The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-26
CITY CAPTURED BY REAL ESTATE MEN
 FROM MANY STATES
Delegates En Route to New Orleans Convention Guests
 of Local Exchange
AUTOMOBILE TRIP
 OVER THE DISTRICT
Exhibit at Tutwiler Attracts Much Attention-Many Entertainments Planned for Visitors-Dr. Ed
 monds to Make an Address

The advance guard of something like 500 real estate men swooped down on Birmingham during last night PAP strong. The first special train came right out of the heart of the Hooser state. bearing 105 loyal sons of Indiana, reaching here at 10:30 o'clock. The second special train V as the first division of President Walter C. Pipers special and it reached here this morning at o'clock with 13T live real estate men aboard. The second di- vision of President Piper's special reached Birmingham at o'clock, with 135 men on it.
 The Chicago special is due to reach the Terminal station at 7:3o o'clock. and when it left Chicago G5 delegates to the real estate convention in New Orleans
 were aboard. However it picked up other delegates along the route, and it
 is expected that fully 15o delegates will
 be on it.
 The Kansas City delegation IS expected
 shortly after o'clock and before Il c clock this morning more than 6o0 real
 estate men from ali parts of the country
 will be in Birmingham for the day.
 The indiana special, which arrived at
 10:30 o'clock last night, was met by a
 delegation from the local real estate eX-
 change, who welcomed the visitors to the city, and left them in the arms of
 the gentle Morpheus for the night The visitors will be escorted to the
 Tutwier hotel this morning as soon as practicable, and will be asked to register at the headquarters of the Birmingham Real Estate Exchange. Promptly at Il O clock, automobiles will be assembled in front of the Tutwiler to the number Of 125, and the guests will be whirled away to Fairfield and Ensley to view the great industrial development Of Blr-
 mingham They will be met at Fairfield by the Fairfield Commercial club, and d short entertainment will be provided for them.
 The automobiles will return to the city, reaching the Tutwiler in time for lunch at 1 o'clock Four hundred of the guests will be served in the ballroom of the hotel, and 200 will be served in the crangerie. The lunch will be marked by a few more or less informal talks and Dr. Henry M. Edmonds is on the pro- gramne for an address on "Caveat Emp 1 tor' which, being translated, IS Ihe l Purchaser Must Take Care of Himself 1 At 3:3O o'clock promptly, the 125 auto
 mobiles again will assemble in front of the Tutwiler, and a trip will be made over the Norwood boulevard. The party will leave Norwood for the business dis ] trict of the city. thence making for the automobile district and the Southside.
 passing over Highland avenue to MiIner l Heights Chestnut Hill,s Cliff Road, Noun l tain Terrace and Glenwood, and back aicng Altamont road to the Country club. i At the Country club at o'clock cold surper will be served and the visitors will be given an opportunity to relieve l themselves of a flow of oratory on the beauties of Birmingham, and If they | lave the moral courage to do so, to make 1 a few remarks about the localities from 1 which they come
 l The visitors will be permitted to leave the Country club in time to catch their I specials, which are scheduled to pull out l of Birmingham few minutes apart between 10 and Il o'clock tonight | The real estate exhibit at the Tutwiler will be the Mecca for all visitors this | n orning The exhibit is most preten- tious, showing practically all the subdivl- sions of the city, a relief map of Fair field, pictures of Lock F on the Coosa pictures showing how Birmingham is sup piled with pure water; the first map o1
 Birminghanl, real soil from the black belt of Alabama, tobacco grown in Alabama l and any number of other interesting Ala bama products with perfect mass oi l figures and facts to back up every as l sertion made by local real estate men
 to their guests.
 l In the event any guest should be SC l thoughtless as to overlook the exhibit | a booklet has been prepared by the loca l exchange copy of which will be pressed | into the hands of each visitor. This 1 booklet gives in skeleton form some 1dea l of the immense development Of Btrming. l ham since its founding.
 1 The visitor is asked to send small in 1 dustries to Birmingham and, to makt lit even more interesting to real estate 1 man, he is informed that he will havt l a share of commissions on property solo 1 as result of his efforts to locate il l this city new industries
 1 One of the most interesting pages il I the booklet is devoted to Some Instances l of Birminghams Growth and reads as ! follows:
 .The first lot sold in Birmingham wa.
 the northeast corner of Nineteenth street l and Second avenue (5Ox100). It was deede6 l to O. A. Johnson on October 26. 1871, foI | s75 By curious coincidence, half o I this lot (25x100), known as the Peerless l corner has brought the record price paid l for property in Birmingham. having beer ] sold few years ago for Sl15,OO0.
 ] ..In 1884 the site of the Tutwiler hote | q5Ox14O) was bought for $110O, and wal 1 sold to the hotel company for s3o0,00O. l .In 1871 the Jefferson County bank sitt ! sold for $75, and in May, 1912, for $1o0,0,
 ''rhe Empire building site sold for $l20t 1 in 1872 and for S160.000 in 1905.
 l s.,rhe First National bank site wa! 1 given away in 1872 for ,4-J. It's wortf half million now
 l ..The three lots comprising the Brown l Marx site sold for S2200 in 1872 and ar, worth $40O,O0O or more now
 1 "The American Trust site was high $2C. 0O0-in 1884, and $190.000 when the banl ] acquired it few years ago.
 ChauffourS Fined