Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-06-19
LOCAL AD MEN TO
co TO TORONTO
Twenty of Newark Club Will
Attend National Convention
of Association.

About fifteen members of the New
ark Advertising Mems Club will leave
the Lehigh Valley station on the
Black Diamond Express at 12.3S p. M.
tomorrow to attend the annual con-
vention of the Association of Adver-
tising Clubs of America at Toronto,
ont, from June II to %.
The local party will include G. w.
Jackson, ". A. Williamson and Miss
Helen Williamson, J. e. Clark, of
Trvington; Mr.. and Mrs. Il. a. Jenk
ms, Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Howell, H.
j. Farnhain, Julius Scheck. John
Belts, Fred Hartman, A. j. Harding,
A. P. Payson, Alden Adams, Jesse
Winters and Walter Jacobs.
The executive committee of the
Newark club has arranged the trip
for the delegates from this city, so
that it will be more or less pleasure
tour. Before going to Toronto the
Newarl<ers will stop at Niagara Falls,
where they will view the falls and
ride over the Gorge route.
Three routes are offered to the
Newark delegates for their return
trip. The first is a through trip on
the Uehigh Valley from Toronto to
Newark. The second will take the
Newarkers by steamboat from To-
ronto to Clayton, on Lake Ontario,
where they may visit the Thousand
Islands Park Thence they will go
to Albany by the New York Central
and to New York by steamboat.
The third route includes a trip over
Lake Ontario, a visit to the Thousand
Islands and steamboat trip through
the st. Lawrence rapids to Montreal
The trip will be continued on the
Grand Trunk railway to Plattsburgh
by steamboat ON Lake Champlain and
Lake George, on the Delaware and
Hudson railroad to Albany, by way
of Saratoga, and the Hudson River
Day line to New York. Stopovers
have been arranged on the last two
routes.
Mayor Horatio {. Hoclen, of To-
ronto, who is an honorary president of
the Toronto Advertising Mems Club,
will be active in receiving and enter
tanning the delegates.
The convention will be held in the
of the Canadian National
Exposition Company in Exhibition
Park. The hall where the general ses-
sions will be held has a seating
capacity of 5000. Sessions also will
be held in other halls for the follow
ing departments: Magazines general
trade publications, ad
agencies, newspaper and
outdoor advertising.
Of
advertisements, posters, out
door advertising, engraving, trade
and store and window
displays will be shown in other build
ings.
The League of Advertising Women
also will be represented at the con-
vention, and a separate building has
been set aside for its exhibits.
The hotel committee in Toronto has
made arrangements to accommodate
at least 1000 persons during the con-
ventiOn. 1t is expected that the
number of visitors will be nearer
I 900 but ample provision has been
made to entertain this number. The
city will be decorated in honor of the
"ad" men, and merchants and others
have arranged for displays of electric
lights.
On Sunday prominent magazine
men will address the delegates from
Toronto pulpits. The speakers will
include Norman Hapgood, Peter
Clark MacFarlane. Joseph H. Appel,
Robert Adamson, Charles Stelzle, Her.
bert A. Casson and Silas McBee, of
New York; w. w. Morris, of Mime
apolis; Andrew n. Fox and Glen
Buck. of Chicago. and Frederick
Dixon. of London.
On Sunday afternon there will be
an inspiration meeting in Massey Hall,
at which the speakers will be Sir
William Laurier, former premier of
Canada, and j. A. Mcdonald, editor
Of the Toronto Globe