The Cairo bulletin., 1905-06-28
LEAVE TONIGHT
FOR CINCINNATI
Mayor Parsons and President
Smith, of Commercial Club
GOING TO CONFERENCE
TO ARRANGE FOR NATIONAL
WATERWAYS CONVENTION
WHICH WILL BE HELD
IN WASHINGTON I'M
DECEMBER.


Mayor George Parsons and Presi-
dent Z. A. smith of the Commercial
club. viii leave tonight for Cincinnati.
where they viii attend a preliminary
meeting which is 10 be held in that
city tomorrow and Friday for the
purpose of arranging for the call Of
the national waterways convention to
be held in Washington next Deem
Der
Commenting on the coming meeting
.of yesterday said:
Colonel John l. Vance Of Columbus,
Ohio, president of the Ohio Valley I'm
proyement association, arrived at the
Grand Hotel yesterday to make ar
.rangements for the reception OF the
delegates to the preliminary confer
euce which is to meet there on Thurs.
day and Friday and arrange the call
for the national waterway convention,
to be held il Washington next Deem.
her
During the day he held a confer
ence with Captain J. f. Ellison, treas.
urer Of the association, and call was
issued for a meeting Of the executive
committee to be held at the Business
Mems club tonight TO arrange for the
reception and entertainment Of the
delegates The conference win be
called to order in the convention hall
at the Grand at 10 o'clock Thursday
morning.
The proposed move is not receiving
the support from the seaboard cities
that should come from those sources.
This is probably due to the feeling
that exists among them that their i'm.
provements are of more importance
than those OF inland water ways but
the coming conference will lay the en-
| tire matter before them in such a
way as to remove all doubt as to the
| purpose of the proposed waterways
convention-the securing of greater
appropriations from congress for wa
terways improvements to be applied
proportionately as such appropriations
are now applied
Captain Ellison has received word
that the following associations will be
represented:
1 St Francis River Improvement asso-
/ ciation-Iohn A. Fox. Blytheyille,
Ark, and z. N. Estes, Memphis, Tenn.
Pittsburg Coal eXchange-Johm T.
/ bravo and J. Frank Tilley,
City of Cairo. Ill--Hon, George Par
sons, mayor, and z. A. Smith, presi-
lent Commercial club.
Merchants Exchange, St Louis, No
Isaac NJ. Mason and Frank Gainnie
Lake Erie and Ohio River Ship Ca
nal association-E. ] Lloyd and j w
WaJdrop, Pittsburg Pa.
Merchants and Manufacturers assoc
citation Pittsburg Pa.-John II. Jones
and Thomas NJ. Rees.
Louisville Commercial club-W G
Williams, f. B Norman and NJ p
! Bevllle
Chamber Of Commerce. Pittsburg
Pa. John Eaton and George II. An
derson
O. v J. association-Captain w y
Rogers, " F., 0. v l. A. Pittsburg
| va.
| Wabash River Improvement asso
citation, Peoria, Ill.-Delegates appoint
ed. but names not yet furnished.
| Tennessee River Improvement asso
citation u A. Patton, Chattanooga
Tenn, and Henry A. Skeggs, Decatur
Ala
Great Lakes-Hon Harvey ID Gould
er, Cleveland Ohio
The Upper Mississippi River I'm
provement association Thomas VII
lIinson, Burlington Iowa, and Il, p
Boswell, Quincy, Illinois
Dubuque Produce Exchange, Dr
buque, IowaN Walker president.
National Board Steam Navigation
James A. Henderson, president