The Donaldsonville chief., 1912-11-09
TRADE BOOSTERS COMING.

Heads of Fifty New Orleans Houses,
on Crusade Of Acquaintance"
to Visit Donaldsonville Next Mon
day and Meet Local Business
eMen.
The Chief is in receipt of the
| following communication:
New Orleans, La, Oct. 81, 1912.
Editor Chief, Donaldsonville, La.
/ Dear Sir:-The Merchants and
Manufacturers Bureau has about
completed its plans for its annual
| trade boosters trip, leaving New
Orleans November II over the Texas
and Pacific-Iron Mountain lines, and
We have included your city in our
| itinerary.
| This trip will be made by at least
fifty of the heads Of New Orleans
! houses. 1t is not selling expedi-
tion, but may be aptly termed a
/ crusade of acquaintance, 1t be-
ling the desire of our merchants and
manufacturers to visit the merchants
Of Louisiana in their home towns
!, and show the appreciation of busi-
ness that New Orleans has been
favored with by returning the many
individual visits that have been
made to our local market.
The main desire is to become
better acquainted with your mer-
chants. It is the wish of our party
to explain the great advantages Of
dealing in the New Orleans market
and to ascertain at first hand the
needs and requirements of the ad-
jacent territory.
| This will be our third annual trip
tof this kind, and upon its compile
ton we will have visited all sec
| tions of our state.
| Our SPECIAL train will be composed
Of four standard Pullmans, a diner
and two baggage cars. We carry
our own band, representatives Of
four New Orleans papers and our
official photographers. This train
will be SO equipped that at each
stop there will be direct communi-
cation with New Orleans, both tele-
phone and telegraph.
| We desire to extend you, and
through you, to the merchants and
business men Of your city, most
cordial invitation to meet us and
get acquainted Our slogan is New
Orleans for a bigger Louisiana and
Louisiana for a bigger New Orleans:
| Very cordially yours,
MERCHANTS AND MANUFACTU-
RERS BUREAU.
A. H. BORDEN, Executive Secretary.
/ The ..trade boosters special will
arrive here at 1:07 o'clock next
Monday afternoon and remain until
8 %. M, when it will depart for
points above. Arrangements are be-
I ing made to receive the visitors
with proper ceremony and extend
them the hospitality Of the city.
4 Mayor Charles Maurin, who is also
one of Donaldsonyille' leading mer-
1 chants, has written a letter tender
4 ing the New Orleans business men
q cordial welcome to Donaldsonyille,
and inviting them to extend their
stay at this point as long as their
schedule may permit. After the
A formalities following the arrival of
4 the train have been concluded, the
4 tourists will be taken over the city
and shown the principal points of In
fterest.
Representative merchants and bust
/ ness men of the community have
been invited to attend an informal
reception aboard the train upon its
arrival here. There will be music,
|speeches and refreshments, and the
function promises to afford much
pleasure and profit to everybody
present.
/ Karl DeIBuono, the efficient man
| ager of the uptown office OF the
4 Western Union Telegraph Company,
will leave shortly with his wife and
little son for New Iberia to accept q
i i similar position in the employ Of the
a same concern, at a substantial in
crease Of salary, Mr.. De1Buano has
i been in charge Of the local telegraph
i i office for the past four years, and
has made many friends here who
i while happy to learn Of his promo.
Ition, will regret sincerely his depart
rre from DonaldsonVille.