The Savannah morning news., 1903-04-20
TOURING The STATE.
GREATER GEORGIA COMMITTEE
IN SAVANNAH TOMORROW.
BUSINESS MEN AND OTHERS
INVITED To HEAR THEM ADDRESS
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

Meeting to BE Held in Chamber of
Commerce Quarters Tomorrow
NiEht-Members of Committee to
Reach savannah in Morning and
Discuss Greater GeOrGia Move
ment with Business Men Before
Meeting Takes PIace-InvitatiOns
10 Mayor and Aldermen, Cotton
Exchange and Board of Trade Go
ont To-day-DirectOrs Meeting of
Chamber of Commerce Postponed.
The members of the Greater Georgia
Association who will speak in favor of
that organization before the Chamber
of Commerce in this city tomorrow
night will reach Savannah tomorrow
morning via the Central, and will he
escorted by a committee representing
the Chamber of Commerce to the De
Soto, where their headquarters will be
during their stay.
Though the committee will visit Sa-
vannah at the instance of the Chamber
of Commerce, it is desired that all
business men and citizens who are in
terested in the Greater Georgia move
ment shall hear the addresses on the
scope and plans of the organization,
and to this end invitations will be sent
to-day to the Mayor and Aldermen OF
Savannah, the members of the Board
of Trade and those of the Cotton Ex-
change, and, in addition, the citizens
generally are invited to be present.
A Night Meeting.
The meeting, as has been stated, will
be held in the quarters of the Chamber
of Commrce and will begin at o'clock.
AS a number Of addresses are to be
made, and as the time of the visitors
is limited-they will leave over the
Central of Georgia at 10 o'clock-the
meeting will be called on time, and it
is desired that all who attend the
meeting shall be prompt.
The suggestion was made that che
meeting be held in the afternoon, as it
was felt that by so doing the mem
bers of the committee would have time
to enter more fully into the subject,
and for the further reason that the
April meeting of the directors of the
Chamber of Commerce was scheduled
to be held at night. AS, however, the
attendance will undoubtedly be much
larger at night than if held in the
afternoon, the evening was decided on,
and the directors meeting was post
poned.
The short time allowed the evening
meeting will not interfere with gem /
eral discussion of the Greater Georgia
movement for the expected visitors
have announced their intention of
spending the earlier part of the day in
calling on many of the officers of the
Chamber of Commerce and other trade
bodies and having a sort of informal
discussion of the movement, so that if
there are any points not now general
ly understood they may be discussed
prior to the meeting.
To Visit other Parts of state.
The committee of visitors is making
a trip through the state in the interest
of the movement, and after leaving Sa-
vannah will go to Southwest Georgia,
where a number of meetings have been
arranged similar to that to be held
here.
Probably one of the most interesting
of the addresses to be given is that of
Mayor Evan p. Howell of Atlanta, who
will speak on the resources of Georgia.
Other speakers who will have mat
ters of striking interest to call atten-
ton to will be Mr.. c. F. Smith, who
is a recent addition to the state and
who will tell what inducements
brought him to Georgia; and Mr.. f.
B. Gordon and Mr.. ]. K. Orr, who will
talk on the same lines.
Harper's Weekly to Help.
The activity of the Greater Georgia
Association has already secured for
the states resources publicity of the
kind which money cannot buy. 1t at
tracted the attention of Harper's
Weekly, and the manager came eight
hundred miles to find out what it
meant.
This gentleman is Mr.. James Rod
gers. After learning something of the
plans and purposes of the Greater
Georgia Association, Mr.. Rodgers be-
came an enthusiast on the subject. He
sees in this movement an epoch MAX
ing event in the history of the coun-
try, and thinks Georgia is about to set
the pace for the whole South in new
and wonderful developments which
will astonish the world.
Viewing the advent of the Greater
Georgia Association in this light, he
Intends to celebrate it by devoting
twenty or twenty-four pages of Har-
per's Weekly to a pictorial and de-
scriptive representation of the states
resources and advantages, with an in
teresting story of the development
which is taking place.
This picture of Georgia will go into
almost every club and library in Eu-
rope and America 1t will reach the
best class of readers everywhere. Ev-
cry king in Europe will see it, and
what is better, every capitalist and the
great mass of the intelligent people of
the United States will have this mir
ror of Georgia held up before them.
Mr.. Rodgers asked no compensation
other than the Endorsement of the