The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-23
Heartily Seconding invi-
tation to EngIishmen.
her GOVERNORS WRITE
Edward Atkinson Says This Move to
Bring British Mill Men South TO
Study Conditions Here is a
Big Enterprise Whose
Benefit We Cannot
Yet Foresee.

Yet FOreSee.
Especial to The News and Observer
Baltimore, Nd, Sept. 22.-Governors
of Southern States, executive officials
of railroads operating in that section,
business organizations and authorities
III the textile industry back up by let
ter and telegram in this weeks issue
of the Manufacturers Record the spe-
cific invitation of Southern financiers
to cotton manufacturers of Great Bri-
tain and the Continent of Europe to
visit the United States and make a
personal study of cotton growing and
cotton manufacturing possibilities Of
the South. Mr.. Edward Atkinson, of
Boston, Mass, is convinced that the
move to bring English cotton men
over Will be sure to attract them and
that those who do come Will be picked
men. He proposes TO join the party
and suggests that the National De-
partment of Agriculture detail cot
ION expert and an expert in soils and
minerals to be Of the party, and he
adds:
This is a big enterprise, of which
we cannot yet begin to foresee the
benefit. From Liverpool comes a let
ter from Mr. Thomas r.. Ellison, who
has taken up the work of his father
rs cotton statistician, who writes
that the trip would be of great bene-
fit for all concerned. Mr.. Alfred b.
ShepperSon, of New York who has
just returned from visit OF several
weeks to Europe, says that the most
thorough investigation of the South's
capacities can but result in the pro-
motion of her material interests by q
better understanding of her unrivalled
advantages Atwood Violet of New
York writes:
English cotton manufacturers are
in need of great enlightenment and
much of the prejudice existing in their
minds because of the extreme advance
in cotton last season has arisen, / am
sure, because of their lack of &C
quaintance with real conditions bring
ing about the enhancement OF values
iii that direction.
Mr.. w. w. Finely, second vice-presi- |
dent of the Southern Railway, has ex- !
pressed a willingness to cooperate in
reasonable measure in atfording any
representative cotton mill people Of
Lancashire who may attend the pro-
posed peace conference at Boston to
review the cotton mil districts of the
South traversed by his lines, and Mr..
Nj. V. Richards, the land and indus
trial agent of that system, writes:
THE South has reached a point in
the development of it's mill interests
where it is in a position to invite the
attention and investigation of the cot
ton-manufecturers OF the world. An
international meeting such as you
propose, held at some desirable point
in the South, would be highly useful
i'll enabling visitors to see for them
selves that the production of raw cot
ton is capable of infinite expansion.
and that it is merely q matter OF null
tiplying the number of workers In the
cotton fields to insure the continued
prestige of the South, both in the
growing of the staple and in it's manu-
tacture. 1t goes without saying that
We should be glad to cooperate to n
reasonable extent in affording repre-
sentative cotton mill people who may
attend such meeting an opportunity
to view the cotton mill districts Of the
South which are traversed by our
Ines"
Captain ]. F. Merry of the Illinois
Central Railroad, in sincere hope that
the plan may be carried out and be
supported by every one who in any
way has to do with the cotton in
dUstry, writes:
THE produce dealers of the cities
and towns of the North have found it
profitable to meet and mingle with the
produce growers of the South. Manu-
facturers of hardwood furniture, visit
the forests and mills from which they
ODldlH lneiF raw material. 1h1S same
principle on much larger scale is
emphasized by your suggestion that
spinners and growers of cotton come
together
OF similar tenor are letters from
Mr.. ]. c. Stubbs of the Union Pacific
Railroad and Mr.. j. F. Holden, of the
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Rail-
way, the latter saying:
You know that cotton spinning has
not been carried on very successfully
west of the Mississippi river, but with
the large production of cotton in Ar
kansas, the Territories and Texas, it
would seem that the field is large
enough for the cotton-s spinning indus
try, and the officers of this company
will cheerfuily lend their support in
that direction
Mayor Evan P Howell, of Atlanta,
and Mayor Herman Myers, of Savan
nah, have been prompt to tender the
hospitality of their respective NUM-
cipalities to the visitors, while the
States officially have offered a well
come through Governors d. C. Hey-t
ward, OF South Carolina; J. NJ. Terrell,
OF Georgia; W. S. Jennings OF Florida;
H. M cunningham, of Alabama;
James X. Vardaman, of Mississippi;
n. {. Blanchard. of Louisiana; Jeffer-
son Davis, of Arkansas. and s. w. T.
Lanham, of Texas, and T. B. Ferguson. |
of Oklahoma
Among the organizations supporting |
the movement are, the Georgia Indus |
trial Association, the Atlanta Cham |
Der of Commerce. the Create Wissie-
slpp1 Association and the Farmers |
Natlonal Congress, through their Of |
hcers, While the Manufacturers Club. |
or charlotte. will invite the English
manufacturers to visit that CITY.
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