The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-27
CONVENTION OF
THRESHERMEN IS ON
Smoker viii Be Held This
Morning.
PARADE TO BE THURSDAY
Names of Firms Which Are
Represented.
PARADE TO BE THURSDAY

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They are here to enjoy the hospitality
Of Wichita, 20 inspect the many different
makes of machines and to view the pa
rade of threshing outfits extending for
over mile. which will be given Thurs
day afternoon at O'Clock.
There are machine owners here from
all over Kansas and Oklahoma and even
from Missouri and Nebraska. and there
are a great many others besides thresh-
Ing machine men; there are implement
men from all directions, who are here
with an eye to business, and other peo-
pie simply as visitors.
They began 10 come in yesterday morn
ing, and kept coming ali day. and the
trains this morning are loaded with them.
The crowd viii number 1900. or possibly
more. Hotel accommodations for that
number have been spoken for.
The convention will occupy today and
tomorrow, and entertainment has been
provided for the full time. The manage
ment has left nothing undone that would
make the visit of their guests an enjoy
able one
Two bands of music one here from
Newton. Kan, and one from Clearwater.
Kan, have been secured to furnish mu-
sic during the two days and will remain
until after the entertainment Thursday
night.
Today Will be given to the inspection
of the different threshing machines repre-
scented here, and as there are about twen-
ty-five of them. the entire time will prob
ably be well occupied In the evening
there will be a smoker at the Toler audi
forum, commencing at S o'clock. There
will be an address of welcome by Mayor
Mclean and response by one of the Wis
iting manufacturers, followed by a gen.
eral good time.
Thursday there will be an opera free
TO the guests of the convention.
Headquarters Were opened at the Man
haitian hotel this morning at o'clock,
and all visiting threshermen are urgently
requested by the mana cement to call at
the hotel and register, when they Will be
given ticket admitting them to all en-
tertainments of the convention.
For the last few days there has been
great activity among the machine men
Of the city and the shrill whistle of the
engines and the rumble of the separators
have told Of the preparations for this
event-the second one of the Kind ever
helsi, the other being the one in Wichita
last year
Some of the firms are distinguished in
ways peculiar to themselves. The Peru
Van Zandt Implement company have the
srbnt windows of their establishment dec
al no
spelled with small advertising bills Ault-
man & Co. will be long remembered by an
eAr-spIittinE whistle. known as the
siren whistle. The J. l. Case people
have a train load OF twenty-nine cars Of
machines which will stand on the Santa
E'e tracks at this place until after the
convention. They are being shipped from
Racine. Wis, to Oklahoma City. The
train arrived in the city yesterday after
noon a $50. Many others have ways by
which they viii command attention and
admiration.
John Tracy of the Texas Land and En-
igration company. who was president of
the convention last year, was voted a
place in the parade on account of past
services and will have a handsomely dec
Grated float. with some Of the products
of Texas displayed thereon
The following are the names of the diff
ferent manufacturing concerns and
threshermens journals that have contrib
uted towards defraying the expenses of
the meeting, and every one OF them will
be represented in Wichita at this con-
vention:
Gaar. Scott & Co. Reynolds Bros.
agents. u7-ll9-l21 y. Water street.
Prick Company. in the rear of 22i-226 S.
Wichita street.
The Peerless Machinery and Supply Co.
]. W. Vaniman Manager. 265-7-9 S. Wash
Ington street
il Case T NJ Co. l. W. Thompson.
manager. 1S5 y. Water street.
Reeves & Co. NJ. NJ Cofinberry, mana
ger, 2l4-2l6 5. Wichita street.
The Russell * Co. W. D. Rice. man
ager 224-226 s Wichita street.
NJ Rumely Co. c. s Sherwood. manag-
er. $50 " Mead avenue
Lowell Manufacturing company. ]. W
Whitmer. agent. POI s Lawrence avenue.
Port Huron. Peruvian Zandt Imp. Co.
agent. 12S-l25-l-. n Water street
Indiana Manufacturing Co. on different
makes Of separators
Prairie Queen Manufacturing company.
o. Mclntire, representative. on city hay
market