The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-20
Noted Traveller Makes Tour of City and Visits the
 Industrial Plants
WILL GATHER DATA
 FOR SERIES OF STORIES
Providence Kind to People of This Section, States Mir. Carpenter, and That Architects and Designers
 Have Added Scenic Beauty

Ordinarily when a visitor in our city says that Birmingham is some ! town" one doesn't attach very much | importance to it. He figures that per- haps the man in question has never been further north than Decatur, nor further south than Bessemer; and then he thinks maybe that it is just the courteous thing to say. But when a man who has traveied 10000 miles further than from here to the moon, and has visited practi- cally every large city in the world, says that Birmingham is about the prettiest town he has ever seen-well, that's worth considering.
 And that's just what happened.
 For no other person than Frank c. Carpenter. who admits that he has been travelling all his life, and has journeyed over 250,o00 miles, and who is now in Birmingham, has to say about this little burg And he not only says it is one of the prettiest towns he has ever seen. but he paid a high tribute to it's progressiveness, to the seemingly prevailing spirit of cooper ation, and predicted that the city is destined for wonderful things.
 MT. Carpenter. who arrived in Bir- mingham Sunday night, spent yester- day taking in the sights And he says he found much to see. He visited the South Highlands residence section and the country club and later went out to Ensley and to Fairfield to see the industries.
 MT. Carpenter was accompanied on his trip over Birmingham yesterday by Frank Willis Barnett. associate editor of The Age-Herald. MT. Barnett will go with him on his visit to other Alabama cities.
 WRITES FOR AG.E-HERALD
 MT. Carpenter has been writing for The Age Herald for a number of years and the stories he will write about Birmingham will appear in this paper
 And MT. Carpenter isn't the only member of his family who is enthu- siastic over Birmingham. Ills daughter Miss Frances Carpenter. who is ac companying him. and who acts as his secretary on the tours. is equally as enthusiastic. In fact. she had this to say:
 T am very much surprised to find the south so wide-awake."
 Miss Carpenter has been around the world with her father and was with tiAhA Oii Hio <AidSfNd tilpS SIe expresses the keenest interest in his work and says she never lets him get very far out of her sight. She went sightsee- ing With him yesterday and was keen- " interested in the industries of Bir- mingham after visiting the mines and steel works at Ensley
 T don't think the average man has a very good idea of Birmingham as it really is.' said Mr. Carpenter. q know It has been ta and l consider myself an average man
 EVIDENCE OF PROSPERITY
 "In all my travels do not think 1 have ever seen a town the size of Birmingham that was as pretty. Tha handsome. comfortable looking homes on the Highlands bespeak well the prosperity that seems to pervade the entire city. In many towns I find that the homes of the wealthy are more extravagant, but I do not find the de- gree of comfort and culture that are apparent in Birmingham homes.
 God has been mighty good to you people in Birmingham by giving you wonderfully beautiful location But you must have had some mighty fine architects and designers to make the most of what God has given you. The streets are beautifully laid out and are arranged, or so it appears to stranger. to bring out the natural scenic beauty.'-
 Mir Carpenter will remain in Bir- mingham today. He is getting data for a series of syndicate stories to be written by him and published in more than 30 different papers in the United States.
 And if he writes as optimistically and enthusiastically about this town as he talks. his stories will prove to be mighty big boost for Birmingham