The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-15
CAMPA|GN GOT 129 NEW MEMBERS Report Is Made to Chamber
 Directors THANKS RETURNED Favorable Report Made on Tidewa- ter Canal-Plans on Foot to Entertain Hardware Men
 Friday

The board of directors of the Cham noon at 330 o'clock at their headquar- ters for their monthly conference. President Richard W. Massey presiding Among the matters coming before the body were the reports of the member ship committee made by Chairman B. B. Burton; the report of the finance committee, by J. D. Moore. and the re- port of the special canal committee, by J. B. Gibson.
 The sreport of the membership com mittee showed that 129 new members have been secured for the enrolment of the organization through the efforts of the committee, who have conducted a campaign during the last nine days, devoting two hours a day to the work. 1t was stated in the report that this was preliminary movement for the enlargement of the present membership to 2000, and that another canvass will be conducted by the committee at some future date when seasonable The names of the 129 applicants were read by Secretary J. B. Babb and passed on py tHt bodIu OI ulIcCtOiS.
 Following the report of the member ship committee the board of directors commended the campaigners highly for their splendid work and voted them the thanks of the. organization for their generous efforts in behalf of the Chamber of Commerce.
 Report on Finance
 J. D. Moore made the report for the finance committee, which in effect was recommendation to the board that the chamber go deliberately about the appropriation of funds for the work of various committees inasmuch as the record of the past shows that splen- did results have already been accom- plished without the expenditure of any Chambers activities. The committee reported deferred action on requests from the farm movement department and the location of new industries com mittee.
 In the absence of Major F. Y. Ander- son, J. B. Gibson read the report of the canal committee especially appoint ed by the chamber to inspect the route of the proposed canal, and in content the report was an expression of the committeeman of their firm belief in the proposition of building a waterway to tidewater. For want of time, action on the report was carried over from the directors meeting into the regular gathering of the Chamber of Commerce.
 Hardware Men Coming
 Immediately preceding the adjourn ment of the meeting the board was in- formed by J. D. Moore that special train bearing hardware men en route to their annual convention at San An tonic would pass through this city on Friday next, making a stop-over of six hours and half. He proposed that a committee be appointed to arrange for entertaining the visitors, and was in formed by the president of the board that such action had already been re- ferred to the entertainment committee of the Chamber of Commerce. The spe- cial train will arrive in Birmingham on Friday, April 21, at 4:30 D. m., over the Louisville and Nashville, leaving that same night at II o'clock. The vis- itors will she shown over the city In automobiles and feted in other ways.
 The whirlwind campaign was con ducted on the part of the membership committee, composed of B. B. Burton, chairman; Oscar c. Turner, George A. Blinn, J. M. P. Otis and Walter Fowlkes, assisted at times by various members of the chamber. Following is a list of the new members:
 The Members
 R. G. Alexander. s27 Woodward build ing.
 J. S. Adams, ss4 Brown-Marx building. MT. " C.. Almand, 10S North Twen- teth street
 MT. E. H. Abele. S15 Empire building.
 Mir. A., J. Arrant, 70S Chamber of Com merce building.
 l.. H. Baker, 927 Woodward building.
 Mir. Julian l.. Bibb, Twelfth avenue, south.
 Augustus Benners, Brown Marx build ing
 A. c. Bromberg 5O3 Chamber of Com merce building.
 MT. H. s. Bartlett. 51s Chamber of Commerce building
 Hardy M. Burt Florence hotel.
 MT. w. M. Baldwin, 400 Empire build ing. s.
 Harry Blanchard, 5o1 Woodward build : ing.
 J. A. Bergnun, sos South Thirteenth avenue.
 J. D. Baugh, 1902 Second avenue. Dr. w. H. Bell 109ia North Twen- teth street
 w. H. Barnes. 1929 First National Bank building
 The Barber Asphalt Paving company, Walter S. Ely and F. M Whitfield
 Caldwell Bradshaw.
 J. F. Garle, $40 Brown Marx building.
 R. A. Clark, 516 Brown-Marx building
 Joseph T. Collins, GAS Brown-Marx build ing.
 John M. Caldwell. PIP Twentieth street and Railroad company
 c, F. Coast Jr. 1135 Brown Marx build ing
 R. B. Creagh, 104 Empire building
 J. c. Corcoran, 30S First National Banl building.
 Abraham Copeland, BIO North Nine teenth street
 George R. Copeland, e2s First National Bank building.
 K w. Constantine. 4l2 Empire build ing. ] o. l.. Chambers, s51 Brown Marx build ing.
 G. E. Coffman, S05 Cotton avenue.
 J. w Cole, 539 Brown Marx building. Charles K Duncan, 75l Brown-Marx building
 R. P. Dunlap, 1912 Empire building.
 c. G. Duffee, Jefferson Lumber com