The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-15
FOREIGN CHEMISTS SPEND WHOLE DAY
 IN BIRMINGHAM Shown Over District and Entertained by Chamber
 of Commerce GERMANS COMPOSED MOST OF THE PARTY Breakfast Taken at Country Club and Big Plants of Ensley, Corey
 and Other Placed Visited
 During the Day

Fifty foreign chemists and scientists, 90 per cent of whom were from Ger many, were royalty entertained yes terday by the Chamber of Commerce, and such an impression was made on the visitors that "drei hochs fur Bir- mingham" were given with a will by the entire party.
 The chemists. who are delegates to the International Congress of Applied Chemistry, which has been In session in New York city, have toured the north and west on special train and at the present time are on their way back to Boston They were scheduled to arrive in Birmingham yesterday morning at 730 o'clock, but the train was late as in the case of the geog- raphers earlier in the week, and did not arrive until 10:30. Members of the Chamber of Commerce were at the Ter minal station at 7:30 o'clock yesterday morning and were undaunted when word was received that the train was late At 10.30 o'clock special street cars were in waiting and when the visitors arrived they boarded the cars and were taken through the South
  Country Club, where a luncheon was served. The visitors were much im- pressed with the beauty of South High lands and the grounds of the Country Club, and praised it highly. The lunch con was a perfect success and 1t was while at the meal that the Germans arose to man and gave the "drei hochs fur Birmingham"
 Speeches Made
 Several short speeches were made al the Country Club. W. c. Radcliffe. sec retary of the Chamber of Commerce, welcomed the visitors to the city, as did J. IT. Adams, Gustav Errman or Birmingham, representative of the German agents, talked to the chemists in German, explaining all that the hrst two men had said. as some of the Ger mans could not speak English D. I. Day, who has charge of the party of chemists, spoke to them in German and declared that this was d region where ."chemistry had shaken hands with geology with excellent results. R. Hoffman spoke a few words in Ger man and proposed the "hochs'' for Bir- min gham.
 At the conclusion of the luncheon the party went to the special street cars and started to the Louisville and Nashville depot. On the way one of the cars broke down and in spite Of the efforts of the street car men and the Germans to move it, nothing could be done. However, the party was trans ferred to another car and arrived at the depot half an hour late.
 Through the courtesy of President Crawford of the Tennessee company, srecial train was in waiting at the depot consisting of two coaches and a baggage car. The chemists, along with the Bir- minrham committee boarded the train and made A tour of the Birmingham district. The first stop was made at Pratt City where the party were shown the steel mills. The chemists were loud in their praise of the plant and number of them said it was the best they had seen. The plant at Ensley was the next stop and guards conducted the party through Some of the chemists said that the plant was better than the ones near Pittsburg. They were very close ob- servers and nothing escaped their watch ful eyes. Men thoroughly versed in sci- ence and well known in all Europe, they were competent to criticse and comment on the plants and were unanimous in their praise of them.
 Go to Bay View The special train next carried the party to Bay View where no stop was made on account of the late hour However, at Corey they went through the by-pro- duct plant and were delighted at the work heinz carried on at the coke ovens. The drjzzling rain made Ii very unpleasant, but every member of the party was anx- ous to see everything and waded around in the mud and water to get better views. On the way back to the city the train again went through Ensley and Pratt City, but no stops were made. It had been planned to go to Muscoda and other mines in the district, but the late ness of the hour made it impossible. An informal luncheon was served on the train and cigars and cigarettes were dispersed to everyone. Upon arriving back in Birmingham several members of the party went to the plant of the Amer ican Cast Iron Pipe company, under the escort of Assistant Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce w B. Everett. The ladies of tine party were the guests of D. T. Day and W. C. Radcliffe at a