The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-28
RECORD CROWDS
 CONTINUE TO JAM.
 EXPOSITION HALL
Utopian Orchestra Pro- vides Attractive Feature
 For Thursday Night

 1tx themselves into eager and atten- fiTe knots around various exhibits, con fiflue to be the feature among features n< the Own-Your- Home exposition be- fnx held at 2116-18 Fifth avenue, norths
 Adults, intermediates and children went the rounds of the various at- fractive booths Thursday evening and came away laden with information, both in the circular form and mental notes.
 The exposition reaches it's next-to- last day Friday and although several Thousand have already visited the build ing H. N. Meehan, director, anticipates even larger crowds to come. This is particularly so of the last day when number of articles are to be given away to the public.
 Just one of the attractions Thursday night which proved more than popular with it's audience was the Utopian or chestra which dispensed with a varied program of ticklish tunes.
 Saturday night will be known as Henry Ford" night with some sur prises promised by the committee in charge. The exposition, the first to be Attempted here, will close on this night at 10 80 o'clock.
 SIOss- Sheffield
 Whether you are interested in owing your own home or not you will want to take in the Sloss-Sheffield Realty eompany's display at the exposition.
 It is one of the most attractive models displayed at the various booths and group of eager onlookers, who punctuated their expressions with s'ohs" and "ah's," gathered around the booth Thursday night.
 The layout is a miniature model of Grove Park which, the Sloss-Sheffield company remarks is Birmingham new q and fastest growing home sections" and it is minutely complete. Street cars ply up and down the wide streets, taxis course about in search of a chance fare, and there are pleasant ap- bearing homes, grass and trees. Ev- erything is there which makes a sub division subdivision.
 StOve.Range Co.
 A trio of gas ranges made up a prac- tical display of the Birmingham Stove and Range company at the Own Your Home exposition.
 These gas ranges are the product of recent expansion program of the Bir- miTigham concern and are said to meet
 
 petition which is imported here.
 An expert salesman, who acted also in the nature of mechanic in taking the ranges apart, explained the work fngs of the stoves to a group of inter < ested housewives Thursday evening. Going over the various features of the Highlands, ,"-the name of the pro ducts.
 The ranges are to receive promotion ait barbecue to be given by the com pany to downtown furniture 6ealers Friday evening.
 Motion Realty Go.
 The Motion Realty company booth at the Own-Your- Onw-Home exposition is unnamed but at that impressive in unique fashion.
 The display has been laid out in ] triangular form with two trade stat ments which fairly leap out and com mand attention.
 To the left one stares at--"Own your own business home. If bought wisely It will double in value"
 At the right is a picture gallery showing various business property pro- perities which the company has sold tiuring the past year, Many of these though sold only a few months ago
 
 the crest of the Birmingham building boom. "A word to the ise,"-a placard heads this gallery leaving the impression that it should be at least, vufficient.
 w. ID. Wood Company
 A statue, wooden, of course, halls one near the entrance of the Own Your Own-Home exposition.
 It is easily recognized. It is the trade mark of the W. D. Wood Lumber company. ''See Wood For Wood," you are bluntly reminded by the lettering on the figure.
 | Back of this figure is a painted back ground displaying a quiet nook in the suburbs while ribbons from the out Stretched hands of the figure carry your attention to the various designs and types of houses. Below the wooden figure and at- tached also by ribbons are miniature houses built on the green terraces of ' rug.
 D0minick- Murphy Go. Even if one was in a hurry to get in among the maze of varied colored booths at the Own-Your-O Own-H Home exposition it is doubtful if H. S. Hughes and the pretentious looking automobile which stands near the en- trance wuold allow it. Hughes is enthusiastic about the au- tcmobile, a Chrysler, and from the crowds that swarmed about him and the car, brought for its first public debut from the Dominick- Murphy Motor cmOpany, he was not the only Sss
 Nearly everyone who entered the ex- position Thursday night stopped for a peep at the blue Brougham and having stopped continued to look and admire. Circulars explaining the worth of the Chrysler and models with prices were meted out to the public. s. R. BATSON Back near the end of the Own-Your. Own-Home exposition, where a jazz orchestra broadcasts tuneful melodies. is one of the very catching booths of the whole affair.
 It is a miniature layout of the wind ing slopes of the Montgomery highway, Gepicting the twists and curves of the kVMd which ever motorist has come to Mn0w and respect.
 The booth was installed by S. E. Batson, construction engineer of the highway, who has taken that means of displaying his belief that the roadway is good type for modern wear. The highway, it is explained, is of