The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-15

tons northward to the bays AMI
sounds and the busy ports and rivers
that lie between Hampton Roads ana
Massa chusetts Bay. II is entirely ao-
nroprfate. therefore. that this year the
custom Of the association which alter
mates its meetings between North ana
south brings Us to the beautiful soutn-
ern city, of Savannah.
The people of savannah take pleas
ure in calling their city The southern
Kew TO Land and Sea- or with view
IN its local attractions The Paris OF
the south" We take a certain pride
In our own designation. Live town.
Savannah.
savannah's Growth.
From the small beginnins made by
ORlethorpe with his 1875 coionists IN
l77s. Savannah now boasts of s2,-
GOO happy citizens, twenty-four muni-
cipal parks, seven railroad lines, the
first electric street railway in the
world, the greatest port In the world
for naval stores and the second
largest cotton market. 1t boasts OF
being the first city in the United States
to EQUIP its Are department with motor
apparatus; and, greatly to its credit. II
has never had a hank failure. ON
the Savannah River originated steam
as IL was from that port
that the packet Savannah" sailed IN
1919 on it's adventurous voyage under
steam power TO England and the then
far-away Baltic ports Of Russia, On
this river were also made the first
in iron shipbuilding. ana
II in now \ pioneer in freight service
nv lf-propelled barge savannah mas
an excellent eighteen-hole golf course
for those ~Sotoying that form OF out
door exercise II is said '" ne the
-unSt interesting in tho whole South.
the bunkers are former Confederate
breast works
The climate is all that could he de
sired. and the month Of November IN
Savsnnah is one Of the most pleasant
~ the wear. Nearby is the Hermitage,
an interesting plantation relic OF the
dsvs ''hefo' de- wah.' with its mansion
and slave uarters, while short dis
lance away on the Wilmington River.
A part Of the intra 7oastal chain,
Is the Savannah Yacht Club, visited ny
this association two years ago
The Savannah Harbor Is one of the
most interesting Undertaken by the
Government on the eastern seabpard
owing TO the great use made OF n
stream of restricted width and the pc.
culiar difficulties in the maintenance
and preservation of the shifting chan
mel through the shoals at sea. A turn
liz basin, greatly needed, Is one OF
the requests Of Savannah before the
National Congress. The shipment OF
cotton. lumber naval stores and other
products of the South has called for
the completion az Savannah OF notable
port terminals. including one of the
longest slips in the world for ocean
going vessels. Al the mouth of the
Savannah River, a half hours ride
by rail from the city, Is Tybee Island,
with it's wide stretch of hard sand
beach and the splendid surf bathing.
The ride to this beach passes the
historic Forts Jackson, Pulaski and
Screver the last named being one of
the United States Governments great
est seacoast fortifcations. All this by
way OF reminder of the innumerable
attrac actions of the beautiful city which
extended the invitation for our con-
vention this year.
Business q Serious One.
The business OF this convention Is
serious and calls for large ana
earnest attendance, representing every
State along the Atlantic seaboard, The
unfortunate fiibusters that developed
in the last two sessions of Congress
over the river and harbor bills ended.
as we all remember. In the adoption
OF compromise measures carrying
lump sum appropriations in insufficient
amount and excluding all new pro-
jects. thereby postporing and even
threatening abandonment of the