The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-31
BOARD TO DECIDE ON TlJTWILER SITE| AT FRIDAY MEET
Definite Action Not Taken At Joint Ses-
 sion Tuesday

Selection or rejection of the Tutwiler home at Park avenue and East Twen- tieth street as the site for the new $65O,- 900 library is to be made. by the board of revenue at an executive session Fri day afternoon.
 This announcement was made Tues day at the close of the joint session of the board of revenue and the city com mission, during which City Commission CTS Cloe, Harrison, McLendon and Dick son, as well as representatives of the library board, the Kiwanis club, the Birmingham Real Estate board and sev- eral private citizens urged the adoption of the. site by the board of revenue.
 Only three members of the board of revenue, Captain Edmundson, W. J. Waldrop and John A. Lewis, were pres- ent at the meeting, and for that req son, definite action by the board was postponed.
 The first speaker at the meeting was D. H. McLendon, president of the city commission, who stated that the city would give the board of revenue strip of land 25 or even 35 feet wide from East Twentieth street in exchange for the site. This same sentiment later was reiterated by other members of the com mission, who stated that the city is unqualifiedly in favor of the project.
 Civic Clubs Represented
 Judge Hugh Locke, representing the Exchange club; Dr. Guy E. Snavely, representing the Kiwanis club, and Je- rome Tucker, representing the real es- tate board, presented resolutions urging favorable action by the board of rev. enue. A few minutes later, Mr. Tucker, a member of the joint city-county plan ming board, explained the reasoning by which that organization favored the Tutwiler site for the new library. MT. Tucker asserted that this site was the only available spot upon which the new library could be located so that it could carry out the civic cen ter idea. He also declared that with out favorable action by the board of revenue the library would not be able to erect suitable structure upon the money available, and said that Harry J. Wheelock, architect of the new court house, had been consulted before the planning board proposal had been made.
 The library board was represented by J. W. Donnelly and Sam Earle, both of whom brought out the fact that the library is an institution which serves the entire county. Mir. Donnelly also said that in event the board adopted a resolution giving the site to the new library, the plans would be made to conform to the architectural style and beauty of the new courthouse, and that efforts would be made to cooperate with ha n0YInfu in ouor, dafaiI
 Other Speakers Heard
 Other speakers were Victor Hanson, Mai. W. V. Robertson, William War ren and William Manley. The views of the board of revenue were not ex- pressed during the meeting, and the sug- gestion that the new library be located at Eighth avenue and Twenty-first street was not made.
 At the close of the meeting, one mem- Der of the, board of revenue said that ssss Opflzi6ns on the location of the new library had been shaken by the interest shown during the joint meeting.
 An expression, either for or against the proposal, was not made by any of the members of the board, although from intimations, the proposal will receive favorable consideration.
 The proposal was discussed during the regular meeting of the board of rev yenue Tuesday morning by T. s. Smith, who appealed to the board to act favor ably on the library site proposal in ex- change for a strip of land from East Twetieth street.