The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-23
MRS. MINNIE FITCH
DIES IN GULFPORT

Gulfport, Miss, November 22.-Mrs. Min
nie Sherman Fitch, wife of former Lieut..
Thomas w. Fitch, U. S. N, and daughter
of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, died
here today at the age of So years. She
was the editor and publisher of her
fathers letters and memories.
President L. S. Grant attended her we'd
ding to Mr.. Fitch at st. Aloysius church,
Washington, d. c.. in October, 1874. She
is survived by two sons, w. S. Fitch,
Gulfport, Miss; T. w. Fitch, Pittsburg;
two daughters, Miss Eleanor Fitch, Gulf
port; Mrs. Mary Sherman Olmstead.
Bethlehem, Pa, brother, Rev. Thomas
e. Sherman, S. j.; Marquette, Mich and
sister, Mrs. Ella Thackery, wife of the
United States consul general at Paris.
The funeral will take place Tuesday
at ST. Louis where the body will be
buried beside that of General Sherman.
good train service, with morning and aft
ernoon accommodations, years before,
Atlanta had them. Atlanta also had set
tied, equitable. intrastate rates, and so
when other cities fell In line, knowing
that they had, in many instances, super
ior natural advantages to Atlanta, they
realized, in their civic bodies, the valae
OF the Atlanta Spirit" as applied to
Atlanta, and the necessity for such
spirit in their own interests.
Such spirit must not be academic, nor
instructive, nor fictitious, nor decorative,
nor in the form of mere advertisement 1t
must be natural and spontaneous
However close commercial body may
"get together" its getting together may
be altogether artificial.
It may be artificial so far as its effect
iveness Is concerned, its working power,
and its ability to accomplish.
Atlanta boasts. but she may well boast
of the ability to pay all debts of money
borrowed In the east, SO early and so
completely, because that action spells.
unmistakably and plainly. prosperity.
And no mater what else people want,
they all want prosperity.
Birmingham wants that suit against the
steel plant dismissed, because Birming-
ham fears her steel plant might go idle.
That is getting together sure enough
in the right way.
But
How can there be real prosperity unless
the necessities of life are cheap?
Hasn't Alabama overlooked something
that Atlanta did not overlook-that Geor-
gia did not overlook-cheap rates?
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the south than travel through Georgia.
There is no better service in any form,
as to railroads that she has.
Hasn't Birmingham and her civic organ
izations overlooked something?
In getting together. haven't you failed
to consider in its fill sorse and meaning,
the word ''m-u-r-d-e-r"?
That is a word that is going hand in
hand with Birmingham.
Atlanta prosperity.
Birmingham murder.
That is the advertisement which is go
ing abroad. I lived in Birmingham il
years, and travelling a good deal, I know
the questions that are asked-that is the
advertisement you are getting.
You are advertised well enough, and
plenty of people are talking about Bir-
mingham. What you need is action.
But, then, some months ago, some little
time ago, Birmingham made a fatal mis-
take, believing that certain privileges
meant business, and by that action she
released the hounds of slaughter, blood
and DEATH
Birmingham, shall this be your sigma
ture? FRANK M. PITTMAN.
Rising Fawn, Ga, November 16, 1913