The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-08-26
TO HAVE PICTURE FILMS.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. DE
CIDES TO ACCEPT SECRE-
TARY McKEAND'S PROP
OSITION,
Very Successful Meeting Held i'm
Chamber of Commerce UaII-Sum-
ter Merchants to Take Industrial
Trip-Mr. Manning Makes Report
of His Trip.


cessful one. 1t was decided at the
meeting that Sumter would accept
Mr.. A. w. McKeand's proposition to
advertise this city by means Of NOV
ing pictures, and it was also decided
that an Industrial "trip should be TAX
en- by the people of the city some
time during neXt May.
The time Of the meeting was taken
up in various speeches and report
from Mr.. r.. |. Manning of his trip
to Boston and the various features OF
the trip and convention that most ap-
pealed to him and impressed him.
! Mr.. Manning also told of how the
scheme Of advertising by means of
moving pictures had come up at the
convention and it had been shown
by the cities of the west which had
tried this kind Of advertising that 1t
paid Another speech that was list
ened to with much interest by those
present was that made by Mr.. Ed
ward l.. Rieha of Baltimore.
In the absence of the president of
the Chamber of Commerce, the
meeting was called to order by Mr..
A. " Smell the secretary, and Mr.
Smell presided throughout the meet
ing although Dr. Baker came in later
during the evening. Cigars were pas
ed around and lighted, after which
Mr.. Smell introduced Mr.. Rieha. Mr..
Rieha made only a short speech, bue
he was heartily applauded when he
finished. He said that he had come
TO Sumter expecting to find a poor
town, but that he had found a rich
one. He said that it would be a
hard thing for him to make the peo-
pie Of Baltimore believe that this
town was as we'll off as it had turn
out TO be when he had investigated.
He was surprised to find so many
nice residences and he had had no
idea that there were any factories in
the city until he arrived. here. He had
thought that all of the people Of
Sumter were farmers and depended
entirely upon farming for their ex-
istence. but he had found this to be
incorrect He thanked the people for
the kind reception which they had
given him and he hoped that they
would certainly come to Baltimore
when they took their trip in order
to set forth the advantages Of Sum-
ter before the capitalists of that city.
He would be glad to do anything that
ne could to help the people here in
getting better acquainted with the
people Of Baltimore.
Mr.. Smell stated that the Chamber
of Commerce was actively at work
now and that all OF the committees
had been organized and were ready
TO do any work that came in their
line. He complimented the work Of
the Highway Committee in its recent
fight for the bond issue and good
roads throughout the county and
especially Mr. r. b. Belser, the
chairman Of that committee, who
had led the fight. He stated that he
was now trying to get statistics for a
pamphlet showing Sumter's resources
and he asked the aid Of the mer-
chants and manufacturers in getting
up the data that was to go in this
pamphlet. He wanted to know how
many persons were employed by each
business house In town how much
that house paid out in salaries. how
much business was done by each
house, and all other such figures so
whole for the city.
Mr.. Smell then stated that it had
been suggested that the people OF
Sumter, principally the business men,
take an industrial trip to Richmond,
Baltimore, Philadelphia and New
New York in order to find out about
othcr cities so that methods applied
there could be used here for the
benefit of sumter. He asked that
others express their sentiments about
the matter, especially as to time and
place to lie visited.
Mr.. j. X. Crosswell stated that he
thought that the trip would be a good
thing and that he for one favored il
and would like to go on il. He
thought that May would he the best
time for the trip.
Mr.. II. w. Cuttino also thought
that the trip would be a good thing
and he was strongly in favor of
having ii sometime about the middle
Of May.
Messrs. X. |. Manning and :. X
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