The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-08
This Includes Birmingham College and S73,350 Pledged Monday Night-Munger
 Largest Subscriber
FIRST OF DAILY LUNCHEONS HELD AT
 TUTWILER HOTEL
Attendance Is Large and Much En- thusiasm nifested-Canyasser Everywhere Warmly Received.
 Sibley Tells of His
 Experiences

During the first days canvass yester- day the committees working to the end that the Methodist university be located
 here, total subscriptions reached the amount of s44 ,S5s This announcement
 was made at the lunch of all commit tees at the Tutwiler at 1 o'clock yester- day and included. besides the subscrip-
 tions secured in the morning, the site of Birmingham college and the s1s.35o pledg-
 ed Monday night at the meeting of the teams.
 The largest single contributor thus lar is R. S. Munger. who gives $25,0oo. This, be it understood, is supplementing sl5,- GOO already given Birmingham college and in reality MT. Munger's donation is SiO,- 900. F. M. Jackson gives s5OO0, which really is $1O,0O0, for Mir. Jackson previously had pledged S5000 to Birmingham college and will pay this amount to the uni versity fund together with 5000 just sub scribed Mrs. T. T. Hiliman gives $l0,- 900, Col. Tom o. Smith s50oO and the Earle estate $5000.
 Among the teams reporting $1000 and upwards yesterday at the luncheon were George Gordon Crawford, $1000; J. D. Moore, s5oO0; W. T. Northington, $2lOO;
 Paul Phillips, S2775; R. A. Porter, $l1o0, F. B. Fowlkes, $2SOo; J. w. Sibley sl6So.
 Large Attendance at Lunch
 There was a large attendance at the luncheon and much enthusiasm was mani fested None of the canvassers are paid for their work and it is solely for the
 good of Birmingham they work. Many of the workers on the teams have sup
 scribed what they felt they could any many others will announce donations to- day Each member of every team IS go-
 ing to make a subscription.
 There was a spirit of earnestness manl- fest at the lunch and every one seemed imbued with the idea that Birmingham would win in it's fight. That the money
 will easily be secured, with the proper amount of work, is not doubted by any member of the teams and all are confi- dent of victory. There was much en- couragement given yesterday by the cour-
 teous manner in which all the teams
 were received, and few, indeed, were the people called upon who did not at least make a tangible promise.
 A large blackboard occupies the Fourth avenue end of the main dining room at the Tutwiler, in which are held the daily luncheons. On this is marked the stand ing of the various teams. The special committees, subdivisions of the central committee, led yesterday, put 1t is be- lieved the district committees will as sume the lead today and maintain 1t to | the end of the week, when it is believed the required million will be pledged It has been pointed out that the money pledged could be paid in such easy in- stallments that the donor scarcely would 1<now he had given it. so far as the money itself is concerned. Subscribers to the fund will have four years in which to meet the obligation.
 J. w. Sibley was called upon by Mir Shook yesterday to tell of his experi- ences during the mornings work. MT.
 Sibley related two incidents. One of
 them was of the first man ne talked to. and of how it required 55 minutes to se- cure a subscription from him. The other was of a man who had already assured
 himself of the desirability of having the
 university here and who was waiting to sign the pledge card.
 It is expected that attendance at to- days lunch will tax the capacity of the l main dining room. There was an en- thusiastic spirit in evidence yesterday and members from the outlying sections promised to bring their team mates in to | the luncheon today.
 "See the People" Slogan | The keynote of the campaign is: See the people. Subscriptions are voluntary. | but give the people a chance to contribute. Keep seeing them until they do soi'' And
 with this in mind, the canvassing teams | believe they will win.
 | H. D. Cullen, managing editor of the | Educational Exchange, published monthly
 in Birmingham, writes the following edi-
 toriaI for the July issue, which soon twill
 be off the press:
 | "When the break camo recently between
 the authorities of Vanderbilt university and the Methodist Episcopal church, south. by means of which the church lost
 control of that great university, pro- visions were immediately made to estab- | fish two other universities in the south.
 One of them was located at Dallas, Tex, and the other will be located in some city | seems to be between Atlanta and Bir- l n ingham. Both cities are actively at | " ork, trying to raise funds to assure the location of the university in their respec- | tive limits. The locating board will not decide upon the location until definite propositions are received from the various l cities making offer of sites funds, etc. A tract of 70 acres in a suburb of Atlanta l has been offered and the effort Is being | me de to supplement this with fund of about S1 O00,000. In Birmingham. 1t is pro- | posed to offer the site of Birmingham col lege. a church school. which with its cam | pus and 63 acres is valued at $300. 600, to- gether with a supplementary fund suf- | ficient to raise the total to at least $1,
 000,000. Civic and religious organizations in both cities are behind the movement and the rivalry is very hot The Elk
 change sincerely trusts that this great
 school will be located in Alabama and | that our people may have benefit. The plans of the church provide for a
 university valued at S. 100000 and the loca-
 ton of such q school in Alabama will
 mean much for the state. as Vanderbilt
 has meant much to Nashville and to Ten
 nessee. Whom the business men of Bir-
 mingham go after anything, they usually
 land 1t, with the exception of the recent
 regional bank contest and we hope that the present contest with our sister city of Atlanta will result in a sweeping victory | for Birmingham. and Alabama'
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