The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-13
MOVEMENT TO THE SOUTH
 THIS YEAR UNPRECEDENTED

Weeterners. Of surety Mobile has much traffic with South Alabama, From time Immemorial the Southern tier of Alabama counties has regarded Mobile as their commercial fountain head, whether the traffic as in the old days. was bv boat and steamer. or as in the modern days by noisy and rushing trains Alabama. and especially South AIabamians continue to come aud go. but in the hotels they are in hapless minority during tho present winter
 gnok County. Illinois. Is furnishing more guests for Mobile hotels than any Alabama County. Indiana. Michigan. Iowa, Minnesota, and other Middle Western States are furnishing Mobile with her unusual quota of guests. And the hotel register is so strongly German when the days record Is made that 1t looks like list of delegates to a Turn verein Convention.
 The migrating visitors are of two classes. The first is the wealthy tour ists who always comes in Pullman and who wants nothing of the South. but the delights of her climate. Ills l is the smaller class. The other and the larger class comes South to look around as well as to revel Tn sunshine and soft breeze.
 | There came down last Wednesday on one train no less than 250 home seekers. They were bound for Bald win County and each had one of the sixteen dollar tickets in his pocket. Every man was going to look at the , lands in Baldwin County. Maybe to | buy and settle down there.
 The Home-seekers.
 1 And this was only portion of the lmigration northerners who came down that day The Louisville and Nash vile on that day was under the pres, sure of the Southward bound travel I forced to put on three sections of its Number messenger train. And the very next day party of about 90 home seekers came in over the Mooile and I Ohio and went up to Washington Coun- fy to take a look In on the new country l opened up about Calvert.
 In the mean while the steady stream of tourist travel continued with ex- tra sections, double headers, and crowd ed side tracks.
 These tourists in the main are folks l of middling wealth. It is said of them that some of them turn thrifty penny | by coming to the Gulf in winter. It is an expensive thing to keep up a | home in, say. Chicago or Milwaukee. | Servants ask and get high wages Coal ! Is worth double as much as 1t Is in | Montgomery and the time 1t has to be I burned Is twice as long. There are l other insistant drafts upon the purse | of the householder.
 I WHGTeLQEt T AS ChSdpSh hSA Nhf | householder to buy sixty days ticket | and pay the moderate board which is l charged in the modest hotels and cot l tageg along the coast and within sight | and hearing of the wave-iapped shores. | The delights of a balmy winter spent I under the pines are therefore clear | profit.
 Divided Travel.
 Which brings to mind the natural di- | vision of the migratory travel in time | of winter Florida and the Carolina mountains belong to the East. The | Cuff coast Is the preserves of the Mid Tile West Naturally New Workers and down casters gravitate toward the Southern portion of the Atlantic Sea- board. The Middle Westerner. unless he be a millionaire, migrates to the | Gulf as naturally as the wild duck seeks the bayous and sluggish rivers near it's edges. California of course IS | a tourist Mecca for all sections, North East, South and West But it Is across the continent and the trip demands | much of time and money.
 But to come back to the main point ! of notice Alabama and the Gulf has come into wide advertising in the great Middle West. This advantage has come | to. 1t without apparent effort and nc general campaign has been planned or followed. The South for one reason oi an ther has come In for more favorable ntice than ever before. It Is being re- | garded from the North as sort oi
 land of promise where dollars are to bt l made and where happiness is to be had Il Her full share and more of all thi' | Alabama Is getting There is her min I eral district, the amounted stores oi
 her coal and her iron deposits. They
 are talked of in the North and people Il grow accustomed to the name of Ala
 ,bama. The timber interest of Soutf Alabama is still rich and powerful The whirring saws are still carving
 out enormous fortunes. The yellow
 pire of South Alabama Is said to b'
 the finest In all the world. Yellow
 pine and Alabama are woven together
 in lumber talk in Northern cities. work of Land Companies. To give credit where credit is du'
 the. greatest advertisement that th'
 State is getting is given her by the un tiring and persistent campaigns Of th' ] four or i've big land companies wht } are bringing settlers Into Baldwin { County. Their field of operation iA ir the Middle West They go about th'
 business of selling lands just like { modern, intelligent manufacturer woult
 go about pushing, popularizing an' selling his goods. They are free II
 the hiring of agents and generous fl the important matter of advertising Papers, circulars and letters crowd th'
 mails. telling of the beauties of Bald
 win and the delights of the Gulf eli
 mate And agents come behind witt
 glowing accounts of the luxuries O. | living in a climate of continual summel
 where the soft chorus of the pines ii
 mingled with the harmony of the wavei
 upon the shore.
 So 1t is a pleasant reputation tha
 Alabama has in the Middle West. KinC
 things are said of her, and much of thu
 manufactured, many of the erroneous
 beliefs that weresheld~of her have beer
 wiped out
 Unusual People.
 Out of this advertisement strange 1 people fill the hotel Hobbies of Mobile
 these February days. The Northern ac'
 cent Is heard oftener than the south
 ern. Beaver and bear skin ovrcoat' with buttons as big as dolls saucer; are seen. a strang enough sight in th'
 semi-tropics, as familiar as 1t may b'
 in snow clad Minnesota. The fur car
 of the Iowa farmer is quite as often n l evidence as the broad brimmed black
 hat of the old time Southerner.
 A snatch of German is caught now
 and then. And the hotel lobby crowd
 talks about the zero weather at home as much as Middle Alabama crowd oi
 natives Is given to the discussion oi
 the strange oddities of the cotton mar
 ket.
 West soil. They appear here just as
 they appear on their farms or in theii
 cities, hats, caps, clothing and dialect
 The Northern traveling man, with his
 short coat and derby hat is sufficiently l famldar He is a rather cosmopolitan