The Washington times., 1908-05-08
CHAMBER STARTS
TRADE CAMP AIGN
Plans Clearly Defined at
Big Meeting Last
Night.
Committees Named to Bring
in Out-of- Town Gus
toners.


toners.
After an enthusiastic meeting lasting
about two hours. the retail trade COM
mittee of the Chamber of Commerce
adopted the report of its subcommittee
on plan and scope at the rooms of the
chamber last night. About fifty mem
beers were present and many engaged ia
the discussion OF the report, which out
lines plans for the continuance Of the
out-Of-toWn shopping campaign, com
menced last winter
Those who spoke were Arthur Z.
Moses. \. Y. Worthington, l.. g. Granam,
Isaac Cans, c. J. J.,mes, W. W. Bowie.
j. L. Ergood, ". D. Brown. r. y. Har-
per, Moritz Mayer. d. J. kaufman, w.
". Norman, D. j. Callahan, and c. c.
Lancaster. The report, as adopted.
which outlines the method of procedure,
IS in part as follows:
There can be Do doubt about the re-
suits acCruing from "A campaign such as
should be conducted by the retail trade
committee II will not only be the means
of bringing additional trade TO Wash
iHgtOn, but prove OF great value in
stimulating and bringing about better
and healthier conditions in our home
trade.
All Should Contribute.
"OW local papers stand ready To help
Us in every way possible. With this as
"a nucleus, surely our merchants should
be equal to the rest, and we trust they
,,.i,I ror,a fo,.u-o,,5 ,e enc mar, INF t,oi-
hands in their pockets, shoulders 10 the
wheel. and show the outsiders, as well
as our local people that the business
men Of the Chamber mean business
lio iL'e 70 ol,is aPoGI SIeaIeT Dusl-
..Tbe foIioT5ine s,os,ssfioTs ara orrar-
ed.
That IN addition 10 the committees
oil ee.us iie l- - oS 5LPGl'4'eu' Oiie On
Na4S anu means De duueu-
me Committees VIII Hth DC dS Lo4-
aoNs.
ldH ana sSvPe-
Nays ana means.
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EdttIO5uS-
ReluH - e, -, A.
Al WoIhllS Vu+ tHe IeLgAu 4ldil; 'tLC
Simplest poSsiDle nelnod shGulu De
used Inc loldeL SnOuiu CledLly stats
the pan ana InelnOu OF the IeLulo anu
give the name business, anu auut cSs %
every merchant taxing part IN IiS
movement lndeeo, we Lhlhh IL WoIlo
slHpllIy the WOIh anu make slOpPiAs y,
visitors very much more ATTRACTIVE II
me merchant mace the reIuhd u!IsGL az
the time Of pIrGhaSe- mus SAVING me
The advertising should be made as
Ser,II; q We beiieve large bosters dis
played throughout the towns from
which business can he had VIII prove
FuccessIul ana orinS sood Fesu''S'
Methods Of Advertising.
..-.-..7l,,. .,oe-.-, sbo,,,5 he f,,r,isl,d
a., -s,i-r,5g ,7,l 5fer,Ia yed in the rail-
LIE an O.o -'N -
roau STATIONS y i''"si
brief our object, giving names ana ouSi-
ness or washington merchants. should
n. ear+ 70 the railroad stations for dis
lribution, and might he distributed from
house 20 house, as well as mailed TO the
section from which we expect results.
THE Washington newspapers might
print announcements Of the refund
heve they viii give as much publicity as
possible 10 the cause.
I'm connection with the committee on
railroads we think iJ would be well 10
take up the question Of extending the
time limit OF weekend excursions to
Washington. and try 10 bring about
an extension OF time TO include Satur-
days. making the time TWO days instead
present only being comprehended. We
believe that il this could be accom-
plished we could bring about an all
Hear-round weekend trade-briuging
with good results"
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man. cAdlifah' isaac GAHs' A. LiSneF'
Ralph w Lee, D = Porter, Il. d.
Prince. Charles +. Wallran
Tho folIo,rip,, members oF rba com
hntteeS named IN the report were DIP
pointed by Mr. kaufman:
Ways ard meanS-A- Lsner, chair
man; II G Berghelmer. Conrad Becker,
N l. BurChe!, Carl Droop. Isaac Col
ccnberS. julius GarhGkle, Frank. A
ItdfilSOG. j. T. idel iAlanA- MOTIFS Ham,
Il. w henderson aeon JACOB i.