The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-09-14
BIG EXPOSITION
FOR GREENv|LLE
Southern Textile Will Attract
Many Visitors First Week
in November.
FLOOR SPACE is NEEDED.
Forty Thousand Square Feet Pro-
vided for Exhibitors--Much
Already Contracted For.

Greenville Special to The State,
Sept. 12.-The Southern Textile Ex-
position, the first textile exposition
of its kind ever held in the South,
will be held in Greenville November
2-6, inclusive. This exposition will
compare very favorably with the
great textile exhibitors association,
which holds the greatest textile show
in the world, biennially in Boston.
Forty thousand square feet for floor
space has been provided for the ex-
hibition, and practically all of this
or about $4,000 square feet have
been contracted for. The exhibitors
include the textile exhibitors asso-
citation, the various trade papers of
the South and other sections and
nearly all of the leading machinery
and textile supply houses Of the coun-
try.
The executive committee, having
in charge the plans for the exposition.
have been forced to enlarge time and
again the quarters for the gather
ing. Conservative estimates state
that about 1000 visitors will come
to Greenville for this exposition. All
hotel space of the city will be taken.
the Chicora College dormitories will
be filled, the Chick Springs hotel may
reopen for the time, all boarding
houses viii be filled, and even then
1t will be necessary to quarter some
of the visitors in private homes. The
exposition Is self-supporting. Green
vile is asked to contribute nothing.
save some $500 for decorating the
streets
This exposition was planned, fol-
lowing unsuccessful efforts to get the
Boston show to come South. Ma
chinery men have never before had
an opportunity to display their wares
In this section, and the readiness
with which they have seized upon the
opportunity has been very gratifying
to the local textile men. 1t is possi-
bic, even probable, that this show
VIII become a biennial event. and
that Greenville will be selected as
the permanent home for the South
ern textile exposition, just as Boston
is for the great show of the North
and East. Efforts to this end will
be made.
The board OF governors Of the
American Cotton Manufacturers As
sociation will hold their fall meeting
in Greenville during the exposition.
This meeting has been called by
Scott Maxwell, president. The per
sonnel of the organization includes
the leading mill men of tie South
and many from other sections of the
country.
The executive committee of the
exposition has designated the Ottaray
Hotel as headquarters for the exhibi .
tors, and the Ottaray and Imperial
hotels as headquarters for the South
ern textile convention, which will
meet November 4, and s. The con-
vention will hold It's meetings in
Cleveland hall. The speakers will
be announced later.
Those who attend the exposition
here will include mill presidents and
other office officials, superintenderts.
overseers, bosses and men from all
departments OF the mills. Textile
students from Clemson and the Geor-
gia School Of Technology, as well as
from other institutions, will be on
hand. These schools will have ex-
hibits in the show. Several mills will
also have exhibits. and special fea
ture will be the exhibit OF welfare
work as carried on by various mills
OF the Sorth. Each day will feature
some particular point Of interest TO
mill men.
Tnis great gathering. the impor
OF which is scarcely yet recognized
IN Greenville, was secured as the re-
suit OF quiet effort. At the meeting
or the Southern Textile Association
In Birmingham, Ala, last November.
Greenville was selected as the place
for the show. Railroads will give
, special rates to and from Greenvine
for the occasion. e''' 5'1