The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-19
FRISCO RAILROAD GETS NEW OUTLET On Gulf Coast By Buying PascagOula Northern MASONIC CONVENTION Gulf Coast Tropical Fair Opens Tues day-Good Roads Convention
 Called for November 29.
 Motorcyclists Kick
MASONIC CONVENTION

nlVtliCt 4>ONSiiDcl lo.-NoPSSieha.f --s purchase of the Pascagoula Northern railroad by the Frisco line gives the Hill Yoakum interests another outlet on tue gulf coast. and coupled with the report that the Frisco has abrogated the con- tracts for terminal facilities at New Or
 leans, leads to the belief that the road in. tends to make use of its Mobile and Pas. cagoula terminals in the near future. The Pascagoula line is 42 miles in length and connects with the New Orleans, Mobile and Chicago railroad at Evanston, Miss The latter road was acquired by the Hill Yoakum interests some time ago.
 The Gulf Coast Tropical Fair, open tc competition of the state, will begin Tues day morning and continue 10 days, and the number of entries indicates that the exposition will be the best that Mobile has ever had. Exhibitors from all parts of the state will participate and the rep resentation from other counties, especially of fine stock will be large The agricul- tural entries include several county ex- hibits, among them the exhibit from Gull man county, and the competition for the first prize in this class, $500, promises to be brisk. Features of the fair will be a fine exhibit in the women's depart ment the kennel and horse shows. big midway and an aviation meet
 The seventeenth reunion of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Free Ma sorry in the valley of Mobile, orient of Alabama, will be held in Mobile Novem- Der 20= to A, when the degrees of the rite from the fourth to the thirty-second will be conferred upon a large class The opening of the lodge and reception of wis. itors will be on November 20 at 7 o'clock p. m., and the concluding session will be November A at o'clock p. m., with the second section of the thirty-second de- gree.
 One of the most important meetings ever held in the south will be that of the interstate commerce commission in this city Monday. when several cases against railroads will be taken up to determine the question of shipside delivery, and tc inquire into alleged discrimination against the port.
 A good roads convention with dele gates from every town between Mo bile and Selma, has been called by President John Craft of the Alabama Good Roads association and the state highway commission to meet in this city November 29 for the purpose oi starting systematic work looking to the construction of the state highway from the Tennessee to the gulf, over the route secuted out some time since by party from Mobile Two hundred delegates are expected. The proposition to bridge the Tombigbee river at ol near Jackson will be feature of the meeting.
 The Mobile lodge, Woodmen of the World, has formed an association, in corporated at $40,O0O for the purpose of erecting seven story lodge and office building at Government and St. Emanuel streets. The structure will be complete in every detail the up- per floors being devoted to lodge rooms and the lower floors to offices and stores. Plans have been completed and the work will begin as soon as the stock has been sold.
 Great preparations are being made for the entertainment of two train loads of bankers, one from the north . west and the other from the east, which will arrive here tomorrow morning en route to the convention of the Ma tional Bankers association at New Or leans. The visitors will be rendered a breakfast at the Cawthon, and there after taken for an automobile ride about the city followed by a trip on the bay.
 Motorcyclists of Mobile are on the warpath over the recently enacted auto tax law, claiming that it costs more in licenses to ride a $200 machine than it does to run a 20 horsepower, five passenger touring car. The recent { visit to Mobile of J. H. Porterfield, per- sonal representative of the secretary of state, started the trouble. Mir. Porter field demanded $3 tax from each motorcycle, notwithstanding the fact that many owners of machines already possessed licenses. good until December 31, for which they had paid B in afl- dition to the city tax of $2. The total tax demanded of 20 horsepower car, state, county and city. is but $7.50.