The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-07
GUEST KEPT BUSY
EVERY MINUTE OF MIR. LOWS TIME
 WAS FILLED.
Visited Governor Jelks, Spoke at High School, Lunched with pr.
 Baldwin and Went
 Auto Driving.

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 Beth Low, ex-Mayor of Greater New York and of Brooklyn. former President of Columbia University, trustee of half a dozen institutions of learning, and bearer of more than that number of honorary degrees, delegate from the l United States to the first World Peace Conference at The Hague, and we'll
 known as business man and amateur farmer. was the guest of the Commer- l cial Club of Montgomery and of citi- l gems of the Capital City of Alabama 1
 That the Club and citizens felt the honor of having the distinguished New 1 l Yorker in Montgomery was shown by | the hearty manner in which all those l to. aid in expressions of welcome and | | efforts to care for his entertainment. l That his presence in Montgomery was dozen times during the day, not only | | by. the lively interest he took In every | thing he saw and everywhere he vfs- l tied, but In his warm thanks to hose | he met for the cordial and hospital Dlc i attentions of which he was ths rec .p- i ient. Day of Strenuous EndeavOr. MT. Low spent only one full day in Montgomery, but during that day he l saw. perhaps, as much of the city and its surroundings as the ordinary visitor would be privileged to see in a fort night From the time he left the Ex- | change Hotel in the morning to visit | Governor Jelks at the Capitol, until | | at the annual banquet of the Commer- 1 cial Club left the table for their homes, l had no time for rest. The day for the | l New Yorker was one of strenuous en- | the city and experience more of the the city add experience more oS the to the fact that the standard calendar l l day contains only twenty-four hours, | and that some few of these must be
 These are some of the things Seth | Low did: Made formal call on Governor Jelks, mercial Club.
 Addressed the teachers and pupils of | the Girls High School. Held consultation on educational
 rian Church.
 at luncheon in his handsome home on | Madison Avenue. Drove over the city and through a | portion of the surrounding country In
 lands near Montgomery.
 Attended, as guest of honor, the Com | mercial Club banquet at the Exchange | Hotel, where he made an address.
 In addition to these numerous fea- President of Columbia. were included I itnITOducE1OnS 10 scores or MOnCgOm- | erians, handshakings, short and pleas l ant conversations, and number of lit- l tie social amenities, observed. which | served to fill In well any gaps in the schedule which had. been mapped out | | for his entertainment ME. Low Fine and Fit. l And through it all, MT. Low went, | affably, lowing smiling, and entirely pleased. The strenuosity of the. day | had small effect on the physical man. At the close ct the evenings banquet | he he val, apparently 'es BrIght. fresh and Ssarance in the lobby of the Exchange
 early in the morning. If he felt fa-
 tigue, he ably succeeded in concealing the round of pleasure of the day were | tired, it was not so with their guest | He finished as fine and fit as when he first began, and, at that, looked good | ercise.
 given an informal reception by the | | alumni of Columbia resident here, at 1 the New Exchange, After a nights and prepared for the ceaseless activity which was to mark the day. II o'clock that he emerged from the elevator on the ground floor of the Exchange to start on, his pilgrimage. pearance of the substantial. healthy | business man of good habits, who re- | tains his grasp and vigor until late in | dent A. G. Forbes and Secretary l.. [. | by F. P: Glass, ~
 The first feature of the program was | the visit to the Capitol. Here the New | Yorker was received by Governor Jelks
 remained in pleasant conversation for | the better part of an hour. The visit ics of conversation being entirely im- personal and unofficial.
 After leaving the executive office, l crate monument. which he inspected | with interest. and later was taken to | the front portico of the old State House. | and shown the tablet which marks the l spot on which President Jefferson Da- | wis took his first oath as head of the Confederacy. l driven from the Capitol to the Girls | | High School, where MT Low was to | deliver an address. hosts into the auditorium of the high | school building was the signal for a warm burst of applause Nearly every in addition to the pupils and teachers of the school. were many citizens who mounted the platform, the applause was renewed in redoubled volume, and when he was introduced to the audi ucation B. J. Baldwin. he was made the recipient of another hearty round
 On the speakers platform with Mir. dent of Schools c. L. Floyd. F: P. Glass, A. C.. Forbes. L.. l.. Gilbert, nier and Rev. E. E. Cobbs.
 l The exercises throughout were in- l formal. Dr. Baldwin introduced MT. Low in a short and simple address, commenting on the importance of the education of girls as well as of boys, and maying complimentary reference to MT. Low as the former head of one of the leading educational institutions
 Simple Speech at School. Tn response to his speech, Mir. Low made an address. simple and plain, de- voting himself to telling of his own city, New York. In his talk, he avoid l ed forensic effort. He took the audi | ence into his confidence and spoke to | them as he might have talked to the members of a large family. eonining himself to an undeomnstrattve and in-
 teresting little lecture on the great | seaport of the Empire State After 1 thanking President Baldwin for the opportunity to address the pupils of the 1 school, MT. Low turned to his topic. "You have often heard England spoken of as the Island Empire" he l said You have heard Japan spoken of as the Island Empire of the East. l
 wonder if you have eyer thought of New York as an Island City. There