The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-03
PREPARING FOR MAY WEEK.
a General Committee Appointed to
ARRANGE for the SDrin0 Festival

a General Committee Appointed to
Arrange for the Spring Festival
With the beginning Of the New Year ar
rangements are already being made for the
Nay festival. Enthused by the success of
last Merchants week, the merchants propose
to repeat the festival and make it one sur
passing in every feature that Of last year.
A general committee has been ap-
pointed which will appoint other
committees and make preliminary arrange
ments for the celebration. The committee
is composed as follows: 81. III. Boley, F.
y. Douglass, l. E. Davis. II. j. Epstein,
ID. A. Palmer, r g. Gailliard, Abe
3 Guckenheimer, Joseph Lovenstein,
Samuel Meinhard, and Max Robinson. The
Committee will meet over Buffers phar-
macy tomorrow at o'clock, when plan
will be mapped out.
The committee will appoint sub
committees, including committees on
invitation, music, reception, canvass
ing, trades display, torchlight process
sion, and fireworks. A programme COM
mittee will also be appointed, and It's work
will be to get up the most attractive pro-
gramme possible. 1t is believed that the
Hussars' bazar building, if 1t is allowed to
remain, will be used for a headquarters.
The railroads will give low rates Of fare
from all points in Georgia, South Carolina,
Alabama, and Florida, and the drummers
going out OF Savannah will advertise the
celebration. which will be under the auspices
of the Southern Travellers Association.
Not only will Savannah travelling men
boom 1t, but it is expected that Atlanta,
Macon, Augusta, Charleston, Jacksonville
and other points will assist it.
The hospitality displayed by Savannah
at the last Merchants week shows her
ability to entert lin. The people of differ
ent parts OF the state, South Carolina, Ala
bama, ana Florida are brought here
They see each other and be-
come acquainted, and Savannah es-
tablishes an intercourse with them, and
not only that, but the city is profited to a
great extent by the influx of people. Every
body that comes here, although perhaps not
spending more than a day, leaves money
here. Few celebrations have had a more
beneficial effect than the last Merchants
week. 1t was profitable TO all classes of
merchants. People came here and opened
accounts. Strangers started their pur-
chases here, and trade was greatly i'm
proved
The committee expects to raise SIS, 900 or
$4,000 for the celebration. The attrac-
tons at Tybee will far exceed those of last
year, and an effort will be made to have a
grand military parade and races Of all
kinds; in short, everything that will attract
and please.
Three hundred drummers go out of Sa-
vannah into ali parts Of Georgia, South
Carolina, Alabama, and Florida, and they
will boom the week. Those who came here
last year to attend the May week celebra-
ton will come again this year and bring
their families aud friends. The ball has
started now, and the Savannah merchants
end business men propose to keep it rolling
Their benefit from the last festival gives
them confidence, and several with whom
MORNING NEWS reporter talked yesterday
were deeply interested in the movement
at is one Of the best things Savannah
ever did, he said. what she gains nv
such affairs cannot now be estimated. Her
growth in a measure, l believe. depends
upon such movements 1t is only pluck and
enterprise developing itself, and she is
bound to come to the front"