Evening star., 1907-11-11
|FoR THE HOLIDAY TRADE
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE COM
MITTEE OUTLINES PLANS.
Circular Issued Giving the Program
of Shopping Days-Railway
Fare Provision.

The plans for bringing out-of-town holi-
day shoppers to Washington. under the
auspices of the retail trade committee OF
the Chamber of Commerce, will be a;
once carried into effect. This decision has
been reached by the committee. OF which
Mr.. D. j. kaufman is chairman and steps
are being taken today to formulate a
program which will induce the citizens of
the nearby states to come here the first
two weeks in December and do their buy
ing for the festive Christmas holidays.
In the meantime the retail trade COM
mittee. through Chairman Kaufman has
issued special notice to Washington mer
chants, as follows:
The retail trade committee of the
Washington Chamber of Commerce eX-
tends an invitation to you to participate e
in it's plan for out-of-town shopping days
during the first two weeks in December.
Christmas Shopping.
The committee wants every Christmas
shopper in the towns and cities within a
radius of from 80 to $50 miles to do his
Christmas shopping in Washington and
every Washington merchant to share in
this patronage.
The Washington Chamber of Commerce
will pay the railroad fares of these out
of-town shoppers. provided certain
amount OF goods is purchased from the
merchants who participate. Over fifty
merchants have subscribed from So to
$50 each
If you want share of this additional
business. send your checb to Charles F.
WallTaff. secretary of the committee, 1885
G street on or before Thursday Novem-
Der II. Make check payable to A Lisner,
treasurer.
Mr.. Gall in Charge.
Now that a plan has been decided upon,
the members of the Chamber of Com
merce have entered heartily into the con-
summation of the project. Mr.. George H.
Gall was selected to take charge of the
movement, and viii begin his new work
today. For the present his headquarters
will be at Guide Hall. 1214 F street.
1t IS said more than fifty retail mer-
chants of the city have subscribed funds
for this trade campaign. and it is thought
that before the week is over a majority of
the retail merchants will have made con-
tributons. The committee purposes to run
excursion trains into Washington for, two
weeks before the holiday season opens
and to pay the transportation of each
visitor who purchases stipulated amount
of goods from local merchants. News
papers will be used to advertise trade in
ducementS. and small booklets containing
d
cation of retail stores will be distributed
A waiting room in the downtown district
will be provided for the use of the visitors
The matter is of much moment to all
the business men of the District, therefore
every merchant here will be welcome to
join in the plans for making the special
shopping tours a success.
Opening Of Preliminary Work.
Mr.. Gall. the manager of the excursion
plans. and his assistants, were busily en-
gagged at headquarters in the Guide build
ing this afternoon mastering the details
of the prospective program as outlined
by Chairman Kaufman and his associates
on the retail trade committee. Mr.. Gall
said he had taken up the matter of ad-
vertising the shopping weeks in the news
papers in nearby communities, and be
believed there would be large influx of
visitors into this city during the first
two weeks in December.
Mr.. William F. GUIDE, secretary of the
Chamber of Commerce, expressed enthu-
siasm over the project today. 1t is his
opinion that the coming-to- Washington
weeks will prove to be a great business
boom for the District.