The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-23
AUTOMOBILE MEN FORM CLUB ID AID ROAD AD|MPR0VEMENT Chattanooga Visitors Help Start Local Organiza-
 ton Auspiciously
HENRY DOZIER IS
 CHOSEN PRESIDENT
Interesting Talks Made by Local Men and Visitors at Dinner Preceding the Formal
 Organization

hotel last night, about 250 enthusi- astic Birmingham automobilists and II Chattanooga citizeps equally as en- thusiastic in the same cause partici- pated in the organization of the Sir mingham Automobile club.
 Following the dinner and preced- ing the business session, some instruct i've and some witty talks were made by local and visiting autoists and eX- pressions of mutual admiration passed back and forth between the visitors and the home people.
 Through it all however. ran seri- ous sentiment in favor of good roads. The Chattanooga visitors chided the Alabamians on the lack of good roads in this state and the absence of sign boards on the roads that Alabama has, John E. Lowell, manager of the Patton hoten in Chattanooga, gave Manager Fred Shireman of the Tutwiler htoel a little friendly advice on how to treat members of automobile clubs. making the assertion that they are the greatest asset the hotel managers have.
 Henry Dozier presided at the mee.- ing, which had been called for tho purpose of perfecting the organization of the club and along toward the close of the meeting, he was elected presi- dent, by his own direction, Ed H. An drews declared. Mr. Andrews said he had been deprived of making the speech he had come prepared to make and the only way he could get even with the chairman was to hand him few hot roasts.
 BIRMINGHAM OF THE FUTURE
 oscar l.. Bum, manager of the Bir- mingham Traffic association made an eloquent talk on Birmingham and her industries, which gave Dewey Graves an excuse to tell of @friend of his who had rejected advice to buy real estate back in 1871. much to his regret in later years when he saw what a great city had sprung up on the once swampy field
 If Birmingham has grown to o50.- GOO population, as my friend Bum says it has. in 3S years on natural re- sources" he said. "she will grow 10 or 40 times as great in the next 3S years if the agricultural resources of the surrounding territory are developed. And this automobile club will be the greatest agency in developing the ag- rlcultural resources, for which a strong, active automobile club. you will get good roads. houses will spring up all , over the country. and farms will be
 worked and their products brought here to cheapen the cost of living" lie said the Dixie highway. building through Chattanooga to Cincinnati Chicago, Cleveland and other north ern cities, would bring from 10000 to | 30,O00 tourists to +Chattanooga every year and each tourist will spend at l least $10, and that if a good road Is
 built between Chattanooga and Bir- | mingham, these tourists will come on | down to Birmingham on their way fur l ther south, and Birmingham will get ] some of their money.
 | TO SELECT OFFICERS Chairman Dozier appointed Dr. F. H Woodall, John Shropshire, MT. Marsh 1 Ed II. Andrews and Colman Blach as n nominating committee and while they | were making up the ticket a number of short talks were made. Jack. Lowell
 of the Patton hotel. Chattanoga, said { that Chattanooga had three men who 1 could put anything over once they un-
 dertook it, and that they were the liv- l est things in that city. These three | he said. are Baxter Burton. w. B. Ben. l der and modestly named himself as the third. An automobile club, he said, is
 the hotels best business getter, and he
 cautioned Manager Shireman of tie l Tutwiler to treat the boys we'll
 l W. H. Weatherly told of the proposed motor truck routes out of Chattanooga stating that one of them would exteno to Birmingham, making the round trir in two days. He said the motor trucks I would have to charge higher rates thar the railroads, but they would deliver merchandise at the farmers door and
 take his produce to the city. giving him quick service and putting him in dail, touch with the markets.
 l MIR. FAREWELL SPEAKS I Pleasant Greenwood" Smallwood, al the request of Chairman Dozier,S ex. plained how he got his name, and ths Rev Middleton $. Barnwell, after h, had disposed of belated dinner, ex. plained that he was delayed in reachine the meeting by reason of an automobile trip from' Tuscaloosa over almost i'm passable roads. V
 MT. Barnwell complained that the traf fic laws are irregularly enforced; thai sometimes he is arrested for doing 6 thing, and the next time it goes unno ticed; that he doesn't mind being arrest ed for passing a motionless street cal if the other fellow also is arrested fol doing the same thing. He advocated ths adoption of regulations for pedestrian, on the street. stating that he had seer men reading newspapers as they crossed at First avenue and Twentieth street and that half of the people on crossin, the streets look in the direction car
 are soing instead of the way they arr
 coming
 OFFICERS SELECTED
 The following officers, recommended ;. the nominating committee, were elected
 President. Henry M. Doxier.
 Vice President, Arthur c. Crowder. Il Treasurer E. w. Brownell.
 Directors: Hill Ferguson, J. Merce
 Barnett, c. L. Harold, Charles G. Da wis, Sidney Lazarus and Claud Estes <, Honorary presidents: Karl Landgrebe I'M. V. Joseph, R. $. Munger and Cul pepper Exum.
 A constitution and by-laws were adopt ed. They provide that the name of tn
 orgar ization shall be the Birmingham Automobile club, and that owners c automobiles or persons interested in tn
 automobile business. or believers in goo
 roads, are eligible to membership. Tn
 annual dues were fixed at s10 for ac tive members and $5 for nonresiden
 members, that Is. persons living sO mile or more from Birmingham.
 Ono hundred and twenty-five me jcined the club which. added to the President Dozier said had previousl Joined. makes ' total charter member
 rhip of 200.
 A camruJgn to increase tie member ! ship to J00J will be started at once, an President i,exier said they expected enroll that number before the end { the year.
 The following members of tho Chats nooga Automobile club came through their automobiles to attend the uleetinl tNvill;am H. Weatherly, Q. E. Kirkpatriel K. J. McClelland. D. w. Thomas. w. I Itackett, John E. Lowell, ". R. Lonl