Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-06-14
FOR THE SOUTH.
A Meeting FFausht With the Utmost
Significance.
NEW YORK, JUNE 21ST.
Invitation To business Men Signed By
Many of the Famous Mercantile Houses
OF the Metropolis.

WASHINGTON. June ia meeting
fraught with the utmost significance to
the material interests of the whole South
will be held at the Fitth-Avenue Hotel.
New York. Thursday. June 2ist IL Is a
direct outgrowth OF the many public con-
ventions held Of recent Yeas In the South
20 induce capital, Industrial plants and
desirable immigration TO this section.
4 general invitation to this New York
meeting will be published in the Baltl-
more Manufacturers Record tomorrow,
and Is made at the request of Senator
Patrick Walsh, Colonel u. Il. Dyer, OF
Augusta. Ca r. H. Edmonds. editor OF
the Manufacturers Record. and others,
with fifty New Workers who have invest
ments in the South or trade with the
South and of southerners who now live
in New York. but whose interests are
South. These fifty names directly own
or represent not less than $i.000,OI0.0oo OF
capital.
The paper signed by this splendid and
most complimentary list OF names Of the
famous mercantile concerns Of New York
is as follows:
NEW YORK, June u, 1894.
I'VE have considered the Communica-
tions OF Colonel H. B Dyer. Hon. Patrick
Walsh. and MIR R. H. EJmonds. and sug-
gest an early meeting in this city Of New
York of southerners and prominent New
York businessmen interested ia the South
or southern trade to confer with repre-
sentatives Of leading interests from that
section.
,Eff.0 tf.. a %
the subject not only to the South but to
the whole country. We viii be glad 10 meet
these southern business men for confer
ence at the Fifth-Avenue Hotel on the
2lst day of this present month.
(Signed 'R. 7. Wilson & Co, Hon. WI
liam L. Trenholm. J. H. Parker. Abram
S. Hewitt. Inman. Swami x Co, Coffin.
Altemus q Co, Hubbard. Price & Co.
Hopkins Dwight & Co. Murchison & CO..
r. NJ Lehman OF Lehman Brothers.
II. B. Clailin Company, c. =. Hunting
ton. G. NJ. Sorrel, c. II. Mallory Il Co.
L. r. Allen. Coates Thread Company.
Henry B. Plant. Willis j. Best. W: /.
Guillaude, Samuel NJ. Jarvis. Roland L.
COnklng. Hugh r. Garden. c. G. Bald
win George Gordon Battle, r.. =. Mar
tin. Charles Deshon, JOHN Allen Nyeth
John &. Calhoun, Woodward. Baldwin
Il Co.. W: l.. Strong & Co, Teft. Weller
Il Co. Francis IA. Leggett q Co.. L.. H..
Sampson. Colonel William i. Thomson.
Mills X Glib. William Steinway. Walter
Stanton. Wheelwright. icldrldge d co q.
VI. II Fielding. r. VI. Ives Naumberg.
Kraus y CO., Bernheim. Bauer A Co,
Hornthal Weissman x Co. Beirman.
Heidelberg a CO, Hammerslough,
Saks & CO.. Banner Brothers George
+. Bassett q Co, Peter Mdllett"
THE SIGNERS' PROMINENCE
Judged by the financial prominence OF
the men who have signed this invitation.
, this promises TO b. the most important
meeting ever held In behalf OF southern
advancement. Men representing not SIM
ply millions. bat hundreds OF millions,
I WHO recognize the fact that the advan-
tases and resources OF the South only
need TO b. fully known To the world "a
bring about great increase In population
and Vealth have united ia asking others
! interested In the South and It's future u
! meet them In New York. IN order 10 have
! "a general interchange Of views from q
! purely business standpoint as To the
/ best means Of advancing THE prosperity
J of the South. This invitation rs general
! It is extended 20 all businessmen
! whether they be transportation officials
/ farmers bankers. merchants. manufac
| turers. or property owners. interested il
! the South.
/ As the notice Of this meeting Is neces
! sarily brief. all businessmen who desir,
! 10 attend can receive all particulars by
| addressing by mail or telegraph r. II
| Edmonds, editor Manufacturers Record
| Baltimore. II IL expected that the out
come Of this meeting will be of moment
| ous consequence TO the entire South.