Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-05-28
HELENA READY
 FOR TRAVELLERS Largest Crowd of Visitors Ever Recorded There is Expected Next Week.
MANY SPECIAL TRAINS
Barbecue at Ideal Spot ot-Clarksdale, Miss, to Send Big Delegation
 Some of the Features.
Special to the Graphic)


 Helena, Ark, May 27.-Each day shows increased enthusiasm in Ark ansaw Traveller circles In addition to the special trains from Pine Bluff, Little Rock and Fort Smith, comes ad- vice from Maranna that that city will send special train to Helena for the Arkansaw Travellers celebra- tion on June ?. be.aring a delegation Of more than one hundred Letters for hotel reservations are coming in to Chairman Amos Jarmon in punches. MT. Jarmon having received requests for reservations of more than two hundred rooms already and each mail brings additional applications.
 In addition to the huge amount of advertising which the committee has done by mail, six men are HOW cover ing the various railroads advertising the convention in every city, village and hamlet through which they pass.
 Adyices from Clarendon, Brinkley, Forrest City and Clarksdale, Miss, and other neighboring cities would indicate that never in the history of Helena has larger crowd been with in it's gates than will be here on the three days Of the Travellers conven- tion Juno ?, 3, and 1.
 Yesterday afternoon the executive tainment Committee were the guests of President E. c. Horner, of the street railway, on a trolley ride to Beech Crest, three miles west of the city, for the purpose of selecting a place for the fireworks display, field beautiful site can be found in the whole of the Southwest than that sell ected. The barbecue will be served at Beech Crest under veriuable for est of the most beautiful towering beech trees to be found in the south west. Several gentlemen in the par ty remarked that they had travelled the whole of the United States and no more ideal place for the barbecue than the one selected could be found within the confines of America While at Beech Crest the committed decided to hold the business session of the convention in the Beech Crest Theater, which will be completed by the end of this week and which is said to be the handsomest summer theater in the south. The boxes of the theater, twelve in number, will be reserved exclusively for the ladies who attend the convention.
 Chairman Straub, of the barbecue committee, reports that he has now secured over eight hundred squirrels and they are being delivered to him at the rate of one hundred and fifty to two hundred and fifty daily and that by Saturday night he will have received his full quote of two thous and squirrels. All of which will be barbecued, and which will be in ad- dition to other items on the menu. The barbecue will be prepared to serve three thousand people and will be equipped with seats, electric fans and everything to make it most appetiz- ing. Geo. l.. Gleyre, of Little Rock, chairman of the amusement commit tee arrived in Helena this morning and advises that he has arranged the most unique contests in the field sport line that have ever been exhibited at Travellers convention.
 One thousand Japanese lanterns have been provided to be swung in the Beech Crest grove where the fire works will be exhibited.