The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-02
Raj dali and Party Warmly Re-
ceived at Blrmingham,
Alabama.
Numerous Steam Whistles and Booming
Cannon Announce Their Advent to
the Mining Center.
Scheming For the City Offices OF
New York-After the
Spoils.
RANDALL AND PARTY.

Their Arrival at Birmip CHAM, Alabama,
and are Welcomed by Steam whistles
and Artillery, Also by the Mayor and
other Prominent Men.
BIRMINeHAsI, Ala, Jan. Hon. Samuel
J. Randall and party arrived here on Soc
cial train from Nashville at $50 o'clock this
morning, and were escorted by Colonel J.
W. SlOss, President of the South and North
Alabama Railroad Company aud the SIoss
Furnace Company; Colonel Enoch Ensey,
President of the Pratt Coal and Iron Com
psDy, and several other gentlemen. As the
train pulled into town the whistles of the
railroad locom olives, furnaces. foundries
and machine shops ssluted it with their
best blasts, and the Birmingham Artil-
leIy fred a number of guns. When
the train stopped and Mr. Randall appeared,
Mayor a. o. Lane stepped on the platform
OF the car and spoke few appropriate words
of welcome.
Mr.. Randall replied in short speech, in
which be said he had had great desire 70
see the city that ships iron into the District
he represents in Congress, and promised that
no labor Of his should ever be given toward
enacting laws 10 prevent this people sue
cessfuily competing with any country on
the globe in converting raw material into
Congressman McAdOo followed in q pleas.
ing speesh. announcing himself as from
State which, for over a quarter Of q century
mad been faithful 10 Democratic principles,
The party were then driven in carriages
to the Florence Hotel, which had been dec
Grated for their entertainment.
After about an hour, in which the party
breakfasted, they left for the Pratt mines.
six miles from the city, on the special
train provided by the Pratt Coal end
Iron Company, on its railroad. About
forty persons accompanied them. at
the mines after a happy Introduction
by Colonel Ensley. President of the Pratt
mace short speeches to a large number of
miners. comprising also q band OF school
children. with banners ana devices. L. W.
Jshns, mining engineer for the compsny.
followed in welcoming the visitors on behalf
of the workiBgmen. The party then visited
the mines, which comprise q shaft, two slopes
and a drift. They went into the shaft
and saw the process Of digging coal upon as
thoroughly scientific plan as is operated in
the world.
Mr.. Randall wore in the mines, instead of
his silk hat felt hat he had brought with
him, and q miners lamp attached. The
party reached the city again at $3.50 O'Clock,
and spent the afternoon visiting places of
interest
Mr.. and Mrs. Randall, assisted By Congress
man.elect John M. Martin ald Mrs. Marian,
and about q dozen ladies of this city and
Tuscaloosa, received the callers at the flor.
ence Hotel tonight. At the opening of the
reception the members of the Jefferson D am
ocratic and Randall Club called in a body
and presented addresses printed on white
satin. Mr.. Randall replied appropriately.
| At 9 o'clock the visitors went to the thester
and saw Carrie Swain and troupe ia the
latter half of the Little Joker" To-mor-
row Messrs. Randall ana McAdoo will visit
the furnaces AMI iron ore mines within
few miles of the city, on the Louisville and
Nashville and Birmingham Mineral Rail
roads. There is every assurance that the
banquet tomorrow night at the Florence
Hotel, will be an. event long to be remem-
beTed in the social history of Birmingham.
Invitations to 1t are very gratefully received
as compliments among the residents. There
will be seats for nearly 200, and other places
in the State will furnish good proportion
of the banqueters.