The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-01
Capital City Awakens and Starts For
 ward Move.

The business year of 1906 will be regarded as an epoch in the industrial history of Montgomery.
 Not that during the twelve months just passed there have been any great material boom to send the population forward and to increase the wealth of the city, but during the year an indus trial spiritual boom was inaugurated that means more than can be ade- quately penned for the welfare of Mont gomery. For years the Capital City had suf- fered industrially from. spirit among it's citizens of we are doing pretty well. and we will let well enough alone"
 Nothing but this spirit. or, more retarded a city of the natural advant- ages of the Middle Alabama metropo-
 With it's unequalled railroad facill- ties, and a navigable waterway to the Mexican Gulf with water power suf. ficient to turn myriads of wheels and spindles, with water supply for purity second to none in America, with sur rounding country of unsurpassable fer | tilitv for agriculture. with Its close in the world and with the city itself unexcelled in beauty and cleanliness. the people who had the making Of Montgomery in their hands were for years SdllSii6u lO pat
 New Spirit Aroused. So confident were Montgomerians in the natural advantages of the city that they were willing to sit with hands folded, assured that in time things would come to the city without effort
 Then some Montgomerian, perhaps more astute than the rest of his fel- lows. advanced the thought, "Montgom- cry certainly has the advantages: We people in Montgomery know 1t. Let us allow outsiders the privilege of this same knowledge"
 spirit of the thought, and then and there the idea for movement of 100,- 900 population in 1910 originated, the idea that in six months time has States of the Union to realize that Mont is not onlv a city of his l tory and memories. as hallowed as that history and those memories may be, but Is as well a typical city of the New South, looking for the advancement and | the welfare of it's people. and offering an opportunity for the advancement and the welfare of those who may be- come of Montgomery.
 When the first meeting of representa- | tive Montgomerians was called, the old doubt of lack of public. spirit, still | shadowed the people of the city. But after that meeting, the doubt vanished Al that conference, those men who for years had been willing to stand pat and l let others draw and win the coveted prizes threw aside their spirit of in- difference. and with an enthusiasm | hitherto unheard of in the city. showed their confidence in the movement by putting down the cold hard cash, tc bring industries within the gates Of Mon tgomery. and to let the outsidf world know of the advantages Mont gcmery offers.
 The Cry of 1910.
 | Montgomery 100, ,000 in 1910." rang l throughout Alabama. and people be gan to wake up and take notice. The movement had not been launched ter days before it's effect was felt The real estate market assumed an activity unequalled In the history of Montgom' cry. The amount of building that was done broke all records, and before th' first month was out. "MontgomerS
 100000 1910" had registered materla | effect.
 ized Nothing had been done; save th' proclamation to the world that Mont
 ~omery was ready to do more pushes
 the same old stand.
 Now It is different; the torces a
 organized. The forces are at Wor Scores hear of the adve ntages or M9ht
 gomery daily. It's people are connden
 and determined Watch for Montsom lerY in 1910!