The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-18

pfcSiuent OF the Association
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the East Carolina Fruit and
Truck Growers Association was held
yesterday afternoon in the auditorium
Of he barrymore hotel with some
thing over a hundred truckers from the
different truck growing sections in
Eastern Carolina present.
Yesterday morning the directors of
the association met in the office of the
secretary, Mr.. II. T. Bauman. OF the
81 directors 10 were present. At the
directors meeting the reports of the ex-
ecutive committee, business agent, at
torney and treasurer were received
and adopted. These reports were
made the report of the directors to the
stockholders. The directors adopted a
resolution providing for the appoint.
ment of a committee of five to be
known as the legislative and congress
SiOnal committee. At the meeting of
the stockholders in the afternoon a
similar resolution vas adopted.
The truckers left Wilmington on a.
SpeciaI car al 11:3O and went to the
Hotel TarrymOOre, on Wrightsville
Beach, where they were entertained.
The stockholders of the association
were invited by the chamber of COM
merce II Merchants Association of
Wilmington to visit the beach and were
their guests while there. They were
served with an elegant repast at the
Hotel barrymore.
Mr.. J. Allen Taylor, president of the
chamber of commerce, made the adj
dress of welcome and when he con-
cluded his remarks every truck grower
present felt that he was indeed a well
come guest to the city of Wilmington.
ON behalf of the truckers, MI. w. l..
HIl, Of Warsaw, made a reply and in
a few we'll chosen remarks thanked
the Wilmington institutions for the
c~ourteOusy shown the stockholders in
inviting them to be their guests while
in the city.
AT go the stockholders met and re-
mained in session until after ) O'Clock.
President w. L. Hill, of Warsaw, pre-
sided with Mr.. H. r. Bauman acting as
secretary. The meeting was the larg-
est held in several years, more than
one hundred stockholders being in at
tendance.
Secretary Bauman read the reports
of the executive committee, his own
report as business agent and report of
the associations attorney, Mr.. J. O..
Carr. All the reports were adopted.
DR.. John Nj. Faison, of Faison, gave
notice that application would be made
at the next meeting of the stockholders
to change Section ), article l, of the
constitution, in reference to represen-
tatiOn.
DR.. FaisOn made a talk in which he
strongly urged the association to take
some action towards getting better
transportation facilities. He said that
conditions were worse now than 20
years ago and gave an instance to
show that better time was made 20
years ago thar at present by freight.
The speaker said the trouble was that
the trucking industry had outgrOwn
the capacity Of the Atlantic Coast
Line: that the railroad needed more
cars and also more engines.
DR.. Faison said that Mr.. Bauman
said in his report that it took adversely
to make a man and he asserted if this
were true that they should certainly be
a powerful organization for they had
had adversely enough during past six
months. He was of the opinion that
when there is a car famine or other
trouble with the transportation COM
panies, that the matter should be taken
up with the corporation commission.
The speaker said Mr.. Bauman's was
an 0VRnllpnt pQn0pt an6 fhat hn Ennw
Mr.. Rauman had done everything in
his power for the truckers but there
We're some things he could not do and
their only recourse was to the corpor-
alton commission.
DR.. FaisOn said if the association
had nothing else to aid them, not even
the law, that they had a greater power
public sentiment. He declared that
no railroad would dare go against pub
lie sentiment. When the speaker made
this statement he was loudly APP
plauded.
The following resolution, offered by
Mr.. William Struthers, of Crisis, was
unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That the thanks of The
East Carolina Truck and Fruit Grow
ers' Association is hereby rendered the
banking, commercial and general bust
ness interests of Wilmington and The
territory of the East Carolina Fruit and
Truck Growers Association for -he
manner they have cared for the inan
cial interests of this section in their
losses during the disastrous season
just closed"
In appreciation of the courtesies
shown the truckers by the chamber OF
commerce, Merchants Association