The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-17
TO RAISE ITS SHARE
SAVANNAH is PLEDGED TO HELP
FUND FOR GEORGIA BUILDING.
IN THIS CITY AND DISTRICT
MAYOR MYERS AND COL. EsTILL
WILL CONDUCT THE CANVASS.

work to Begin rs Soon rs ofncinl
subscription Lists Are Received.
Relieved City Council VIII Ap-
propriate 5000 or $500 to the
Fund-ChnthRm County Has Al
ready Given 5000 COnditiOnalIy.
Conference Held Yesterday Be-
tween Commissioners of Georgia
and Col. EstiII and Mayor Myers.
Commissioners Satisfied with the
Pledges Given and the Interest
shown.
Savannah will give her proportion
nj the fund needed to erect the Geor-
wia building at the Louisiana Pur-
chase Exposition. This was the as
eurance given by Mayor Herman Ny
srs and Col ]. H. Estill yesterday
morning to the commissioners
from Georgia to the exposi-
ton, who reached Savannah Tues
day night on tour of the
state in an effort to raise the fund
needed, 5000.
The promise was made at a confer
ence between Hon. Dudley NJ. Hughes
commissioner
position, Col. H. V. Washington, vice
commissioner, and Mr.. Glascock Bar
rett, assistant commissioner and May
or Herman Myers and Col. ]. H. Estil,
commissioners to raise the fund in Sa-
vannah and the First district. The
meeting was held in the Chamber OF
Commerce at 11:30 o'clock.
CITY Exuectes to HeIp.
1t is believed that the city, through
Council, will give from 5000 to $500.
The county has already appropriated
$780, subject to certain conditions, and
the remainder of the sum needed will
be raised by popular subscription. May
or Myers and Col. Estill making
personal canvass of the city as soon
as subscription blanks, now in course
of preparation, are received. The Wis
itors, who left last night for Waycross
and Brunswick, expressed themselves
as very much pleased with the result
of the conference.
Mayor Myers suggested to the Wis
itors that a good way to go about this
subscription would be to have the Gov
ernor of the state start it. then get
the mayors of the cities, principals of
schools, ministers. etc. This plan, Mr..
Barrett said has already been decided
on. He said he remembered the fine
reception Savannah had given SINH
lar committee before and so had come
here first to let Savannah start this
subscription and let the remainder of
the state follow her lead.
Must Have a Building.
Georgia shall be represented by
building at the exposition. Mr.. Bar
rett said, if it is nothing more than a
log cabin. This will hardly be neces-
sary, however, for it seems to be the
unanimous opinion that Georgia, of all
the states in the South. should be one
of the best represented, that she can
not afford not to be represented and
further, in way. BETTING her position
as the Empire State of the South, so
no doubt is felt that the sum needed
by the commissioners vii be secured
The commissioners stated that much
is expected of this state by the man
ayers of the exposition, that not only
has one of the hest sites among those
for state buildings been given her, but
that large amount of space in the
most advantageous location in the Ag-
ricultural building has also been grant
ed this state for a display of cotton,
naval stores, syrup, sugar, tobacco,
corn and other articles. Georgia will
be the only state represented in all
these departments.
Plan to Advertise State.
AS has been stated before in the
Morning News, the lumber for the
Georgia building has been promised by
the lumbermen of the state. The trans
portation to st. Louis is guaranteed
by the Greater Georgia Association
and so the fund that it is now sought
to raise will be for the erection, equip
ment and maintenance of the build
ing. The plan to distribute from the
building literature in which every
county in the state shall have an in
terest, is one that has proved most
popular with the people, and bids fair
to be the means of getting many sub
scriptions that otherwise would not be