The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-06-23
OTHER CITIES
FORGING AHEAD
BY BOOSTING
WHAT FOURTEEN CITIES OF THE
SOUTH HAVE DONE RECENTLY,
ACCORDING TO REPORTS BY
BRADSTREET MEN.

Now that a ten thousand uOlIdF
fund is being raised in Pensacola for
properly advertising the city and sec
ton, the following showing what
fourteen other southern cities have
accomplished in the recent past, is
very timely. 1t is taken from the
Atlanta Journal, where Bradstreet
men recently met:
From fourteen cities of the south
representing six southern states, SUI
perintendents of the Bradstreet com.
pany are in Atlanta holding their an
nual meeting. These conferences are
always important. The one now in
progress is also interesting and deep
" significant because of the reports
which these keen observers of bust
ness conditions have brought, each
from his particular section and COM
munity.
at is the prime business of the
Bradstreet man to know accurately
and in detail the financial status and
the commercial outlook Of his terri
tory. His knowledge is gained
through a first-hand examination into
the resources and liabilities Of the
small merchant as well as the large
manufacturer. It means a great deal
therefore for these representatives to
declare, without exception, that the
south is today more substantial and
prosperous than ever.
This general statement becomes
doubly impressive when the specific
reports from which It Is taken are
considered. Beginning with Augusta,
Ca, we learn that this city is at
tracing capital from without and 8
developing wonderfully from within.
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anoe company, new three hundred
thousand dollar hotel, new million
dollar automobile company-these
are but few signs of the enterprise
that is astir in Augusta.
"The superintendent from Savan-
nah wakes even poetic in his enthus-
iasm and while he speaks of the tall
pines grooming natures softest lula
by he does not forget to mention
that within the past decade Savan-
nah's exports have shown an increase
of one hundred and elven per cent.
Albany, Ca, shows the develop
ment of a new cotton mill and a new
brick manufacturing plant, with many
indications that 1T Is destined to be q
city in every sense of the word
Jacksonville, which recently
heralded itself through the want ad
columns of western papers as "a wide
open town and the limit displays the
same flaming colors of progress
through the Bradstreet report. It's
bank deposits have increased remark
ably and it's soon to have steam
ship terminals costing nearly mil
lion dollars.
"Aristocratic old Charleston falls
into semi-slang, such is its enthus-
iasm, declares that every line Of its
business is 'tip-top' and that its real
estate values have advanced a third
within the last three years.
birmingham has discovered that it
possesses natural gas as well as it's
long-standing variety of that impor-
tant element. Every freight line en-
tering the city is taxed to capacity
with tonnage.
Tampa is this year twenty-three
million cigars ahead of its record in
this particular for 1909, and 1909 was
considered banner year. Congress
has appropriated three million dollars
as the first of series of appropria-
tons for improving Tampa's harbor
Chattanooga has just produced a
strawberry crop amounting in value
to six hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars.
$50 the record runs. The Brad
street convention is not a boosters
committee. 1t is the gathering of
conservative, alert students of bust
| ness conditions. Its reports may,
therefore, be taken as dependable as
we'll as gratifying.
Every section of this southern
country is advancing not in one indus
| try alone but in every line of indus
try-mercantile, manufacturing, agrl-
| cultural. Mr.. J. E. c. Pedder. the di-
vision superintendent, sums up the
situation truly when ne declares:
We are in position to state without
reserve that at the present day. de-
spite the fact that We are Just now
experiencing slight retrogression in
point of weather and crop conditions,
this portion of the country is in 4
healthy and prosperous condition.
Atlanta stands as the gateway to
all this development, and in her leaps
or commercial progress is typifed the
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