The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-02-15
For Good of
the Community

BOMBAY? Where is that? The
- school children of Bessemer should
be asked this question during the week. 1t
were no bad thing were all the school
children in the district to look up
Bombay and then ask their elders why
big shop made of Jones Valley metal
should be sailing away to that far-off
place.
The question is particularly appro-
pirate because the ship that is going to
Bombay is named "Bessemer City" and
because lot of the steel that entered into
her composition came from Bessemer. Be
fore that the ore was dug and the coal
mined in sight Of Bessemer.
Bessemer made the ferro-manganese
that was made out Of Brazilian ores
brought up the Warrior river in barges
from Mobile. The ferro-manganesew went
into the making of steel that made the
ship and into the steel that the ship is
carrying away to the land of the black
eyed Hindoos. Steel to the land of the
Lotus. Going far, but Bessemer and Bir-
mingham knew no distances when it
comes to serving the world with the
products of it's mines and mills.
How proud would be the school chill
dren of Bessemer and those of Birming
ham if they could be on the quays Of
Hong-Kong, Bombay, Shanghai, Cal
cutta Singapore, Yokahoma, Kobe and
these other far-away places on the other
side of the world at times when the Besse-
mer City and the Birmingham City put in
there to discharge their Bessemer and
Birmingham steel plates, wire and nails
and wire fencing for the use Of orientals?
These youngsters are soon to have a
hand in this big game. They cannot too
soon learn what these Jones Valley ships
mean in the destiny just ahead OF them
and the part which they themselves are to
play in the affairs of the known world
The little ones Of Fairfield are soon to
have the opportunity Of sensing the same
close relationship to the worlds affairs
which the smokestacks about them typify,
for the Fairfield City is about to come
from the Chickasaw ways for its maiden
globe circumnavigation They should
know all about the mission which their
city's namesake is to perform.
The Jones Valley fleet is now scattered
around the habitable globe. The Besse-
mer City is headed for New Orleans to
load Birmingham steel for Bombay and
other oriental points. The whereabouts
Of the others is as follows:
Birmingham City sailed January 10Th
from Balboa to Honolulu.
Chickasaw City is at New Orleans
loading.
Ensley City sailed from New Orleans
February 9Th for the Far East
Mobile City sailed from San Francisco
February 5th for Avonmouth and Lon
don.
Montgomery City arrived at London
January 30th and is loading for New
York.
Tuscaloosa City due to arrive at New
York from Rotterdam whence she sailed
January 23d.
The seven freighters built in Alabama waters,
of Alabama steel, are becoming familiar sights to
the people Of all countries. They will read the
names on their prows and they will ask where
these places are They will marvel when they
hear the whole story Of how these ships were dug
out Of the ground ESQ miles from tidewater and
fashioned in mills on top of the raw materials
from which their sides were made.
It is pity that the foreign trade school did not
receive the support necessary for its existence:
Young men understanding foreign trade and
al. ALI