The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-13
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
HOLDS ANNUAL SESSION
Many Committees Of Bankers Trans.
act Business at Jefferson
Hotel.
NOT SUFFICIENT MOTOR CARS
Tours to Manufacturing Plants Prove
Popular, and Committee Calls for
Use of Acknowledging
Meetings to Be Held To-day.

The executive council OF the Ameri-
can Bankers Association met In an
nual session at o'clock yesterday af-
ternoon. The meeting was executive,
and dealt with matters of general busi-
ness, which will be treated I'm Its re-
port to the body on the final day Of the
convention. About forty-five members
or the executive council were in at
tendance. {
Besides tho meetings already noted,
meetings were held during tho day by
the administrative committee, Presi-'
dent Arthur Reynolds chairman; the
executive committee OF the clearing
mousse section, ]. ID. Ayres chairman:
the committee on Federal legislation,
w; Goebel chairman: tho finance
committee: William A. Law chairman:
the committee on insurance. oliver j.
Sands chairman: the committee on law.
Il. w. Foote chairman; the membership
committee. WililfJn j. FIather chair
man; the executive committee of the
savings bank section. N. f.. Hawley.
chairman: the committee on section by
laws. II. w. Goebel chairman: the exc
cutive committee of the trust company
section. John II. Mason chairman: com
mittee on amendments to the constitu-
ton. j. F. Sartori chairman, and tho
committee on the Introduction and re-
ception OF new members OF the coun-
ell, w. II. Bucholz chairman.
NOT SUFFICIENT MOTOR
CARS FOR TOUR or CITY
Considerable difficulty was expert
enced yesterday by the automobile com
mittee in obtaining enough cars to
make tours of the city.
we have been embarrassed to-day
by the failure Of promised cars to put
In an appearance" said j. II. Paimatary,
chairman of the automobile committees
mot more than half tho people who
rnyT Inc IN III
good. 1t is absolutely necessary that
all persons who have undertaken to
help us out In this respect, have their
cars ut the hotel entrance at 10 O'Clock
In the morning. The tours OF the city
will be given daily between the hours
OF 10 o'clock In the morning and 2
o'clock In the afternoon, and are prov
Ing extremely popular. We need every
machine we can get to take care of the
demand"
Besides the functions noted, there
was n luncheon at o'clock I'm the af-
Hotel. rendered by tho Richmond
Rotary Club to visiting Rotarians. Tho
women accompanying delegates and
visitors to the convention were enter
tanned at g o'clock afternoon tea at
the Commonwealth Club.
Deliberative sessions will begin to-
day. with meetings OF the savings
bank. trust company. clearing house
and State secretaries sections. of the
American Bnnkero' Association. The
trust company and savings bank Sec
lions will meet Jointly at 10 o'clock
this morning in the Jefferson Hotel
auditorium.
Two addresses of more than ordinary
Interest, in view of the impending es-
adjustment Of the reserve bank sys-
tenn. Will feature the Joint meeting
The first of these, THE Future OF state
Institutions Under the Federal Reserve
Act" will be made by II. Parker Willis,
former associate editor of the Journal
of Commerce. New York, recently APP
pointed secretary of the Federal Re-
serve Board In Washington. What
Should Be the Attitude of State Banks.
Savings Banks and Trust Companies
Toward the Federal Reserve System?"'
Will be the title Of an address by
George NJ. Reynolds president OF the
Continental and Commercial National
Bank, Chicago.