The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-06
MAKING PLANS FOR
T.P.A. CONVENTION
TRADE BODIES INTERESTED.
COMMITTEE MADE UP OF MAYOR
AND PRESIDENTS OF BODIES.

Will Plan for Entertainment of 1905
visitors and Will Raise Money for
PurpOse-May Have Gala Week at
Same Time as the Convention In
Order to Bring Big Crowds TO the
City-AuditOrium Question Dis
cuaHed.
A committee composed of Mayor
Myers and the presidents Of each Of
the trade organizations of the city will
determine upon the plans for enter
tanning the national convention of 7.
P. AS, which comes to Savannah
during May or June of next year.
This was decided upon at a joint
meeting of the local T. P. AS and
representatives of the Chamber of
Commerce, the Board of Trade and the
Retail Merchants Association.
The committee agreed upon yester-
day will have entire charge of the ar
engagements, and will even determine,
after comforting with the National T.
p A. Committee the time the conven-
ton is to be held. This general COM
mittee will appoint subcommittee to
raise funds for the entertainment of
the visitors, and for the various detail
work that will have to be donas
Make 1T Gala Week.
1t was suggested at the meeting yes
terday that it would be a good idea
to have an old May week" at the
time the convention is here, the OBJ
ject being to bring to the city not
only the drummers from all over the
country, but also the people generally
from the territory surrounding Sa-
vannah.
The suggestion was discussed, but
nothing was decided. This, as we'll as
all other plans, will be left to the gen.
eral committee. Some of those at
the meeting thought it would not be a
good plan to have the convention and
the festival at the same time. All
present approved of having a festi-
val, but some of them thought it
should be entirely separate from the
convention.
The Auditorium Question.
Mr.. Sig. Gardner took advantage of
the meeting to get in some work for
the auditorium. He asked President
Frank of the Travellers Protective AS
sociation, where the meetings of the
convention would be held. and then
went on to show Savannah should
have an auditorium for just such oc-
casions.
If the people would just get together
and work, the money could easily be
raised, he said. Both Mayor Myers
and Mr.. George ]. Baldwin had told
him, he said. they would each give
$500 towards building an auditorium,
provided $4,000 were first raised by the
button plan.
Big Crowd Coming.
There will be about 500 regular dele
gates at the cow ention and probably
as many more visitors in the city at
the time. Almost all of the dele
gates carry their wives and children
to the convention. To entertain so
large a crowd it will, of course, be
necessary to have quite a large
amount of money.
The city and the Chamber Of Com
merce had already offered to aid, and
the other bodies agreed yesterday to
lend their support both morally and
financially.
Hitch Not Discussed.
There was a very small attendance
at the meeting and the resolutions
indorsing Capt. Hitch were not
brought up at all. Indeed, the T. p. AS.
did not hold a meeting after the joint
meeting with the other organizations.
President Frank announced after
the meeting that the resolutions in
regard to Capt. Hitch would be
passed at the first meeting held. He
said he had talked with a number of
the members and all of them were in
favor of passing them. The resolutions
indorse Capt. Hitch and condemn Gov.
Terrell in regard to the recent States
boro affair.