Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-26
OMAHA HIGH IN LOUISVILLE
Ad Club Making Campaign for Next
Convention Of Writers.
OMAHA NEXT SIGNS EVERYWHERE
Fireworks VIII he used to Call At
tentiOn to virtues of the Gate
city for the Convention
Next Year.

LOUISVILLE Ky. Aug. B.-Cspecial.)-
Members OF the Omaha Ad club arrived in
Louisville at 71s this morning. II was
Just like returning to MY Old Kentucky
Home" for everything looked familiar
some way, and the delegation saw more
Omaha" signs when they alighted at
the Union depot than they would see II
they stepped from a train at Union station
In Omaha and took their automobiles for
uptown.
Through the main streets Of the city the
Omaha party drove in a tally-ho, which
had been made into a huge basket by the
generous use of corn stalks. Their buEler
awoke those stretched on benches outsides
southern bellies caught the music Of the
little copper chimes ringing for Omaha
and peeped guardedly through the lattieed
windows. 1t was early to be up in any
American city-it was about three hours
too early for Louisville. But the city is
fun of ad men and Omaha opened the day
proper.
The Omahans all wore white felt outing
hats. The black horses wore natty little
nets with Omaha" on them In visible
gothic. At the Setback hotel, where the
headquarters Of the Omaha club were
opened Monday, Manager Louis seelbach
had six 'colored gentlemen in long white
busters, with capes and plug straw
hats, to assist the party In alightins and
handling baggage.
The music room OF the hotel on the par
Tor floor was opened for, the Omahans.
Guests heard Robert Maniey playing Way
Down South in Dixie" Down in Jungle
Town" and Then Wen All Go Home
before S O'Clock. The quartet consists OF
Ed swobe, o. e. MoCune, 1. A. Medlar,
Mel Uhl, jr. Z
Surrounding this music room, the
omahans have the ten best suits In the
seelbach-and that is going some. When
the party went to the desk to register, over
the big onyx counter, beneath a master
piece OF italian art, hung a banner by a
rival painter-Siford Of Omaha-whose
canvas had been made to speak OMAHA
NEXT"
From the roof garden hung another ban
ner with the same suggestion, while the
bill board contractors Of Louisville have
undertaken to guarantee that In every
i meeting place during the meeting OF the
Associated Ad Clubs Of America, a sign
twenty feet long will say OMAHA
NEXT"
Fireworks Advertise Omaha.
Wednesday evening may go off quiet, but
the Omahans are to paint the town Thurs
day evening. For the first time fireworks
are to be used in attracting attention to a
city wanting the next convention. Two
handsome set pieces arrived from st. Louis
today where they were made for the
Omahans, One says OMAHA NEXT" and
the other, OMAHA WANTS YOU" Be
sides these there are forty pieces explod-
ing In the air wrich drop out "o's' and
there win be o's not only at each end OF
"O-h-i-o," but a few hundred in the middle
when this display 10 pulled off from a big
boat which is to be used to shoot tbs fire
works.
Tha Omaha stands q good chance for
the next convention there Is no doubt.
The Omahans started the Dobbs boom for
president OF the associated clubs. Dobbs
is very popular In the south and west.
Louisville followed this up and the town Is
covered with ''Dobbs and Dixie a cry
which came down from Omaha Monday
when the advanced guard of Omaha ad
men arrived.
While there is a strong tendency to take
the next convention 10 the east, the Omaha
delegation, backed by Louisville say the
Missouri river is g good place to meet and
omaha the best city on the stream.