The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-23
Visiting Rotarians Delighted With Day
 Spent in Birmingham
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Continued from Page Five) Henley, Jr., of the local automobile and
 reception committee, and escorted to the
 Tutwiler hotel for breakfast. At 9:30, l following much merriment and music in
 the Tutwiler lobby the 300 guests and
 local Rotary members lined up and pa raded to the Union station where a Bir-
 mingham Southern special train awaited
 the party and all climbed aboard for
 Ensley. At Ensley the blast furnaces
 was the first stop, going from there to
 the power house. thence to the steel works, open hearth department and mills,
 mills; the train being taken again at the turbo power house for Edgewater. At Edgswater Superintendent Will | liam c. Wilcox met the party and showed them the wonderful pumping station and the mines, and escorted ! them to Bayview, where they were l served barbecued meats, relishes, and enjoyed the singing of the chorus from 1 the negro Industrial High school, which included vast programme of old 1 southern melodies rendered in superb 1 fashion by the members of the chorus. The East Lake Boys Industrial school band also furnished music and local Rotarians assisted the walters in serv ling the dinner. The barbecue was de- llightful the cooking and serving being all that could have been desired, and | Chairman Carson Adams of this com mittee reached every heart through the stomach route. Plenty of soft drinks were served on the train going and | coming as well as cigars and cigar cites.
 VISIT TO WIRE PLANT | On the return trip, the American 1 Steel and Wire mill was the objective point Here the raw steel was watched | from the time it went into the furnace until it came out in wire--poultry wire and barbed for fencing, nails and rolled
 wire of every size and description. The visitors watched this interesting and educational process with unlimited cu- lriosity
 After leaving this plant, the train
 pulled out for the city, the guests un- loading at Twelfth street and First
 avenue where waiting automobiles jtook them over the city for a ride
 through Birmingham's wonderful and lscenically beautiful residential section, the idea as stated by J. Frank Rushton being to show the visitors, following their inspection of how we made our living to show them how we used 1t in living"
 Practically all of the visitors left on ! the evening or night trains for their homes in northern, eastern and west ern cities, all being enthusiastic over the welcome that they had received, the entertainment furnished them, and | the real pleasure that they had enjoyed under such educational surroundings. | A distinguishe ed member of the party
 was Chief Silver Tongue. full blooded Indian from Kansas City, who Is | of K club. and the possessor of a rich tenor
 voice. Chief Silver Tongue was dressed lin Indian garb, wears his hair long, ana
 was a big favorite here as well as at the convention in Atlanta. While gong i through the furnace department at Ensley he was asked if the scene dld lnot remind him of what was to come hereafter, and he replied smilingly:
 q be good Indian and go to happy hunting ground
 1 The train that bore the Rotarians through the industrial district was in ,charge of Assistant Superintendent or the Birmingham Southern Tom Lyle
 assisted by F. Plemons, trainmaster' and J. A. Vandiver, chief dispatcher.
 COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN
 Local committee chairmen who are due credit for the successful day of thorough lily advertising Birmingham are Roperl
  Birmingham" committee; G. G. CraWford, chairman of the general arrangements committee; Carson Adams, barpecue com mittee; Sidney Lazarus, stunts commit tee; Col Caheen social commltee' poo 1 Woodrow, information and baggage com mittee J. w. Donnelly, ladies reception
 committee Executive Secretary ollver Cox made details easy by his splendid conception of things that would De pe- fore they had happened. As pop boys several of the Rotarians shone, put none was able to get up the pep that Colman l Blach exhibited.
 l AS result of the day well spent, local \ Rotarians have a right to expect and an- ticpate many happy returns Of the day, and Birmingham will be the talk in icouple of hundred towns and cities for l several days, weeks, months and perhaps years to come.
 The visiting Rotarians included the fol- flowing: C. J. Becker and wife, Chicago; | w. F. Frank Ranges, Chicago: Pete E. | Powers, Chicago; Dr. Will R. Nen, Chi cago; Herbert Wiley, Chicago; R. c. Faust and wife, Chicago: George Landis Will Eson. Chicago; w. H. Cmabers and wife, | San Antonio Tex: w. A. Vandever Tul- 1 sa. Okla; Mrs l.. N. Ewing, Tulsa. Okla i; | C. E. Lay, Tulsa, Okla; John A. Hammer, Tulsa, Okla; Frank W. Sansom, Joplin,
 Mo-; Marion Rutisell, Tulsa; C. c. Da- mon Charlottesville. Okla; H. Rudisel, lTulsa. Max Madansky, Tulsa; Thomas 1 I. Byrn. Tulsa; F. F. Winslow and wife, Terre Haute; Wood Posey and wife, Terre Haute George Stanley, Tulsa; Miss Edna 1 Stanley Tulsa. Fred Shaw. Tnlsa Chief Silver Tongue, Kansas City Violet Bourne, Tulsa; w. B. Killner, Tulsa i; w. F. Statre, Tulsa; C. Blare, Den yer. c. N. stannurd, Denver; Charles E. Southard Greeley Col; J. J. Beaver Cleveland. O.: William H. Mark, Jr., Mobile: c. r. I.ichty, Brooklyn H. M Patterson Atlanta; R. A. Christian, Mo- ] bile; Dr. F. D. Walker, St Joseph. Mo. ;
 J. Lee Holloway Montgomery; A. B.
 Sinclair. Kansas City. Mo-: Robert L.