Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-05-05
BANKERS ARE IN
TULSA THIS WEEK
MORE THAN A THOUSAND MEN
OF FINANCE HERE MAY 1911
IN ANNUAL MEET.
EVERYTHING IS PREPARED
Three Principal Sessions in the Grand
An Elaborate Program Arranged
for Visitors and Friends.

This is the Week when the bank
ers from all parts of the state will
gather in Tulsa for annual meeting
and discussion of the banking bust
hess from all its various viewpoints.
1t is expected that from 1000 to 1.2O0
Will be in attendance.
IL Is the Intention of the local az.
rangements committee to see that all
those in attendance on the sixteenth
annual meeting of the Oklahoma
Bankers association in Tulsa Friday
and Saturday of this week, are entei
tanned in the most pleasing manner.
Hotel Accommodations will be entire
ly adequate. The facilities for asso-
citation sessions and committees will
be ample. The entertainment for lei
sure hours will be the best that Tulaa
people can give their visitors.
Arrangements Are Adequate.
Arrangements have been made with
the hotels of Tulsa to accomodaie
1,5O0 visiting bankers, their wives and
families. Last years convention ut
Oklahoma City was attended by eleven
hundred persons in all. Owing to i'm
proved conditions throughout tn :
state and the direct importance to er.
cry Oklahoma banker of certain feu-
lures of this years meeting, the locul
committee expects a much larger at
tendance here than at oklahoma Cit :,
and plans have been made to entertal n
all of them.
The new eleven-story. 300-roon
Hotel Tulsa will be opened May 9th
and reserved for the exclusive use Of
the visiting bankers. This is one OF
the 'argest hotels in the entire SOUTH
west, is fireproof and entirely modern
throughout Here will be maintained
the association headquarters and III
registration Office with a visitors ir,-
formation bureau. The Brady, Fred
erick and Robinson hotels, having
nearly five hundred rooms In all. will
be largely devoted to the visitors, en-.
tire floors in each having been re-
served for this event. In addition,
twenty-five smaller hotels and high.
class rooming houses are preparing 10
care for sereval hundred persons in
attendance on the convention.
Prices Remain the Same.
Hotel and restaurant prices ftr
meals and rooms will remain unchang-
ed, each house on the list is pledged
to charge no more than regular rates.
This plas was inaugurated last fall
during Durbar week. IT made a hit with
visitors and the people Of Tulsa in
tend to maintain this policy perma.
nently.
The Grand opera house, in which
the three principal sessions are to be
held. seats 1.l00 persons. is well ven
tilated, flreproof and comfortable at
all seasons. The Carden theater. err
gagged for one session, is almost as big
and Ia conveiently located with ref
erence to hotels and street car lines.
The Hyechka clubs great musical
treat of the year. the engagement OF
Victor fIerbert's orchestra and sing
ers for Friday matinee and evening
will be appreciated by the music-loy-
ing visitors. many Of whom are al
ready reserving seats for this event
This is to be preceded by an informal !
noonday reception at the Country Cub
for the visiting ;adies In addition TO
the nlusical festival q. the Grand
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