The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-16
BIGGEST MEETING
OF REAL ESTATE
BOARD REVIEWED
Nelson And Parish Are
Due Credit For Results
OF Session

The weekly meeting Of the Birming-
ham Real Estate board last Thursday
was in the nature Of reeord-breaker,
notwithstanding the fact that interest
in the meetings has been marked in the
past several months. On account of the
large number expected to attend last
Thursdays meeting and the presence
of the Boys Industrial School bands 1t
was decided not to hold the meeting at
the municipal market, but in the COM
modious dining room of the Hillman
hotel. This proved to be a very wise
decision, for in addition to the band
there were about 10 men present.
probably the greatest number in at
tendance at a, regular weekly meeting
in the entire history of the birmingham
board.
The credit for this highly gratifying
and enthusiastic meeting is due pri-
marily to the efforts of Clyde Nielsen
and Howard Parish Of the Nelson Real
Estate and Investment company, the
former being member of the Wash
ington convention committee. The Nell
son Real Estate and Investment COM
pany had been accorded the privilege
Of making the progfams which, was. to-
follow the usual business that has to
be dispatched. And speaking but fairly,
1t may be said that Clyde Nelson and
Howard Parish measured up to their
responsibility in superb style and put
over a program long to be remembered
by the Birmingham Real Estate board
as an occasion on which the board itself
caught a new vision of its latent power
and possibilities when once thoroughly
aroused.
j. e. Duskin of Montgomery, presi-
dent Of the Alabama Association of
Realtors, and W., =. Archer, president
of the Muscle Shoals board, were the
guests from a distance. Mr.. Archer
took occasion to suggest that. the an
nuaF meeting of the Alabama Realtors
association be held this year at Sheffield.
during the month.of May. Incidentally
this has since been SO decided upon, and
the meeting is to be held May 2-3.s Mr..
Duskin announced that he hoped to
induce several of the Montgomery
realtors to attend the Washington con-
Real Estate Boards, which convenes in
that city from June 3 to June 8.
In fact this was really a Washington
convention day, and it was most ap-
propriately celebrated under the able
leadership above mentioned. Clyde,
Nelson took charge when J%L. Yancey,
president of the board, had worked
through a very brief business schedule.
As a starter Nelson ted o. the recent
distinction thatshas been brought to the
local board in that one of its members,
Frank b. Clark Of the Hazard Clark
Mortgage company, had in the last issue
of the National Real Estate Journal
about a four-page article on appraisals
which was accompanied by his photo
graph. But this is not all. The arr
ticle, took up also the Tucker Walter
rule Of valuations and showed in detail
the operation Of this scheme worked
out some years ago BY d local realtor,
Jerome Tucker, and Maj I. u. Walter,
formerly also of this city. This was q
handsome starter for arousing civic
pride to further put birmingham on the
map at the Washington convention,
where the men from all over the coun-
try who read the National Journal will
come together to discuss matters Of in
terest to their profession.
Leads In Singing ~
Clyde Nelson knew well how ito play
his hand. i He called on Howard Parish
to lead that body of men in singing
catchy songs to be used at Washington,
all the while accompanied by that ex-.
cellent Boys Industrial band, which
is of itself very real asset. to Bir-
mingham. When the hundred and ten
men present did not put. at first quite
the vim in the singing that their leader
wanted, he knew how to inspire them
to greater enthusiasm by his own con-
tagious spirit. 1t was a fine prelude
to the piece de resistance, followed by
Nelson's announcement that it was de-
sired to raise enough money to take the
boys band to the Washington conyen-
ton and thus advertise at the expense
of the realtors the good city of Birming-
ham that had dsne 50 much for them in