The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-27
Montgomery Is Already Getting Free Ad- , vertising. THE ENTHUSIASTIC GIvERS Small Subscribers Give Welcome
 to Committee. The Committee Has Now to Raise Less Than s2,Ooo for the Fund fio.-
 GOO for Montgomery in
 Year of 1910.

NGAfeT ana nearer tdCH udy LlC IOAV Fund gets to the coveted mark Of $10,O00. This morning 1t is well above $S,000.
 All of the committees were not out yesterday. And all the members of those committees which were out yes- terday were not at work. For the day was Monday, which everybody knows is bargain day in Montgomery and a big business day anyhow. But on Monday as well as on Saturday the subscriptions totalled each day above $500 and the members of the committee had no complaint to make.
 The object of this movement which has so aroused the people of Mont gomery and which has attracted such general attention to the city is the securing of 100000 population for the census year of 1910. This is the aim and purpose in plain view. As a step in that direction the sum of $10.000 is being collected. When this has been done the next stage of the work will be undertaken.
 It is Montgomery's way of seizing her opportunity. Some of the other cities of the South have different ways of going at the same purpose of a general development. They are per- haps not so definite. not so systematic as Montgomery Is in her undertak- ing.
 Now the Golden Chance.
 But practically every Southern city recognizes that now is a time Of gold en opportunity. The South more rapid ly than any. other section of the coun- try is advancing. Some Southern cit ies may get more than their just share of this tide of prosperity. Some may get less than their just proportion. But what each city gets she will have to get for herself. No other city is going to get 1t for her. And, more over. each city no doubt Is going to do its best to get something, without regard to what another city is doing.
 The cities which are going to do the beAt, which are going to grow the fastest are the cities in which the first growth comes from within. They are the cities whose people have ab- solute faith in their community and it's claims and resources. New business and new people are coming to the cit ies that go out progressively to get them.
 A city grows in two ways, from with in and without. The first and more im- portant growth, when a new future for a city is sought, must come from with in, and such. growth more than in- vites growth from without It demands growth from without. When one comes the other is certain to follow.
 This movement for a bigger Mont gomery launched auspiciously amid such enthusiasm, is merely a manifes- tation of that effective growth that Ce'mes from within It is assurance to the outside world that the people of Montgomery have absolute faith in their city. The people of the city in the past no doubt had such faith, but they failed to assert it loud enough to catch the ear of the outside world as some of the other Southern cities did.
 The movement Is notice to the world that there is a new spirit in Montgom- cry, an aroused and aggressive spirit.
 Results Seen Already.
 As short as Is the distance the move- ment has travelled for it has been launched only a few days it has done more to advertise Montgomery than any other one thing in a generation. In one of the many editorials written upon the 1910 movement, The Savan- nah Press declares that If not an- other cent had been paid into sub scTiption fund. the city of Montgom- cry has already received $10,000 worth hardly be doubted. There are too many evidences of the general interest that is being attracted to Montgomery. Secretary L.. l.. Gilbert of the Conner cial Club is daily receiving number of letters, expressing this interest and making enquiries as to various op- portunities. The newspapers, not only in the South but in the North have al- luded to the aroused spirit of Mont gomery and have commented upon 1t as a hopeful sign of Southern growth and advancement.
 Other cities are talking of follow ing where Montgomery has lead The Savannah papers are calling upon Sa- vannah to follow suit. Talk of this or a movement of a similar nature is heard in Mobile, Pensacola and other Southern cities. Frank Mayes. presi- dent of the Commercial organization of Pensacola was in Montgomery yester- day and looked in upon the work. mak- ing enquiries as to how it was done.
 A Visitors Impression.
 Evelyn Harris, a well known Allan tian and late city editor of The Con stitution, was much impressed with the city's enthusiasm on a trip here three days ago. As to the impressions of Mir. Harris The Atlanta Journal has the following to say:
 Mobile and Montgomery are making strides, and their development is evi- dent to the most casual observer" said Evelyn Harris, of the Bell Telephone Company. who has just returned from a brief trip to Alabama.
 There is a great amount of con struction work in progress in both cities and no small part of it is in the residence sections. They are going out after new business in the strongest possible manner and have acquired what is known as the Alabama Spirit. ? It is something like the Atlanta spirit