The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-06

will be interested in the an
- nouncement that two travelling
statesmen of the old school have recent
ly incorporated their business in Bir-
mingham at 100000. They are r. NJ.
Goodall, from. Nashville. and Murray
Brown. also of that city. The formal
details of the Incorporation were given
several days ago in The Age-Herald,
but so much interest has been attracted
in commercial circles that a resume of
their work is given this morning upon
insistent requests from various sources.
From their unrivaled success the
struggling travelling man may take heart
and feel that IL the same business prin-
cipals, the same square deal and IL the
same energy is at their command the
same success may in time be duplicated
by no end of travelling statesmen of this
community If they SO desire.
Mr.. Brown atid Mr.. Goodall, now the
employers of dozens of travelling men,
are remembered by a host of local peo-
pie as regular men on the road. MUIR
ray Brown was noted in those days, as
he is now, for his wonderful ability to
administer the social massage and to
this day has no equal in that great
trait diplomacy. In fact it is a tax
upon E. Ramsay to keep pace with that
remarkable dispenser of taffy
Murray Brown is also an ex-news-
paper man, which doubtless accounts
for the fact that he is now rated at
a quarter of one million or some such
unbelievable sum of morey He at
tended school in Nasl lie, wrote
WAITE of the Fourth W 4" for the
Nashville Banner and att4 ed a cor
ner lot school. Tho preseh secretary
of Goodall- Brown also did that same
| thing as did the credit manager The
| three men left the same school, went
to work for the same house in Nashville
and are even now with the same house.
In their entire business career they
have changed only one time.
The business of Goodall- Brown & Co.
was started 12 years ago in the Bir-
| mingham Railway Light and Power
company offices, as now constituted.
That building was vacated by Caheen
Brothers. then Drennen - Co. and fol-
| lowing that Goodall- Brown moved into
it. About eight years later the present
building was erected.
singular fact in connection with
the then firm of Goodall- Brown Is that
Mr.. Goodall and Mr.. Brown met for
| the first time on the very same spot
where they are now operating the half
million dollar concern That is to say
in the Caldwell hotel which was on
that corner. AS many know that buil l.
ing was destroyed by fire many We, )
ago.
The success of Goodall- Brown =. O.
distinct victory for Birmingham as a
jobbing center. When the firm started
with a very inconsiderable amount of
money 1t was freely predicted that the
business would go to smash and that
Murray and Robert would be on the
|, road again soon. That was from enc
mics of Birmingham and enemies of the
two drummers who had sufficient nerve
TO tackle hard job. However, as is
now shown the two gentlemen are far
from being on starvation street and
have not returned to the road yet ex-
cepting by 80 or 40 well remunerated
and p1ucl<y representatives.
The creation of a firm like Goodall-
Brown shows clearly what can be done
in Birmingham. There a business of
immense proportions has been brought
up in Birmin CHAM by the work of two
men, and the greatness of Birmingham
as trading center proved.
OF course in handling this work IL
should not be overlooked that Erskine
Ramsay and George B. Mccormack,
both of whom are vice presidents of
the firm had some little details to han
die in connection with the work. These
two widely known men assisted in
many ways to the general success that
has been attained although they mod
estly disclaim any hand in the crea-
tion of that splendid business house.