The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27
w. W. Freeman Talks of Plans of the Interstate
 Power Company
FIELD IS HERE TO
 UTILIZE THE POWER
The General Manager Says That the Power Will Be in Birmingham During the Latter Part
 of Next Year

Another extremely busy man has been added to the long list in Birmlng- ham and this addition is W Winans Freeman, managing director of the Ala bama Interstate Power company, which concern is engaged in generating vast amount of power in this state. He reached here Thursday last and from that moment he has been constantly 'on the job
 Yesterday morning he received con tractors who are after the erection, of a large electric generator to be placed near the dam and for which papers will be signed this week. He received ]. " Worthington of Sheffield. who is interested in the company. together with half score land agents an@ as many attorneys. All of them d problems for the managing directo> He declined three invitations to play golf yesterday afternoon and dryly ob- served to two newspaper men that ais Inability 10 play golf and his setting that pleasure aside demonstrated how busy he was Mr Freeman inspected the recently leased Morriss residence | etore 1 o'clock. when he lunched at the Southern club with his assistant, Mir, Onett and several friends. At BPS o'clock he rushed 10 Montgom- cry to spend the weekend.
 Although engaged in tremendous ac- tivities. Mir. Freeman round few min utes yesterday to discuss the general developments here of his company. When il is realized that the Alabama Ittta gfaf. o0o000 to spend it may be gathered that something stupendous is in the air. His company, it is also known, has acquired the railway and lighting properties of several cities and ru- mors have 1t they are after others.
 Glad to Be Here
 T am very glad to be in Birming- ham, began Mir. Freeman yesterday, "and become identified with this dls- tiict. II goes without saying that you have great district and 1t Is bound to grow and grow until il outstrips anything in the south. our company, as you know. has been quietly ana modestly at work in this state for sev- cral months. We have mapped out a general scheme of power creation which will supply this district and others near here and are working as fast as possible to get that power in shape to sell In fact, l might say to yout gentlemen that our sole aim and Cbjeot right now is to secure thepower. We are devoting our energy and our money to that purpose just as fast as it can he done. We know from minute and exhaustive examinations that the field of consumption Is here. We can sell 1t but nothing can be done until We get the stuff to sell. The manufac- turing companies that are here now operating and not using electricity for power must be shown by our company that it will be to their best interests to cease using coal for steam and use electricity before we can get their business and that one fact of our com pcting with coal, which Is remarkably cheap fuel here, indicates that our prices will be an inducement to man. ufacturers
 our company Is building properties that will last and which are to be the very latest construction in the several lines that we will utilize our con structIon will be designed to produce electric power on the cheapest scale possible. Every item of our eonstruc- ton will be modern.
 For the sale of our commodities if may become necessary for our com pany 10 bring to this district certain manufacturing enterprises In that work will be put forth our strongest efforts when the time Is proper for that { effort. We will have a tremendous amount of power for sale and while we will use some of it ourselves. yet we will have large volume which will be marketable. our aim In bringing to this district manufacturing enterprises Will be 10 get the best that can be procured and will to that extent as- s;st Birmingham and Alabama in grow ing bigger and more prosperous as the yenrs pass.
 This work in which we are engaged is large undertaking and will take some time to work out. We hope, how lever. to have power for sale in Bir- ringham during the latter part of next year and will then seek the outlet for the market We will find 1t ready for us when we can deliver the goods. First of all we must get busy and pi oduce the goods. That is the task that confronts us now"
 Optimistic Over Future MT. Freeman seemed to be very op- ttmistic over the outlook for his com panv here. He referred several times to the fact that this was A fine mar ket for the power his company was creating and again to the fact that his organiza ton had. only one task and that was getting the power to thls oity.
 MT. Freeman is one of the best known electrical men in this country. Among the electrical men he is known as former president of the national organization, a post which he filled with conspicuous ability. Mir. Freeman has also been known In engineering