The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-06
TWILL BE FOR BUSINESS.
rr,toN OF GEORGIA DIVISION EX-
PeCTED TO BREAK RECORD.

-,DossihIe. ON Account of the Size
&c the Halls in which They Have
poeu Held, to Hear the Speakers or
Enoy What Was Happening.
pbfch Causes Gen. Evans and the
Reunion Committee to BE Salts
God with the Comparatively Small
o,orters TO Which the Convention
VIII BE Rcstricted-Gen. Evans
returned to Atlanta.
The weekly meeting of the Executive
committee of the Confederate reunion was
h.l5 last night at the Chatham Artillery
orn-o~v. Chairman John Screven presided
ss..sn of the eleven members of the COM
rjttee were present.
II was reported that Gen. Evans would
have last night for Atlanta, and that he
continued TO express himself well pleased
With all that he mad seen and done during
his visit TO Savannah. and with the prepa~
r7tions and arrangements that were being
made for the reception and entertainment
of the veterans who will be the guests
Of the city during the reunion next month.
The commanding general of the division
went over with the committee the entire
plan of entertainment. making suggestions
and additions of his own. These are all
now ia The hands of a special committee,
and viii be put into shape within the next
few days when the programme will be
nl3 lie generally public.
One feature of The reunion and conven-
ton that has been conspicuously absent
from like gatherings in the past, both the
commanding general and the committee
are determined shall be as conspiouously
present in this. Because Of the immensely
OF the halls or other structures in which
such conventions have been held, ID has
been a matter of impossibility to hear the
SPEAKERS, They spoke TO those on the
stage Immediately surrounding them, while
the audience and delegates, not so for
tInaley situated, We're compelled to con-
tent themselves with a rapt attention 10
4 the gestures and facial express ons of the
i speakers
Gen. Evans and the committee are
agreed that the business part Of the con
vention of The Georgia division shall be
one of It's most important features and il
any delegate has anyth ng to say, he snall
have opportunity to say il with some
chance Of being heard. They are, there
fore prepared to eondone the absence of
an auditorium of a size suitable and ade-
Guale TO the entertainment of an immense
7hrong and are satisfied with the enforced
prospect of holding the sessions In a COM
pardtiyely small building.
By this means the important measures
that are to come before the convention
may receive intelligent consideration and
4 tAe delegates will know and understand
what they are doing before they are called
4 upon 10 cast their votes. Business is to
pay an important part in the Georgia Ie-
Union and in this one respect at least, 1t
viii differ widely and essentially from all
that have preceded 1t.
From now on the armory of the Chat
nam Artillery will be made the headduar-
tiers of the executive and other committees
OF the reunion. where their meetings will
De acid and their business of enc sort and
@no'her carried on, Last night a letter
Il was read from the chairman of the House
committee of the Battery, rendering The
& use OF the second floor of the building for
these purposes, from now until the close
"a ue reunion. resolution was Offered |
ana imously carried expressing the
thankS OF the Executive Committee, to the
battery Tor this thoughtful and consider
aye courtesy and directing that copy Of
me fesoution be transmitted by the score
.aF 20 the commanding officer of the bat
4 'eIy, Capt. George p. Walker.
ihe Western Union and Postal Tele- |
9aph companies have both offered to
frank the kilograms of the committee |
Wmle the Southern Bell Telephone Com |
pany has proffered the free use of q tel |
ephQne. To these corporations as well as |
10 Mr.. John G. Butler, who offered to have |
painted all the signs the committee would |
Il NEED about its headquarters, the thanks |
a OF the committee were directed to be ten |
uefed The proposition of the Port Society |
70 furnish the committee with lodgings for |
-3 INDECENT Confederates, for each night |
OF the reunion, at the rate of 20 cents each, |
was referred to the Committee on Quarter |
master and Commlssary Supplies, with |
power to act
Much of the time of the meeting, indeed |
most of the time, was devoted to a consd-
GRAFTON of the questions of programme |
ana invited guests of honor. These have
proven difficult, the problem the commit
.ee mas TO solve in arranging the pro-
sfdmme being to provide opportunity for
4 the transaction of business and at the
zane time relieve the tedium by a suff-
g'ency OF lighter forms of entertainment.
40 accomplish this has shown itself TO be
no easy matter and not one to be lightly
Ut casually arranged
Chairman f. D. Bloodworth of the FL
,1HGe committee stated that his commit
We had been organized into sub-commit-
- ana that, though little of the active
0"Ndssihg for funds had been done ev-
5l 1lius was in readiness, and that the
Di" ass would be begun at once. Capt.
worth realizes fully that a large
SUN Oh money Will be necessary to carry
Wv me plans for the reunion of the elab-
or a' scale now contemplated but does not
aiNop7te that his committee will enooun-
e' ihsuperable obstacles in raising all that
=, a. WIN be needed. 1t is probable that
"a the active CANVASS will be begun,
viii tHat the business men of Savannah
f, " pt invited to exhibit their affection
SAM 'He veterans and civic pride at the
I, pen' Evans left via the Central for At
M. Inc general did not attend the
he ,iot, OF the committee as at any rate
cor, mould nave been compelled to leave
res s'.''I a1uVely early, and for the further
tbefo mat he did not wish to embarrass
tbe ~eIOeratlons He win pursue from
oro,a uquarters of the division the Wig
lereg, pan OF campaign to forward the in
+. m nv OF The reunion that he mapped out
low Deginning and had consistently fol-
ence ME re VIII be in constant correspond
IN VIII, WIN the committee, and will return
ds,. fannah at such time prior to The first