The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-12

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 More than 500 delegates from the 67 counties of Alabama will be in attend ance at the annual state convention of the Alabama Good Roads association, which opens this morning at 9:30 o'clock | in the council chamber at the city hall Delegates poured into the city on all trains yesterday and many more will arrive this morning, notably the dele gation from Selma.
 The committee on arrangements has seen to every detail and everything Is in readiness for the greatest convention in the history of the association. The pro- gramme for the three days session of the convention, will be carried out, from present indications, with very few altera- tions. A session will be held this morn ing. adjournment will be taken for lunch con, and the meeting continued in the afternoon. Another session will be held tonight beginning at o'clock, and a short business session will be held to- morrow morning, preceding the departure | for North Birmingham park, where a big barbecue will be served. Friday will be the final and biggest day of the con- vention, when an elaborate programme will be carried out at the State Fair grounds.
 Everything will be as informal and as | business-like as possible, as it is pur- posed to make the work of the conven- | ton of al much practical value as pos sible The delegates will be given an opportunity to see what Jefferson county roads are like tomorrow before and after the spread at North Birmingham park | As many automobiles as are available will be used to take delegates of the convention over the roads of the county | half of the trip being made before the barbecue and the other half in the aft l ernoon. Programme For Today | Members of the reception committee of the Jefferson County Good Roads as- sociation are requested to be on hand early this morning to assist in register ing the delegates distributing badges and the like. Jefferson county representa- tives h the legislature especially are urged to be on hand to assist in welcom- ing representatives from other counties. John W. O'Neill. president of the Jeff ferson county association, will preside at the opening this morning and introduce the several gentlemen who are to make the addresses of welcome, as shown in the following:
 | Address of welcome on behalf of Jeffer- son County Good Roads association. Maj. Frank Y. Anderson.
 | On behalf of the Board of Revenue of JeffeSson county, Job Going. president of the Board of Revenue.
 | On behalf of the city of Birmingham, Mayor Culpepper Exum. l On behalf of Chamber of Commerce, President A. H. Ford.
 On behalf of Board of Trade, President B. H. Cooper.
 On behalf of Business Mems league, President J. H. Holcombe. On behalf of Birmingham Motor club, President J. E. Dedman. Following these addresses Mir ONeill will resign the chair to President John will respond to the addresses of well come and preside during the remainder of the programme.
 l The address of welcome, enrolment of delegates, reports of the various com mittees and other official business will probably consume the morning, in which event the regular address on today's programme will not begin until this aft ernoon
 | Governor O'Neal to Speak l The feature of today's session will be an address to be delivered by Governor l elect Emmet O'Neal, which will be de- livered this afternoon at 1:30. Governor O'Neal was in the city yesterday and was present at the meeting of the leg
 islative committee held last night in Judge E. B. Almons room at the Hotel
 Hiliman. He will return to Florence this evening and will come back to Bir- mingham in time to speak at the fair grounds Friday.
 Governor O'Nears address today will
 outline his future policy in regards to
 the good roads question, and will be one of much importance. At the meeting of | the legislative committee last night he expressed himself as being enthusiastic
 ally in favor of the movement, and has pledged his support of the state high | way commission bill which is being drafted by the legislative committee.
 The legislative committee, of which Judge Almon Is chairman. will not re-
 port at this mornings session as planned, but will hold another meeting to com plete the details of the new bill this evening at o'clock. The meeting will be held in Judge Almon's room at the
 Hillman.
 Other Addresses
 Following are the other addresses on the programme for today and the session tonight
 Address by John B. Craft. president Alabama Good Roads association. on
 .'The Purposes, Past and Future Work
 of the Alabama Good Roads Associa- tion."
 Address by J. A. Wilkerson, comnis- sioner of agriculture, "Alabama's Roads
 System"
 Paper by Dr. W. F. Prouty. chief as
 sistant state geological survey. Road
 Building Material
 Paper by w. s. Keller, road en- CONTINUED ON PAGE 1A)