The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1915-09-17
A BIG EXPOSITION
FOR CITY OF GREENVILLE
Southern Textile Will Attract Wis
itOrs-Floor Space Needed-Forty
Thousand Square Feet Provided for
Exhibitors-Much Already Con-
tracted For.

Greenviile, Sept. 12.-The South
ern Textile exposition, the first tex-
Tile exposition of its kind ever held
In the South, will be held in Green
VILE November 2-6, inclusive. This
exposition will compare verv favor
ably with the great textile eybibi-
tors association, which holds the
greatest textile show in the world
blennially in Boston. Forty Thousand
square feet of floor space has benn
provided for the exhibitors, and nrac-
tlcally all of this or about 35 OOO
square feet have been contracted for
The exhibitors association, the vari-
Gus trade papers of the South and
other sections and nearly all of the
leading machinery and textile SUNNY
houses of the country.
Inc executive committee, having in
charge the plans for the exposition
have been forced to enlarge time
ana again the quarters for the gath
erlng. Conservative estimates state
that about 5000 visitors will come
70 Greenvllle for this exposition. All
hotel space of the city will be taken.
the Chlcora college dormitories will
be filled, the Chick Springs hotel NAV
reopen for the time, all boardins
houses will be filled, and even then
it will be necessary to quarter some
of the Wis: ors in private homes Tho
eXpositi" is elf-supporting Green
vile i asked to contribute notb;ng
sav some $500 for DECORATING the
81! Gets.
This exposition was planned. fol-
loving 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 on
portunity has been very gratifying to
the local textile men. It is noss;hle
even probable, that this show will
become a biennial event. and that
Greenvifle will be selected as the
permanent home for the Southern
Textile exposition, just as Boston is
Tor 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 the South
and many from other sections of the
| country.
The executive committee of the ex-
position 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
Peet November d.. s and 6. The con-
etention will hold it's meetings in
fCleveland hall. The speakers will be
announced later.
| Those who attend the exposition
here will include mill presidents and
other office officials, superintendent,
overseers, bosses and men from ali
| 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 school will have ex-
hibits in the show. Several mills will
also have exhibits, and a special feat
ure will be the exhibit of welfare
work as carried on by various mills
of the South. Each day will feature
some particular point Of interest to
mill men.
This great gathering, the import
OF which is scarcely vet recognized
In Greenvllle, was secured as the re-
suit of quiet effort. At the meeting
of 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 Greenville
| for this occasion.