Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-08
ADVANCE AGENT PROPER
N Longer is Success of Train in ANY
Way Problematic.
TIE TALK ON THE RAINBOW
Everybody in the Travelling Club IS
Happy and There's Business
Score Of Consequence.

STANTON Va, October S.-If any ad-
ditional store of optimism and enthusiasm
had been needed aboard the Greater Wash
ington Exposition Special--whch doesn't
happen to he the case-it would have been
supplied last night. when r. 2. Andrews
vice president of both the Jobbers and Ship
pers' Association and the Business Mems
Association. Joined the Rainbow riders at
this place. With Mr.. Andrews were Mr.
Eskridge, the Guy Curran & Co repre-
sentative who left the train week or so
ago because of previous engagements. but
who will finish out the trip, and MIR. Leroy
Heron from the business office of The
Star, who will be in charge of the train in
place of Mr.. John l.. Tucker. the latter
having found it necessary to return to
Washington on some business matters of
a pressing nature
Mr.. Andrews reached the Rainbow about
8 o'clock last night and started in to dis
cuss the trip. At midnight he was still
speeding ahead. undex a fine head of con-
versationa steam. with no signs of let
up. / am told this morning by those mis-
the brakes about . in the morning. declar-
ing. he reluctantly shed his coat. that he
hadn't said half he wanted to about the
Greater Washington Special and the great
missionary work it has accomplished
STAUNTON, Va. October S.-"Did you
the letter TO me from Mr.. Mcmillan
of Minneapolis. published in today's Starr"
asked Mr.. Andrews a few minutes after
he landed in midst. We assured him
that had. and he took a long breath
and started in.
That letter is one of very many indi-
cations l have seen that make it plain
that have in this Greater Washington
exposition special the most striking ad-
vance agent of our greater commercial
city that 1t is possible to conceive of. 1
have been in Washington pretty much all
the time since the train pulled out of the
Pennsylvania station nearly three weeks
ago. and l want to say right here and
now that the idea has made the biggest
kind of hit. If had my way this ex-
position train would be kept intact side
tracked at some convenient point in Wash
ington. so that everybody might have
chance to visit 1t, and then taken out the
road again for another thirty days. this
time through the richest kind Of fed
in West Virginia.
A Pronounced Success.
But. leaving aside all suggestions of that
nature. 1t cannot be denied that this trip
we are now about to conclude has been
the most pronounced success. l never was
skeptic. but l am frank to confess that
l never even dreamed the tour would turn
out 10 be the splendid achievement it can
now be called even with five days on the
road still before it.
1t will benefit greatly these of our local
houses having exhibits and representatives
with the train. and it will benefit to a great
degree. every side and phase of the business
community. Washington, the city beau
tiful, Washington the commercially great
the fortunes of these two are indssolubly
bound together and will be equally adj
vdnced by the journey of this trade-bring-
ing flyer. From here back to Wash
ington l am going to be a Rainbow rider.
and it will have to be mighty important
piece of business that can lure me off
the advertising schedule.
That's the sort of talk We like to hear
on the Rainbow. After three weeks on the
road. three weeks of strenuous days and
short Slumbered nights, it helps some to
hear that II all hasn't been in vain. And
this. too, in spite of the certainty of sue
cess that sunggles close to the hearts of
every one Of US. So we gave Mr.. Andrews
the applause he deserved-both Chatauquan
and Otherwise-and he opened another bale
of enthusiasm and went serenely on. At
this point l went to bed. not that | wasn't
Interested. but simply because strenuosity
even of the Greater Washington brand
has It's Limitations and l have never con-
sidered IL good form to snore midst the
music of cloquenCe.
Stanton thinks well of the special and
of the Greater Washington idea Many of
the leading merchants-and they are a pro-
gressive sort, those we've met here-Were
down to the train bright and early this
iDu h inc.
to do something in the way OF active bust
ness
MI. Shultz Enthusiastic
Albert Shultz. secretary and treasurer of
the Beverly Manufacturing Company, was
one of those who seemed most enthusiastic
over the prospect of making a greater COM
mercial city out of the national capital He
said so many nice things about our train
and our big idea that l didn't have time
to find out anything about Mr. ShultZ-from
himself. What l learned later made me
feel that it something to have Mr..
ShultZs Endorsement For from the ques-
tionable commercial vantage point of this
Old Dominion town. he has built up a bust
ness in college pennants-those mult-Colored
affairs OF big initialS-that covers the coun-
try almost from coast to coast He's evil
IDENTIFY hustler from the high grass and
he knows the value of publicity and thinks
the Stars special is the most remarkable
advertising agent of an awakening COM
mercial city that he has ever heard of.
His interest took more substantial FORM
too, for he kept several of his pennant
makers working overtime yesterday. though
II was the Sabbath and this afternoon
just before the specials leaving time. he
sent down to the train a mighty handsome
purple and gold bannerette. bearing in gold
letters the words The Stars Special
Greater Washington Exposition Train
The steward Of the Rainbow Is busy at
this very minute hanging it in our dining
room. and hope II gets a place somewhere
when we get back to Washington, being a
testimonial from a hustler to a hustling
idea
Joseph Hospital of the F. P. May Com
pany sent word that he will join the train
before Staunton is left behind. and Col L.
s. Brown. general agent of the Southern
railway. wired this morning that he would
be mighty glad to be with US again at Har-
risonburg.
Successful All the Way.
Just a moment ago Mr.. B. F. Bond. spe-
cial agent OF the passenger department of
the Baltimore and Ohio railway. boarded
the Rainbow and introduced himself to Mr.