The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-10

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ers and railroad men present.
The statistics OF shipments by the Ocean
| Steamship Company for 1891 were given by
DR.. Oemler as follows:
! VEGETABLES.
Local. Through.
New York.,8s sos 5o51o rs. iss io 5.s
Boston ........... b,O95 5s4O 1913 5,7l7
Philadelphia. .... 1905 1853 9,s05 s,745
! wATERMELoSs.
No Cars
New York Observation-Disclosures. sos
| B ston Observation-Disclosures. 942
Philadelphia Observation-Disclosures. IS
The number of packages of vegetables
| handled by the Atlantic Coast Line from
| Savannah in 1891 was 80. 46l.
| Mr.. Fell said the South Bound is willing
| TO take freights as cheap as any Of the other
| lines. By this route shipmea ITS from Savan-
nah would reach New York In exactly the
same time as from Charleston, going in
over the same train on the Pennsylvania
| railroad.
General Freight Agent Rabbit of the
South Bound said his line is arranging b
put on a train May l to leave Savannah
| about 4 80 o'clock in the afternoon con-
Meeting with the Richmond and Dan vile
at Columbia for New York. This train, be
said, will make almost passenger time,
reaching New York about midnight OF the
day following.
| READY TO IMPROVE ITS SERVICE.
General Freight Agent McSwinay of the
Charleston and Savannah railroad stated
| that be bad just learned, within the last few
| days. of the dissatisfaction existing with
the service by the Atlantic Coast Dispatch
Line and the cause of 1t. He bad supposed
| heretofore that their failure to receive any
large amount of produce shipments from
Savannah was because OF the steamship
| line here. He said the Atlantic Coast Dis
| patch could easily amend its service 80 az to
! give satisfaction. II the objections were to
the early departure Of the train a later
schedule could be arranged and a special
train would be put on IL necessary.
| Mr.. Babbitt of the South Bound said he
had recently perfected arrangements with
| the Richmond and Danville by which vest
ern business could be handled by the South
Bound via Paint Rock for Cincinnati and
all points west and north, giving a shorter
and cheaper route than heretofore. Mr..
Babbitt said he would leave shortly for
Richmond to perfect arrangements for the
schedule OF the fest vegetable train, and he
agreed, upon request, to report the result Of
his visit ~ the MORNING NEWS on his re-
turn for the information of the farmers.
THE COAST DISPATCH UNSATISFACTORY.
Maj Ryals stated that he had heard
many complaints against the Atlantic Coast
| Dispatch on account Of its poor service. He
had tried it himself and lost money.
| William L. Exley said he had not made a
| shipment by the Coast Line in years, as he
had found that the service was unsatisfao>
tory and costly to the farmers
Mai. Ryals said the trouble Is the SavRu-
nah farmers are practically shut out of the
markets of Washington, Philadelphia and
Baltimore by having to come into COMPETE
ton with stuff twenty-four hours freshef,
on account Of the inconvenient schedules on
the Coast Line.
Other farmers generally agreed with the
statements of Maj Ryals and Mr.. Exley.
Mr.. McSwiney said it was the desire of
his line to give satisfaction, and no time
would be lost in improving the service.
DR.. r. g. Norton suggested permanent
organization Of the meeting, and named
! Maj. Ryals and DR.. Oemler as permanent
chairman and permanent secretary re-
| spectively. He also thanked the railroad
men for their anxiety to serve the truck
farmer and the courtesies shown them.
A PERMANENT ORGANIZATION.
The proposition for a permanent organ
izatlon seemed to meet with general ap-
prevail aud Maj. Ryals resigned the chair to
Mr.. W. L. Exley to make an argument in
favor Of it. He suggested a committee of
five be appointed to retire and name officers
for a permanent organization. An assocIa-
tion, he said would have more weight in
any movement they might favor and
especially in requests upon the transporta-
ton companies.
The motion was carried and the chair
man appointed the following committee to
retire and name officers for the permanent
organization: DIR. K. G. Norton, Fletcher
| Exley, Lamar Keller, DIR. Oemler, E. L.
Neidlinger, b. s. Wells and William Spears
After a short conference the COMMITTEES
returned and named the following officers:
President-Maj &. II. + ais.
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Second Vice Presidsnt-Lamar Keller.
Secretary-M. L. Exley.
Treasurer--B. s. Wells.
The officers nominated were unanimously
elected.
Mai. Ryals made short speech on taking
the chair. he said that he was more graft
fed at the honor conferred upon him than
when he was elected to the legislature. He
said he had rather preside over a body
of truckers than any other body ne knew
of. He would at all times be ready to serve
the interests of the association and Of each
individual member. The following execu-
tive committee, with Maj. Ryals as chair
man, was appointed: w. L. Exley. c. G.
Beebe, DR.. r. &. Norton and John Schley.
THE ASSOCIATIONS NAME.
B. s. Wells moved that the permanent
organization be called toe Chatham County
Truck Growers Association, which was
| unanimously carried.
On motion of Mr.. Neidlinger the presi-
dent appointed the following committee on
constitution aud by laws to report at the
next meeting: E. l.. Neidlinger, DIR. A.
Oemler and c. E. G.. Fell
A motion was passed to return a vote of
thanks to Mr.. P IL. Smyth. observer of the
weather bureau, for his kind and courteous
treatment of the truck farmers, and also
that the Truck Growers Association ap-
preciate the value Of the Information given
by che weather bureau, the warning Of an
approaching cold wave having enabled
them to protect their crops several times
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