Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-16

heard of such an outpouring of people as will go to Atlanta. Everybody I saw while in Cincinnati and Louisville will go. If Birmingham does what she ought to do. and what I believe she will, the balance of the state will come to her aid and instead of $100OO or s12, 1000 for an exhibit we will have S25,000.
 MT. Steiner moved that mass meeting be called under the auspices of the Com mercial club for Friday night at 8 o'clock, at O'Brien's opera house, for the pur- pose of informing the people of the ex- position, and that the president of the club and chairman of the general com mittee be authorized to invite prominent speakers to address the people on that occasion. The motion prevailed.
 At the suggestion of MT. M. V. Joseph MT. London stated that no subscriptions would be called for expected or received at that meeting.
 By request the chairman stated that the money must be paid at the time it is subscribed or 1t don't count, no promises s'go."
 MT. Walter A. Ballard western repre- sentative of the Boston Journal of Com merce, was present and by request ad- dressed the meeting. He said it was a mere coincidence that he was present.
 The object of your meeting, under stand. is to arrange for an exhibit at the Atlanta exposition. From my contact With the manufacturers of the northern states can say the eyes of the people of the north are on this section and the ex- Mblts the southern states will have at the Atlanta expositiong recently saw iSt or Chicago manufacturers who will nave exhibits in Atlanta and it contains nearly every prominent firm. The same IS true of St, Louis. The people here as eIsewhere in the south, too little appre- eiate their advantages.
 The question of manufacturing is one n QYa6 III MT Carnegie said two years ago that the eighth wonder was the manufacture Of pig iron in the Pfttsburg Pa., dis trict Iron Is hauled from Minnesota, 800 miles; coal, eighty miles; manganese, From West Virginia, 400 miles, and yet the iron was sold for less than a cent a pound. Here you have limestone iron ore and coal in close proximity. Verify you have the ninth wonder of the world I understand you make pig iron here for less than $6 ton. I am told by an off, cial of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Rail- road company that the freight charges on all material used In making a ton of pig iron is only 25 cents, $3 less than in Pittsburg. I came here as the represent ative of the Boston Journal of Commerce in the interest of cotton manufacturing.
 "The people of New England are be- ginning to appreciate that they must move their mills away from there. The same conditions are true of the lumber interests. !!
 If you can show northern manufac- turerS when they come here next fall that they can make their goods here cheaper than elsewhere they will come. It's the money they are after, and they are going where 1t can be made. If your exhibit in Atlanta does this your money will be returned ten-fold in ten years"
 Chairman London requested MT. Acton to state to the laboring people that they were expected to attend the meeting at the opera house Friday night.
 A resolution requesting the papers of Jefferson county to publish the call for Friday nights meeting in each issue was adopted, after which the meeting ad- jouned.
 MT. John l.. Parker, chairman of the subcommittee on drugs paints and oils, has appointed Messrs. T. L. McGowan, H. H. Sinnige and E.. K. Austin on the committee with himself.