The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-16
THEY WANT $4,000
SAVANNAH TO BE ASKED FOR THAT
SUM FOR GEORGIA BUILDING
MEETING OF BUSINESS MEN
CALLED TODAY TO HEAR COM
NrTssIoNERs TO ST. LOUIS.

Meeting to BE Held in Chamber of
Commerce at 11s3O o'cIOck-rOtal
sum Needed Is S25, OOO-EfTOrt VIII
he Made To Have Each County OF
State Subscribe 800 or More to
Fund-Remainder May BE Raised
by Popular SubscriptiOD-Men In
terested in Plan Who VIII Ad-
dress Meeting To-day Are Hon.
Dudley NJ. Hughes, Col. II. ".
Washington and Mr.. GlascOck
Barrett.
Hon. Dudley NJ. Hughes, commits
sioner general of Georgia to the Louis
iana Purchase Exposition; Col. H. v.
Washington, vice commissioner and
chairman of the committee, appointed
to raise a found of $4,000 to place a
Georgia building at the exposition, are
IN the city for the purpose of interest
ing the citizens of Savannah in sub
scribing to the fund.
In order to place their proposition
before the citizens, a meeting Of bust
ness men has been called to be held in
the Chamber Of Commerce this morn
ing at 1870 o'clock. At this time the
visitors will urge the necessity of hav-
ing Georgia properly represented at
the exposition and will explain the
purposes for which the fund is sought,
which are not only to put up and
maintain a building, but to advertise
the state in other ways. The party will
be Joined here this morning by Mr..
Glascock Barrett of Atlanta, who is
assistant commissioner general
Messrs. Hughes and Washington had
an appointment to meet Mayor Her
man Myers and Col. J. H. Estill last
night and discuss matters relative to
their mission here, but owing to the
fact that the train was delayed and
the gentlemen in consequence got in at
an hour much later than they had an
ticipated, the meeting was not held.
Gift of Lumbermen.
The Georgia building. as has been
stated, is to be erected of lumber which
has been promised by the lumber man
ufacturers of the state. The money
that it is now sought to secure is to
erect, equip and maintain the building.
1t is the purpose of those in charge of
ington last night, to make this building
the headquarters of all Georgians visit
ing the exposition, that is not only to
have placed there an exhibit of Georgia
made articles, but to keep a bureau of
information and also to place at the
use of citizens of this state certain
apartments or offices in which they can
conduct business with the privacy that
they would have in their own offices.
H'tYrf II iG MANNED n ~ h11t q
from the building a vast amount of
literature in the interest of the state:
Col Washington says that he expects
to have printed and distributed hun
dreds of thousands of small handbooks,
showing the products and possibilities
of Georgia, a book in which every
county in the state will be represented.
The committee now at work in rails
ing the fund needed hopes to obtain
contribution for the work from every
one of the 1877 counties in Georgia So
far such contributions have been made
by Chatham county, which has appro-
priated $500, Twiggs and Sumter, which
have given 500 each. With such a
sum as this assured them the commits
sioners have no doubt that the remain
der needed can and will be raised by
popular subscription.
To Ask Savannah for $4,000
Mr.. Hughes said that he has Just re-
turned from St. Louis. that all the
states are planning to erect state build
ings, most of them by popular sub
scription and that Georgia can't afford
to be left out. The visitors think that
Savannah should contribute about So
900 of the amount needed. and proba-
bly, will ask for this amount at the
meeting this morning.
Savannah is the first city visited on
the present trip, but every other city of
importance in the state will receive
a similar call between this time and
probably the last of January. From
Savannah the visitors will start to-
night for either Brunswick or Angus
ia. In the matter of securing appro-
priations from counties. an effort will
be made to see the officers of as many
counties as possible, while to those to
whom visits are impra cticable because
Of the lack of time, communications will
be sent.
The exposition will be opened April
30, and in order to have the proposed
Georgia building ready by that time,
its erection must be begun some two
month prior to the opening of the ex-
position. Because of this it is neces-
sary that the greater part of the sub
scriptlons be made in cash, that is
paid. practically at once.
Col. Washington is quite hopeful of
the success of his visit as the value of
the building to this state is well rec
cgnized in some quarters, a number of
Griffin manufacturers having invited
the commission to visit that city, with
the promise that not only would a lib
eral cash subscription be given, but
that arrangements would be made for
an exhibit of articles made by the
manufacturers of that city.