The age-herald., 1899-03-24
MIR. BRYAN SPOKE TO MORE THAN
 FIVE THOUSAND DEMOCRATS
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linsen, Robert J. Lowe, R. P. Wetmore, w c. Garrett and John c. Pugh of Birming ham.
 The chairmen of the various committees were the only Birmingham men present.
 Trip Around the District.
 About 10 O clock the trip around the Min eral was begun, there being over hundred democrats in the party. From the depot the train began it's thirty-seven mile cir cult around the Birmingham district, go- ing by way of North Birmingham, Ensley. Bessemcr and 7Ishkooda. The train got back to the city about 2:30 o'clock. E. J. McCrossin had charge of the party, and he managed the trip most successfully. Con- ductor G. R. Rutherford and Engineer J. w. Long were in charge of the train.
 The first stop was made at Ensley, where the great furnace plant of the Tennessee company and the steel mills now in the pro- cess of construction, were inspected. A large number of the workmen employed in the blacksmith shop quit their work and came out in a body to shake Colonel Bry- ans hand The party was in one of the stock houses of the furnace plant, just af- ter a run had been made. The motion pig Iron was CoNereu all ONer lHe SfouIu, anu the heat radiating from them was very great.
 These people don't have to put any hands off signs around here," laughed Colonel Bryan to F. D. White, who was with him at the time.
 At Bessemer the pipe works of the Amer ican Pipe and Foundry company were thoroughly inspected, the party being shown through the plant by Superintendent N. P. Boots Colonel Bryan was very much interested in the process of pipe mak- ing and it was explained to him in detail.
 An Honest Workman's Tribute
 q hope my vote will count, an you'll be elected next time," said one of the work men as he shook Colonel Bryan's hand
 Ut counted last time here in Alabama, didn't it?" was the reply.
 "Yes, but We can't whip out those east ern fellows and their money" said the workman.
 Wait and see,' said Colonel Bryan, prophetieally.
 Put him up on pipe and let him talk to all of us," called another one of the skilled laborers who were crowding around 'I don't like this way of going around from one to the other."
 'I'll tell you, my friend" said Colonel Bryan, you look like you can talk all right; so you get up and tell them what I said, after Pm gone."
 Nearly all of the workmen greeted the great leader in the same manner.
 i've heard of yer before," they would say. q voted fer yer last time, an I'm soin' to do it agen."
 At Sloss's, beyond Bessemer, novel re- ception had been planned by the miners, though the train was not to stop there. Under the direction of John Hanby several salutes of blasting dynamite were fired off and every miner in sight cheered vocifer- ousy.
 Bryan Greatly Interested | At Ishkooda the party climbed all over 1 the mountain to the mouths of the ore mines and through the cuts where surface mining is being carried on to such large extent. Colonel Bryan was greatly inter- ested in the wonderful wealth of mineral deposits which lay around him, and asked q great many questions, in what respect Birmingham was the greatest mining dis trict in the world, how 1t was that iron could be produced so cheapy. and similar queries.
 During the trip Colonel Bryan was kept busy greeting the gentlemen who were in- troduced to hm, and to all of them he talked most entertainingly. Each of them had a question Of some kind to ask and Colonel Bryan answered all of them in the clear and straightforward manner for which he is famous.
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