The Birmingham age-herald. [volume], May 18, 1913, FINANCIAL SECTION, Page 37, Image 37

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I grand plans for new motor and country club
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.. ,AbSkett,Ch hj th? landscape architect of the grounds and buildings of the new Birmingham Motor and Country club in Shades valley. Birmingham lies just across Red mountain from
i ? j ■ mountain being shown running along the bottom of the drawing. The clubhouse is shown in the center, the speedway about the lake, the boathouse the dance hall on
an island in the middle of the lake and the golf links in the upper right hand corner.
Tn a .statement Issued yesterday by the
board df directors of the Birmingham
Motor and Country club, full details of
the project by which a beautiful club
house, lake, speedway, golf links and
other features are to he established across
Bed mountain in Shades valley are mi'de
known for the first time.
The sale of stock and membership in
this undertaking is now going on and as
Foon as $100,000 worth of stock has been
sold jhe company intends to begin actual
construction work. Over half of this
amount has already been taken and the
officials of the new organization state
that they expect to begin actual work on
the grounds and buildings within the next
t*> days or less.
The statement issued by the board of
directors is as follows:
'‘This company now has a total of 255
acres in Shades valley, which was recent
ly purchased, being all of the land sur
rounding the club formerly owned by tho
Edgewood people. The company has not
been organized to promote any land
project to assist in buying or selling
any lands or to enter in any way into the
land business.
"The board of directors are not real es
tate men and they wish to say to the pub
lic that this company has been organized
for the purpose of improving the lands
wholly for the use of its members and
every acre of the land will be improved
with this one point In view. Any bene
fits or profits derived from the Improve
ment of this property the members and
stockholders of this company will par
ticipate in. This is purely a matter of
civic pride and will fill a need that has
long been felt by the citizens of Birming
ham.
• The improvements that are to be made
'T'HE appeal of music to the
finer senses makes the
piano a powerful influence for
culture in the home.
Puts the consideration of
its purchase above the mere
“dollar and cents” basis.
The instruments we offer are noted
for exquisite tone quality, for beauty
and refinement of line, for durability.
Prices as little or as much as is con
sistent with quality.
H/aUe-. Vielhu-Rurton
THuno Fjomaarui
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1816« 18 Second Avenue
The South's Greatest Piano House
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a price within the reach of all. Built
45 Inches high over all and can be
equipped for either man's or woman's
use. Single hinged trolley. Large,
roomy drawers with easy sliding run
ners. v
Trunk is covered with brown water
proof duck. Bound with black vulcan
ized fibre, lined with neat pattern
. cloth. Garment capacity—ten to fif
teen dresses, or from seven to twelve
suits. Woman's or d?OP7 ETA
man’s ... «p4 / .DU
Birmingham
Trunk Factory
315 N. 19th St J. D. Rosenberger ggggP
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on the company’s properties consist of a
dam 750 feet long, which will form a lake
covering over 100 acres of the company’s
land, over one and one-fourth miles in
length and approximately half mile wide,
with a depth of from 4 to 14 feet. This
lake, when completed, will give to Bir
mingham a body of water unexcelled for
all kinds of aquatic amusements and
large enough for all kinds of boating. It
will be stocked with flrh and will also be
an ideal bathing place as well as beauti
fying the grounds and generally enhanc
ing the value of the property.
“The motor speedway, covering about
two and a half miles with a width of from
20 to 40 feet, will be built around the
lake. This speedway will be suitable for
all kinds of racing events, such as the
VanderV>ilt cup and the grand pjrix races
The establishment of an annual event
similar to the Indianapolis 600 mile race
is being planned by the board of direc
tors.
“An 18 hole golf links, tennis courts and
out door hand ball courts will be con
structed and a very handsome dormitory
addition, consisting of 35 rooms, plans for
which are being perfected, will be added
to the present club building. The rustic !
style of architecture will be carried out in
all improvements.
Interest Autoists and Others
“These plans should be of interest not
only to the autoist of the Birmingham
district, but to those throughout the state
who will be eligible to membership in the
club and when in Birmingham will havj
INGENIOUS MEANS
TO TRAP FORGERS
Experiments Made in London Hos
pital to Record Pulsebeats
as a Cure
From the Baltimore Sun.
•Most ingenious means are nowadays
employed in the detection of forgery. It
is a very clever forger, indeed, who can
deceive the most up-to-date expert in
ehirography.
As has been pointed out by Sandberg,
the expert may put a juror to the proof
that out of a dozen signatures of his own
name no two will be alike in general
form. Then the expert may turn to the
authentic and. forged signatures in al
most any case and show to the layman
that the first question of forgery arose
from the fact that these two signatures
are at first glance Identically alike, al
most to the minutest detail.
The forger has been too skillful. He
has held to the old principle of copying
the authentic signature that he has at
hand, and the consequence is that the
more nearly he can reproduce the signa
ture in every proportion the more read
ily can the forgery be proved.
A most significant fact upon which the
expert may base his invcvtigations of
possible forgery is that every one has his
••pen scope." This technical term de
scribes the average stretch of paper that
one may cover without lifting the pen
from paper and shifting the hand to con
tinue the line.
In the case of a signature it should be
one of the easiest and least studied group
of words that the writer should be called
upon to put upon paper. In wrlttlng a
letter, for instance, the penscope through
out tnay exhibit an average stretch of
one inch for the text of the letter, while
in the signature the whole length of the
name, twice as long, may be covered.
But if the writer covers the full stretch
of his name in this way the expert may
prove by the shorter pen scope of the
copyist that the studied copy is a forgery
on its face. For, however free of stroke
the forger may naturally he, his efforts
to produce a facsimile of another signa
ture will render his scope shorter than
that of the original signer.
A common means of reproducing a sig
nature Is to place the original signature
on a piece of glass, lay another piece of
glass on top of It, and fasten the paper
that Is to receive the forgery on top of
that. Then by holding the glass strips
to a hrlght light the original signature
casts a shadow through, and tills may
be traced In pencil. From this the Ink
forgery Is made.
When, however, a forgery accomplished
by this means Is placed under a strong
magnifying glass It will not pass muster.
If the original has a strong down stroke
on the capital letters the movement will
be free and will leRve the pen lines with
smooth edges The Individual who Is
tracing such letters cannot trust himself
to the same free movement of the pen,
and the result shows under the glass
hesitancy and uncertainty.
A new means of detecting forgery has
been suggested. A doctor has advanced
the theory that the pen in*the hand of
a writer serves in a modified degree the
same end as the sphygmograph, which
traces the heart s action, and that In a
person's handwriting one can sec by pro
jecting the letters greatly magnified on a
screen, the scarcely perceptible turns and
quivers made In the lines by the action
of that person's peculiar pulsation.
To demonstrate this an experiment was
made at Charing Cross hospital. A num
ber of persons suffering from heart dis
ease wrote an article in their ordinary
handwriting'. The different manuscripts
were then taken and examined microscop
ically. By throwing them highly mag
nified on a screen the jerks or Involun
tary motions due to the patient's peculiar
pulsation were dlatinctlv visible.
The handwriting of persons in normal
health does not, however, always show'
their pulse heats. What one can sav is
that when a document purporting to be
written by a certain person contained
traces of pulse heats and the normal
handwriting of that person does not show
thsm, then (dearly the document la a j
forgery, J
full privileges of the organization. Many
times it has been pointed out to the mo
torists in the neighboring cities when
coming to Birmingham that very little
amusement was offered them when reach
ing here in the motoring line. It is antici
pated that the home of the Birmingham
Motor and Country rlub will be Just the
Place that will prove a mecca for the au
lomohlllsts of tile •. ity and state.
“We believe that the new proposition is
one in which the automobile owners from
ail parts of the state will become inter
ested. There are scores of autuists who
would like to become Identified with the
movement and have a place in Birming
ham to which they could come and min
gle with the people of Birmingham social
ly. At the present time there Is really
no suitable way in which visiting autoists
can be entertained. The new club will
offer all the advantages of entertainment
—a place in which they can fed that they
are a part and parcel. For the people of
Birmingham it will offer the greatest at
traction. The club privileges will be only
a small part of the advantages.
Bring Many People to City
"The speedway will bring large num
bers of people to Birmingham and the
races they propose having at the track
will advertise the city all over America.
"It is the desire of the board to mak*3
this club a young man's club and it is
their intention to keep the dues and in
ItiaUon fees within reach of the young i
man. Every business man, whether young
or old, feels the nee< of an institution
where lie may receive rest, recreation and
entertainment and every man neodr.
physical development such as may be
obtained from such i club.
"It is the chief desire of tlie founders
of the Birmingham Motor and Country
club to create such an institution as this,
advancing the moral, physical and social
standing of the Birmingham district.
That this purpose will be successfully
achieved is guaranteed by the public
spirited personnel of the large number
of Influential men who have associated
themselves with the undertaking.
"We feel that. this proposition Is one
that should have the support and co-op
eration of every citizen in the .Birming
ham district as the improvements that
this company is to make will add greatly
to Birmingham'*! attractiveness. Bir
mingham Is a busy o«»y, but the busier
the community, the more reason there is
for a variety of diversions. Conservative,
slow going towns can get along without
them, hut the old adage "All work and no
play makes Jack a dull boy" should he
borne in mind in this great, pulsating
commercial city.
"OSCAR C. TURNER,
"SOLON JACOBS,
"GEO. A. RLTNN, JR..
"J. E. SHELBY.
"H. F. LATIMER,
"Board of Directors.”
LONDON HARBORS
MANY QUEER CLUBS
Black Bean Club Membership Limited
to Forty—One Designated by Lot
tery Married Each Year
From Pearson‘s Weekly.
Clubland recently emerged from Its se
clusion into the glare of the public notice
owing to the fact that two prominent
politicians resigned their membership of
a certain well known London club just
because a man whom they had “put up"
for election had been “black balled.”
To the man in the street this action
possibly may seem foolish and unneces
sary. But clubs, it must be remembered,
have customs ami rules unto themselves,
each being intensely jealous of its own
privileges and etiquette, which in many
cases are as curious as the purpose for
which the <*lub itself was founded
The writer remembers that he once
joined a club established solely to en
able the members to meet once in three
months for the absurd purpose of dining
backwards. That is to say. the dinner
began with cigars, coffee and liquors,
and finished up with sherry and oysters.
One such repast proved quite sufficent
for all the members. And on the morn
ing after the Inauguration banquet the
club was informally disbanded.
But in point of eccentricity this is noth
ing when compared to some of the clubs
Which have come into being and in busy,
matter of fact London, too.
Take the Black Bean club, for example.
The membership of this select commun
ity is strictly limited to 40 persons, each
member paying an entrance fee of UlO
and also an annual Subscription of £10.
The club assembles once a year; and
at these annual meetings a bag is passed
round containing ?.9 white beans and one
black bean. The member who draws the
black bean Is bound by the rules to get
married during the ensuing 12 months,
the committee undertaking to furnish a
■house for him and to defray the expenses
of his wedding ami a honeymoon. Be
fore the meeting is dissolved, each of
the remaining 39 members has solemnly
to swear that he will remain single until
the date agreed upon for the next lot
tery.
Quaint clubs, however, are by no means
sacred to the well to do classes. Tn the
neighborhood of Billingsgate, London's
great fish market, there on**© existed
a club designated the 8urly club.
Only cabmen, 'bus drivers, etc., andl
watermen were eligible, and the meetings
which tok place once a week were da
voted solely to cultivating the flrt of us
ing abusive language. Any member ever
| found guilty of being courteous or polite
was promptly and severely fined.
And then again, there is the Sighing
club, an institution founded solely for
the benefit of love-swains. Silence la
strictly enjoined at all meetings, and the
members, who sit in solemn conclave
each holding a piece of ribbon, a lock of
hair, or some possession of his beloved,
are required to sigh at least five times
within a quarter of an hour under penalty
of a fine.
Suicide clubs have heen comparatively
common. The Man Killing club, however,
was a London institution somewhat, out
the ordinary, membership helng confined
to persons who had slain opponents at
duels. On guest nights a separate table
was reserved for visitors who had to be
friends of members and to have drawn,
at any rate once, an adversary’s blood.
But of all the curious clubs of bygone
times perhaps the most famous, or rather
Infamous, was the Abduction club. This
was started In 1776 by a number of young
Irish “bloods.’’ who handed tobether to
arrange for themselves forced marriages
with wealthy heiresses, each member
promising to assist the others.
Originating, no doubt, from a joking
spirit, the idea soon developed into an
accomplished fact. But when, in April,
1779. two young men, named respectively
Gerald Bvrne and James Mratige Villard,
forcibly removed from their home and
married the two daughters of a wealthy
landowner in Waterford, the government
deemed the time had come for interfer
ence.
So abduction was made a capital of
fense. and guilty members of the club
punished accordingly.
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