The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-02

A given to the study and practice of law and the other four to service as a Confederate soldier. and during my soldier life, I acted on many occasions as army correspondent of the paper, and to that fact possibly is due my later and permanent connection with 1t.
 "The primitive conditions as to equipment of the paper were in vogue at the time the late Samuel G. Reid asked me to enter The Advertiser off, flee and aid in bringing it out after the Federal embargo against its pub lication had been lifted. When the Federal soldiers entered this city in April. 1885, one of the first orders is- sued was for prohibition of the publi- cation of The Advertiser. That order remained in force until the middle of July and on the 20th of July, 1885. The Advertiser made It's appearance after a suspension of three months. That was the only suspension in It's long life, since January 6, 1830, and was forced suspension by powef too strong to be resisted.
 "Our resources in a physical way were limited to the old time methods until after MT. Frank P. Glass be- came associated with me. Under bis anu NClt uiIctlNo nidne8 C~ ment of the business affairs of the company there has been such revo- lution that those Of you here assem- bled will scarcely be able to believe that other and less favorable condi- tions ever existed. Old time machin- cry has been banished to the limbo of the past and instead of hand presses with capacity of 1900 papers on one side per hour. we now have presses of 24.A90 capacity per hour. which turn out complete papers of twenty-eight pages. all neatly folded when they leave the press. The changes in every other department of the paper have been as great and are enough to make one who has been with the paper ev- cry hour for so many years. wonder if the future can possibly have in store such changes for the better to be utilized by those who will be directing The Advertiser when it celebrates it's centennial anniversary in 1880. It has seen every paper that was in existence fifty years ago disappear and every one started since that time cease to exist except two.
 "whatever measure of success The Advertiser has enjoyed is due prima- rily to the faithful and loyal support of you of the different departments of the paper, who are assembled around this banquet table in the way of conn
  proud to be co-workers with you, and hope that the association will be kept up for many years to come, and that health, long life and prosperity will be the portion of each and all of you"
 The speech of Major Screws paid tribute to the energy and ability or MT. Glass in making the later years of The Advertiser the better and full Ter years of the old and honorable paper. Nor was this allusion to the executive ability of Mr. Glass lost upon the men who had been identified with him in the making and building up or The Advertiser. He was given cheer to speak following a call from the toastmaster, when Major Screws had concluded.
 MT. Glass struck sympathetic chord when he said that of all days of the years, the greatest day, the day looked forward to with more pleas ureable anticipation by him was the day of The Advertiser dinner, for in the minds of others gathefed about the most, MT. Glass alluded to the fact that Major Screws had been six months a citizen of Montgomery be- fore he had made his first appearance in this world in a beautiful Bibb county village. It was not until June 1885, that he came to The Advertiser and he spoke feelingly of the few men who were then connected with the paper. He compared the paper of Jam uary, 1908, with the issue of that day in June, 1885, when he came from Sell ma to help make The Advertiser. He showed how it had grown, how it had | increased in circulation and how the advertising columns had grown in numbers. He spoke of the papers l dax nf prosperity and in affectionate appre- citation of the loyal andt earnest sup port that was given it by the employees. | He expressed nis appreciation for the | personal tribute to him that was in that particular occasion.
 No man." he said, carries bur den so heavy, but that it would be frightened and be touched by such an | occasion and by such a tribute. No man could fail to be touched by this occasion"
 MT. Glass spoke of his recent review of the paper which was first issued after his connection with The Adver- | tiser. He recalled some of the names | of the advertisers that were in that paper which possibly might have been in The Advertiser columns for the forty-fve years since Major | Screws was connected with the paper and which were still in the advertis- ing columns. They were the names of E. c. Andrew, James Gallagher, Rob erts and Joseph. Haygood Transfer Company, Vandiver and Company Knowles and Warner, Virden and Com pany, Alex Rice and others.
 My head today Is as white as that of Major Screws" said MT. Glass. My chief wish is that I shall live twenty years longer, as he has, and be with you on such an occasion as this twenty years in the future. If the same loy- atty to the interest of The AdvertiseI is paid by its employees in the future