Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-08-22
THAT q. LOUIS
 RIVER TRIP Pine Bluff and Little Rock Delegations Will Join To gether and Charter the Steamer $. $. Brown.
TO MEET ROOSEVELT
Suggestion Made by Captain Leon
 Levey of This City Being Carried
 Out-Special Train Will Carry Y Pine Bluffians to Memphis.


 at St. Louis on October on steam boat from Keokuk, Ia, he will bs greeted, it is believed, by the largest fotilla of steamboats that has been assembled on the Mississippi at one place for 30 years, says the Little Rock Gazette. Arkansas will have a large delegation at St. Louis. The party will travel by the steamer s. s. Brown, which is the finest boat that ever made bid for patronage in the Arkansas river While the boat has not been exclusively in the Arkansas river trade, it has made several trips up the river to Pine Bluff, and has cast it's anchor once in Little Rock at the foot of Commerce street..
 Will Little Rock be represented i. the f1otilla of steamboats that will meet President Roosevelt at St. Louis on October 2?' was asked of w. M Kavanaugh yesterday.
 Little Rock, Pine Bluff and ths state of Arkansas will be represent. ed,'' he replied quickly. .'The S. s. Brown will be chartered. There is absolutely no doubt about it. A dele gation from Arkansas will greet the president and the party will go in it's
 own chartered boat-the s. s. Brown"
 Several days ago the Board of Trade, after it had received notifica- tion from Pine Bluff that an effort would be made to secure the S. s. Brown, appointed a committee com. prised of Clement H. Yost, w.. M. Kay- anaugh and Max Heiman to coop crate with the Pine Bluff commercial organization.
 J .L. Caldwell, secretary of the Pine Bluff Board of Trade, has written to the local Board of Trade that the boat can be secured The letter was turn ed over to the committee in charge here. In the letter Mr. Caldwell! says: 'I am informed that the Ar kansas Packet Company will char ter the boat to the two Boards of Trade, running a special train on the Cotton Belt from Little Rock by way of Pine Bluff to Memphis, thence to St. Louis and return with the presi- dential party, returning by special train to original starting point, 200 passengers to be guaranteed at $25 for the round trip"
 If the suggestions of the Pine Bluff Board of Trade are carried out tn :, boat will be decorated with appropri- ate banners. It was stated yesterday that every effort would be made to send large delegation from Arkan- sas to St. Louis. It is pointed out that this will have the effect of mak- ing Congress understand that Arkan- sas is in earnest in asking for appro- priations to improve the rivers of the state, and that it is also deeply in- terested in the deep water channel from the lakes to the Gulf of Mexico Acting Governor Pindall several weeks ago accepted an invitation to be pres. ent at the reception given to the pres- ident at St. Louis.
 c. H. Yost, chairman of the special committee, was enthusiastic yesterday over the outlook for a large delega- tion from Little Rock and the state at large. "I believe President Roosevelt's trip to the Mississippi Val ley will do more to direct the atten- tion of the country to the need of riv- CT improvements than any event in the history of the Mississippi river and it's tributaries. The way to show interest in the project is to get up I rousing delegation. An enthusiastic delegation from Little Rock and Ar kansas will demonstrate that the state is in earnest in it's efforts to bring about revival of river navi- gation."
 Details of the excursion to St. Louis have not been arranged. It