The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-30
21,OOO DE[EGATES
 TO 69 CONVENTIONS
Estimated Visitors Spent More Than S6O0,000 In
 Birmingham

More than 21,0OO delegates attended the 69 state, district and national con- ventions held in Birming gham during 1923. and according to estimates of hotel men, these visitors expended 1 $643.500 during their stay in the city. The record of conventions compiled l by the Chamber of Commerce shows that Birmingham, although crippled | by lack of auditorium facilities, was able to receive and entertain cred- | itab1e number of large conventions. i Next year, when the new auditorium will be completed, and the Junior l Chamber of Commerce stadium at the | Fair grounds also will be ready, the record for convention crowds is ex- pected to be more than trebled.
 The crowds attending the several 1 big football games held in Birming- ham during the fall are not repre- scented in the total of 21,o0o delegates indicated for the convention. It Is estimated that more than 10000 more people were attracted to Birmingham i by the few intercollegiate games that were played here.
 Spent over ss0O, ,OOO.
 Hotel men figure that convention visitors average three days in city, | and that the least they can spend during their stay Is s1o a day for hotel bill, food and other expendi- lures likely to be made during con- vention visit. Granted that they did no shopping whatever, the 21, 450 dele- gates to the 69 conventions held here during 1923 spent s643,5O0.
 If each of the 10000 people at- tracted here by football games spent S5, Birmingham was enriched $50,0o0 more by these games.
 ! Following is the Chamber of Com merce record of conventions during 1923:
 January = Southern Secretaries. American Bankers association; Ala bama chapter, American Institute of
 Architects; Tri-State convention of Credit Men; Laundry Owners of South; Delco Light Dealers of Ala | bama; New England Mutual Insur- ance Agents of North Alabama.
 ebruary-Alabama Postal Con- ference; Alabama Ice Manufacturers associations; Southern and Southwest ern Representatives Fuller Brush company; Dog Show.
 March-Tnternation Association of 1 Master House Painters and Deco rators; Southeastern Master Printers Federation; State Convention of Co., lonial Danes; Southern Conference. i Metropolitan Life Insurance company; Thirty-sixth Annual Convention of Knights of Pythias; Leather and Shoe Finders Credit association; Conven-
 tion of Rotary clubs, twenty sixth district.
 April-Tri-stat Water and Light association; Alabama Educational convention; Alabama State Sunday School conventions Annual House. wives Exhibit; United Mine Workers of America. Alabama district No. 20; Alabama Bankers association. group 2; Alabama Billiard association; Ala
 bama Anti-Tuberculosis association; 1 Alabama Dental conventioni Thirtieth 1 Annual Convention of Officers Of | North Alabama Presbyterian church; l Classic Association of Middle West; Alabama Dental Hygiene association; Annual Conclave of Knights of Tenn plar of Alabama; Shrine Convention and Dedication of Masonic Temple.
 Summer Conventions.
 May-State convention, Knights of Columbus; Alabama Chamber of Com
 merce Seer etaries; Life Insurance Sales l Congress; Alabama Chiropractors' | conventions; Associated Retail Credit Men of Birmingham; Association of Surgeons of Alabama Power company.
 June-Greater Alabama, Incorpor- ated; Warrior River Traffic Experts; Alabama Pharmaceutical Institute; Southeastern Shoe Dealers; Alabama Electrical Dealers, Wiremen and Con tractors.
 July-sanitary Inspectors of Ala bama Gall counties represented; United Amateur Press Association of America: Alabama State Championship Shoot: Master Mechanics and Super intendents Equipment association Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louis- jana, Tennessee and Texas).
 August-Eig ighty-second Communica- tion of Grand Lodge of Alabama; h. Edependent Order of Odd Fellows, Sacred Harp Singers Society of Ala bama; Alabama Merchants conven-' tion; Alabama Division of Farmers Educational and Cooperative Union; Church of God of Alabama. ptember-EXecutiv of the Boy Scout Organization from the Fifth region, comprising Alabama, Arkan- sas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Ten nessee; Jefferson County Teachers Institute; Sunday School Workers. Baptist association.
 October-Knights of Oriental Spien- dor. I. o. o. F.; Sales Convention of company; Officials of Medical Di- vision, League of Nations; Third dis trict Alabama Federation of Wom- ems Clubs; Alabama Division, Amer ican Chemical society; Southeastern District Convention, Associated Ad- vertising Clubs of the World; Bir- mingham Fall Festival and Industrial Exhibit; Fifty-seventh Annual North Alabama Methodist Conference. s November-Alabama Junior Cham Der of Commerce; Alabama Mining Institute; Southern Warehousemen's association; Southern Commercial Teachers association; Alabama Tech nical association.
 December-Jefferson County Poul- try Breeders association; Sigma Nu Fraterity; Alabama Hotel Mems associations; Alabama Manufacturers' association.
 The Chamber of Commerce in the course of the year negotiated with more than 2.000 associations, with a view to securing their 1924 conven- lions for Birmi n arham.