Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-31
ADVERTISING THE STATE
Spreading Far and Wide Advantages
to the Homeseeker.
MORE ANGLO-sAXoNS WANTED
Deterrent Effect of the Reports Re-
garding Peonage-Southern
Statesmen Fail to Take
Proper Action.
ny WILLIAM T.. CURTIS.


The Georgia bureau Of industries and
immigration is not state institution. but
an organization established in 1905 by
several railway companies to collect and
disseminate information to manufacturers,
homeseekers and investors. Its officials
also furnish lists and in ormation con-
corning desirable properties and bring in
tending purchasers and owners into per-
sonal contact. They also place manufac-
tuners and investors in communication
with the persons whom they naturally de-
sire to know in order that from an I'M
preiudiced standpoint the information
previously furnished them in regard to 10
cations may he accurately understood.
They advertise extensively i'll various
publications scattered all over the United
States and publish magazine of their
own called Georgia. which contains
items o. general interest relative To the
progress of the state and giving good.
valid reasons why Georgia is such a
good state to live in. II is not published
for revenue but is given away; and it
has proved marked success. An issue
of 5000 copies is hardly off the press be
fore il is exhausted, applications coming
from every quarter of the globe The
magazine is placed in the reading rooms
of the principal hotels and pensions
steamship offices throughout Norway,
Sweden. Denmark. Germany. France. Bel
GUM and the United Kingdom.
Success of the Bureau
When | asked Col. Samuel c. Dunlap
being done TO bring foreigners into the
state. lie replied:
We are. of course not authorized to
li,.ft i,,,,,, ter-.,t
that direction hut confine ourselves ex-
clusiVeiy TO advertising and solicitation in
The I nited States and Canada.
Considering our short existence. oar
methods have proven successful. We
have located numbers of homeseekers and
quite number o. profitable industrial en-
terprlses throughout the state. Most of
the land in Georgia. as in the other south
ern states. Is held in large tracts While
the demand Is for small farms During
october and November 1907. three or four
real estate deals. agSregating in round
money half million dollars. were enei-
neered in connection with the bureau
whereby lands To the extent of some 15.,hN,
acres changed hands. The new owners are
now repiotting the tracts into arms of
from sixty to two hundred acres and con-
template settling them with the thrifty
small farmers from the middle west and
northwest our inquiries are numerous
rom OHIO, Illinois. Indiana. Michigan
Wisconsin. Minnesota and Iowa. We
brought train load of about 100 home
seekers from that section last spring
About one-thrd of them purcha sed farms.
with the intent ion of locating In the state
southern Georgia is at present at
tracting the majority Of the homeseek-
cfs Tor the reason that the people down
there have advertised their section ex-
tenslVeiy and are united in their eff
Iorts to settle it uD with thrifty fami-
Iies- me people of north and middle
nf
lance of wide publicity and united eff
fort in this direction. and conseuuentIy.
have not reaped the benefits the splen-
did climate and fertility of their section
How many foreigners have you in
the state?
The Georgia Colonists.
The last census gives the number Of
foreigners In Georgia as 1903. princi-
pally German and Irish In this connec-
ton II is interesting 10 note thar tho
colony Of Georgia was established orig
fnally as a home for the poor of Gr.a,
britain and place of refuge for the
Salzb"rgers and other prosecuted sects
or the continent of Europe About
year after the establishment of the
tolonN al savannah seventy-eight Salz
bergers arrived Their exodus from Eu-
rope furnished Goethe the theme for his
beautiful poem. Herman and Dorotnea'
Ihey settled at "A place they named
Ebenezer tStone of Help. in what is
now EffingiIam county, where they pros
pered. They furnished the state with
one of her first governors under the
constitution adopted in III. and many
of the famous families of Georgia proud
~ claim II strain Of this sturdy old
Teutonic blood
The Irish came to Georgia in num-
oers some nifty years ago. during the
construction Of the Augusta canal sys-
tenn. upon which they We're employed
They liked the location. made money.
and, being frugal. saved it. and upon
the completion of the work engaged in
business and sent for their relatives and
friends. They. too. have given the state
of their adoption many famous and dis
tngufshed sons as heritage
During the past three wears Rus
slams. Greeks. Servians. Bohemians and
Austro- Hungarians have discovered the
attractions and advantages of the great
southeast. and have moved into Georgia
in numbers. the next census will show
some $4,000 forcign-horn in tho state,
most of whom will have come from the
countries above mentioned.
Russians Most Numerous.
The Russians are most numerous, and
the Greeks are good second Both ma
tionalities have thriving colonies in
nearly every town and city. Atlanta
has some 1000 Russians. many of whom
are refugees from kishinev and other
scancs of slaughter They are quiet
and unobtrusivc. but make their pres
snce felt in all the channels of trade
Two or three years ago the corner
grocery and market business of Atlanta
was controlled by the German and Irish
who have almost been eliminated. Near
~ 900 such stores, in tn" poorer see
tions of the city. are owned and oper-
ated by Russians. This has vastly in
creased the property values of the city.
for where the German or lrishman pre-
Niously paid a monthly rental of $1,000
for the corner the Russian started at "A
minimum "f sl3-oo- which has grad
ually increased To $4,000 or $500 for
the best locations.
Some OF these political refugees were
in a pathetic plight upon arrival. and
their stories are fun of human interest.
Eighteen months ago Russian from one
OF the Cral provinces dropped into our
office He was unable To speak English.
nor even the jargon of the iiddish Jew.
Interpreter after Interpreter failed. but we
finally made out from his pure Slavic and
some letters IN his possession that he had
been a tcamster at lis former home and
rad left a wife and two little baby boys
H. Russia. We secured place for him
"a Il Iaaorcr in a spring beu factory.
where IL took up his work with Il will.
facing tn difficulty OF being unable To
MAKE his wants known. His pay was
ST pe- day. III a few weeks h had mas
tered English sufficiently 10 ash. the man.
thought he could earn more that way ard
needed the mon-y to send hom". In few
months. during which he worked very
hard, he saved enough 10 send for his Ill
tie family. The night they arrived he was
waiting anxious!y to receive them. but in
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