Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-05-12
Fully 5o,ooo are ex-

railroad strikes. Fully 5o,oo0 are ex- pected at Boston.
 Boston is getting ready to receive the Christian Endeavor hosts, and both the citizens of the town and the au- thorities of the society are making strenuous efforts to prevent repeti- tion of the experience in New York three years ago. For, though New York was never overwhelmed before, and never has been since, by any crowd of visiting strangers, there is no doubt that she was swamped by the 1 Christian Endeavor delegates in 1899.
 Some time before the convention" said President Clark, i've began to make advance applications to the New York hotels for rooms One hotel keeper to whom we applied asked how many were expected. We told him we could not tell, but we looked for very large attendance.
 "'Well" he said, I'll take care of them. Bring them all here. You need not engage rooms in advance in the summer time. We'll be ready
 ''Ihe mans eyes actually twinlSled as he thought of the apparent humor of the situation. The worst of it was that most of the hotel keepers took the same view of the matter, and we finally had to let things take their course. The newspapers also failed to appre- ciate what was coming, and it was not until the telegraph began to tell the editors that the railroads were glutted with Christian Endeavor delegates, whose special trains were stalled all along the lines, that the journals un- derstood that there was any real news matter in it all When the crowds | swooped down on the hotels their pro- prietors were in state of consterna- tion, and when the newspapers finally grasped the situation their reporters besieged us for matter One publisher made proposition to go to Montreal the next year and get out special con vention edition each day of it's session if we would give him exclusive access to special news sources. But of course we could not do that"
 Boston has heard of all this, and Boston doesn't mean to be swamped. Every available room in every hotel has already been taken for the En- deavorers for convention week; many school buildings, which will then be vacant, have been engaged and cots have been rented; householders, both in the city and the suburbs, have agreed to receive guests, and it is now believed that the 0,o0o delegates who are expected can all be properly cared for. Of course they will pay their .1 |. by the hotels, and many aristoeratic houses never before opened to stran- gers for money will entertain paying guests from July 10 to IA, inclusive, 1895 The cost of the convention to the society, for rent of the meeting places and headquarters, printing post age and the thousand and one pieces of preliminary work, will not be much if any less than s20,000 This large sum has been mostly raised already by contributions from the societies of Boston and Massachusetts chiefly. Many public spirited citizens of this fine old town have given freely, how ever, as they can well afford to, for four days visit of 50,000 guests can not fail to result in the leaving of many times S20,000 in the coffers of Boston's merchants, boarding-house keepers and hotels and restaurants.
 If the attendance is as large as is ex- pected, and each guest expends but s1 day, the sum total will be s200,000, and the chances are that it will be nearly double that. Although most railroads will reduce their fares one half, the sum to be paid for railroad tickets by delegates will be enormous. At the low estimate of S10 each, it will amount to cool half million. Add to this the sums that will be expended for food on the way, the sums to be spent in Boston, and the total expendi- lures caused by the convention cannot be much less than three-quarters of million, while they may reach round million.
 The plans of the convention have been quite generally exploited in the newspapers, for MT. William T. Ellis, of the Boston office, is man of expe-
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