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EVENTS OF TODAY
Barons play Mobile at 10 o’clock a. m.
and 4 o’clock, p. m. at Rickwood Field.
At the Theatres
Bijou: “Quo Vadis,” 2:30 and S:30
o'clock, p. m.
Majestic: “The Merry Whirl.” 2:30, 4.
7:30 and 9 o’clock.
Orpheum: Vaudeville, 2:30, 4, 7:30 and 9
o’clock, p. m.
NEGRO FARMERS TO
MEET THIS MORNING
More Than 600 Delegates Are Ex
pected to Attend—300 in Bir
mingham Already
From the standpoint of attendance, the
first session of the National Negro Farm
ers* congress will be a nigger success,
than its promoters dreamed. Indications
are that more than 600 delegates will he
in the city to attend the meeting of the
first session of National Negro Farmevs*
congress. A party of 100 delegates reached
the city last night from Texas, headed
by E. L. Blackshear of Prairie View State
Normal school, who originated the idea
of a farmers congress among the negroes.
According to the programme the meet
ing will begin promptly at 9 o'clock this
morning at the Sixteenth Street Baptist
church, corner Sixteenth street and Sixth
avenue. The opening session will be pre
sided over by W. R. Pettiford, who has
bad charge of the local arrangements.,
Professor Blacksnear, who called the con
ference and who has worked up all the
enthusiasm andfnterest in the movement,
will deliver the principle address at this
session, in which he will explain the ob
jects of the National Negro Farmers’ 1
congress. With the exception of one or
two other addresses the morning session
for the most part will be devoted to or- j
ganization.
An afternoon session will be held. At
night, welcome addresses wil be delivered
on behalf of the city by Dr. John L.
Parker, president of the city board of
education: by John W. Uoodgame, repre
senting the negro citizens; by J. A. Whit
ted. representing the negro churches and
by W. B. Driver, president, on behalf of
the Bilrmingbam Negro Business league.
This meeting will be held at the Sixth
Avenue Baptist church, Sixteenth street
and Avenue F.
Already there are more than 300 dele
gates in the city, most of those from Ala
bama are expected in on early trains
Friday morning. Delegates from Iowa
and Idaho have been in the city since
Thursday morning. A special car of dele
gation from Arkansas numbering 60 is ex
pected. while in lesser numbers delegates
will cotne from practically every south
ern state.
MONTHLY REPORT OF
HUMANE OFFICER
Eighty-Two Complaints Investigated
During June—Grading Mules
Inspected
The monthly report of R. G. Patton,
humane officer, for June shows that dur
ing June he investigated 82 complaints.
Inspected 103 grading mules and aided
materially in bringing about the convic
tion of seven persons for cruelty to an
imals.
The complete report of the humane
officer is as follows: Complaints investi
gated, 82; warnings issued, 35; case re
ferred to juvenile court, 1: deserving cases
referred to the Associated Charities, 3;
arrests for cruelty to girl 2 years old, 1;
Arrests for cruelty to colored children, 2.
Negro man removed to Hillman hos
pital that had been uncared for in field
for three days, unable to help himself.
Arrests, 7; convictions, 7: animals hu
manely destroyed, 25: chicken coops over
crowded, 3; teams overloaded, 3; grad
ing mules inspecter, 108.
The next regular meeting of the Bir
mingham Humane society will be held
September 2 at 3 p. in., in the humane
office, second floor of the city hull build
ing
The society will remain active through
the summer months and all calls will be
promptly attended to.
GEN. FERGUSON TO SPEAK
^ -
'Will Tell of Life of the Poet-Priest,
Father Ryan
At the last meeting of Camp Hardee,
Gen. Ifred s3. Ferguson was to have de
livered on address upon the life end
character of the poet-priest. Father Ryan,
but was prevented from doing so.
The regular monthly meeting of Camp
Hardee will Vie held tomorrow, at which
time General Ferguson will be present and
talk about .ds old friend.
The camp has extended an imitation to
the daughters and sons, as well as any
others w?ho can And it convenient to at
tend. The meeting will be held in the
auditorium of the Chamber of Commerce
at 3 o’clock p. m.
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Commissioner Named
/* Montgomery. July 3.—(Special.>—Gover
nor O'Neal has appointed H. M. Friend
of Mobile, a member of the excise com
mission of that city to succeed himself.
Mr. Friend’s reappointment was urged by
a large number of prominent citizens of
Mobile.
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BIJOU—Next Week
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Drama
“The Battle of
Gettysburg”
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New York Banker Has Con
fidence in Foresight of
Men Now in Control
OBJECTIONS MADE
TO CURRENCY LAW
None, However, Is Regarded With
Serious Concern Because Men of
Ability Have the Subject
in Charge
By HOLLAND
New York, July 3.-<Speeial.)-A banker
of this city, who was formerly president
of the New York State Bankers* asso
ciation and has been for some years re
garded as an authority by the American
Bankers* association, said this morning
that he was sure the disposition was
general among the bankers of the United
States not severely or captiously to crit
icize the currency bill now before con
gress. For bankers of intelligence do not
need to be assured that the government
at Washington does not contemplate any
measure which would be likely to im
pair the national banks or seek to se
cure any legislation which would shift the
rigidity of the present currency system to
a board having supreme authority such
as the federal reserve board will pos
sess if the present bill becomes a law.
In other words the administration and
congress do not contemplate the creation
of a final board of authority from whose
decision there can be no appeal, which
will have power so rigidly established by
law as to make the entire banking com
munity of the United States not much
more than a mere puppet of the board.
If there were a purpose of that kind
and it were written into law the final
e.ffeet would be disastrous, for it would
reach harmfully the business interests
and tbe people of tbe United States.
Banking should be as free and as thor
oughly adjusted to the discretionary judg
ment of those who direct the banks as
Is possible. There should be of course
laws to prevent improper management
or to counteract a disposition to inflate
tbe currency, and also to place in the
hands of the government the light of
supervision and regulation. Absolute un
appealable control by the federal reserve
board would impart a quality of arbitrary
rigidity from which governmental super
vision and control under the present law
has been happily free.
There seems to be an underlying con
viction that whatever bill is passed by
Congress it will be so framed as to meet
the reasonable objections to the placing
of absolute, rigid and unappealable con
trol in the hands of a board appointed
by the President.
One Cause of Suspicion
Tiie former state bank president, when
speaking today of the currency bill now
before Congress, said that a careful read
ing of it as well as of statements made
by members of Congress who have had
some part in the preparation of this bill
tends to the suspicion that there is not
at Washington a good understanding of
what the inherent or sovereign power of
the nation in respect to money really is.
The measure itself makes ft inevitable
that men of experience and economic
learning should find themselves wonder
ing whether there Is not some confusion
in the minds of some of those who are
sponsors of this bill as there is certainly
confusion in the minds of many of the
people respecting the difference between
money and bank credits and currency.
One of the reasons which lias been
given for establishing a federal re
serve board (which is In fact if not in
name to exercise almost all the func
tions that a central bank of reserve
would exercise) Is that the people of
the United States will never consent
that the control of currency be in the
hands of a central institution whose
executive management is in the hands
of bankers. That was the objection to
the old United States bank and was the
chief reason why President Andrew
Jackson vetoed the bill which renewed
the charter of that bank.
But the former state banking presi
dent declared that a little reading of
history would show that even in the
greatest fiscal and financial crisis in
the country's history the administra
tion at Washington and Congress did
not pretend that the national govern
ment had exclusive authority and con
trol over the currency. That was at the
time that the national banking law
was before Congress. The sovereign
authority over the coining of gora
and of silver, copper and nlckle was
then unquestioned. And silver, It was
acknowledged, constituted the funda
mental money of the country. All pa
per which circulates as currency is
nothing but an instrument of ’credit
excepting the gold certificates which
are no more than warehpuse receipts
for gold held* in the United States
treasury.
The State and National Banks
When the measure which is now
known as the national banking law was
under consideration by Congress none
of the brilliant minds of that day at
tempted to argue that the government
had exclusive and inherent authority
over currency. Practically all of the pa
per currency of that time was in the
form of state bank notes. Had the gov
ernment at Washington possessed in
herent power over this kind of cur
rency it could have eliminated it by
direct legislation. The only way in
which this was accomplished was by
arbitrary and drastic use of the tax
ing power. Congress taxed the state
bank notes out of existence because in
no other manner could the national
government reach these issues. Were
Congress to repeal the law taxing state
bank notes at the rate of 10 per cent
almost instantly a majority of the
state banks of the United States would
issue notes and over these no other
authority than that of the state gov
ernment could be exerted.
It is the apprehension that there may
not be a good understanding at Wash
ington of what the function of the
government with respect to money Is
and also the apprehension that the
measure as it now stands confuses real
money with bank credits which causes
experienced bankers to look upon the
entire measure with suspended judg
ment. For if the bill confuses money
with bank credits then what other
possible errors may there not be in it?
There is also some apprehension that
the measure as it now stands represents
a feeling if not of hostility toward at
Fast of suspicion for American bankers.
This feeling is due almost wholly to cir
cumstances over which the American
bankers have no control, namely, those
which have arisen from the evils and
oc-fects which are in our present hanking
law. For the most part the banking law
itself and not the management of banks
under the law is responsible for most of
tlie conditions of which reasonable com
plaint has been made.
The Use of Checks
j Another feature of the bill which has
carsed many hankers to wonder whether
the measure has been written with entire
or jirc.foand understanding of modern
banking is the absence of anything in the
bill which would tend to show Hint those
who drafted it realize that the greatest
and in fact the chief currency of the
HITT LUMBER PLANT
IN FALKVILLE IS
SWEPTBY FLAMES
Planing Mill, Dry Kiln and
Ginning Plant Destroyed
Entailing Loss of
$60,000
Falkville, July 3.—(Special.)—One of
the most disatrous as well as spectacu
lar Ores which has ever visited Falk
ville occurred today about noon when
the plant of Ihc H. H. Hitt Lumber
company was partially consumed by
flames, entailing a loss of approximate
ly 380,000. though It is understood it
will be fully covered by insurance. Sev
eral narrow escapes from death were
barely averted. The tire is said to have
originated from friction of a belt on
the machinery.
A dry kiln containing several hun
dred thousand feet of dressed lumber
and planing mill were consumed by the
flames as well as a large ginning plant
near by, which was a total loss. For
tunately several cars of logs which
were placed on a sidetrack very near
the burning kiln were removed out of
danger by means of an engine which
was procured two miles or more dis
tant from the fire. The flames spread
rapidly owing to the town being with
out water supply.
Probably 300 yards from the fire a
quantity of rough timber was stored
and this was not burned nor the saw
mill, which was In operation at the
plant. Tile Are attracted hundreds to
the scene and all worked manfully in
an endeavor to quencli the flames but
owing to the inadequate water supply
tilts was impossible. It Is understood
tlie Hitt interests will rebuild tile
burned structures at once.
Leaves Washington Today
to Make Gettysburg
Address
Washington, July 3.—President Wilson
returned to the White House late today,
after a three days’ crufse on the May
flower In Chesapeake bay.
The President went in search of rest j
and relief from Washington's high tern- j
peratures. He got the recreation and ill
version from his duties, but the air was
as thick and sultry at sea as it was on |
shore. The Mayflower cruised out to the
Virginia capes, anchored one night at
Hampton Roads and steadied up the
York river to historic Yorktown, where
the President visited the Nelson man
sion which Cornwallis used as headquar
ters. He went also to Temple,farm, where
Washington directed the movements of
the Continental -irmy and went through
the courthouse at Yorktown. Not a per
son in Yorktown recognized him except a
12-year-old girl.
"I remembered him from his pictures,"
the little girl proudly told her friends, but
before the news had traveled very far the
distinguished- visitor was back aboard
the Mayflower.
Formality Abandoned
In accordance with the President’s
wishes all formality was abandoned on
the yacht. The officers aboard were in
formed that the President didn’t want
any salutes tired or any of the fanfares
blown. Dr. CV.rey T. Grayson, TJ. S. X..
was his only companion, not even a secret
serivee man being along.
The President did no work while away.
He got the regular budget of news sent
out to ships at sea by wireless, however,
and was informed by Secretary Tumulty
of what had occurred in his absence. lit j
listened with interest to the story of Da
vid Lamar’s testimony before the lobby
investigation committee and expressed
pleasure over the progress the tariff bill
was making in the Senate caucus.
When the President returned to the
White House, attired in a white flannel
suit, he stopped for a few minutes to chat
with the correspondents and retired im
mediately to his office to sign commissions
and official papers. He planned to leave
early tomorrow for Gettysburg, where
his schedule calls for an hour’s stop and
a brief speech. H» will continue to Cor
nish. X. H.. by way of New York city, and
is due in Cornish early Saturday. He
expects to return to Washington Tues
day. Representative A. Mitchell Palmer
of Pennsylvania and Secretary Tumulty
will accompany the President to Gettys
burg.
Royal Wedding Date Set
fiigmaringen, Germany, July 3.—The
wedding between former King Manuel
of Portgual and Princess Augentine
Victoria, daughter of Prince Wilhelm
of Hohenzollern, has been set for Sep
tember. The civil ceremony will take
place on the third, instant, and the re
ligious service on the fourth.
United States is checks and drafts. By
far the greater part of the transactions
In American clearing houses represents
the exchange of checks. The best in
formed banking authorities of this city
say that an average of 90 per cent of the
deposits and the daily transactions of
these banks is in the form of checks and
drafts. The billions which represent the
yearly transactions In the New York
Clearing House association represent ex
change of checks approximately of 95 per
cent/of the whole amount. Only about 5
per cent on the average of these ex
changes represent cash payments. In no
other commercial country Is the use of
checks carried to such an extent as it Is
in the United States. Hardly any one Is
so poor now as to be unable to have a
bank account. Cash is needed to meet tha
requirements of farmers in crop remov
ing times and currency of course is es
sential. but. by far the greater portion of
the transactions and exchanges which on
the whole represent American industry
and- even the payment of domestic or
housekeeping obligations is effected
the use of checks.
Bankers say that a bank note is only
another form of check, it differs chiefly
from the individual check in the fact
that there is absolute credit behind it so
nut me bunk note of San Francisco
passes current at Portland.
These, the former State Bankers’ asso
ciation president says, may lx? superficial
suggestions, but he does think that the
measure would be regarded with stronger
approval if It did not contain some feat
ures which tend to the suspicion that some
of those who took part in its preparation
do not thoroughly well understand the
fundamental difference between money
and bank credits or know that the sov
ereign power of the nation respecting
money extends only to the coinage of
gold and silver or subsidiary money.
SHOW IMPROVE
THE CROP OUTLOOK
_
Winter Wheat Harvesting
Progresses
DEMAND FOR PIG IRON
Bank Clearings for Past Six Months
Show Fractional Gains—Record
Area Is Planted in
Cotton
New York. July 3.—R. G. Dun & Co/s
Weekly trade review Saturday will say:
High temperatures throughout the coun
try curtailed retail distribution somewhat
while tlie holiday accentuated slightly pre
vailing dullness in most lines of whole
sale. Needed rains in the agricultural
regions have improved the crop outlook
and harvesting of winter wheat Is pro
gressing under ideal circumstances.
Private estimates Indicate some gain
in cotton prospects while the government
report on Thursday placed the condition
at 81.8 per cent against 80.4 a year ago.
The submission of a practical plan for
separating the interests of the Union Pa
cific and Southern Pacific railroads was
on the whole a favorable factor in Invest
ment markets, although renewed war in
the Balkans renders the European mone
tary situation further unsettled.
The lull in the iron and steel trade con
tinues as to finished lines, but a larger
demand for pig iron appeared during the
week than for several months past. Buy
ing of equipment by the railroads has
been restricted of late, but a fair volume
of new business in coming forward in
finished products. Stocks of the leading
textile distributers and retailers at the
end of the first half year are abnormally
low, but replenishment is being confined
to Immediate needs until the tariff bill
has been passed. Business in leather
shows an Improvement with a steadier
demand for all grades although contracts
for spring are below expectations. Rail
read gross earnings so far for June show
an Increase of 7.8 per cent as compared
with the same month a year ago.
Total hank exchanges at 128 leading
centers during June made a gain of 0.4
per cent over the same month last year, j
but a loss of 0.8 per cent as compared
with the corresponding month in 1911.
Commercial failures this week in the
United States were 230 against 197 the
corresponding week last year. Failures
in Canada numbered 26 against 23 last
year.
New York, July 3.—Bradstrcet’s Satur
day weekly review will say:
The widespread hot wave and approach
of the midyear holidays have stimulated
retail trade in light summer fabrics and
furnishings, but made for quietness in
most wholesale and industrial lines, the
latter in most cases arranging for a
three day suspension of operations. The j
result Is a somewhat irregular week, clos
ing a half year which while not fulfill
ing sanguine expectations has proved bet
ter than fears, bred of tariff revision
and world-wide tight money.
Most observers had predicted for these
conditions. Most measures of trade '
volume and progress make satisfactory |
comparisons with a year ago a period ,
of comparative quietness. Bfenk clear
ings for June and the six months show
fractional gains of last year.
There were fewer failures in June than
in any month for two years past and
the six months total is below that of 1912,
although a few large failures have swell
ed liabilities above last year.
The really new features of the week
are mainly favorable chief to these being
the breaking of an extremely hot wave
which destroyed life and imperilled crops;
the resumption of pig iron buying on a
scale not witnessed for months past: ,
albeit at the expense of prices; the largest I
sales of raw wool reported for a long
time past, at low quottMions also; the
advent of much needed moisture in the
corn and spring wheat areas, the assur
ance of a record winter wheat crop anti
the planting of a record area in cotton.
The unfavorable features are tfie prac
tical realization that yields of oats and
hay next to corn, the chief animal foods,
will be heavily short of last year; the
shading of estimates of spring wheat
yield; the slowing down of building fol
lowing a period of gains for six months
at a majority of a year ago and the pro
jection into the dim future of some new
labor disturbances or lockouts involving
large numbers of men at Chicago and
Cincinnati.
Wheat, including flour exports from the
United States and for the week ending
July 2. aggregate 3.601,323 bushels against
4,201,859 bushels last week and 2,993,538
bushels this week last year. For the 53 :
weeks ending July 2, all exports are 246,
112,618 bushels against 175,389,587 bushels
in the corresponding period last year.
Corn exports for the week are 139,534 bush
els against 82,351 bushels last week and
83,272 bushels In 1912. For the 63 weeks
ending July 2, corn exports are 39.366.554'
bushels against 33,464,511 bushels last year.
June failures were the smallest In num
ber In any month for the two years and
liabilities were the lightest since Novem
ber.
PREPARING FOR
MEETING NEXT WEEK
District Convention of Odd Fellows
Will Be Held at North Bir
mingham July 8
Active preparations have been begun
by the members of the Birmingham
lodges of the Independent Order Odd
Fellows for the district convention at
North Birmingham on July 8.
Special committees appointed to make
arrangements are hard at wrork and
they anticipate making this the largest
and most successful convention yet
held.
The complete programme for the con
vention, as announced yesterday by the
general chairman, is as follows:
Convention called to order by W. V.
Cunningham, president, at 9 a. m.
Opening ode. Prayer.
Welcome address, A. C. Springfield.
Response, Palmer P. Daugette, Star
lodge.
Report of lodges by roll call.
Report on the condition of the order
In Alabama, Fred J. Cramton, grand
master.
Conferring grand lodge degree.
Instructions in conferring degrees.
Jacob Burger, past grand master.
Exemplification of secret work, 11.
C. Pollard, grand secretary.
1. O. O. F. home, George Huddleston,
Mineral City lodge.
The Rebeckas. Mrs. F. J. Cramtop.
Election of officers.
Selection next place of meeting.
In the evening Grand Master Cram
ton will deliver a lecture, illustrated
by pictures of Odd Fellow's’ homes uli
over the United States. j
To Get Kill of MoaqiitloeKi
You can Sleep. Fish. Hqnt or attend to
any work without being worried by the
Idling or singing of Mosquitoes, Sand
Flies, Gnats, or other insects by apply
ing to the face, ears and hands, DR.
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OFFICIAL MAP OF THE WEATHER
U. S. Department of Agriculture.
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Weather Forecast
Washintgon, July 3.—Weather fore
cast for Mississippi, Alabama and Geor
gia: Generally fair Friday and Sat
urday.
Tennessee: Generally fair Friday and
Saturday:
Local Data
For the 24 hours ending at 7 p. m.,
July 3:
Highest temperature .. 00
Lowest temperature .. 71
Mean temperature . NO
Normal temperature. 79
Deficiency in temperature since
Jan. I . 25
Rainfall .00
Total rainfall since Jan. 1.30.49
Excess in rainfall since Jan. 1,. 3.57
Relative humidity, 7 a. m. NO
7 p. m. 54
Weather Conditions
Birmingham, July 3.—(7 P. M.)—Pres
sure conditions have undergone no im
portant changes since Wednesday night,
but there has been a general increase in
barometric readings over eastern sections,
and a slight dcrease over the western
Mississippi valley and plains states.
Fair weather has prevailed west of the
plains states except in the northern Rock-1
ies and the Pacific northwest, where rains!
have continued. Other rain areas em-i
brace the western lakes, the lower Mis-;
sissippi valley and Texas, and portions
of Tennessee and North Carolina.
Temperatures continued JTather’' high
over the southern half of the country
east of the Mississippi, in most of the
plains states, and over almost the entire
Atlantic slope. The relatively cooler con
ditions west of the Mississippi river in
southern sections was due to tlie rains
and cloudy skies that prevailed there.
In most sections of the cotton belt
temperatures ranged slightly above nor
mal. Rains occurred in Oklahoma, Texas,
Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee and
Nor til Carolina. Fair skies prevailed in
central and eastern gulf states. Condi
tions seem favorable for generally fair
weather in this section Friday.
Summary of observations made at j
United States Weather Bureau stations!
July 3, 1913:
Taznp'tun
Lowest
At for
7 p.rn. day.
Abilene, cloudy . 8.8 76
Atlanta, clear. 86 72
Atlantic City, clear . 70 68
Baltimore, cloudy . 84 72
Birmingham, partly cloudy. 86 71
Boise, rain . 64 68
Boston, clear . 74 68
Brownsville, partly cloudy . 82
Buffalo, clear . 84 66
Burwood, clear . 84 76
Calgary, partly cloudy . 62 46
Charleston, partly cloudy 84 80
Chicago, partly cloudy . 88 . 74
Corpus Christ!, cloudy . 80 76
Denver, clear . 84 6)
Des Moines, clear . 88 70
Dodge City, clear >. 02 70
Duluth, cloudy . 68 60
Durango, clear . 86 4j
Eastport. clear . 68 66
Galveston, cloudy . 80 80
Green Bay. partly cloudy . 64
Hattcras, cloudy . 78 78
Havre, cloudy . 66 44
Helena, rain . 58 50
Huron, cloudy . 08 64
Jacksonville, clear . 84 76
Kamloops, partly cloudy . 72 42
Kansas City, clear . 88 76
Knoxville, cloudy . 82 72
Louisville, clear . 88 74
Memphis, clear . So 72
Miami, partly cloudy . 82 74
Mobile, clear . 84 74
Modena, clear. 86 62
Montgomery, partly cloudy .... 9U 74
Montreal, partly cloudy. 74
Moorhead, clear . 72 58
New Orleans, clear . 84 74
New' York, clear . 70 70
North Platte, clear . 94 70
Oklahoma, cloudy . 80 7<>
Palestine, cloudy . 78 72
Parry Sound, partly cloudy ..... 76 54
Phoenix, clear . 104 72
Pittsburg, clear . 84 68,
I
Portland, partly cloudy .. 66 54
Raleigh, rain .% 94 76
Rapid City, cloudy . 76 58
Roseburg, partly cloudy* ........ 70 52
Roswell, clear . 94 64
Salt Lake City*, 'cloudy . 76 00
San Diego, clear . 68 6J
San Francisco, clear .. 64 56 I
Seattle, cloudy . 62 52
Sheridan, cloudy . 72 52
Shreveport, clear. 80 72
Spokane, cloudy . 62 50
St. Louis, clear . 84 74 C '
St. Paul, cloudy . 68 62
Swift Current, partly cloudy .. 68 42
Tampa, rain . 74 74
Toledo, clear . 84 68
Washington, clear . 84 72
Willlston . W>
Wlnnemucca, partly cloudy. 70 54 **
Winnipeg, partly* cloudy* . 66 56
E. C. HORTON, Local Forecaster.
PERMANENT HOMES
FOR ZOO ANIMALS
Smith Says They Can Get
Plenty of Animals When
They Have Buildings
Frank \V. Smith, president of the Blr
mlngham Zoo association, is preparing lu
raise a fund for the construction of a per
manent home for animals already ac
quired, and for those which can easily bo
obtained if suitable quarters are bullded.
"There is no question," stated lie, “but
that lions at d lizards and leopards and
tigers and elephants ran be procured as
soon us we are prepared to handle und
keep them. We nave been offered larged
animals and animals which will be more
attractive to the children. We must have
a home for them. Birmingham must have
a zoo. There is no reason why Memphis
has a line zoo and Birmingham has not."
Mr. Smith stated that homes for the an
imals can be constructed for comparative
ly a much smaller figure than $10,000. hut
that $10,000 should be raised in order that
a zoo worthy of Birmingham might be ac
quired. He repeated bis previous state
ment that animals galore and of all va
rieties bad been tendered the zoo.
Something practical is expected to be
accomplished in the near future.
THREE ALABAMIANS
VISIT WASHINGTON
ON BUSINESS TRIPS
Washington. July 3.—(Special.)—N.
D. Godboldt of Camden, a candidate for
district attorney for the Southern dis
trict of Alabama, is In Washington in
ills own interest. Woodford Marbury
of Camden, who Is seeking the place of
minister to Honduras Is Also in the city.
Sidney Price of Mobile, general counsel
for the Mobile and Ohio railroad is in
Washington on business. Adjutant Gen
eral Scully, Who has been in the city
for several days, leaves for Alabama
tonight.
Three Minutes Is Duration
of Meeting—Attendance
Also Slim
The shortest meeting ever held by
the city commission at which any
business at all was transacted occurred
yesterday. The board convened at 3
o’clock with President C. Exum an I
Commlsisoner Lane present. At 3:03 it
adjourned.
The meeting yesterday took the place
of the regular Friday meeting which
was advanced a day as today is a nai* ^
tional holiday; There will be no one
at the city hall today, the commis
sioners announced after the meeting.
There was not a soul present except
the two commissioners, Secretary Ryail
and two newspaper men. Judge Lane
suggested to Mr. Ryail that photo- V
graphs be taken of the newspaper men
as they constituted the smallest au
dience ever appearing at a commis
sion meeting and had no complaints
to make against the police department.
Secretary Ryail responded that there
was no need of taking the pictures.
“Chief Bodeker already has ’em,” he
said.
Some vouchers were authorized and
a petition presenetd from the Boys'
club asking for an act making tag day
a permanent event for the club. It was
granted.
"I move we adjourn,” said Judge
Lane. A solemn line of march was
formed with the addition of City At
torney Boyd, who came in late, and
the room was vacated.
“Gosh! Ain't it hot!” sighed Mr. .
Ex urn.
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