The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-02
JAMES ]. DAVIS
 PROMINENT GUEST MAGIC CITY MOOSE.
Monday a Red Letter Day In History Of Birming-
 ham Lodge

Ildll was IlIIed. promptly at 5 O CLOCK, Dictator H. A.AElkourie called the session to order, and routine bust- ness was transacted with character tst1c dispatch. Owing to his many imperative duties, W. l.. White ten dered his resignation as lodge orator
 Telegram and letters were read and received with much enthusiasm by the members of the lodge. A telegram from Col. W. $. Pritchard, who spent several days in Washington, D. c during the previous week stated he Interviewed Director General James J. Davis, who extended him the high est courtesies and chatted at length with him on his visit Monday to the Maglc City A communication from Gov. W. W. Brandon relative to Davis day was read with marked interest and Inspiration. A letter written by General Dictator George N. Wade of Moorenart, H.. was probably the most farorably received. the letter is as follows; Dear Brothers: Every few days I get newspaper clippings relatives to the progress being made at Birmingham lodge.
 want to assure you that I read those clippings with a great deal of pleasure and interest, as in them you set out the splendid progress being made by Birmingham lodge under its present management and direction. I take 1t that we are on our way to extend the service of the Loyal >Order of Moose to the good people of Birmingham, who will eventually learn to respect and con slider such service as most valuable.
 To some it may seem that our trial. Yet nevertheless, we cannot forget that all great movements were born in obscurity. We cannot forget that no river is so wide or mountain is so high that the work of the order cannot cross or reach. Everywhere throughout the land at this time 1t seems that the Loyal Order of Moose is entering into its day of revival
 To Dr. Elkourie, your dictator. and 1t every officer had to every member of the roster of your lodge congratulations are due for the splendid progress and assistance they are giving you in trying to establish for them in Birmingham. a live pro gressive, servicable institution and unit of this order May it's number increase, may your assistance be multiplied and your efforts rebound with ultimate glory when all may say that the wonder city of the southland has taken it's place on the roster of the supreme lodge of the world, Loyal Order of Moose For all l wish the very best success.
 The appended communication came from Judge J. Willis Pierson of New Orleans whose term of office ex- pires August 30.
 T can assure you that no one can be more happy than I that Brother Davis Is to be with you Labor Day l am rushing to get every thing in shape here as the director general Is taking me to Mooseheart, begin ming September l, to have general supervisor work in the organization department. Brother David in his or ficial capacity as secretary of labor, Is going to make the people of Bir- mingham one of the greatest speeches ever heard, weaving into the sentt- mental side of having lived there during the early history of Birming- ham, and having seen it grow and devlop into one of the greatest cities In the country" ar
 A herd of 25 Moose hit the trail leading into the defending circle the class being represented by Griffith R. Marsh. Following the imitation in short form. pithy points in appro- ppriate addresses were made by Can didate Marsh. Colonel Pritchard, J. R. Aird, Horace c. Afford and Ben Davis.
 At the close of the meeting the several committees on James J. Davis Day" held a conference to formulate the program. Authoritative advise indicates that Director Gen eral Davis will speak Sunday in the auditorium at Atlanta on "Moosehart. the Mecca of Moosedom."
 Accompanied by Supreme Lecturer William Trickett Giles of Baltimore, Md, and representatives of No. AT, he is scheduled to arrive in Birming- ham at 10:45 Sunday night or 5:30 Monday morning, probably the lat fer He will ha m ot ha tar ,aJ .statian by a special committee and conveyed to the Tutwiler hotel where breakfast will be served at 6:30 o'clock. Through the courtesy of MT. w. G. Matthias, automobil&s will be placed at the disposal of the com mittee and at 7;3o an observation tour will be made at Red Mountain and the mines there.
 At 9 o'clock Mir. Davis will be en- tertained by the Welsh society of Birmingham at the residence of John H. Adams, 512 Eighth avenue, west The program will consist of singing of Welsh songs, the meeting of old rolling mill friends and the Welsh people of the city. The main feature of the gathering will be the presenta- tion of the pair of iron wheels used on the tapping buggy by MT. Davis when he was an iron peddler at the old Birmingham Rolling Mills some twenty-nine years ago.
 For the past 23 years these re- mainders of the early struggle against property of MT. Adams, son md grand seminal duty for cannon cast from first steel manufactured in Birming- ham. These relics are the priceless property of MT. Adamsson and grand son who now part with them only in difference to the wishes of their father and grandfather, whose ad- miration for his former co-worker is unbounded
 salute to presidents and other mo- tables. The, ingot was the product of the Henderson Steel Works and Birmingham's first attempt at steel making. The ingor was taken to Bir- mingham rolling mills and there made Into a cannon and mounted on the wheels of the tapping buggy used boys took such an interest in the manufacture of the cannon that it was later presented to MT. Adams. The steel was made by Ebenezer Rob- inson, superintendent of the Tender son Steel plant. A group photo graph with Mr. Davis standing be- side the wheels before they are presentation at the shrine of wom- anhood will be taken.
 After the informal exercise at the home of MT. Adams the auto party will proceed on an inspection of the Ensley furnace and to Westfield, Fairfield and other places of interest in the manufacturing section.
 Banquet luncheon for Moose mem bers. prominent citizens and other guests will be held at 1880 o'clock at the Tutwiler hotel.
 Promptly at o'clock the general public is Invited to assemble at Capi- tol Park and participate in the Labor Day program. pr. Fl. A. Elkourie will preside. Musicl will be furnished by the Boys Industrial bank and the Tennessee Coal and Iron companys chorus.
 Invocation will be asked by pr. j. A. Bryan. words of welcome In be-