The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-05

CHAPTER " (continuedl Tn later years Bob was wont to re- call this interview as having walked him to this viewpoint:
 Around are many chances for sue cess-possibllitie that even now are crying for me to develop. Let me but look deeper into my own business.
 Let mo but think of clever ways to enlarge 1t. If am doing useful worl, shall be paid good money for 1t. If l plan to do twice or four times as much useful labor and set my sails properly. l am bound to make twice or Tour times the success. l must use What already have learned. With It VIII make greater success than ny going wild over the Idea that will make a meteoric success with some thing l don't know anything about and must learn. A man also loses time he cannot regain by such change"
 A Plan.
 Tn the weeks to come, after the interview with the architect, Bob al- most most te!t ike he had entered now procession. From the mere plan oI taking on the real estate business fin connection with architectural work bob,s quick mind had gone out into tielas which would have been com. pletely Impossible for his employer. One day Bob sold his first lot
 Ahd IL was upon this day that there came to his mind this magnffIcien- scheme: Nie
 That he would plan out whole sub uroan towns and build them.
 Tie became absolutly decided that ne could do it-that he would do it
 ne wanted to handle every pieo. oi property of any beauty and artisti, possibility whatsoever in the whoi, city of Birmingham.
 Nobody could accuse Bob--or ava, , woula-of being a piker when It cams to dreaming. N'''i' it seemed simple to him. Why not All genius Is like that, '0N
 but to think something meant ac ton with Bob, and therefore if ha h as studied Birmingham before. he fell te the task with the application of ar avid enthusiast.
 Great Red Mountain
 HIS heart sang every time he raisee ms eyes to the crest of Red mountain inere IS the greatest line of possi, piilty Tor the whole city" he waved but nothing should go up tbere h,,, castles, great and white and beautiful pubic buildings. cathedrals to homo, the 1feat God. with spires pointing to ms swirling worlds, and stately monuments to the citys great ant good men. "AN
 It shall not-it must not be com. mefcialized" Bob swore, mot is 1 can help itl"
 But what could he do? He must dc something! Also
 III ms own business. Bob had m aversion to bungalows
 Birmingham was in the midst or ,h. oIo soutn. lie would adopt and stick 10 ana stand by the ancient colonial types of houses. The part of the south he built should not look iust IIke all the other sections of the united States. Those who cana tc birmingham would forever cherish in tHeif minds an unforgettable picture
 And -it~was through this that the great unselfish thought of his career was born. e''
 Iaking Red Mountain as a bas. ths whole Of Jones valley, where tho citv ,ay, and which feebly twinkIed with iishts at night, should be made into
 vast electric panorama of beauty. Ii would De q canvas upon which lova1y 'PAtNS iHlO llI6. He would create above the city. gigantic eiectric .figures that should tower jnto ehe atmosphere and which should bs sven rom every vantage point. Against CommerciaIism
 TOT Bob had read once in a masa- zine of how Broadway in Nehy York city, was spangled, throughout 1t, length and breadth, with gaudy eIec- trical advertisements-hug twink. ing signs that brought to the atten- ,ion or the public the fine points ot underwear, remedies for eczema saiyes, soaps and cigars
 How awful" his boylsh mind had suggested. And Bob decided thai while 1t might be good business. i, must certainly be a beautiful eve sore.
 In his plans, he would create elec- tric displays that would be. first O, all. magnificently artistic, and second " those that should embody. symbol lze. and fling before the eyes of the world glorious typical things that southerners loved.
 These were some of the things he was determined upon. Tn magnificent electric lights. shaded deeply green there should be erected a magnolia tree with illuminated blossoms. white as snow. Elsewhere, over the town miner. with shovel and a pick should stalk. Cotton plants, with bursting bolls should glisten, domi- mated by the figure of cotton picker with his sack upon his back. The cot ton plant, he felt must possess 6 late pink bloom as well as the open boil And indeed all these designs should be so arranged that they gave the appearance of the natural The wind must move among magnoiia trees. the figures seem to be possess ed of life.
 The Weaverx
 Another thing he had set his hear 1 upon also. There must be mas. sive group of weavers surrounding a loom. And there must be fountaini of lights. designs of gigantic starr an old mill wheel. such as Alabams pioneers employed to grind theil !, gram. an old colonial home done il electric lights. and pine tree. ! But these things should not be lef 70 mere workers in electricity. The lheroic figures must first be exquisite,