The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-18
One Thousand Dollars Is Pledged. CITY'S LIVE BUSINESS MEN INTENSELY ENTHUSIASTIC PLANS FOR PERMANENT HOME ARE
 DISCUSSED.
 - Large Nerxhern Business Enterprise Already seeking speciae Infermn- tion a. Result of Congress at washinston Barely IL Week Ass. 4s 

All the business men of Montgomery who are alive to the meaning of the new era for the city and South. as a result of the Southern Commercial Congress. gathered at the rooms of the Commercial Club Thursday night Dave of the permanent association tell 7 of the Congress and what it's results will be.
 At the conclusion of Mir. Dawe's talk, the following resolution was intro- duced by Massey Wilson and unani- mously adopted:
 The Commercial Club of Montgom- cry. having been vitally connected with the arst Southern Commercial Con- gress, places itself on record as ap- proving the giving permanent effect to the great Congress just, held, and pledges itself to pay s1,0OO. when plans are matured and trustees elected, for establishing the Southern Commercial Congress Hall in Washington as the centre from which to send forth Southern propaganda throughout the United States and abroad.
 When MT. Dave arose to speak. a storm of applause greeted him that lasted several minutes. and it was almost with an effort that he at last made himself heard above the noise of enthusiastic approval of the man and his work.
 Mir. Dave practically efraced his own personality from the work, saying briefly that he had seen an oppor- tunity for the general good of the land of his adoption, and that the op- portunity had, been taken advantage of He spoke of the planning of the Congress. saying 1t had been happily so arranged that there would be no point of contention raised, that there was nothing introduced at the Con- gress that would be debatable. He said the south was simply a half-known quantity to the rest of the world. and 1hat the Congress had done much to- ward bringing about a better under banding among all concerned.
 My two days rest after the Con- yresB," said MT. Dave. were spent bn New Orleans working over the plans for the permanent organizations home with President Parker. You see, have worked pretty hard, and wanted Ehe matter to be in such shape that 1t would go right on if I peter out physically. The South is now about to come Into it's great heritage. beneficient gift of God. It Is not a thing that-we have done, the wealth was here before Adam, but now we have caught the eye of the world and the wealth is to be developed.
 As an illustration of what interest V man came to see me yesterday from a big Northern concern who Is looking over Alabama with an eye to placing an investment of x2,000, ,000, and the Congress has not been over week.
 Do you know. continued Mir. Dave. laughing, after all. it was nervy proposition. We men of the arrange. ment committee reached Washington with only $175, and when we were fix ing for the first session there were but seven of the Southern commercial clubs present. Thank God, the other fifty-three came in before the meeting opened and the sixty clubs. members of the Congress. were all there. But 1t brought the precipitation when saw just that devoted little band the first day.
 aThe southern Commercial Congress was carried through t6 It's great suc- cess with only the expenditure of $l.- 200, and this was taken up in a few minutes, besides $7o0 more which was voted for the publication of the pro- ceedings of the Congress. Sixty clubs ana fifteen states were represented"
 Permanent Home Plans.
 MT. Dave read the following:
 '.There is in Washington no satis- factory gathering place along social lines for the thousands of southern men who. In the course of the year visit washington for various purposes.
 ''washihgton is the only central gathering place for the many tens of thousands of people, both at home and abroad. who wish to understand the | United States fully.
 'aThe approved project therefore is this: That there shall be erected in Washington a great office building. l named "Southern Commercial Congress | Hall" It shall. be the home and cen Ire of propaganda. of the Southern | Commercial Congress; since any per manent location elsewhere would be | subject of criticism; 1t shall be the | home of Southern Commercial Club: | and the rentals shall be forever set | aside for the maintenance of propa- Randa for the South. along the lines so | successfully laid down the past week. |
 'sThere shall be an auditorium in the | building sufficiently large to seat D.