Evening journal., 1914-03-28
New News Of Yesterday
WeStinghouSe'S Prophecy
of Southern Development
BY Holland.

The late George Westinghouse was
invited by a commercial association
or so-called congress of the South
TO address a meeting of that body
which was to be held at Atlanta,
Georgia, in the spring Of 1911. He
gladly accepted the invitation, al
though that involved the preparation
and delivery of an address. Mr.. West
inghouse was always difident about
speaking I'm public, but he sometimes
prepared communications for the
newspaper press which, aside from
their inherent Importance, furnished
a fine revelation of the clearness with
which he thought and the facility
with which he expressed his thought
in appropriate and very lucid IAN
guage.
Shortly after his return from At
lanta, Mr.. Westinghouse asked me TO
call upon him. found him apparent
ly i'm a happier state of mind than
he had manifested since the money
panic of 1907.
He said: Il never enjoyed an ex-
cursion Of the kind better than the
one l have just made to the South.
I think that l was able to enlighten
some of the able men who are mem-
bers Of that Southern association
with respect to the opportunities that
are ready for immediate development
I'm that section of the land.
For some years have regarded the
South as sure to become possibly the
greatest industrial section of the
United States within the next twen-
five or thirty years. Certainly it Will
be as great in that respect as any
other I'm the country.
"I wanted to tell the people of the
South what the especial advantage
was which they possess They have
enormous water power in the South.
If there has been any especially great
development Of the utilization of cleo
tricity for Industrial purposes 1t has
been through the employment Of cleo
trio energy for the production Of
power both industrial and for the
hauling of cars.
Il made somestudy of water power
opportunities in the South, and, of
course, l knew something about the
generation of electricity through the
utilization of water power.
Il wanted to say to the people of
the South that we have at last dis
covered means by which electricity
can be carried for long distances
without any appreciable loss of its
energy. That is a strong point in
favor of the South's industrial deveI-
opment They can, at comparatively
low cost, capture enormous water
power that has been going to waste
for years, convert it at that point into
electric energy, and then carry the
energy to commercial advantage to
points as far distant as a hundred
miles, even more. IL is the cheapest
possible way of securing power.
felt that 1 might so speak to the
Southern congress of industries as to
show the members that by utilization
of this power they could operate at
low cost hundreds of miles of troll
leys, could by and by run their steam
railways, and could operate factories
established at convenient distribut-
ing points. although a hundred miles
at least from the place where the
electric energy was obtained.
81 tell YOU said Mr.. Westinghouse
speaking with great earnestness
that if the energetic men of the
South will make use of this wonder
fully great natural resource for OBJ
tanning commercial power cheaply
the country will witness within the
next twenty-five years an industrial
development in many parts of the
South perhaps as great in the ag-
gregate as that which has been char
acteristic of my own home district
of which Pittsburgh is the centre"
Copyright, 1914, by e. J. Edwards