The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-06-19
ENDORSED THE MOVEMENT.
Southern Industrial University Fn-
vOred by BOard of Trade Directors.

Southern Industrial University Fa-
vOred by Board of Trade Directors.
At meeting of the directors of the
Board of Trade yesterday resolutions were
adopted giving the hearty Endorsement OF
the board to the movement begun by the
Richmond Chamber of Commerce in behalf
of a great Southern industrial university
The resolutions speak for themselves.
They are as follows:
The close of the Civil War in April,
1865, found the South Frustrated as an ag-
ricultural country, her labor disorganized.
her farm improvements in ashes over vast
areas and without stock or implements in
the greater part for making crops. The
cotton crop of that year of $500, 900 bales
was predicted, by conservative men,
would never be reached in volume again.
Yet a generation after the war our cot
ton crop reaches 12,0O0,O 900 bales. and other
crops show proportionate gains and the
disposition of these crops, SO as to make
them profitable to their producers, is now
a burning issue confronting the people
of the South
Industrial improvements already made
have demonstrated that the South pos
sesses, in an eminent degree, the advant-
ages for successful industrial develop
can thus reap the manufacturers, as well
as the producers, profits and go right
to the consumers with the finished pro-
ucts, enjoying double profits.
But skilled labor, along industrial
lines, is scarce in the South To meet
this necessity, it is proposed 10 establish
a large central industrial school, where
our children can be prepared in the most
thorough manner for the industrial de-
velopment fraught with great possibilities
for a more permanent growth in wealth
and importance than the South has ever
hitherto enjoyed in her whole history
THE Savannah Board of Trade, there
fore, extends its hearty cooperation to
The Richmond VaD Chamber of Com
merce in its efforts to materalize the va
rious interests that have, with that body
favored the founding of great Central
Industrial School, and it is unanimously
Resolved by the Beard of Directors of
the Savannah Board of Trade. that this
action be communicated to the Richmond
Chamber Of Commerce, with the further
assurance that this body is ready to take
any further steps 10 accomplish the de-
sired end, leaving the matter of location
and details of organization to be discuss
ed when the public show a disposition to
give material aid and countenance to the
undertaking."
The Richmond Evening Leader in en-
dorsing the action of the Chamber of
Commerce of that city upon this subject,
says:
The South is rapidly becoming a great
manufacturing section and it has every
| advantage over the rest of the country
except in the matter of skilled labor This
exception should cease 10 be. We have
plenty of good material in the South ana
it should be utilized. 1t is said by those
who are at the head of the movement
that there is a good prospect of obtaining
an endowment of 5000. 600 dollars for the
proposed university. The institution it is
understood will embrace schools covering
every branch of manufacture These
schools will not come in conflict with the
industrial institutions already in exist
ence. but will rather aid them in their
work"