The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-30
TIE GEORGIA EDITORS.
BUFFALO DELIGHTED TO GREET
 THE EMPIRE STATE.
Alabama Marble Said to Be Equal to That of cararra sculptors Investigating It. Roscoe Cor
 mans Effective Work


 Buffalo, July aO.---t Special Correspon- dence 1.-The representatives from the Empire State of the SoHth, about 150 strong. completely captured the Pan- American Exposition. The speeches in the Temple of Music were unusually fine. Mir. H. H. Cabaniss of The A. lanta Journal made an ideal presiding officer. His dist inguished presence and dignified manner immediately produced a fine impression. Mr. Coleman, presi- dent of the Weekly Georgia Press As- soclation. Justified the reputation Dixie enjoys as being the home of oratory. Hon. R. 1F. Wright, representing the Governor of a State, made notable speech that sbristled with statistics showing the marvellous resources of Georgia. The scholarly Colonel Hemp hill of The Constitution made brief but eloquent address. Mir. Stovall of The Savannah Press made very fine speech, while Rev. sam Small electrified the audience of over 5000 people that thronged the Temple of Music. It was Georgia Day. in every sense of the word, Dixie. and other Southern melodies could be heard from one erd of the Esplanade to the other. These were always received with ap2la"se. The melody of these airs of the South land mingled as naturally with splash of the fountains fed by tho waters of the great slakes of the north, as if no armies had ever worn the "blue and the grey Mir. Coleman In his speech made beautiful reference to the part the South had borne in the late war. mentioned Captains, Harris and Hob- sons services in Cuba and the Philip pfnes,' and dwe.t on the fraternal feel ing that now prevailed in every part of our section. Ii will be remembered that Captain Harris, Y. S. A.. of Georgia is intchatge of the War De- psrtment Exhibit tifare and that Cap tain Hobson u.aS. N. Of Ala bama is on special duty here for the Navy De- pertinent in ronrection. with the Pam American Exposition.
 A few weeks ago a famous New York sculptor visited the Pan American Ex- position and was especially attrActed by the whiteness and fire grain of a block of marble in the Alabama cN- hibit He examined. 1t closely and Immediately -wrote~to the quarry for Information. The result Is Mir. Ros.oe German. the able commissioner from Alabama, has had several visits from other sculptors and demand is already created for the marble of Ala Udl11d. IL IS MPIi lAdt lHC famous sculptors paid a great deal, of attention to the quality of the marble they used. It Is historical fact that the father and grandfather of Phidias were sculptors and handed down to their ill1strious descendants the secret of the location of a quarry of pure white marble on the island of Paros, to the purity and quality of which they attributed much of their fame. If Alabama marble should stand the test to which it is now being su omitted m New York by several sculptors. Mir. German says he can furnish all the sculptors in the United States Win all they will want for many generations. Experts say the Alabama marble is equal to the finest brought from CGfar- ra or Paros. Commissioner Poole Is very much gratified with this, ds well as with the most admirable way in which the Alabama exhibit !as heen installed and looked after on the Pan- American grounds.
 Mir. German has made a friend of everybody and has lost no opport unity to make the most of Alabama's re- sources. Mir. Poole says:
 ..Our lumber is also attracting ccE- siderable attention" We are daily re- ceiving letters from all over the North making inquiries about our farm and timber lands. and I believe that Aia- bama will reap a harvest by he small investment. of a $5.0O0 exhibit st this Exposition. desire to call attention to all Alabamians who desire to visit the Exposition to he sure and call at the Alabama exhibit where there are two of the most intelligent young men of Alabama ready and willing to in- form you in regard to rates, hotels, locations and boarding houses. Ala bama has most beautiful exhibit and the papers of the North are comment