Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-23
NATIONAL PLUMBERS.
The Programme and Significance Of
Their Great Convention.
ABOUT 300 OF THOSE WHO CHARGE
Will Gather in Gas City, the Paradise of
Men Who Plumb.
HOW THEY WILL ENJOY THEIR OUTING.

The local organization of the Master
Plumbers Association of the United States
held meeting last night to complete the
programme of the Seventh Annual Conven-
tion of the national organization, which
will be held in this city during the coming
week.
The meeting was held at the Seventh
Avenue Hotel, and Mr.. Charles 81. Hum
bert, President of the Pittsburg Master
Plumbers Association, occupied the chair.
The programme is full of very interesting
details, showing that the plumbers not only
intend to accomplish great deal OF business,
but that they also mean to enjoy themselves
and entertain the coming guests.
Over 300 delegates are expected to be
present, and they will be taken care of In
the different hotels. The Seventh Avenue
Hotel will be headquarters of the Natio nal
Association. A number of the delegates
will also bring their wives and friends
along, and the programme provides for the
proper entertainment of all of them.
EARLY ARRIVALS.
A good many are expected to arrive to-
morrow, but the convention will not go into
session until Tuesday morning. McCand-
less Hall, on Wood street, has been hired
for the purpose, and the session will be
opened at 10 o'clock on Tuesday morning.
The first day will be taken up by appoint
ing the Credential Committee and the read
ing of communications. The second day
the meeting will receive reports from select
committees, standing committees and retir-
ing officers. Then unfinished business will
be taken up.
The third day will be taken up by the
reading of papers on scientific and such sub
iects, bearing directly upon the plumbing
business. Then the election of officers will
also be taken up.
On the evening of the third dav the local
organization will give grand reception at
Old City Hall. At 8 o'clock all the menu
bers of the association and their friends will
assemble in the hall to attend a musical
entertainment, interspersed with speeches
bv prominent members of the Plumbers
Association. The music will be furnished
by the Apollo Quartet and the Toerge
Orchestra. From II o'clock refreshments
will be handed around, and dancing is to be
the order of the evening.
THEN THEY WILL JoLLIFY.
On the fourth day all the delegates will
go on an excursion by the steamer May
flower. The trip will be extended into the
Monongahela, Ohio and Allegheny valleys.
During the entire session of the conven-
ton the visiting ladies will be entertained
by the Ladies' Auxiliary of the local
Plumbers Association. All the interest
ing sights in and around the two cities will
be visited. The same treat will be enjoyed
by the gentlemen in the evening il the
weather is favorable.
Old City Hall will be exquisitely decor
ated with the most choice selection of
floral beauties of the season and the refresh
ments are to be served by E. W. Hagen.
Mr.. Charles II. Humbert, Chairman of
the Committee on Arrangements, said yes
terday that the local organization had done
everything to make this convention one of |
the most brilliant and successful in the his |
tory of the association. This will be the |
first time the plumbers have held conven-
tion in this city, and Pittsburg was chiefly |
singled out on account of the great indus |
tries represented here, and also to study the |
progress made in the plumbing business
during the advent of natural gas.