The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1916-03-10
BUSINESS MEN
OF KNOXVILLE
Will Come to Stanford on Boosting
Tour Through Kentucky
Early In April.

One hundred Knoxville business
men will visit sections of Kentucky,
North Carolina, Virginia, and East
Tennessee between April II and IA
and will be guests of the Chamber of
Commerce in Stanford This party
will represent all of the biggest COM
mercial and industrial organizations
in Knoxville. Manufacturers, bankers,
wholesalers, retailers and profession
al men have arranged to go to Knox
ville's first trade trip. A special train
will be secured to accommodate the
Knoxville trade builders. The COM
mittee in charge has announced that
every effort will be made to make
the trip of mutual advantage to bust
ness men of Knoxville and the bust
ness men of the forty-three towns
which will be visited. The Knoxville
Board of Commerce has arranged
the tour so that the members may
come in personal touch with the bust
ness men throughout Knoxville's ter
ritory One of the slogans of the
party is sect Acquainted. Stress
has been laid upon the fact that the
men who will make this trip are Just
as anxious to buy as they are to sell.
This is the first tour of the kind ever
undertaken by the Knoxville Board
of Commerce and it is expected to be
profitable to both the visitors and
| the visited.
The personnel of the party is made
up of the most prominent men of
Knoxville. Practically every big en-
terprise in that city has signified
its intention of having representa-
tive make the four days trip on the
special train. Commercial bodies in
many of the towns and cities to. be
visited have already arranged a prog
ram for the entertainment of the
visitors. These programs include ban
quets, automobile trips, inspection
tours, parades, speech markings and
hand shakings galore. Committees
in other towns are planning rovel
ways to get acquainted in the short
est time. The Knoxville committee is
delighted with the enthusiasm which
| the announcement of the trade trip
schedule has created. Every effort
is being made by them to cooperate
with the local trade bodies in their
entertainment plans, so that The trip
may be of mutual profit and pieas-
ure. 1t is considered 0ne 0: the nfost
important steps ever taken in the
building of a closer relationship
between the small town merchant
and manufacturer and the Knoxville
merchant and manufacturer, and
promises to be one Oc the most
successful trade trips ever made i'll
the south.
The committee in charge are en-
deavoring to impress upon the COM
mercial bodies in the towns to be
visited that this trip isn't made for
selfish motives. The social and the
personal contact features are con-
sidered the most important, and
every effort will be made by the men
on the special to make real friends |
of the men they meet along the route. |
The Knoxville wholesalers want to |
visit the stores of the men to whom !
they have sold goods in the past. The /
retailer wants to meet the men who |
have bought their supplies from him.
The bankers in the party want to
know the bankers in other towns and |
cities, and so on through the list. Of |
course every man in the party wants !
to increase the business he is now
doing, but what is more important, !
every one of them wants TO know /
from whom to purchase some of the |
products of the sections visited.
The SPECIAL train to be used in
transporting the party through East |
Tennessee, Western Kentucky, South
western Virginia, and the Western
portion of North Carolina, will con-
sist of eight all-steel Pullman coach
es, including two dining cars. 1t will
be completely fitted out with all
conveniences Of modern travel and
will be the hcme of the men compos-
ing the party for the four days of
their trip. Knoxville literature bust
ness catalogues, advertising nov
elites and souvenirs will all find a
place on the Especial" Knowles
business men are undertaking the
trip in a wholehearted way which
assures its success, and are planning
to do things on big scale. A band
will accompany the party to furnish
music at all entertainments, as well
as to head the parades which have
been arranged for by several of the
towns to be visited This band will
number about twenty-five pieces and