The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-03
Proceeds Go to Music Study as Club for Free Park
 Concerts
NAPPPS BAND WILL BE
 ON HAND FOR BIDDING
Suggestion Spread Like Wildfire Yes- terday-Exum Will Be Aucti0n- eer-Weatherly Will Tell
 Merits of Shirts

"A sale! A sale! Two, shirt and a smock k.-Shakespeare.
 Come all ye Romans at the stroke of 12 to The Herald building for there will be a sale, sale of shirts, the like of which, In beauty. style and texture, was never equaled.
 With Lord High Mayor Culpepper Exum. Commissioner James Weatherly and Banker Webb Crawford acting in the capacity of auctioneers, 69 beau tiful s2 "soisette" shirts will be sold to the highest bidders. Step up close, gentlemen, such rare bargains have never yet met the eye of mortal man. Each shirt is gem. What am I bid?
 This Is no joke. It Is a real, live gen. uine fancy shirt sale, accompanied by all the stentorian tones of the auction ger, with Nappis band of 20 pieces to furnish the music, and principally shirts--69 of them-some big enough for Kirk Moore and some short enough to fit Steele Andrews
 Why? For the benefit of the Music Study clubs free concerts in Capitol park The Age-Herald owns these shirts, having bought them at a big sale Saturday morning. The Age-Her- aid didn't pay "song" for the shirts, but $7O in cold cash, as the price for the displacement of a single little mark in Saturday mornings Age-Her- aid.
 Refreshments Will Be Free
 VII, In, Of rTha A p D. Herald building, 21O9 Fifth avenue, at exactly 12 o'clock, noon, today. At II 40 Nappi's band will leave the Brown Marx building, accompanied by a liver jed individual who will display ban ner describing in flaring letters the time and place of the great shirt auc- tion. The invitation will be to every man mother, sister and wife in Birming gham It Is expected that the streets will be thronged. What man dare pass up an opportunity to buy perfect shirt at an auction sale? The wierd influence of the bargain counter will no doubt draw the women by the hundreds. They will come on foot, in carriages and automobiles. The street in front of The Age Herald building will be shaded by a canvass awning stretched from curb to curb. The big truck which hauls the papers to the terminal will I be drawn up in front and upon this will perch Auctioneers Exum, Weatherly and Crawford, and a background oi shirts, shirts, shirts, each in separ- ate box, bearing upon it the size of its occupant.
 The crowd will be served with lem onade and coca-cola, as cold as Ice car make it, all absolutely free. The fur and the excitement will all be free but the shirts, ay, there's the rubl Everybody Is Coming | The show will be well worth the trip to Fifth avenue. The Honorable James Weatherly has raised his elo. quent voice in the face of prohibition with mighty effect, has waived his hane bzfore the eyes of jurors until they were vertically mesmerized, but for the first time today he will hold upon tha' hand a pink silk shirt and extol it: beauties to the skies.
 The shirts will probably go from o' cents to $50 each. Already score ol BirminghAm's most prominent citizens 1have declared that they intend to ge shirt at any price. One, the presi dent of a big coal company, stated las night that for the first shirt he would bid s25 and would double it if necessary There will be bankers, merchants, clerks carpenters and mechanics in the crowd ali drawn by the magic appeal of 5 sosette shirts.
 The name of each purchaser will b' taken. so that his purchase will be record ed as a subscription to the public musi' fund, and she will receive due credit fo his share in providing the summer baln for worlk-tired souls during the rest o | the hot months.
 One might write forever of shirts. ye the particular 69 shirts which will b' auctioned today at noon in front of Tn e-Herald building will have to be seel to be appreciated. Let every man come whether he have sixpence or farthins If he hath not the price, he needn't tea his shirt about it.
 Seated on Auction Stand
 W. P. G. Harding, president of tn largest bank in the south, will have al exalted seat on the auction stand, wher he will act as treasurer, and see tha every cent taken in is turned over t. the Music Study club.
 The highest bidder for a single shir