The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-07-28
TO DOWN The ROUND BALE.
CAMPAIGN TO THIS END NOW BE.
ING wAGED.

CAMPAIGN TO THIS END NOW BE.
ING wAGED. /
The Fight Being Conducted from SGA
vanaah by Wiz. c. G. Hanson for the
Georgia and Alabama Compress As.
work and the Movement Meeting
With Much Success-Gfn Presses Now
Being Changed 10 the Standard Size
at the Hate Of 40 TO SO q Day-Fifty
Per Gent. Of the Next Crop May Come
In Standard bales
(Savannah News, July 19tk.)
The fight against the round bale has
begun in earnest The Georgia and
Alabama Compress Associations are
conducting the fight and are meeting
with much success in their movement.
The Southern compress associations ar
rived at the conclusion last season that
the best method of fighting the round
bale is by securing the general adoption
of the standard square bale, and in this
tOuCluSiOu luty nave Tue luUOTScIIltuL
of the railroads, who fail to see any adj
vantage to them to result from the gen.
eral use OF the round bale.
The fight is being conducted from
Savannah by Mr.. G. c. Hanson, the
lessee of the Central Railway presses,
who is conducting the campaign for the
Georgia and Alabama Press Associa-
tions. Unless there is a sudden drop
in the movement fully so per cent. of
the next seasons cotton receipts at
Savannah will come in the shape OF
standard bales. A quiet but very de-
cided movement in the direction of the
standard bale has been going on for
the last three or four months and the
movement has now gained considerable
Roadway. The movement was begun
at the meeting of the Georgia Com
press Association in Atlanta last spring
when it was decided to begin a cam
paign in favor Of the standard bale. al
union was effected with the Alabama
Press Association for this purpose and
Mr.. C.. y. Hanson, of Savannah, was
put in charge of the movement. AS
the lessee of the Central railroad
presses in Georgia and Alabama, Mr..
Hanson was in a better position to di-
rect the work effectively than almost
any man that could be named.
Results have shown the wisdom of
the selection. When a Morning News
reporter called upon Mr.. Hanson at
his Office in the Central railroad build
ing the press man made the surprising
statement that boxes were being chang
ed in the Savannah territory at the
rate of fifty to 100 a day. "a steady
campaign to this end has been con
I,4t1I F0~ Tho Loot fhrnn n~ fNIyr
months said Mr.. Hanson. You q I
nave a large office force here, which
is chiefly engaged in correspondence On
this subject. We have not depended
upon correspondence, however, but have
a number of men in the field who are
engaged in interviewing the ginners
personally. We find this the best
means of accomplishing results. It
took some time to get the work under
way. The country ginners were in
clined to- be suspicious of city men
who come out to tell them what their
own interests were, and it was not al
ways easy to convince them that it was
their interests which were concerned
rather thar that Of the congresses and
the railroads. The movement has
gained considerable Roadway the last
few weeks, however, and now the
changes are being made very rapidly.
The work is being carried on in South
Carolina as we'll as in Georgia and
Alabama"
"Of the Central's receipts last year."
said Mr.. Hanson, "about Is per cent.
were standard bales. If the work Of
changing the presses is kept up at the
present rate between 40 and so per
cent. Of our receipts next year will con-
sist of the standard bales"
1t only cost from 81 to IS each to
change the packing boxes from their
irregular sizes to the standard size of
"a by 81. Many of the g%inners, how
ever, have shown an unwillingness to
expend even this small amount for the
convenience of the railroads, as they
regard it. The argument that the gen.
eral adoption of the standard bale
means lesser rates by reason Of the
fact that 40 per cent. more cotton
should be carried in a car does not ap-
peal to them as forcibly as it should.
LAS soon as so per cent. Of the gin
boxes have been changed" said Mr..
Hanson, "the railroads will adopt the
plan now pursued in Texas Of dis
eliminating in favor Of the standard
bales by giving them a lesser rate.
This will be greatly to the advantage
of the ginners using the standard
boxes and will doubtless have the eff
feet of bringing the others in line as
soon as the effect of the discrimination
is felt"
Mir. Hanson implies that SO per cent.
Of the cotton received at Savannah will
be of the standard bales 24x54-the bal
ance heavy fiat bales of irregular d.
mansions. -
The cotton received at the port OF
Wilmington last season was OF a very
unifoam size, at least Is per cent. OF
the standard square bale, and it is con-
fdently expected that all the receipts
this season will be in bales of standard