The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-15
Street Decorators Work Is About Completed and
 Result Is Unique
SIX MISS FASHIONS
 HAVE BEEN CHOSEN
Bands Will Play in Business District All Week-Thousands of Visitors Are Expected-Window Dis
 plays Will Be Unusual

The Magic City is dressed up in the best sense of the word.
 All the past week have decorators been busy on the downtown streets, trans forming them into flower gardens such as would cause envy in the hearts of many a gardener. The Business Men s league has been preparing to entertain thousands of visitors to Birmingham during Fashion Week, and tomorrow Is the opening day. Monday rharks the first of six days on which will be displayed the newest in fashion and followers of the majestic dame will be in Birmingham from every nook and cranny of Alabama. few thousand people from neighbor- ing states are even expected to call. Miss Fashion will be on the streets each day, and she will be prominent among the figures to be seen in the beau- tiful shops. The first person addressing her, You are Miss Fashion," will re- ceive an envelope bearing a printed slip, $10 from the Business Mems league. Should she be detected more than once she will give to each subsequent one an envelope containing a slip reading, You are mistaken
 There will be six Miss Fashions, one for each day of the week. Mrs. J. B. Reid has made the selections and as she has well known taste for beauty and grace, 1t is doubted not that the young women chosen by her will be pelasing to the public.
 aah nf ha ,.ttl l. bands playing on the downtown sections, where the decorations have been placed Nappi's band has been increased in size for the occasion and will play along the thoroughfares which are decorated The decorations are, perhaps the most ] unique of the kind ever attempted in street decorations. Sam Friedman, win dow trimmer of J. Blach & Sons, evolved the idea, which is greenery. The effect | produced is striking and gives an air of freshness to everything. Each of the white way posts are to be festooned with smilax and suspended between each post will be a basket filled to overfiowing with Spanish moss and evergreens. At each street intersection will be plaster statues 12 feet high, holding nloft a huge box filled with greenery.
 One of the downtown shops was pro- Gressive enough to have an arcade or
  ing from its doors to the edge of the street This firm yesterday placed foul huge columns in front of it's building and while passersby looked on curiousy, anf carpenters mounted scaffolding and placed the cross bars, painted a dazzling white attractive and pleasing to the eye. These bars were garlanded with greenery and the sidewalk immediately in front of the doors was shaded from the glare of the sun by the smilax. At each of the other two entrances to the store the same set ting was made and a beautiful effect pro- duced.
 Secretary Sam F. Fowll1es of the Busi- ness Mems league has been untiring in his efforts to make Fashion Week a sue cess. He has mailed over 0,Oo0 invitations to out-of-town people, and it is expected that from this alone will come more than 20,0O0 visitors.
 To President R. A. Brown of the Busi- ness Mems league the merchants are giving great credit for the bright out look for the success of the event. MT. Brown personally called upon each mer- chant and laid before him the proposed plans for Fashion Week. and it was due in large measure to his enthusiastic spirit and civic enterprise that the mer-