The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-04-17
MONEY MUST Be
RAISED At ONCE
Now the Time to Spend end
Cash Advertising
Richmond.
| GREAT MEETING OF
BUSINESS MEN HELD
Chamber Of Commerce Appoints
Enthusiastic Committees to
Canvass City for Com
pletion Of Thirty M
Thousand-Dollar n
Fund.

81 can't see YOU until Thursdny, &,
l,nvc promised the Chamber OF Com
ncrcc to spend nll of Tomorrow help
ing 10 rni.c that 100000 TOR ndvertlsing \
II, too. Don't you fall to rene mbcr
thut.' 4s, ,sf Y'{s.
Those were the words hurled over the q
telephone wires by one Of the commit
teemen yesterday when a friend tried Is
to make n business engagement with
him for to-day. Other committeeman &
were equally emphatic In expressing
their determination to rush to success ST
the work that was yesterday morning
placed upon them at a meeting Of the
Chamber OF Commerce held to consider
ways and means to collect the fund for
ad.ertising purposes, and to do @tt ta
quickly. SSgl
Those Present.
1t was a special meeting that was
called for 10 o'clock, and there was a q
goodly attendance of enthusiastic bus
mess men, who took the matter up III Z
a cay that meant complete success
from the very start. Something over
$4,000 had already been subscribed $to K
the fund, and at this meeting nineteen8
committees were appointed 10 go &ou't85 ll't85
this morning. 4tlloIou6iiS
city and raise the other $12 000, and be
done with 1t. Short but enthusiastic
talks were made by level-headed B1ls b1us-S
mess men. Some Of the committees did
not wait for the morrow, put gotl 3lo
u,orlxs at once. and then 1t was decided
n do the business in two days count
ing Yesterday as one of them Is
Among those present were the fol-3
lowing: James r. Gordon, PRESIDENT
Coleman Worthanl, p. G. Lei gh. .CnarlesS ea
@Ryland, P. l.. Conquest, y. =: LUCE,
Thomas S. Arlnistead vi amer r nilnol' iIpY
s.. Douglas Lecky, Edward Qnarles, ~ y.
\ = Jenkins, Joseph AIontgomery.G. g. Is SIS
valentine, John s. Freeman, Eugene
n Massie. Tucker Carringto Joseph
y sadler. Samuel *. Mckee, secretary5
y. NJ. C. A.: Jacob Cans. Bash GWattli-s G.sl'i
mey. Stewart Bryan. S. "a. HaWes'i
lewis G. Williams. Samuel T. Pullianlg
|sF.- ]. Rennolds, Jackson Gu ! udsSs ',els
George L.. Christian, w. tDellio Iouther.-t!
land. M. M. Mcclure, S. W. Meek. .Henry ~
w. Wood, Norman =. Short, W.,.sNss,..ss "
Hardwicke, Herbert Q. Funsten' ~. NJ Y Y.
patterson. James L. Cannon, James o.
49,, M, Jnnrv Iandon Cabell, John kel-s
+nn On y 1yilliams, o. j. Sands, DR.. Paulus. 1i!
4 irving. #. NJ Wortham, Joseph pf
prvan85D. r. Mdyette, John h MMon-1;; M y;
taguc N. w. Bowe, Arthur L. Plea SAINTS. MS
History Of the Movement: Z.
The meeting was called TO oraer .ps
president Gordon and Mr.. Coleman =
wortharn. general chairman of the
committee appointed several months
aro to raise the 100000 needed, was. as
called upon to give an account Or ms y
stewardship. He reported that the
sum OF $1S,300 had been Nuoscripeso1, ari peg,
Int no very earnest efforts had been er
made for some wcks past Contlnui--:: 4:
ing, Mr.. Wortham gave q brief MS
tory or the movement to raise az 40 4
lyertising fund. and said: t
"Thcre has never before pecn sucllll ,l
time for the Advancement of tho IN
tcrests OF our city as now, and what
! Is going to be done toward realizing
our position must not be postponed.
"Tho City Council realizing that tho
Chamber OF Commerce is tho repre-
sentative body in Richmond, have
turned over to 1t tho entire charge
OF the Richmond building at the
Jamestown Exposition, and 1t now re-
mains for us to show what success We
VIII make of the responsibility thrust
| upon u.s.
"What we want now are volunteers.
men who are willing to give up their
! time and energy toward completing
the subscription, which Will forward
our common interests, and which Will
bo OF material advantage to tho manu-
fncturer and retailer alike"
/ Mr.. Workman then outlined the sys-
tenn whereby the city had been divid-
ed into districts, and gave a glow
ing account Of what had already been
accomplished by the subcommittee
that owing to the limited time
I In which the men had worked
i there were thousands Of people In the
q city willing to give who had not been
approached, and that the retail mer-
chants. who will reap the most bene$
ut from the extensive advertisement
of the city, had not been asked to con-
tribute.
"Warning-Up' Speech.
Mr., Wortham was followed by Mr..
n. S. Tuck, who made 'warming-lip''
speech, declaring that the gathering;
| OF business men was there TO raise he
needed money. He hoped every one
present had come with the intentionoi
giving his time and energy 10 Rlca-
mond's interest Not Tomorrow, no,
this afternoon, but now said In
Tuck, "let's every one determine togo
into this campaign with n do-or-dis
spirit, which will result in the compile
tlon OF this fund when the commit
tees report Tomorrow.
Baltimore Is to have a building al
the exposition, and, gentlemen, ash
you this question. How much of this
foreign trade which VIII he brough'
to Virginia Will go to Richmond2
"BaltImore will do her hest to cap
y ture this trade. which rightfully be-
longs to MS, and It Is up to us 10 soc
that she does not get 1t. and there-
fore say that 1t j. up to us, as repre-
sentIng RichmonG's interests. to raise
, this fund at once"
Mr., j. Douglas I,ccky supplemented
J the remarks OF Mr.. Tuck in sas!',G
that no Joined hands with him fn his
! endeayor TO raise the fund nj oncs, q snf
stated In an emphatic manner, ~ an