The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-03-07
VISITORS DEPART
AFTER BUSY WEEK
Retail Merchants From Virginia
and Other States Found This
Great Market.
BIG PURCHASES RECORDED
Trade Extension Bureau Already
at Work ON Plans for
Summer Event.

Spring Trade Week OF 1914 came TO
IN end last night after four, days OF
recreation and business The scores
OF Southern retail merchants who came
81 inc Trade Extension Bureau of tho
Chamber OF Commerce have for the
most sod part r !. taken their leave, we'll
ton and the liberality OF the enter
tainment accorded them.
After the acquaintance making buffet
onstration dinner of Miller & Rhoads
on "Wednesday night and the theatre
party on Thursday night. the Trade
leave last night open to be filled rs
the individual visitors inclination di-
rlece1,d. Yesterday was brisk in the
local wholesale establishments and
many firms gave small entertainments
10 their out-of-town customers who
we err, here for the trade festival.
The bureau has no clear record upon
when 10 Isure the actual amount of
sosim,. rr. brought s1to to Richmond by
have been made, running from 10000
TO 100000. In amy event. the bureau
- disposed to measure the value of
feeling created rather than by the
actual volume OF business transacted
Merchants of Hoth sexes.
In all more than ZOO retail merchants
attended Spring Trade Week. Business
women showed their wide awake meth
DDS by responding 10 tho bureaus in
men About fifty women who arc
IN business on their own responsibility
attended: Many of them came hun.
the special prices prevailing during
the week.
The. geographical distribution OF
reau expected. \ majority of all who
attended came from Virginia, but
North Carolina was represented b.
teen. Georgia by a half-doZcn. while
West Virginia and Tennessee con-
tribu'ed few. AS rule the merchants
more attention to business than to
amusing themselves. seeing the wis
dor OF prottins by the railroad fare
rebate offered by the bureau
Surprisingly large number Of NOR
chants arrived on the opening day Of
thc arrivals OF the second day. while
the late corners on Thursday brought
trntion figures, the bureau officers have
come 10 tho conclusion that the retail
srs who attend Richmond.s trade weeks
wisdom TO come carly and stay TO the
finish
PInn Lnrgcr ProSrnms.
The unqualified success Of Spring
Trade Week. which marked the first
organized effort ON the part of Rich
tail merchants to this city in this sea
son OF the year. has made two trade
c weeks each gear ger,ainty The
tended Better Acquaintance Week last
summer clearly demonstrated tho popu-
iarity of that event. but until this week
INC possibility OF staging n successful
spring affair was not assured.
From this time on the trade extern
sion bureau viii operate on q more
ambitious. scale For next spring the
plans VIII entirely eclipse tho festival
engineered, eng this week, and Will he pro-
is,cted on such an extensive scale that
the entire South Will be canvasscd 10
attract visitors. In the opinion of tho
officers OF the bureau. the action of the
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad In operat-
Ing a Richmond sleeping car on tho
a:oo o'clock morning train from the
south this week was Of great aid in
attracting retail merchants here
Within few weeks the executive
committee Of the Trade Extension Ru-
reau VIII begin serious planning for
tho Better Acquaintance Week which
VIII be staged here probably during
the second week OF August Whether
or not tho summer trade festival viii
he stretched through six days or four
days is yet to bc determined hut. be
that as it may. n program crowded
win amusement features VIII be pre-
pared.