The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-14
EXHIBITS IF INDUSTRY ARE TO BE PUSHED
Between 10000 And 25, 900 Visitors Expected During Week, With Advertising Clubs Convention In Town CITIZENS COMMENDED BY CHAIRMAN REID LAWSON Committees In Charge Of Va rious Features Bending Ef- forts To Insure Success Of Weeks Show

Every element of the business in terests of Birmingham Is working whole and co-ordinating their efforts to assure the success of the Birmingham Fall Festival and Industrial Exhibit, which in two more weeks will become a reaf,ty. week of entertainment and education unequaled in the past.
 Originally intended as gNla week, the scope of the movement has been extended as to include display of the products made In the indus trial plants of the district, which event is expected to prove one of the real features of the week.
 Committees in charge of the vari- ous features are bending every effort to make the exhibits representative of the industrial district, while those in charge of amusement and enter tainment, have arranged for features which are assured of pleasing and entertaining the hundreds of visitors and home folks expected to partici- pate.
 "There will be fun and amt sement aplenty," Reid Lawson, general chair man of the committee In charge, stated Saturday but that is not ali. There will be exhibits of our indus trial products that will prove a valus able education and give the people of the state better understanding of the industrial development of Ala bama and the possibilities along that line for the future"
 Praises Cooperation shown.
 Continuing, MT. Lawson stated, the wholesale merchants and the manufacturers have shown com amendable spirit in joining hands with the retail merchants in the movement and are just as enthusi- astic over the prospects as are any of the retail merchants. The5kall- Festival and Industrial Exhibit Is going to be a big success, there is no dorbt of that But we want every sented in this success. knowing the seft-gratification they will feel when it's over and they realize that they had a share in 1t.
 we are confidently expecting be- tween 10000 and 25,Oo0 visitors dur ing the week"
 A bulletin recently issued by the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce lists 1546 conventions held in the city during the last nine years. with total registered attendance of 7Oo,- 900. Estimated at $30 each money spent by the convention visitors amounted to over s21,000,000, or up- ward of $2.Soo,ooo a year. These hg- 1,res are pointed out by the festival committee to indicate to Birming- ham business men just what pro portions are possible in events of this kind.
 Every day during the week gifts will be distributed by the merchants and manufacturers, including three automobiles and hundreds of other valuable articles. Every person who contributes as much as $25 to the festival fund will have the privilege of sharing in this distribution.
 The amusement features include street parades with attractive floats, street dancing, band concerts, fash- ion show, airplane flights over the city, free admission to theatrical per formances, musical concerts and oth- or entertainments of an interesting nature. Railroad fares will be re- funded to visitors under plan being worked out by the retail division Of the Chamber of Commerce.