The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-06-06
M tin G Opens This
Morning at Jeffer-
son Hotel.
GREAT GROWTH
OF ORGANIZATION
Numbers Now More Than $4,000
acknowledgements and Mayor
to Welcome Travelers-Mam-
moth Theatre Party
and Trip to James
town.

| Nearly 500 members and delegates
reached the city last night to attend
the sixteenth annual meeting of the
United Commercial Travellers for the
Jurisdiction comprising Virginia. West
Virginia. Kentucky. Maryland and the
l District of Columbia. which opens a,
the Jefferson Hotel this morning at
10 o'clock. 1t IS expected that at
least 1900 men will be In attendance.
and that most of them 'ul be in the
auditorium when the convention is
called TO order.
The actual work of the session be-
gan last night. when the Grand Audit
ING Committee went over the books OF
the Secretary and Treasurer and the
| Committee on Constitution and BY
Laws completed the dra fling of q con
stitution for the government, of this
jurisdiction. Heretofore the organiza-
tlon has operated under the constitu-
ton OF the supreme body which COM
PRIZES twenty-seven Jurisdictions in
the United States and Canada The
constitution. which probably Will be
presented this morning. will not differ
from that governing the national or
ganization. but is designed TO cover
certain local conditions that are not
provided for in that paper.
Besides taking up the reports of
committees and the ratiticstion OF the
constitution. the convention will go
into the discussion OF the parcels post
and the recent increase In rates charg-
ed by the railroads on excess bag
gage. While. OF course. these matters
Will be taken UP by convention in en-
| ecutivc session, a number OF the dele
gates were talking Of them last night.
and expressed the opinion that resolu-
uons would be passed strongly oppos-
Officers All Here.
All the officers Of the Grand Council
had registered at the jefferson last
night They are as follows: Grand
counselor. Z. II. Thornburg. Hunting
ton. w. Va; grand Junior counselor.
a II. Isaacs. Baltimore grand past
counselor, w. T. Browning Lexington.
ny: srand Ieeretary. George Brown.
lexington. Ky; grand treasurer. \. +.
Chambers Huntington. W. Va: grand
| conductor. @. l. Reid, Richmond: grand
page G T. Swetnam. Covington. Ky:
grand seminal. w. @ Cunningham.
" " heelne, ". Va; grand chaplain. II.
e. Hardwicke. Huntington. W. V.
Grand Auditing Committee-C W.
Trenary. Hagerstown. Nd: G. NJ
Berry, Lexington. Ky: W. NJ. Funk
hauser. Harrisonburg. Va; G. ". GIL
bert. Lynchburg.
Auditing Committee-W. w Mans
FIELD Washington tchairman); L. Q
Stephenson. Charleston. w. Va: S. r.
Sayre. Huntington. W. Va
bylaws Committee. j. Fish
burne. Roanoke; 7. j. Phelps. Blue
field W. Va George +. Brown. Lex
ington. Ky.
Wonderful Growth.
This grand jurisdiction of the
United Commercial Travellers met in
Richmond the last time In 1901. At
that Time i. numbered about $50 mem
bers; there are now about 5000 of
them. The local council had a MEM
bershi2 OF fifty as against eco in good
standing at this time. Eleven years
ago the membership in the United
States and Canada was estimated at
$1,000; 1T is now more than 1000 The
national convention Will be held In
Columbus. O., this summer and nine
delegates will be elected here 10 repre-
sent this Jurisdiction.
The session Will open this morning.
with Senior Counselor Arthu: Levy.
of the local council. presiding Prayer
will be offered hy Rev. W. e. James.
D. D.. and addresses of welcome BY
Mayor D. c. Richardson. Governor
William Hodges Mann and President
7. NJ. Darlington. of the Chamber of
Commerce. Grand Counselor e. IL
ThornburS will make the response
Greetings from the Supreme Council
will he brought by c. f, Barker and
ten-minute talk to travelling m@n Will
be made by Rev II. y. C. Maclachlan.
The closing remarks will be made by
Business Manager William T. Dabney,
OF the Chamber Of Commerce. and the
benediction Will be pronounced by
Rabbi e y Caiisch. Following this
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