The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-06


 Birmingham now extends to the people of Alabama an urgent invitation to come In on November 22 and 23 to help their city celebrate the greatest census record made by any city in the United States in the year 191o," said Richard w Massey, chairman of the executive committee. yes- terday.
 This Is just warning We want every man. woman and child to begin packing up to come to spend week We want this to be an Alabama jubilee.
 We ask the people of the state to come not only to join in our jubilee, but to aid us in entertaining the Confederate Veterans whose last days are fast ap- preaching. Not often can we honor them In the future, and these opportunities must not be overlooked.
 'The two days will be filled with inter est. We propose to make the Confeder- ates parade the most elaborate yet held in the city. A battalion of the regular army infantry, with It's own band will take part, together with the state militia It will be great military pageant, in which the honored soldiers in gray will Dt tHo pTlnC1pdl dCtOrS. The CIVIC parade and the floral parade will both do credit to Brmingham's past record in such mat ters. They will be worth coming miles to witness. Our fireworks committee Is not only prepared to give us fireworks two nights which will make a magnif- cent display, but is holding secret some unique ideas of its own.
 The Sons are doing their share in pre- pairing a grand ball for the sponsors and In entertaining the veterans while here. Then, on the last night, all together, we will capture the business section, and the spirit of jubilation will explode In a torch light celebration.
 The people of Alabama cannot afford to miss It. We expect hundreds from far cities. where the story of Birmingham's s growth has spread. The eyes of the world are on Birmingham now. It is her oppor- | tunity" Plans for Decorating | Robert w. Ewing, chairman of the dec orating committee for the census Jubilee and Veterans reunion, reports that the committee is making elaborate plans to have Birmingham more extensively and beautifully decorated than ever before In it's history.
 Tentative plans are already drawn up and submitted for decorating In a very elaborate manner the corners of the prin- cipal business streets where the mer- chants on those blocks will agree to dec crate their places of business. The plan which will probably be adopt ed for the corner decorations will be to have six decorative streamers with col ored buntings and special designs and flags on each corner, a streamer to go around each of the four sides of the cor rer and two diagonally across the street, one each way, crossing in the center. From the center will be hung large cloth streamers or p1acards, setting forth the marvellous census increase and industrial growth of Birmingham, and giving other interesting informatio extending a wei come to the United Confederate Veterans and other Visitors and giving attractive slogans.
 The posts themselves will be decorated with streamers and buntings. and very handsome stone column effect will be pro- duced by the building of a wooden col umn 12 or 15 feet in height around the most. The effect will be something en- tirely different from what has ever been seen in the south before, and will be very striking.
 This committee also requests all mer- chants and business people. especially the occupants of the tall buildings. to elaborately illuminate their places of bus
  23 There Is nothing prettier than a well illuminated city at night.
 At joint meeting of the home trade committees of the Chamber of Commerce and the Business Mems league yester- day afternoon, a sum of money was ap- propriated to enable that committee to cooperate with the decorating committee in spreading through the city cloth signs or placards emphasizing the desrability of having everybody, whether from Bir- mingham or the adjacent territory. Trade in Birmingham" These Trade in Birmingham signs will be printed or painted at the expense of the commit tee and distributed free of charge to those merchants who will agree to use them in their decorations.
 The central decorating committee is composed of Robert w. Ewing, chairman; Colman Blach, w. D. Colby, W. T. Cox and NJ s. Sloan This committee will be augmented by the addition of special committeeman who will have charge of