The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-28
GREAT KANSAS CITY
THE MISSOURI TOWN THRIVING
 AND GROWING.
Quick Recovery Made From the Re- cent Severe Floods-People Who Act AS We'll As
 Think.


 Kansas City, July N-(Editorial Cor respondence.)-It is difiicult to remain in this live and thorough going city for even . brief space of time, without realizing that 1t Is just beginning to enter upon a great and growing future. When repre- sentAtives of the city appeared beforc the National Democratic Executive Commit tee In 1eo0 and asked that the eJational Convention be held here, there was e feeling something akin to amusement al the drst announcement becadse 1t was not thought that the delegates could be properly taken care of. Those who were surprised did not know how desperately In earnest all these people are, and how they not only propose but do things. Their great convention hall easily held dele eates and visitors while the capacious and numerous hotels are equal to any emergency.
 The life of Kansas City is just half a century, as on the 18th of last March itf semi-centennial was elaborately celebrat.
 cd. The people here have right to feel
 proud of what has been accomplished in
 that fifty years-a space of time which in
 the life of communities or States Is
 short one To look upon the picture of 2
 mere boat landing in the early hfties and
 c city of B0.0o0 inhabitants now, with
 boundIess possibilities Is enough to in-
 spire the most lively antlcipations for the
 future.
 Kansas City is at the mouth of Kaw
 River, this being the junction point with
 the Missouri. In the latter part of May
 and early days of June the most destruc-
 tive flood in its history swept down upon
 the city. The water stood eight or ten
 feet in the union depot, and from that
 fact some idea may be formed of It's I'm
 mensity. The loss to Kansas City. Mo.
 and Kansas City, Kas.. and other nearby
 points went beyond s2s.oOo0Oo, but 1t i' today merely regarded as an Incident
 and from what Is going on in the streets stockyards and stores one would not SUD- pose that so great a calamity had so re-
 gently fallen upon this people.
 The commercial advantages of Kansas City are very great and the wide scope of tsrritory covered by its wide-awake merchants can best be illustrated by
 what is daily being done in the great wholesale dry goods establishment oi Burnham, Hanna and Munger, the latter being MT. A. H. Munger. who js well known and highly esteemed by many Montgomery people. In going througn this great establishment piles of goods were seen awaiting boxing and shipment
 Curiosity induced the making of inquiries as to where these goods were going. The first order picked up was for Santa Rosa. Cal, in two hours ride of San Francisco
 The next was for Portland, Ore, and
 then Spokane. Wash, Los Angeles, Salt
 @ .S... oty geua: and wyoming. SGlRss M Montsn sHsl
 Missouri, etc. Tn fact the goods from this house go to every
 state west of the Mississippi and to many points east of 1t. This was revelation and it was then easy to understand why the business men here have no fear oi New York, Chicago. St. Louis and any other great trading center. They have AL kwnA NAe VNritatG and can sell in competition with any other point in the Union. What is said in reference to dry goods is only sam
 pie of what is going on in all other lines
 The stock interests hero run up into the millions. In the year 1902, the mum
 Der of cattle slaughtered here footed uI
 800 900; hogs s,T60, 800, and sheep S60.oO0 The stock yards take in 1So buildings and 42 acres of ground. The future of tho live stock business here can scarcely bt
 imagined. as 1t is growing greater eacf year.
 The banking facilities are. in keeping with the vast amount of business trans
 acted. It would be difficult to find 1T any city of equal population, so many
 magnificent hotels. Montgomery migh well stick e pin here, as the spirit and progress of town is largely judged by it's hotels. ...--.-..
 Pages could be written and not, siv, an adequate idea of the greatness of thii city, commercially considered. A mum Der of Alabamians came here some yearI ago. Among them was L. R. Moore. who
 was from Lowndes county. and known tC
 many of the older citizens of Montgom' cry, where he clerked at one time in thu
 dry goods store of W. R. Royster or
 Court Square. Mir. Moore was a dry goods merchant here, and accumulated ( handsome fortune. He died some year. ago. He was greatly respected. and hii
 family occupies 8 high position here. The usual business organizations to b' found in cities are here, but there Is thu Commercial Club, whose whole business
 seems to be the exploiting of Kansai City. It started upon it's campaign fl this direction fifteen years ago. anC great results have followed from its la | bors. It has more than 800 live, active members on It's roll. It's motto is "mak'
 Kansas City good town to live in."
 MT. M. E. Clendennlng, the secretary
 in speaking of the organization, said:
 we have accomplished a good deal
 we expect to accomplish vastly more. w
 are just getting our gait. We have onlI
 one puFpose-we just stand for Kansas City. Any important question affecting Kansas City's welfare commands our at tention, and the progressive side can de pend upon our earnest championship. w,
 work for Kansas City precisely as tn,
 winning business man works in his owl personal interest. We are not handicap ped by any tinge of factionalism. Get
 ting together, discussing the good o
 our city on broad lines, it is never diff ncuIt for us to- agree as a unit upol
 what is municipally advisable-and ther we act. There isn't & half-hearted maI
 in all our sO0 Our business men ar' joined in this campaign for Kansas City'i benefit on a basis wholly superior to an! that can be inspired by the pettiness o selfishness; they are ready continually tC give of their time, their counsel, anC their money. Of course. results. If ele ments of personal selishness were oper ating. 1t might be different; but this fl