The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-02
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Work for south at Cincinnati

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 The Ohio Valley exposition is only a memory now, memory which, I trust, will finger for long time in the minds of the thousands of visitors who have during the four weeks of its gay life daily thronged every nook and corner, every aisle and every possible space of it's grounds. I say that I hope they will remember what they have seen and not only remember but benefit by it; for if they wouldn't the exposition will have failed of it's purpose; the magnificent dis play of the south, as shown there under the auspices of a score of railroads, will have been in vain; and the 15,000 circulars I have distributed, telling about our dis trict will have no effect.
 But I do not think that the people, who in such great numbers, looked upon the iron ore and coal and steel from Jeffer- son county, the marble from Taladega, the various other mineral and agricul- tural products from other counties of Alabama, who admired the rich and manifold products of the field and gar den and forests and mines and factories of every southern state, will forget what they had seen; will pay no attention to the tons of literature distributed by the
 
 proofs myself that the people were eager to know about the south and for a pur- pose, for besides distributing my litera- ture I talked with more than 900 men who left me their addresses with the special request to send them upon my re- turn to Birmingham all possible informa- ton about our district. More than that, expect quite a number to come down in the near future and see for themselves, even before they receive any further liter ature.
 To give a detailed description of the exposition and it's happenings would be impossible in this letter. Roosevelt was here and was received b$ a tremendous crowd, whose enthusiasm showed plainly that he is today as much as ever the most popular man in this country. More popular than the President, who also came here after Roosevelt's $ visit and who was not received with half the enthusi- asm shown to Roosevelt; nor did as great a crowd turn out to see him, yet this is his home town. Colonel Roosevelt. oi course, Is somewhat at home here him self, for although his home has never been here, it is now the home of his daughter, the former White House queen And, by the way, I had the pleasure the other evening to sit right across the aisle from her--almost next to her-and her husband. MT. Longworth; and where dc you think? At vaudeville show. And while a number of people looked at the distinguished couple now >and then there was no excitement-another proof that | there are no great men or women before | their neighbors. And I want you to un- derstand that MT. and Mrs. Longwortf occupied orchestra chairs-next to me | They simply were one or rather two oi | the crowd, that's all
 Cincinnati has no more saloons! Yor do not believe that? Well, when I ar rived here at night I was rather dry | from a long drought in our state--a' l least it was a long time since l had [ | lager-and I looked in vain for the sigr | of ''saloon,' until | discovered that passed several dozen "cafes,' either one of which would have answered my pur- pose By all means let us have no mere saloons in Alabama. The word has a bad reputation. But I would not mind tc have "cafes'' in Birmingham where you can get, as here. a cool glass of lager and | all you can eat for cents. One thing however, surprised me, living is as higf here as it is in Birmingham. The cheaI | town I knew of yore is no more. Mea' and vegetables cost as much as t ey dc ] at home and considering the iallel