The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27
WOULD BRING BIC SCHOOL ID ALABAMA Citizens Make Trip to Nash
 vile Tomorrow TO COST FIVE MILLION Several Cities Are After S5,0O0,000 Institution Which Is to Be Built
 by Southern Educational Association
TO COST FIVE MILLION

strong effort will be made Tues day in Nashville by Birmingham and Alabama citizens to secure the location In this state of the s5,000,OO0 school to be located in the south by the south ern Educational association. The com mittee to locate the school will meet in Nashville Tuesday morning. In order to be on hand and press the suit Of Ragland or Jasper or any proper place in this state, a delegation will leave here tomorrow night on the midnight Louisville and Nashville.
 The delegation will include Secretary Joseph Babb of the Chamber of Com merce, Senator Watt Brown of Ragland, Lee Cowart commissioner of immigra- ton, and other well known citizens.
 Senator Brown has been actively at work for the location of the school at Ragland, prosperous little city he founded on the Seaboard 40 miles rom Birmingham He said yesterday that he would insist that the school be To- cated there on account of the fact that the state has only recently located one technical and agricultural school there and the two should be in close connection. The state school is the first of the kind to be located in the south, according to Senator Brown. As Alabama has taken the first step in line with the work of the Southern Educa- tional association, he says that the place and state to get the first school under way should have prior claim over any other state in the south.
 Senator Brown said yesterday that the location of a $5,O00.000 school in this state would be a great educat ational victory
 The other cities asking for the school are Jasper, Bristol, Tenn. and one city in North Carolina It is understood that the Southern railway interests are trying to get the school located in Bris- tol and the company has offered to give twice as much as Bristol does for the location of the school at that point Despite the tremendous influ- ence of the Southern railway and others interested in Bristol, it is said the chances for Ragland or Jasper in this state are exceedingly bright. A great many telegrams and letters have been written the executive committee having in charge the location of the great school in the interest of the two cities in this state.
 One argument that Is expected to cut big figure in the location of the school in this state is that the school Is of a technical and industrial nature and that Alabama Is unquestionably the premier state for such work and study With the vast industrial work going ahead here there cannot be, 1t is said. any good arguments advanced to refute the suggestion that Birmingham or the immediate district is the ideal place for the school.
 The committee leaving here will be joined in Nashville by representatives of the Frisco and Seaboard Air Line railroads and they will try to get the school for this state. Jasper Is on the Frisco, while the Seaboard is in terested in Ragland. It Is said the two companies will work together to get the school situated in Alabama, irrespective of which of the two cities get the buildings.
 It is understood that Senator Brown, who is the owner of big tracts near Ragland will go to the extent of of fering the land to the school in order to get that institution located in con nection with the state institution at Ragland