Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1912-05-03
Carrying Members of
Cincinnati Commercial
> ASSOCiatiOn Visited this
City Last Friday
warmlv Welcomed Here and
LEFT With Good Impression
OF BorbourviIIe

Commercial Club Booster Train
which had been on a weeks tour
Of Kentucky and Tennessee and
were on the last lap Of their return
trip. arrived in this city last Friday
morning a. S:45 and paid us visit,
and they lived up to all advance
notices as far as boosting was con-
cerned.
The Especial" consisted of eleven
cars: sleepers, chair cars, diners, OBJ
servation car and commissary car,
and there were, besides the members
of the Weber band, one hundred
and twenty-five loyal citizens of
Cincinnati who knew that Cincin-
natl was the best city on earth and
they did not hesitate to let others
know that this was a fact, and if
there were those from Missouri"
who doubted this fact they were
quickly shown. There were bankers,
Wholesale men, newspaper men, a
college professor, commercial men of
all branches and number OF the
city officials Of Cincinnati. 1t was
regretted that Mayor Hunt was
compelled to leave the excursion at
Chattanooga and return home on
account al business and did not WIS.,
it this city.
When the train pulled up at the
station there were several citizens
waiting there to welcome them, but
the large bulk Of crowd vas assem-
bled on the court house square
where Judge Sampson was waiting
to extend a WELDON to them in be-
half of the city of Barbourville. The
weather was threatening and it
looked as though rain would begin
falling at any time, and anyone bent
on a less important mission would
have hesitated before starting over
to town, but not so with the boost
ers, they hoisted umbrellas. covered
with advertising OF Cincinnati. and,
preceded by the band, marched to
the court house, Here they were met
by large crowd, Union College,
the Baptist Institute and the High
School having dismissed long enough
to allow their students to be present.
After short address Of welcome
by Judge Sampson, Mr.. Vim. T.
Johnson, president of the Vim. T.
Johnson Co.. spoke briefly of Gin
cinnati as commercial center, and
concluded with series of illustra-
tions Of the reasons why they were
here and why they could not stay
longer. Mr.. Geo. F. Dieterle,
president of the Cincinnati Com
mercial Association. then maj c
a short talk on the Association, its
organization and purpose. An in
teresting co.incident of their visit to
this city was the fact that Mr. l.
d. Sampson, who is a brother Of
Judge F. d. Sampson who made the
eaddress welcoming them to this
city, was the man who organized
and reconstructed the Cincinnati
Commercial Association. Prof. VIM
Hammond Parker, of the Universit,
of Cincinnati. then spoke TO tn,
students assembled, telling them o
the opportunities Of that institution
Time was then up. and alter ex
pressing their appreciation of tn,
hospitality and cordial Nelcom
rendered them while here, starte,
on their return trip to the depot
Hardly had they started before tn
rain. which had been threatening
all morning. began to fall. an,
every member who had failed t,
bring along an umbrella was dreneh
before arriving at the car.
The purpose Of this trip was t