Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-04-04
TATE BRADN REPLIES
TO DAILY DEMOCRAT,
Tells why He I'ayorS the North side
for Convention Hall
Site.

To The Citizens of Tulsa;--For the |
benefit Of the few people of Tulsa |
who take the evening populst organ, |
| desire TO say that in my opening |
statement to the Joint meeting of the !
city commission and the Commercial |
club ! stated that while | favored a
north side location for the convention |
han because the north side, with its
five millions OF taxable property, and |
more than 10000 people, had received |
none Of the public buildings, STILL that |
whether the hall went north or south |
east or west, | would be satisfied, and
no man In Tulsa would spend more
time or money than | to secure the
great conventions necessary TO its
success.
Carrying on. this promise, assisted
by many nobls and patriotic Tulsans.
/ | organized special train which car
/ red 2O4 persons, including the famous
| Tulsa BOY Scout band, through the
/ principal cities Of the South, which
train was bannercd Eastern Okla
homa wants Dixie to help her secure
the river rates for the Arkansas Val
ley which the Creator intended her to
have" and Tulsa, the young giant
Of the Southwest wants the Con-
federate Reunion in 1914" This re-
union each year is attended by moro
than 100000 persons. and spends
S3.0OOO00 in the entertaining city.
Ten thousand twelve-page copies OF
a booster edition Of The Tulsa World,
the second newspaper in oklahoma,
were distributed along the route. con-
tanning Tulsa's invitation TO hold tho
1914 reunion in Tulsa. \ special
edition was gotten out for Memphis
Chattanooga, knoxville, Asheville,
Richmond and Washington AS the
result. 10000 persons either saw or
read OF Tulsa In the great newspapers
of the South, and an authority on ad-
vertislng estimates that the front page
} stories OF Tulsa would have cost $40
600. and pledges were received for
Tulsa for the reunion. which, II fol-
' lowed up. mean absolute victory As
a further result of this special train,
the leading moving pictrJ houses
from coast to coast are featuring
films ~ Tulsa and her famous Boy
Scouts-another item of advertising
which money could not'buy
| shall continue to do everything
I'm my power TO advance the interests
OF the city which has been my home
for nearly - years. and whose people
have signally honcred me many times.
still think the action Of the com
mission in locating the han on Archer
best. because $500 viii remain in
the fund. and the fund IS already too
small. because the bogy of bad
foundation is met by the proposition
of a bond that this foundation will not
cost more than the foundation If To-
Gated elsewhere. and because Super
intcndent Tyler Of the Frisco has writ
ten saying
I'VE note the location of the con
vention hall near our tracks. We re
.alize that this means our engines and
wards must 90 to West Tulsa. We
desire to notify the people Of Tulsa
that this matter has been made the
first thing. after the beginning of our
fiscal year, July 1, and that We will
be out long before the hall is com
pletcd"
This change. in my judgment. is
worth million dollars to the north
side. and benefits every foot OF prop
crtv wherever located In Tulsa. still.
II the people Of the south side feel the
north side is not entitled to the hall
locate IT on the south side. Place II
over .here. and will be found boost.
lng for II long after the editor of the
Bfmocrat. who $ too oowardly to
sign his name. has been forgotten,
and even after the stencil OF the Red
Book has become faint.
TATE BRADY.