Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-05
INVITED TO MEET
 BOSTON BUSINESS MEN
soeiation Asked to Join Party to Go to New London.

M eSn 0SrS or Local 6uSIneSS Men AS- soeiation Asked to Join Party to Go to New London.
 The Norwich Business Mems asocia- tion has sent notices to its members calling their attention to the visit to New London on Thursday of the dele gatton from the Boston chamber of commerce, who are on tour for the l purpose of boosting New England. The Norwich men are invited to make up a delegation to go to New London to meet the boosters, leaving from here by the 9.45 trolley in the morning. A get together luncheon in New London for the business men of east
 ern Connecticut will be one of the
 features of the visit. Owing to the
 short time allotted the Bostonians they will not be able to participate in the luncheon.
 The Boston delegation, fifty in num-
 Der, will arrive at New London at 10 56 There will be on hand at the Union station on the arrival of the train large delegation of members, augment ed by members Of associations of other cities in eastern Connecticut which will form as an escort to the rooms of the New London association in Main street.
 An open meeting to be held in the
 rooms of Herwegh lodge over the as SOCAdlIOI IOOt1Sy VIII 1OlAOWs ab WHICH several of the Bostonians will speak. telling of the objects of the trip and the methods of booming New Eng land The meeting will necessarily be brief, but none the less interest ing. The Boston delegation will then where they will board the special train for New Haven, having luncheon on board the train, which will. leave here at 12.55.
 The eastern Connecticut business men will then gather at the Crocker The luncheon will be followed by an informal postprandial programme, at which ways and means of developing this part of the state in keeping with a movement which has been under way for several months, will be dis cussed.
 The trade extension trip of the Bos- /, ton chamber of commerce is attract 1 ing considerable attention throughout New England. and enterprising com
 rnercial organizations In cities In l southern Massachusetts, Rhode Island
 and Connecticut are planning contin
 uous welcome for the Bostonians. The | trip begins Wednesday morning and
 lasts four days. The itinerary fol- | lows:
 | After early breakfast the party will 1 leave the South station Wednesday | morning aL 6.SUs On6 nOuIs 1AJ0T aI 1 Whittenton station 1t will be met by a delegation from the Taunton chamber
 of commerce for an inspection tour of l Taunton's industries.
 1 Leaving Weir Junction at HAS, the 1 next stop will be New Bedford, where at 12.30 D. m. the New Bedford board l of trade will extend welcome and
 show the Boston men their city. After l luncheon in New Bedford delegation from Fall River chamber of com
 merce will take the party in automo- l piles to that city for an inspection of 1 industries.
 Leaving Fall River at 5.45, the tour i ists will go to Providence for over
 night, with smoker by the Provi- dence board of trade on the evening s 1 programme.
 l No such early breakfast will be nec- 1 essary in Providence. for the party will remain in that city Thursday morning until 9.21 before starting for
 New London, where at 10.56 the New
 London Business Mems association is 1 to meet the tourists informally. 1 Leaving New London at 12.55, the i party will have luncheon on the train and arrive in New Haven at 2.04, 1 where the New Haven chamber of 1 commerce will take the visitors in hand. They will remain in that city
 until $40 and then go to Bridgeport, ! reaching there at 6.12. Here a beef steak dinner is to be given by the
 Bridgeport board of trade.
 | Spending the second night of the tour in Bridgeport, the party plans l to start at 9.25 Friday morning for | Waterbury, reaching there at 1o.13. | After viewing Waterbury's industries l the guests are to be given luncheon l by the Waterbury chamber of com l merce.
 1 Trolley cars wild be boarded for the l first time at o'clock Friday after noon for the run from Waterbury to
 Meriden. Reaching that city at S.30, l the tourists will be taken on an au- I Mems association, and at 5.S start for Hartford
 Arriving in Hartford at sos, the guests are to be given reception and banquet by the Hartford chamber of
 commerce Mayor Louis R. Cheney 1 is to preside at the dinner. The third
 night will be spent in Hartford, and | Saturday morning will be devoted to viewing the citys industries. The return to Boston is scheduled l for Saturday afternoon.
 ] The names of persons who are to participate in the trade extension trip 1 follow. William c. Edinburgh. General Hugh Bancroft, C. W. Barron. E. c. 1 Campbell George H. Carter, Abran Collier, Louis, A. Coolidge, Charles | C. Gilman, George L. Gould, William Hirshberg, Samuel Hobbs, Joshua B.
 Holden, E. c. Johnson.' George H. Low, Elmer B. McGaffey James E. l McKibben, Fred E. Mann P, F. O'Keefe, Claude A. Palmer, W. H. ! 5eeiey, George S. Smith. Walter E. Smith, James A Stafford, Mitchell Wing, and William Minot-