The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-31
BANKERS OFF FOR
 !. COAST CONVENTION
Trains Speed West With Presidents Representing
 Many Banks,


 New york Aug s1.-Bankers from all parts of the East are speeding westward this afternoon to attend the. forty-drst annual convention of the American Bankers association, which 1 is to be held at Seattle next week Out of the Pennsylvania railroad sta tion there pulled out at short inter- Vals today special trains, made up ex- pressIy for bankers of New York city, and to judge from the numbers who have gone, Wall street for the next few weeks will contain fewer repre-
 sentative bankers than it contains banks. Three special New York Cen
 tral trains, carrying 300 bankers, left the Grand Central Terminal on Satur-
 day afternoon.
 The first train leaving the ,Pennsy1-
 vania station, at Il o'clock, carried presidents vice. presidents, ehairmen l of the board, and directors represent 1 ing nearly every national bank of New York Trains which followed carried bankers from New England and upper fNew York States, grouped according to the sections from which they came. The New ork Central trains that left were variously designated by the pri- mary eolors, in order that bankers might. be able readily to distinguish thesvarious sections.
 The convention to which the bankers are bOund IS to take place S0pIGIflD6F S to September 10, and sufficient time is being taken, in sending out trains from New York, to permit various tours and stop-overs on the way The Pennsylvania trains are to take a route through the Canadian wheat belt and the Canadian Rockies, de- scending the Western slope and arriv- ing at Seattle the night before the. opening of the convention Some of the New York Central trains will do. the same; others will tray ferse the. wheat belt of Minnesota and the Da- kotas, stopping at Glacier National Park, the most recently acquired of the country's great reservations, giv-E ing the bankers,J parties opportunity to go through by stage coach and boat
 Will be Large Gathering
 Expectation is that the Seattle con- vention will be the most largely att tended iii the history of the American Bankers' association, for one reason because convention delegates will be given an opportunity to attend, on their western visit the Panama-Pa- cific Exposition at San Francisco and the Panama California Exposition at San Diego, Another and more serious reason insuring a large attendance is the discussion that will be held of the Federal Reserve act. which only lately became operative, and which is play. ing an increasing part in the daily af- fairs of the bankers of the United States.
 The membership of the AInericar Bankers association is nearly 15, GOO, including one half the banks Of the country, and fully a fourth of the membership is expected to be repre- sented at Seattle.
 Besides the main convention of the national bankers, there will be con ventions at Seattle of the. State bank members of the association trust company members, and savings bank been prepared for each sections daily meetings. Ex-President w H. Taft is to be the principal speaker before the main convention, his subject being the economic and political summary of the generation just closing. 2 Other es, will be:
 Speakers Son the Program
 Wednesday. sept 8.-Ernest Lister, governor of Washingtons Hiram C. Gill, mayor of the city of Seattle; M. F.. Backus, president Seattle Clearing House association; William A.. Law, Philadelphia. Pa-, president of the as- sociation: Sir Richard McBride, K. C. AI G., premier of Britishh Columbia, Vancouver, B. C., Canada; Frederick A. Delano, vice governor, Federal Re serve Board Washington D. O.; len 'ry D. Estabrook. New York eity,nen- Der of the New York Bar. .Se1f-De- fence.'
 Thursday Sept. sProfs T. J. New bill, State Agent in Charge of Junior 1oWrk, University of Washington, Se- attle. Wash. Boys and Girlss Miss Mary F, Ra.usch. assistant, professor Of Home Econornics. University of Washington. Seattle, wash. The Womanss Side', the Rev. W. W. DiehI, pastor Methodist Episcopal church, Hfnckley, Ill.,, What the Country Church Can and Must DS''