The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-06
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS

put in day with the electrochemists, and believe me, it was some day. It be- gan before the fog cleared away on Fri day morning and lasted until way into the night.
 If the other cities who entertained the association put them through as hot a pace in sightseeing as the Birmingham committee, I am ready to believe that they would make ideal globe trotters, and put up with all kinds of inconveniences without murmur.
 If Birmingham erred, it was not on the side of lack of attention, but in overdo- ing it. Yet 1t was game bunch which started out from the Tutwiler at 9 a. m. to get birdseye view of the district. It was tired and dirty crowd which landed at the Country club at 5 o'clock. The clubhouse never looked more at- tractive or the grounds more beautiful after the dust of the country roads, and the smoke and grime of the furnaces, steel plant and wire mills and other places visited. great joy to a number of the men was to find the shower baths
 
 The barbecue at BAyview was a novelty for many of the distinguished visitors who seemed never to tire watching the pits where the carcasses were being cooked. I have seen any number of parties out of the north initiated into the mysteries of southern barbecue, but I do not be- lieve I ever saw . crowd take to the eating game with more relish than did the electrochemists
 By the way, I am an expert when it comes to barhecues, as Sheriff Galloway, the famous Georgia barbecue artist, whose reputation was nationwide, was a member of my church at Washington, Wilkes county, Georgia, and he put me 1 wise to many of the fine points in prepar- ing a cue I am here to testify that the one served at Bayview was up to the best traditions of the south. 1 I do not care particularly for the bar becued meats. I am willing to admit that kid, lamb and shoat. and even beef. can be appetizingly roasted over a slow fire. and made palatable by plenty of season ing. There is a topical song which re- cites the fact that it takes long, tall. dark skinned girl to make preacher lay his Bible down." but know one who will | "drap his any time to get a bowl of sure-enough Brunswick stew.
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 1 I was sitting in the midst of a crowd of men who were eating barbecu for the first time. Brunswick stew puszled quite a few of them It got to be kind of 3 game to see who could discover some new ingredient in his portion. When exhibited two gizzards in my bowl, 8 shout went up, We might have known tho parson' would draw chicken. Tc make proper stew you have to sprinkle chicken in it pretty freely.
 [ I do not know where the negro musi' | clans were picked up, but I am here te say that they ought to be turned out ol the church, for they were certainly not orthodox. They played ana sang io' of vaudeville tunes. but when called upor for "Old Time Religion, Swing Low Sweet Chariot, and other old tim' negro hymns. they failed. and when on'
 of the "Yankees'' asked them to sint
 Uncle Jce." meaning "Oid Black Joe.
 they said they did not know it. They
 sang very sweetly. but it was camou
 faged negro tunes.
 At Edgewater on the steps of com
 missary out in the sun, slept negro al
 sweetly oblivious of the scientists wh' were looking over him as if he had bcsr an alligator in a Florida swamp. 4
 dozen or more came up and levelied thei
 cameras on him and snapped him. bu
 he never blinked, but remained blissfull.
 happy in the Land of Nod. Some wantet