Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1894-08-20
A GREAT CROWD COMING
THE ANNUAL. MEETING Of
THE A. r. a. HERE
Five Hundred Phar macis y And
Friends From All Parts Of The
Union Expected Here The First
Week In Sep:e nlber


Do the people of Ashcville realize that
during the first week of September 500
of the leading druggists, physicians and
chemists from all parts of the United
States will be in the city,
Certainly they do not" says Sccrc-
tarv Rogers Of the Citizens' entertain
mcnt committee, "elsc the apparent
apathy, SO far as interest in this event
is concerned, would not be. Every one
should be interested in the occasion of
the 42nd annual convention of the Amer
lean Pharmaceutical association to be
held at the Battery Park hotel Scptcm-
bcr 3 to 8, inclusive. 1t means that VIC
will have brought here into this glorious
mountain atmosphere, into this unusual
climate which has no equal upon the
face of the earth, hundreds of those who
are thrown directly among that class OF
health and pleasure seekers who, once
having Asheville brought to their notice
and realizing its advantages and benefits
as resort, will surely make it an ot ective
point. And is such an opportunity as
this to be neglected? No Let every one
come up and take hand in dispensing
the hospitality of the old North State
and of the Queen City OF the Mountains,
that our visitors may leave us with hearts
OVERLOOKING with thanks and on heir lips
the words of the immortal Lac: God bless
old North Carolina For this is a State
as much as local affair. At the last
meeting OF the A. p. A. held in Chicago,
Hot Springs, Ark, and Montreal, Can,
made strong bids for this cars conven.
tion. Hot Springs was in the lcad-in
fact. it had almost been decided to hold
the convention of '9l in that city. But
patriotic sons of North Carolina were
there and how it happened they them
selves can best tell you when you meet
them here next month; the convention
was wrested from Hot Springs and given
to North Carolinl-and North Carolina
when convention is to be held, means
Ashevilc.'
Capt. Whtctoord G. Smith, the only
member of the A. Z. A. in this city, was
appointed local secretary. Early i'll the
summer n citizens committee with
Mayor Patton as chairman and Nat. s.
Rogers as secretary, was organized and
preparations for the cntcrI aiumcnt O
the convention have been actively en-
gagged in. The weeks enter, ainmcnt
provided for comprises an iufnI NAL re-
ception at the Battery Park hotel; al
entertainment rendered by Folk Miller
of Richmond, Va. famous in his imp.r
sonations OF the "Plantation Darkcy,'
assisted by local talent; n carriage drlv,
to Vandcrbilt's, kenilworth, the Swan
nanoa and Bcaucatch r; an excursion by
special train to Hot Springs, where {;
lunch will be served aud some ,.:uc spent
and last, but not by anv means least, {
complimentary reception rendered th'
visitors by Lyman Rhoadcs, proprietor
of kenilworth Inn.
Is this not program which will pleas
the visitors and make their hour If de
parture ono Of regret? The committee
has thoroughly advertised the convcn
tion in every state of the union. New
England will send 200 delegates bv spe
cial train from Boston. North ant
South Carolina will send as MANY more
Arrangements have been made for 800
but it now looks as if the accommoda
tions will be mad quatc if reports a
to the number intending to Come arc true
One thing is certain, and that is tba
Ashcvillc never failed to take care G
lcvcry one who came within her gate
and to send them on their way rejoicing
with heart full Of pleasant recollection
of the Land of the Sky"