The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-29
SMOKER TONIGHT
| FOR ALL BOOSTERS
Get-Together Meeting Will Be-
gin at $50 O'clock in JEFF
ferson Auditorium.
MILL MAKE FINAL PLANS
Tour Placed in Dabney's Hands
SO as to Give 1t Wider
Scope.

The first of round of festivities
mond Boosters. who leave Monday
morning aboard special all-PulIrnan
train for three days tour in North
Carolina and Virginia to exploit COM
mercial Richmond, occurs tonight in
The Jefferson Hotel auditorium. 1t will
be in the form of smoker, and will
be an all around get-together meeting
for the purpose of closing final details
Quarters aboard the special will be as
signed to the business men who will
make the trip. and all given proper
credentials.
William T. Dabney. business mana :
ger of the Chamber of Commerce, will
tell the boosters how the tour was
planned and what it is hoped will be
accomplished by It. The entire idea
and scheme Will be explained
The trip was conceived and planned
by The Times Dispa tch and the idea
was enthusiastically taken up and
pushed through by nearly 100 enter
prising business houses. It has been
placed in charge of Business Manager
Dabney, of the Chamber of Commerce.
whose efficient services in conducting
such enterprises has been so clearly
demonstrated.
biggest Booster.
So Mr.. Disney will be the master
of ceremonies and the biggest booster
OIL the bunch. He is going to be the
orator-in-c chief during the trip. and
upon him will fall the duty of maxi
ing train end speeches at the MANY
towns which w II be visited
To-nights smoker will begin at $40
o'clock. and will be attended. 1t is ex-
pected. by about $50 prominent bust
ness men who have given their sup
port to the boosters and indorsed the
movement.
Other talks will be made by several
OF the leaders. The affair viii be in
formal, and no set program has been
arranged, but big time is planned
Away Three Days.
The boosters Will be away three
days-Monday, Tuesday and Wedncs
daN-and will return to Richmond at
1880 o'clock Thursday n.rniry. The
start from Richmond will be made
Monday morning at l2:+5 o'clock from
the Main Street Station. Over the
tracks of the Seaboard Air Line Rail
way the special will go to Henderson.
N c.. arriving there at o'clock. In
all twenty cities and towns will
be visited. They are Henderson.
Franklinton. Raleigh Sanford Aber
deem Hamlet, Rockingham, Monroe.
! Charlotte. Salisbury. Lexington. Thorn
| asville. high Point, Greensboro and
winston Salem, y c.; Roanoke, Lynch
! burg. Charlottesville. Orange. Culpeper
and Alexandria, Va. and Washington.
D. c.
Business organizations at most of
the places where the train Will stop
have made preparations to receive the
Richmonders and entertain them in
some form. At Charlotte, where thew
will be Monday night, and Winston
Salem. Tuesday night. elaborate prep
arations have been made to receive
the guests
Gay Thine In washington.
But at Washington will come the
browning and closing feature of the
tour. Arrival there is scheduled at
500 Wednesday night Big touring
cars have heen engaged to take the
visitors on Sightseeing tour. after
wh'.. they will witness a vaudeyillc
performance at Chase's Theatre, where
more than 100 seats have already bnen
engaged Between the acts tho Fret
regiment Band, which will accompany
the boosters will play upon the stage