The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-20
TIME OF MIR. FOX
HIS ALABAMA ITINERARY IS BEING
 CAREFULLY MAPPED.
Possible That Rivers and Harbors Ex- pert VIII Be Able to Spend
 0nly Eleven Days In
 Alabama.

As the time draws near for the ad- vent of John A. Fox Special Field Di- rector of the National Rivers and Har- bors Congress. into Alabama for his campaign of education. the public spirited citizen all over Alabama, and especially those in the cities fronting our great waterways. are awakening to keen interest in his visit.
 w. F. Vandiver. Vice. President of the Rivers and Harbors Congress, sent telegram yesterday to Director Fox who Is at this time engaged in an in- vasion of the State of Georgia. This telegram is to ascertain the exact date on which Mir. Fox will strike the bor- ders of Alabama. The general expec- tation is that the orator and expert will arrive in Birmingham on or about March l.
 Az soon as 1t Is known what day he Is to come and how long he will re- main in Alabama when he does come, Mir. Vaudiver said yesterday he. to- gether with Colonel T e. Bush and the representatives of the commercial clubs and boards of trade in the lead ing cities will arrange immediately a program. It is now certain that the itinerary will embrace the cities of Birmingham. Montgomery, Tuscalo6sa, Selma and Mobile.
 IL has been intirnated that Mr<Fox. A1A HE AuD4t NOt AAAtlCp VIII D0 tIfllI9Q 10 stay of only eleven days in Alabama If this be true the cities named could be about the extent of the itinerary of Mfr Fox and his party. But Mir. Vandi- yer is exerting his every effort and in- huence to persuade Mfr. Fox into an ex- tension of the time allotted this State.
 We would like very much to include the Decaturs, Gadsden, Huntsville and one or two other places in the ftiner- ary." said Mir. vandiver. gro this end I have telegraphed Mir. Fox to let us know if such an extension of time will not be granted to allow a visit to these cities Just as soon as the date Is set for MT. Fox to arrive in Birmingham we will not lose any time in fixing dates for every city to be visited"
 The press reports of Director Fox's work in Georgia indicate immense sue cess in the agitation for interest in the improvement of the waterways of the nation and the deepening of our har- bors. That Is the avowed purpose of the Rivers and Harbors Congress, to engage In an universal campaign of education on these topics with view of so impressfng the Congress of the | United States with the demand for such | improvements that increased appro- | priations will be forthcoming. The | meetings conducted by Mir. Fox and | he party of citizens who accompany | Tim in every State have so far resulted | n substantial financial support for the movement.
 Mr. Vandiver received yesterday a bound copy of the proceedings of the asst annual convention of the Rivers md Harbors Congress in Washington ast December. It contains the addresses n full of all those who participated in he program of that gathering. These include speeches by Mir. vandiver and Governor Conner, both pleading earn stly for waterways Improvements and larbor deepening and setting forth the laim that Alabama is about in the cad if not the very first State in the