The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-19
Committee Believes 32 Alder men Will Make Board As
 Large As Should Be
HOW HE FIVE NEW WARDS
 ARE TO BE APP0RTl0NEO
Meeting Held Yesterday Was Attended By Representatives of Practically All Suburbs Which Are to
 Enter City.

Sixteen wards for Greater Birmingham will be the recommendation which the Greater Birmingham committee will make to the Board of Aldermen at it's deferred meeting on next Wednesday night. This was the decision arrived at yesterday afternoon at the meeting of the committee in Mayor O'Brien,s of flee, which was also attended by large number of the suburbanites.
 It was a square deaf' meeting in which the spirit of peace and harmony and the very evident desire to arrive at a fair and equitable arrangement of matters for the greater city prevailed. Each of the suburban towns had been invited to send delegations and with the exception of North Birmingham, East Lake and West End there were delega- tions present
 Chairllan Barnes Morgan opened the meeting with a square dear' talk and urged the forgetting of any possible ill will that might exist. The desire of the committee he stated was to treat fairly and squarely with the incoming towns, but that the only way to arrive at a
 
 complete cooperation of everyone. Other talks followed by Mayor O'Brien, Harry Jones' president of the council; exMayor Scott. Aldermen McNeal and Jim Leath of Ensley; Mayor Lacy, Ed Hud nal and Dr. George Brown of Pratt City; Mayor Perryman of Woodlawn, Mayor Frank Smith of Elyton and Mayor Lester of Graymont. The entire person. mel of the Greater Birmingham commit fpa in fo Chairman Morgan being Aldermen Cau- sey, Starbuck. Harper. 'Perdue, Gregg and J. R. Copeland
 Final decision of the long conferene was that a board of g aldermen would be just about as large as could well be handled and 16 wards were suggested This will add five new wards there be- ing Il at present.
 The lineup of these five wards is as follows:
 Woodlawn and East Lake, one ward.
 North Birmingham and territory to a point half way between North Birnling- ham and Pratt City, one ward.
 Pratt City and Thomas territory to point half way between Pratt City and North Birmingham, one wurd.
 Ensley, including it's recently annexed Wylam, and Fairview. one ward.
 Elyton, West End and Cleveland, one ward.
 Graymont to be placed in the Third ward, which it adjoins.
 When the meeting first started there appeared to be a little arbitary spirit on the part of some of the suburbanites, but this soon melted in the face of the square spirit which prevailed in every thing.
 The Greater Birmingham committee has a task on it's hands Already the all dermen composing 1t have almost worn themselves out in the worry incidental to the solving of the proposition of hoE equally to apply things in an immense territory with scattered centers of pop ulaton and with bare spots in between. "It doesn't look like anybody having any thing to do with this will have much time to enjoy Christmas" remarked Chair man Morgan, upon whose shoulders has fallen the chairmanship of one of the most important committees of the Board of Aldermen.
 The committee will hold quite a number of meeting during the next two weeks, for while there Is to be a meeting of the council next Wednesday night 1t is not believed the perplexing problems will be entirely solved then.
 Greater Birmingham, while a great thing for the whole district is creating a lot of work and worry for the public officials of Birmingham, and somebody is either going to turn gray or lose a great many hairs before everything is finally adjusted to a smooth running basis