The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-28
RAILROAD CLUB
 ADOPTS BYLAWS Meeting of Joint Committees
 Held Last Night A WARM DISCUSSION Raised in Regards to Eligibility of Members-TO Be Known as the
 Traffic and Transportation
 Club of Birmingham

A meeting of the joint committees ap- pointed to map out plans for the organiza- ton of a railroad club in Birmingham was held last night in the offices of A. D. Lightner, general agent for the Frisco lines
 The various features of the proposed or ganization were discussed, at the conclu- sion of which the officials announced that a set of bylaws and constitution had been drafted and would be presented at the meeting to be held February B.
 The most warmly discussed feature of the meeting. last night was in reference to the eligibility of the members. It was announced finally that the following rules had been adopted
 ''The name of the club shall be the Traffic and Transportation club of Bir- mingham.
 '"The object of the club shall be the friendly discussion of live traffic and transportation problems of interest to the shipping public and the carriers and the promotion Of better business and per- sonal relation among it's members
 Membership
 Any male white person engaged in busi- ness in Jefferson county, Alabama. shall be eligible for membership if qualified as follows:
 (a) Railroad and Steamship Lines-That he be connected with the traffic depart ment, freight or passenger, or freight claim department, or operating depart ment of any railroad or steamship line or is its attorney or bears title of con- tracting freight agent soliciting agent commercial agent, general agent, passen- ger or ticket agent chief clerk, local freight agent, chief train dispatcher, train master and upward or occupies position similar in importance with fast freight line or express company.
 (b) Shippers and Receivers of Freight Traffic managers of industrial and mer- those in charge of traffic, with or without title and their chief clerks, also other officers at the heads of departments and interested in the traffic of such concerns or associations
 Co Non n-Residents-Any person similarly qualified residing elsewhere than in Jeff ferson county, Alabama, shall be eligible to nonresident membership and shall be entitled to all privileges of the club ex- cept that they shall not vote nor hold office.
 (d) Associate-Any member leaving the service or removing from the jurisdic- tion of the club shall cease to become an active member. but may become an as sociate member, if he so elects. If he re- enters the service or returns to the juris- diction of the club he may be reinstated as an active member.
 Associate members shall be entitled to all of the privileges of membership, ex- cepting voting, holding office, and invit- ing guests to the club functions, and shall be liable for only one-half of the regular dues
 (e) Honorary Members-Ho mem- bers may be elected by a unanimous vote of the club on recommendation of the board of governors.
 (f) All members shall be elected by a ballot of the majority vote of the board of governors at any stated meeting there of on recommendation of membership committee.
 (g) Application for membership shall be made to the secretary on the authorized form indorsed by at least two members of the club, who are not officers, accom- panied by the installation fee, which will be returned if the party is not elected (h) Installation fee shall be s5, and the annual dues shall be BIO per year, payable semi i-annually in advance. There will be DO installation fee for nonresident mem- bers and their dues shall be one-half of that of the active members. Any member in arrears 90 days shall be suspended Q) Designations shall be made to the secretary in writi g, but will not be ac- cepted until all indebtedness to the club has been discharged
 All entitled to membership under this clause will please consider this an invita- tion without further notice to attend A meeting in the assembly room of the Chamber of Commerce at p. m, Friday, February B.
 Those at the meeting were:
 E. F. Stovall, general agent for the Illi-