The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-11
TURPENTINE TANK co.
TO SAVE OPERATOR FROM TIKI
SPECTATOR.
STORAGE PLAN ENDORSED
BY TURPENTINE OPERATORS AssO-
CITATION.

Nhe NuNuI stores S1tuat1On-Su b.
scriptiOns Opened to stock for
Tank and Warehouse Company.
Sale of Naval stores at Private
Terms Is COndcmned-JOhn r.
YOung's Address at the COnven-
tiOn.
Jacksonville Fla. Sept. 1O-The
largest attendance in it's history mark
ed the first days session of the Tur-'
pentine Operators Association From
North and South Carolina, Georgia,
Alabama and Florida. the delegates
came to the number of about 700.
President Covington called the con-
vention to order and after an address
of welcome by Mayor George NJ. Nolan
and responses by P. L. Switzerland,
1t proceeded to business. In his ad-
dress the president referred to the work
of the association, the results which
had been obtained and made many
suggestions for the betterment of the
industry.
The question of labor was first treat
ed. President Covington advised a
more charitable course in the treat
ment of this question. He deplored
the fact that the operators had been
injuring their own business and that
of stheir neighbors by inducing labor
ers to change locations. He thought
that care should be taken not to credit
the laborer to any great extent and
to maintain a just scale Of wages.
mud In
He particularly advised the forma-
ton of an Operators Tank and Ware
house Company on the ground that
such a company is essential to the in
dustry He urged that until this
is done the operator is at the mercy
of the Spectator.
The question of private sales in the
Savannah market was next considered.
He charged that while all sales at
closed markets were made on Savan-
nah figures that private sales had been
made there at figures not in accordance
with Savannah quotations.
The convention took the address Of
the president and considered 1t item
by item. When the question of a tank
and warehouse company was reached
there was much discussion No oppo-
sition developed, but ii required care
full statements on the part of Mr. J.
n. Young of Savannah, Mr.. H. A. Me-
Eachern and Mr.. Switzerland to ex-
plain the features and the plan upon
which such a company should oper-
ate.
Mr.. McEachern offered a resolution
providing for a committee to take sub
scriptions for the establishment of the
Operators Tank and Warehouse Com
pany and that the subscriptions be
taken at once. The resolution was
unanimously adopted by a rising vote
and the committee was named Mr.
Southernland was made chairman. 1t
was agreed that the rate of subscrip-
tion of stock should be so cents for
every barrel of spirits produced this
year. The plan met with enthusiasm
and subscriptions were taken in1me-
diately. Messrs. McEachern and
Switzerland guaranteed the success
of the plan so far as a sufficient sub
scription to the capital stock was con-
cerned.
Against Sales on Private Terms.
Mr.. Switzerland offered a series OF
resolutions against the manipulations
of the Savannah market and the sale
of naval stores on private terms. The
resolutions pledged the association TO
work in the interest of breaking up this
practice and provided for a committee
trial Record of Jacksonville was Sc
lected as the official organ of the asso-
citation.
A resolution approving the pure spir-
its law recently passed by the Geor-
gia and Florida Legislatures and ask
ing for similar legislation from the
states of Louisiana, Alabama and Mis-
sissippi was passed.
J. r. Young of Savannah and ex-
Gov. Fleming of Jacksonville made able
addresses containing a great deal of in
formation to the operators.
John II. YOung's Address.
Mr.. Young spoke along practical
lines, and was heard with much in
terest. Among other things he said:
1T was not until the opening of the
naval stores business at Savannah that
the industry assumed definite shape,
and took it's place among the inn
portant industries in Southern devel-
opment, and not then until those who
were reared financially in the ranks
of the trade as producers began to
give their attention to the marketing
end of the business.
From the time Savannah was open
ed as market for the product, started
the standing of the turpentine pro-
Queer in the rank and file of the COM
mercial and industrial people of the
South. The effort for position, COM
mercial, social and industrial, was not
without its hardships, its trials, its
struggles and reverses, for we were
regarded as an incubus upon the body
polite of industrial progress and i'm
porters upon the field of commerce
and trade. Money lenders did not
trust US. investors SHE'D away from
our offerings, and the banks, repre-
senting the money of the country,
looked upon as and our securities as
speculation most uncertain.
But, by dint of perseverance, by
force Of personal character, we in
time, forced entrance through the door,
way of commercial institutions, estab-
lished ourselves amongst people who
controlled capital and fixed credits, and
began to make our usefulness felt, and
the value of our labors known, in the
field of commerce and trade.
Experience in the conduct Of the in
dustry has demonstrated that its sue
cessful progress has been due to the
peculiar conduct of its business--the es-
tablishment of its lines through fac
tors and dealers The factor came from
necessity, capital TO conduct II and to
protect the interest of the producer
wherever that interest appeared.
THE dealer came as a natural fol-
lower IN the field OF established trade.
and played a valuable part IN finding
markets for the product and urging its
use into new channels OF commerce and
consumption.
Factor ana Producer.
go eioaeiv allied have heen the A.