Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-06
WILL Be OPENED WIDE.
READY TO WELCOME
CREDIT MEMS ASSOCIATION.
Organization, With Fully
Four Delegates, VIII
Convene in Kansas City
Next Wednesday.

The second annual convention of the Ma
tional Credit Mems Association will open
at the Coates opera house Wednesday
morning at 10 o'clock and continue in ses-
sion for three days. discussing proposed
improvements in the commercial laws Of
the country and such notifications of the
matters of as may be considered
proper. The indications are for a very
large attendance. The committee on invi-
tation and reception feels certain that there
will be not less than 400 delegates from all
of the important commercial cities of the
country in attendance, and half as many
others who are interested in commercial
publications and kindred enterprises. En-
braced in the list of delegates are men who
have given years of close attention to the
study of credits and commercial law, and
it will be a superb place for acquiring in
formation on the current ideas among bus
mess men on those subjects.
The members of the local Credit Mems
Association, which is a strong one, are
being aided in caring for the visitors by the
member of the Commercial Club as a body.
and also by all of the wholesale interests
of the city. Arrangements have been made
for the entertainment of the delegates and
visitors during every spare moment they
will lave in the city, and it is the purpose
on Wednesday morning to open the doors
of the city very wide to the visitors.
MANY of the delegates will arrive Tues
day. Some will come tomorrow, but no
matter when they come, they Will be met
and taken in hand by the local committee
men and made to feel glad they are here.
The members of the local association pro-
pose to take advantage of the opportunity
and show what the city can 90 as a con-
vention city.
transacted at the meeting on Wednesday.
The formal opening OF the convention VIII
take place at 10 o'clock. ana an AFTERNOON
- LII cleo hA hold WR6nnG6aU nUan-
ing the visitors will be given an informal
reception at the rooms or the commercial
Club. where the business men OF the city
will come out to meet the visitors and dis
pense that brand of fellowship that has
made the club famous.
Thursday the intention Is 10 give the VS.
itors a carriage drive over the business and
residence portions of the city. Seventy-five
carriages will be in line, more II they are
needed. and the visitors Will be shown the
bouIevards and fine residence streets as in
dicating the purpose of the club to make
Kansas City a good place to live in. Thurs
day evening the visitors VIII an re taken 10
portunity of seeing what there is in the
manufacturing interests of the city.
Friday evening the banquet will be given.
The main dining room of the Midland will
have covers laid for 400 or more, and the
questions of credits end commercial law
will be thrust aside, while good fellowship
best after dinner talent OF the visitors and
of the city will be in evidence with toasts.
II Is expected mat many VI Aut NiSllOTS
will have ladies with them at the conven-
ton, and the entertainment committee has
made arrangements for a reception in their
honor at the Coates House parlors Thurs
day afternoon. The ladies of the city will
meet the ladies from abroad and extend
their hospitality.
An effort is being made to ind time to get
the visitors to the stock yards and one of
the packing houses. 1t Is the wish of the
members Of the entertainment committee
that during their stay in the. city the Wis
itors will have an opportunity of seeing
just what there is in the city and how i'm
portant n diversified are the interests