The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-11
REORGAN|zE B|G COMMITTEE ON
 19CENTENN|AL Chamber Board of Directors Prepares to Get Actively
 Into the Fight
TRY TO ESTABLISH
 A WCMAN'S COLLEGE
First Fall Meeting of Chamber to Be Held October IS in Ball room of Hillman
 Hotel

The committee of the Chamber of Commerce on the centennial eXposi-
 ton to celebrate the admission of the state of Alabama to the union was | reorganized at a meeting of the board
 of directors of the chamber yesterday afternoon. The committee was first appointed during the administration of
 R. w Massey as president of the Chamber of Commerce and underwent
 but a few changes.
 The Idea of the exposition is to bring 1 1t to Birmingham in 1919. The com
 mittee appointed by the chamber will
 meet with the general committee re-
 gently appointed by Governor O'Neal,
 known as the state committee. At this
 meeting the local men will give req sons why the exposition should be held
 in Birmingham. It Is understood that
 both Mobile and Montgomery will try
 10 get the exposition. The committee
 to look after the matter consists of
 the following men:
 The Committee.
 | l. w McQueen chairman; Victor H.
 Hanson, NJ. V. Joseph, D. M. Drennen,
 l.. Sevier, George B. Mccormack, James
 Bowron, R. M. Goodall. E. r. Stovall
 William D. Jelks. oscar W. Underwood Culpepper- Exum. J. II. Phillips, T. IT. | Aldrich. James Bonnyman, Otto
 Marx, ]. l.. Yancey, A. II. Ford R. F. McDavid. Sid W. Lee, j. W. Sibley, Y. O.
 Smith, Robert Jemison, Jr., coleman
 BIach. Sterling A. Wood. M F. Mes
 ser. A. W. B. Johnson. W. w. Craw-
 ford, H. M Beck, E W. Barrett. r. l NJ Jackson, W. r. G. Harding, John L. Parker, Richard F. Johnston, Edward Miller E. P Hogan, !. l. smith, John
 l.. Raul. George c. Crawford, Joseph r.
 Johnston. ]. E. Gibson, Robert Jemison' James Weatherly, Erskine Ramsey E. l E. Burton. oscar C. Turner, Louis Saks, walker Percy. k. E. Collins. ". II. Ket- tig.
 The educational committee of the cham Der. with l.. Seyier as chairman, was au- vised to continue its work along the lines of establishing young womans college in Birmingham The matter was dis cussed at some length by the board and was reported favorably. The question of establishing d young woman's college here was lliSt Diou6hA hP Ps b'' 't First Fall Meeting
 The board of directors also decided to hold the first fall meeting of the Cham Der of Commerce on the evening of Octo- Der IS in the ballroom of the Hillman hotel The programme for the meeting will likely be along educational lines. and
 John l.. Parker and the educational com har of pf arrange it. IL is probable that the entire membership Of the Chamber will attend the meeting, the new members having q chance to get together" with the old men and become better acquainted with
 the work of the organization
 w. P G. Harding, chairman of the com mittee to look after the matter of cotton shipments, reported the successful out come of the efforts of his committee to
 have cotton purchased by Birmingham firms In eastern Alabama along the Ala
 bama Great Southern railroad. hauled to
 Birmingham for sorting and compression before being shipped. The committee was appointed to look into the matter be- cause it was believed that the cotton
 would be sent to Taladega for compress
 sion and Birmingham would be left out | of the field.
 | A report was made on the matter of a
 demonstration farm for Birmingham, but nothing was done.
 | The board indorsed the bill of Congress- | man Turnbul of Virginia, which provides | for a special commission to investigate
 the practicability of establishing per-
 manent exhibit of the natural, educational
 and industrial resources of the states in or near Washington. b. C. Secretary | Radcliffe was instructed to write the diff | ferent senators and congressman from Alabama asking their support of the bill. 1 The boarh elected James D. Scruggs, w. w, Robertson, E. P. Windham and s. s. | Griffith as new members of the Chamber | of Commerce.