Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-02-12
MANY Will ATTEND RIVER
IMPROVEMENT CONGRESS
Elaborate Preparations Made to Entertain Guests
Of City In Social Way and Some Excel
lent Addresses Are On Program
Delegates viii Be Taken to Points Of Interest.
Cows. Johnson and Burke and Congress.
man Ellis Among Speakers

The Upper Missouri River Improve.
ment congress will meet in the city
today and its sessions will continue
for three days. Delegates have been
generally appointed through the state
and particularly from cities along the
Missouri river and in the western part
of the state and the indications are
that the meeting will be profitable
and instructive. Commissioner Gil
breath is handling the arrangements
and under his direction the delegates
will be well entertained and taken
care Of.
Already large number of dele
gates have arrived in, the city from
all directions and the hotels present
an animated appearance, reminding
one Of the legislative session. From
the number of rooms engaged in adj
vance the hotels will be taxed to &C.
SOmAoU1CO IAC CIOUN. ASSSSp1AOA1
committees will meet the incoming
trains today, upon which the larg-
err number of delegates will arrive
and they will be conducted to the
Commercial club and there badged
informed as to the program and made
acquainted with other delegates and
made to feel at home.
The delegates will assemble at
Commercial club hall at 1880 p. m.
and at 2 o'clock the party will be
taken by special train to the peniten-
tiary, where Warden Hellstrom will
greet them and conduct them through
this interesting to the outsider in
stitution. From the pen the party
will proceed by train to Fort Lincoln
and pleasant hour occupied in an
inspection of this model military post.
In the evening there will be an in
formal smoker at the Commercial club,
when addresses will be in order and
general getting acquainted made
the order Of the evening.
Thursday will be the big day OF
the meeting. The delegates will meet
at the Commercial club rooms at 10
a. M, where the preliminary meeting
will be held, committees appointed
and other matters pertaining to the
convention arranged.
At 2 pm the convention will be
called to order at the house chamber
at the capitol, when addresses viii
be made by Congressman Ellis oil
Kansas City, who is member of the
waterways committee and thorough
ly familiar with the matter of pro-
motion of navigation on the inland
waterways of the country. Governor
j. A. Johnson of Minnesota, is also
expected to be here and make an ad
dress. The program as SO far prepar
ed by Mr.. Gilbreath for the meeting
is as follows:
Prayer ................. Rev. MagiI
Address of Welcome :. Mayor Smyth
Response .......... A. M. Packard
Address ........ Congressman Ellis
Address $3.50. Gov. John A. johnson
Some other additions will be made
to the program which is not yet com
pleted.
The Commercial Club band will fur
nish good music at all the principa
occasions. A special train will be ru1
from Mandan daily and large dele
cation of people from that side of thu
river is expected according TO advicei
received last night.
Thursday at II a. m. the delegate!
will be taken to the Missouri rive
and shown what the government il
doing in rip-rapping the banks to pre-
serve them, the Indian school will b.
visited and other features in tina
neighborhood shown the visitors.
Thursday night two banquets viii
be held, one at the Northwest and on,
at the Grand Pacific hotel, which will
be necessary to accommodate thu
large number of delegates and visit
ors to the city. A list of toasts ha!
been prepared, and speakers will ad
dress the guests at both banquets
An excellent menu will be served a
each banquet and the guests will b
entertained with wit, humor and goot
cheer, as we'll as by some addresses
rejecting seriously the possibilities
Of river navigation and Of the stat
of North Dakota.
Mandan will be over with big del
egation Thursday and will bring ;
band and other accessories Of enliv
ening interest. Dickinson is expect