The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-16

, claims a kinship with Alabama, because | of the similar characteristics and combin- ations in the great iron and steel Indus | tries, common to both states, and al- though Pennsylvania, upon the map of the United States, is located horizontally and Alabama perpendicularly, there is still a kinship and coincident features that are worth noting.
 Alabama exceeds Pennsylyania In ex- tent of area about 1000 square miles. which Is but a trifle in these days of , great quantities and greater things. Pennsylvania has one more county and few more millions of people, but as she has been a state of the union for many years prior to 1879, when Alabama won her place in the sisterhood and be- ing in the direct track of the emigrant and of strenuous colonsts, this excess in population can be accounted for, Our Delaware and schuylkin rivers. on one eastern boundary, the waterways to the ocean. compare with your Alabama river and it's tributary, the Tombigbee, fa- nous in the early days when the lines of steamboats, loaded with cotton to the guards, came to the seaport and ex- changed their cargoes for the merchant disc and plantation supplies for the up country.
 We then have our Susuuehanna, tra- versing Pennsylvania from north to south, with It's branches draining the state. We have the Alleghany and the Monongahela rivers in the west, whose waters flow into the Ohio and Mississippi. bearing upon their crests the products of the western mines of coal and the llquid products from the fountains of oil.
 our great lines of railways with the PennsylVania system in the lead with its many branches. the great hard coal roads traversing the Schuylkin Lehigh and Lackawanna regions in the east and north, and the soft coal roads in the west, compare with your great lines from the Ohio and from the Atlantic; and we congratulate you upon the rapid strides you have made in recent years, which have placed you in the forefront of rail- way development and all that 1t implied thereby
 We, too, have a pair of Brminghams upon the banks of the Allegheny and Monongahela, and with you in the dis. play of red fire and molten metals that mark the location of ironclad cities.
 MT. President, more than a half cen. tury since, your associate and new rep resentatiye from Pennsylvania was a pill. grim to Alabama, not by the present route In palace car with home comforts fl thirty-six hours, but by the rivers Ohit and Father of Waters to the Crescent City and thence across the lake and bay to beautiful Mobile, whose poets wrot, of It's charms in verse and song. Enter prise was In the air-a section of the Mo bile and Ohio railway was constructed the foundations of the public buildingl were well under way, but the mails iron the north arrived in steamboat iron Pensacola daily, and the last of a trib Of Indians were often seen upon tn sidewalks.
 ''The gate of memory swings back upol its hinges of gold, and recalls man, happy hours spent in the goodly city and the memories of the installation O the then famous Battle ho..se, with 1t incomparable bowls of gumbo, sippe, amid the bombardment of Heidsick ex plosives. still finger with pleasant recol lections.
 But, alas, after a short years soiourI in the city, Yellow Jack, with wors than Japanese ferocity, attacked the un acclimated as well as supposed immunes and for the good of the state, and m, own, l ingloriously fled back to Penn sylvania, and, strange to relate. wooe, and won young lady who was bori on the 10th day of November, 1884, il Wilcox county, Alabama, where he father sleeps his last sleep at Prairl Bluff. Consequently I am, in a certaii degree, by virtue of my family relation and early domicile, somewhat of an Ala bamian, and with that slender claim re peat our motto:
 Here we rest"