The age-herald., 1900-04-06
N HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

Ts Haas lie and Nashville Railroad l comes Rf proceed at once to devote aaas a of it's vast energies and l ErU.## .ds securing. the construction C{ sn factories ct the most advantage 1 ous points on it's lines. With this purpose | in view P. Sid Jones, the company's rep i resentatiye irl various capacities at Bir-
 mil sham, will go east immediately and
 seek to interest investors in the plan which 1 promises much for the railroad and its l immense territory. There is no sound req
 son for doubting that Captain Jones will
 be successful in his mission. for it is one 1 he is perfectly well-fftted to carry to a | happy terminatlon. He is thoroughly fa- | miliar with the advantages offered toy the | different districts through which the Louis 1 vile and Nashville passes. And probably l no great railway system in this country 1 is more fortunate in the natural wealth of l its territory. It is difficult to conceive of i more desirable sites for cotton factories
 than such stations Pulaski in Tennessee,
 and Athens, Decatur Cullman, Clanton, 1 Wetumpka, Fort Deposit, Greenville, | Georgiana and Evergreen, in Alabama. At l these points there plentiful supplies of | cotton and plenty of white labor, together
 with water and everything else required, 1 It is in contemplation By Captain Jones | and his superiors ito buy cotton in the 1 seed wherever and whenever practicable | for such factories as may be constructed. l This would mean saving of at least l dollar and half bale, and would in that l .r, f,1- give these factories great advantages over l any others now in operation. Captain Jones 1 is in a position to offer investors the un- | equaled advatages of rich cotton fields, 1 cheap water, lights, fuel, low taxes and l low freight rates, with all the labor needed
 at reasonable wages. The general plan 1 with which Captain Jones is charged in the | first instance to carry out is of immense l public importance
 The mineral development of the Birming- | ham district and the general growth in population, industry and wealth in it's ter | ritory have hitherto claimed the attention | and taxed the energies of the Louisville
 and Nashville company, to the unavoidable | neglect of cotton manufacturing a busi-
 ness of the first importance. The purpose | now is to make up for lost time. Cotton | factories are to be built, and upon plans l that will make them perhaps the most | profitable in tEe> United States. In the l Carol.nas the Southern railway has prof l ited immensely by cotton factories, great | many of which have been built out in the | cotton fields through which the Southern l passes. South Carolina now ranks next to | Massachusetts in the number of spindles, 1 and at the present rate of increase Massa- 1 chusetts will be left behind within less | than two years. Upon an average, $l0O0O0 1 a week has been invested in cotton manu- i featuring in South Carolina since January
 1, 1900. What is being done in that state ] can and will be done in Alabama
 
 The Alabama prohacltionists' candidate
 for the vice presidency of the United | States, the Rev. W. B. Wjtherspoon of i Gadsden, was In Birmingham yesterday on i private business. The nomination of MT. l Witherspoon was first suggested in Rhode 1 Island and it has been taken up by pro- i hibition newspapers generally. At the re- l cent meeting of the Al&lsama representa- | tives of the anti-hquor party a resolution was adopted in favor of MT. Witherspoon for the vice presidency; and 50 he is hay ing fame thrust upon him, though, as a
 matter of course, there will be no prohib- ttonist elected a member of the Electoral college. MT. Witherspoon is the editor of the Alabama Cumberland Presbyterian, a monthly publication issued from Gadsden. This advocate of the prohibition cause was published alternately at Piedmont, Eden l and Anniston, all in Calhoun county. Eden is not marked on the average map, as there
 are but two three houses in the settle | ment. MT. Witherspoon is a red-haired, 1ed-bsarded, blue-eyed man of less than
 medium stature. He is personally modest citizen, and there is amongst men who know him no difference of opinion as to tfle excellence Cf his character, the sin cerity of his piety, or his devotion to the cause of prohibition. pr. Swallow of Penn l sylvania has been endorsed by prohibition | ists for president of the United States. ani | already the stupid so-called wits of silly | newspapers playing on the easy ringing
 ''swallow with a spoon" but that will not
 effect the good if uselessly directed, inten- | tons of Dr. Swallow and the Rev. MT. l Witherspoon.
 | The Society of the Alumni of the State | University is fortunate in having obtained | the promise or an address from MT. HannS 1 Taylor. The address will be delivered at l Tuscaloosa on the 18th of June next, and MT. Hannis Taylors subject will be "The
 Place of the New World in the Family of l Nations" The title is comprehensiye enough, even for Mr. Hannis Taylors great capacity. Few men in this country
 are so competent as he to deal with it. The general line of his argument Is probably
 known to himself alone; but there can be | no harm in stating here a plain truth: | Some members of the society which he is | called upon to address, and hosts of his fel- | low citizens stand sorely in need of instruc- | tion as to Americas proper place amongst l the great nations. But whatever Mir Han- his Taylor may say, he will say it in the
 most engaging manner; for there is not
 amongst this people any man more gra- 1 ciOuS, graceful, more charitahl ar of