The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1914-11-19
THE AFFAIR WAS
GREAT SUCCESS
MANY DISTINGUISHED VISITORS
GUESTS OF CITY AT BIG
DOLLAR DINNER.
INTERESTING TALKS MADE
Everything Passed OFF in Excellent
Manner, Making Dinner Great Sue
cess in Every Way-visltors All
Greatly Pleased.

With all due Difference to other
annual dinners that have marked the
brunswick Board of Trade since IFS
reorganization, the one last night
e%celled all OF them in detail of ar
ransement, In the program and in
every essential detail necessary to
'he success of such enterprises. The
committee in charge of this affair
left no stone unturned to make IL
a success.
me magnificent dining room of
the Oglethorpe was transformed into
a Vetltable banquet hall; the deco
latlohs OF ferns, plants, palms and
tri-colored Tags of every nation was
beauty to behold, and when its 25O
or more diners sat down to the third
annual dinner last night it appeared
as the observation of the casual OIL
sserFer that@it was NOS enay a scene
OF beauty, hut one for which suf
holent brain and Drawn could be
drawn to build two cities the size
Of Brunswick
Two attractive departures were
made from old line banquetso-ne
was that the program was carried
out on time, there was no lost mo-
ton; the old-fashioned course dinner
was done away with and the older
Fashion of real Georgia dinner was
spread at one time. Another was
that splendid music, both vocal and
instrumental interspersed the pro-
gram of the evening. The instrument
tai music was furnished by the
Grand Academy orchestra, wIiile
MISS Lucille Butts delighted the
diners WITH two magnificent vocal
selections, accompanied by Miss
JAMIE Symons at the piano.
President y. E. Twitty called tfG
meeting to order promptly at S:1o
o clock and proceeded to read tele-
grams of regret from Governor John
M. Slaton, Senator Hoke Smith, Sec
retary McAdoo, Hon. John Temple
Graves, Judge r. G. Collins and Col.
W. e. Kay, who was TO have acteT as
toastmaster, and many other promi-
nent men who had been invited to
the dinner.
Mr. TWitty made an opening ad-
dress OF only few minutes, In which
he rec0unted the work of the Board
OF Trade, etc, and introduced the
nrst speaker Of the evening, Hon. G.
J. Haden, president OF the Georgia
Chamber of Commerce
Mr.. Haden is at once a gifted
speaker. lie has made the study of
Georgia and her needs and adyan-
tages portion OF his life, and he
gave the diners remarkable amount 4
OF data surprising and interesting.
In the first place Mr. Haden believes
that probably the real salvation of
Georgia, and South Georgia In par |
ticular, depends upon the raising Of
livo stock or the production of more
meat. lie showed that while cotton,
our greatest crop, has decreased in
price, the price OF meat mas scared
upward in the ratio of six to one
Mr. Haden is also of the opinion
that Brunswick and Glynn county
have In their possession regular
Ailadins lamp in the splendid sea
island cotton lands in which this
county Is the real central point. He
pointed out the various uses and the
value CT sea island cot
ton and pleaded with the people to
cultivate it. His address on the
whole was a splendid one, in which
ne made the prediction that the
prophesy once made by General
nomas, who at the time, was presi-
dent Of the old Il. r. v. 4 G., now
The Southern Railway, that Bruins
wick would yet be one OF the most
important ports on the South All