The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-24
Convention Will Be Called
to Order by Senator Bank
head at Jefferson Thea
tre This Morning
GOOD ROADS MODELS
WILL BE SENT HERE
FROM MONTGOMERY
Delegates Pour Into City from All
Over Country-4S Counties of the
State Represented-Already
Cities After the Next Conven-
tion-Three Sessions Daily

Everything is in readiness for the meet
ing of the National Good Roads fedora
ton and the convention will be called to
order this morning by Senator J. H. Bank
head who arrived in Birmingham last
right to preside over the deliberations
of the organization.
Delegates poured into the city all day
yesterday and several hundred had ar
rived at a late hour last night The
hotels were crowded last night, and 1t
was stated that a room was difficult to
secure.
Headquarters of the federation were
opened yesterday morning at the Jeffer-
son theatre and when the closing hour
arrived delegates from the following
states had registered;
Arizona, California, Arkansas, New
Mexico, Kansas, New York, South Caro-
lina, North Carolina South Dakota, Ten
nessee Mississippi, Alaska, District of
Columbia. Iowa, Missouri, Texas and
Louisiana The Tennessee delegation, 40
strorg, arrived yesterday and with the
exception of the Alabama delegation this
is the largest body from a single state
that has yet arrived. There are repre-
sentatives of 46 counties of Alabama here
~and nine probate judges are among the
number.
OF the executive committee of the fed
Grafton every member is present with one
exception, and he is expectd to arrive
Today. Those who arrived yesterday
were: Senator Bankhead, chairman;
Thomas l.. Cannon vice chairman; j. A.
Rountree secretary; +. II. Colcoke of
South Carolina, w. S. West of Valdosta.
Ga. and Jere Whitson of coopersville,
Tenn.
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that he had received a telegram from
Secretary of Agriculture David F. Hous-
ton which insured that the road models
which Logan W. Page recently refused
TO send to Birmingham, would be sent
here Secretary Houston's telegram was
as follows: Page has wired Alabama
highway commission in regard roads
models as requested by you
ID. +. HOUSTON"
Quite a sensation was caused when it
was announced several days ago that
Logan w. Page, director of public roads,
had refused to order the road models of
the government sent to Birmingham de-
spite the fact that the models were at
Montgomery Senator Bankhead immedi-
ately wrote to Secretary Houston asking
that he take action in the matter. His
telegram last night followed.
Cities After Next Meeting
Already efforts are being made to secure
the next meeting of the National Good
Roads federation and invitations from
several cities will be presented to the con-
vention.
T. Sam Bola Jones, commissioner at
large of the Panama Pacific exposition
at San Francisco in 1915 will arrive in
birmingham tomorrow and will extend an
invitation on behalf of the exposition to
meet in San Francisco in 1915.
Thomas l.. Cannon of st. Louis will
also present an invitation to the conven-
ton on behalf of the convention bureau
of st. Louis. Governor e. w. Major of
Missouri, II. w. Kiel, mayor of st. Louis,
the Merchants exchange, the One Million
Population club, the Conventions EXPOSE
ton company and 80 smaller organizations
to meet in st. Louis in August of this
year.
An invitation will also be presented
from the commercial bodies of r1obile,
and Asheville, N c., asking the conven-
ton to meet in those cities.
E. j. Watson, commissioner of agricul-
ture of South Carolina, reached Birming-
ham yesterday, as did e.. RI Kone, COM
missioner of agriculture of Texas. Com
missioner Kolb of Alabama is also in the
city and-~il speak today. S. Eugene de
RaclSin of Imperial, cal, is also in Bir-
mingham Mr.. deRackin is a former
resident OF Birmingham.
Three Sessions Daily
There will be three sessions of the
convention today and three tomorrow
The programme for the day Is as fol-
lows
Morning Session
The National Good Roads Federation
viii meet in jefferson theatre at 10
o'clock.
The meeting will be called to or