The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-08-11
COMMITTEE Is APPOINTED
A. G. v. AND BOARD OF TRADE
WILL ENTERTAIN TOURISTS
ROYALTY.

At Meeting Held Tuesday Night Gen.
eral Committee and Others on Music
Entertainment, Es>-, were appoint
ed,
The following committee has been
appointed t. have charge of the de-
tails of the parade and competition
of decorated automobiles when have
been arranged for the gay on which
the Munsey tourists will he in Mont-
pelier, August %:
j. w. Boutwell, S. s. Ballard, L.
d. Taft, l.. b. Brooks, j. G. Brown,
F. I. Parsons, I. e. Callahan, W. e.
Jackson, f. K Goss, DR.. l.. A. New
comb, p e. Pope, f. w. Mitchell, DIR.
X. l.. Cleaves, l.. H Greene, w. NJ.
Reed and George B. Walton, and this
committee is requested to meet in the
Board of Trade rooms this evening
at 1880 sharp, to consider tie follow
ing matters:
Entries for competition. prizes to
be given, classes of competition and
conditions of competition.
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ing the matter in charge that prizes
will be give for the best decorated
car owned by local person, a SINH
lar prize for the best decorated car
owned by person outof Montpelier,
prizes for the best five cars from any
one town, Montpelier excepted; and
that these decorated cars be lined
IIrN or hot
tourists may enter the city between
the lines as way of greeting.
After the tourists have all arrived,
there will be parade Of the decor
ated cars, which will pass before a
reviewing stand on which judges
chosen by the committee will be sta
toned, and the award of prizes will
be then made.
This day will furnish grand OPP
portunity for people in this vicinity
to see not only the newest models of
, automobiles which well be competi-
tors in the Munsey Tour las it is ex-
pected that many 1911 models will be
in the competition) but many hand
! somely decorated cars in the parade,
for it is expected that nearly all the
cars in Montpelier will be entered in
the competition, as we'll as many 9TH
| ers from all parts of the State as the
Automobile Club of Vermont will
have it's midsummer run to Mont
pelier at this time.
The above details may pc changed
in some respects, as the committee
mentioned above, and which meets
| this evening, will settle the details,
but the above is an outline of what
lit is proposed to do in the way of
competition, the names OF the judges
and other details will all be anncunc-
ed in the press as soon as they have
been arranged
1t is probable that the prizes which
will be awarded in the various Classes
of decorated cars will be silver cups
or other trophies, as no cash prizes
will be given and the members of the
Munsey Tour will not be competitors
in any Of these events
The merchants of the city, through
sion last evening, have donated
money toward the purchase of prizes.
and j. NJ. Boutwell, has also offered
a prize, but these have been left to
the committee as to their selection
/ and the conditions under which they
will be awarded.
There has also been appointed a
committee on entertainment, consist
ing of the following members from
the Board of Trade:
j. G. Brown, Geo. B. Walton, Frank
E. Lowe, c. S. Whittier, B. NJ. Shep-
ard, G. F. Lowe, M. R. Dwinell, L.
H. Bixby, M. F. Atkins, Jonn p.
Adams. George o. Stratton, which
will have charge of the arrangements
for parking the cars of out of town
visitors, making sure that proper ia
cilities for lunch are afforded police
protection for the cars while left
standing and other details, and this
committee will be called together at
an early date.
There has been appointed large
reception committee from the Auto
mobile Club of Vermont, the men,
bers of which will endeavor to make
it pleasant for all visitors in Montpe-
lier on the day mentioned, and to this
committee will be added the follow
ing: Mayor f. r. Dawley, President
DeBoer, j. NJ. Boutwell,, S. S. Bal
lard, Benjamin Gates, Harry NJ. Cut
Ter, Fred A. Rowland, j. A. Kellogg
w. H. Crockett, H. j. NJ. Jones, l..
Bart Cross, C. H. Heaton, George d.
Pitkin, A. G.. Blanchard, Charles
Parker, A. ]. Sibley, George E.
White, Frank H. Tracy, R. B. Denny,
the duties of this committee being
as above suggested, to help welcome
Jail visiting automobilists and assist
in making their stay in the city pleas
lent.
A committee on music has been Sc
lected as follows: j. G. Brown, M.
L. Wood and G. f. Boswell, and
arrangements have already been
made for concert by the Montpelier
Military band, to take place from one
to three in the afternoon of the 22nd,
so 1t appears that on the day the Mum
sew tourists ctrika Mnntnaliar thair