The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-26
THE PROSPEROUS SOUTH.
ABRAM S. levitt, JOHN c. CAL
hOUN AND ]. II. INMAN HERE.

Awakening from Two Centuries o
Repose-It is Growing Fast, but Not
Too Fast-savannah to Rival New
Orleans and Take the Lead-Mr
Hewitt Thinks the South Win Soor
Fxport Pig Iron to Foreign Ports
Mr.. Calhoun Hated at the Steady
Growth of Savannah, Which He Pre-
diets VIII Soon Have 100000 Popu.
lation-A gricultural Lands to Boom
Next
The Calhoun-Hewitt party, which is tour.
ng the south, arrived in the city in two
private cars over the Charleston and Sa
vannah railway yesterday noon, and was
immediately driven to the De Soto
After lunch, the members scattered about
the city visiting points of interest, calling
on friends and acquaintance and, after
a 6 o'clock dinner, left by the Savannah
Florida and Western railway for Jackson
vile, st. Augustine and the phosphate
fields of South Florida. They viii return
north by the way CT Macon, Atlanta, Biz
mingham, and through Kentucky via Lex
ington, where Mr.. Hewitt will invest in q
team of blooded roadsters.
The party is composed Of Hon. Abram S.
Hewitt, ex-congressman and ex-mayor Of
New York city; Mrs. Hewitt, Misses E. G..
and S. c. Hewitt, Erskine Hewitt; Hon.
John G. Calhoun, vice president of the Cen
trail railroad, who accompanies Mr.. Hewitt
TO show him the southern country; Mrs.
John G. Calhoun, Stephen II. Olive, DR.. f..
l.. Reyes and Robert L. Hargous. At
Charleston Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Simonds
l.l., Hall 7 TT,,1c
and Mrs. Kelly Hall of New York joined
the party here and are making the Florida
tour with them.
THE TRIP SOUTH.
Hon. John c. Calhoun, in an interview
with MORNING NEWS reporter, said that
the party has in Its travels been received
with that true hospitality which is proverbial
of the south. At Columbia the governor
and both branches of the Legislature and the
citizens gave them a cordial reception, and
at Charleston they met with the most royal
welcome. No formal reception was given
them here, owing TO the short time they
were in the city, but n strong effort was
made by prominent citizens TO get the party
to stay over until to-day, 80 that some special
courtesies might be extended them. Gen
Alexander, Gen. Lawton, Maj. A. l..
Hartridge and others rendered them, on be-
half of themselves and the citizens, recep-
tlOu WHICH udl W 10 OGCllllou Ou dSCOuuO VI
the schedule, which took them away last
night. Many prominent persons called on
the party az the De Soto, and their short
stay was made enjoyable.
MR.. HEwITT's FIRST VISIT.
Mr.. Hewitt accorded the MORNING News
representative lengthy and pleasant inter-
view. He said that it was his first visit to
Savannah. and he was deeply impressed
with the growth and progress of the city,
and be predicted that it is destined to be
the principal city Of the south, New Or
leans not excepted. He said that when the
inevitable connections are made with the
railroads west Of the Mississippi, Savan-
nah will then have entered upon
an era Of great industrial and COM
mercial prosperity, and become the
great southern metropolis. Mr.. Hewitt
added that he has no financial interests in
the city or in railroads, so that his keen
insight into the future of Savannah cannot
be construed into the utterance of an
opinion inspired by self-interest.
THE HARBoR QUESTION.
Referring to the necessities of deep har-
Dor to facilitate the movement, foreign and
coastwise, of the products of the south and
west from Savannah, Mr.. Hewitt said that
New York recognizes the needs Of
the harbor here, and he feels
satisfied that the New York congressman,
regardless of political predictions, will
be found friendly to such government an
preparations as will be commensurate with
the needs Of the port, and the sooner the
appropriations are available and the more
liberal the appropriations, the more certain
and speedy the commercial growth of the
city.
THE NEW SOUTH.
The south, Mr. Hewitt looks upon as lust
awakening from a sleep of nearly POO
years, and it is fully awake TO
its industrial, agricultural and com
rapidly developed, he said, and growing
fast, not too fast, he added, but just fast
enough, and if it does not attempt to 70
ahead too rapidly and is careful to get the
right kind of Immigrants, and avoid getting
the dangerous elements of immigration, a
future full of promise is in store for the
south.
Mr.. Hewitt's observations of southern re-
sources and southern development date
back to the close of the war, when he IN
vested in the Roane iron works in Tennes-
see, and he says that he was actuated more
by a desire to aid the south than to make a
business investment, when he started the
mills to making railroad iron for southern
roads, furnishing rails which were used in
rebuilding most of the roads of Georgia,
and he said that he told them TO take The
rails and pay for them when they could.
and he added, 1--WE were paid every dollar
for them"
THE ELDER HEWITT HERE IN TIE 20'S.
Although this was Mr. Hewltt's first visit
to Savannah, the people of Savannah are
not wholly strangers TO him. He says that
many of the earlier merchants of Savannah
were friends and patrons of his fathers
house, and the acquaintance and friend
ships have continued between the Hewtts
and the descendants of the Bolton and other
of the older families of Savannah. He saws
that as far back as the twenties his father
used to winter at st. Marys and Savannah.
his father spending some fourteen or fifteen
winters here and at st. Marys, the latter
being the principal port of entry of the
South Atlantic coast, his father importing
at that place rosewood, mahogany and
other fine woods, which he worked up
into lumber for his furniture factory in the
north. The elder Hewitt had mill at St.
Marys where the rich wood of the tropics
was prepared for the factory, and Mr.
Hewitt saws the furniture manufactured in
Shose days was not such cheap and snowy
work as is turned out in these DAYS, but was
of solid rosewood and mahogany.
sAvANNAH's MARITIME FUTURE.
Savanna, MIR. Hewitt thinks, only wants
her harbor deepened TO open up great ex-
porting and importing trade with Europe
and the Orient, and he thinks the Florida
phosphate viii be a great factor. as it can
be taken in ballast, thereby decreasing