The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-20
Fifty Prominent Business Men of Ohio's Greatest City Are Birmingham's
 Guests for Day COMMITTEE FROM ALL CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS TO MEET THE VISITORS Trip Over District Follows Luncheon at the Southern Club-Crowder to Pre-
 side and Deliver Well
 come Address

Fifty prominent business men of Cleve- land will arrive in Birmingham at 10:5o a. m. tomorrow over the Louisville and
 Nashville railroad in connection with a
 trade extension trip conducted under the
 auspices of the manufacturers and
 wholesale merchants board of Ohio S
 leading city. The party will be in charge
 Of Edward Bower. president of the board ;
 Samuel R. Mason. secretary, and A. E.
 Riester. schairman of the extension trip
 committee.
 The party will be met by reception
 committee composed of members from ev-
 cry civic organization in Birmingham
 and will be escorted to the Southern
 club, where they will be entertained at
 joint luncheon with the Real Estate
 Exchange. A. c. Crowder, presidaat of
 the Chamber of Commerce, will preside
 and will deliver the address of welcome,
 which will be responded to by one of the
 visitors.
 Following this there will be some local
 entertainment and Col. T. O. Smith will speak briefly on the wonderful growth of Birmingham. There will also be an tACclltHl liuSlCdl pi iO6i hiiiiiS oiiu AOtAO'' ing the luncheon the visitors will be given an automobile ride over the district. The visitors will leave Birmingham at n:45 0 clock p. m. for Nashville.
 The purpose of the trip, as explained by President Edward Bower of the mer- chants and manufacturers board is to cement more firmly the friendly trade relations existing between merchants of this city and those firms with whom the trade extension tour made under the auspices of the Cleveland organization. It covers approximately 5000 miles and lasts 15 days.
 ITINERARY OF TRIP The present tour includes stopovers at Cincinnati, O.; Memphis. Tenn; Iit- tie Rock, Ark ;s Pine Blue. Ark; Shreve- port, La, Beaumont, Tex; New Or leans, La; Mobile, Ala; Pensacola, Fla. i; Montgomery and Birmingham, and Nashville and Chattanooga. Tenn. It De- gan February and concludes February 9. unless unavoidable delays are en- countered. Two cars, attached to regular trains, are being utilized. Heretofore a special train of four to six cars mas always been used, but this trip the num- Der was held to a minimum
 Cleveland, the municipality from which the visitors come, is the largest city be- tween New York and Chicago, and is sixtb' if not fifth. in size in the United States having a population of over SOo,- n0. It is fifth in manufacturing and fourth in financial importance among "A noerican cities. It is essentially man. ufa curing community being the meet ing place of Lake Superior iron ore and the coal of Ohio, Kentucky and Penn- sylvania. Cleveland has stood well Tn the lore front In all war activities. In the f1rst liberty loan Cleveland more than dou- hIed ifs quota The same record was at tained in the second liberty loan In the Red Cross campaign Clevelands quota wos go 5OOOO0. It subscribed more than s4 eO0. GOO. In the Young Mems Christian association campaign an equally eooo record was made. and the city IS now nrenaring for another liberty loan and thrift stamp campaign.
 Among the representative business men who are members of the visiting party are. Edward Bower, president w. '. Brown. H. B. Burrows, J. J. Comerford T, w. Davis, George Honley, z. 1T. Draper c. H. Duncan. 5. r. Fenn' WI liam Greenbaum, w. B. Greene, M. > Haas. John Hogg, John H. HOSE. VII liam G. Hurlbert, C. B. keck, ": KalIv George w. Kinney, B. F. Klein E E. Lawrence George R. Mckay. s |, McMichael secretary; Samuel, R. Ma son. secretary; c. R. Miller Phil J. pickett I. F. Reichert; A.. F. Reister, | a. e. Ringle, E. E. Robbins E.. J. sapp. Gus Schneider w. J. Schoenper- ger Jesse Seidman, Capt H. r. Snupe' G. l.. Sigler. H. K. summers Henry 4, TayIor nresident: S. H. Taylor, Milton I Trllnacak