The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1911-02-12

South in Business.

The division devoted to The Solid
South of Business" will be intensely
interesting. One leading business
man has been chose from each of the
sixteen states covered by the work OF
the Southern Commercial Congress to
speak for his state and to make clear
its business solidity along the lines
OF agriculture, manufacturing, mining,
banking. education, etc. The list OF
states and speakers is included.
Alabama, Mr.. Albert r. Bush. pres
ident, chamber of commerce. Mobile; 4;
Arkansas. Col. S. w. Fordyce. publ.
cist and capitalist, Hot Springs; Flor
ida, Francis p. Couroy, president
board of trade, Jacksonville; Georgia,
Mr.. J. S. Davis. secretary chamber of
commerce. Albany; Kentucky, John c.
Mayo, Paintsville; Louisiana, J. w.
Porch. New Orleans; Maryland, b.
Howell Griswold, Jr., of Alexander
Brown and Sons. bankers. Baltimore; /;
Mississippi, B. w. Griffith, president
First National Bank, Vicksburg; Mis-
souri,, Hon. c. p. Walbridge, president,
J. T.. Merrii Drug Co.. st. Louis; North
Carolina, Hon. J. Elwood Cox. presi-
dent Commercial National bank, High
Point; Oklahoma, Prof. Chas. n.
Gould. director Oklahoma Geological
Survey, Norman; South Carolina, Mr..
T.. w. Robertson. president The Ma
tional Loan and Exchange Bank of Co
lumbia. Columbia. Tennessee, Mr.. Le-
land Hume general manager Cumber-
land Telephone and Telegraph Co..
Nashville; Texas. Hon. John II. kir-
by, Houston; Virginia, Hon II. c.
Stuart. Elk Garden; West Virginia.
Mr.. Oliver G. Heans, superintendent
The Bradstreet Company. Wheeling;
District of Columbia, ID. J. Callahan,
manager Norfolk and Washington S. S.
Company.
Wilson Is to Speak.
In the division devoted to External
Views of the South, Secretary James
Wilson will speak on agriculture. Ed
ward Hines, president of the National
Lumber Manufacturers Association,
Chicago. Illinois, will speak on Per
petuating the South's Lumber
Wealth" Judge Ebert II. Gary has
been invited to speak on THE Manu-
featuring Obligation of the South"
Mr.. George Westinghouse has been in
vited to speak on Electricity in the
Development of the South" Mr..
George w. Perkins will speak on BUS
mess Efficiency in Southern Pro-
gress." Mr.. Arthur Cavenaugh, cash
ier of the National City aBnk of New
York. will speak on Opportunities in
Southern Finance" and Mr.. Arthur
Harris, of the great bond house of
Harris, Forbes and Company, will
speak on The Field for Southern
Bonds"
The first division of the program
will include speeches. by the officers of
the Congress-: by Asa G. Gambler on
Southern Patriotism in Business En-
deavor" and by Senator Duncan U.
Fletcher, of Florida, on THE Southern
Renaissance"
In the sixth division, the Review of
the Business Forces of the South.
which is expected to take place under
cover in the great auditorium in Aa-
-
flying the new union of the South and
its relation to the nation. A gavel will
be presented to President Taft made
up Of sixteen pieces of wood, each
piece OF wood contributed by the COM
missioner of Agriculture of the six
teen states effected by the work of the
Southern Commercial Congress. The
handle of the gavel will be made from
an elm planted in the White House
grounds by John Quincy Adams, thus
New England Washington and
all of the Southern states in a emblem
whose taps will be heard in a construc-
tive union of the states in direct an
to the line up of fifty years
ago. Two orations will be delivered
at the time of the review. one by
James Gordon, formere Senator from
who fought and bled and
suffered in the war. He will; speak for
the men of his generation. The men
of today will be spoken for by DR..
Clarence J. Owens, commander-in-chie
of the United Sons of Confederate Vet
Grams.
aroused in this event, let me
that each Southern Governor
and oGvernor-elect united with Cover
nor Brown, OF Georgia, in inviting
President Taft to address the South
ern Commercial Congress. Now each
southern Governor is himself heading
a committee of business men to see
that his state is adequately repre-
sented in Atlanta, and at probably
more than a hundred points in the
South at the present time Pullman
cars are being chartered to carry del
egations of business men from the
various commercial organizations. Ar
are also being made for
parking over two hundred Pullmaus
in the vicinity Of Atlanta so that,
should the hotel accommodations be
over-strained. visitors TO Atlanta can
have comfortable sleeping accommo--
dations. Over two thousand students
from colleges of the South are expect.
ed in Atlanta, being excused by their
faculties in order that they may grasp
this opportunity to hear the aggrega.
ton of distinguished men who will
address the Southern Commercial Con.
sress and in order that they, them
selves, may catch the new stepping
time of the South and pledge them
selves to technical training and prep.
aration.
Tho officers of tho Southern rop,