The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-26
MERCHANTS GATHER THIS FTERNOON FOR BARBECUE AT PARK Will Be Opening Event of Convention of Alabama
 Merchants BUSINESS MEETING
 AT BIJOU TONIGHT Number of Addresses by Prominent Men-Over loo Delegates Had
 Registered Last
 Night
Today's Programme

Iuudy TrORramtne
 Today's programme of the iner- chants convention is as follows
 Merchants go to Chamber of Com merce as they arrive, there to regis ter and receive credentials.
 Movie theatres open for delegates. 12:3O o'clock sharp-Barbecue in audi tofium at East Lake park. All aniuse- ments free. Music by famous Ala bama Boys Industrial School band
 Address of welcome by P. C. Shook. president of the Chamber of Com merce.
 Response by President W. w. ogden of the Alabama Merchants assoeia ton.
 Appointment of resolutions and nom mating committees.
 2:15 oclock-Leave East Lake park on special street cars for Redwood Field to see Southern league baseball game. Birmingham vs. Chattanooga.
 S:30 o'clock, Bijou theatre--Call to order by President w. w. ogden.
 Glad hand talk by George B. Ward, president board of city commissioners.
 Presidents address, by w. w. Og- den, Sulligent.
 Address by V. J. Nesbit, ''Exemption Statute and the Good Merchant
 Why Buy Often" F. M. Stradley, Anniston.
 Advantage of Trading at Home," by E. Wilkinson, Birmingham.
 Drains on Our Business, Henry T. Lille. Trinity.
 Railroads and the Merchant" by l.. Sevier, general agent Southern railway and allied lines.
 'The Future of Birmingham" by John H. Frye. president Traders Ma tional bank, Birmingham.
 Modern Merchandising Methods.'' by Norman II. Johnson, editor Mer- chants Journal and Commerce. Rich mond Va.
 Report of resolutions committee.
 Election of officers.
 Nearly 100 delegates to the merchants convention had registered at the Cham Der of Commerce up to last night Th morning the chamber headquarters vii be opened at o'clock and before l o'clock. noon. it is expected 1iv5 or 150 more will register.
 Three big events mark today's pNo gramme-the barbecue, the ball game ant the Bijou theatre business meeting At the Bijou theatre tonight all mem bers of the Chamber of Commerce wil be welcome as will also the wives ar, lady friends of chamber members ans delegates. The board of directors of tn association, the members of the chambe trade extension bureau and the speak CTS will occupy the stage.
 Davidson's orchestra will furnish mus throughout the evening and the surpris of the programme. which has never beer made public will come in three dfferen events. The Bijou theatre Is located a Third avenue and Seventeenth street, fiv blocks from the Chamber of Commerce building.
 Special Service to East Lake J. P. 1T. DeWindt, general manage of the Birmingham Railway, Light an, Power company, and Traffic Manager Hury will have personal charge of tn, street cars and trains which will leav, the chamber building this morning |, take the delegates to East Lake, iron there to the ball park and back to town Cars with trailers will run out to Eas Lake throughout the morning, and tw, special street car trains will leave on through schedule between the chambei building and the park. one at Il O clocl and one at 11:30 o'clock this morning. Transportation over the street car lin' is provided for in the coupon book whicl every delegate will receive when he regis ters. Each delegate has been asked b,
 
 tention to the coupon books, as a coupoi is there for every event of the two days convention. The theatre tickets will b found about the middle of the book, ad hitting each delegate to one show a every one of the motion picture theatres. Men with megaphones will be on tn street cars operating to East Lake, tn ball park and back to town, and als on the special excursion train Thursda a If tI. Ia1x f.. the places of interest in the city. Ar rangement has been made for 15 coache for the excursion train. It will be il charge of J. w. Bryan of the Birmingham Southern. The train will go first to tn mammoth wire mill of the American Stee and Wire company at Fairfield, and iron there to the rolling mills and furnace of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroa, conipany at Insley.
 Delegates Should Register
 Large streamers have been placed d both of the depots instructing delegate to register at headquarters at once, am large streamer has been placed at tn Chamber of Commerce building designat ing the place as convention headuuar ters. Every detail is complete for tn arrival of the delegates this morning. am they are expected to begin coming abou ' o'clock and continue to 1 this afternoon An information desk will be located | the auditorium of the chamber where al delegates can find out anything they wis to know about the city or similar mat ters.
 President Ogden says all is ready fo the convention. Mir. Ogden last night de clared that business in his section wa ''as fine as could be" and that the farm CTS would hold their cotton for 12b cent pound.