The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1922-04-06
PLANS FORMING FOR
Big CONVENTION

Blu CUNVENIlON
Delegates to the convention of the
International Apple Shippers Conven-
tion to be held at Seattle, beginning
July 26, are due taste Of real west
ern hospitality. Rival activities of
Oregon and Washington fruit growers
are indicative that othe visiting fruit
men. who will number an estimated
300, willibe treated to the fat of the
land of northwestern promise and per-
mitted to feast their eyes on every
scenic wonder the two states possess
in the neighborhood of fruit districts.
To date growers of Yakima and We
natchee, apparently, have little the
best of their fellow orchardsts of
Hood River and Mosier. Plans of the
apple shippers organization now con-
template but one special train, and
this, according to the itinerary pro-
posed, will travel Seattleward over one
of the northern lines penetrating the
Washington fruit districts. Hood Riv-
er growers and shipping interests are
determined that they shall have last
laugh, and they are using all the influ-
ences that they themselves, the Union
Pacific system and the Oregon State
Chamber of Commerce have to secure
another special train. which shall be
routed by the O.-W. R. & N. line down
the Columbia river. The Commercial
club is aiding in the campaign. In
deed. this organization, with j. H.
Fredricy as it's president last year,
was largely instrumental in bringing
the convention of apple shippers to the
west coast. Mr.. Fredricy grew elo.
quent in a letter to the convention. in
session in Chicago last summer, and
followed his letter with a long tele-
gram, rendering a hearty invitation to
the fruit jobbers to journey to Oregon
and Washington and get acquainted
with growers of the boxed apple sec
tions. Mr.. Fredricy's plans have con-
tlnually called for the visit of train
load of the delegates here, and he is
not going to leave out any effort. he
declares, in making good.
A committee of fruit men, consist
ing of P. F. Clark, A. E. Woolpert, c.
H. Castner, j. c. Duckwall and Field
ing S. Kelly, has been appointed to
make arrangements for Hood Rivers
share in entertaining the visitors and
in securing recognition for Oregon's g
claims on the time of the delegates.
Mr.. Clark has already visited Seattle
to confer with headquarters com nit
tees there. The Apple Growers Asso-
citation. he says, has reserved Dromi-
nent hotel quarters and this district
will figure prominently in the affairs
of the meeting. In conjunction with |
the Commercial club the fruit men of |
this vicinity are preparing special
individual invitation to be mailed to
every delegate who will attend the Sc
attic convention.
Whatever may be the outcome of
the Hood River akima rivalry" says
Mr.. Clark, 1--WE are very sure to re-
ceive visits from large number of the |
apple buyers. Our name |
the districts scenery is pretty we'll |
known. AS typical of the way manv |
of the eastern apple buyers are feeling,
| will tell you of letter | have just |
received from r. G. Philips, of Roch-
ester, N. Y, executive secretary of
the association. He writes that he |
will not come to the Pacific northwest |
without including in his plan call by
Hood River. Many are feeling just as
he is.
MIR. Clark and others express the
sentiment that the Seattle convention
is going to inaugurate new era in
of fruit men. They declare
that the visiting apple men are going
to become so enamoured of the cline
and scenery of the Pacific northwest
and that other annual conventions will
follow at northwest points. 1t is not
Unlikely that Portland. if she seeks it,
will be made a rendezvous for the ap-
Die buyers at some future date. Port
and's hospitality as convention city
s cited, and the claim made that Ore
yon, if but given the chance, will ulti-
nately show the apple men just how
delegates to a national convention can
,e entertained.
The Seattle convention, it is said.
will be unusual in that it will probably
,e attended by as many producers of
lpples as by buyers. and the latter this
ummer will be made acquainted, by
Iirect personal touch, with the prob
ems the growers face. From this
tandpoint, it is expected that the Sc
title meeting will result in more than
,erfuntory action toward mutual bene-
its. The magnificent facilities for in
ercoastal water handling of the apple
reights will be brought to the atten-
ion of buyers, and it is anticipated
hat this feature will do much toward
new competition between
water and rail transportation of fruit. !,
he visitors will be shown dock facili-
les in Seattle and Portland. While the
Meeting will be held in Seattle, local
hippers declare that Portland because
f its record in apple tonnage, handled
irectly to export through the Panama
anal the past season, will figure very
in discussions in the Seat
lie convention.
Plans of the local committee call for .
laborate entertainment of the guests .
Tho come this way. Sessions will be
eld at the Columbia Gorge hotel.
iotor jaunts through all orchard dis {
ricts will be arranged. and trips up
round the base of Mount Hood will be
for those who are more
inclined. Mr.. Fredricy will
axe personal charge of all the apple |
uyers who desire to try out trout fish I
~ on the upper stretches of Hood )