The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-30
TO ORGANIZE THE BUREAU.
4 Meeting Of the Subscribers for That
Purpose To-day.

The General Committee Holds It's Final
Meeting Before the Organization.
81, 1925 the Amount Subscribed Up TO
Last Night-The Full Amount, SO 900,
to Be Made Up This MorninE-A Sue
cessful Organization Assured.
The subscribers to the freight bureau
will meet at the long room of the city ex-
change at noon to-day, for the purpose
OF completing the organization Of the
bureau. A large meeting is expected.
Acting Mayor Mills will call the meeting
TO order.
Capt. D. G. Purse as chairman of the
general committee appointed at the meet
ing Of citizens at the exchange on Sept. p,
will present the report Of the committee.
The report will show that the committee
has been very successful in its work, and
that the success has been brought about
by continuous and able work on the part
of the committee, some Of the members
OF which have been especially active.
The report of the committee on organi-
cation will be submitted by the chairman
of the subcommittee appointed for that
purpose, Mr.. ". G. Cam. The report will
advocate the immediate incorporation of
the freight bureau with a board Of twenty
fve directors. The capital of the incor-
poration will be named at not exceeding
$4,000. The object in having such a large
board of directors is to allow of the repre-
sentation of all the various interests
which have contributed to the fund
MI
to date is SIPS. This is just $275 less than
the amount which has been estimated as
necessary for the annual expense of the
bureau. Capt. Purse and the committee
men who have been associated
with him in the canvass ex-
pect to secure this amount this
morning. The real estate interests which
will be largely benefited indirectly by the
operations of the freight bureau, are eX-
pected to contribute the greater part of
this, together with two or three other in
terests which have not quite made up
the quota expected of them. 1t is expected
to secure the full amount desired before
the meeting at noon. If $4,000 is Sc
cured, so much the better.
A meeting of the general committee
was held last night at the residence Of
Capt. Purse. Those present We're, Messrs
D. Purse, w. G. Cam, b. H. Levy, w. G.
MorreH W. W. Gordon, Max Robinson
c. F. Prendergast, Herman Myers, Jo-
seph Hull and W. D. KrensOn. Like all
the previous meetings of the committee
the meeting was thoroughly harmonious
and united in its action. 1t was held for
the purpose of reviewing the work of the
committee and putting everything in
shape for the meeting to-day. The re-
ports of Capt. Purse and Mr.. Cam were
read and discussed. When the meeting
adjourned after two hours general dis
cussion, it was with the feeling that the
bureau is now an assured fact OF the
SIPS subscribed, all with the exception Of
three small subscriptions are for three
years, which practically means a sub
scripton of $21 800
There was no discussion of the details
of the bureau as to how the money shall
be expended, how many officers there
shall be- or who they shall be. All these
matters are left to the board of directors,
which will be elected to-day. 1t was sug-
gested that Capt. Purses name be pre-
scented to the meeting as a suitable per-
son for president, but this was also left
to the board of directors, which will elect
its own officers
Under the plan of organization sug-
gested by Mr.. Cam each subscriber be-
poration in proportion to the amount
subscribed by him. The legis-
lature will be Immediately applied to for
charter. Thirty days is the shortest
possible time in which a charter can be
granted, at the end of which time the
bureau is expected to begin operations.