The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-08
W. E. CURTIS TALKS
FAMOUS CORRESPONDENT I'M
 PRESSED WITH ALABAMA.
He spent the Day in Montgomery and Left for Tuskegee-Win Write Newspaper Article of This
 8 City.

paper writer and correspondent of The Chicago Record-Herald spent yester- day in Montgomery and left in the eve- ming for 'Tuskegee.
 Mir Curtis is travelling in private car No. 114, of the Southern Railway. He is accompanied by M. A. Hays, of Chicago. agent of the Land and Industrial Department of the South ern Railway and the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, and W. L. Henderson. agent of the Land and Industrial Department of the Soutehrn Railway at Mobile. MT. Curtis Is enjoying the courtesies of the Southern Railway and various other railroads and MT. Hays and MT. Henderson have placed themselves completely at the will of the noted writer.
 MT. Curtis, yesterday morning, sep arated himself from the party after making engagements with several prominent men of the city and began a systematic series of interviews which lasted throughout the day. These inc terviews with observations of Mont- gomery during the afternoon will form the basis of special article which Mir. Curtis will write to appear in about two weeks. He Is syndicatins the letters he is writing during his tour of the South. All of them VIII be published in Chicago. Philadelphia. New York and Washington newspa> pers. They will be read with interest as they can well be calculated to be of great benefit to this and other Southern States on account of the es- tablished reputation of the author as a correspondent of worldwide exper- fence.
 The party left early last night for Tuskegee where MT. Curtis will visit the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. They are expected to return to Montgomery today sometime and after a stop of a few hours will likely go to Mobile. The itinerary is not made up in advance. the trip being arr ranged by the industrial agents as 1t progresses according to the wishes of Mir. Curtis.
 Yesterday was not the first visit of Mir. Curtis to Montgomery. He visited this city in 1899 when the late Presi- dent Mckinley made his trip through Alabama. He was impressed with the progress that has been made, however. in the business section of Montgomery since he was here.
 He has good things to say of Mont gomery. of Birmingham. the Univer- sity at Tuscaloosa, Anniston and the AldDdInd IiTtS ihStitutO ds Montevallo, which he has visited in succession. Before he has left Mont Komery altogether he will have spent more time and research here than at any point so far on his Southern trip. He spent nearly all of Saturday in Biri mingham, Sunday in Tuscaloosa and divided Monday between Anniston and Montevallo.
 "The site of the college. at Tusca- loosa," said Mir. Curtis yesterday. lis prominently the most desirable for University location that I have seen. They have a beautiful campus, they have excellent drainage and from what could gather the health Is as good as one could wish.'
 The Girls Industrial Institute at Montevallo also impressed Mir. Curtis favorably. He made a study of the system of industrial education that has been adopted at Montevallo and may make 1t the subject of a special letter
 MT. Curtis manifested a good deal of interest yesterday in the waterways of Alabama. The Alabama River was the subject of a special investigation in which he visited United States En- gineer J. B. Cavanaugh yesterday morning.
 There is a great future for the AldDdIld fklVtI, Sdlu ne yesterday. Tt should be a very important stream when the Panama Canal is built. If the people of the South will awaken to the opportunities to be offered them by the Panama Canal, and I believe they will. there. is no calculating the prosperity 1t would bring to this sec- tion. here particularly"
 MT. Curtis is not making this tour to compile any sociological studies. He Is observing the industrial and com mercial life in various communities. Accordingly he is interesting himself in immigration. He says frankly that the greatest need of Alabama today is the importation of desirable labor
 'T can see already that what Ala bama needs badly is immigration" he said. T am glad to see that interest in this Is growing and has taken some form recently. Alabama would gain an immense advantage if she would put in an immigration sta- tion on Ellis Island which could suc- ceed. without a doubt, in diverting im- migrants to this country. to this State. Most of the States in the Union have these immigrant stations on Ellis Is- land. The States do not have to pay any tax or privilege license for these advantages as the railroad and indus trial combinations do. There you have the first sight of the immigrants as they pour into this county and one can make the choice of the desirable classes and make arrangements to send them South"
 MT. Curtis. who is somewhat an au- thority on economies, Is a great adyo- cate of home consumption of products. He believes that 1t will mean endless prosperity to the South when the ne-