The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-17
INDUSTRIES OF THE SOUTH.
WORK of CONVENTION IN SESSION
AT. CHATTANOOGA.


Which Are in Active Operation.
Need for archaeological Education
Among the White Boys of the
South Was Discussed-Future of
the Gulf of Mexico Compared TO
the Mediterranean.
Chattanooga. Tenn, May 16.-The morn
ing was spent by the Southern Industrial
Convention in trip around the Belt Rail-
way as guests of the Alabama Great
Southern Railway.
The delegates visited sixty plants now In
active operation, including textile, wood,
iron and clay n1anufactories.
The afternoon session was called TO Or
der by President Killebrew who Introduced
Mr.. Cyrus Kehr of Knoxville. Mr.. Kehr
spoke on 1.-THE Poor White BOYS of the
South: A Plea for Technological Schools"
Mr.. Kehr urged that campaign be car
ried on during the coming summer with
the aid of the educators who will attend
the meeting of the National Educational
Association at Charleston, July TO 19,
with view to disseminating 10 as larg :
an extent as RAY be among the people anil
teachers a comprehension of techn-lcg
ical education. The campaign, he said,
should be supplemented by lectures and IN
stitute work, and also sermons in every
pulpit in the South on the dignity. honor
and sanctity of labor, diligence and THRIFT.
He also urged the publication Of bulletins
giving practical aid to teachers. 10 indi-
viduals studying by themselves, and 10
study classes and self-improvement clubs;
and the establishment of a system of trav-
cling libraries throughout the South, the
books while relating TO various subjec
should in large proportion be suited to the
development Of the various branches of in
dustrial education.
Mobiles Great HarbOr.
r. v. Taylor, general auditor of the Mo-
bile and Ohio Railroad of Mobile, Ala,
read a paper on 1.-THE Export Trade of the
South." In part he said:
During the year 1899, the first line of
| steamers between Mobile and Liverpool
was inaugurated and regular service has
since been maintained with this port and
Bremen, with occasional sailngs to Ham
| burg. Antwerp, Rotterdam and several
Mediterran mean and japanese ports. In 1898
| the first shipment of Alabama iron ever
made to Europe, was forwarded via the
| port of Mobile, from the city of Birming-
| ham, which has since grown to be the
! la gest iron exporting center in the Unit
ed States, and the third in the world.
The fiji st vessel to enter Havana under
the new regime sailed from the port of
Mobile. Since this ausDicious event, con-
tinuous service has been maintained not
only batween Mobile and Havana, but
also between all of the principal ports Of
Cuba"
Mr.. Taylor praised Mobiles harbor, and
said that when the results OF the ship
| - FN..fc 4
| the Pacific becomes an accomplished fact,
with the fleets Of the world seeking a
Far West and Far East, the gulf would
become the Mediterranean of the New
World, "teeming with the commerce
greater than the old, and Mobile, like the
Venice of antiquity, will occupy a position
of queenly pre-eminence upon the Gulf of
Mexico"
DR.. W. P. Wilson, OF the Philadelphia
Museums, addressed the convention on
"The Aim and Worth of the Museum"
The address was received with close at
tention, and was an able presentment OF
the subject.
At the conclusion Secretary Thompson
offered a resolution indorsins the Phila-
deiphia Commercial Museum, and urging
active support from every Southern sera-
tor and representative IN Congress in the
passage of a bill for governmental support
OF the museum. The resolution was
auOpled.
Hon. James Wilson. Secretary Of Agri-
culture, was the guest Of honor at the
evening session. His subject was THE
Agricultural Interests OF the South" The
Secretary was greeted with a large crowd.
Mr. John Clarkson of Philadelphia
sroke on mo Sectionalism." He paid a
glowing tribute to the energy and indus
try of Philadelphia ard made a brilliant
and strong appeal for the dropping Of any
imaginary lines dividing this country into
North and a South and an East and
West
Philadelphia Museum.
Secretary Thompson's resolution on the
Philadelphia Commercial Museum, which
was adopted. at the afternoon session,
reads as follows;
Whereas, the Philadelphia Museum Is
a public institution, working disinterested-
" for the commercial expansion OF our
country, and has brought beneficial re-
suits 10 the rapidly growing industries of
the South; and,
Whereas, the said institution carries
on this work over the entire world, bring
ing the foreign markets to our mills, fac
tories and farms, and without personal