The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-27
and is doing wonders for both these

cities the newspapers and the newspa~ per men are taking a leading part Tn this development. In both Mobile and Montgomery the newspaper men are a wide-awake set of energetic workers The interests of their city come first with them and they work day and night for progress and development
 Montgomery has started 1910 movement They want a population of 100, 600 in Montgomery by 1910 and they are going after it in the right way. As usual in such cases the newspapers are playing a leading part. The newspa- per men are furnishing the proper amount of enthusiasm and energy and the business men are putting up the cash. It is a combination that cannot fail to win"
 Help of Small Subscribers.
 In the meanwhile everybody has chance to help. The committee yes- terday was very much gratified at the manner in which the smaller subscrib- CTS made their donations for the good of the city yesterday. Many of them subscribed to the fund with manifest enthusiasm and even went so far as to thank the committee for the chance to I help the cause. good many of the subscriptions yesterday were small, as | they were made by men who have neither any large private business nor any large real estate holdings. They I are. however, no less patriotic than the men of larger means, and the promptness and pleasure with which | they responded to the request of the 1 committee for subscription was ex- | treme1y gratifying.
 One of these subscribers, when he had given $10 yesterday to the com mittee, was asked by friend:
 DO you think that Montgomery can | get a population of 100000 by 1s10g' why not?" the subscriber asked. ! ''The thing is quite possible. But II these men working for the movement should not get ha6 10000 in addition I to the city's population, would com slider the money we'll spent If this | committee gets only 10000 people, why | they can draw on me for another $lO. As an example of the free and wide advertising that Montgomery Is al- ready getting from the movement, the | following editorial is clipped from The ! Savannah Press:
 The Right Kind of Club.
 | The city of Montgomery. Ala, is l 0ettfng A move on it which astonishes l the natives. Now, Montgomery Is small place, but one-half the size | of Savannah. The population by the | last census was thirty thousand, but
 the town Is moving for hundred 1 thousand by the next count This IS a pretty daring stride. The pace IS hardly warranted, but the people have
 something to go on and they propose l to increase at the rate of twelve thou-
 sand five hundred a year for the next
 four years.
 Club, which Is supposed to answer for
 a Chamber of Commerce. The club 1 has become known for the adoption I Fe,.
 has three hundred and fifty members
 and the income is said to be barely
 enough to pay for the rent of the
 building and the salary of the secre-
 tary. The other night when the clun | took on a revival, one more resolution
 was framed, and that was that the or- ganization should go to work at once | for the benefit of the community. But | the club did something better than
 adont a resolution. It determined to
 raise a promotion fund of ten thous-
 and dollars to put the town on a boom
 for the next year. In less than an | hour one-third of the amount was sub- scribed at the meeting.
 1 To be Congratulated.
 1 The town and the club are to be congratulated. They may not get the l hundred thousand people, but It LOOKS | like they would get the ten thousand
 dollars. Montgomery proposes to in- vite conventions, and the money rais- | ed will pay the cost of entertaining | the delegates. This is good moVe- ment. It Is the best way in the world | to improve a place, to put up money Tor
 a promotion fund There are plenty | of cities around Savannah getting q move like this. There Is the town of | Waycross, where the railroads are | putting one-half million for the erec- l tion of shops. This means men and money for that place. The rail lines are spending one million dollars at | Jacksonville. The new railroad Is put | ting in Improvements at Brunswick amounting to over half a million. MT.
 FlagIer is spending eight millions at
 Key. West, and big government I'm provements are planned at Tampa Sa- | yannah has done a good deal but It l is evident that the town must do a | good deal more to meet this winning | stride. Don't let's spend all the money we have in politics. If the purses
 which the clubs use in local primaries | could be turned into promotion tuna for the benefit of Savannah, the big | subscription at Montgomery would Do doubled. and Savannah would feel the | effects at one bound. We like to hear what the other towns are doing. IL shows that they are going ahead. It means that the people are united and that they are working for the good or
 the city. All the papers are having something to say about the Montgom- cry meeting. If another cent of the
 promotion fund is not paid in the town
 would have already gotten more than
 ten thousand dollars worth of adver-
 Using out of the movement.
 We want another steamship line.
 We note that a new line is to be put on between Brunswick and Northern
 points. We want the railroads to
 bring shops here, and bring people. Savannah has made wonderful strides, and, as port, is far and away ahead of anything south of Baltimore. This
 is the best place for the railroads 10 cultivate and to develop. But the peo-
 pie must organize and advertise. A
 promotion fund of ten thousand dol- lars would come in handily just now It will not be long before Ye reach the hundred thousand mark. The Com mercial Club of Montgomery is the pest kind of a club for a town to have. Can't we equip the Chamber of Com Beautify the Complexion
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