The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-08-14


and will land the visitors back In
Richmond at 8 o'clock. Music,
cabaret entertainment and refresh
ments ON the boat.
Take East Main street cars and ask
the conductor to put you of at the
Old Dominion dock.
Tickets for the visitors will be pro-
vtded at the dock.
FRIDAYS PROGRAM.
Sightseeing trip of Richmond and
suburbs by trolley. Visitors are re-
qucsted to assemble At Ninth and Main
streets at $3.50 O'Clock wearing their
white badges. Expert guides will ac-
company each car with megaphones
to point out objects of interest.
Are they here7
The Trade Extension Bureau should
worry.
Not from every point of the com
pass exactly. but from every nook and
corner in Virginia and the Carolinas
visiting merchants poured into Rich
mond yesterday. Monday and Tues
day they registered at headquarters
In groups OF two and three~-yester-
day they nocked in by scores and kept
Chairman Felthaus and his corps OF
clerks busy from early morn until
dewey eve. and many came in last
night after headquarters had closed.
Over 400 were registered during yes
terday and together with those who
have already reported and those who
haven't there are at conservative
calculation some 500 visitors in Rich
mond. Fully as many more are ex-
pected today to swell the throng of
guests within the city's gates.
Having n Good Time.
Last night the visitors were wei
coined to Richmond by President r.
NJ. Darlington, of the chamber of
commerce. and entertained for two
hours with a splendid vaudeville show
Today they will be guests Of the
Trade Extension bureau on an ex-
cursion down the river. the steamer
Pocahontas leaving the Ola Dominion
dock at II o'clock and landing them
back In the city at s o'clock this az
ternoon. Music and refreshments will
be served on the boat and Chairman
| Alvin NJ. Smith. OF the entertainment
committee, assisted by Colonel j. T.
Palmatary and Horace r. Smith, have
prepared a program OF entertainment
which will surpass anything the Wis
itors have been treated to yet One of
the features OF the day will be a
badger night. but The virginian is
sworn to secrecy as to the other
stunts
| Tomorrow the visitors will be
given a sightseeing trip through
Richmond and Its environs by street
car. Special cars will leave the cor
ner OF Ninth and Main streets at $3.50
o'clock and each car will be provided
with a guide with a megaphone who
will call out the points Of interests.
Saturday everybody Is invited to take
! in the double-headey game OF vir-
gfnia league baseball at Broad street
park.
Many From South Carolina
| Most OF the visitors yesterday came
from the Palmetto State, both the
Seaboard Air Line and the Southern
having put on special excursion rates
beginning yesterday for the benefft OF
the Richmond celebration. That the
South Carolinans took advantage OF
the rates IL evidenced by the fact
that one train late yesterday afternoon
brought a hundred merchants, and
others brought their quota. including
those trains which arrived last night.
too late for their passengers to regis
ter.
=, Though the Trade Extension bu-
reau IL bearing the expense OF the
celebration and has borne the heat
and burden OF the day In its arrange
ment and execution. the members OF
the bureau are preserving the broad
minded and spirited attitude In the
matter. When q visiting merchant
announces at headquarters that ne
has been trading with certain mer-
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