The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-11-29
FOR MEMORIAL FUND
AT MEETING OF ASSOCIATION I'M
PETUs GIVEN MOVEMENT.
FOR oGLETH0RPE MONUMENT.
DATE WILL SOON BE FIXED FOR
LAYING CORNERSTONE.


Iect Site-Other Committees on FL
nance, Monument, Ways and
Means and Entertainments Named.
Permanent Organization of the
Movement Efccted-Prcsident Has
Prepared an Appeal to the People
of Georgia-Win BE Issued in a
Few Days-Meetings of Association
viii BE Held Monthly.
At a meeting of the Oglethorpe Mon
ument Association of Savannah yes
terday afternoon at the home of Capt.
w. w. Gordon, Jr on Drayton street,
new impetus was given the movement
and steps were taken, having in view
the Consummation of the purposes of
the association at an early date.
The main object of the meeting was
citation has not. up to this time had a
treasurer, the result being that the
several amounts available for the pro-
posed monument are in the hands of
various societies and individuals. Mr..
j. A. G. Carson was made acting treas
Committee. The other members of
this committee have not yet been ap-
pointed. but will be in a few days.
Contributions may be sent to Mr.. Car
SON..
Committee to SIect Site.
A committee was appointed to select
a site for the monument, and the pres
ident was requested to issue at once an
appeal to the people or Georgia for
contributions. The appeal has been
prepared and will be printed in a few
days. The committee on location con-
sists of Mrs S. B. c. Morgan, Mrs.
Georgia P. Wilder. Mr.. WymberIey j.
DeRenne, Capt w w Gordon, Jr.,
and Mr. Walter G. Charlton.
The committee will assume its duties
at once, taking under consideration the
sites at present proposed and any 9TH
er available and desirable locations. So
soon as the committee reports, the
character of monument will be deter
mined, and designs called for and bids
requested. There have been numerous
designs offered, the one for a memorial
arch across Bull street at the intersec-
ton of Oglethorpe avenue having met
with much favor, but no plan has as
yet been definitely decided on.
To Lay Corner stone.
day will shortly be fixed for the
laying of the cornerstone. Those who
have fostered the project desire to
rear a handsome monument The
plans which are now under way will
be pushed, and upon the response to
the appeal will depend to a great ex-
tent the chara cter of the memorial
which will be reared to the memory of
Oglethorpe. The other members of the
Finance and other committees will be
appointed at once, so that no time will
be lost.
Several committees were appointed
by thetpresident. 1t will be seen from
the character of the committees that
it is the purpose of the association to
bring the matter to a conclusion at an
early date. The Committee on Enter
tainments, of which Mrs S. B. c. Nor
gan is chairman, is composed mainly
of ladies of the Colonial Danes and
Daughters of the American Revolution
To Give Entertainments.
The ladies which compose this COM
mittee have in the past been alive to
the interests of the movement and
have given numerous entertainments
which have Melted substantial sums
for the monument fund. They will ar
range number of entertainments to
be given in the near future, and en-
deavor to have one or more benefits
given for the purpose of enhancing the
sum now in the treasury.
One of the most important commit
tees appointed is the Committee on
ways and Means, of which Capt. W.
w. Gordon is chairman. The chair
mon OF the Committee on Monument
is Mrs. Georgia P. Wilder. A Commit
tee on Public Subscriptions was ap-
pointer, of which Mr.. DeRenne is chair
man. Mr. Carson, as treasurer and
chairman of the Finance Committee.
will collect at once the several amounts
which have heretofore been raised and
which are now in the hands of diff
ferent parties. There are, too, a num-
Der of promised individual subscrip-
tons which viii now be requested.
$4,000 on Hand
The amount available at present is
not more than $4,000. A part of this is
| the amount left over from the Jasper
Memorial fund. and diverted to the use
OF the Oglethorpe Monument Associa-
ton, with the condition that it be used
within stipulated time. The other
| amounts are deposited in bank in the
name of the several patriotic organi-
| cations, including the Sons and Daugh-
ters of the Revolution and the Colonial
Danes. These amounts have been
available for some time. during which
they have accumulated no small
amount of interest
Honorary vice presidents from the
principal cities in Georgia were elect
| ed yesterday. The meeting was a very
enthusiastic one. Among those in at
tendance was Miss Caroline Benning,
of Columbus, one of the charter mem
bers of the association. 1t was decided
to hold meetings hereafter on the sec
ond Friday in each month.
The officers of the associat ton at
present are: President. Walter G.
! Charlton; vice presidents, Mrs. S. Is.
| G. Morgan, Mrs. Georgia P. Wilder.
Mr.. Hugh V. Washington and Mr..
Wymberley ]. DeRenne