The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-27
UDA TORY WORDS ABOUT BIRMINGHAM WRITTEN FOR
 HOTEL MEN OF THE NATION

tory queen or princess could pass through Birmingham without being chivalrously nabbed and ardently cleo trifed in this famous and irresistible Alabama apex. It is emphatically the club star of the new south
 The Birmingham 400 may be fer reted in the ultra South Highlands, bureaucratically ensconced around ex- elusive Glen Iris oval, enviously perched in palace box seats on terraced and winding Highland avenue, encircllng chic courts and crescents, the County club golf estate, scenic shelved in Noun tain Terrace or peaked on Altamoht summit I had read and seen rainbow post cards of Birminghams famed zig gag Highland avenue but one can have no conception of it's complete originality and abolute incomparability in the United States until he has autoed It's billowy bends, metropolitanly paved. eurbed. and terraced, with lawn ana tree trimmed promenades, and lined its serpentine length with the smartest or twentieth century mansions and bunga- lows. piazza boxed and begemmed with vines and flowers. Chicago has nothing in parallel, even along it's Lake Shore drive or in the royal preserve Of Lake Forest, for they are as flat as the lake whereas the blue-blooded Birmingham- ties airily survey the whole region or Ilelf auSRIltHLlHE SoutAltI II ihthACPOiAr' from the Red mountain knobs to lurld Ensley Birmingham commercially and Birmingham residentially comprise two distinctive units Geographically, and the mountainside latter is unquestton- ably developing into one of the most beautiful and enticing of American cities
 You are well aware of my peregrlnat- ing hotellic fandom and may aptly in- ap I Vua a g gadVanCp-infOrmed ad as possible relative to the bewilderlng- famed new Tutwiler of Birmingham, sur charged with ardent expectancy and fully prepared to be surprised and enchanted, but 1 was all that and then some-in fact intoxicantly dazed, almost stunned, by its bountiful palatiality and luxurious labyrinths, finding it a far southern type of bemillioned New York or Chicago, any fabulous site or corner of which it would distinguish and begem. There is nothing like 1t outside of New York, Chi cago or San Francisco and, of course, nothing to compare with it in the twen- tieth century reborn south.
 AS may be further aptly imagined, the rich rehectng Tutwier affords the Sir mingham elect a fetching new back ground for stately functions, club balls, the creme de la creme sets, dazzling diners, and tuxedo-ty typec patrons During
 
 and proudly enticed the Highlands iloies to the luxuriant lair in a bewildering kal- edoscope of resplendent gowns, blazing jewels, and towery aigrettes, revealing radiantly to chance rotunda revuers that Birmingham smart society is alertly apace to the pulsating minute or limit of the veriest " fore and aft decollette the glove-tight short skirt, the now unen- veloped willowy and beautiful ankle, and fadsome gem-studded shoe. Birmingham is more western than southern, younger and newer, still on the sunny side of fifty, consequently its old and autocratic families and sentinel society do not pre- sume like pedigreed and naughty Charlestonians to frigidly peruse prosper ous newcomers or even patient parVenues through lofty and stiff lorgnettes from toe to tepee and disdainfully seige-gun entirely over their humble trenches. The aswim Birminghamites are apparently broad and buoyant, naturally chivulrous and chummy, and jolly good fellows and mixers, whether in toilettes or tux edos, and thereby make the best sort of impression upon visitors at their dinners, dances, clubs and in their hearty homes. 1 The select Southern opposite the Tutwiler at Fifth avenue and Twentieth street is the crony town lair, and the Country and Roebuck the spotlights of the golhsts and autofans."