Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-03-26
PUBLICITY BUREAU
COMMERCIAL CLUB
Directors Decide ON Import
amt Step at Meeting
Yesterday.
GIBBONS IN CHARGE
Club Gets His Services for
Nothing But VIII Furn-
ish Stenographcr.

An important step in the broad prop
.aganda outlined bv President G. N.
Wright in Commercial club work
this year and backed by the board
of directors was taken yesterday when
the board adopted publicity scheme
outlined by Manager j. Burr Gibbons
of the Convention hall. which will
herald the famc Of Tulsa, the dedica-
tiou Of the pipe organ, the Washing
ton Irving monument ceremonies
ard the numerous state conventions
and other public enterprises To be
staged In Tulsa this year.
Gibbons proposition was to donate
his services ms manager Of a publicity
bureau TO be operated rs an adjunct
TO- the Commercial club, IL the club
woulG give him a stcnographer to as
sist in the vast amount Of detail work
that will grow out of the proposition
The plan was set forth in COM
munication addressed to the club.
The Convention hall manager pro-
posed scheme that included the cOm-
piing and sending out Of a Tulsa news
letter. to be furnished gratis, two or
three times a week 10 several hundred
newspapers and execute many other
publicity and convention ideas that
Will put Tulsa on the map away from
home, assist in bringing conventions
and other meetings TO this city and
securing the maximum attendance
and the presence OF state and national
celebrities to these functions.
The plan is one that has proven
successful In several larger cities and
which has been executed by Gibbons
In a small way on the occasion of
conventions and other enterprises
pulled off mere. The establishment
Of a press bureau In the club has
been discussed favorably by club Of
ficials and others for the past four
or five years, but heretofore has never
been adopted
part Of the work Of a thoroughly
organized bureau would include. be-
sides a mass of other detail work, the
arranging OF programs, securing
speakers, exhibitors and the appoint
ment OF lists of delegates for COnVen-
tOns and other gatherings, prevailing
upon state and national celebrities to
attend local functions. answering In
quiries and disseminating Information
regarding the city, its ability to enter
tain and accommodate and give out
facts about the enterprise in question.
For the present the bureau will be
maintained during the preliminary
NldktS ana execution OF the pipe organ
and irving monument dediCations, and
In all probability will De made per-
manent branch ~ Commercial Club
activity
The city government has endorsed
the plan and as far as possible will
assist the Commercial Club in the ex-
rense of the propaganda that will give
the Convention hail. a public insti-
tuition, the wide publicity necessary to
make it a success as community
center and a convention hall in every
sense Of the word.
II is expected that the bureau to
render valuable assistance 10 the con.
yentiou committee Of the Commercial
club, OF which Mr.. Gibbons is chair
man Gibbons stated that he is work.
ing on an extensive plan TO place
Tulsa I'm the contest for more than
fifty state conventions TO be held in
Oklahoma this year The first con-
vention secured by Tulsa since the
organization decided to wage an ac-
tive fight for state and national meet
iugs was the sunday school couNen-
tion, which just adjourned its 1915
meeting in oklahoma city