The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-16

l by a mlne motor on curve uOWn Tn
 the mines. The motor struck his left jleg with such force that it broke the | bone He was carried to the Tennessee Icompany's hospital at Ensley where he | is reported to be resting well.
 trip through the east and north,' said MT Jacobs, land while in this section of the country I made a careful study of the speedway business. I have cher | ished the hope of seeing a magnificent speedway built in Birmingham for | sometime I was enthusiastic upon leaving Birmingham for the purpose of visiting these speedway plants throughout the country, but upon my return I was more enthusiastic than ever.
 'There are at present IA speedways in active operation in the United States
 Each and every one of them, without exception is vast money maker in ad- dition to being the city's best asset One man. told me in Indianapolis that if the speedway did not pay the mer- chants of the city would see that races were run yearly if they had to put up the money from public subscription. we get more money from the direct result of having these thousands of people come to our town yearly than we could possibly derive from any other source. sNew Orleans and Mobile have their Mardi Gras; Jacksonville and Tampa have
 their 'Gasparilla week. Portland, Ore.
 has it's Rose Carnival;' San Francisco
 has It's sPortola week.; Cincinnati has its
 racing season, just across tho river each
 year: Atlanta has its Grand Opera, and
 so each and every city, and especially the southern ones, have their special fun
 week to draw the lucrative trade of the pleasure hunting tourists, or which there are thousands in the United States. What has Birmingham to offer these tourists? Very little in this line, but from this day on we will have more in the way of amusement and high-class. clean sport to offer than any other city in the United States.
 s"roday is the beginning of the speedway in Birmingham. Rest assured it will be built and built right No speedway in the United States will have anything on ours and you can bet your last dollar on that We want your help, your co-opera- ton, and in return we will bring more than a million dollars of outside money into this city each year, that is bound to stay"
 HORNADY NEXT SPEAKER Commissioner Hornady was the next speaker He heartily indorsed the speed way and pointed out where 1t would mean great things for this city. He stated that the speedway people could look to the commissioners ef Birmingham for all the help and cooperation that was in their power. His talk was, as usual, excellent, and interspersed with anecdotes that made the crowd roar with laughter. Morris w. Rush, president of the Cham Der of Commerce, welcomed the building of the speedway on behalf of the Cham Der of Commerce. He enumerated the many advantages Birmingham had over any other city in the United States for the building of a speedway. He conciud- ed his talk by saying that when he was invited to be present on tic occasion of the breaking of ground for the speedway he wired Henry Ford and asked him what he thought of the proposition. T promptly received a reply from this gentleman" said MT. Bush, ''the sub stance of which was this: Tell the speedway people that the first race will have numerous Fords competing for the first prize. Assure them
 that the next time decide to cross the Atlantic on my Peace ship" I shall change my mind and have 1t transported to the banks of the placid lake of the Birmingham Motor and Country club. where I will sail in supreme peace and 1 comfort' The story caused much laugh. l ter.
 OTHERS PRAISE PROJECT I E. F. Morgan spoke for the Board of Trade and made lasterf1l address. M.
 F. Messer spoke in behalf of the Real Estate Exchange and told of the support accorded any enterprise for the good of l Birmingham by the Real Estate Ex- | change w. D. Nesbitt announced that l the Rotary club was glad to see the pro- gressiveness of those who were interest ed in the speedway He stated that the speedway was what Birmingham wanted and was sure to have. Hugh McGeever, representing the board of revenue. made a talk in which he emphasized the fact that Birmingham would profit by good roads with the building of the speedway. '"you may call it low ways. highways,