The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-02
TO GET THE CHARTER
oGLETHORPE MONUMENT MOVE
M1NT WILL BE PUSHED.
COMMITTEES ARE NAMED.
SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS
MAKES APPOINTMENTS.

Advertisement for a Charter May Be
Made Within "a Week or So--Near-
Iy All the Names of Those TO Serve
Upon the Board of Directors of the
Monument Association Have Been
Turned in to President w. G..
Charlton of Sons of the RevOlu-
tion-AnnuaI Meeting of Society Oh
Colonial Wars VIII BE Held Here
on Feb. IL.
The new movement for the erection in
Savannah of monument to Gen. James
Edward Oglethorpe win not be permitted
to lose any OF its energy. Mr.. Waiter @.
Charlton, president of the Society of the
Sons of the Revolution, said yesterday
that the next step will probably be taken
within a week or so.
All the members of the committees that
are to serve upon the board of directors
of the prospective monument association
have not yet been appointed. Two or
three names are to be added to two of
the committees, but 1t is thought this will
have been done within the time mentioned
by Mr. Charlton, ana that there Will then
oC hOtH4HS III tHe way OF Ine HdVeFtlSe-
ment for a charter for the organization
The Society of Colonial Wars has just
named it's committee to serve upon the
board of directors of the monument as
ISOLATION. The other patriotic bodies that
are to have representation upon the board
are the Colonial Danes, the Daughters
of the American Revolution and the Sons
sff u rTi.z
Revolution desire to increase their repre-
sentation from six to eight members, and
this privilege will be permitted them.
Last to make it's appointment of a COM
mittee was the Society of Colonial Wars,
but Mr. j. A. G. Carson, president of the
society in Georgia, said yesterday that
the council of the society had just named
the following to serve with the commit
tees from the other organizations: Mr..
Carson, Mr.. w. w. Gordon, Jr., DR.. +.
p. Waring, Mr.. John w Grant of At
lanta, Mr.. Hugh V. Washington of Ma
con and Mr.. Robert C. Nicely of Waynes-
boro. Mr.. Charlton had been waiting for
some weeks upon the Society of Colonial
Wars. and, now that its appointing nts
have been made, there will be no further
occasion for delay.
AT the meeting of the Council Mr.
adopted that pledges the society to un te
ana cooperate wi h the others in the
effort to erect the monument to G n.
| Oglethorpe. All the gentlemen of the
| Council expressed an interest in the I'M
| dertaking and they Lev ed that the
! present movement will result in its sue
| cess.
When the Council of the Society of Co
| lonial Wars met, the n after of the an
tn OF he t.as24v aIeA "a
cussed. This will be held on Feb. IL, the
accepted date of he landing Of Gen. Og e.
| thorpe at Savannah. 1t is probable that
| a dir ner viii be a feature of the meeting,
though the place for holdi 1t has not
yet been deteru ined. Last year the m en-
bers of the society were entertained at
the home of the pres dent
A number of applications for member
| ship in the society will be received at the
meeting. AT present the membership
oe the society is but twenty-five. The
| membership is necessarily limited, because
| If the difficulty that Is experienced by
many who may be eligible and desirable
| in filling out the blanks to show lineal
descent in the male or female line from
IN ancestor, who served as a military
| IT naval officer, or as a soldier, sailor or
marine, or as a privateersman, under the
| authority OF the colonies which afterwards
formed the United States, or in the forces
| Of Great Britain, which participated with
| hose of the said colonies in any war in
| which the said colonies were engaged. or
| Ia which they enrolled men, from the set
| Element of jamestown May 10, 1907, to the
| battle of Lexington, April 10, ITS; or, who
| Served as Governor deputy governor, lieu
enant governor, director general, vice.
| director general. lord proprietor, Govern
pr's assistant, trustee, or member of the
| Council, or Assembly or Legislature in
any of the colonies, between the dates
| above mentioned"
The following is the list of members Of
| the society Samuel Kendrick Abbot
Atlanta! Jefferson Rar dolph Anderson. Sa-
vannah; Anthony Stoddard Byers. At
| lanta; John Avery Gere Carson, Savan-
nah; Richard Harrison Earle, Marietta;
| William Washington Gordon Jr, Savan-
nah; John William Grant, Atlanta; Will
liam Daniel Grant, Atlanta; Clarence
| Sherman Hammatt, Jacksonville; Fran lis
| Fitch Jones, Savannah; John Harris Kin
| zie. Savannah William Ridgely Leakeu
| Savannah; John Merriwether McAllister,
Atlanta: Robert Caldwell Nicely Waynes-
| boro; William Narramore Parsons
| Hawkinsville; William Hayes Pope,
Santa Fe, ". M; Edward Ans
| ley Richmond, Atlanta; Frank
| Coe Richmond, Savannah; Thomas
| Pinckney Waring, NJ. D., Savannah;
| Hugh Vernon Washington, Macon; John
| Addison Whitner, Atlanta, and Charles
| Frank Whitner, Atlanta.