Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-09
THEY'RE IFS 1D FOR HOME. TEo Mill 2 Are on the Briny
 < Deep.
THEIR VISIT MEANS MUCH
To the South and Substantial Results Are Expected in the
 Immediate Future.

RALEIGH, N. G., April 8.-The New England party of mill owners reached Raleigh on special train Sunday night. MT. Ashley, president of the chamber of commerce, had gone down on the Raleigh and Augusta train to meet them at Appia- forum and welcome them into our city. The party is composed of the most promi- nent mill owners in Massachusetts, one of whom OWES s3,000, 900 stock h New Eng land cotton mills. They stopped a short while on Sunday at Lockvilie, Chatham county, to examine the water power, and then came on 10 Raleigh. A number of prominent ciizsns called to see them in the special train.
 MIR. D. A. ToMPKINs
 of Charlotte, who was largely instrumental in arranging the trip for the party of prom inent New England mill men, said to the reporter:
 '1t is most desirable that southern peo- pie should develop the cotton mill industry themselves. But the eastern mill people, who are willing to join with us in perfect good faith, and we can get the benefit of their Knowledge and experience, and as they will probably come south anyway, whether we want them specially or not, it is better to show them everything and explain the situation so that when they come here to operate mills it will be with the full knowledge of exist ing conditions. We would ratber have ihem appreciate our labor situation and leave their labor in New England before coming south.p This, MT. Tompkins said. was plainly the chief reason for having the Massachusetts party see everything there was to be seen.
 In addition to tue points visited by the mill party formal invitations were received from:
 
 Lockylle, Southern Pines, Rockingham, Wadesboro, Monroe, Mount Holly, Moun- tain Island, Lincolnton, Shelby, Moores- boro, Henrietta, Greensboro, Whining ton, Laurin burgh, Gibson Station, Dur ham.
 South Carolina-Chester, Greenwood, A Abbevlle, Edgefed, Piedmont, Green. vile and Spartanburg.
 Virgiua-Nortolk, Portsmouth, Suffolk.
 Georgia-Aslanta, Athens, Columbus, Macon, Elperton.
 Tennessee Knoxville.
 Jackson, Miss, Birmingham, Ala, and Eufaula, Ala, also extended invitations.
 Il is pretty safe to say that something substantial will be heard From the latest of the mill .parties from Massachusetts that visited the south. s,sss
 ON THE WAVE.
 NORFOLK, Va, April S-The party of Massachusetts mill men who have been making trip through the south arrived here this afternoon on special over sLhe Seabord Air Line. They went to Baltimore via the Baltimore Steamship Packet con- panyias the guests of President Hoffnian, who was with them.
 They report that throughout the autire trip they were most enthusiastically re- ceived by southern people. It has been pleasing to them to note that there has not been the slightest evidence Of anything like sectional prejadic but ,on the con- 'trary, the people have shown most friendly disposition.
 MT. D. A. Tompkins of Charlotte, who was with the party during the entire trip, says the action of Vice. President st. John of the Seaboard Air Line in sending this party through the south on special train, ca used most favorable comment 10 be made about the interest working up every where for the benefit of the south. It was stated that some members of this party will undoubtedly enter in some way into cotton manufacture in the south, aI- though plans are not perfected. The purpose of this trip was 10 get necessary data upon the basis of which plans can be form uated. The party left the south with even better impressions of it's advantages than they hai when they came, although it was comp posed of men who were well im- pressed with the south before leaving