Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-09-13
MASS Meeting ON
INDUSTRIAL WEEK
CALLED FOR FRIDAY NIGHT IN
OLD COMMERCIAL CLUB ROOM.
A "IIard-scnscd" Gathering VIII De-
tcrmipc the Plans for playing
Up" Tulsa Industries.

The entire business and manufacture
ing interests of Tulsa are expected
to be represented at a mass meet
ing TO be held Friday night at the
Retail Merchants Association as
sembly hall, on the second floor of
the old Alexander Building at the
southwest corner of Second and Main
streets, for the purpose of combin-
ing the industrial interests of the
town in bringing about an Industrial
Week, celebrating next month, which,
il carried out viii undoubtedly be
the most stupcndous carnival of pros
perity and industrial advancement
ever promulgated BY the consolidated
boosting strength of a growing com
munity.
No individual organizations, classes,
creeds or races, are behind the move
ment, but with the realization that
the affair Is to be the greatest and
most unique thing of its kind ever
staged by a town the size of Tulsa,
the plan, at meeting held yester-
day, called forth the enthusiasm OF
every man In the city, who derives
his support from the public and who
depends upon the masses for the sur
vival Of the respective retail, whole
sale, or manufacturing business in
which he is engaged.
4 committee, consisting of E. T..
Tucker, Fred w. Kopplin, and NJ. A.
Younkman, at the meeting yesterday
afternon, set the date for the mass
meeting, and announced that the
fireworks" would begin at promptly
$3.50 o'clock on Friday night. De-
termined upon lending their utmost
assistance to the project, the Retail
Merchants Association held a meet
ing yesterday and unoffcially en-
dorsed the Trade Week proposition.
instructing their secretary, Fred w.
Kopplin. to act for them In arrang-
ing a date for holding a meeting, at
which 1t Is expected, will be present,
every man in Tulsa who has the in
,erests Of the town at heart and who
desires to participate in collosal af-
fair that will! not only bring thous-
Of October 16, but will mean the big
gest boom in trade circles ever ex-
perienced in a like period in the his
tory of the town.
The one grand feature of the week,
and the part in which the business
and manufacturing interests will par
ticipate most, is a monster pageant,
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remarkable magnitude of the indus
trial strength of the city, and which
will blaze forth in panoramic splen-
dor for more than two miles over Tul-
sa's paved avenues, at high noon on
Tuesday, October II, the real OPEN
half-holiday will be declared, and
the entire city will turn out en- lnasse
to participate in the commemoration
of one of the most vital turning points
in remarkable Tulsas meteoric climb
TO her metropolitan and cosmopolitan
zenith, and the accomplishment Of
that which communities labor for un-
tiringly, and but few accomplish
industrial supremacy.
Friday nights big meeting viii be
filled with ito the point" talks by
men who know" Suggestions by
level-headed merchants and sound
minded wholesalers and factory
heads. 1t will be the biggest "get-to-
gether" meeting Of the men who rep
resent Tulsas greatest asset-its bus
mess interest--ever held in Tulsa. Up
on every wholeale house, factory, and
business house in Tulsa is sought to
be impressed the Importance of be-
ing represented at this meeting
When the desired result is obtain
ed. and the thousands stand about the
city's streets and gaze at the passing
pictorial array of the modern mile
stones Of advancement. new spirit
will be injected into the very life OF
the town-and the public, the people
at large, will have impressed upon
them for the first time probably, the
full etyent Of the wonders Of the city