The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-02
DEALERS
READY FOR WORK
National Association Members
Arriving for Annual Con.
vention Tomorrow.
MANY SOCIAL FEATURES
State and City Officials Will
Cordially Welcome Dele
gates at Jefferson.

All is in readiness for tho twenty
fourth annual conclaye OF tho National
Paint, OIL and Varnish Association,
which convenes at the JEFFERSON Hotel
tomorrow morning for a four days
meeting. Preliminary programs which
are out show an elaborate schedule
of business sessions and social func-
tions. which will occupy every hour of
the busy four days that the visitors
will spend in Richmond.
Lacking local organization OF
paint dealers, the whole convention is
being engineered from headquarters
In New York. Arrangements for the
Richmond convention were worked cut
10y the national organizations com
mittee on arrangements, which is com
posed of Harry ]. Schnell, chairman.
OF New York; d. w. F'iggis, of New
York, and II. Nj. Clements, of Phil
adelphia The committee has taken
especial pains to provide or the com
tort and entertainment of the women
VINO VIII accompany the delegates, ex-
cursions and entertainments having
been planned for their benefit A num-
Der of special parties coming from a
distance have been arranged for Sew
eral of these arrived in the city last
night.
Addresses OF Welcome.
The convention will be formally
opened in the Jefferson Auditorium at
10 a. NJ. tomorrow with addresses of
welcome by city and Stare officials,
and with responses on behalf of the
delegates Lieutenant-G Governor j. Tay-
lor Ellyson. Mayor d. C. Richardson,
Henry w. Wood, president of the
chamber of Commerce; John B. Young
of the Richmond Varnish Works, and
Walter d. Foss. vice president of the
National Paint, OIL and varnish AS
ISOLATION, are all down for the morn
ing addresses. Afternoon and morning
business sessions. with addresses on
questions of interest to the trade will
be held daily until the close Of the
convention Thursday.
Elaborate preparations have been
made for the social end of the Rich
mond meeting. First on the program
or entertainment is a luncheon at the
Country Club of Virginia, followed by
an entertainment in honor of the visit
ing women. Cars will be provided at
the Main Street entrance OF the hotel
for the conveyance OF the guests to
the Country Club. Following this will
be reception in the parlor Of the JEFF
I n at In the evening, rendered to
President and Mrs. Louis r. Mlnehart
of the National Paint, Oil and Var
nish Association.
Many Social Features.
! Wednesdays entertainment will con-
sist of visits to the Valentine Museum
q golf tournament at tho Country Club,
| an automobile trip for the delegates
| and visiting women. and. in the even
| ing, reception in honor of the visi-
| tors given by Governor and Mrs VIII
| liam Hodges Mann at the Executive
Mansion. For Thursday arc scheduled
| visits to the Confederate Museum
| automobile excursions for the womel
| and nnal banquet in the evening at
| the Jefferson.
| The final business session VIII take
| place Thursday at . p. NJ The Rich
mond convention will come to an END
Friday with trip down the James on
| the steamer Pocahontas. Ahe start
! Will be made from the dock at $50
| a. NJ, the steamer going as far down
as Westover and returning to the city
at 1870. Luncheon and Refreshments
| will be served en- route, and Polk Mil
| Ter and his darby quartet will furnish
entertainment for the excurslonists.
Between two and three hundred IL
| is expected. will attend the Richmond
meeting. The association is nation
| wide In Its scope, and some of the most
| prominent men in the business in the
| country will address the business
meetings. Especially large delegations
are expected from New York, Phil
adelphia, Baltimore and other Eastern
| manufacturing centres.
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