The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-12-28
SCRANTON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2s 1901.

generosity. offered, in 1899, to give the
city 100000 to build a new library. II
the city would furnish site and guar.
antee $4,000 II year for It's support. The
Young Mems Christian association Of
fered to the city their entire property.
worth 100000 to furnish u site for th,
new library. This happy combination
was consummated by freedom from po.
litical intrigue and the organization ef.
fccted just three months after Mr.. Car
negic's offer, when Mr.. Carnegie added
$4,000 additional to the building fund.
In the words of Mayor Woodward, "a
kind and all-wse Providence aided an
Industrious and energetic people in di-
recting that public bcnefactor. Andrew
Carnegie, in his noble gift to the city.
which has been the cause of the estab-
lish'nent of a free circulating library
such as should cause Il throb of joy to
every heart in Atlanta"
Atlanta can we'll be proud of It's two
leading papers. the Atlanta Constitu-
tion. the morning paper and the At
1dnth Journal. the evening paper. 1t
would indeed be hard to explain where
in the one eXcels the other, both being
the leading papers of the South; their
editorials are copied and commented
upon all over the country. The Consti.
tuition was the late Henry w. Grady's
paper UP to the time of his death Ii,
1889, and 1t is generally admitted that
It's broad-minded policy has been Il
powerful factor in the Industrial and
commercial development of Georgia and
of the whole South, and particularly In
strumental in Transforming Atlanta
from a struggling, devastated town into
on up-to-date metropolis. The Journal
claims to be the paper for the people.
standing for their rights and repre-
sentlng their interests. Its average cir
culation is 10000 and growing constant
ly. We are indebted to the editors of
both of these papers and Hon. John 5:
Parks, of the city council. for valuable
information pertaining to Atlanta and
it's industries.
VARIED INTERESTS.
Certainly no city in the South and
few In the entire country have as va
ried manufacturing interests or sound
er financial institutions. By reason of
cheap material. building costs less in
Atlanta than almost anywhere else and
imposing structures eight, ten. eleven
anu lttu StpIltS IlSIl dtltSl lut
money which seeks investment in this
field. Probably no city of its size in
the country has greater number Of
handsome homes than Atlanta.
Atlanta supports some 700 industries,
and can boast of sone of the most en-
terprising concerns in the South. and
SIS, 900 is invested in these enter
prises, which employ more than 5000
persons and which pay in salaries and
wages something like $50 COO n day and
turn out products which sell for $21,-
600 Geo per annum.
Atlanta is Il cosmopolitan city more
so than any other in the Southern
states. Almost every state in the
North and West and every country OF
Europe is represented among it's resi-
dents. These diverse elements. COM
posed of the best and most enterprise
ing people from this and other cOun-
tries. instead of producing friction and
continual jar, as some might suppose,
gives the city a vigorous and progress
sive spirit. which makes it easily first
of all Southern communities in the race
of progress. It's TroWth strikingly IL
lustrntcs the intelligence and enter
prise Of It's cosmopolitan and progress F!
sive Cit!Z5ns. |
j. L. Richmond. |