Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-24
GIVEN CHANCE TO JOIN
Citizens Asked to Unite With
Jobbers and Shippers.
BUSINESS ASPECT TODAY
Meeting Of Committee of Fifteen Yes
terday Afternoon.
OPTIONAL SPACE AT JAMESTOWN
Citizens Association Take Action
Looking to Participation in the
Proposed Exhibit.

Every business man in the District who is
eligible for membership in the Jobbers and
Shippers Association will be given an OPP
portunity to join the organization With
that end In view Assistant Secretary Wood
worth Clum today started canvasser on
his rounds of the city and its environs to
make personal canvass among the bust
ness and professional men. The canvasser
will be able to talk Greater Washington to
those he calls upon and supply them with
application blanks and any needed infor-
nation.
I'VE intend to work for greater men,
bership. said Mr. Clum, land our repre-
sentative will put the matter up to every
merchan. personally. He has been instruct
ed to go after every eligible. 1t is the hope
Of the officers of the organization that the
responses to the calls he makes will be lib
eral as the time is now ripe for results and
large membership will hasten ultimate
success of the plans for commercial expan-
sion."
No. 31S Munsey building. presented bust
ness-like aspect today. Plats Of the 5,S44
feet in sections II and 10. at the James
town Exposition pos d.na., on which aSaaa the
now on exhibition there. and schedule Of
the spaces is being prepared to be SINH
larly exhibited. also large plat showing
the individual sections Mr. Cium says he
will be ready to give out the space to-
morrow A number of interested persons
called there today.
Secretary Faulkner of the Lynchburg
Va. board of trade. who was invited to
address the general meeting Of the job
bers and Shippers Association Friday even
ing has written to Mr.. Clum that he can
not be present on that occasion owing to
a previous engagement A communication
has been sent to Mr.. Kelly. secretary of the
Trades League of Philadelphia, request
ing him to deliver an address before the
Jobbers and Shippers in place Of Mr..
Faulkner.
Meeting Of Committee.
A meeting of the committee Of fifteen,
representing the Board Of Trade. the Busi-
ness Mems Association and the Jobbers and
Shippers Association. was held last even
ing to further consider the proposed Greater
Washington exhibit at the Jamestown ex-
position. Assistant Secretary Woodwork
Clum made a report for the committee OF
three which recently visited the exposition
headquarters at Norfolk.
The statement was made that the space
reserved for the District Of Columbia ex-
hibit contains options on sections IL and IL
in the upper right hand corner of the build
ing Of manufactures and liberal arts lying
nearest to the interior court. Additional
space in the upper halves Of sections IL and
20, contiguous. are reserved subject TO the
decision of the Japanese commissioners to
give up the space and take. other space near
their main exhibit. The entire reservation
approximates $500 square feet.
The Joint committee after considering the
facts voted to secure the allotment Of the
space in sections II and 10, embracing 5,S44
square feet. The committee on space was
! directed to make a plot Of these two sec
lsx,lIn tho ", thor and
the subdivisions to those already signed for
space the price Of the several allotments to
be reported back to the joint committee. 1t
was further determined to leave the matter
of securing the allotment Of additional
space in sections 16 and 20 until the decision
| of the Japanese commission Is learned. II
this should be against the proposition Of
the washington exhibitors, additional space
will be obtained in sections % and 81 con-
tiguous to the sections already determined
upon.
Optional Space Remaining.
1t was further stated that the optional
space remaining Is at the disposal of the
contemplated municipal exhibition already
Endorsed by the Business Mems Association
and the Jobbers and Shippers Association
The latter Organization submitted its for
NAL Endorsement to the Commissioners
| yesterday, and the opinion was expressed
at the meeting last night that the Board Of
Trade will soon follow with its approval,
when Commissioner Mcfarland. Endorsed
| by the strength Of all the commercial In
terests of the city. will go before Congress
with request for an appropriation sufi-
cient to warrant a municipal display, which
will include replicas of public buildings and
a comprehensive exhibition of the city
government
The amount of space proposed for the
District municipal exhibit was given as
$500 square feet to be under option until
4 T., te, to hn INN ho md
corner of the interior court.
The committeeman entered upon a gen.
eral discussion Of ratings, booths, and sew
| eral other details of the exhibit. the spe.
/ cial committee presenting plans, drafts of
representative booths and ratings. but none
| Of these matters was definitely settled upon.
| the committee deeming it prudent first to
push forward the allotment of space and
| ing Of the committee.
Discuss the Movement.
| After the committee had adjourned, SUBJ
ject to the call Of the chairman, Mr.. Thomas
w. Smith, the. members informally dis
cussed the Greater Washington movement
1t was the sense Of the committeeman that
| a great and substantial benefit had been de-
rived from the movement already. and that
steps should be taken to make these bene-
| fits permanent and cumulative by ener-
getic work to take advantage Of the op-
portunities offered in the southern field for
trade and in the home field for industry
| and the better methods OF doing business.
| Announcement was made that a general
| meeting Of the Jobbers and Shippers Asso-
| citation will be held next Friday evening at
| the New Willard. when all arrangements
| for the Jamestown exposition will have been
| made, and those desiring space may know
where they will be located at the big fair
| The withdrawal by the Chesapeake and
| Ohio Railway Company OF its through bill
| ing ARRANGEMENTS with the JObhers and
| Shippers Association was discussed yester-
| day afternoon at a meeting Of that body in
/ the Munsey building.
| After conference between Monroe
Luchs. secretary Of the association and
Mr.. Sullivan Of the railway company. it
1 was stated that the delay does not exceed
| forty-eight hours.
| This, Mr.. Luchs says, Is due to the COM
pany having ordered New York and Phila-
| de1phia through freights to the south not
| to stop here. In conseuueuce goods sold