Omaha daily bee., 1911-08-01
MANY ARE COMING TO OMAHA
Three Conventions Next Week Will
Bring Fourteen Hundred Visitors.
ENTERTAINMENTS ARE PLANNED
National and state sheriff's Associa-
lions, Metal Contractors and
Crack Tennis Players Will
Gather Here.

Omaha will entertain 400 guests from
next Monday until Thursday. Between and
including these days there will be three
conventions in session and two sporting
events
ON Monday the National Association Of
sberiffs. the Nebraska Sheriffs associa-
ton and the National Association OF Sheet
Metal Contractors will go into session, and
on the same date the National Clay Court
ana the Western Trap Shooters tourna-
ment will start
The sheet metal contractors will bring
about 100 delegates and about 200 friends
and relatives. The state sheriffs' meeting
will attract about fifty sheriffs from Ne
braska, the National Sheriffs' association
about 900; the trap events about 49, and
the tennis play about 2c0
Entertainment is TO be provided for the
visitors and every effort will be made to
care for them. The entire assemblage Of
visitors will be the guests Of the Knights
Of Ak-sar- Ben Monday night at the Den.
and every evening for the rest Of the time
they are in the city the visitors will be en-
tertained at some Of the clubs, parks or
theaters.
The sheriffs will be royalty welcomed.
not only by the people of Omaha, but by
several firms outside of the state Through
the efforts of b. " Parrish of the publicity
bureau of the Commercial club the Worrell
Manufacturing company OF st. Louis will
send a couple of representatives here who
will offer entertainment for the thief
catchers. '-''''
entertainment for Sheriff..
F. L. Hoxie, a representative of this
company, will give an exhibition of sleight-
of-hand work at the Rome summer theater,
and with him will come L. Heyden Bishop,
a talented violinist who not only possesses
rare skill as a viohnist, but who lie q Won
derful imitator Of almost every bird and
beast known. All OF these limitations are &C
complished with the violin and are as novel
as they are. entertaining. These entertain
ers will appear at the Rome summer the
alter on Tuesday night only, and on
Wednesday night win hold forth m the
Paxton hotel. where the Midland Chemical
company Of Dubuque has engaged an .en-
tire floor for the convenience of the crime
preventers. .
The sheet metal workers will be guests
Of the local association at the Rome Sum-
mer garden on Tuesday evening. Thursday
evening a banquet VIII be given and the
convention will close Friday afternoon with
the selection Of the next convention city.
The arrangements for the entertainment
of the shooters and tennis players has not
beeen made known as yet, but It viii be in
the next day OF so ....
The fact. that Omaha is entertaining
about LOO visitors next week will give this
city the greatest amount of the best Kind
OF advertising that 1t has ever had" said
Il. v. Parrish. manager of the publicity
bureau of the Commercial club. The hos
pitality Of Qmahans will be advertised
throughout the country. and we can look
for q record convention year for rs12: Con.
ventions bring many visitors here and they
all put fresh money into circulation. MAX
ing the city richer and more prosperous
and for that reason say that we cannot
do too much to land conventions for
Omaha" ''--.