The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1904-07-13
WILL ESTABLISH
AGENCY IN CUBA
Southern Railway to Send
a Representative to
Havana
SHOULD HfLP BRUNSWICK
!. Lee Edwards VIII go as a Mission.
ary from Manufacturers OF South
TO Consumer Of Cuba as Gen
eral Agent.

General Freight Agent Z. "A. Mel at.
Atlanta announces that the Southern
railway has decided to establish an
agency in Cuba and ;nat J. Lee Ed.
wards, at present chief clerk TO Gener
al Agent Thompson viii be appointed
10 the new position.
The establishment Of this agency
ia Cuba means very great deal>more
to Georgia and the south tnan may
he understood at FIRST glance. In the
first place Mr. Edwards viii go 10
Cuba for the direct purpose OF supply
ing the people who live on the island
with cotton and other manufactured
goods from the south.
Soaking OF the matter MIR Mel said
eIhe way things arssb present.
the people ln the iassRd of Cuba are
buying almost everything either from
foreign markets or il from the United
States why it IS through commission
merchants in New York. Now right
here in the south we manufacture just
the things that they need or if we are
not making eAactly the special weave
Or kind OF cotton goods We soon can.
And what is true of cotton goods is
iaq tfne Of the all Kinds Of other pro
duets.
Let me give you u instance Last
winter there were several of Qs qIsit
ing in Cuba and while there We saw
great qaahtiues of a cheap kind of
print cloth used for the covering 81
growing tobacco to keep it from rip.
sning too.qnickly When we returned.
one Of The genllemeR Of me party told
one Of the large cotton manufacturers
OF Concord, N O., about this cotton
Print The manufacture Investigated
and found that the making OF this
cloth in their own mills was very
simple matter and the result was tua1
pc has already sQid over 2,090,00J
yards 10 the island of Cuba.
Now that was just an instance OF
the matter Of education aud chat is
8hat MI Edwards IS going 10 cuba
lsr in The Interest Of the Southern
railway lie is going TO lind out what
RinI of manufactured good the people
Want and then he is going to tell mauu
faeturers ia The south about it and
get them into close touch with eacA
other and we believe that this sort o.
education is going to result ia very
great deal Of the business for the
stand d CQba coming directly from
tlie south tHe cotton for instance from
The mills Of Georgia and the Caroiinaa
and the iron from the Birmingham dis
triet
There are wonderful opportunities
for doing business in Cuba. hut what
is mostly needed is education. The
people who live there are very partie
ular indeed and when it comes to cot
ton goods. the length must be jus
50 long and even the print and st mp
must be Of certain kind They seem
10 nave become welded 10 certain
brands Of materials and because long
ago they purchased these brahds from
foreign markets, they still continue Is
do SO and do not care for the Amer
ican article What the American man
ufacturer FAUST do is TO nnd out Just
@nal tAa geop.e On the island ike hes
and buy the most Of and then make
that very same article
4he appeintment ef Mr. Edwards
as general agent OF The Southern with
headquarters at Havana is to be Ell.
fective August / Mr. Edwards, how
ever. viii not leave Immediately for
the island, but viii make an extensive
trip over the various lines Of the
Southern railway and familiarlze him
self with the manufacturers and the
articles manufactured Ia this wy
he VIA maee a careful study Of the
resources Of the south and when he
goes to Havana about October ] AZ
win be as one thoroughly posted re-
gardng how and where products are
Manufactured in the south.
Mr. Edwards viii also look after the
passenger interests Of the Southern,
his appointment coming from both
General Freight Agent Mel and Gen
srai Passenger Agent VI H. TayIoo
with the approval Of Freight Traffic
Manager 2. G. Powell and Passenger
Traffic Manager S II. Hardwick
Means Much for Brunswick.
qhe establishment Of an agency o.
the Southern railway in Cuba means
great deal for Brunswick in the mat
ter Of shipments to the island. AS is