The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-08
Left Yesterday To Open Offices.
 
IS SECOND GREAT
 MOVE FOR TIE WORK
The Managing Director Outlines the
 Plans Suggested.
.The omees win Be Opened remporar- fly h the .Union Trust Cem-
 pany Buiirsng Opnssite ths Building Site.

Building Site.
 The second great move toward the sconsumAtion of the Southern commer- SIai Conkress begins this week wnea zrnanagine Director G. G. Dave arrives <n Weshington to take control or me plans of permanent organization.
 Mir. Dave left Montgomery yesterday and will begin the work Tuesday morn Ing, opening temporary offices In me Union Turst Company building which 5x across the street from the site in Washtngton purchased by the Southern commercial Congress for the future home office of the congress.
 The prospectus of the work of the congress, as tentatively prepared by e Hall Davis. chairman of the board of directors of the congress, and Mir. Dave, which work Mir. Dave, will from now on. personally. conduct is here given. It also contains . brief outline Uf the beginning the congress and the reasons for carry it successfully
 The Southern Commercial Congress. which met in Washington on December and 8, 1908, for the purpose of stat ing authoritativeiy the resources and preting the same. was so successful Chat 3t was determined to perpetuate its work and to create an organization. Aaving its headqurters in Washington. Exploiting the entire esction knows as the South embracing the following six teen states: Texas Louisiana Miss. okiahoma Tennessee, Arkansas, Florida Georgia North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky Virginia West Virginia and
 The necessity, for making such an oFganizatiton permanent and of 5. pro- riding funds for It's work because al otce apparent With that in view. 1t was proposed to create sn endowment which should be devoted to carrying out this work. thereby giving to the Congress the necessary means anl by Virtue of this large endownient niak- influence of which would be increased from to year to year.
 In order to raise this 4i. .000, 900, it Was proposed to ask one thousand men appealing to them on the ground. S3rst, of patriotism. and, second, of xbe returns which would come to the whole South directly and to them in- as parties having business in the South. by reason of a concentrated move sulent at the national capital for and conditions and for combining and Sencentrating the energies of all sec lions at a point where foreign capital could be easily reached and where the could be readily informed as to true cunditions thereby promoting desir- aable immigration.
 As a measure pr G investing rye this pro cided that the Southern Commercia Congress should secure a tract Of land 1n Washington. upon whiqh t would 6iIg the city. this ofIice building to be used, so far as necessary, as the head. quarters of the Southern Commercial Congress, the balance to be rented out, 4o be used for carrying on the work Of the CongFeass the tenants of such ihuiiding to be selected tenants. who would aid the Southern Commercial who would also serve to make the shnilding the commercial centre for the whole South thereby enlarging ant Increasing of the Southern Commercial poses for which 1t is formed. The Building also to be a monument to Southern enterprise. to be the great news source for Southern conditions come the most important single fac tor in the commercial life of the sec- ton.
 For the purpose of carrying out these general plans and increasing the value of the proposed building as @ centre of Southern influence. it was proposed to organize ct Washington a Southern Club. which should have It's quarters Tn the proposed building which should embrace in its member ship all the parties who contributed $1.000s each for the purposes of the Southern Commercial Congress. and which should also embrace in it's mem- bership the leading Southern men in Washington and the men who are most witaIy interested Tn Southern develop ,nent and Southern enterprise; the idea Being that the establishment of such a club would bring to the building aal hhe influential Southern people whO sreason that they would know that al this building. and particularly at tht Southern Club. they could meet all ths Interests in and around Washtngtor men in that seotl6n who were deeply Interested in it's growth.
 To increase the influence Of this pro. posed building as Q centre of Southern 1ndustrtes. N was also proposed tc rent out certain space in this building to a bank or trust company which would be especially interested in build ing up Southern banking connectioni newspaper which would be particularly Interested in exploiting the South: stiil other space to lawyers and other pro- 1heir head ohicers, who had Southern interests and were looking for South ,ern business: and stiu other space to the Washington Press Club. consisting of the representatives Of practically AlI the influential papers of this country and a great many foreign newspapers fin the belief that such an arrangement would make this building the greatest newspaper centre in this country, and would give an opportunity to the Southern Commercial Congress, as the guiding spirit of the whole movement to succeed in having the true facts in regard to the South given the greatest in it's efHort to attract capital and pro- per immigration to the entire sec 4ion.
 With these purposes in view. a mag.