The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-29


 tinued growth of this city demands 1t.
 The City Beautiful.
 The residence section of Birmingham is fast becoming famed for its beauty, and this organization cannot do better service than to encourage and aid in making Birmingham one of the most delightful places to live in as well as one of the best in which to make liv- ing.
 Our New Building.
 I refer with pride to the splendid build ing which is being erected by the Cham Der of Commerce at a cost of a quarter of million dollars Our ability to &C., complish this speaks volumes for Bir- mingham and shows that the spirit of get together is with us. This building has caused favorable comment from all over the country and our secretary has numerous inquiries as to how we did it. Aside from the building itself, the plan which has been adopted for the mainte- nance of a permanent exhibit of our manufactured and raw material is unique and will prove to be a great advertise ment. When the exhibits are in place I believe almost every visitor to our city will visit the exhibit and see at glance what we have to make this the greatest manufacturing and commercial city in the south.
 It affords me genuine pleasure to know that our manufacturing and commercial organizations have and will become aff1-
 iatel organizations of the Chamber of
 Commerce, thereby strengthening our in-
 sttution for practical work and 8 wider
 and more powerful influence. Finances.
 During my business career I find it takes money to run everything worth an ef- fort and with the increased growth of Birmingham and the broadening scope of our organization, more funds will be needed. There is no better test of a mans citizenship than his willingness to do something for the community in which | he lives. There are 10000 men in Greater ! Birmingham who should be willing Ito be- come members of this chamber and con- tribute their share to its splendid work. Our interests are all identical and are interwoven in the destiny of this com munity and we are interested in the building here in Jefferson county city that will be a monument to our enter
 prise.
 When we speak of the Birmingham spirit to do things, it occurred to me that it would not be amiss to let you know
 what the citizens of our sister cities are contributing to the support of their organ izations similar to ours, which is as fol- | lows:
 Nashville ...... ...... ...... 23.000 New Orleans ... .. =. ... 10000 Richmond ... ... ... ... ... ... 19.000 Dallas 12,mo Rtlanla -.-.-...- ..-.. .+....,... lZ.WU Jacksonville ...... ...... .... 12.O00 It will be seen from this that Birmng- ham would not do more than it's duty if my hopes for this year are realized I would suggest that new committee be created to be known as the committee on southern headquarters We have now reached a condition with the early conn i pletion of our four new splendid steel l frame office buildings to furnish adequate ] facilities for large number of important ] enterprises which heretofore have been kept away for want of room The future never looked brighter and
 believe the results of the next census will i demonstrate by common consent that Bir- | mingham is the coming southern metropo- 1 lis. To that end, let us have long pull | a strong pull and a pull all together.
 Urquhart Called On. | w. E. Urquhart was called upon to dis ] cuss the commission form of government. i He called attention to the change of the ! public mind in favor of a better of ] the voting franchise, that the people ] finding out that the affairs of their cities 1 are not governed along a business basis 1 have cast about for a remedy and the | answer has come back that the commis- l sion form is the only practical course | He explained the advantages of the sys- | tenn. He announced that within week s ! time his bill will be ready for publica- l ton.
 1 Chappell Cory spoke on Birmingham | as a Headquarters" with Birming- ham," he said, Hast year is history, year | before last is ancient history, and when you get back ten years you are into the 1 mystic and dim region of tradition. sTt is headquarters because it is a good place to make money. No one sunDoses