The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-03
NASHVILLE MEN ARE
TAKEN OFF FEET BY
SyLACAUGA DISPLAY
Boosters Came to Advertise
Town But Sylacauga Had
Something to Show
DISPLAY FINEST EVER
SEEN IN THE STATE
When Nashville Crowd Came In Floats
Passed Before Them Showing What
Syiacauga and Her People
Are Now Doing
BY WALTER HARPER

BY WALTER HARPER
Sylacauga, June 2-(SpeciaI) -Whel
the Nashville boosters reached Sylacaug:
this afternoon on a special train 10
strong, with voices like Comanche In
dams, they ran up against proposition
that surprised every local son of Tennes
see among them.
Ihey found goo boosters in Sylacaugs
ready to meet them with a hearty wei.
come, and more, big boost for Syla.
cauga.
The Nashville bunch of ''hot air artists
were literally taken off their feet. winded
as 1t were, with astonishment While
Nashville had sent a good large consign-
ment of noise and hearty good fellows
Sylacauga had spread out In full view
of the visitors. not words, but the real
goods in the shape of one of the finest
industrial. agricultural and business dis
plays ever gotten together on a SIMILAR
occasion.
| have seen county fairs assembled
after weeks and months of labor that
fell far short of the exhibit that awaited
the eyes of the Nashville boosters. And
this display was gotten together in less
than two days. Some of the exhibitors
did not catch the spirit of the occasion
until this morning
Unique Reception
This was the proudest day in the his
tory of Sylacauga.
The unique reception was not intended
as a rebuff or in any way disrespect of
the Nashville hurrah gang. The work
and money that were expended by the
people of Sylacauga to show the people
of Nashville what is being done and
can be done in this section was beauti-
full and appropriate compliment to the
professionals and was SO considered by
the Tennesseans.
After the first shock of the dlstin-
guished visitors they capitulated grace
fully and voted first honors to Sylacauga
as public advertisers.
The boosters from Nashville declared
repeatedly that never in the seven years
history of the movement and annual trips
have they had more brilliant reception
in any town or city of the south.
They met the Sylacauga people on a
halfway ground and did about as much
boosting for the plucky little Alabama
city as they did for their home city.
- Boosters Arrive
The Nashville Booster train, with 1oC
live Nashville boosters aboard, arrived
in Sylacauga this afternoon at l O'Clock
and remained almost one hour.
The train was met at Goodwater by
Mayor S. P Mcdonald and other lead
ing citizens and escorted to Sylacauga
The boosters expressed great astonish-
ment at the welcome and public demon
stration that had been prepared for them
by the people of this enterprising little
town.
More than one of the speakers who
made short talks declared that Sylacauga
had exceeded every other town in the
country that had been visited by the
boosters during seven years of its organ
ization. Indeed. the speakers were enthu-
siastic at the evident welcome and the
public-spirited enterprise that character
lied the demonstration.
The Nashville boosters promised them
selves that they would copy some of
the fine booster points given by the peo-
pie of this town and continued their
way shouting the praises of the Tennes-
see capital and tshowing bouquets back
over their shoulders at the fair town OF
Sylacauga.
Welcome Address
President George II. Thigpen of the
Fifth District Agricultural school deliv-
cred an address of welcome to the Nash
vile boosters.
He said:
Gentlemen of the great state of Ten
nessee and the proud and growing city
of Nashville:
You are today upon the soil once trod
by the Indian moccasin. The Indian
was noted for his sagacious Judgment;
that Judgment reached its climax when
he gave Sylacauga to posterity.
IT'S even said that the buzzards once
nested here. However, gentlemen, our
thrift has expelled them, SO now with
sable pinion they hover over less progress
sve localities.
Nowhere in all the world are men
so brave, women SO fair, marble so white,
brick so lasting. pigs with as loud grunts,
chickens with as long a squawk and
babies with as strong yell as in the
city of Sylacauga.
Gentlemen. welcome to the home OF
the marble quarry, the cotton mill, the
brick yard, the turpentine still, the
Fourth District Agricultural school, and
last but not least, the Wyandotte, the
Rhode Island Red. the Black Minorca,
the Plymouth Rock"
Leland Hume Of Nashville was director
general of the boosters and delivered a
brief and pointed response. He intro
duced the following other prominent bus
mess men of Nashville. who delivered
short, breezy and timely addresses: r.
H. Bransford. Prof. Alexander Fall, J..
F. Davis and Alfred B. Battle.
All the speakers were loud In their
praise of Sylacauga's enterprise.
No Marble Heart
Though Sylacauga is founded on a
solid layer of marble. the finest marble
in the world, it was fully demonstrated
today that she has not acquired tho
marble heart"
The people of this enterprising town
today opened their hearts. their arms
and their boost glands" and extended
the merry hand Of welcome to its Wis
itors.
street Exhibition
A most interesting display of the
products and business assets OF the
town and community had been arranged
in the main street OF the town. Gaily
decorated floats formed veritable bar
ricade of beauty and Industrial fullnsss
extending for about two blocks down
the middle Of the street.
Every store and building in the bus
mess section Of the town and many
of the residences we're lavishly dec
GRATED with flags and bunting. There
was color. sparkle and life everywhere.
For once the enterprising Scople of
sylacauga forget the call Of immedi-
ate trade and the reaping of pelf to
be sociable to visitors and to exploit
tho many adyanta ges of the comrnun.