The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-25
Merchants Were Not Too Busy to Help. THE crTY's NEW PROGRESS Brief Review of city's Building
 Development.
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1t Illustrates and Emphasizes Great Results That Are tO Be Secured from An Intelligent and As-
 gressfve Movement.

Tt uas Saturday. yesterday, which !s in Montgomery a proverbially ad Noay for collections and subscriptions Tn spite of this. however, the fund TOT the 100000 population in 1910 move ,nant was augmented by the sum or s7o5 making the total for the collec- lion SO far attain the satisfactory ng- ures of $7,7lo. So it will be seen that the movement is well along the way to SIC, ,00o. the mark originally set.
 The committee hardly expected shat much would be done yesterday. Ine Spring trade season had It's pest day yesterday and everybody was busy. The members of several of the sup committees could find no time to take from their business for soliciting and the merchants in their stores were 70 busv to talk of much else but trade. From the very nature of things yester- dav could not be made as active and as strenuous as the days Of the cam paign.
 Zach days evidence piles up that the movement, right now In It's incip- iency. Is giving Montgomery Wius advertisement. In every section or Alabama the people are talking of It. The whole of the State of Alabama feel a sense of proprietorship In Mont ronery. which it does not reel m any other city. Montgomery is not only the capital, but 1t is the heart Of Ala hama. Whatever affects. for sood or evil Is a matter in which the people o, Alabama feel deep and an especiai interest.
 In North Alabama.
 y1nited states Commissioners John A. Fillmore who returned last night rom a visit to Sheffield and other North Alabama cities remarked upon this fact.
 ~'sto learn that a considerable interest is taken in the movement to get a pop l,fation for Montgomery of 100000 m 1of0. was surprised to find that the neople up there were talking of It, dis ciIssinr 1t in its various phases ana wishing Montgomery we'll. The arous- es snirit of Montgomery was with the men I met chief subject or discus sion"
 sTt was gratifying, too, to hear the many good wishes expressed TOT .ne nity,s welfare. I was made to under stand that even in North Alabama the neople looked upon Montgomery with an interst and, perhaps, an anection that they do not feel for any other slty of inc state. whatever concerns Mont aomery concerns them. and II talkins s of Montgomery's aroused spirit ano new development will help an3, tne people of that section are helplns sHs movement along"
 4arba state has been accustomed to 1ooIr upon those towns as ilIustratihs ranid growth and development m Ala hama. And they are doing excelIentiy' I do not, however, see any more eVl- dences of progress and growth tnere than saw around Montgomery. uv moi doubt that the present natural growth of Montgomery is equal to that of any other city of the state
 The City's Growth.
 well known Montgomerian was 1yasterdav commenting upon the Tact fbst hut a comparatively few people of the city really appreciated how much building was in progress now much development was going on. Witn all that has been done in the clty nroper. that is in the congested busi- ness district, it does not fittingly rep resent the improvements that have . heen accomplished or which are now ir tha making, There are many Mont oomerians who spend their days in the business district and in their homes few blocks away. They rarely get out in the suburbs. They therefore do not understand the vast amount of build ing that Is in progress in every sup urb of Montgomery. If one of these men, IL was poAhtSu NNN' 1p . a drive which would encircle all the city's suburbs he would come to new understanding of the city development This Montgomerian had taken such a drive and he was astonished not only aft what was in the act of being done but at what had been done in places which only recently he remembered were vacant lots and bare fields. All this cannot be understood and appre- ciated, unless it is personally seen and personally noted.
 And this is the natural legitimate growth of the city. It might be said to come of it's own accord. It IS