The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-08-04
Men ut Head of Forestry, Irrigation
Water Ways and Government Of
ficials Head Five Days Program

SPOKANE, wash, Aug. 2.-Every-
thing is in readiness for the 18th ses-
sions of the National Irrigation con-
gress in Spokane, August 9 to IA,
when experts will discuss problems of
retaining arid and swamp lands, for
estry, deep waterways, good roads,
BODYBUILDING and the conservation of
the country's natural resources.
George E. Barstow of Texas, will pro-
side, and among the, 1000 delegates
will be representatives from every
state and territory in the union and
the provinces in Canada, 80 delegates
from Europe, the southern republics
and the orient, also several cabinet
officers officials of the United States
forestry and reclamation services, rail-
road presidents, bankers, engineers,
farmers, orchardists and truck gar
deners.
Monster Parade.
Various stages of the development
of the Pacific Northwest will be shown
by elaborate floats and other devices
in two parades of progress ana
march in review of the Industrial and
ARMY, lV,VVU iIleH anu %
bands of music, in Riverside avenue
on August 10, II and II, when the
electrical illuminations and decora-
lions will be the most pretentious ever
attempted in this part of the west.
There will also be demonstrations of
IA methods of supplying moisture to
the land by artificial means and ex-
hibits of products.
One of the entertainment features is
a public initiation of the delegates to
the congress into the Mysterious Or
der of E-Nak- Ope and the installation
of the supreme officers under the di-
rection of Imperial Kopsane Seabury
Merritt and his staff on the evening of
Friday, August 13. There will also be
a series of receptions. banquets, and
excursions to nearby lakes and resorts.
Entertainment Provided.
L. G. Monroe, secretary of the Spo-
kane chamber of commerce. has re-
ceived voluntary pledges from $50 no.
tells and restaurants that there will
be no advance in rates, and in addi-
ton he has offers from $50 members
of the organization who will each en-
terrain from one to four delegates at
their homes. Fifteen hundred high
school students will also be at the dis
posal of the delegates as secretaries.
Advance guards of the cities bid
ding for the 18th sessions are already
in Spokane and indications are there
will be lively six-cornered fight be-
tween Pueblo, San Francisco, Chicago,
st. Louis, Rochester, N. Y, and Char
lesion, S. c. The last named has the
support of the entire southern delega-
ton, while Colorado counts upon the
western states. San Francisco has
hopes of landing the solid vote of the
Pacific states and sprinkling from
the east. while Chicago, st. Louis and
Rochester are making gum-shoe cam
paigns.
Opens August 8.
r. Insinger, chairman of the board
of control, will open the sessions at
10 o'clock the morning of August 9
by introducing President Barstow, af-
ter which the Spokane Choral society
of $50 voices under the direction of
Karl Riedelsberger, will sing the Irri-
Pratt will then deliver brief address
SEES of welcome, the responses being by
Mr.. Barstow and others. Following
the reading of message from Presi-
dent Taft, the various committees will
be appointed and the executive COM
mittee will make it's report. Among
the speakers on the afternoon pro-
gram are the following:
First Days Program.
DIR. George c. Pardee, Oakland,
former governor of California;; F. H.
Newell, director United State Recla-
nation service; Joseph NJ. Carey
Cheyenne, Wyo., author of Carey act;
DR.. E. A. Bryan, president Washing
ton state college; General Ben ]. Viii
joen, La Mesa N. M. There will be
public reception at Masonic temple
in the evening.
On August 10.
August 10, morning:-Gifford Pin
chot, United States forester: R. E.
Campbell, forestry department, Cam
ada; George S. Long, Tacoma; F. w.
Mulkey and E. T. Allen, Portland,
Ore; N. Kaumanns, imperial German
agricultural attache. Afternoon
John Barrett, director of international
bureau of South American republics;
DR.. w. J. MCGEE, Washington, D. c.;
J. N. Teal, Joint Conservation commit
tee, Portland, Ore; Alex Mcpherson,
Boise, Idaho; N. w. Harrdis, Chicago.
Evening-Samuel Hill, president
Washington State Good Roads associ-
alton. and Samuel Lancaster, highway
expert, Seattle.
August II.
August IL, morning.-United States
Senator Francis c. Newlands, Nevada;
Howard Elliott, president Northern
Pacific Railway company; Liberty
Hyde Bailey, director New York state
college of agriculture; D. C. Henry,
consulting engineer United States re-
clamation service; Frederick H.
Griswold, Chicago; Congressman
Miles Poindexter, Washington. After
noon-Richard A. Ballinger secretary
of the interior; F. R. Gooding, former
governor of Idaho; Clarence Johnson,
state engineer of Wvominp. SamlIa1 Fl