The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-08
PLANS MADE ID
 RECEIVE STOKES Yale Secretary Will Be Well
 Entertained H. o. MURFEE ARRIVES Head of the Marion Institute Will Be Host of Educator, Who Is to Deliver Government Day
 Address

President H O. Murfee of Marion h. stitute arrived in Birmingham yesterday for the purpose of completing plans for the entertainment of Anson Phelps Stokes, secretary of Yale university, and one of the foremost educators in the United States, when he arrives tomorrow night.
 Mr. Murfee will remain here until MT. Stokes completes his visit to this city and will accompany him to Marion. The southern trip of MT. Stokes is being made for the purpose of delivering the Gov ernment Day address at Marion. This will take place next Wednesday night. The following day he will appear before the educational meeting in Mobile and address that gathering.
 MT. Stokes will be entertained very elaborately while in Birmingham. Upon arrival tomorrow night he will be es- corted to his hotel, where he will re- main until Monday morning. He will be rendered a breakfast by MT and Mrs. Robert Jemison Sr., at their home in Glen Iris park. At 10:15 Monday morn ing Mir. Stokes will address the students at the Birmingham High school. From that point he will be taken to Corey and that model industrial city will be in spected. MT. Stokes is intensely interest ed in such work as will tend to inn prove the conditions of workingmen. His trip to Corey. for that reason, was care fully arranged.
 At noon the distinguished educator will be given a luncheon at the home of Judge and Mrs. William I. Grubb. The local jurist is a Yale man and he will invite to the luncheon the Yale alumni in this city and a few other friends. During the afternoon MT. and Mrs. Grubb will escort Mr Stokes about the city, showing him the various points of in- terest.
 At the Country club Monday night MT. Stokes will be given a banquet by Pres ident Murfee of Marion. There will be. perhaps, seventy-five or more distin- guished citizens present. MT. Stokes will deliver short but informal address while speeches will be made by several Birmingham men, all of which will be very short and informal.
 The banquet at the club is being ar ranged with a careful scrutiny of details and plans are being made by MT. Mur- fee and Secretary Mcdowell to make the banquet a memorable affair.
 MT. Stokes will leave Birmingham Tues day morning for Tuscaloosa, where he will be the guest of Col. and Mrs. J. T. Murfee. the parents of the Marion ln- stitute president. While in Tuscaloosa MT. Stokes will be shown over the Uni versity of Alabama by President John w.. Abercrombie.
 He will the following day deliver the Government Day address at Marion. That event is the most important and inter esting, it is stated, in the yearly life at Marion For that reason an elaborate ceremony has been arranged. Inasmucn as Dr. Woodrow Wilson delivered the Government Day address before. there is much interest always extented to the speakers and their theme.
 President William H. Taft and Lee Mo- Clung, treasurer of the United States. are members of the board of directors of Marion, of which Professor Murfee is president.