The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-16
Placed in Chamber of Com merce for Benefit of Visi-
 tors to the City
EXPECTED TO HELP IN
 IMMIGRATION PLANS
Revenue to Uge the Need for Bet ter Jury Accommodations at
 the Courthouse
BY WALTER HARPER

The Jefferson County Board of Reve- nue yesterday morning inspected the az ricultural display that is just now being placed in the exhibit hall on the seventh floor of the Chamber of Commerce build ing.
 Every member of the board was in at tendance and all expressed themselves as greatly pleased with the enterprise. All the exhibits are not in place yet, but will be in few days with the exception of those perishable articles which will be renewed from time to time It is the intention of those in charge to keep this feature of the exhibit up-to-date as the seasons change.
 The Jefferson county agricultural ex- hibit should be of very great benefit to the people and public interests of this dlstrict,' said J. B. Babb, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce of Birming- ham.
 Our intention is to assemble here sam- pies of all the various products that can be raised in the district, together with all information available that will be helpful in full cooperation of the planters | themselves and the people in general. A great variety of food products can be raised on the agricultural lands of Jef- ferson county, and we hope to stimulate their culture through this perpetual ex- hibit.
 But the most valuable results of the exhibit will come through visitors who come to Birmingham and have an oppor- tunity to see what can really be done on the lands of Alabama. There is a general idea that this mineral district is unfit for agricultural purposes, that our food SUD- piles necessarily have to be shipped from other fields.
 This is not entirely true. We have some very fine lands in Jefferson county and the farmers can raise most anything that Is adapted to this climate. There are large areas of good tillable lands yet un- developed, and it Is believed that this ex- hibt will be valuable in bringing experi- enced planters to this district.
 When the governments S soil survey man of Jefferson is out, which will be within a short time now, it will be put up in the exhibit hall for the benefit of farmers and others who may desire to refer to 1t at any time. The hall will be supplied with other valuable literature and data of value to the farmers.
 After this feature of the Chamber of Commerce work Is better understood we expect to have displays from a number of the other agricultural counties of the state'
 President Job Going of the county Board Of Revenue said: The members of tho Board of Revenue in a body this morning Inspected the display that Is being ar- ranged in the exhibit hall of the Cham Der of Commerce building for Jefferson county. Every member of the board is well pleased. and we believe that the dis play will be of great value to the county. It will no doubt attract the attention of people who visit Birmingham and are en- tertained at the Chamber of Commerce There are many exhibits of this kind fin the west especially along the Pacific coast, and great good has come to that country through this medium of practical publicity"
 Tn my opinion the money that will be spent in the establishment and maintenance of the agricultural dis play in the Chamber of Commerce the county" said Commissioner R. F, Lovelady. When the object of the display Is better understood and the people are familiar with the plans 1t will be appreciated and should be of great benefit to the county and the entire district"
 The farmers of the county should be greatly benefited by the display" said Commissioner J. B. Vines. "The variety of products displayed and their manner of culture should inspire and instruct the man who wants to force the maximum of returns from his farm"
 "A great deal has been said re- gently in Jefferson county for and against the building of a new court house." said Judge Charles A. Senn, senior judge of the city court of Bir- mingham yesterday, but I want to say that the sanitary and other con ditions In this building we now have fire not as good as the minimum re- ouirement that the law demands for the penitentiaries and jails of the state."
 Judge Senn was making recess plea to a few of the members of the Jeff ferso county Board of Revenue for raore room that juries held over night in the trial of cases may be accom- modated. He declared that the board sh ould at once rent and provide sleep ing rooms for at least four juries He declared that jurymen had been made to suffer untold and inexcusabIe hard ship while performing their duties as jurors
 "MistriaIs have been forced on juries and courts in the trial of important cases for the reason that the juries could not be cared for during lengthy deliberations." continued Judge Senn We must have more room if you commissioners have to go out into the city and rent rooms for the accom- modation of these jurors.
 "Of course. we need a nAF court house, but the people have twice turned down this proposition. Something must condition of this old building is as bad as the quarters are cramped'
 That was no SIP hog that occu- pied an entire seat with himself and his Swear old child on an incoming | suburban car last Sunday morning and refused either to take the child in bis lap or pay for the child" said suf- fering citizen from one of the pop ulous suburbs yesterday.
 l "The car was crowded with ladies standing and this man seemed to be too busy studying his Sunday school lesson to remember that he was act | ing the part of a hog.
 The conductor asked the man to pay fare for the child or take 1t | ir his lap, and called attention to the tJect. The man f1atly and defiantly re- fused either to pay an extra fare or give up the seSt. He continued to study his Sunday school lesson in cheerful defiance.
 | There is no law to enforce this particular rule of the street car com pany. It is a rule that any man would obey on mere suggestion, but this creature would not and did not re- gard 1t.