The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-18
TO BRING PEOPLE SOUTH.
The Work Of the Southern Exchange
Association.

A0SUJldllUus
II Has Already Assumed Large Pro-
portions-Its Organisation in Geor-
gia to Be Perfected at once-A State
Chairman and Committeeman From
Each of the Congressional Districts
to Be Appointed.
Gazaway Hartridge, ESQ.,. of New York
Is in the city in the interests of the
southern Exchange. Association. The
work of the association has been fully
described in the MORNING News. 1T has
already assumed large proportions" Mr.
Hartridge says. cat its headquarters. %
Park row, New York, four stenographers
are kept constantly employed answering
letters and putting up mail The presi-
dent, Hugh r. Garden, and the general
manager, r. Wayne Wilson, formerly of
savannah, have little time to devote to
their private business, although assisted
bv a corps of skilled employees"
The object of the exchange is TO bring
the south before the worlds attention, as
the railroad and other corporations have
done in the case of the west To accom-
plish this labor, ability, money and untir-
ing patience are necessary. The associa-
ton is not corporation. 1t pays no div
idends 1t occupies a fiduciary posture
toward the south A representative
from each southern. state and twenty
eight members at large from New York
CITY and elsewhere have control of its af-
fairs 1t originated, as is well known, by
a convention of southern and northern
business men at the Fifth Avenue hotel
in New York, last June. The conven-
ton named a committee .on organ
izatiOn, which met in July and perfected
articles OF association. This committee
included men of the highest standing
who came to New York from the south
ern states and deliberated two days
earnestly and wisely.
THE ASSOCIATIONS OBJECT.
The object Of the exchange is to assist
and direct the movement of capital
skilled labor and settlers TO the south
encourage the establishment of manufac-
tories, of increased transportation and to
correct the misrepresentation which
prejudice and interest have subjected this
section to- The chief means employed
will be systematic advertisement of
the resources and needs of the
south by the agency of the press,
by opening books for the registration of
properties for sale, opportunities for in
vestment, by the issuance of weekly bull
hibit, the establishment of a reading
room where southern publications will be
kept on file by furnishing headquarters
for commercial, journalistic and other
bodies interested in the south, by advis-
ing and securing cheap transportation for
settlers and by instituting agencies in
this country and abroad.
State organizations, with a chairman
and representatives in each congressional
district, are being formed all over the
fifteen southern states. The association
being a voluntary concern, depends for
its support and revenue on the public in
terest which has created it. AT least. in
its initiation, this is necessarily true.
Two hundred life memberships are
offered, ten for each southern state
and the District of Columbia, and
forty for the residue of the country
Twenty of the forty have been taken in
New York city. Registration fees are
charged for property listed in the ex-
change books. There are also annual dues
An extra charge is made for investigating
and fndorsing statements of owners with
reference to property registered at the
exchange.
EDITOR EDMoNDs' WORK.
The editor of the Manufacturers
Record of Baltimore, Mr.. Il. H. Edmonds,
is the Exchanges agent for gathering in
formation He is doing his work with
his usul skill. Several monographs on
The South as Phoenix, =" Facts About
the Old and New South" and other
topics have been issued already by the
Exchange, and excited wide comment
Georgia has not kept pace with other
states in organization, owing to the con
tiuued absence of the chairman. d. H.
Elliott for Florida William G.. Yerger for
4 Mississippi, Harry Allen for Louisiana.
4 l. Fl Peters for Tennessee, and other
i chairmen in most of the states have been
d dong great work. In Arkansas Cliff
4 ton r. Breckenridge the minister
Z To Russia, will keep the Craftsmanship, al
though he will have 20 work by proxy
On the eve of his departure for St. Pc
tersburg he writes: Reflection only
further cOnvinces me that the principle
Il upon which you are organized is a sound
one, and that it only remains for the ex-
change to be kept afoat for a
short time, and in the meanwhile
theoretically pushed with respect to
q It's membership etc, for it to be a great
success and benefit to its promoters, the
south, and indeed the whole country"
The association is not sectional, having
been founded by northern aud southern
business men. The plan of its formation
IS a composite one, $50 plans having
been submitted by citizens of different
States. 1t has established fourteen dis
tinct bureaus for gathering Information,
such as agriculture timber, mining water
powers, legislation, advertising and publ
cation, consisting Of men in all parts of
the country, north and south, eminent in
Lnelr special vOcations.
NEWS OF THE SHIPS.