The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-29
men HERE
FOR PIONEERS MEETING
Veterans OF Industry Open Fourtl,
Annun! Convention To-Day Mt
Jefferson Hotel.
ENPECT ATTENDANCE or 800
Delegates Will Include Alexander
Graham Bell, Inventor of Tele-
phone, and Experts of High Stand
ing From Many Sections.


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Members Of the Telephone Pioneers
of America will meet here to-day for
the fourth annual convention Of the
association, which will be held in the
auditorium OF the Jefferson Hotel
Some of the most prominent mer. in
the telephone world. together with
nearly 300 members OF the association
arc expected to be present.
The Telephone Pioneers OF America
is an association composed of 1000
members. all OF whom have been en-
gagged in tho telephone business for
twcnty-one years or more. On its
ISIS are found ost Of those who arc
active In telephone affairs in various
parts of the country. Theodore y. Vail
first vicc-president of the American
Telephone and Telegraph Company. or
the He'll system. is president of the
association.
The first meeting of the pioneers
VIII be held this morning. when the
annual election of officers and other.
business will take place. In the af-
tcrnoon number of papers of gen
cral interest will he read Tonight
the members will BIZ tho guests of the
American Telephone and Telegraph
Company at - banquet In the Jencr-
son Hotel.
thhNfER STEAMER For
TRIP TO OLD POINT
Tho steamer ss-:ithhcld has been en-
gagged by the reception committee to
carry the party down the river to Old
Point Comfort tomorrow. Arrange
ments have been made TO stop at
jamestown, and dinner will he served
ut the Chamberlain Hotel. after which
the night boat will be taken to Wash
inEton.
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will exceed 400. y special train ar
rived here Yesterday morning from
New York with $50 or more members.
TIL" others are coming in small Her
parties by boat or rail from other sec
tons OF the country. Many arrived
yesterday and last night.
The purpoEr OF tho Telephone Pio-
ncer meetings is to bring together In
social and personal relations those
men and women who have been long
identified with the telephone and It's
developments in America. Among tho
prominent officials who Will be here are
Mr.. Vail. l.. y. Bethel, senior vice
president of the American Company
and president of the New York Tele-
phone Company; +. II. Bethel. prcsi-
den: o! the Chesapeake and Potomac
Telephone Company and chairman OF
the committee on arrangements for the
meeting; ~ G. Kingsbury. vicc-prcsi-
dent OF the American Company. Thomas
u. Lockwood. Of Boston. patent expert.
who has been Il continuous factor I'm
telephone development since 1878; John
j. Carly. chief engineer American Com
pany; w. T. Gentry. Atlanta. president
Of the Southern Fell and Cumberland
Telephone Companies and Alexander
Graham Bell, inventor Of the CONNER
cial telephone.
LOCAL COMMITTEES IN
CHARGE OF ARRANGEMENTS
]. W. Crews. local superintendent OF
the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone
Company, has charge OF the arrange
ments. He has announced the follow
ing committee appointments TO incili-
tate the work:
Bureau of information and registra-
tonic. H. Black In charge.
Reception at Grace street building
J. =. Orth in charge
Reception ut Boulevard building-W.
:. q. Dulin in charge.
Automobile trip 70: women through
city and luncheon at Country Club--C.
q Harris In charge Mt Jefferson Hotel.
assisted by Mr. Walden; y. 5. Tanner in
charge ut Country Club.
Table decorations AT banquet. w.
Crews.
Music and other entertainments at
banuuet--C'. q. Harris.
street car trip from hotel to Old
pominion wharf-James Augustine In
Charge.
Music OH James River boat--c. II.
Weber
Refreshments OH James River boat
r. l.. Wright
Telephones in jefferson IIotel-ser-
vice. w. a. Condit: equipment, II. l..
Wright.
Refrcshment counter and cigars at
jefferson HOTEL. f. Cutchns.
Boat stop at Jamestown--R. II. star
rctt.
Decorations OF auditorium-C. H.
Weber
Supervisor OF baggase-E. r..
Phillips.
Local reception committee. with
headquarters at woman's reception
room i'm Jefferson IIotel-M-s. ]. w.
Crews, Mrs w. y. Condit. Mrs. II. l..
Wright. Mrs. G. II. Weber. Mrs. s. NJ.
Greer. aIis. w. =. Tower. Mrs. y. Cor
rigan. Mrs. :. L. Bo:sseau, Mrs. J.. G.
Burton. Mrs George Warren. Miss
Wright.
Fire Docs Little Damage.
small fire originating i'll the sand
house ut the American Glass Works.
on North Seventeenth street, yesterday
.,f did Som lef