The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-09-02
RICHMOND WANTS
JAP Commission
Effort Will Be Made to Have
Oriental Business Men
Visit Here.
TO TOUR UNITED STATES
LOCAL COMMERCIAL ORGANIZA-
TONS WOULD LIKE TO HAVE
FOREIGNERS SEE WHAT A BUSY
PLACE THIS CITY 10.

The Japanese imperial and CONNER
cial junketing commission, which is
to tour the United States for the pur-
pose of investigating the industrial
and commercial conditions in this
country, will be invited to stop off for
at least a few hours in this city while
enroute from Cincinnati to Indiana
polls. The proposition has been pre-
scented to the different commercial Or
CARNATIONS of the city and it is prob
able that they will unite in arranging
for the commission to stop here. The
commission expects to be in Indiana
polls early in November, probably on
November 2. It landed at Seattle,
Washington, yesterday.
Richmond ranks first In certain
lines of industry. While it's manu-
factories are not as large, taken as
whole, as many Of the cities which the
commission will visit, yet the city Of
fers many features in the industrial
and commercial world which other
cities do not offer For instance the
city's output of lawn mowers is the
largest in the world, also it's output of
threshing machines. The city in gen.
eral has many things of interest such
as its park system, its streets, public
buildings and many fine private resi-
dences, to offer as an attraction for
an inspection such as that by the JAP
anese commission.
Route Interesting.
The commission will leave Seattle
September 6. going to Tacoma for
three days, then to Portland for day.
Then it will go east, stopping at Spo-
kane, Anaconda, Butte, Fargo, Duluth,
Minneapolis, St. Paul, Madison, Mil
YANKEE and arriving in Chicago Sep
TENDER "a for three days stay. The
special will make it's first stop east of
Chicago at South Bend on September
%, where full day and evening will
be spent. It will then go on east, max
ing one-day stops at Grand-Rapids, De-
troit, Toledo, Cleveland. Dunkirk, Buf.
fa1o. Rochester, Ithaca. Syracuse,
Schenectady and reach New York for a
three days stop on October IL. The
party will then go to New Haven,
Providence. Boston and then head
back west, by way of Albany, Newark
and Philadelphia, arriving in Wash.
ington October IS. for another three
days stop. Baltimore, Pittsburg and
Cincinnati will follow, and Indianapo
Ills will be reached Tuesday. November
IT, The trip on back to the Pacific
will be via St. Louis, Kansas City
Omaha, Denver, the Grand Canyon
the citron district of California, Sar
Diego, Los Angeles and Oakland. Oak
land will be reached November II, ani
on November % the party will sal
from San Francisco for Honolulu ant
! Japan on the steamship Manchuria-
, Makeup Of Party.
The party is composed of distin
J guished Japanese statesmen, finan
ciers, commercial captains and trade
experts. A number of women are il
the party.
al Trade Experts.
u In addition to these on the trip will
be fifteen American trade experts AM
+ representatives of the Associate'
Chambers of Commerce Of the Pacifi
] Coast Indianapolis, Detroit, Gram
u Rapids and South Bend are to nam
> one of the ten trade experts to b
. chosen by cities, the other five to b
2 appointed by the government Repre-
: sentatives of the Indianapolis. Detroit
South Bend and Grand Rapids civil
commercial and industrial bodies vii
). meet in South Bend. probably thi
week or next, to select the expert TO
!. these four cities.