The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-09

Bankhead lake from Birmingham easily.
 You have Mobile as an outpost, and we are glad to be a suburb of Birming- ham, We are proud to hold the train of the garment of this mistress of the south. Mobile extends to Birmingham every good wish for her success and we want to help you to accomplish any, thing which you want to do for the bet torment of your city"
 Birmingham of the Future Robert Jemison. Jr., followed MT. Irvine and drew wonderfully beautiful word picture of the Birmingham of the future. He predicted a city of no less than 600,000 souls within 20 years. He predicted city of no less than 400, 600 population within 10 years. He cited fig ures for the past 10 years as basis of fact for his roseate view of the future. MT. Jemison said that during the past 10 years Birmingham had increased it's off, flee space in the way of large buildings more than 500 per cent; had increased it's hotel facilities 300 per cent; had built miles and miles of streets and macadamized roads
 He could see no reason why this city should not be on the main route of the Jackson highway, and with this accom- plished, he saw Birmingham not only as mining center, a manufacturing center, a commercial center. social center, a banking center, 8 trading cen- ter, but also as a tourist center.
 "All the pioneering has been done for us'' said MT. Jemison, land it seems that we certainly ought to go forward in enormous strides. One concern in this district alone has spent more than $25,- coo, GOO, and it is absolutely necessary that it spend s75000,000 more before it can get an adequate return on it's investment I've hold the destiny of Birmingham. It Is up to you and to me to prove what Birmingham will be tomorrow. And Bir- mingham of yesterday and today has set g. pretty lively pace for us to follow
 "There is no more effective channel through which we can come into our own than the organization of this great Cham- Der of Commerce on real practical busi- ness lines. Without resourceful Cham Der sof Commerce we cannot hope to have the great city we should have in Birmingham.
 Tt is up to us to make local condi- tions satisfactory. Let us make Birming- ham place that will attract the capital ist, the professional man and the laborer the man in every walk of life. In order to do that we have got to have a law-abiding community. We have got to have proper living conditions, proper edu- ca tional facilities, proper police protec- tion We have got to have proper amuse- ments and we have got to have them on Sundays as well as on week days"
 Judge Moses Wright, president of the Rome, Ga, Chamber of Commerce, was to have delivered an address. but tele- graphed that due to the sudden severe illness of his daughter he could not get to Birmingham.
 Bruce Kennedy, general secretary of the Montgomery Chamber of Commerce, delivered the last address of the even- ing, advocating the placing of all the civic organizations of Birmingham under one executive head in the Champer of Commerce, permitting them to keep their entity by departmentizing, or making of them bureaus. His address was impress sively delivered, and received close at tention, notwithstanding the lateness of the hour.