The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-18
MAGAZINE GIVES TWELVE PAGES
 TO BIRMINGHAM
Greatness Of City Told In Story And Pictures In
 Graphic Manner

the Manufacutrers' Record are dev0tea to an illustrated article on Birmingham Numerous illuStrations of industries, big buildings, residence scenes. churehes and schools accompany the article and the whole is a grapic portrayal of what Birmingham has accomplished in the past go years
 Most of the facts used i'm the ar ticle are such as are already known to the people Of Biruingham, but they are presented in a way calculated to be of inegtimah1e vAfne to the city becnuse of the wide attention thsy are sure to attract.
 The article is entitled, ~Birminxhan Where Daring Men of ViSiSa Met Resources of LimifaeSs Extent An Industrial Ronance That Thrills With Facts More Interesting Than Fiction"
 Visisns or Fusxre
 Richard Fl. Edmonds, editor of the Manufacturers Record, writes as fo1- lows:
 The existence of the Manufaeseurers' Record is largely due to the fact that Birmingham exists In 1SSl- when the establishment of an industrial paper devoted to the south Was under dis eussi0n by the writer and sosae who were associated with him at that tire. one of the main 2rguRentx usea as a reason for justifYing an industrial pa- per of this character was that BirminR< ham was then denonstratfng it's ability to make up pig iron at a lower cost 1 than any other part of the United States. And this argument largely pEe- vailed, because the position was taken that from pig iron the south would EO on to the manufacture of finer fin ished goods Of every hind
 Thus the establishment of this pa- per is intimately associated in the writ CTS mind with the existence of Bir- mingham- It is peculiarly pleasant. therefore. today to give q story of Bir- mingham's growth, which is indeed romance of indusfry-a romance more thrilling to the man who loves to study human achievements than all the novels of the day
 HswitEs Altitude
 In 1900, Hon. Abram S Hewitt. then one of the foremost irun and steel men of America. whose predictiOus ax to. increasing world consumption of ir0n had for half a century Commanded i'm ternational attention, said in the Manu- facturers Record-
 The supremacy sof iron and steel produetionD has been permanmtIy es- tablished ip this country, and this means in the not very distant fututre the supremacy in shipbail6iug and in it all the interests baned on coal and iron and steel Its world-Wide effect, it's influence upon trade and trans portation, upon coMmeree and the fiances of the world is beyond 0ur pOw- CT at present to fully grasp
 ~The two great ognters for dominat- ing the iron and steel of the world are to be the Lake Superior region, with its Bessemer ores on the one side, and Alabama, with. it's basic Ores on the ether. The growth of the basic steel industry, now that it has been fairly started in the south, ought to be very rapid. That section. with its abundant stores of ore and coal and limestone in such close proximity as is found in Alabama, bids fair within the next quarter of a century to dominate the basic steel industry of the WOEId- Be fore the war fOreSAw the strength 0f the sOuth's iron-making possibilities, and in 1857 had a report made of the whole Birmingham district The war came on and made it impossible to de- Felop these interests, and when the war ended the iron and steel business had become so strongly fixed in the north that the south labOred undsr great dis advantages"
 FulfEIing PrssicEisa
 With ships built at Mobile of steel made in Birmingham. eaFyiRg steel rails and other steel products produced in Birmingham to many parts of the world, including South Ameriea and the Orient, and with the enOEmOUs ex- pansion which has been steadily un- der way for the last 10 or 16 years iA steel-mAking in that district. it looks Gs though Mr. HeEitr's prediction. made nearly 24 years ago. is in q fair way of fulfifment- The SnocesS which \ has attended the derelOpnelt of the steel industry in BirminRham in all of ! it's wide ramificatiOns must inevitably Y be followed by a stil larger growth of \ this business. The natural resources ! are there in abundance, as yet utili1ed i only to a limited extent in comparison | with the limitless stores ayailable- They | will assure a still larger devslOpment | of iron and steel making in Alsbsna \ in keeping with the material progress of the south and of the world
 Birmingham, however. as saown in the story on the following pages. is no longer merely a coal and irOn and steel center. Material prosperity created out of iron and steel and coal has re- suited in rapid development of other industries and in the expansion Of re- ligiOus and educational activities which mark that city as one of the Outstand- ing centers of the country in the things which make for the upbuildisg of character and the bEOadening of edU- cational and religious life
 No reader of the Manufacturers Record can afford to miss the story of the facts regarding Birmingham'sl |