The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-11-07
'BRlDCEPORTERS
 TO ATTEND CONN. 6. OF c. NESTING
Extensive Program Has Been Arranged for New
 Haven Meeting

The annual meeting of the Connect icut Chamber of Commerce will be held on November 18th and 2Oth at New Haven and 1t is anticipated that "a large number of members of the Bridgeport Chamber of Commerce will attend. The session will be per haps one of the most important con- nercial gatherings ever held in the state as the members of the Foreign Trade Missions which attended the Atlantic City Foreign Trade Confer ence will be guests of the Connecticut Chamber.
 Speakers of national reputation will ! address the gathering at it's various sessions. Headquarters of the con vention will be at the Hotel Taft. There will be two meetings of gen. eral interest to all members and guests to be held in Woolsey Hall and at the Hotel Taft. There. will also be F group meetings each, in smaller halls for the six groups into which
 Connecticut business and finance has | been divided. namely, Organizations, Trade and Commer Banking and Insurance, Industries. Public Utilities
 and Agriculture.
 i There will be a get-together meet ] ing the morning of November 19 and
 group meetings in the afternoon The large evening meeting will be devoted
 to the Industrial Situation. Ex-Mayor- Ole Hanson of Seattle will tell how he
 handled the Bolshevic uprising in his i city and W. H. Vandervoort a mem- : Der of the United States War Labor { Board, and president of the Root & l Wagner Ordnance Com
 pany of East Moline, Illinois. who has
 just returned from abroad to survey i industrial conditions there, will take
 up the commercial aspect of the situa- ton. The group meetings will be con- ] tinued the morning of November 2Oth. In the afternoon Miss Frances 1 A. Keller of the Inter-Racial Confer
 ence will speak on the problem of
 Americanizatfon and checking the tide of emigration from this country
 to Europe which menaces the indus
 tries of the Nation. The Inter-Racial { Conference has been formed to meet
 the alarming labor situation confront ing us when over 2,000,00O foreigners
 have applied for return passage to
 Europe, more than could be trans ported in the past two years. Flee i tions of the Board of Directors for i 1920 and 1921 will take place at the end of this meeting.
 | The banquet will end the conven- i ton that evening and Connecticut is 1 honored to have as guests that even ! ing the members of the Inter-AI1ied
 Business Missions sent by England, l France, Belgium and Italy who came
 to this country under the auspices of 1 the Federal Government and the Chamber of Commerce of the United i States to attend the International
 Trade Conference he'll at Atlantic
 City the week of October 20. These
 missions are now touring the eastern part of the country to locate mate rials and business reconstruction over seas. Among these representatives of
 foreign business are Nj Eugene
 Schneider of Paris, president of the 1 Cruesot Iron Works which manufac- tured the famous French "75's'' and
 Sir Arthur Shirley Benn, K. B. E., M
 P. secretary of the Association of i Chambers of Commerce of the United i Kingdoms of Great Britain.
 1 The committee in charge of the group meetings have endeavored to select subjects of vital importance to l the group interests and speakers of
 technical knowledge and experience. l The Departmental Meeting on Or ganizations will devote its first ses-
 sion to "A Successful Chamber of Commerce-How to Get It. by Roy
 Smith, Secretary of the Albany, New
 York, Chamber of Commerce, followed
 by discussions led by local Chambers
 of Commerce men. The second session
 will be devoted to City Government
 and the committee hopes to secure George McAnepy, business manager of the New York Times, 10 discuss the
 subject.
 The Department of Trade and Com imerce will devote one session to the i problems of wholesalers when the economic aspect will be discussed and 1 one to retailers when the matter of
 overhead expenses of small firms and competition with mail order houses
 and chain stores with large capital
 behind them will be the subjects. The Insurance and Banking group
 will hear discussnons of fire, group.
 and government insurance respec- lively bv Henry Moir of the Actuary l Home Life Insurance Company. ! George E. Turner of the National Council of Insurance Federations and
 E. F. Chamberlain of the Travellers
 Insurance Company at the first ses- sion. Henry K. Twitchen, president
 of the Chemical National Bank of
 New York, will talk on ''The Rela- tionship of Banks to Commerce and Industries" Charles T. Treadway Of the Bristol, Connecticut, National i Bank will talk on the relation be- tween Chambers of Commerce and
 hanks, and Nathan D. Prince of the
 Hartford, Connecticut, Trust Company will discuss '+Connectlcut Banking. 1 The Department of Industries will
 have W. S. Murray, a consulting en-
 gineer of New York City, discuss Power Efficiency at one session and
 the second will be addressed by l George Hawkins of the Goodyear
 Rubber Tire Company of Akron, Ohio.
 who will talk on the Housing Problem
 and the Goodyear solution of it. The
 first meeting of the Public Utilities
 Group will be devoted to the Street
 Railway problem. Bently w. Warren of Boston will speak and informal
 discussion will follow. Richard T.
 Higgins, chairman of the Public Util-
 ities Commission of Connecticut, will
 give a bird's-eye view of the Public Utilities situation in this state, w. l., Robb of the Renssalear Polytechnic
 Institute of Troy will talk on the Possibilities of Connecticut's Future Power Development"
 The Department of Agriculture will have, one session on Financing the Farmer" which will be addressed by representatives of the National Land Bank of Springfield and a local pri- vate bank, and Joseph W. Alsop of
 Avon will explain the successful