The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-22
ALL FAVOR MAKING | AN ANNUAL EVENT | OF FASHION WEEK Officials of Business Mems League and Merchants
 Greatly Pleased
STREETS CROWDED
 DESPITE THE RAIN
Marked Spirit of Co-Operation Among the Merchants-Fare Rebates AL most as Heavy as During
 the Fair Last Year

l weather yesterday afternoon. Fashion
 Week came to a close with large crowds on the streets, the merchants in high good humor, and all the Miss Fashions happy Every merchant in the Business
 Mems League expressed his pleasure at the success of the event and hoped that it would become an annual affair. Presi- dent k. A. Brown of the league was en- thusiastic in his praise of the co-opera- ton of all the merchants and said that he would favor making Fashion Week an institution. Secretary Sam Fowllxes and Mrs ]. B. Reid of the Business Men S League concurred heartily in the senti- ments expressed by President Brown and Miss Julia Bessiere, who has charge of the rebate department of the league, said that indications pointed to the fares re- bated this week being almost, if not quite, as much.as they were at last years State Fair
 George A. Blnn said yesterday that Fashion Week was the greatest event
 ever held in Birmingham and paid a high
 tribute to President Brown and Mrs. Reid, saying that their original ideas and en-
 thusiastic work had been q prime factor
 in the success of the week He said that l they both had made many new friends l by their work to make Fashion Week q success. When Mir Brown accepted the office as president of the Business Men s 1 League it was expected that he would make good said Mr Blinn. But he has not only made good; he has made best ''
 Merchants All Co-Operated President Brown said that he never saw a better spirit of cooperation among the merchants than exists today They I entered into this affair for the good of all Birmingham and have been generous in every respect If a brother merchant had a prettier window there was no ill feeling displayed. All was harmony and congratulations rather than condemnation
 was bestowed upon the man with the pret- tier window
 MT. Brown referred to the work of the police department, saying it was of nigh order He said that when the idea was first brought up he feared that the Miss 1 Fashions might be 'insulted by 'mashers, I but the Miss Fashions all declared that l none had been in evidence. They were i, never annoyed, they said
 l Mrs. Reid said that it was a source of
 great pleasure to her that the week had
 passed so successfully. .'The Miss Fash | ions were as pleasant as could be- said | Mrs. Reid. They each and everyone seemed to have the good of Birmingham at heart and visited the various shops i with strict impartialty. There has been hundreds of out-of-toen visitors and in my opinion the first Fashion Week in Birmingham has been an unqualifie. suc- 1 cess"
 1 Oscar C. Turner it was who suggested i that Birmingham hold a Fashion Week.
 He visited Cincinnati just after the first i Fashion Week had been held in that city
 and remarked that the public was still l talking about it.. The idea appealed to ! him and he came home and brought up I the matter at a meeting of the Business i Mems League. R. A. Brown was ap-
 pointed chairman of a committee to look /, into the matter and MT. Turner was vice chairman. When MT Brown became
 president of the league he pushed the matter and the outcome was Fashion 1 Week MT. Turner said yesterday that in his opinion Fashion Week had been
 one of the greatest things ever held in Birmingham He expressed the belief l that in time it would be as large if not i much larger than is the annual State /, Fair each fall. He said that it had
 brought many visitors to the city. espe- eially those closer home Ensley, Besse-
 mer and other cities and towns near to 1 Birmingham.
 l Should Be Annual Event
 J. E. o.eIry, 1orner presIuent of the Business Mems league. said that II l f'asnlon " eek had cone nothing more than to gel the lnerchants to cooper 1 ate with each othe- on a big proposi
 ton Il had been worth all the money ;, put into ii. "But it has done much more, sssld he. Hundreds of people
 have visited the city and many who came into my store said they were here .Ionly because 1t was Fashion Week. 4 MT. Shelp., agreed with MT. Turner ! that Fashior Week should be made an annual event ana that it should be carried out on much more elaborate
 scale in succeeding years than 1t was last WeeE. Both gentlemen thought ! that Inc scheme vt decorations was as
 goou as could possibly have been se- l cured and thogh. ney should be elab-
 orated upon next year.
 l u. D. Rosenberser said that Fashion 1 Week was the biggest thing Birmin g. ] ham has i.eld from business point
 of view as well as civic viewpoint. ''For a first attempt it was great" said MT. RosenDerger. There have been 1 hundreds of visitors and the merchants
 have materially profited by it. The dec-
 orative scheme and ideas used this year, when cal ried our next season, will
 work twice as good as they did
 ]. Burger of the B0ger Dry Goods | company was chairman of the Fashion Week comIiittee Of the Business Mems league and MT. Burger was much grat- flied yesterday At the success of the undertaking. He and his committee {, were given great credit for their work 1 in the preparations and were com
 mendee on all s dca.
 Louis Sdks sail that he was great. lily pleaseu with the success of Fashion Week. Lcuis Pizitz expressed himself in the salne manner. as did J. Blach
 & Sons. Iovemal. Joseph & Loeb Hirschs Millinery company, Steele Smith, Caheen's, the Guarantee Shoe company Morris Rerk, Sidney S. Grif- fin, jewellers, furniture men and in deed every merchant in the Business Mems league.
 Two Miss Fashions Yesterday Miss Fashion yesterday was repre- sentti by two young ladies' dressed in fashions latest spring style. and well iproteoted from tl.e wind and rain by cloaks. Miss Annie Donnelly and Miss
 Florence Coffin were the young ladies
 and Miss Donnelly was detected a; Pizitz by Er. A. C. Phifer, while Will bur Holmes, 13 ar-old lad. discov-
 cred Miss Donneily at John w
 the Business Mems league for theii
 astuteness
 The seven Miss Fashions yesterday were the saests If the Business Mems league at luncheon at the Newspaper Iclub. with Mrs. J. B. Reid acting as lhostess.
 They were scheduled to make a triT over the city, visiting every member ot :. the Busintss Mems league immediately T Following the luncheon, but the rair lnreveufad he pronCaed trfn The vo11n q