The Washington herald., 1914-10-06
PLAN OF HERALD
Meets APPROVAL
Proposal to Begin Campaign
to Attract Tourists Here
Finds Hearty Support.
CIVIC BODIES ARE IN LINE
Suggested Committee Be Formed to
Raise Money for Purpose of
Advertising City.

| Proposal OF a campaign by which to
attract tourists to Washington. as made
| in The Herald yesterday, took definite
form when r. p. Andrews. president
Of the Retail Merchants Association,
outlined a plan by which to obtain for
this city some OF the money-now being
spent in this country for travel-which
! for the war.
Mr.. Andrews plan. briefly. is to form
committee. to be composed Of the
presidents OF the three commercial Or
! ganizations Of Washington-the Cham
| Der Of Commerce. Board OF Trade, and
Retail Merchants Association-and OF
the business managers Of Washington
! newspapers.
This committee would suggest means
| by which to raise money and to Rd-
vertise the advantages OF Washington.
Public subscription lists would be formed.
The plan suggested by Mr.. Andrews
met with the unqualified approval Of
William F. GUIDE, president of the
Chamber Of Commerce. Cuno H. Ru-
dolph, president OF the Board of Trade
could not be consulted. as he Is out
Of the city and will not return until
tomorrow.
At the meeting last night OF the Joint
| conventions finance committee Of the
Chamber OF Commerce, Board of Trade,
and Retail Merchants Association. mem
bers unanimously approved the plan sug-
gested.
| Mr.. Andrews was shown an article
printed in The Herald OF yesterday, in
which many Well-known business men
approved a plan to bring tourists to
Washington.
Had COnsIdercd Plan.
81 had considered such a plan" said
| Mr.. Andrews. Il had thought OF the
| formation OF a committee OF seven, to
consist OF the presidents of the three
commercial organizations OF this city,
and the business managers Of the four
Washington newspapers.
THE committee could, as a first step,
! devise ways and means to make Wash
ington a real mecca for tourists for
seven months anyway during the year
| from November to May.
! There are a hundred thousand per-
sons in this country who have no homes,
! In addition TO the hundreds Of thousands
who travel during vacation time, This
floating population should be brought
here.
| Washington has climatic, scenic, and
| social beauties that cannot be equalled.
think all the plan requires is the sup
port Of business men. II 1t is given proper
| impetus-and We all will benefit--thers
! is no reason why Washington cannot
take its rightful place among the cities
Of the earth as center for tourists.
President GUIDE. OF the Chamber Of
| Commerce, was equally optimistic. He
consented at once to be a member of the
committee, and to help make the plan
a success r
Washington beyond doubt should be
the center at least in this country. for
! tourists" said Mr.. GUIDE. Many Of them
will come here anyway. Thousands more
can be attracted by proper work. None
| could regret a visit to Washington: II is
clean. beautiful. and metropolitan. and it
has many things besides its government
buildings that may not be seen elsewhere.
favor the idea strongly"
Others Approve Idea.
Among members OF the joint conven-
ton finance committee who approved the
idea last night were Chairman John
Dolph. NJ. A Leese, Harry King. Ralph
w. Lee. z. c. Graham and Thomas
Grant All are prominent in the work
OF bringing conventions to this city and
in raising funds TO support the Joint
committee OF the organizations. All are
members OF the most prominent commit
tees in their organizations, and nearly all
are officers.
Mr.. Dolph. Mr. King and other MEM
oerS thought that the work might De
carried on in cooperation with that OF
the conventions committee.
Mr.. Lee suggested that there might
be confusion between subscriptions for
the tourist fund and the conventions
fund. He was assured by. Mr.. Graham
and Mr.. Dolph that the work could be
carried on separately.
Individual members of the board Of
directors Of the board OF trade, who met
| yesfardav
them were c. J. Gockeler. secretary OF
the board, and William H. Saunders. a
well-known real estate broker. Mr..
Saunders was particularly optimistic.
with a methodical plan, such as
this" he said. even II the war is end
ed. It will be a long time before the un-