The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-05-10
No Dates for Big Conservation
win Be Set Until They
Return Home.
CONVENTION AT ST. PAUL
APPEARANCE or ROOSEVELT ON
THE PROGRAM WILL MEAN AN
,MMEMsE ATTENDANCE AT THE
Sig MEETING.

st. Paul. MIMI. May 1O.-Represen-
tatives OF leading St. Paul commercial
organizations have returned from
Washington with the information that
no dates will be set for the big nation
al conservation congress to be held
here In September, until President
Pinchot returns from Europe and
Theodore Roosevelt. who will be the
star speaker. arrives on his home
shores and is able to announce on
what date he may be expected Pend
Ing the return of Mr. Pinchot, all de-
tails Of arrangements for the big
meeting will be held up.
Secretary Shipp and other promin-
ent conservationists are confident that
the attendance will greatly exceed
that at any previous conferences on
conservation subjects. President War
ner, OF the st. Paul Commercial club
who was In Washington in conference
with National Association officers.
says:
seven with seating capacity for TO-
roo In the municipal auditorium, St.
Paul will be put to 1t to handle the
people who are coming. There is ey-
cry evidence that the coming con-
gress will be the greatest meeting Of
its kind ever held in the country"
President Roosevelt has already in
formed the officers of the national as
ISOLATION that they may depend upon
his presence. His appearance upon
the program will bring delegates from
every western state, and is sufficient
in the opinion of those In charge of
arrangements, to ensure the atten-
dance OF every man in the United
States who has been active in the con-
servation movement
The congress follows the recent
Minnesota Conservation congress,
which developed a delegate atten-
dance of 4,163 and was the first to be
held In any OF the states. The sue
cess OF that congress was largely in
strumental in securing the national
meetings in September for st. Paul.
Officers and men active In the Mime
sofa congress have volunteered their
services in the handling OF the larger
national congress and work is already
under way In preparation for the larg-
est convention crowds the city has
ever seen. Headquarters will doubt
less be established at the new $1,000
900 st. Paul hotel just opened, which
IS only city block distant from the
immense municipal auditorium, where
the sessions will be held.
Governor A. o. Eberhsrt, president
OF the Minnesota Conservation con-
gress and one of the leaders In the
movement to bring the national con-
gress into the northwest. is enthusiast
tic over the prospects for unusually
successful sessions.
1.-THE most noted man of the entire
country will be in attendance" he
says, land with President Roosevelt
M the leading speaker. the congress
Is bound to be tremendous success.
Here in the northwest, where conser.
walton sentiment has taken practi-
cal and active form. and our farmers,
business men, professional men and
all classes have joined hands and
definitely expressed themselves, there
Is foundation laid upon which we
may reasonably expect q national CON
gress which will give clear express
zion to the thought of the entire coun.
try or these important questions. The
conservation campaign is live sub
iect In the northwest. The coming
congress will unity sentiment and
show the country how practical con
servation may be arrived at along
reasonable, conservative and business
like lines"