The age-herald., 1898-02-17
NORTHERN MILLMEN
 ARE COMING SOUTH Amory Manufacturing Company Has Made
 the Beginning. sa eels NEW MILL AT CORD0vA, ALA. Head of the Corporation Talks EncOur- aghSly About the SOuth.- s,...s HAS EVERY CHANGE FOR SUCCESS
 al4i4 The Conditions of Commerce, Have Undergone Such Change That the South lsat
 Present Yielding Attractive Re-
 turns to Capital. :-s:: .s.zr:.'

Correspondence of the Atlanta Constftu-
 tion. .ss
 'The south has before it such future in, cotton manufacturing, said MT. Arthur Amory that the limit is only bounded byI the energy of her people, esi' S
 This emphatic declaration from one. of the leading cotton manufacturers in the union is full of meaning. The name of Amory is one known throughout the manu- facturing world and carries with it in- dorsement wherever it goes. The Amory family has hitherto confined its business to the north and the west, never having ca- tered to the southern trade. When. there fore, MT. Arthur Amory interested his col- leagues in the building of a cotton mill the Indian Head-at Cordoya Ala, it meant the conversion of one of the strongest bull warks of the manufacturing world of New England to the belief thaE the promises of the future pointed southward. s,5s
 Mir Amory was found at his office in AS Franklin street, just preparing to make his fortnghtIy visit to the house of Amory, Brown & Co.,, in New York City. s. taa|
 How He Got Into the South
 ..What have to say,' said MT. Amory, "does not require any special preparation. The manufacturers of New England are suffering from condition which admits of many explanations, but the fact remains that business is deplorable. For several years, in keeping with other manufac- turers, have been studying the conditions which were presented by the southern field. From hearing of one or two mills, I began to hear of a great many, and at length the south became factor to be considered ir any calculation. Looking over the field from purely business standpoint, l became impre essed with the possibilities of the trade in that direction. If the state- ments made were true there was no reason why business men should not avail them selves of them. I became convinced that as long as certain conditions existed there would profit fin cotton milling in the south. Among tlhe advantages which found were those of climate, which made wages go farther than they would in the north. The operative needs less heat-producng food, less raament to guard against inclemency, can get cheaper rents, Y has more ground over which to spread and mills be furnished better ventilation. Then the peo- pie who offer for labor are a desirable class, conservative, well disposed and pleased with an opportunity to make money. For this reason I interested my friends in the erection of a mill in Ala bama, at Cordova, just where the foothills of the Blue Ridge begin to break away to- ward the level plains of the Mississippi val ley. This spot was selected because it was the center of a superior cotton belt and be- cause of it's proximity to the coal beds. Coal is a great factor and if it lasts if cannot fail to build up great manufactories
 The south has this great advanta ge- that 10 can profit by all our mistakes. Here we were the pioneers in American unana1- facturng. As long as we confined our serves to the normal labor supply of the country we had operatives who were i'm terested in us, and in whom we could be interested in turn, but when they were dis placed by foreign element which refused to become assimilated trouble began and enmity reigned where harmony exestad before. Then we allowed the labor supply to become congested in great centers-as the south is even now approaching in the Piedmont d1strict-and there arose that dull monQtony of a community welded to single pursuit-making the same condi- tfon in all cotton manufacturing as there is to be found in all cotton mal1irg in agrcuture. Tf,e congestion of labor in NeEy England has brought about one-fdaa communities, ignorant of the requirements of all other callings of life ineistent in the declaraton that theirs was the only one to be considered, and the walking de,e- gate found an opportunity to bloom into importance Diversifcatdon of people and of callings is as necessary as diversifica- tion of crops. The south is an immense empire, which can be dotted all over with cotton mills, each one forming but one of the many industries of it's locality, and furnishing paying employment to a class who could not be employed otherwise. Factory work Is congenial employment for white people, clean and respectable, and furnishes ready money in wages The white people of the south could not do bet ter than to take up the manufactures, not only of cotton, but of other things as we'll, leaving field labor to the negroes The troubles caused by labor ag.tators, who make money by stirring up strife among their fellow workmen, are not so easily fomented in diversified community as they are in a place like Lowell where there is but one calling attendant by the natural discontent whech springs from want of friction. "-'e 's t-- sslfs-''
 af Tho World Wants the Cotton
 f'That's about all I have to say." con- cluded MT. Amory, pulling on his top coat preparatory to rushing for the Park Square station to take his departure for New York. "I have built a mill at Cordova be- cause I was satisfied it would be a good investment. The world wants all our cot ton, and the present trouble is with our commercial men who have not yet suf- ficently placed it, and our manufacturers. who have not fully solved the styles in which our home people want it. Those difficulties will be overcome and the Amsri- can cotton grower, as well as the American cotton manufacturer. will be on top look forward to great strides of progress in the south, whose people are wide awake and e1Eterprising, and who are now showing the stun they are made of in the spirited fight they are making,' 5-e,
 MT. Amory spoke rapidly. without hestta- ton or attempt at concealment. and his high tribute to the natural possibilities of the south as well as to the character of her working and business people, is scarce " less pleasing than his declaration that whatever is possible by the aid of art or science in the north Is equally possible in the lower half of the unon.
 tf frit's-
 MRc. WlNslOWS SOOTHING SYRUP