The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-06
CONVENTION IN MAY
WILL BE HELD IN SAVANNAH BY
CARRIAGE, AND WAGON BUILDERS.
TO BRING $50 MEMBERS.
SELECTION OF SAVANNAH WAS ST.
CURED BY CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE.

Large Number of Tourist Parties
Also Booked for savannah During
the Next Few MOnths-One Party
from Brooklyn and New York
City Will Arrive Here Jan. IL.
Another Party to Come via New
York viii BE from EnstOn, PA.
Merchants & Miners TranspOrta-
tion Co. to Bring Personally Con-
Quoted Tour from Baltimore Mid
die of February-SeasOn Unusually
Early for This Business and Gives
Promise of Being a Very Good
One.
In addition to the convention of the
Southern Ice Exchange, to be held in
Savannah in February, as was stated
in yesterdays Morning News, another
convention has been slated to be held
here Il little later in the season, the
early part of May. This is the con-
vention of the Southern Carriage and
Wagon Builders Association, which
win come in response TO the invitation
of the Savannah Chamber of Com
merce.
The association, through the chair
man of its Committee of Arrange
ments, Mr.. Charles P. Henderson of
Valdosta, has notified the De Soto that
that hotel has been selected for the
headquarters of the members during
their stay of three days in the city, and
that it is expected there will be an at
tendance of at least one hundred and
fifty members. The sessions of the con-
Vention, which will last three days, will
be held in the banquet hall of the De
Soto.
Besides conventions, of which it is be-
lieved Savannah will have very large
number during the spring and early
summer, a number of tourists parties
have also been Slated to visit this city,
some of them on their way further
south to the Florida resorts, others to
remain in this city for several days.
The first of these to arrive will be a
party of from sixty to seventy-five per-
sons from Brooklyn and New York,
who will visit Savannah on a tour or
ganized by Thomas II. Hendrickson of
Brooklyn. The party will come via the
this city Jan. Il. They will remain here
half a day and then leave for Florida
but returning, will again stop in Sa-
vannah and remain here for another
day.
The second party booked will be
brought from Easton, Pa, by Edgar
Herbert. In this party will be seventy
five persons, who will make the trip
from Easton to New York by rail, there
take a ship of the Ocean Steamship
Company's line and reach Savannah
Jan. q for stay of three days, maxi
ing the return trip by the same route
used in coming.
Yet a third party Of tourists booked
for this city will come from Baltimore
and viii be brought to this city under
the auspices of the Merchants and
Miners Transportation Company. by
whose line they will make the trip from
Baltimore to Savannah and return. aft
er spending three days in this city. The
party Will leave Baltimore on Feb. 70
and viii reach Savannah on the 18th.
Mr.. w. ]. Powers of the De Soto.
says that the booking for tourists par
ties are very much earlier this wear
than usual, ana thinks this means
there viii be an unusually large num-
Der OF them coming to Savannah or
passing through ii after a short stop
AS has been stated in the MORNING
News, each of the railroads nassinS
through this city will. also bring here
or at least carry through this CITY two
personally conducted parties one from
ington. ''7'i