Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-21
THE DIRECTORS MET.
The Plan of Action of the Immigra-
ton Association.
System by which General and Large Benefits
VIII be Secured from small Expenditure.
The Sentiments of the Directors.

oeCESldIy bldncHaTQ OF tue Hduuhuule
headquarters returned yesterday from
Vernon, where he had been to attend a
called meeting of the directors of the
immigration association. The meeting
was for the purpose of perfecting the plan
Of operation of the headquarters al
Fort Worth, active work on which was
necessarily suspended by the burning of
county exhibits at the Spring Palace.
Under the plan of organization the sew
eral contributions from the various ooun-
ties placed IN the general fund
of the association will be dupli-
Gated by the chamber of commerce
of Fort Worth, and the most effective
and satisfactory method of investing
this fund was the question that
agitated the directors at Vernon. The
plan finally adopted by them cOmmends
itself as being simple, practical and
likely to bring about the best results for
the money spent.
The entire general fund will be eX-
pended in placing short, pithy adver-
tisements in Northern and Eastern pa
peTs designed to provoke inquiry from
homeseekers and investors. These in
quiries will be first answered from the
Fort Worth headquarters and printed
matter sent them from here. A list of
names and addresses will be made weekly
and a copy sent to the director
of each county immigration association
or to the board of trade of each town in
the counties contributing to the fund. A
copy of the local newspaper will be sent
from each town to the inquirer and also
whatever special printed matter the town
or county may publish. After this is
done the lists will be turned over to the
local real estate dealers for their per-
sonal rrespondeuce. II is believed that
this plan will give entire satisfaction to
the counties contributing to the
general fund, and as each locality will
have an equal chance to secure the atten-
ton of the home-seeker, by the use of
its own special matter, which may be as
elaborate and costly as may be desired.
In addition to the above general plan
the special matter of each county will be
ct all times displayed at the headquar-
ters of the association, in the chamber
of commerce where each coun-
~ will maintain an exhibit
of its products for the inspection of Fort
Worth people aud visitors to the city.
Each county belonging to the association
will be required TO contribute a stated
sum each month which VIII be duplicated
by the Fort Worth chamber of COM
merce, so that q comparatively small
sum from each county will aggregate a
considerable amount. A sufficient num-
Der of counties have already
joined to insure over 5000 per
month for the next six months
which, as the chamber of commerce pays
the salaries of the necessary clerical
force in charge of the headquarters. will
all be spent in advertising under the
above plan.
In spite of the most determined efforts
on the part of one or two counties to dis
courage the Fort Worth plan and sow
the seeds of discord in other counties
faithful to Fort Worth, the plain
business proposition adopted by the
directors is bound to succeed. 1t
has been urged against Fort Worth
that it proposed to place the counter ex-
hibits in a room inaccessible to the pub
lie and the people of Vernon were as
sured by somebody that the headquar-
tiers were in room 6x10 in the third
story of building on d back street.
When they heard that the room offered
IneIn was OUASU, ana III tue most PUBIC
place in town they changed their minds
and heartily entered into the work of
the association.
Apropos to this question of loca-
ton about which some people
60 into Mysteries, it might be well
enough for the Panhandle people to re-
member that the Dallas proposition,
which was presented at the Bowie con-
vention as the only salvation for the
Panhandle country. offered to the coun-
ties tree space for the exhibits ION the
grounds of the Dallas state fair assooIa-
ton, not only obligiug a farmer
to get q search warrant" to find
them but TO put up nickel
for street car fare and fifty cents gate
money to get into the enclosure. The
Panhandle headquarters at Fort Worth
is not making any desperate efforts TO
seduce the counties into getting up q
big sum of money to be spent indiscrimi-
but it is starting in for active
and effective work under plan that will
give good results from small beginning
and is capable of being expanded to any
desired limit.