The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-07
PRAISES CHARLESTON
ROYAL ENTERTAINMENT OF NEWS
 PAPER PUBLISHERS.
Frank P. Glass of Montgomery Speaks With Enthusiasm Of Fine Old South Carolina City and It's
 People.

MT. Frank P. Glass. Secretary of the Southern Newspaper Publishers Asso- clation. who has just returned from Charleston. where he attended the an- nual meeting of that organization, talked yesterday with enthusiasm Of the progressive spirit, the wealth and beauty of the South Carolina metrop- oils and of the hospitality Of its peo- pie.
 The publishers will meet next year in Montgomery.
 'Yes." said MT Glass. "the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association had a royal welcome at Charleston. The people of that fine old city are past masters in the art of entertaining they kept us so busy enjoying their hospitality that we had to stay over the third day in order to finish the discus sion of our list of business topics.
 ''Mr. J. c. Hemphill of The News and Courier. and MT. Thomas R. Waring, or The Evening Post, together with number of representative Charleston business men, were with us almost ev- cry hour. day and night, while we were there, and nothing In Charleston was too good for us.
 eve were welcomed by Mayor Good wyn Rhett in superb address, and later at a dinner by Governor Heyward. The Mayor convinced us that Charles ton was not asleep. as has been ire ouently alleged in late years, but was wide-awake and progressive. After wards, when we went down the bay through a thirty-two-foot channel over the bar to the open ocean only seven miles away; when we saw the modern coast defenses of 10 and 12-inch disap- bearing guns in Fort Moultrie and Fort Sumter; when we went up the Cooper river and saw the ten million dollar Navy Yard the United States Govern ment is rapidly building: when we saw the numerous fertilizer and other fac tories In the suburbs: when we ran through miles of truck gardens, green with produce; when we gazed upon King Street with it's mile and a half of business houses, and its banks with their thirteen million dollars of deposits after looking at all these evidences of wealth and development, we knew that Mayor Rhett was right.
 The charming old city has indeed gotten a move on in the last few years, and its proud citizens are confident that its future will be more glorious than the past they have so much right to brag about.
 Mayor Rhett asserted in his address that the city had recently secured from the railroads a cessation of the dis crimin atlons that had heretofore oper- ated against her port traffic, and he predicted that the harbor would soon be as full of shipping as of yore, ana that her miles of warehouses would no longer be comparatively empty The deepened channel admitting the pig gest war vessel ahoat, and the Gov ernments great investment in the navy yard are bound to give Charleston mar bor a prestige it has not en1oyed III years The city Is already the laFSeot fertilizer center in the world, ard IL IS also the largest truck point on the AL iantic Coast.
 ITO the lover of historic spots Charleston is veritable paradise. There Is the old St. Michaels Church of colonial antecedents and with its historic chimes; the old St. Phillps Church, which carries in it's steeple the Governments light for guiding ships up the bayAthe old Scotch Church ana the Church of the Huguenots; the Prin- gle House, headquarters of Sir Henry Clinton in 17S0; the old postofhce, once the custom house and Assembly Hall. where a reception was given President Washington in 1791. Near by is the old Powder Magazine, dating back to the early years of the c1ty' when Charleston sent to Massachusetts the ammunition used at Bunker Hill. Thi5 magazine Is now used by the CoIonlal Danes as their club room The olo residence used by Lord Campbell the last British Governor, is pointsd out and also houses owned by LaurenS' washington and other noted revolu- tlonary personages. Then there are many magnificent residences of old time statesmen and merchant princes. which are today the equals of any m all the land in grandeur, cost and com fort. One can hardly turn ag corner