The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-10
OWN YOUR HOME
 EXHIBIT PROVES GREAT SUCCESS
Birmingham-Made Merchant disc Brought to the Front. Many Orders Are Placed.
 New Houses Started

Looking over the two weeks of the "Own Your Own Home" exposition at the Chamber of Commerce, the management announces itself well paid for the time and the trouble.
 Several hundred home e-seekers vis- ited the exposition daily, many thou sands of dollars worth of material were contracted for by the exhibitors on the spot, many plans for homes were ordered drawn and numbers of Birmingham products heretofore un- known to many and little known by others, became familiar to them, open ing their eyes to what the city is do- ing. XIX
 Speaking of some of the results of the exposition Charles Yarn. assistant manager of the Chamber of Commerce. said:
 MUCH ACCOMPLISHED
 There is no doubt in the minds of the exhibitors that the exhibit has done a lot of good to the prospective home-secker and to the community. Actual sales made during the two |
 weeks the exhibit has run shows that the public wanted to know just what the various materials looked like, and how much they cost
 '.rhe Birmingham Slag company. displaying the SlagTex brick mantel, has sold more than five carloads of their new brick.
 "Roper-Strauss-F company's tex ture tile exhibit has resulted in sew eral thousand dollars worth of busl- ness. with much more still to come from inquiries on file.
 Barnett Lumber company, Estes Lumber company and Wood Lumber company are figuring approximately HOO bills of material for people who I have attended the exhibit.
 "Wittichen company bas had dozens l of calls for prices on >sheetrock,, the l fire proof wallboard.
 INCREASED BUSINESS l The real estate ompanies-J emison, Milner, Estes, Tucker and Montgomery t--have made many sales directly trace able to their exhibits.
 More & Handley and Wimberly Sr Thomas are figuring on many hardware
 bills. the result of the present low
 prices
 "Crane company reports that in- quiries for high grade plumbing fix lures have shown much interest in
 building during the next two or three months.
 Many people have been made ac- quainted with the advantages of con- struction in hollow tile and brick and in everlasting roofing, cement tile
 such as the Birmingham Roof Tile
 company is making here in Birming-
 ham, and asbestos shingles shown by the Johns -Manville company. They
 have been shown that such construc-
 tion costs but little more than frame
 construction and saves the extra cost i, in less than five years by saving IT fuel, insurance and paint. Most of the visitors have come back time after time, each time with nor, definite ideas in mind, and have spen' hours looking over plans, and talking about various problems connected witt the building of homes. Advice to thu prospective home seeker was giver willingly. and facts and figures were shown that now is the time U Uo' build All in all it has been period of earn est study, and the results will be seer in better homes, more logical, planned. and more of them. DISTINCT SUCCESS ''The success of this exhibit prove that Birmingham needs a permanen manufacturers exhibit, where BIT mingham made products can be seer at all times by not only our own peo pie but by our guests, and where tn public can appreciate what new devel opments are being undertaken in thf progressive district
 "Recapitulation should not omit tn value of the exhibits of the building and loan associations. They resulte in numbers of inquiries as to fnancin. of home building. and numbers oi homes will be built through this aid.