The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-22
CYPRESS MEN ORGANIZED.
THE ATLANTIC COAST CYPRESS AS
sOCIATION's OFFICERS.

The Manufacturers of Georgia, Flor
ida, North and South Carolina Are
ENTHUSIASTICALLY Per Cent. of the
output of the Cypress Manufac-
turing Mills Was Represented at
Yesterdays Meeting-The Organi-
Meeting Held n Month Ago-Mr. III.
a. BatchelOr Elected President
The Association, Its Officers Say, Is
Not a Trust.
An adjourned meeting of the South At
lantic coast manufacturers of cypress
lumber was held at the De Soto yes
lerday. The manufacturers met in Sa-
vannah month ago and at that time it
was agreed that the meeting should be
held under recess, pending the report of
the committees on membership and con-
stitution and bylaws. At that time the
meeting of yesterday was arranged.
The organization of the manufacturers
into the Atlantic Coast Cypress Associa-
tion was the first business considered by
the meeting, and this was accomplished
in short order There was an entire unan-
unity of opinion that such an association
was not only likely to result in the COM
mon advantage of the members, but that
il would exert an influence favorable to
the cypress industry Of this and the neigh
boring states and would be the means of
disseminating information by which all
the members would profit.
The association draws it's membership
from the states of Georgia, Florida and
North and South Carolina and at the
meeting of yesterday quite 70 per cent. of
the entire output of the mills of these
states was represented in the person of
some officer of the corporation or men,
Der of the firm owning each of the mills,
or by the proxies held by these gentle
men.
The meeting was not held until 8
o'clock in the afternoon, but the members
of the association and those who were
soon 10 become members began to gather
during the early hours of the morning
and Continued to come in on the various
lines enterlns; the city until the meeting
was called order. An hour or more
was spent j. me discussion of the scope
OF the organizations work, and in receiv-
ing and adopting the reports of the COM
mitteeS appointed at the last meeting.
officers were elected as follows:
Presidential. A. Bachelor, of the
Bachelor Cypress Lumber Company,
Panasoffkee, Fla.
Vice Presidential. Fl. Gardner, of the
Gardner & Lacey Lumber Company,
Georgetown, S. c.
Secretary and Treasurer-R. r. See
ley, of the Santee Cypress Lumber Com
pany, Ferguson, S. c.
The secretary, Mr.. Seeley, was not pres
emit at the meeting, and his election took
place in his absence. The meeting suf
fered by his inability to be present. for
she absent secretary combines shrewd
business sense with an inexhaustible fund
of good nature and lumber men appreci-
ate both of these qualities. In the alb
sence of Mr.. Seeley, Mr.. II. Waters, of
the Santee Company acted as secretary
pro TEN.
The objects of the association are stated
by Its officers to be the general improve
ment of its members in all that pertains
to the industry in which they are inter
ested so closely, and the dissemination of
literature bearing on this subject. 1t is
stated that there is no desire 60 control
prices unless there be a material change
iii the conditions that surround the BUSH
ness at present, and that the association
of manufacturers is in no sense a trust
The members gather for their own in
struction in the details of cypress manu-
featuring. profit by their intercourse and
conversation with each other, and seek to
advance the interests of the business all
along the line. They do not seek to con-
troll the selling price of the manufac-
tured product, but are quite willing that
this Shall be determined by bhe natural
law of supply and demand.
The constitution and bylaws of the as
ISOLATION. that have just been adopted, set
forth its objects as they are outlined
above. The members are enthusiastic and
all of them seem to think that much good
will follow the organization of the asso-
citation and the carrying out of the pro-
jects of improvement that 1t has taken
upon itself 1t is hoped that within a
short time those manufacturers who are
not already members viii join it's ranks.
The association will hold bi-monthly
meetings. There will be no regular pace
Of meeting. but at each meeting held the
place for the next viii be selected. The
next meeting is called for Jacksonville,
Fla, in the parlors of the Windsor Ho-
tel, on March q. After that there win
be a siXty-day interval between the as
semblies OF the members of the associa-