming the manufactured prod l ucts of the Birmingham district and in boosting Birmingham as a trading cen | ter.
 1 The advertisers are giving the book cir 1 culation b.. buying at a price fixed by the I Manufacturers assoclation, several thou sand each of the books and distributing them through their salesmen and through 1 the mails, locally and through the adja-
 cent territory, which will give the books
 more complete and wider circulation than could be obtained in any other way. Every manufacturer of the Birmingham district, l lo 1,o ,,ar of a ManIIfaH H- turers association or not. is represented l II the list of manufactured products. anu
 every one will be sent a copy of the book. l A minimum issue of 100000 of the direc- | tories has been ordered, and it is expected
 that all of the copy will be in the hands
 ct Roberts & Son, the printers, by Mon-
 day. and the publication will be pushed to completion and issued some tune during
 this month.
 r.aking known the products which arc
 manufactured in this district is certain to
 be commended, when issued, and if the l Birmingham Manufacturers association
 accomplishes nothing more than the issu-
 ing of this booklet it will have more than
 Justified the interest of those who have
 associated themselves with the movement The officers of the Manufacturers asso-
 citation are s. w. Lee, president; P. Will
 kinson, first vice president; k. w. Ewing .l second wee president; w. R. Starbuck
 third vice, president; Lew Lazarus, treas
 urer; Joseph B. Babb, secretary. The chiel
 purpose of the organization Is to boos
 Alabama products made in the Birming kham district and the movement has al
 ready borne good fruit and has stimu
 lated the manufacturing interests of tn,
 entire Birmingham district