The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-27
$29,OOO ON THE LAST DAY
 SHOWS HOW THEY WORKED
Contests Among Committees For Best Showing Had Grown Intense and Interest Was Sustained to the
 Last Moment.
s212,247.00.


 mingham clinched the great Young
 Mems Christian association building by bringing in $2s,000 on the last day. The last day was a veritable hurricane, every committee turning loose it's full force upon the community, and tele- grams were sent in every direction. It Is but another spoke in the wheel for c. s. Ward, as the business men of Birmingham will always give to him a great part of the credit for their ! achievement.
 l The last day was one of intense ex- citement. with climax at the o'clock supper unequaled by any civic | movement ever before known to Bir- mingham. Every man on the 21 com | mittees was in his seat. The report of each committee was followed by wild outburst of enthuiasm, and as the
 amount grew larger and larger, there
 were all kinds of evidence of joy. Contests Among Committees. The great contest for first place be- tween committee No. and committee No. continued until the last minute,
 and MT. M V. Joseph's committee won
 by only about 5000, after bringing in
 an even s7ooo. Committee No. l, James
 Bailey, chairman, got away with third place.
 The young mems committees secured ! $14,oo0 during the campaign. Commit
 tee c held the lead throughout and
 secured in all ss5oc.
 The boys for their part of the cam
 paign secured $42s in the one day. Es- pecial attention was called to the work of Barclay Love, youngster who has
 just left the Industrial school. He asked for day off from his employer,
 R. M Goodall, and came in with a fine
 report. The crowd gave him special
 round of applause.
 1 The committees had a great deal of l fun out of the contest perween the Joseph and Collins committees. Both
 refused to report on the first call, and as both were expert generals the at-
 tempt to get the last report was racy. MT. Collins argued that his committee
 man Taylor had telephoned that he had
 a number of subscribers. MT. Exum
 and Mr. Parker insisted that they must await MT. Blach, who was taking stock.
 However, when MT. Collins finally re- ported his $500o, it included a corner lot, given by l.. c. Pettijohn, upon which he estimated the value at $2000.
 This was followed by excited debate.
 "If you want to beat No. 2. dig down."
 You know you can't bluff me-" and
 other expressions equally as curt were banded about. However, when MT. Exum finally read the report for com
 mittee the victory was conceded.
 The following subscriptions for $500 and over were announced and are in-
 cluded in the grand total:
 Tillman, Bradley & Morrow .$1 .oo0 1 Birmingham Realty company .... 1000 1 William Halls, Jr. .............. 5c0
 Valley City Milling company.... 500 l Alabama Fuel and Iron company. 500 ! Robert Jemison, ST. ............ 500 | H. B. Gray ................... The subscription from Lieutenant | Governor Gray was telegraphed from | New York.
 Status at Close of Campaign. The status of the Young Mems Chris
 tion association fund after the reports l were recorded last night is indicated by
 the following tabulation:
 l Previously reported e. =. ... $1S2,0
 Citizens committee ... e. 2.52S bulS0eSS men CoMmlLJc0 zS,1oo ] Young mems committee ... e. ... AS10
 Boys committee .. ... e. ... ... 4s Grand total ............$21z.2H ] The following figures represent the l amounts reported by the ten sub-com- mittees of the business mems and young ! men's committees and the standing of | the committees:
 | Business mems committee, T. H. John- | afop ge0ara1 chairman
 Jan. 2a Totals.
 No. 5-M. V. Joseph. chair man .VVW N5, 44O No. 2-R- B. Collins. chair man .....-.................... aS6 z4,o0o No. 1-James Bailey, chair man 1,1H 14,5Sl No. 9-Dr. c. Wilson, chair
 man ....,...................... LBS 11.72 No. 7-J. w. sibley, chair man l,5d4 ll,VVz No. 4-R- w. Ewing. chair man ......-...................- 1ofS 1V1u
 No. s-w. F. Tyler. chair man l,W &87 l No. sc. H. Estes chair
 man .......................... 1,2so s.sos No. M-J. l.. Yancey, chair man ......................-.... lsWo S,zzz No. 6-C. H. Seals, chair man ...............,............ IS b,lu Totals .......................$ 165 SIPS. .0S5 l Young menF committee F. B. Clark, | chairman.
 | Con- C-Burr Blackburn, chair man $SoS S,5lo | Com. Al. H. Cabaniss, chair man .......................... bl1 Z,OOO l Con- E.-Dr. R. F. Ashwcrth chairman ......................... Tz 1,olS l Com D-Hugh Locke, chair man ...................-...... zA l,4oo | Com. LA. M. Douglas, chair man ........-...-... Oy l,lof Con- G-G. T. stafford. chair Com. B-S. J. Erkert, chair man 451 1,llS | Con- INV. w. Hawkers. chair man ......................... ....... n10 1'Vso Com. H-B. E. Whatley, chair man ........................ ....-..... Zoo of0 Com. F.-Dr. w. D. Drennen, chairman ........................ uS oS Totals ....................... .sa.s1o S4.16s The following subscriptions for 5000 &CoNT1NUED ON RA0n 1aA