The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-24
ADRIAN |SE[|N, JR., AND W. I. NO0NAN
 SPEND DAY HERE
Prominent Industrial Men From East Are Shown Va riOus Features of Bir-
 mingham District

Adrian Iselin. Jr., one of the most prominent men In New York, accom- panied by William T. Noonan president of the Buffalo, Rochester and Pitts burg railroad, was in Birmingham yes terday. MT. Iselin is vice president of the line of which Mir. Noonan is pres ident. The two distinguished railroad men reached here yesterday morning from New Orleans. They were met at the Terminal by L. Sevier, executive agent for the Southern railway, of which MT. Iselin Is a director, and w. w. Crawford, president of the Amer lean Trust and Savings bank. While MT. Sevier visited his offices in the Amer lean Trust building for a few minutes the two visitors were shown over the American Trust banking rooms and the vaults by President Crawford. They were very much interested in that bank.
 MT. Sevier during the forenoon es- corted the two visitors over the resi- dential section of Birmingham and to the Country cIuD. They were deeply Impressed with the natural and man. made beauties of that residential sec tion and did not hesitate to say so. In the afternoon they were carried over the Woodlawn-B -Bessemer branch of the Southern railway in order to inspect the various industries of the district. Subsequently they visited the Steel cor poration plants at Fairfield, the plants al Pessemer and came back to the city. They left last night for Lexington, Ky, where they will spend today and will proceed from that point to New York by way of Cincinnati
 MT. Iselin and Mir Noonan both in quired about ths industrial activities of the Birmingham district and seemed d to be very much surprised to ascertain that the situation here was so highly satisfactory. MT. Noonan said that this was his first trip to Birmingham in some years and that he was astonished to see what has been done in this dis trict in the way of new plants and progress in every direction. He ob- served that Birmingham was getting to be recognized as place of unusual promise and a place of great opportu- mites.
 T speak for both Mir Iselin and my self when I say that our trip here is of no special significance" said MT. Noon . an. we have been down south nearly three weeks looking around and are pretty much out of touch with develop ments in the east. We stopped over here because we have heard a great
 
 lately and we wanted to see it even half of 1t was true. We are glad to know that the stories We have heard were not painted on colors too bright Birming gham is a great city and l have no doubt that it is going to be even greater. There may be some omissions in your developments here but l feel certain that these details will be cor rected in the opera ton of time and everything will work out splendidly. am very much pleased to hear that the industrial operations here are going ahead at a fair rate. The country gen orally has not been so well off but conditions are changing and the best is only short distance away"
 MT. Iselin was slightly less com municative than MT. Noonan. He ap- parently preferred to listen to others discuss affairs and absorb what they had to say. He said however that Bir- mingham was decidedly surprising that the residential section was ex- tremely attractive and that desirable . residential section should be the first consideration of cities.
 MT. Iselin is a director of the South ern, Mobile and Ohio, the Lackawanna Steel company, Gallatin National bank the National Bank of Commerce. Union Trust company of New York and other notable industrial institutions.
 He is a brother of Charles Oliver Iselin, the celebrated yachtman and banker. It was Charles Iselin that de- tended the cup for America against the onslaughts of Sir Thomas Upton. MT. Iselin owns the yachts Defender, Re liance and Vigilant