Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-06-07
COMMERCE EXPERTS
COMING TUESDAY
Boston Party Will Arrive by
Automobiles
Board Of Trade viii Entertain With
Banquet-Plans for Visiting Various
Local Industries.

Local Industries.
Members of the trade extension com
mittee of the Boston Chamber of Com
merce are scheduled to arrive by auto
mobile in this town Tuesday evening
about s o'clock The committee is on a
tour of cities in Massachusetts, Vermont
and New Hampshire and on the five
days trip, beginning Monday, they will
cover about 900 miles. They will leave
Boston Monday morning and be enter
tained in Worcester and Springfield that
day, leaving Springfield Tuesday morn"
ing for Keene by way of Greenfield
The committee expects to leave Keene
at 4 o'clock and come here by the way
of Spofford lake. Upon their arrival at
the Brooks House the party will be met
by members of the board of trade and
then proceed along Elliot street to Birge
street in order to see the Estey Organ
company's shops, along Prospect street
to South Main street, to the Fort Dunn
mer Mills and then to the dam at Ver-
non to inspect the power station, return
ing to the Brooks House to be assigned
rooms. About $50 o'clock the memb., $
of Bingham chapter, o. f. s.. will serve
luncheon in the Masonic temple BAN
quet hall to the visitors and board of
trade members. In the evening they will
be entertained in various ways and in
Masonic Temple and at 7 o'clock We'd
north of here.
The trip of the trade extension COM
mittee is intended to encourage cordial
and profitable relations between the men,
bers of the Chamber of Commerce and
the business men of New England. At
present the Chamber of Commerce is
deVoting much time and money to the
development of Boston and New Eng
land and by means of these trips a feel
ing of friendship is developed and busi-
| ness men come in contact with each
| other who otherwise might not do so.
In order to do away with formal intro
ductions the members of the committee
and the members of the local board of
trade will wear cards suspended from
| their coat buttons bearing their names
and stating the business in which they
are engaged Thus the president of the
Brattleboro board of trade will be
| tagged: Major c. Houghton, dry goods {"
A. G. Dillingham;, who is acting as
advance man of the trip, arrived in town
Sunday afternoon from Keene On the
| back of the car was an announcement
that the trade extension committee was
coming June II and around the sides
| were draped banners, while from the
'front.' waved large American flag Mr..
| Dillingham; remained in town less than
30 minutes as he was anxious to reach
burlington as soon as possible. He made
arrangements with Dennison Cowies,
chairman of the entertainment commit
tee of the board of trade, and with Man.
| ager Sherman of the Brooks House for
| rooms Besides arranging for the enter
| tainment of the members his duty also
consisted in tacking posters along the
route telling that the party is coming.
Mr.. Dillingham; was the personfication uf
| business and in the short time he was
here he made decidedly favorable i'm
preston upon those who met him.
| From here the committee will go to
| Bellows Falls, Rutland and Burlington.
where they will remain Wednesday night
| On Thursday they will go to White River
Junction and Woodstock, Friday to
Claremont and Concord, N H., and Sat
urday morning to Boston. The total trip
Is estimated at sos miles. but with the
various side trips that have been planned
the mileage will be much larger.