The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-08
MIR. HARDWlCK SPEAKS
RAILROAD OFFICIAL ADDRESSED
 BUSINESS MEN.
Game from waahlagtoa te Advocate Greater Activity h Alabama te Secure New Citizens for
 State.

 tween s. H. Hardwick, Passenger Traf- fic Manager of the Southern Railway and the Immigration Commission of the Association the initial movement was given to a project that is fraught with great promise for Montgomery. Alabama and the entire South.
 Some days ago Mir. Hardwick in an interview published in The AdvertiseG gave some views and outlined plan that instantly caught the attention of the business men of Montgomery and this section of the South, the article be- ing extensively copied.
 So impressed with the idea were the Montgomery business men that the Im- migration Committee of the Commercial and Industrial Association at once went to work on the lines laid down In the suggestion of Mir. Hardwick in his interview. The committee invited MT. Hardwick to come to Montgomery and make an address. MT. Hardwick consented and yesterday was fixed as the day.
 sentative business men of Montgom- cry when Secretary L. L.. Gilbert and President A. c. Forbes of the Associa- ton escorted Mir. Hardwick in.
 Chairman Douglass of the Immigra- ton Committee In neat speech in- %AONoSNu Aafs IldFuWiCk dHQ expIaIueu what the meeting was called for.
 MT Hardwfck said that he was an old Montgomerian. He was born and reared in this city, and that his love an and devotion for Montgomery. for Ala strongest thing in his nature. The South, he said. has a magnificent future in store for 1t. This section, he said, so to speak is in a chrysalis state now. and all that is needed is for It's people to let the world know of the wonderful advantages and resources in one Of the greatest sections of this great country.
 Then MT. Hardwick went on to re- outline the suggestions that he had formerly made in The Advertiser in re. gard to inviting the representatives at washington of the great powers of the world to visit this section. He sug- the Governor of the State and delivered to the ambassadors by the Senators of the State in Washington. Alabama he thought should be the first State to send out the invitations, and Montgom- cry as the Capital City of Alabama should be the first of the municipalities. T@e entertainment of the ambassadors he said, should of course be on a scale oetntting the dignity of their high office. They should be shown every honor and every courtesy that the peo- pie of the Southland so we'll know how to extend. "" GiVing some statistics he showed tnat the immigration to Alabama last month was about 1000 and that of Georgia. and Mississippi about 500 each. Florida, Of course, led in this respect but the bulk of the immigration there was made up of Cuban cigar makers and that class of people.
 What is wanted here. he said ,s q nlgher class of new citizens, and that class, he said, is coming here more ana hn more re every year. To give an example cling through Carolina and found in the smoking car of one of his trains A party or thirteen young Scotchmen He asked them where they were going, and oana tt .nat they were bound for a cer- business. They told him that thev were miners in Scotland. Why, then, are you leaving the min- ins industry in Scotland to engage in l ed them. "o "eA
 Because" was the answer. "some years ago man from our country came oyer aere and went in the mill business ana sa now ne Is foreman of one of, the
 That Is the class of settlers that wa van. want In Alabama" said MT HardwiciS. good to this part of the country fhan any other class. There Is no Maf,. nr any other of those organizations among Snose people; they are a law-abiding' " AAh6 SidSS tudt VIII build uu our country wonderfully" ~T
 MT. Hardwick concluded his address amid great applause SeyeTai 0,,ess os oions as were asked him by the members or the committee. who were greatly in. terested, and thanked Mir. Hardwict, profusely for his address.
 MT hardWIck IS noted all over inc railroad world for his addresses and that of yesterday was one of his mas.
 The impression he made on the busI. snirable one, and the results of lie a1- dress will be far-reached in their scone
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