The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-15
THEY ASK A CHARTER
MEMBERS APPLY TO COURT FOR
INCORPORATION OF
THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
OBJECTS OF ASSOCIATION AND
RIGHTS DESIRED SET FORTH.

Objects of the Association the Pro-
motion of Commerce and Trade,
the Protection of Business and the
Advancement of General Welfare
of the City and COunty-IncOrpOr-
ntOrs Ask the Right to BUY, Sell,
Lease and Exchange Property.
A petition to the Superior Court,
asking that the newly organized
Chamber of Commerce be clothed with
corporate rights, was filed in the Of
flee of the clerk yesterday. AS soon
as the application has been published,
according to law, it will need but the
stroke of Judge Barrow's pen to bring
the association into corporate existence.
1.-The Savannah Chamber of Com
merce" is the name under which the
Incorporation will be chartered. The
application was filed by Maj. ]. Ferris
Cam, Mr.. T. NJ. Cunningham, Jr., and
Mr.. Jacob Gazan, representing the in
corporators.
Objects of Association.
The objects of their association, as
set forth in the petition, are to foster
and promote an active and enterpris-
ing commerce and trade, to induce the
establishment of and assist industrial
enterprises, to watch over, protect and
advance the interests of business men
generally, and otherwise advance the
welfare of the city of Savannah and
the county of Chatham.
The association has no capital stock,
and is not organized for individual pc
cuniary gain, but inasmuch as there
will be expense incident to carrying it
on, the incorporators desire to be en-
powered to enforce such dues as may
be provided in the bylaws; and also
to receive donations of money, real or
personal property.
Ask Special Rights.
They further desire the right to buy,
sell, own lease or exchange such real
and personal property as may be neces-
sary or expedient for the association;
also to borrow money and secure the
payment of the same by deed, or mort
gage any or all of its corporate prop
erty, assessments and income, or in
any other way.
They ask that they be incorporated
the privilege of renewal at the end of
that time, the interest of any member
of. the association in it's property, rights
and privileges to terminate and vest
in the corporation upon his ceasing to
be a member by death, resignation, ex-
pulsion or otherwise.
The Charter Members.
The names of those who appear as
incorporatorS follow: J. H. EStill,
Leopold Adler, George W. Tiedeman,
Herman Myers, w. w. Williamson, w.
F. McCauley, B. H. Levy, Leroy
Myers, William Kehoe, P. A. Stovall,
C. H. Dorsett, w. w. Gordon, Abe S.
Guckenheimer, T. M. Cunningham, Jr.,
Roy G. Foster, ]. Ferris Cam, Walter
Coney F. G. Battey, o. S. Kulman, J.
J. Kirby, George F. Tennille, S. Krous
koff, George j. Baldwin, w. w. Mack
all, I. A. Solomons, w. D. Krenson,
Nicholas Lang, j Layton HERS, j. D.
Carswell, Thomas Nugent, D. J. Ros-
enheim, T. E. Youmans A. B. Moore,
]. M. Barnard, Jr., John NJ. Egan, w.
B. Denham and Jacob Gazan.
The selection of the committees of
the Chamber of Commerce was not
completed last week, but will be short
~, when another meeting of the or
ganization will be held and a report
made. The committee appointed to as
sist the president, Col. j. H. Estill, in
this work will report to the directors
as will also the committee appointed
to consider the applications for secre-
tary and to report on them with a rec
ornmendation. Still another committee
that may be called on for a report is
that appointed to draw up charter.
The Committee on Membership, con-
siderably enlarged, has continued an
active canvass of the city, and with
such success that large increase to
the membership roll is sure to be re-
ported at the next meeting. The col
lection of dues will also be well under
way by the time of this meeting, so
that Treasurer McCauley may be able
to make report showing that the or
ganization has enough funds with
which to begin its work.