The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-05-13
MERCHANTS BEGIN
ANNUAL OUTING BY.
PARAD|NG STREETS.
WIN Invade Baltimore, chcsa-
peake Bay, and Potomac
River Points.

0iVCf TvUttos
A spectacular motor parade through
the bAsiness DISTRICTS Of washington.
with music by the Merchants Band.
will mark the beginning Of the fourth
annual trade, boosting trip Of the Re-
tail Merchants Association.
Promptiv at $50 this afternoon APP
3 proximately 100 of washington leading
merchants will gather at the rooms OF
the Retail Merchants Association and
after receiving from Chairman Lans-
burg, special fancy caps, banners and
other paranhernalia. will enter the ma
chimes parked on the south side OF
Pennsyivania avenue at Eleventh
street. ~
After patroliing the city they will
arrive az the Union Station In time to
board special train which will be
waiting to receive them. and which will
convey them to Baltimore. There the
steamer Three Rivers. which has been
chartered for the trip. will be waiting
to convey them on the journey down
the bay and up the Potomac.
Many stops will be made-thirty in all
land at each point the boosters will
make demonstration in behalf OF
Washington's business interests.
Washingtonians are thoroughly ac-
quainted. they say. with the fact that
there Ii no more ideal. market place
than this city. but It Is to give their
neighbors within a radius of 100 miles
of Washington suggestion that they
should buy here, their logical shopping
center. that the trip is undertaken.
-, Committee In Charge. ~
It 10 being staged by special COM
mittee ct the direction of the entire as
ISOLATION, and the spectacular trip il
the result Of much labor and exercise
OF ingenuity on the part of the booster
committee of the Retail Merchants As
sociation. consisting of Henry Lans-
bprgh, chairman; Il. c. Graham, Charles
F. Crane, Claude E. Miller. oJseph Ber-
berich. Charles J. Columbus. secretary.
William +. GUIDE has donated car
nation boutonier as we'll as flowers for
the decorations Of the dining table.
Purser N. d. Todd of the steamer
Three Rivers. has prepared triumph
In four menues for the trip. and to make
doubly sure that nobody viii 60 to bed
unsatisfed. the booster committee has
feasts, 900 culled hard crabs. fifty pounds
Of book sausage, donated by the N.
Auth Provision Company. 700 rolls. three
large boxes Of apples. and many other
I'd bits are on the bedtime supper
The Connecticut Pie Company is
supplying the merchants with quantity
Of its product for the edifcation Of those
with whom the merchants come in con-
tact. When the boosters receive their
ticket and Identification badge at the
Retail eMrchants' Association office this
afternoon at o'clock, they will also be
presented with a souvenir from Colgate
Il Co. =.
Route of Parade.
The route OF the parade viii be as
follows 2:45 p. m. move west on Penn
syivania avenue from Eleventh street
N East Executive avenue. north on
East Executive avenue to II. west ON
II to Sixteenth, north on Sixteenth to
churetts avenue to thirteenth. south on
Thirteenth to f, east on : to Tenth,
south on Tenth to Pennsylvania ave
nue.. east on, Pennsylvania aven.ie to
chusetts avenue. and east on Massachu-
setts avenue to Union station, where
train will be boarded for Baltimore.
The boosters will board electric cars
for o trip to Baltimore, and at o'clock
the steamer Three Rivers. of the Mary
land, Delaware, and Virginia Railroad
Company, which will be the boosters
boat. will leave her dock for q sail
down Chesapeake Bay.
tr Much Entertainment.
There will be concerts by the big
Merchants Band. The Imperial Quar-
tet. consisting OF EarlCarbauh, James
X. Young. Newton T. Hammer. ]. e. ).
kinsella. will lend its melody on many
oceasions throughout the trip A piano
donated by y. y. DeMoll X &C.. will be
available to all the boosters, and VIC
trolas. donated by y. F. Droop & Sons
Co. will be ever on the job. r. T.
Cowling.. chief photographer of the
Reclamation Service will show moving
other great national PARKS and move
ments. and there will he paraphernalia,
too. for many other skits which are In
tended as surprises for, the boosters
Joe Kallipolis. q Sir1ian son of Kali
lipolis Grotto, of this CITY, win be In
charge OF Harry ". Bcdell Joe il a
Thoroughly educated monkey. and. of
eShs ne Which s EG hs S e psoyd s 81
Max Needle. the tailor.
To Publish Paper. Z
NE. 7. Finigan. manager OF the Wash
inEton branch OF the American Multi
graph Sales Company, has installed a
iupuiBIdpH equipment on the steaIner,
which will be the mechanical means by
which a ship news, called The Booster
News. will be issued. The Booster News
has a distinguished stan. consisting OF
X. p. Andrews, admiral of the sheet; H.
c., Graham, special editor; e. X. Berry
nian. cartoonist; Henry Lansburgh. So
ciety editor; Joseph Berberich CONNER
cial editor; Claude Il. Miller, business
manager; Charles +. Crane, sporting
editor: Charles ]. Columbus, censor. Oi
course all the participants IN the trir
will be expected to contribute.
ri. C.. Cofrhan will be the multigraph
operator. He recently perfected a shir
news service when the Ford peace shir
made Its eventful voyage to Europe.
Exercising its usual care, the Retail
Merchants Association booster party
will include DIR. ]. ]. Kaveney, who will
come prepared to meet any emergency.
Tho steamer Three Rivers will reach
her dock in Washington Monday morn.
ing at O'Clock.
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