The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-29
WORK FOR SAVANNAH
TO BE STARTED AT ONCE By MER-
CHANTS ASSOCIATION.
COMMITTEES ANNOUNCED
AND WILL REPORT TO SPECIAL
MEETING.

Col. J. II. EstiII and Hon. A. stow
all Appointed as Advisory Com
mittee - Merchants Satisfied With
Interest Displayed and work Al
ready Accomplished - General In
terest Means Success is View of
Vice President kFouSkOff - b. ii.
Levy Wants to See More Excur-
siOns from Country and Sig. Gard
ner Advocates Establishing n Blu
rcDu Ina New York to Secure Tour
lists.
The Retail Merchants Association
has lost no time in getting to work
on its plans to advertise Savannah,
secure new industries for it and in
crease its Importance as a tourist
point. Immediately following the
meeting day before yesterday, at
which it was decided to appoint COM
mittees to look out for each of these
matters Vice President S. Krouskoff
took the matter in hand and yester-
day appointed the members of these
committees as follows:
Advertising Committee - L. G.
Schwarzbaum, chairman; 1. Collat and
j. T. West
Tourist Committee-B. H. Levy,
chairman; F. e. Macarthur and ]. H.
Quint.
Industrial Committee. w. jack
son, chairman; NJ. Dryfus and A. S.
Nichols.
An advisory committee was also ap-
pointed consisting of Col ]. H. Estill
and Hon. Pleasant A. Stovall.
These committees have been in
structed to formulate plans at once
and so soon as they have done so re-
port to the association when another
and special meeting will be held to
consider further what is to be done.
"On the Right Road"
The merchants generally are very
we'll satisfied with the result of the
meetings that have already been held
looking toward the increase of Savan-
nah's business and Importance. They
feel that a movement is being made
in the right direction and that valua-
BILE results will follow: I'VE are not
only on the right road" said Mr.. S.
Krouskoff, but if everybody will do
his part and we all pull together we
are on the road to success"
Mr.. B. H. Levy said: I'VE are do
ing very well, but we must keep at
it. We need not only that the people
living here shall spend their money
at home, but we ought to have some
plan by which we can bring more
country people to Savannah. 1t ought
to be feasible to have the railroads
bring excursions to the city selling
tickets at reduced rates in order To
attract the people; if the agreements
of the passenger association prevents
cheap rate have an arrangement by
which the merchants can arrange to
pay the difference.
'"The people as q whole ought to be
brought to realize that the interest of
every class of business-of every per-
son in businesses of interest to them
as members of the community or as
owners of property, for unless they
do there will be a depreciation of their
interest no matter what they are. An
example of such depreciation is to be
seen in the present condition of the
property on Bay street"
Public Interest Aroused.
Another gentleman to express his
views is Mr.. Sig Gardner. He, too.
is satisfied with the interest aroused
in the matter and the outlook for good
results. He thinks that it might be a
good plan to secure more tourists,
which he considers of prime import
ance to establish a regular bureau,
say in New York city, from which also
could be worked Boston, Philadelphia
and other cities of Importance, and put
it in charge of a live man who would
work the tourist business in the in
terest of Savannah, much on the plan
that the passenger men of the various
railroads now work the passenger
bushes for their lines.
1t is generally felt that even the
agitation of such questions as will be
handled by the committee will rebound
in various ways to the interest of the
city, and the more satisfaction is dis
played, as it is confidently expected
that something tangible and of I'M
doubted advantage to the city's in
tereStS will now be ACCOMPLISHED and