The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-18
ENTERTAINMENT FOR VISITING MERCHANTS WILL BE ELABORATE
Those Attending Convention This Year Will Be Better Taken Care of Than
 Last

A book of tickets which will be good for one show in every motion picture theatre in the city on any day from Tuesday to Friday, inclusive. will be given to every delegate to the Alabama merchants convention as they register at the Chamber of Commerce upon their arrival in the city convention week. which begins next Monday.
 Nothing is being left undone which will add to the good times and the en- tertainment which Birmingham is going to give the Alabama merchants. The Tickets to the motion picture theatres is one of the extras arranged for by the wholesale trade committee of the cham ber which has the entertainment of the big convention in charge. Chairman Murray Brown and his committeeman are working every day.
 Chairman Brown announced yesterday that the boys band of the Alabama Boys Industrial school at East Lake, one of the most famous juvenile bands in the country, has been engaged to furnish the music at the banquet barbecue which will be given in the open air Wednesday at 12 80 o'clock on the banks of Lake Como at East Lake park. The industrial school is a state institution. having boys attending it from all sections of the state, so that every delegate to the con- vention will feel particular interest in the band, which may contain boys from at all big occasions in Birmingham and it's appearance at the merchants con vention is sign of the conyention's im- portance.
 Efforts are being made to get every travelling man to be in Birmingham dur ing convention week and especially dur ing two convention days, August 26 and e7 next Wednesday and Thursday. The travelling men especially are acquainted intimately with almost all of the state merchants and will be a material aid in promoting good fellowship ana affording perfect entertainment to the visitors Ac- ceptances to the first invitations sent out the last of last week continue to pour into the offices of Secretary w. c. Rad cliffe, who stated yesterday he had re- ceived nearly 5O0 The attendance at the convention last year when the associa- tior was organized was over 1200, and it is expected to equal or even exceed that number this year.
 Arrangements have been perfected by MT Radcliffe, Blanks Everett and Chair man Brown for better handling of the registration of the delegates this year than last year, when considerable con- fusion resulted from the large crowd. A booklet containing coupons which will entitle the holder to all features of the two days entertainment is being pre- pared badge has already been de- signed which will admit the writing of the delegates name on the front As the delegates arrive during the week and on Wednesday morning when the rush will begin, they will file past table at which sits two men and as the dele gate gives his name, it will be written on a coupon book and on badge and he will be ready flor the fun"
 The printers are hard as work on "The Alabama Merchant the little newspaper which Is being published under the aus pices of the association especially to give the news of the convention and 1t will probably be placed in the mails tomorrow and the next day. It is said to be an exceedingly attractive little newspaper. One will be mailed to every merchant in the state.