The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-13

T7 IK to man of broad experience
 about sentiment in business and he A will scoff at you. Sentiment and business do not mix, he will declare. sen tinent has it's place in life and so mas business, but their spheres are separate. Like the law, business follows established lines Every business proposition must be considered on a business basis, as every legal proposition must be considered from a legal basis This is dogma-the dogma Of business and the dogma of law. Maybe it was different in the days when business was more personal before the advent of gigantic corporations and mammoth trusts. when there was more of the hu- man element and less of the machine ln business life The oden times were the golden times and always will be.
 But sentiment and business do mix, de- spite all the scoffers say. Perhaps the mixing is not so often as to confound the dogmatic, but often enough to cheer those v,ho would view the present and the fu- ture through rosy glasses. Sentiment never has been crushed out of business and never will be- It plays a part even in the affairs of the mightiest pusiiiess machine the world ever has kno"H-'he United States Steel corporation-as N Grumbach, a merchant of Galveston' Texas, can testify.
 The principal dry goods estaphshneii' of Galveston is that of the Felirnah Di Goods company, of which L. Feilmah is tbe head and MT. Grumbach, ms soh-iii- law one of the officers. The great storm of September S. 1900, upset the feiiiiiaii business just as it did every other DUST ness in the city. There was snort periou oe foverish activity following theNdisaster' x,,,a, to renairing damaged houses build tho new ones to replace some Of those oe- stroved and setting industries eoihs again but once this work was accoii- nlished there came an inertia that 'fieo the snirits of the people almost as soreis
 aia tba storm itself. It was the re- action Hundreds of families had lei' 'iie c;tv frankly confessing they feared an other storm and would not run the FISK , ra,o.ining there Various business houses wound LID their affairs or moved +o other cities. There were few If any new enterprises to replace those that were lost Only the railroad looked wltn faVor upon Galveston.
 It's deep water, it's magnificent wharves and it's closeness to the great producing repions of the west and southwest reconl- ,nended it to them They could ind no .,.oh faci,,ties elsewhere and more and ,oore roads looked to Galveston as an out let but this did not mean so much TOT the growth and prosperity of the city, TOT tbev gained entrance to the port over the roads already built. It meant nttie added in the way of train crews ana freight handlers and clerks and so much more freight, but it did not mean so mnch to the city as would the building of n factory of good size or the estab- ,ishment of A new industry that would bring hundreds of families and distribute ten or hundreds of thousands of dollars yearly in wages. Exports grew, but the general business languished. Through deaths in the storm and the exodus fol- lowing it the population had been reduced from 36.Oo0 to 25,OO0 The more those who remained considered the situation the less cheerful 1t seemed. Property valued at s2o, GOO had been destroyed and there was not a dollar of insurance. Many men who had/faith in the city and who would have entered heartily into any new business project of worth were crippled financially.
 They could do nothing but make the best of the situation. As time passed and prospects did not brighten many of them lost hope. Month followed month with no show of improvement, and year followed year with no dispellng of the gloomy outlook. The people had made gallant struggle to restore the city to its former standing, but outsiders could not be attracted in any considerable num- ber and there was little if any growth in population. Then, at the time of the deepest gloom, project was launch-