The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-14
GE0RGIA'S DELEGATES
TO CANE CONVENTION
VIII Be Appointed by Governor Ter
ren This Week.

VIII BE Appointed by Governor Ter
reIl This Week.
The official call for the convention of
the Interstate Sugar Cane Growers
Association, which will be held in Jack
sonville May 4. 5. 6, has been issued
and already some of the delegates to
that nesting have been appointed. The
only state to have taken this action so
far IS Alabama. but Gov. Terrell has
informed Capt. d. G. Purse, president
or the association. that he will appoint
the delegates from Georgia this week.
capt. EturSe returned to Savannah
yesterday morning from a trip on
which he saw Gov. Terrell and Gov
jerks Of Alabama. He has heard from
the Governor of Louisiana, who will
appoMh the same men that represented
that state at the Macon convention last
Year,; from Gov. Hayward of South
carolina, who has promised to make
the appointments from his state when
even Capt. Purse is ready for them. and
fr ON Gov. Vardaman of Mississippi.
VINO likewise will select the represen-
[ tatives of that state shortly Arkansas
iLnd Texas, the other states interested
IN the growing of cane, will be heard
Hrom, 1t is anticipated, within a short
Tina.
Hon. James Wilson, Secretary of
Agriculture; DR.. H. w. Wiley, chief
of bureau of chemistry, United States
Department of Agriculture, and other
prominent speakers, will address the
convention. The aim of the committee.
in selecting speakers and essayists for
the occasion, has been to make it edu-
cational in every branch of the sub
| Ject, and historical in the evolution of
| every sugar-producing plant within the
limits of the United States, upon the
| broadest lines of thought experience,
and actual results.
The composition of the convention,
| to make it thoroughly representative,
will consist of delegates as follows:
| Five delegates from each county or
| parish in each state named above, ap-
] pointed by the Governor of the state
| Each agricultural association is en-
| titled to five delegates; each CONNER
| cial organization, five delegates; indus
| trial departments of railroads, two
! delegates each; and each state agricul-
tural department, two delegates.
Besides the delegates who will COM
| prise the convention, an invitation is
extended to the manufacturers of
syrup and sugar machinery to be
| present at the convention, where am
| pie arrangements will be afforded for
| bringing them in close touch with
! producers of cane and it's manufactur-
| erS, for interchanging views looking to
| the adaptation of machinery to the
/ present needs of the cane industry in
! the most of the states comprising the
| convention for exhibits of machinery.
! The railroads traversing the several
| states comprising the convention have
/ published a rate of one fare, plus 25
/ cents, for round trip to the conven-
| ton, and tickets will be on sale sew
| eral days in advance of the assembling
! of the convention, at all railroad ticket
! offices in the territory named. A COM
mittee of the Jacksonville Board of
| Trade will arrange for accommoda-
tions in hotels and private boarding
| houses, at moderate rates, for all del
egates and other visitors to the con-
vention Further information upon
this point can be obtained by address
ing Mr.. c. H. Smith, secretary Board
| of Trade, Jacksonville, Fla.
| The convention will be promptly
| convened at 10 o'clock on Wednesday,
May L. and it is earnestly desired that
| each. delegates time his departure
| from home so as to be present at the
opening of the convention. Visitors
+ from all parts of the United States are
| most cordially invited to be present,
! and are assured a most hearty well
| come at all sessions of the conven-
| ton.
The delegates to the convention will
be welcomed by Gov. w. S. Jennings,
| by the mayor of Jacksonville. and
| by representatives of the Florida State
Agricultural Society, and the Jackson
vile Board of Trade. The response
to the address of Gov. Jennings, will
be made by Mr.. Harvey Jordan. An
other of the responses will be made
by Mr.. R. P. Poole, commissioner of
Agriculture of Alabama. Among the
| speakers in the convention will be DR..
Stubbs and Prof. Blouin, of Louisiana
and Prof. B. B. Ross, of Alabama.
The present outlook, Capt. Purse
thinks, is that the convention will be
even larger than that of last year.