Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-09
HAIL
MERCHANTS IN
CONVENTION
Hundreds Of Visitors Here for
Week to Inspect Wares of Job
bers-Functions Planned.

Hundreds of merchants from all
PARTS of the South are gathering in
atlanta Monday for the annual
Merchants Week" of the Atlanta
Merchants and Manufacturers Asso-
cation Hundreds had registered at
he downtown hotels Sunday after
noon and Sunday night, and the ear
Nv morning trains brought in many
more. 1t is estimated that there will
he 500 visiting merchants in the city
before rightfall, although no definite
tdea of the number can be obtained
until Tuesday, when the figures of
The registration bureau that will be
,pened at the Piedmont Hotel will
be available.
The week promises to be one of the
.most successful in the history of
' merchants meetings. Neither time
nor money has been spared by the
local association in it's efforts to prop
erly entertain the visitors, and enter
ailments have been planned that
will send them away with pleasant
memories of the progressive spirit of
manufacturers and wholesalers here.
Great Week Ahead.
Everything points to one of the
greatest weeks Atlanta has ever
known" declared Harry T. Moore, of
The Atlanta Freight Bureau and the
Merchants and Manufacturers Asso
citation. who is in active charge of
The plans for the week. I'VE expect
10 have a greater crowd than ever
before; the weather promises to be
fine and our manufacturers, whole
salers and jobbers have the finest line
of goods in their history to attract the
visitors The arrangements for bust
nd n1pa have hnpn hi 49,
vided that neither will take up all
the time of the visitors, and will leave
them with plenty of time to do what
ever they wish"
The gathering will be a convention
and yet not a convention. There will
be no stated meetings of delegates,
no routine business to hustle through
and no weighty business to transact
1t is to be a joint meeting of the
Southern merchant who needs Allan
ia and the Atlanta dealers who need
the Southern merchant. 1t will be
the opportunity of a lifetime for the
small merchant to see with his own
eyes that there is no necessity for
going North or West to buy goods;
they can find everything in Atlanta
that they need.
Good Value" Is Attraction.
The local association has set its
most powerful magnet-Good Value
as the attraction that will bring
hundreds of Southern merchants here
regularly and make them glad they
came. The recreation and entertain
ment planned is in the nature of a
'sideight," designed to show the WISH
tors d good time and not with a view
Of impressing them-the goods will do
that
No entertainment of a general
character is planned for Monday or
Tuesday, the executive committee
having decided that these two days
should be left open for the visitors
to do as they please. Tuesday night,
however, the local association has
engaged the Forsyth Theater from
gallery to orchestra. and the visiting
merchants will be guests. The bill
this week, according to critics, is one
Of the best of the year
Friday Biggest Night.
Wednesday and Thursday, also
there will be nothing Of a general
nature to distract the Visitors, al
though several of the local business
houses have planned automobile tours
about the city for some of their pa
irons. These are the days when the
visiting merchants will partake of the
delights of the local mercantile
houses, When accommodating sales
men will be on hand, and the volume
OF business is expected to exceed that
d any former week.
Friday night will be the big night
OF the week. A banquet will be
served at p. m. at the Auditorium,
at which at least 1900 visiting and
local merchants and statesmen are ex-
pected to partake of one of the great
est feasts ever spread in Atlanta. 1t
VIII be served by J. Lee Barnes,
whose fame as a caterer is State
wide
Prior to the dinner there will be
reception at which the Fifth Regi-
ment Band, one of the best musical
ORGANIZATIONS in the South, will fur
niSh the music.
Al o'clock the doors of the Audi
forum will be thrown open to the
general public and the speaking will
oeSln. Postmaster Boiling Jones will
De postmaster, and the speakers will
pe senator Hoke Smith, Governor
G9hn M. Slaton, Mayor James G..
Woodward and J. w. Vaughn, presi-