The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-06
FUNERAL SERVICES
 HELD0VERR REMAINS
 OF A. B. LOVEMAN
Services Conducted By Rabbi IsaacsOn-StOres Close in Honor of
 Pioneer Merchant

Funeral services over the remains of A. B. Loveman, pionee.. citizen and busi- ness man of Birmingham. were held at 10:30 yesterday morning from the fam fly residence, No. Fairview circle. In the absence of Rabbi Morris Newfield, the services were conducted by Rabbi l. Isaacson of Selma. The body was laid to rest in the Temple Emanu-El cemetery following the funeral services. Hundreds of Birmingham's most promi- nent business men followed the remains Of the pioneer merchant to the cemetery, and many of them were present for the funeral services. During the funeral and burial services the doors of all the large mercantile houses were closed in re- sponse to the request of the Birmingham Board of Trade and in honor to the man who had been a potent factor in the up- building and prosperity of Birmingham for 30 years. The store of the firm of Loveman, Joseph & Loeb of which Mir Loveman was vice president and founder | remained closed all day.
 In compliance with his request, there were no flowers and the service was a very impressive one.
 MT. Loveman was one of the most | prominent figures in a business way in Birmingham He came to Birmingham 90 years ago, and went into the mercantile business on second avenue, when Bir- mihgham was only a village. Some two years later he moved to the present To- cation of the firm and entered a part
 nership with M. V Joseph; the business prospered and later Emll Loeb became | Of
 was also stockholder in the American Trust and Savings bank, and owned con- siderable personal property.
 I In his church relations MT. Lovenan was an active member of the Temple Emanu-El, and was at one time president l Of the congregation. He contributed lib- orally to churches of other denomina- tions, and was broad in his charity do- nations.
 | MT. Loveman is survived by his wife l and four children, Joseph H. Loveman, I his oldest son is secretary-treasurer of
 the firm of Loveman, Joseph & Loeb while his youngest son IS a member of Company K, Alabama National Guard, stationed at the state mobilization camp | at Montgomery. He came to Birming- | ham yesterday to attend the funeral Of
 his father. Two daughters, Mrs. D. w.
 Kempner of Little Rock, Ark, and Miss Leona Loveman, both of whom were at | 1 MT. Loveman had been in declining health for the last five years, having suffered from complication of heart and
 artery trouble, which for the last two
 years has made him seriously i'll. For
 the last two weks his condition has been
 critical and his death was expected hourly by his family.
 l A large number of out-of-town rela- | tives attended the funeral yesterday. l Among them were: A. Loveman of Nash vile, a lifelong business associate of the deceased, being associated with him
 at Greensboro; Victor Friedman of Tus- caloosa, Sigmond Well of Tupelo, Miss,
 Mrs Eugene Well of Gadsden, Ferdinand
 Frank of Montgomery and Miss Carrie Rich of Nashville, Tenn.
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 and in 1915 the number was 425, making | a total of 2617 cases since 1910, exclusive of 1916. The only difference in the sit
 uation this year and in former years is | that all the cases came together at this | time. The same agitation might very well | have been aroused in any of the years
 mentioned.
 | T am just as confident that we can check this thing as l ever was confident of anything and, more than that. l am
 sure that it will be the last time we will
 have a similar outbreak in Birmingham. The present situation means the elimina-
 tion of typhoid here"
 | Dr. B. L. Armes of the state board of
 health, who is in Birmingham to aid in combating the epidemic, was called upon l to speak.
 prevention of disease is not half so
 spectacular as curing it,' he began, but | if there is anything that means much
 to community it is health. The public l health is certainly worth as much as po- licing and fire protection, but appropria-
 tions for it are woefully small. There is no way in which money can be ex- pended to greater advantage to all con-
 cerned than by spending it for health.
 There should be a full time health
 officer and he should give his entire time l to the work. You certainly have enough l work here for a full-sized man at full | sized salary. There is no class of men
 who are as poorly paid as health officers and there is no one who can do more to
 benefit a city than real health officer
 "I think this thing is going to get all of you back of a movement to get a full | sized man at full-sized salary to han
 dle the health of the city. Then you will | get results.
 ELIMINATE DRY CLOSETS
 pr. Walter Scott was called upon by Dr. Harris.
 q agree with Commissioner Hornady that this typhoid situation is nothing un- usual" he said, but that is no reason why we should not take means an6 measures for preventing it in the flu lure. for this time is very propitious There are 5000 dry closets in Birmingham They entirely surround the city. Dry closets and flies have as much to do witf typhoid as anything else and should b' eliminated"
 Dr. Harris in his closing remarks stated
 that there was more typhoid per capits
 in the counties surrounding Jefferson
 county than there was in Birmingham
 and that unified health system would
 aid in safeguarding the border lines.