The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-04


session of the congress. which convenes
| at o'clock. His topic will be the High
| Cost of Living and the Remedy" Mr..
Underwoods ability is well known in
this his home city and 1t is believed
that the armory hall will be crowded
| to capacity.
The last preliminary meeting was
held yesterday morning at the Chamber
| of Commerce by the special committee
and representatives of the various rail-
roads. A. Fl. Ford chairman of the spe-
| cial committee, presided over the meet
| ing. Those present at the meeting were
enthusiastic over the prospects for the
success OF the land congress and sew
| eral speeches were made, all of which
showed a spirit of optimism on the part
of the speakers Among those who were
called on for addresses by Chairman Ford
were j. C. Clair of the Illinois central,
G. e. Clark of the Louisville and Nash
Vile, NJ. A. Hayes of the Southern rail-
way and George G. Crawford of the
Tennessee Coal and Iron company.
Those present were:
A. II. Ford, chairman. Birmingham;
| s. E. Wflbourne. Birmingham; j. A.
Pride. general industrial agent Sea-
board Air Line, Norfolk, Va; NJ. A.
Hays, Southern railway, Washington
L. p. Bellah, Nashville; C. A. Park gen
eral Industrial and immigration agent,
Louisville and Nashville railroad,
Louisville; J. C. Blair, industrial and
immigration commissioner, Illinois Cen
tral railroad, Chicago; Joseph o.
Thompson, Birmingham; II. II. Skeggs,
Decatur; ]. T.. Penney, Birmingham: ].
M. Elliott, Jr.. Gadsden: w. w. Croxton,
general passenger agent, Atlanta, Bir-
mingham and Atlantic railroad, At
lanta D. N, Marbury, Marbury; f. p.
Glass Birmingham; George Gordon
Crawford, Birmingham; II. X. Milher,
Birmingham w. d. Jelks, Birmingham
w. L. Henderson, Mobile and Ohio rail-
road, Mobile James ]. Smith, Birming-
ham; B. NJ Allen. Birmingham; Lee
Cowart. state immigration commission :
er, Birmingham; n. F. Thompson, pres
: ident Alabama State Land congress,
Birmin CHAM; William o. Radcliffe, gen :
; eral secretary Chamber of Commerce,
| Birmingham.
Programme for Today
The official programme for today fol-
lows:
MORNING SESSION.
$3.50 a. m.-Delegates will assemble
at armory in city hail. Fourth avenue
and Nineteenth street, for registration
and reception of badges.
$3.50 a. m.--Alabama State Land con-
gress called to order by the president
and opened with prayer by Rev. l.. .,
Branscomb, presiding elder Methodist
Episcopal church, south, Birmingham
| 9:45 a. m.-Address of welcome on
behalf of the state of Alabama En-
met O'Neal. governor of Alabama.
10 a. m.-Address of welcome on behalf
of the city of Birmingham, James Wealth
erly, commissioner.
| 10:l5 a. m.-Address of welcome on be-
half of farm movement committee Bir-
mingham Chamber of Commerce, Joseph
o. Thompson, chairman farm movement
committee.
1890 a. m.--Response to addresses of
welcome, C. G. Abercrombie, manager ag-
ricultural department, Business Men s
League, Montgomery.
10:45 a. disappointment of standing
committee.
IL a m.-"Mineral Resources of Ala
hama," paper by Miss Ethel Armes,
author of Coal and Iron in Alabama -
Birmingham.
30 "a. m.-Good roads; report of dele
gate to International good roads conven-
ton, London England, George A Nell
son. Decatur.
NOON INTERMIsSION
= p. m.--Address. THE Railroads and
Their Relation to Alabama Development
w w Finley, president of the Southern
Railway company, Washington, D. c. (T.
C. Powell, vice president of the Alabama
Great Southern, will represent Mr.. Finley
and will read his speech.)
2:30 p. m.-Address, Immigration, the
Kind Alabama Needs,' John l.. Burnett,
chairman House committee on immigra-
ton and naturalization, Washington, D. c.
3 p. m.-Address, Lee Cowart immgra-
tion commissioner, state of Alabama,
Montgomery
800 p. m.-Address, Relation of the
Railroads to the Public" Charles A.
| Wickersham, president Western of Ala
bama railroad, and Atlanta and West
Point railway.
$40 p. operative plan for secur-
ing more settlers for Alabama, presented
by special committee. composed of rep
resentative business men, heads of cor
porations and NJ V. Richards, land and
industrial agent, Southern railway, WASH
ngton. ID. C.; G. A. Park, land and in
dustrial agent. Louisville and Nashville
railroad, Louisville, and by other repre-
sentatives of every railroad operating in
Alabama.
NIGHT SESSION.
s p. m.-Paper, Forty Years in Ala
bama," Milton II. Smith. president of the
| Louisville and Nashville railroad Jouis