The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-13
JOHNSON TELLS OF
 THINGS WHICH THE
 CHAMBER HAS DONE
Harding Wires S1OO Per Year Subscription-Mur- ray Brown, j., E. Shelby and A. M. Douglas Yester- days Leaders

The Chamber of Commerce member- snip campaign proper came to a close yesterday afternoon at 12:3O o'clock in luncheon at the Hotel Hillman. at
 which a total of 215 new members for the days work was reported The to- tal secured in the four days is 9I4, which will yield revenue of s12.S50 a year to the chamber, or total rev enue of $3s,550 for the three years
 pledged by everyone who joined. Although the general campaign com mittee was released for the time be- ing yesterday afternoon, the member ship campaign has not in reality closed. 1t will be continued, and the special committee, made up of the citys most influential men. will continue to work. Few of the large corporations have been seen as yet and all of them will make substantial contributions to the support of the chamber.
 Reports Cause Applause Two reports of yesterday caused great applause, the first being that the First National bank had notified the special committee that it would con- tribute a minimum of $700 year to the support of the Chamber of Com iiiCltC lOI d PtIlOu Ol tuiee years, anu that if certain conditions were met with the amount would be increased to 5000 year. President Crawford John son said that he was sure the conditions could be met.
 The other report was the reading of a telegram from W. P. G. Harding of the federal reserve board Washington. D. C., in answer to message signed by Crawford Johnson. It read; Gladly subscribe s100 as requested. Best wishes for success" The telegram was signed by MT. Harding and means that he will con- tribute $500 to the Chamber of Com
 merce during the next three years. The leading committees yesterday were Murray Brown, Is; J. E. Shelby, Il; Alvin M. Douglas, 12. Johnson Makes Short Talk President Crawford Johnson of the chamber in a short talk mentioned some of the things the Chamber of Commerce had done for Birmingham. Among other things he cited the fight recently inaugurated to induce large corporations to purchase their postag ge stamps from the Birmingham postof flee, the object being to increase the
 revenues of the Birmingham office and give this city higher rating with the postal authorities.
 He closed his remarks with this statement:
 MT. L. Sevier has requested me to go with him to the postoffice imme- diately after this luncheon as he wants to purchase 100000 2-cent stamps for the Southern railway"
 The campaign for new members probably will be closed November Is and 19, those days being designated "clean-up' days by Chairman J. Frank Rushton. It is probable that the gen eral committee will be called into serv- ice again and an effort will be made to see every prospect (which means every business man or professional man in the city) and get them to be- come members of the Chamber of Com merce.
 At yesterdays luncheon General George McCleery created some amuse- ment and received much applause when he acted as waiter for moment and walked around the table to fill George Blinn Jr.'s glass with water. MT. Blinn graciously tipped the waiter" and MT. McCleery managed to appear properly dissatisfied with the small ness of the tip. However, he accepted it amid applause.
 New Members Yesterday The new members reported yesterday were:
 Alabama Fuel and Iron company. Ala
 mama company, Alabama Great Southern
 railway Alabama Market and Produce company, Alabama Mill and Elevator company.
 O. w. Brogan, w. l.. Brmm, Sidney J. Bowie. Birmingham Macaroni company, Robert M. Bell, Sam M. Blake, Borden Burr, Birmingham Machinery & Foundry company, Birmingham Motor Car com
 pany, E. L. Brown, Bell-Rogers Produce
 company, Birmingham Mattress company, |J. H. Barr, Birmingham Manufacturers
 Permanent Exhibit association, Batterton
 Coffee company.
 ble-Shelby- Burton Piano company, J. B. Cobbs, Copeland-Inglis Shale Brick
 company. John M. Cartwright Samuel
 Crawford, Smith Cullom, John B. Cox,
 George w. Connors.
 Drennen Motor Car company, James L.
 Davidson. Dewberry & Montgomery Sta
 tionery company, Dunn Construction com
 pany, Adolph Damn Petersen. Dr. John H. Edmondson. Empire Coal