Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-02

of the banquet committee attended per-
sonally to sending out the invitations to
the banquet that is to be given the officers
of the national organization at the New
Willard the evening of the first day of the
convention. The guests on this occasion
will be about one hundred in number. and
the dinner is to be served in the red par
lor of the hotel. The program for the din
ner has not yet been decided upon. On
the same evening there win be an adding
contest conducted at the New Willard open
to clerks in the banks and trust COM
panies who are members of the local
chapter of the Institute of Bank Clerks.
The winners in the contest will be awarded
valuable money prizes. There have already
been dozen or more entries and the con-
test promises to be interesting. The fig
ures to be added will be registered in slips
of paper in the same manner the
amounts would be entered on checks and
notes and the contestants will be required
to go through certain number of these
slips to complete the contest.
Trust Company Section.
The official program for the meeting of
the trust company section of the associa-
ton was made public today. The members
CT the trust company section are to be re-
oeived and cared for by committee under
the direction of Mr.. Edward j. Stellwagen
of the Union Trust Company. Mr.. Stell-
wagon has been in business in Washington
for many years as real estate broker and
financier He is a director in many OF the
larger financial institutions, large stock
holder in the real estate firm of Thomas j.
Fisher & Co., Inc, and of the company tina.
owns the New Willard Hotel. He is prest.
dent of the Union Trust Company and VIII
make the address of welcome to the dele
sates to the trust companies section of the
American Bankers Association next Tues
Gay morning at the New Willard Hotel.
Mr.. E. A. Potter, president of the American
Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago, is the
chairman of the trust companies section,
and will preside at the meeting, which VIII
be opened at 10 o'clock in the morning.
After an invocatio by Rev. Robert NJ.
Moore, the delegates will be welcomed by
Mr. Stellwagen, to which President Potter
will make response. Reports of the sec
rotary the executive committee and 9TH
ers will follow.
The first address will be that of l.. E.
Anderson. vice president of the Mercantile
Trust Company, st. Louis. Mo-, whose topic.
is Benefit of Real Estate Department
to a Trust Company The next speaker is
Edward T. Perine, general manager of the
Audit Company of New York. Mr.. Pc
rine's subject is THE Growth and Status
of Trust Companies in the United States
Frederick Philips, secretary of the Lin
coin Trust Company, New York city, will
deliver an address on purposes and scope
of the Banking Publicity Association
After this there will be discussions of the
following topics: Relations Between Banks
and Trust Companies; Value of a Bond
Department to Trust Company; Educa-
tOIlti WofH 10 demonstrate the superior
ity of Trust Companies in Fiduciary Ca
pacities; Trust Company Loans and Invest
ments; Institutions and Practices Within
Trust Companies in the Interest of EN-
ployes. This will be followed by routine
business and the convention will close with
the election and installation of officers for
the ensuing year.
A Publicity Association.
In connection with the meeting of the
bankers association there will also be
meetings held during the next two weeks
of organizations that include bankers
among their members and an attempt will
be made to organize at least one new ASSOC
citation. For several months past COM
mittee of prominent bank officials, headed
by Mr. Harold A. Davidson. secretary of
the Home Trust Company of New York,
has been at work laying plans for the or
ganfzation Of banking publicity assoc
citation in the United States. The object
of the organization is to secure an associa-
ton whereby, through the Interchange of
ideas, information and methods of pub
licity, the public may be systematically
educated and informed OF the benefits, adj
vantages and uses of the various classes
of institutions.
1t is further desired to establish. for the
proper execution of the work, local or dis
trict headquarters in each of the large
cities, with a manager, whose duty 1t shall
be to keep in touch by correspondence with
banking and fiduciary institutions
throughout the country and to procure
from them such literature, business forms,
advertising matter, samples of soliciting
and advertising letters as may be obtain
able, together with such statement. CONF
ment. remark or information as may prove
useful for the guidance of members OF the
association; each manager to be required
to send to the national secretary one or
more copies of all such literature. letters,
etc, received by him; requests for infor-
nation or specimens of such literature.
etc. from member Institutions to be adj
dressed to the national secretary and to
be answered and, ii possible, granted by
that officer.
The organization. 1t Is claimed. will af-;
ford bank and trust company managers
opportunity to meet, both locally and cen-
and trust company AFFAIRS and general
business matters In SO far IS they relate.