The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-10-26
SAMUEL SPENCER SPEAKS
 AT STATE FAIR GROUNDS

wealth.
 A pleasant Incident occurr ast af; ter President Vandiver escorted President Vandiver to ttGrandstsnd for the exercises of tblrlay. As th. party reached the boy om which the speeches were to br ~ aade. a sweet faced woman appre 1Saed the railway masnate with a sr
 "san." she sas1 am glad to see
 President ST Ger looked at her q minute then Miled.
 why, File. how are you?" he asked
 The woman was Mrs. ]. H. Norton now a resident of Montgomery. who had known MT. Spencer when the lat ter was a boy in Columbus. Ga. and Mrs. Norton, a Miss Greenleaf of the same place A pleasant interchange of greetings followed. and later in the day the old friends met and renewed an acuuaintance of more than thirty five years.
 Among the railroad men who were present to hear President Spencer speak were W. L.. Henderson. agent for the Southern Railway, of Atlanta; T. J. Henderson. of the Southern Railway located at Mobile; John Metcalf. Mont gomery passenger agent of the South ern Railway. and George w. Jones. As sistant District Attorney of the Lou isviile and Nashville in Montgomery A member Of President spencer's party who had come from New York on the trip with him. was Edward Grenfell of London, director of the Bank of England.
 Exercises of the Day.
 When the time for the exercises Of the day drew near, there were fully 1,5oO people in the grandstand. Presi- dent Vandiver made the opening ad- dress, introducing the speaker of ths occasion. In part, he said:
 Mir Spencer comes to Montgomery representing one of the greatest inter- ests of our country. We may produce agricultural products, we may produce lumber, but we must have adequate transportation facilities If we are to send them abroad. If this be true. the interest of the people and of the rail- roads is the same. This interest should be developed by both the people and the railroads. and both should work together toward this end.
 We have with us today a man who shouldered his musket and went to the front in defence of his fireside and his home. Returning from the battlefields of Virginia and Georgia. he found his parents so poor that his father had only sufficient money to aid him in getting an education. Knowing hirh as I do, and the entire South knowing of him as 1t does. We thank God that his father was able to help him.
 This man stands before you as the head of six railroad systems. which in clude more than 10000 miles of rail- way. He is a Georgia boy, raised in Columbus. And of all the things of which he may we'll feel proud. there is no source of greater pride to him than the old badge of the Confectionery.
 Mir. Vandiver to Younger Men.
 'I want to say to you young men of Alabama that those of you who heard United States Commissioner of Immi- grafton Sargent yesterday, heard, tine son of. weaver. He first went to the mills small boy. barefooted He had risen to a position of the greatest inn portance in our Government And want to say to the country boy that you have the same opportunity to rise today that Commissioner Sargent had or that President Spencer has had. want you to come here holding your head high. want you to advance with a proud step. For you have the same chances to advance that others have had, and there has never been better opportunity than you have today.
 Let youth be taught that nothing put ulSSTdCe snOulu DiiHS tHc piuSh UT shame to the cheek. Let us take a higher standing than we have been wont to do. to teach the boy how to grapple with evil. to distinguish be- tween truth and error, and that which is right, and that which Is wrong.
 q want to introduce the speaker to- day as boy who started from the bottom. see him when a young man taking up his first railroad work on q small road leading out of Opelika. un- der the supervision of the late Samuel G. Jones' I see him later. when he has been placed a few steps higher In the emnloyment of that road. Later. I sec him occupying a position of import ance on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail- road. and, still later. on Wall Street talking with men who rule great h. terests, leader among men.
 Young men, take lesson from him of what the young man can do. l say take the speakers of yesterday and to day as examples. Mir: Spencer ha. done much for the South. I feel prouc he is one of us, a Georgia boz. and feel proud of what he has accom- plished. Take the Southern Railway There is not a man ip charge of a larg, department on the road who is not { Southern man, Southern-laised ana with Southern sympathies. And tna fact accounts. in great measure, iol the success of the Southern Railway.
 T now have the pleasure of intro ducing MT. Samuel Spencer. Presiden of the Southern Railway, and five othe railroad lines. and a director in tweiv railroads" :.--:
 Ovation For MT. Spencer.
 President Spencer was greeted witt a small ovation when he rose to re spond. He stated his pleasure at find ing himself again in d Southern at mosphere, at being able to renew ol friendships and to dwell in an atmos nhere far more attractive than tha of the business world.
 "The South has taken on nev rarb," he said Tt has become tn center of large interests and growing enterprises. and must look the bus mess necessities hard in the face. w have had less time for indulgence an have been forced more and more t take up with affairs of business na ture."
 With these few words of preface, tn rneaker launched into his addres: n,hich ia printed in another column Q rrbe Advertiser He outlined careful ,ha nosition of the railroads and tn nrohiens they have to contend with when he had concluded with the bod of his speech. he turned for a part | ing word
 '.I can not sit down" he said with ont q word of thanks to the Presiden of the Fair Association. and to the peo ple here. for the pleasure it has give me to speak for few hours in Stat Stat which I have loved so we'll WIS to express publicly tn" appreciation O work done here that the world ma known of the great nroGr"Ss the stat is making and the development aion