Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1915-02-25
TRADE EXCURSION
FROM HOUSTON
. TO VISIT VALLEY
Houston Business Houses Organize Fiji
teenth Annual Trade Excursion. This
Time to Southwest Texas and the Lower
Rio Grande Valley.

Houston plans q biz trade excursion 10
Southwest Texas and particularly To
Brownsville and the Lower Rio Grande
Valley. the excursion Ia leave Houston on
Aprl ,. The Houston Post Of yesterday
says concerning the excursion:
Bright business outlook eor Houston and
South Texas for 1915 was emphasized IN
the organization Tuesday night of the if
tecntl annual Houston trade excursion un-
der auspices that indicate that ihi~ will
probably he the largest trip of the kind
ever made out Of Houston.
Brownsville and Southwest Texas was
chosen n the territory aud April , was sc-
lcctcd a. the date for departure. The
itinerary will be arranged for n iivc-days
trip.
The meeting was presided over by James
A. Craven>, chairman Of the excursion. and
was held IN the Chamber of Commerce as
~cmhly room. More than thirty Houston
firms signed Tor the trip at the meeting Mr..
Craven was authorized To appoint sub
committees. including IA itinerary com
mirtec that shall meet al once Ia arrange
that feature.
The Frisco railway system of Texas will
he represented personally on the trip nv
Receiver Frank Andrews. III. &. Schuh-
marhcr. president nt the Chamber Of Com
mcrcc. will be- IN the party and several of
the banks will he represented by their
presidents. II i expected that 4 number
of other prominent citizens who are heads
of large Interests will he present.
The firms that signed for the trip M the
meeting are First National bank. south
Texa~ Commercial bank. LumbermanS Ma
tional bank. Houston National Exchange
bank. the Careill company, Bcring- Corte>
~lIarware company. Check Neal Coffee com
panv. Great southern Life. Cravrn> 4
Cage. Chamber of Commerce. Houston Post
Advertising department. Ifouston Post
circulation department. TTenke & Pilot.
Houston show Case x Manufacturing
company. Houston Drug company, keithlv
company. South Texas Implement & We
hicle company. southern Dru. company.
Southwestern Paper company Lone Star
OIL company. the 1t. Louis. Brownsville 4
Mexico Railway company, Frisco railway
linr>. Pierce Fordycc Oil association. Mag
nolla Petroleum COMPANY. Magnolia Cotton
Oil company. Standard Printing company.
Thomp>on-Tu Tucker Lumber company. Fl
deity Trust company. IIamp Cook. In
pcrial Sugar company. Sealy Mattress
company.
The trip will not "nl, BE- \ trade trim IN
the same sense that those &c .hc past have
been. but every man participating will BE-
an especial %cvangel Of business prosperity.
The party will carry a message tu the
people of the Lower Rio Grandc country
and intervening sections To the effect that
the artificial business depression Of the
latter part If 1914 ha~ been shattered and
that not only j. business actively return
ing rapidly Ia Houston. but that there i no
good reason for further Feelings of de-
preston m any part nf South Texas.
More elaborate plans for advertising
and entertaining 90 M" trip will br made
and the people Of the towns that will h.
visited will he urged To- maze no special
preparations for entertainment II l. the
desire Of the business men Of Houston that
their trip thi~ year shall not cost the people
whom they visit ANYTHING