The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-09
4 YEAR OF SUCCESS
,,CN THE HERITAGE OF
THE ToMOcHIcHI CLUB.
NEARING MEMBERSHIP LIMIT.
finances, MEMBERSHIP. AND
GENERALITY THERE WAS AN
ADVANCE.

- rIub shown to BE in Excellent
ri,auciaI ConditiOn-Thc Roll OF
,,,,bersi,iD shows a Larger Num-
her Every MOnth-Mr. j. Ward
waite Elected President and With
o,o Exception All the other on
Are Rechosen-Mr. G. H..
uanL. Declined Reelection as
.o.rctary of the CIub-The Report
- the president Traces the -TomO-
.bichi's beginning to Success.
The annual meeting of the ToTno-
,.i.bi. club was held at it's club rooms
a. @ o'clock last night. The reports of
the officers showed the club to be in a
most satisfactory financial condition.
and amply demonstrated that it has a
bright future before it,. 3
Mr.. ]. Ward Motto, Jr, president OF
the club, presided at. the meeting.
There was not such a full meeting as
has been anticipated and for this rea-
sor the amendments to the bylaws
that we're to have been suggested were
postponed until a future meeting.
The report of the treasurer showed
The club 10 be in a most prosperous
financial condition and that of the sec
retary that there had been. d steady
increase in membership since the time
.of the last meeting. The club now
numbers 229 members, of whom 226 are
residents and three nonresident men,
hers There is rapid increase and the
clubs limit, 300 members, will prob
ably be reached before the next annual
meeting.
But one change was made in the
board of officers. Mr.. C. H. Banks,
who had served as secretary during
the past year with entire satisfaction
TO the members of the club, declined
reelection and his place was filled by
Mr. II. H. Bruen. With this exception
every officer was reelected, the mem
bers of the board of governors chosen
for one year at the last meeting be-
ing. elected for three years more. The
officers chosen were as follows:
President--J. Ward Motto, Jr.
Vice President-John M. Hogan.
Secretary-H. t. Bruen.
Treasurer-W. Fred Baker.
Board of governors, to serve for
three years: John W. Golden, w. Il.
Estes. S. E. Theus and C. H. Banks.
Mr.. Walter OFT, formerly a member of
the board of governors declined to per-
nit his name to be considered for re-
election.
The thanks of the club were ten
dered specially to Mr.. Banks, the re-
firing secretary, who earnest work for
the welfare of the organization was
universally recognized. The thanks of
the club were rendered generally to the
president, vice president treasurer and
other officers, whose consistent and
valuable services had. done so much to
insure the. clubs prosperity: and sue
cess. .% Ne
One of the most interesting reports
submitted at the meeting was that of
President Motto, as follows:
Gentlemen Although this club has
been in existence only a comparatively
short time, brief history of it since
its organization may be of interest to
the MEMBERS On Feb II, 1900, after
some months had been spent in reno
waiting and identifying our rooms, they
were formally turned over to the mem,
bers-thOse who had the matter of dec
Grating in charge, not being satisfied
With local talent for this work were
forced to go elsewhere for. an artist
capable of. giving them the results re-
CURED, and the services of Mr.. c. o.
Sheridan, originally from Boston,
Mass, but at that time with head
quarters in Atlanta, were secured
how we'll his work was done can be
seen throughout your beautiful rooms.
The question of a suitable name
for the club was a matter of grave
consideration, and many names were
presented and discarded until finally
the name your club now bears was
suggested by a gentleman whose chief
charm is his originality. To Mr.. John
D. Carswell belongs the honor of hav-
ing selected the name under which
We have lived until now and under
which, | hope, we will prosper for
many years to come-what name could
nave been more happily applied to an
Organization of this character than
the name Tomochichi-what name
could mean more to Savannahians, aye
10 Georgians, than this? There is but
one the name of Oglethorpe.
commencing as we did, without a
dollar in the world and with debts
10 the amount of. several thousand
uollars staring us lin the face, your
board of governors had a serious I'M
uertaking before them. But the old
doage, Where there's a will, there's
d way proved true in this case, and
ule apparently unsurmountable OBJ
sldcles gradually and steadily melted
away under the force of their united
eAeruon. Without their untiring eff
!otts the success which we have at
famed would have been a miserable
failure, and l take this opportunity of
phdhking them for the zeal which they
nave displayed upon all occasions and
Tor the cheerful willingness with
winch they have undertaken all du-
ues imposed upon them.
Everything that our means would
psFinlt of being done for the benefit
gnd pleasure of our members has been
uohe During our first year several sue
essiul entertainments were given in
"ut tooms Saturday night suppers
eie served and practically all mat
e'a ~ national interest were reported
AN, Us oy direct wire. The past year,
tuIng the months for entertaining,
W., bowling alley has monopolized our
5ghtlon-the alley as you all doubtless
coo,,uerstandl was. erected by a stock
b o.lpany composed entirely of men,
r,t ME 81 the club, no outsider being per-
,u,l'd to take stock in it-stock was
--Ieu N shares of $40 each, bearing