Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-10-29
FRATERNITY MEN GET
$500 FROM COUNCIL
Advertising Committee Votes to As
sist i'll Entertaining Kappa
Alpha Convention.
$500 FOR STATE TEACHERS
Educators Will Hold Annual Meeting
Here November .,4-2S-State Den
tai Association Is Given $3.50 for
Entertainment Purposes.

The Council Committee on Adv"rtis-
Ing ana Enterprises last night appro-
priatcd $500 TO assist in the entertain
fn"nt Of the delegates to the convention
of the Kappa Alpha fraternity which
viii be held in Richmond during Christ :
iras week. The Richmond College
chapter which. ii was stated last night.
embraces about twenty members. will
be host. Chapters in Southern colleges
alone will he represented.
ON behalf of the fraternity men ap-
pcarcd Colonel 10 Lane stern. who told
TN" committee that the organization
numbers about 500 members of which
several hundred will attend the Rich
mond convention. Most Of the dele
gates. he said, will be young college
men. who will shortly begin looking
about for permanent place III which
to settle down for their life work and
the city's hospitality. he thought. would
be rewarded by an accession OF good
citizens.
The appropriation to entertain the
fraternity men represented a distinct
departure from the rule, long followc cd
10y the committee. that the funds at its
disposal should be used strictly in the
furthcrance of commercial. charitable
and educational ends. Primarily. the
committee was created To advertise the
city with the view of adding to its in
dustrial resources. The appropriation
for the Kappa Alpha convention was
the first that has ever been mad. by the
committee to an organization exclu-
siv.ly social in character.
Tn" committee appropriated $500 to-
wards tho entertainment OF the Vir-
rinia state Teachers Association
which will hold its annual convention
in this city from November - to Is
Dr.. J. a &. Chandler and J g; Corlcv
who appeared on behalf of the local
entertainment committee asked for
$3.50. The organization has member
ship Of Zoo. II was stated that tho
convention viii attract at least 1000
visitors. The association mo, here last
year, but was given no assistance at
that tim" by the Council.
Or. w. II. Street and Dr. Charles A
Mercer asked the committee to con-
tribute 5000 toward "a fund being raised
for the entertainment OF the Virginia
state Dental Association which will
meet in annual convention here next
Thursday. The meeting will last
through Saturday. The committee APP
prorriated $3.50 for this purpose.
Councilman George W. Rogers. who
was appointed Il committc" Of one to
report on a suggested entertainment for
delegates to the Atlantic Deeper Water
ways Convention at Savannah. who will
pass through Richmond on sunday. No
vemO.r :. rccommc nd.d AN appropri-
alton OF $l15 TO be used in providing a
reception at the Jefferson Hotel and
special cars to take the visitors TO ST.
Johns Church.
The party which will arrive here on
special train early in the afternoon.
will embrace $50 delegates from cities
on the Atlantic Seaboard between Bos-
ton and Baltimore. They have en-
pressed desire 10 pay a visit To the
scene Of Patrick Iienry's famous ad-
dress. and will be taken there in special
cars. From the church the visitors will
be conveyed 10 their special train. on
which they Will leave the same night
for Savannah.
Last nights appropriations exhausted
practically all o: the funds at the COM
mtttce's disposal The small balance
that remains will barely pay the rent
for the city's section in the Manufac-
turcrS Exhibit for the remainder OF
the wear.