The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-30
JOHN PARKER MADE
 FINE IMPRESSION President of the Board of Trade
 Spoke in Atlanta HIS SPEECH IN PART Was Present at Luncheon and Banquet of the Atlanta Chamber of Com
 merce-Statemen of an
 Atlanta Man.
HIS SPEECH IN PART

John L. Parker, president of the board of trade returned yesterday morning from Atlanta. where he attended the luncheon and banquet of the chamber of commerce at which the movement for southern ln- dustrial exposition in Atlanta Ill lsio was formally launched.
 MT. Parker was one of the speakers at the luncheon Tuesday morning. lie was called on to speak as a representative ol ..Atlanta's sister city Birmingham and he made what was considered one Of ths best speeches of the day. He was com pelled to leave the banquet early and therefore was not among the speakers, all though he was on the programme.
 E. J. Paxon, vice president of the cham Der of commerce In Atlanta, and one of the seven moving spirits in the exposi- ton. said late Tuesday afternoon that he and other people present al the luncheon had been most favorably impressed with MT Parker's talk on Birmingham, and the close relationship between the two "larg- est cities in the south."
 MT. Parker's speech, according to At Ianta papers. was in substance as fol- lows:
 First I want to say that you have great city here. A city of which you should be proud, and one of which the south should also be proud It Is cei tainly a splendid city. and Its prospects for the future are most fiattering.
 we have watched Atlanta since the time that the Federal army burned 1t to the ground. We watched you men come back to a city that was almost destroyed, and we have watched you, with that At lanta spirit. put your shoulders to the wheel and make Atlanta what it is. We admire your spirit and we see the great results which have been accomplished by all pulling together for Atlanta.
 And now I want to speak of your sis ter city, Birmingham, which l have the honor to represent. When you have your exposition in Atlanta in 1910 we will send so many people to 1t from the Birming- ham district that they will swell the gate receipts to such an extent that you can declare a dividend on your investment.
 "When Atlanta held her first exposition in the early sos, Birmingham was a town of only a few thousand people. Today she has a street car population of 175,00O people. and she is growing at an astonish- Ing rate. In 1910 the Birmingham district will have a population of 500.000, and we will send goodly proportion of that number to Atlanta to. swell the gate re- ceipts of your exposition.
 Beside that the immense industrial n- terests of Birmingham will probably be represented here by exhibits. Birmingham Is situated in a valley. To the south of us rises a mountain of iron ore. We have a valley of limestone and our coal fields are inexhaustable.
 "A century from now our production of coal and ores will be many, many times what it is now, but our resources are so wonderful that we could continue to produce for centuries to come and there would still be stores of coal and ore.
 When you give your exposition Bir- mingham will be able to supply you with the structural steel with which to build steel Is proving great success, a won derful success in fact, and in the near future it will be converted into many kinds of finished products.
 Tn closing I want to assert again that Birmingham stands ready to aid her sister city in giving an exposition that will be a credit to the south's great industrial growth and her future prosperity"