The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-17
|AD CLUB PLANNING B|G TIME TONIGHT | BEFORE DEPARTURE GridirOn Dinner to Atlanta Visitors Will Be Feature
 This Evening SPECIAL TRAIN TO
 LEAVE AT MIDNIGHT Birmingham Club Will Do Some "Stunts" at Dallas to Open Eyes
 of Hundreds of Adyer-
 tising Men

"A hot time in the old town tonight" is being sung by members of the Birming- ham Ad club today.
 For tonight is the night of nights for the club.
 gridiron dinner at the Hotel Hill- man. in honor of the Atlanta Ad club, a luncheon at 4he Florence hotel for the Indies in the Atlanta party, and the op- eration of a special train to Dallas for the convention of the Associated Ad clubs of America next week. are down on the blackboard.
 The club is iubilant over developments so far "Ad club" day at Redwood park yesterday was an unqualified success. A large crowd paid homage to Brming- hams Tive wire and a tidy little sum was realized to defray the expense of the clubs eight delegates to the convention.
 The Atlanta special will arrive in Bir- mingham about o'clock. From the Ter minal station the Georgians will be con veyed to the hotels in automobiles. For this purpose a number of the vehicles are needed. The Ad club has sent out call for volunteers. Any automobile owner who wants to do the Ad club a service is expected to call Cleye Upchurch. chair man of the entertainment committee, at the Birmingham News. He will make ar engagements for it's use tonight.
 The ladies in the Atlanta party will be taken to the Indian room in the Florence hotel, where they will be entertained by the ladies of the Birmingham party. tl,ie ffoir ,ryiII la ala bor ta as the gridiron dinner preparations being made promise good time for the fairer half of the visitors.
 Ad club members have been dreaming as the grdiron dinner. preparations being tertainment committee has been working as never an entertainment committee worked before. Besides conceiving of all kinds of fancy food and drink proposi- tions, plans have been made for pulling off the greatest piece of pleasantly ever attempted in Birmingham.
 Fuzzy" Woodruff will be there in all his glory as master of ceremonies. John Sparrow, president of the club, will pre- side as father of ceremonies. Ad club members of every kind. description shape and form will gather around the festive board to dine the loquacious Atlantans.
 Midnight will find the Birmingham Ad club steaming away from the Magic City. It will be the first time that Birmingham will be represented. at a national ad club convention. But, indications point to Bir- minghams making a greater impression at it's first convention than any other city.
 The chief topic at the convention will be municipal advertising. A stunt that is expected to open the eyes of over 5000 ad- vertisng men, representing every city Of importance in the United States, is going to be presented by the Birmingham Ad club at Dallas.
 The special train. which will leave Bir- mingham between II 80 and F o'clock to- night, will be run over the Frisco lines to Memphis. From there the Cotton Belt route will operate the train to Texas.
 On the rear car of the Birmingham train will be attached the huge Birmingham Just Flying sign, made by the South ern Ad company, and presented to the club This sign, which is brilliant and artistic piece of work, will be illuminated at night. Natives in the different states through which the special train will pass will know that Birmingham has been upon their ground.