Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-11
Skinner MEET
FUND LIKELY To
REACHS100,0O0
Arrangements for the Coming of
Twenty Thousand Convention
Visitors Already Begun.

IT'S a misguided man who remarks
to-day, within hearing of a group of
shriners, that no one called on him
Wednesday to contribute to the $76.-
Oo0 fund for the 1914 Shriner conven-
ton in Atlanta.
Such an individual promptly will
find himself seized, and while his feai
are waving in the air the obliging
Shriners will catch the coins as they
fall from his pockets.
"Of course, il was only a one-day
campaign and we were given $4,000
more than we were asked for" said
Colonel Fred j. Paxon. chairman of
the convention fund executive com
mittee. this morning, but this does
not mean that any one is prohibited
from contributing to-day or to-mor-
row or any time in tine future.
Many Seek Chance to Give.
ON the contrary we are sending
out letters to-day to several of the
individuals and interests that we have
found were overlooked in our whirl-
wind campaign of Wednesday. We
are asking them to ease their minis
and satisfy their liberal dispositions
by contributing just as much as they
had intended TO give had they been
called on Wednesday.
Man. persons remarked to mem
beers Of the committee yesterday that
tnes haG not been asked to contribute
ans ,si.d mat il was their desire to
hep jre novsment a,ons. Th.y
wished To have a part in bringing the
great convention TO Atlanta. II is be-
cause Of this that we are sending cut
tac letters.
"tre larger the fund is made the
b-'tcr Ae can entertain the thol-
amos If Visitors u hen they come hege
leNt year. and the more certain We
IRE Of landing the meeting. All Of
he Shrine temples in the country now
nov of our wonderful achievement.
mould like TO see the fund grow 90
10000 within the next few days, aad
the apparent disappointment #
hose who we're overlooked is any M
ication. it certainly. will mount
his figure"
The executive committee held a
'eeting yesterday afternoon to checr
on the original figures announces.
he only change made was the add
on OF several hundred dollars tha'
lme in Thursday forenoon.
Public and Press Thanked.
While the public and press had been
banked at the dinner in the PIED
nont the night before. the members
the committee desired to make a
primal expression of their gratitude
I'd drafted the following letter:
To the Citizens OF Atlanta:
We WISH TO express the sincere
spprecis on of the Shriners Of
Allan the very generous do
nations ..aGe By their fellow citi-
zens y,stIGay.
We bel eve that their liberal
subscriptions. aggregating $4,000,
will insure the Imperial Council
meeting in this city in 1914; and
the well-known hospitality Of At
lanta her social, civic and com
merCial advantages can be relied
upon TO win the admiration of the
more than 10000 visitors who will
come here from all parts Of North
America and who are sure to re-
turn to their homes with a last
ing impression of our city's Won q.
derful progress in the past and
the glorious possibilities of her
future
When it was decided to make
the campo iHn in one day for the
fund required. we realized that,
Notwithstanding the efforts
large number of committees
would make to present the mat
ter in person throughout the city
necessarily a good many of our
generous and public spirited citi-
zens who would have been glad to
subscribe could not be seen. We,
therefore, wish to say that the
larger the sum raised the better
Atlanta can entertain the cOnven-
tohs ana II those WHO nov AeeI
inclined to subscribe will kindly
send their subscriptions to Mr..
J. c. Greenfield, secretary, Ma
sonic Temple. they will &c CRATE
fully. received and duly aC.nowl-
edged.
We believe that the splendid
response Of the people Of Atlanta
Yesterday could not have been
equaled in any other city in the
United States. and we confidently
predict that the convention, now
assured for next year, will justl-
y their faith in the friendship Of
the Shriners of America and the
alue of their visit. Yours CRATE
fully.
FORREST ADAIR.
F. j. PAXON.