The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-04
COMMISSIONERS ELECT GUESTS OF
 WYLAM CITIZENS
Needed Improvements of the Community Presented to Incoming City Officials
 at Mass. Meeting

All the members of the city com mission elect, President McIendon. W. B. Cloe, W. L. Harrison, Mrs. Mary Echols and W. E. Dickson, were en- tertained by the citizens of Vivian yesterday afternoon and evening. An elaborate programme was arranged | by committee composed of the citi- zens of Wylam, Carl Landgrebe, pres ldent of the newly organized com munity civic association, Superin- tendent Bickell of the Barrett com pany, and R. E. Chadwick, president or the Bank of Ensley. The com | missioners and their wives arrived Tn the community early in the after noon and spent the afternoon mak- ing tour of inspection of the streets and public buildings.
 Pointing out the improvements necessary to the community, Vivian citizens were represented by a com mittee headed by Thomas R. Walker The commissioners discussed with the committee the improve ments that have been urged by the community for sometime. Streets, sewerage, lights, fire protection and drainage were discussed
 Donated TaryIa
 The commissioners were told that the Barrett company had donated the taryia for the paving of Forty first street from Ninth avenue into Fair field, the city and county to furnish the flags. This paving will be start ed immediately. The street involved is about three-quarters of mile in length. While this paving is being completed, a thoroughfare will be temporarily constructed for the heavy hauling paralleling Forty first street from the postoffice down Sixth ave- nue to Thirty seventh street, This stretch will be put in condition for the hauling necessary during the paving of Forty first.
 At 6 o'clock the commi Ssion and the Vivian committee adjourned to the basement of the Presbyterian church, where banquet covers for 100 had boen laid. The banquet was well attended and a variety of entertain ment was furnished for the guests. An orchestra played selections throughout the dinner
 Public Meeting.
 At 7.3O o'clock the commission and the guests adjourned to the Fraternal hall to attend public meeting. The speakers of the evening were the members of the city commi ssion- elect. Carl Landgrebe, R. b. Chadwick, Su- perintendent Bicklc and others. The hall was filled to capacity.
 At the meeting the speakers rep resenting Wylam urged the grant ing of the many requests made of the commi ssion to consider certain necessary Improvements in the com munity. Among these were that this year the city begin it's improvements on the west side and work in toward Birmingham. pointing out that the ma jority of the citizens of Greater Birmingham lived west of Twen- tieth street.
 They urged the paving of the east and west highway from the boulevard to the river to provide means of letting the people of the district transact their business in the city.
 They requested that the new mem Der to be appointed to the board of education in the place of Mrs. Echols be appointed from the west side. and that a member of the library board also be appointed from that end of the city. saying that four out of five live east of Twentieth street.
 Several other things were request ed by the citizens, to all of which the commission lent an attentive ear, and assured the citizens of Vivian that the several matters presented would be gwen their earnest consideration.