The Washington times., 1912-11-19
"OLO HOME WEEK.
FOR WASHINGTON
PEOPLE PLANNED
commercial Bodies Will
/. Meet Tomorrow to Con-
& slider Proposition.

joint committee on publicity. Of
wn'ch Isaac Cans Is chairman, from
'ne chamber of Commerce, the Board
vi Trade and the Retail Merchants As
soication, will meet tomorrow at noon in
.ne Chamber OF Commerce to lay plans
,or homecoming week, which has
peen designated as the week of March D.
II IL believed that with the proper
advertising, former Neutrality-suspicious.
from far and near will avail them
serves OF the cheap rates on the rail-
Ioads because of the Inauguration, and
.he additional inducement of being con-
ndent that they will meet old friends
from other sections of the country.
"Details OF the plan will be worked out
nj tomorrow's meeting In the Chamber
Merchants Committee.
several committees OF the Retail Mer-
chants' Association have been an
hounced recently by the various chair
men George s. dc Neale chairman Of
'he committee on trade abuses, has an
pointed to serve with him A. NJ Fisch
err l. GoldenberG, Harold II. Levy.
bailey Schumatc. and d. o. Miller X
r. Andrews chairman of the member
SNIP committee, appointed George s.
Nehlt, isaac ifunS, a. ID. Prince,
Joseph Jacoby. a. o. Huttery. Charles
.; scott NJ A. Lecsc, Roe Fulkerson.
sidney West. owen owen, L. l.. Brlce,
ana calvert Rosenthal. q. Nordlinger.
chairman of the committee on credit
ana collections, appointed 5. NJ Avery
Roe FulkersOn. George 5. de Neale, j.
NJ. Bird, Robert Pluym. Alfred Mayer.
sidney West, Frank JelleT. and Bailey
Schumate.
President Strasburger has also ap-
POINTED Nj. Ipngp n
ana II. l.. Kaufman to meet three rep
resentatives from the Board of Trade
and three from the Chamber of Com
merce to arrange for the raising and
uisourslng or conventions fund. The
committee Is subject to the call of
Chairman John Dolph.
Conventions Fund
The idea OF the annual conventions
fund originated several weeks ago with
the conventions committee OF the Cham
Der Of Commerce, who decided to en-
large the scope of the committee by
inviting twelve men from each Of the
other commercial bodies to serve with
twelve men from the Chamber in rails
Ing the fund. The Retail Merchants
accepted the proposition as II was Of
fered, but the Board OF Trade objected
to the plan on the ground that the
committee as proposed should be a Citi-
mercial bodies. They therefore asked
that the plan be amended to make 1t Il
separate organization.
Three men were therefore appoint ed
from each of the organizations to dis
cuss the plan. and when Chairman
Dolph calls this joint committee to
gether. opposition to the Board Of
Trades amendment will likely develop
Some of the leaders IL the Chamber are
OF the opinion that since the Chamber
does practically all the work incident
to securing these conventions, and Is
therefore In hct.cr position to iudSr
the way in which tho money should be
expended, that organization. through
its conventions committee. should have
charge OF disbursing the funds that are
to be raised by the joint committee
New Section Launched.
The stationery section of the Retail
Merchants Association was launched
last evening at "A meeting of the Cham
her of Commerce, called bv Charles G.
Stott, chairman of the section. The
idea OF forming sections composed of
merchants in each branch of retail COM
merce was outlined to those present by
W. +. Ellers, secretary of the assOCla-
tion.
The board of governors of the Retail
Merchants Association will meet in the
Chamber tomorrow afternoon at 3
o'clock