Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-03-24
LAND CONGRESS- IS
 BIG SUCCESS Pine Bluff Delegation Was Prominent at The First
 Days Session.
PULLMAN IS CHAIRMAN
TemOrarily Presides-GOy. q. N Haskell and Chairman Nor.
 man E. Mack Are Heard.

AlIlle fock, Mafcn 23.-(SpeclaD- The first annual Arkansas Land Con- gress is an assured success. The first days session was fruitful of good results in many respects. Ev- cry city and many towns of any i'm portance in Arkansas were repre- sented at the large gathering when E. R. Ratterree called the convention to order at 10:30 o'clock this morn ing and the new convention hall of the Hotel Marion was filled to over flowing with hundreds of delegates and interested spectators. The quar- tette from Rogers, Arkansas, sang their original song on Arkansas" and Judge Ratterree then read the off, cial call for the Congress-
 The introduction of Governor c. N. Haskell, of Oklahoma and Hon. Norman E. Mack, chairman of the National Democratic Committee, oc- casioned great applause Their ad- dresses were the features of the morning session. President J. N. Tillman, of the State University was elected temporary chairman, and Judge Raterree of Little Rock temporary secretary. Those who ad- dressed the convention during the afternoon were George R. Bedding, of Hot Springs; Col. s. w. Fordyce, of St. Louis; George E. Scharschug, of the Chicago Record-Herald; J. H. Curran, commissioner of immigration of Missouri, and R. P. Cross, of Chi cago, secretary of the National Land and Irrigation Congress.
 Pine Bluffs Showing.
 Pine Bluffs delegation, represent ing delegates from the Board of Trade, the Real Estate Exchange, Pine Bluff and Jefferson county, ar rived on an early morning train and marched in body to the Hotel Mar ion. Many ladies accompanied the delegates. Immediately after their arrival the delegates "got busy" dis tributing advertising matter, review ing the many advantages of Pine Bluff and Jefferson county. and five minutes later every delegate in the big convention hall was wearing a badge "Pine Bluff wants you in 1911.'' It was evident that Pine Bluff is going to prove a hard town to beat in the final vote and it was not long before the Helena .'bunch" was shouting for the Jefferson coun- ty metropolis and will remain loyal to the end. The Helena boys say they have an opportunity to pay Pine Bluff back for its generosity in send ing the Travellers to them and they are going to make good. Little Rock, as usual, is after the next Congress. Stuttgart and Hot Springs will have something to say about it, however Former Mayor George R. Bedding, of Hot Springs, heads the Vapor City delegation, and is work ing some to land the next years gathering.
 During the noon recess the Stutt- gart 'rice growers" paraded the streets in their twenty-one autos, in which they made the trip to Ark ansas county, and for moro than an hour the screech whistles on the ma chimes made the air "blue' with en- thusiasm.
 Many notables are in attendance. B. w. LeBaume, of the Cotton Belt, and his corps of assistants, are on the ground and active. Many of the largest newspapers and magazines have special writers there gathering data for Hand stories" and men of prominence from all sections of the