Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-09-12
A TULSA TRADE
WEEK planned.
RETAILERS ATION TO
hEAR DETAILS TODAY.
Will Be FAIR AUXILIARY
spec ial Sales for week, with Real
Reductions, is Part of scheme
Proposed.

Before a meeting Of the Retail AS
sociatlon Of Tulsa, called for o'clock
this afternoon, T.. T. Tucker, manager
of the Merchants Information Bu-
reau, will present in outline the de-
tails of plan that, IL successfully
carried out, will be the greatest thing
for Tulsa from "A commercial stand
point ever staged,
At a meeting of the committee Of
seven prominent Tulsans to whose ef-
forts is due the Bureau of lnforma-
tion's organization, It was decided to
lay before the merchants at large Of
the city the proposition for a Manu-
iacturers and Merchants Trade
Week." to be held the week OF the
Tulsa County Fair in October, which
win eclipse anything Of the kind ever
before attempted locally.
The plan is to have all Of the mer-
chants of Tulsa put on special sales
for the week, with bOna-fide reduc-
lions in prices that is bound TO at
tract persons from out of town. on
the opening day Of the fair, which
will also be the beginning of the
trade week, a big parade, in which
will be floats representing the seven
ty-odd manufacturing institutions of
the city, is scheduled to march
through the principal streets of the
city at high noon, and then to the
fair grounds where 1t will proceed
ore around the race course, and the
greatest County Fair In the history of
Tulsa County and the greatest week
in the history of Industrial Tulsa, will
be officially opened.
In case the merchants of the town
take kindly to the idea; an attempt
will be made to have this opening day
made half-holday and have all tho
stores close for the afternoon. re-
fund on the railroad fares of all per-
sons coming to Tulsa during that
week will probably be made, and
also other inducements offered that
is bound to fill Tulsa with big crowd
all the week long.
while there are in the neighbor-
hood of seventy factories and over a
dozen big wholesale houses In Tulsa"
said L. T. Tucker yesterday, in ex-
planning the reason for the project,
there are few people In Tulsa who
could name an even dozen Of these
institutions off hand. In the pro-
posed parade, every institution of the
kind In the city would be represent
ed by floats, and not only the people
of Tulsa, but the out OF town visitors
as well, would be duly impressed with
the magnitude of the representation
Tulsa is in a position to make a lar
ger and better showing In a parade OF
this kind than any other town In the
state.
The idea Is a new one and a dis
tinct departure from the old Mer-
chants Carnival and similar antigua
ted trade-getting stunts. We are
going to have the best county fair
ever held in Eastern oklahoma, and
with the. added inducements to be Of
fered by the merchants in the way of
special sales on fall and winter arti-
Cl'St likiN at Ailt VI NDt
winter season, Tulsa should be the
hest OF the biggest crowd ever gath
cred In the city for pleasure and bust
ness purposes. BY making the first
day half holiday. and allowing all
the employees in the stores to attend
the fair this crowd of workers can
get a good idea Of what is to be seen
atthe fair and be in position to
explain Its wonders TO strangers in
the stores the rest of the week"
The committee of seven is very en-
thusiastic over the trade-week pro-
position, and with the hearty cooper
alton of the merchants of the city.
the affair can be made a great epoch
in the Advancement of Tulsa, they
claim.