The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-20
Chicago Business Men
 Entertained at Smoker

run out of ammunition. Mir. Busch also paid a high tribute to the South and wound up his argument by intro ducfng R. C. Jacobson, chairman of the Chicago delegation.
 Tn Western fashion Mir. Jacobson came to the point and stated the mis- sion of the visitors. At some length he comprehensively pointed out the advantages to the two sehtlons of the dountry of a closer business relation ship, and then told of some of the im- pressions the visitors had received on their Southern trip.
 We did not understand" he said. '"rhe half had not been told us. We knew the South was making. tremend- ous strides in modern development, but we expected nothing like what we have seen. To men who have accomplished the things you have. who are doing the things you are doing. there Is no ne- cessity to point out where our mutual interests lie."
 But all the same Mir. Jacobson did point them out. and with no uncer- tain words. He told few things about capitals commercial influence that will bc remembered long after the fourteen foot channel down the Mis- sissippi from Chicago to New Orleans will be an accomplished fact.
 Following Mir. Jacobson, others or the
 
 things were told of freight rates; the ready aid of Western banks given Southern cities during the recent panic, when the Eastern banks had cemented their vault doors, that made deep im- pressions.
 One of the most happy talks of the evening was that of Professor Nathan iel Butler of the University of Chi eago. Dr. Butler spoke of education, it's bearing on the future development of the country, and the need for schools and colleges to have something to them other than the name university
 His tribute to Southern womanhood. drawn from the impressions made by the Alabama girls who attend the sum mer sessions of the great Western Unt- versity, brought a storm of applause.
 When the visitors had finished speak ing, the impression created was that there was but one real place on the earth, and that was Chicago. This im- precision was made to give room to one other spot. however. for Secretary Dave of the Montgomery Commercial Club was called on to speak, and MT. Dawe spoke of Alabama.
 What G. G. Dave does not know about Alabama is not worth it's space deep down under the coal mines he mentioned: Mir. Dave told of the great natural wealth of the state, it's multitudious mineral resources, and when he got through there was some talk among the visitors of moving Chicago down to a. point on the Coosa River between Montgomery and Bigm- | ingham.
 F. P. Glass preceded MT. Dave. and held the attention of the visitors with some facts about the climatic condi- tions here. the need for white work ingmen, and capital for the develop ment of the mineral wealth now lying idle.
 Sheriff Horace Hood also spoke. 1 At the conclusion of the talks. the assembled gentlemen were drawn even closer in the new-made friendship by the aid of things that are put in the mouth and chewed on. also by the ad- vent of something that helps one to swallow the things that are put in the mouth. From listening to talks, the gentlemen began breaking up in little groups and discu ussing commercial, na- tional affairs. and as this paper goes to press, some of them may be there
 talking yet.