The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-25
COTTON MILL MEN CONVENE.
THE NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION
IN SESSION AT ATLANTA.

Two Hundred and Fifty in Attend
ance on the Meeting-A Committee
FROM the Exposition and the Geor-
gfa Manufacturers Association
Looking After Them-President
collier Warns the Visitors That
the south Has Entered the Indus
Try with the Purpose of Leading
the WOrId-Presfdent GOodau Tells
Why the New Englanders Have
come south.
Atlanta, Ga, Oct. 24.-Two hundred and
fifty members Of the New England Cotton
manufacturers Association met at the au-
5itorium at the exposition this morning.
This is the organizations fifty-first ses-
sion and it was the first that has ever
tsen held outside the New England states.
The party came in last night in a BODY.
They are being looked after by a commit
fee from the exposition directors and the
Georgia Manufacturers Association, at
whose invitation they came south. After
the morning session. the members saw
something of the exposition. Tomorrow
afternoon the ladies of the party will be
entertained by Mrs. Ed. Peters and to-
morrow the gentlemen will be dined at
the Kimball by the Georgia Manufact-
urers' Association.
President Goodale presided at the bust
ness meeting. He presented Mayor King
and President Collier of the exposition,
both Of whom welcomed the visitors to
Atlanta. President Collier quoted Edward
Atkinson, who stated recently that the eff
fects of the first Cotton States exposition
held in Atlanta in 1881 had influenced cot
ton manufacturing throughout the whole
world. There are to-day" said he, more
cotton mills in a single southern state
than the entire south had when that ex-
position was held"
President Collier declared that there
is not a we'll managed cotton mill in the
south that does not pay a good dividend
on the money invested. He added that
the South has given notice that 1t in
tends TO aim for first place in cotton
manufacturing in the world. I'VE do not
accept the dictum which comedies to the
south unriValled advantages for the man
ufacture of the coarser grades of cOttOn
goods but debars her from competition
with New England IN the finer grades.
We are in this race for every prize that
can be won"
association, said that their reasons for
making the "trip We're several. one was
TO see the south and the products that
to see the magnificent exposition now in
progress, and to see the city capable OF
cOnceiving and perfecting such an under
taking But the most important was that
I'VE of the northern states might come
in contact with the manufacturers Of
the south"
Mr.. Goodale said that the key note Of
This meeting would probably be the present
methods of ginning and baling cotton and
the improvements that are vitally neees-
sary Mill building in the south Will be
exhaustively treated. In closing, Mr..
Goodale stated that the south's advan-
tages in the manufacture or cotton are
doors of the mills and cheap coal. Labor
is abundant, but as yet the south has not
the walking delegates. Yet we of New
England will stay in the business. There
is room in the business for both of us, and
in closer association of the two sections
great good may come"
G. W. Draper told of the. development
of the Northrop loom, which, he said, is
destined to revolutionize cotton manufac-
turing.
The association will meet tomorrow at
10 O'clock.