The Cairo bulletin., 1912-05-18
open MEETING OF
TRAVELLERS WILL
Be A HOT ONE
Alton Battles With Springfield and
Peoria for 1918
Council
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ENTERTAINMENTS PROVIDED
Guests rendered Steamboat Excur.
sion,, Dances and Auto
Rides



and Springfield for 1918 Grand
Council meeting Of the United Com
mercial Travellers, things bid fair 10
hum at the open session Of the
Grand Council this afternoon. The
Alton Board of Trade, through Its
secretary. George II. Mosser, Is max
ing determined fight and should
get the meeting, If persistence and
advertising count for anything.
Mosser III in Cairo yesterday
morning with 100 pounds of adyer-
tising matter and last night the Hal
liday hotel and many other places
looked like Alton annexes. Mossers
handiwork has been seen In Ca,:0
before, when he landed the Lumber
IL ems meeting for ais city.
Alton Literature Good.
Some OF the Alton boster litera-
ture and advertisements that caught
the eye Of the delegates were;
"Sayl Mister:--All Roads Lead
to Alton, the Convention City of
Western Illinois Meet Me there In
1912 They distributed 1900 tags
which said: meet Me In Alton In
1919
Eight hundred booklets on Alton,
telling Of its manufacturing and
residential advantages were given TO
the Travellers as well as more than
a thousand postcards bearing the
picture of the lllini hotel. the new
hosiery whihc cost s1S5,000 aud
one of the most modern in equipment
In the state.
The telling points usd by the Al
tonians are its hotel and railroad
facilities and its central location,
SO that the delegates from Cairo and
the south will have no farther to
travel to the next gathering than
those from Chicago and the north.
They called attention to the fact that
Alon has 81 passenger trains daily
and hourly interurban service to 81.
Louis
Will Read Invitation.
At today's session when the sub
jcct of selecting the next convention
city comes up, an invitation signed
by Mayor Joseph Faulstich and the
presidents of the Board Of Trade. Re-
tail Merchants Association, Manu-
facturers Association and the Real
Estate Exchange will be read. Tho
invitation speech will be made by
II. G. Gibcrson, one of the best
known travelling statesmen in Illinois.
Among the other Altonlans in the
delegation are George II. Mosser.
secretary manager of the Board OF
Trade; Prof II. T. McCrea, principal
of one of the Alton schools and Sec
retary of the Alton Council of United
Commercial Travellers, and George
Walters The Alton Council is one
OF the most active In the state and
has so members,
Alton has been very successful
this year In landing conventions be-
cause of its advantages, 1t has So
cured six thus far through the CO.
operation of its Board of Trade.
which operates convention bureau
in connection with its other work,
Among the largest secured are the
Southern Illinois Retail Lumber
Dealers Association, the Illinois
State Retail Merchants Association
and one of the three State Farmers
Institutes. This week 1t made a
hard fight at Peoria for the 1911;
State Council Convention of the
knights of Columbus and was beaten
only by four votes by Chicago,
The Alton Board OF Trade Is but
nine month9 old, yet in that time V
has livened up the Alton citizens so
that they have become aggressive for
progress and the upper river town is
having the most substantial boom In
it's history of hundred years.
While the business OF the grand
council occupied the attention OF the
delegates and travelling men, the en-
tertainment feature was not forgot
ten. sa
At the opening meeting at the
Gem theater in the morning Reed