The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-03
BANQUET NOTABLE
FOR ITS SUCCESS
Care of Details Made Every
Feature Enjoyable
MENU CARD WORK OF ART
Hand-Painted Place Cards Represented
Typical Scenes of District.
Committee in Charge Show
cred With Praise.

The careful attention to details was the
thing which made last nights banquet In
honor of President Taft the greatest ever
given in Alabama. To John L. Parker and
his committee, c. H. Ford, M. V. Joseph,
Maj. E. Y Anderson, all honor was given.
Mr.. Parker was showered with congratu-
! lations, and Mr. C. II. Nabb Of the Hill
man was given credit for perfect service
/ of the courses.
The menu cards, printed by Roberts Il
Son, were unique. An exceedingly fine
photograph of President Taft embossed
! with coat of arms in gold was the chief
feature of the frontispiece. Below were
pictures of the city hall and blacksmith
who held in his hand the plans of great
things and seemed to be dreaming OF the
| furnaces, steel mills and smoke which
| appeared in the rear.
The second page was headed by pic
ture of the national capital with the
words Dinner rendered to President
Taft by the Chamber of Commerce of Biz
mingham, Ala. November 2. 1909, Hotel
Hilman," engraved beneath.
On the next page appears the names OF
toon of the President shaking hands, bow
| ing and smiling Jovially. Then comes
page of toasts and a cartoon OF Tart
waving from an observation car. There
is a little cut of the President shak-
! ing the hand of Diaz as he stands knee
deep In the Rio Grande with the list OF
the arrangement committee. He is seen
! as miner standing at the mouth OF
mine with pick in hand on the page OF
guests The cartoons were all the work
of Blackman.
The souvenir place card was hand-paint-
painted by Miss Hannah Elliott, and at
each plate was an Individual painting In
| colors of some scene in the Birmingham
district. That for The Age-Herald repre-
scented good road passing field green
with cotton and corn and approaching
! coke ovens and the steel mill.
The contents of the menu card included
list of the guests as follows:
Guests.
Hon. B. B. Conner Hon. Henry B. Gray,
Hon. Joseph f. Johnston, Hon. John H.
Bankhead, Hon. Frank P. O'Brien, Hon.
w. B. Craig, Hon. William Richardson.
Hon. John L. Burnett, Hon. o. W. Under
wood, Sam Ingram, H. L. Martin, Prof.
| W. j. Wheeler, C. R. Blake, ]. 7. Blake
more, ]. L. Yancey, w. E. Aldrich, Ru-
dolph Wegelin, N. p Northington, Lee
! c. Bradley, Otto Marx, R. S. Munger.
Frank B. Fowlkes, J. II. Holcombe, w.
II. Hassinger, Morris Adler, e. l.. Brown,
! George McCleery, Bolton Gilreath, Jacob
Burger, William Fisch, Edmund Fl.
Dryer T. G. Bush, w. C. Starke, A. B.
| Loveman, e. w. Barrett, c. M. Cox, Will
liam Hood. III. W. Coffin, Lea Woodruff.
A. W. B. johnson, R. NJ. Henderson, V.
H. Hanson, Ignatius Pollock, John l.
Kaul. Eugene Flies, H. o. Murfree, e.
w. Moore, August 1Iirsch, Harold R. Sam
son, l. C. Beatty, ]. H. Barr, John P.
Tillman s. E. Thompson, Harry Jones,
Walker Percy, 7. II. Aldrich, George g.
Crawford, w. p G. Harding, Rufus N.
Rhodes, Robert Jemison, Jr., W. w.
Crawford. A. H. Ford. ]. Rivers Carter,
Frank Nelson, Jr., Sterling A Wood,
| James o. Thompson, Leo K. Steiner, f.
| Y. Anderson, Samuel L. Earle, R. w.
| Ewing. H. J. Porter, b. L. Bivings, T. o.
. Smith, John e. Morris, Henry Hiden, D.
| nj.
E. NJ Cary. Hugh Morrow, John L. Park
err, r. d. Burnett, g. B. McVay, B. H.
( Cooper, M. ". Joseph. F. M. jackson, P.
| Toulmin, T. e. Brooks, John McCartin, F.
D. Dimmick, L. w. Collier, b.
H. Lathrop, P. F. Moore, T. H.
Joy, / G.. w. Jones. Colman Blach,
r. M. Cunningham. Paul c. Hulfish,
James A. Going, DR.. H. A Elkourie, G.
r. Lewis, DR.. ]. d. s. Davis, John Lon
don, P. G. Shook, e. G. Chandler, DR.. e.
P. Hogan, DR.. John 7. Plunkett, d. III.
| Marbury. r. B. Swyer, L. w. Johns, B.
w. Bromberg, w. J. Rushton, w. G.
Shackelford, r. M. Jenkins, DR.. w. E.
Evans, H. s. Matthews, s. D. Adler, J.
B. Rabb, w. P. Pinckard. J. A. Millson.
d. J. Ponceler, Erskine Ramsay, Q. T.
RAINBOW, James Bonnyman, ]. D. Moore,
| @. II. Sibley, ]. H. Crawford, G. w.
Mills, l.. Pizitz, John v. Coe, Z. Solo
mon, DR.. E. P. Solomon, A. A. Gam
bill, Tom Jones, G. B. Mccormack, J.
B. Gibson, J. D. Elliott. r. M. Goodall,
C. M. Brown. M. P. Messer, William w.
Hawker, J. J. Smith, c. e. Toust, The
Birmingham News, s. w. Lee, d. r.
Turnbull, c. w. Ufford, Harry
Wheelock, e. F. Enslen, James Weissel.
Culpepper Exum. r. c. Cairns, Ross G.
Smith, H. L. Badham, E. J. Dunn, B. ].
Saunders, w. D. Nesbitt, Thomas Hop
kins, Ben T. Head. Horace Hammond.
Horace Stringfellow, H. U. Sims. J. P.
Dimmick, James Bowron, M. ]. Gregg,
Crawford Johnson, 8. J. Bowie, George
A. Blinn, e. T. Killer. P. T. Whilden.
j. T. Doster, r. E. Collins s. e. Greene,
A. ]. Krebs, H E. Mccormack, The
Age-Herald, e. J. Parsons, 8. H. Floyd,
]. H. Dean, J. Med. Conner, F. B. Wins
low, C. r. Barker, Edwin Ball. II. A.
Drennen, Hill Ferguson. A. H. Wood
ward, ]. A. Lavert, T. C.. Thompson,
Louis Saks, Bertram Jacobs. r. H.
Baugh, e. M. Kilby, Edward Fl. Cove,
L. T. Beecher, w. A. Major, F. A. Burr,
Frank H. Grockard, c. ]. Barr, John
w. O'Neill, II C. Ryding, William P.
Redd, John H. Wade, Haskin Williams
Louis Minor, Job Going, Scion Jacobs
Herman Beck, c. c. Snider. John II.
Miller E. H. Andrews. S. S. Lanier, ].
C. Patterson, d. H. Riddle, Leo Loeb.
Rev. J. w. Stage, DR.. ]. H. Phillips
C. A. Stiefelmeyer. The Birmingham
Ledger
In addition to the list of toasts and
the menu one page was devoted to the
committees in charge Of the Presidents