The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-06
OHIO COMPANY WILL
HAVE OFFICE HERE
Arvine Wales, Treasurer of Rus
sell Engine Co., in the City
MAKES SOUTHERN TRIP
Establishes Offices at Dallas, Houston,
New Orleans and Birmingham.
Delightful Impressions of
South and Its People.
MAKES SOUTHERN TRIP


city, spent yesterday in Birmingham with
a view to locating a branch office of his
company here. Mr.. Wales is on a tour of
the southern states having been to Dali
las, Houston and New Orleans, in all of
which cities his company has located Of
fees. After looking over the situation here
Mr.. Wales left last night for Atlanta.
Graduate of Yale.
Mr., Wales is a graduate of the Shelf
field Scientific school in the class of 1891,
and among Yale men throughout the
country who We're his contemporaries at
college is remembered as skilled athlete
and one of the most popular men of his
day at New Haven. After graduating from
college he spent three years in elementary
work in the machine shops, learning the
business from top to bottom, later en-
gagged in banking and has for the last
few years been identified with the COM
pany of which he is now treasurer.
Born, reared and educated at the north,
Mr.. Wales is one of constantly increas-
ing number of business men from that
section who come south at frequent and
irregular intervals attracted southwark
as they are by the quickened Industrial
life of this section of the union In conn
menting yesterday afternoon on his trip,
Mr.. Wales said:
Impressions of the South.
81 have been quite delighted with this
visit of mine to the south-delighted with
this section of the country and altogether
charmed with its people and their manner
of life. Business matters have taken me
as far west as Texas, where l spent
several days in Dallas and Houston, going
later to New Orleans and coming to Bir
mingham last night.
"The eyes of northern n.en-the financial
and business world-are unquestionably
fixed upon the south. The feeling every
where Is strong that the prosperity of this
section has been marvellous in the last ten
or twenty years, but that, great as 1t
has been, the present prosperity of the
south is only a faint suggestion of the
enormous possibilities latent here. This
is especially true, | think of the so-called
Industrial world. The use of electricity
and of all electrical machinery is likely
to increase stupendously in the south in
the next five or ten years. Though aSri-
culture will not be neglected in the south,
and the staple products will continue to
increase, yet well informed persons I'M
derstand that every form Of manufactures
will soon be established in the southern
| states. You have here the raw material
and it will not be long before the south
will be manufacturing the finished pro-
ducts In all lines. 1t is, in my Judgment,
no exaggeration TO say tl-at the south Is
speedily becoming a manufacturing sec
ton, precisely as New England has been
for fifty years.
Birmingham Well Advertised.
throughout the country Birmingham is
regarded as perhaps the best advertised
city in the south, and deservedly so. 1t is
| think unlike all other southern cities
I have visited. There is a New England
touch to the city, and the breeziness of
the middle west is here also. Withal, many
of the best traditions of the old south
are cherished here--the ideals of the old
regime than which there Is. for all our
northern friends may say, nothing finer
under the sun. To use a very overworked
word, Birmingham impresses a stranger
as being a quite cosmopolitan center. One
thing that has especially struck me while
of young men in the city's population,
and the evidently large number of trans
lent visitors
Fond of the South.
Though 1 have been south often,
never come this way that l do not feel
at home. While at college it was given
me to know not few men of southern
traditions, birth and rearing. Yale used
to draw, before the war, great number
of students from the south. Calhoun,
William Preston Johnston and Randall
Gibson, not to mention others, We're, you
know, Yale men. While at New Haven
came to know southerners of the
younger generation, and it seemed to me
that they were an uncommonly fine set
OF fellows. Their southern speech, man.
ner disposition and character seldom, If
ever, failed to win for them prompt and
generous recognition. SO 1t was no sur