The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-25
IN CITY'S INTEREST
WILL BE LOOKED AFTER BH
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
ANNUAL DUES TO BE $40.
DETAILS DECIDED on BY COMMIT
TEE OF TWELVE.

Plan for New Organization and
Several suggestions to be sub
mitted to a Mass Meeting of Citi-
zens to be Held In City Exchange
Tomorrow Night - Plan So Ar
ranged That Interests of All Bust
nesses, Trades and Professions
VIII be Represented - Members
of Committee Satisfied New Move
ment VIII be Most Successful One
of Its Kind Ever InauEurated i'm
savannah.
The Chamber of Commerce of Savan-
nah is the name of the new organiza-
ton to be perfected at general meet
ing of citizens of all businesses, trades
and professions. which has been called
for tomorrow night at S:15 o'clock in
the Long Room of the City Exchange.
The name. together with other mat
tiers, was decided on last night at a
meeting of the committee of twelve APP
pointed at a mass meeting last Thurs
day night for the purpose of formulat-
ing plan for the organization. The
committee entered on its work in a
most enthusiastic way and each MEM
Der had made such preparations that
at the meeting there was little to be
done other than to indorse as a body
the suggestions offered.
Though the details of the plan are
not to be made public prior to the
mass meeting, yet the plan has been
framed on so broad a plane and is SO
comprehensive in it's provisions that
there is little doubt of its prompt
adoption by the meeting. That it is
intended to allow for a membership
that will include all classes of persons,
even the very smallest dealers, is
shown by the very law rate of dues
that ii recommends, $40 year.
other Suggestions.
To the plan itself the committee has
added a number of suggestions look
ing to the further carrying on of The
work of organization. The fact that
several members of the committee
have already received a large num-
Der of applications for membership in
the Chamber of Commerce shows that
it will have a general and generous
support. The committee both as in
diViduals and as whole expressed
look for a most general and hearty
support of the new body
This organization of the Chamber
of Commerce marks the first decided
step in the movement for Greater Sa-
vannah, movement that from the
amount of interest already displayed
in it, and the active work that has
been given to it by the most promi-
nent men of all classes of business
hi fol to h.
full effort of its kind ever inaugurated
in the city.
At the committee meeting ten of
the twelve members of the body We're
present and at least one was absent
because out of the city. Those in at
tendance were: Mr.. Leopold Adler,
chairman, and Messrs. Herman Myers,
j. II Estill Henry Blum, ]. NJ. Barn
ard, Jr, O. S. Kulman, Joseph F'erst,
+. A. Stovall, Z. H. Dorset ard
Nicholas Lang.
Discussed Many Matters.
A number of matters were brought
before the meeting besides the plan of
organization. Among these were sew
eral kilograms from Mr.. Roy c. Fos-
ter, who had notified Mr.. Adler that
while on trip through North Carolina
and Tennessee he was collecting in
formation relative to chambers of
commerce of other cities, with view
of using such data for the benefit of
the Savannah organization. He also
stated that he has seen the officials of
the Atlantic Coast Line in Wilmington,
and that the movement for Greater Sa-
Nannah had their heartiest approval
and was promised their support.
Another communication brought be-
fore the meeting was a letter from
Messrs. Youmans & Demmond, inclos-
ing list of manufacturing plants of
various kinds that are seeking a new
location. These and one or two other
matters not strictly germane to the
work in hand were received as infor-
nation.
While the committee is satisfied that
the mass meeting will be an unusually
large one for even so important a
matter as the one in question. yeS that
feellng viii not prevent the members
and others interested in the movement
from working to have it not only a
large gathering, but the most repre-
sentative one probably ever held in
Sition.