The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-27
.SAVANNAH'S S. 7. AS.
cB. TOWNSEND ELECTED PREsI-
DENT OF SAVANNAH BRANCH.

A Lively Time in Prospect at the At
lanta Convention Next Week - A
sketch of the Travelling Mems Or
Dean Newman's Connection with
the T. P. a. and the New Organiza-
ton - Representative Travelling
Man.
The largest meeting that the Savannah
branch of the Southern Travellers Associa-
tion ever had was held last night. The
annual election of officers took place. The
members were interested in this election,
and a more unanimous meeting was never
bald When the ticket was nominated it
went through without a single voice of
onnosition. This is the ticket:
President-C. B. Townsend.
First Vice President-Max Krauss.
Second Vice President-F. X. Douglass.
Third Vice Presidential. A. Mcleod, Jr.
Secretary and Treasurer-R. L. Colding.
Board of Directors-J. Lovenst Elm, j.
Belsnger. NJ. J. Epstein, NJ. D. Abrams.
Chaplain. l.. Gilmore.
delegation of sixteen was appointed to
attend the convention in Atlanta next
week. Mr.. Townsend was not in the meet
ing when he was nominated for the presi-
dency of the branch, and a delegation met
him at the Screven house upon his arrival
in the city and informed him of his nomina-
ton. When the new president entered
the Travellers exchange he was greeted by
tremendous applause. President Knlman
officially informed him of his unanimous
election, and the members called for Town
send. The rules were suspended and the
new president replied to the calls in happy
speech The officers will be installed the
last Saturday in next month.
The report of the secretary and treasurer
showed the Savannah branch to be in a
Furnishing condition. During the last week
over sixty new members have been elected.
Twenty new members were elected last
night.
THE BRANCH'S NEW PRESIDENT.
Cary B. Townsend, the new president of
the branch, is one of the best known and
most active workers of the Southern Travel
ers Association. When Post D. of the
Travellers Protective Association, which
was the first travelling mems organization
in Savannah, was organized, Mr.. Townsend
was elected its vice president. The
following year he was elected
At the last May convention of the
Southern Travellers Association he was
elected chairman of its board of directors
and has served during the last year as
chairman of the railroad committee. He
is one of the best posted travelling men in
the south. He represents the Standard Oil
Company and is cne of the most popular s.
T. AS on the road. The Savannah branch
is to be congratulated upon his election as
its presiding officer.
A SAVANNAH INSTITUTION.
From the present outlook Georgia is des-
tined to be the birth place of one of the
most prosperous as well as influential COM
Tnercial organizations in existence, and
upon a very close scrutiny of the situation,
Savannah appears to be the mother of it.
The history of travelling mems organlZa-
tons dates back to England forty or fifty
years ago, and there must have been travel
ing statesmen long prior to that. There are
now in the United States twenty or more
distinct travellers fraternities-the two most
prominent of which are the National Trav-
elers' Protective Association, with head
quarters in Chicago, and the Southern
Travellers Asso "iation, with headquarters
in Savannah. The former was organized in
1882, and was designed to cover the United
States and Canada. A state division of
this order, named the Georgia division of
I. P. A." was formed in Atlanta, in 1886,
headed by Joseph Hirsh, its first presi-
dent. The headquarters were in Atlanta
until 1887, when, in convention in Macon,
they were removed there.
THE FIRST DRUMMERs' BANQUET.
The first "drummer's" banquet in Geor-
gia was held at the Kimball house, Atlanta,
in December, 1886. The convention held in
Macon ono year later was a notable one; in
the election of officers Macon gained both
the president and secretary. On this occa-
sion there was held. probably one of the
most representative banquets ever given to
q body of commercial men. Mai j. F.
Hanson, and Col. Thomas Hardeman, the
late Col. Albert R. Lamar, w. H. Fleming
of Augusta, and others, delivered most
eloquent addresses.
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