The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-12
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS

recognized the voice of my friend,
 Chaplain John W. Inzer.
 |
 | I was only too glad to accept his in-
 yitatien to run up and visit him and
 speak on Thursday night to the One
 Hundred Mems Club" of the First Bap-
 tist Church at a banquet at the Patten
 hotel, which is to Chattanooga what
 the Tutwiler is to Birmingham. 1 One of the drawbacks to living in the Mountain Terrace district, so far as I am concerned, is being without an au-
 tomobile I have to depend on the street cars, and ours does not make it's ap- pearance until quarter to seven, much
 too late to be of any service in catch
 ing early morning trains.
 But after years of cutting through
 the grounds of the Country Club and heading off Highland avenue or Lake
 view cars at the lake. and going intos | town and changing to the terminal ones, and never making the trip under an hour even when connections were 5oo"' DeS@h to figure on aHotner route.
 1 I am giving these details for the ben 1 eft of any of those who may not have got on to the best way to reach the sta-
 ton. l have timed it a number of
 times and find that l can easily walk | through and board a Tidewater in | m eight minutes for it to reach the under pass of the Terminal station, and I frequently negotiate the journey in cluding waits on connection in half an hour.
 | Not only this, but if you are after
 any of the early trains stopping at l my neighborhood to the station in twenty minutes. Unless I have to use one of the fast trains I always board
 the locals at the Spring street crossing on the outbound trip and get off at the | same place on the return trip. I feel sure that this will help out quite a few | in the district in which I live. I
 | From long experience I have learned
 the ropes in getting to the Terminal when using the Birmingham Railway, Light and Power Company cars. The | dope l am giving out does not touch those who have chauffeurs to drive them down or simply call taxi, but preaching thrift I try and live up to the thing I want others to do, and | therefore I have to use some strategy to get about, as l am almost always on the go.
 My advice is for those trying to reach the Terminal by walking through to catch the Tidewater is to keep going down Spring street and let the car over take them, for if anything happens to be the matter with the line there is the chance at First avenue to get an East Lake car. For instance. Thursday morning six Tidewater cars headed for
 East Lake went by before any ap- peared going, toward Birmingham. The electricity was out on the circuit.
 
 But I go a bit more into the matter by stating that in the event you must make the train and the power on all lines give out, it is possible to start in Mountain Terrace and by rapid walk ing reach the Terminal station in for ty-five minutes. l know what I am talking about for l have done it on a scratch. I hope those who live in the Forest Park and Mountain Terrace sec tions will keep what have written in mind, for some day it may be of real service.
 l always enjoy the ride from Bir- mingham to Chattanooga. I know of few lovelier landscapes than are the cnes on either side from Fort Payne on into the city of mountains. It takes a daily paper late magazine or an )interesting book, but I lose interest in reading when l get such chance to revel in such panoramas as unfold themselves before ones vision. I reached Chattanooga at 10:20 and was met by pr. and Mrs. Inzer, in the handsome new limousine which some of the members of the formers church presented to him. saying: It is yours, and we give it to>you, and if you should leave for another field within week, cont hesitate to take it with you.'' They just wanted to impress the fact on him that it was "his'n." and not the ShuF'h'
 John Inzer as we called him here during his pastorate at the Avondale { naptist Church. and, by the way, he says that the new church is the only monument he wants, for into it went the best work of his early ministry, and, furthermore, it was built by the sacrifices of as hero.c a band of men and as holy lot of women as can be found anywhere on the top side of the earth, has more than made good with his larger church in Chattanooga. The church is one of the most i'm portant within the bounds of the South ern Baptist convention, and is an out standing one in Tennessee. 1t is one of the show churches of Chattanooga, be- ing built out of stone, and standing on ne of the most prominent corners of the city. It has a membership of sev- eral hundred more than a thousand which is made up of leading men and women in the community. It has had some noted pastors.
 
 I am saying this because I know that Dr. lnzer's friends in Birmingham and