The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-28
.C|TY'S WELCOME WILL BE EQUAL
 ID TAFT SMILE Everything Is Ready for Arrival of President Next
 Tuesday Evening
BIRMINGHAM DRESSED IN
 BEST BIB AND TUCKER
Half a Dozen Bands Will Be in Civic and Military Parade-Every Min ute of Time Is Now Pro-
 vided For.

The general arrangements committee of which J. W. McQueen is chairman, held it's last meeting before the coming of President Taft yesterday morning, listen ed to all the reports and adjourned, leav- ing the details in the hands of the sub committees
 Everything is ready for President Taft, from the menu for his breakfast to the souvenir badge for his coat lapel There is not a minute unprovided for. The sec- onds have been counted and the commit tee knows just what will be going on in every one. From the time the President alghts on Birmingham soil the spirit of welcome will envelop him.
 Mayor Frank P O'Brien will first pre- pare him at the terminal for the deluge which Is to follow. At the banquet an hour later Toastmaster Joseph F. John- ston, Gov. B. B. Conner, James Bowron, J. B. Babb and Col. Rufus N. Rhodes will open all the furnaces and cast be- fore the President warmth of welcome even more genial than his own smile.
 Wednesday morning the children will add their piping welcome, the brass bands from all around will blast it to the wind,
 while every society and organization in the district marching before the viewing stand at the Southern club will attest their patriotism and their devotion to the man and his office. Finally, and most appropriate, while he stands on the plat form at Capitol pork, tens of thousands
 will make a noise of welcome and add for l,o trrio n
 catch the train.
 The committee yesterday did no more
 than indorse the plans oscommittees hich have already been published. Senators Johnston and Bankhead and six congress
 sional representatives have been added to the reception committee which will meet the special at the terminal. The plans for the banquet were approved, and are considered the most elaborate of the
 kind ever conceived in Birmingham. The music committee announced that the bands which will take part in the welcome are the Boys Industrial school the | Tuscaloosa, Pratt City, Gadsden, and all | the Birmingham bands.
 | The sum of $300 was appropriated tc decorate the reviewing stand in front of the Southern club. Chairman c. W. Uf- ford of the committee on decorations
 urged every merchant in the city to dec- crate along the line of parade and the streets over which the President will pass. He will ride over all of Fifth ave- nue from the terminal to the Hotel Hill man, Nineteenth street from First to Fifth avenue, Twentieth street from Five Points to Sixth avenue, First avenue from Nineteenth to Twentieth streets. It is very important that these streets be beautifully decorated.
 Col. T. O. Smith, who will be marshal of the parade, will make formal an- nouncement or order within the next few days. Harry Jones, who has provided
 the automobiles, expects every member of the reception committee at the Hotel Hill man at 6:30 p. nl., sharp, when the ball will be set to rolling and they will post off hurriedy to meet the honored guest.