The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-27
Rotary Club Selling Buttons


latch events.
Rotary Club Selling Buttons
Bert Jacobs and Colman Blach. the
chairmen in charge of the Rotary club
potlatch committee, are enthusiastic over
their prospects of selling the potlateh
buttons Monday and Monday night at
the park to make up the deficit so far in
the expenses of the festival. One of the
largest contributing forces to the success
OF the potlatch festival has been the
work of the Rotary club. which seems
to have a well developed faculty of hit
ting in the pinches.' With Mr.. Jacobs and
Mr.. Bach leading the work, the entire
membership of the club will go TO the
park Monday night and sell buttons to
the many who are expected to go to the
affair without button for admittance.
The ballot boxes in which the voting
has been going on in the two potlatc h
election contests will be at the park
Monday night so that all who buy but
tons can vote there. The final count of
the votes will be made then and the two
wsmpum belts containing $40 gold pieces
will be awarded to the two winners.
The entire powwow and Indian ball
as originally planned viii be carried out
Monday night. The Indian snake dance
which was given Friday night, so as not
to disappoint the 5000 people who had
braved the rainstorm. will be repeated
and the original East Lake programme
of the potlatch festival carried out in
every detail.
All Men Must Have Buttons
The potlatch buttons will be good for
admittance to the gates and everything
inside the gates of the park will be free.
The value of the potlatch button was
very ably proven Friday night. Besides
the strong committee of the Rotary club
which inspected every man as he entered
the park to see IL he wore a button
there were several relays of policemen
by whom every man had to file as he
entered the gateway. Each policeman
watched but for one thing and that was
a potlatch button.
The success of the potlatch festival in
celebration of the prosperity of the city
If gauged by the remarks heard from
persons In all walks of life, is the most
remarkable of any similar event held
in this part of the south The parades
are being praised by all, they having
made a particularly favorable impression
who came to Birmingham to attend the
potlatch. The night parade Thursday
night. everyone declares, was the most
gorgeous spectacle seen in the SOUTH with
the single exception of the New Or
leans Mardi Gras. The day parade has
been receiving equally as many praises
in spite of the fact that 1t was con-
Quoted in a downpour Of rain. Capt.
L. S. Dorrance, the man who sacrificed
several weeks from his own business to
take charge of the construction of the
floats in the night parade, is being CON
graduated on every hand. The success
of this parade probably Is due as much
to Captain Dorrance as any other single
man connected with Il.
Value of Festival Proven
The value of the potlatch festival to
the city has been proven, 1t is said,
even If the rain had stopped every single
feature of it. 1t has brought the people
of Birmingham closer together. made OF
them a more harmonious community, all
pulling for Birmingham. 1t is this spirit
which has been so aroused that is the
basis OF the predictions that the crowd
at East Lake Monday night will be the
largest ever inside the park and that
the crowning event of the potlatch fes-
tival will be an actuality.