The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-20
GETTING READY To
PUBLISH HISTORY
Meeting At Chamber of Com
MERGE Today
ALDRICH DISCUSSES PLAN
Estimates on Publication Have Been
Received and Committee VIII
Decide This Afternoon Who
Shall Get Contract.
ALDRICH DISCUSSES PLAN

A meeting of several of the members of
the committee on publication of 1.-The
Story of Coal and Iron In Alabama by
Chamber of Commerce this afternoon at 3
o'clock.
Since the first of last month";" said
Truman II. Aldrich, chairman of the COM
mittee, 1.-The history has been in the hands
of various publishing firms for estimate or
costs. At the meeting this afternoon 1t
will be decided which press is to under
take the work. and the final arrangements
publication will be discussed
in detail.
1.-THE University Press of Cambridge,
Mass, announces that If given the COM
mission now they can complete the work
within two months-an exceedingly quick
time for a 600 page book of this order.
Correspondence has been under way with
Houghton company, the Century company,
Charles Scribners Sons, Harper & Bros,
Macmillan company, Small, Maynard &
Co., George Barrie C Sons and several
other big publishing firms of the eastern
cities. Owing to the TACT that there is so
much public interest in this historical
work the committee has decided to make
public the various business details con-
nected with. the enterprise.
The interest and cordial support con-
tinously given the work by the leading
men of the Birmingham district, notably
George Gordon Crawford, president of
the Tennessee company; E. II. Crockard
Edwin Ball, Guy R. Johnson, general man.
ager of the Alabama Consolidated; rank
Nelson, Jr., and John A. Topping, have
been very gratifying to all of us old
stagers Mr.. Mccormack, General Clark,
General Rhodes, Colonel DeBardeleben
and Mr.. Ramsay remain, with others, as
actively interested as ever in this history.
Mr. J. Fl. Weatherly and Mr.. c., P. Orr
are also having something of hand in it.
don't know that many people are
aware that Mr.. Orr, by the way. has
amateur photography In the south and
some of his photographs will appear in
this book There are about 100 illustra-
lions al told.
THE specifications prepared by Miss
Armes, on which the various estimates are
being made, are as follows:
Specifications for Work.
Please furnish bid on one, three and
five thousand copies of book as per fol-
lowing specifications:
Paper 6x9 per page.
Type page. % ems plea wide. AZ ems
deep over all.
Size of type, 10 point, 2 point leads;
extracts in point solid. Special initial
heads.
Printed on 25xsS 80 pound machine fin
ished book paper, about scent grade.
To be bound in full red cloth with title
in gold lettering. Book to be trimmed
all round and top gilt-edged.
Illustrations goo in number) as per in
structions on back of each photograph.
Retouch all photos needing retouching
to make perfect half tones.
Illustrations to be run in with type
pages with exceptions of II full-page half
tones, which will be put on same paper
as body of book.
Fac-Simile edging Of three letters and
edging of blue print.
Give in separate estimate cost Of eight
full page photographers.
Preface amounting to IS typewriter
pages; chronological table; list of illus
trations, ETC., to be included in estimate.
There will be no foot notes.
State price for compiling index Of names
o. corporations and of persons.
State whether you will print this book
from type or electrotype.
State length of time you will need to
complete first 500 copies.
Details of Book.
Said George b. Mccormack, president
Of the Pratt Consolidated Coal company:
"since the publication in The Age-Herald
of the outline of the Story of Coal and
Iron,' I have received a good many in
quiries as to the small part appearing
in the book given to Admission, Sheffield.
Gadsden, Florence. Decatur and other
centers of industry outside the imme-
date Birmingham district. No special
mention of any Of them was made,
believe, in the outline. I have requested
Miss Armes to make public the entire
table of contents of the book In order
to show that not one of these districts is
being sighted. While these chapter
headings are somewhat voluminous, they
give. as nothing short of the book itself
can give, an adequate idea of the wide
range covered by this book. If any par
ticular omissions Of companies, men or
events In the iron history of Alabama oc-
cur to any person reading these headings
will be glad to receive, personally, no.
tice of such, and will refer them with
out delay to the author of the book
The members of this committee. and a
few of the many hundreds of prominent
men of Alabama interested are as fol-
lows: Truman H. Aldrich, chairman;
Henry F. DeBardeleben, George B. Nc
Cormack, George Gordon Crawford. Guy
r. johnson, Frank Nelson. Jr., George
Cruikshank, Gen. Rufus N. Rhodes. e.
w. Barrett, Edwin Ball, Capt. Frank P.
O'Brien. Gratten B. Grove, Gen. Louis
" Clark, Col T. G.. Bush, Erskine Ram
saw. Fred Dimmick, Frank HI. Crockard,
Joseph III. Hoadley. J. w. MCQUEEN, Maj
q. NJ Tutwiler, John H. Adams. Llewelyn
Johns. Frederick T. jenkins and ]. B.
Darlington.