The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-20
In Rooms of Commercial
 Club. PORTABILITY BANISHED
 FROM GATHERING Closer Business Relations Topic ot Conversation. Prom,nent Men Make short Talks to she Point--DIsarm Suspicion by stating Frankly They Mean Business on south
 ern Trip.

ehiraxo,s committee of representa-" s,,,s citizens who arrived in Montgom- arv Thursday night to remain here anu talk things over with the business men ~ the community today, made good at stha informal smoker given them Tn the i. rooma of the Commercial Clno last night. To begin with, they olsaFmeo suspicion by saying frankly they WEI Mt here for business. It was straight TsIx ana rang true. From then on the huslness men of Montgomery and the lvisitors from the Lake City, were sim aply Americans with only mutual sooo at heart. .,,. r Caeancut incisive, forceful fellows they are, and the friendly impression thew created was saccentuated by the ahsence from their speech of the eter = va1 6ea-Iike. burning IT" that snaris through the enunciation of persons from other parts of the world IL seems the people in Chicago speak English.
 The following named gentlemen compose the Chicago visiting deiega- ton:
 n. c. Jacobsen. Chairman; howard Elting. vice-Chairman; Hugo Hart gnann Secretary; James D. Moody Prof. Nathaniel Butler, J. c. Clair clement l.. Clapp, Edward Clifford. ". sTav Cooke. c. l.. Cross. George C. sTubelfng Howard Elting, Elliott Flow CT. william Hudson Harper, Hugo Hartmann, Frank Hubbard. w. Hid roth E. W. Houser, J. P. Hovland, K. c. Jacobsen, J. H. A. Laoher, Richard Henry Little, John P. Mann, Hubert F. a1f1Ier Walter D. Moody, E. H, Pitkih, G. !. Pope, Oscar Remmer, Roswell Field. Charles Seegers. Joseph T. Tal- bert. J. D. Warren. Charles H. Will Hams.
 Walter D. Moody, Secretary of the Chicago Association of Commerce, who aa ''chaperoning'' the party, summed up the intent of the excursion Into "the wilds of the Southland" in a few words:
 sVVe are representative citizens of a great manufacturing and jobbing city. he said, i've are here advocating the athvantage to the South of closer busf- ness relations with Chicago. We are not knocking other towns, but boost Ing our own. We feel that we are an- titled to the business of this part of the country and we are going after Il with the best propositions. You coulC not buy a jack knife today through one of us. we are just talking genera business, and the mutual advantages the South and Chicago are to gain bs closer knowledge of each ether.
 we want to see what the South LOOK 1IkG, meet US men III Ln9IF own towns, talk business. shake hands and cement a friendship and mutual re- gard that our geographical situations entitle us to. and demand for the best interests of both"
 Smoker Success.
 The smoker in the club rooms was a success. Formality was kicked out of the back door before the chairman called the meeting to order, and then when he did. amid the fragrance oi good cigars and an atmosphere per- meated with good fellowship. Presi- dent Forbes of the Commercial Club introduced William Busch, an Alabama. Chteagoan, as master of informalities
 Mr. Busch. acting as host for Mont. gomery, was whislSed back to Lake Michigan by the sight of so many ia. miIiar faces, and plunged head ovel heels into an calculation of Chicago that brought tears to the eyes of thu visiting delegates. He talked Chicago in an interesting way. and by tho time he had led his auditors dowr Dearborn Street, trotted through State rolled pleasantly through Michigan Avenue and gazed out over the water of Lake Michigan. every one presen believed they could find their way tt the Board of Trade building in an Hi xofs February snow storm.
 By the time he had finished witt Cook County he was sparring for time but swore he had been inveigled int his position by Mir. Forbes and ha'