The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-04
VISITING GREETERS
 ID BE ENTERTAINED HERE NEXT SUNDAY
Elaborate Programme Pre- pared-Will Be Taken
 Over the Entire District

All details have been completed for the entertai1ent of delegation of about .75 memS~rs of the National Association os Greeters, who will stop here during Sunday zen route to the annual conven- tion to be held in Atlanta. From the moment the train bringing the delega tions steams under the Louisville and Nashville station until the party leaves for Atlanta at midnight over a special on the Seaboard Air Line the hotel of ficials will be recipients of unusual at tention.
 committee in this city headed by Leslie D. Fairchild of the Tutwiler and R. B. Hurst of the Florence will meet the delegation at the Louisville and Nashville station They will be taken to the Florence hotel for breakfast which will be concluded about 10S0 o'clock Sunday morning. The visitors will be placed in 25 automobiles se- cured for the day and will be taken for a ride over the residential district of Birmingham A stop will be made at the Country club and an opportunity given the visitors to see the club and the scenery on the Highlands. The party will then leave for the Birmingham Mo- tor and Country club at Edgewood and will remain for a barbecue which will be served there.
 To See Shades Mountain The members of the party, if their visit was six weeks later would be given chance to see the wonderful ar 1als u,hi iol, ba | t1,<. attractions of that club later on this summer. However, the members will be able to see a wonderful setting for a country club and will be informed as | to the improvements to be made there. l The barbecue concluded the party will | leave in machines and visit the sum
 init of Shades mountain, which is dotted now with pretty country homes and
 which is destined to become the summer residential section of Birmingham with 1 in few years.
 l The afternoon will be spent in trip
 to Ensley, where the gigantic indus
 trial operations will be inspected and
 later on a trip will be made to Fair
 field, the model industrial city. Tine
 visitors will be returned to Birming-
 ham in time for banquet which will be
 served with the compliments of tho Tutwiler hotel in the ballroom. The | table will be an immense "G" and about 100 persons are expected to attend the
 affair. The table decorations will be
 very attractive and it is believed this
 event will be of great interest to the
 visitors. The visit will be concluded with a trip to the Newspaper club
 where the members will remain until
 train time. They will be served with
 a buffet supper about 10 o'clock and
 will be escorted to their special.
 Local Men to Join Delegation l The delegation will have the Bir-
 mingham members added to 1t from
 this time and the trip will therefore l be concluded under the direct chaper- | cnage of the Birmingham Greeters The focal committee expects prominent
 fotel attaches here from San Francisco,
 Seattle, Denver, St. Paul, Chicago, St Louis, Indianapolis, Cleveland, Louis | vile and Nashville
 1 The local delegation aside from the
 ambition to be hospitable desires to make an impression on the visitors for l the reason that Mr. Fairchild of this | city is expected to become the next 1 president of the national association.
 He has sufficient pledges to almost in- l sure his election, but there is being put forth now the final efforts to secure
 the highest office in the gift of the | association for the Birmingham man. MT. Fairchild received long distance | telephone message from Atlanta yes terday to the effect that his election was foregone conclusion and that he
 was exepected to render valiant ser vices for the national organization dur ing the new year. The president of the | association at this time resides in San
 Francisco and will arrive in Birming-
 ham tomorrow night to spend Sunday
 here and to meet the delegation to be | entertained here