Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-02
RANDALL In A COAL MINE
PENNSYLVANIA,S CHAMPION In
THE FIELDS OF ALABAMA.

Residents of Birmingham Do the Hon
ors on the Occasion-The Randall
Democratic Club Presents the Visitor
with an Address-A Big Banquet for
! Tonight.
| BIRMINGHAM, ALA, Jan. 1.-Hon.
Samuel j. Randall and party arrived here
on a special train from Nashville at $50
| O'Clock this morning, escorted by Col.
! j. W. SloSs, President of the South and
North Alabama Railroad, Col. Enoch
Ensley, President of the Pratt Coal and
Iron Company, and several other gentle
men. AS the train pulled into town the
whistles of railroad locomotives, furnaces,
| foundries and machine shops saluted 1t
with their best blasts and the Birming-
ham Artillery fired a number of guns.
When the train stopped and Mr.. Randall
appeared Mayor A. Q. Lane stepped
on the platform of the car and spoke
few appropriate words of welcome,
to which Mr.. Randall replied in a short
speech, in which he said that he had a
great desire to 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 to
prevent the people from successfully COM
peting with any country on the face of
the globe in converting raw material into
market commodities. Congressman Nc
| Adoo followed with pleasing speech,
| after which the party was driven in car
riages to Florence Hotel, which had been
decorated for their entertainment.
DOWN IN A COAL NINE.
After about an hour, in which the party
| breakfasted, they left for the Pratt mines,
six miles from the city, on a special train
| provided by the Pratt Coal and Iron Com.
| pany on its railroad. About forty citi-
Zens accompanied them. At the mines,
after an introduction by Col. Esley, Presi-
dent of the company, MessIs. Randall and
| McAdOO made speeches to large number
of miners, with whom were also a band
| of school children with banner and de-
! vices. L. W. Johns, Mining Engineer for
| the company, followed, welcoming the
| two visitors on behalf of the Workingmen.
| The party then visited the mines, which
| comprise a shaft, two slopes and drift.
| They went into the shaft and saw the pro-
cess of digging coal upon as thoroughly
| scientific plan as is operated in the
| world. Mr.. Randall wore in the mine
instead of his silk hat felt hat he had
| brought with him, and a miners lamp at
tached. The party reached this city again
| at $3.50 O'Clock and spent the afternoon in
visiting places eff interest.
Mr.. and Mrs. Randall, assisted by Con-
| gressman-elect John Nj. Martin and Mrs.
Martin and about dozen ladies of this
| city and Tuscaloosa, received callers at
the Florence Hotel tonight. At the open
ing of the reception the members of the
| Jefferson Democratic and Randall clubs
called in a body and presented an address
| printed on white satin, to which Mr.. Ran
| dali replied appropriately. At O'Clock
| the visitors went to the theatre and saw
l- g..4k
| half of 1.-THE Little JOKER" Tomorrow
| Mr.. Randall and Mr.. McAdoo will visit
the furnaces and iron ore mines with
in a few miles of this city on the
Louisville and Nashville and Birmingham
mineral railroads. Every assurance ex-
| lists that the banquet tomorrow night
at the Florence Hotel will be an event
long TO be remembered in the social history
of the city. There will be seats for nearly
200 guests, and other places in the State
will furnish good proportion of the
banqueters.
PRESENTED WITH AN ADDRESS.
The following address, to which he ap-
propriately replied, was presented this
evening to Mr.. Randall at his rooms at
the Florence Hotel:
On July 3, 1888, number of citizens of Bir-
mingham met for the purpose of laying the
| ground WORK OF an organization the object of
| which was to spread among our people the
| doctrine of commercial as well as political
freedom of the United States, and to en-
! courage the developing of the varied and
valuable resources of our State. Knowing full
| well the ability and courage you displayed
under all circumstances in advocacy of this
| doctrine, we did ourselves honor to assume
| for our organization the name of ''The Ran
| dali Democratic Club" Hence it is with pc
| cul1ar pleasure, in common with all the citi-
zens OF our State, that we avail ourselves of
the opportunity to welcome you to our midst
and to extend the hand of friendship to one
whose greatest ambition is to serve his coun-
try well. Respectfully.
j. L. WATKINS,