The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-29
TEACHERS OF ALABAMA
 ASSEMBLE IN MOBILE
Notable Addresses of
 Welcome Delivered.
Pre.ident Foster of Educational As.o- elstion Delivers His Annuai Ad-
 dress and state superin-
 tendent Gunnels Speaks.


 Mobile. March 2s-(special. )--The convention of the Alabama Education al Association was called this after noon In German Relief Hall. when ad- dresses of welcome and the responses were made. The Association will be in convention here for thre days, clos ing late Saturday.
 The address of welcome for the city was made by Mayor P. J. Lyons. and was as follows:
 Mayor Lyon's welcome.
 It Is with pleasure that l welcome you, gentlemen of the Alabama Edu- cational Association, to Mobile. We are honored by your presence amongst us, and solacted by the knowledge that such an able body of men are bending their hands and energies toward the perfection of the methods and means of best imparting Knowledge to the young It is a noble work-too little appreciated by our people. Some great geniuses and men of exceptional power and force are able to ignore the or dinary laws that regulate human af- fairs, but the welfare of the great mass of our people, the future of the nation. and of society in general Is entirely dependent upon the proper religious and secular education of our youth. I am glad to see that our State is giving this question more consideration, and larger measure of the material assist ance it requires.
 Gentlemen, I wish you well in your work, for I realize that in the appre- citation of your fellows lies large por- tion of yourtotherwise small reward.
 For the people of Mobile Hon. E. M. Robinson spoke. Ills address was as follows:
 Ma: or RobInson's Welcome. Mr. President and Members of the
 Alabama Educational Association:
 shall not enter upon the vain en- deavor to express my infinite pleas ure that I am privileged to extend the glad greeting of Mobilians to this magnificent assemblage. You have re- ceived, in fitting terms, the official welcome from our distinguished May or; you will have the specific welcome ct the schools extended in the grace fhl glowing utterance of one who has contributed the best efforts of her splendid genius to the education of the youth of Mobile. It remains for me to bring you the general welcome of a patriotic citizenship. whose gem erous hospitality has become prover- biai, and who are vastly proud of the guests within their gates.
 You meet within the borders of an historic city, whose early annals are curtained about with the magic mists of poetry and romance, the record of whose birth is replete with a thou sand brave adventures, and a score of whose treasured landmarks are mildewed with the venerated memory of immortal names. You meet fin city above the site of which have fioatsd the flags of five different sovereign nations, and whose sur rounding territory has been the thea Ire of many of the thrilling achieve menta which made possible the acqui- sition and civilization of the great Southwest,
 If only the Limitations would per init, would delight to tell you some thing of those primitive days. to fol- low with you the meanderiags of those two brave pioneers. Iberville and BienvilIe. as they studied. enrap- tured, the natural loveliness of Mobile Bay, and explored the winding cur rents of the Tensas and Mobile. to car ry you back for three tremendous cen- turtles and witness the actual founding of Mobile by that dauntless French man whose name and fame are per petuated in the naming of our public square and other institutions. and then. 10 follow this young colony, through the scarring vicissitudes of three hum dred years, to its present proud pre-