Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-06-23
ELkS PROMISED
 4 BIG TIME Business Men of Atlantic City to Spend $50,000 for Bunting Alone
GORGEOUS STEEL PIER
Service of Liquors to be Tab0oed In Convention With Sullivan
 Candidacy.

Atlantic City, June 22.-From end to end and side to side Atlantic City gay mecca of the pleasure seekers, will be transformed into a. veritable symphony in royal purple as a fitting tribute to the hundred thousand Elks the twenty-f fifth Grand lodge Reunion of the Order.
 To make good the city's reputation for doing things upon an elaborate scale, hotel proprietors and business men will spend S50,O00 for bunting alone. in order that none may say that Atlantic City did not go the limit to make itself as pretty as the most exacting would have it.
 Half as much again will be eXpend- ed for electrical effects upon hotels the broad avenues and the interna- tionally famous Boardwalk, the Wood en Way of rhyme and reason, which for five full miles, from the Inlet where the yachts are to be found, down to Chelsea. where the mill'on- aires of many cities have their sum- mer villas will be canoped after night fall with incandescent fire.
 Huge electric signs upon the Board walk caravansaries will flash to the stranger the headquarters of State and city delegations, and the Steel Pier with it's crashing bands where the Grand Lodge will hold it's sessions and everything will be free to the wearer of the convention button, will be gorgeously bedecked with purple bunting by day and bathed in purple radiance after night.
 Atlantic avenue. one houndred rect wide, where the great Reunion parade will take place on the fourth day of convent on week. will be bunting swathed boulevard, Business houses and office buildings will be gorgeous in their decorations. Stands of col IT will wave from every lighting stand ard up and down the broad through fare. City Hall where nearly every office holder is staunch Elk, will De resplendent with electrical effects outlining the insignia of the order strings of purple incandecent gloees upon the trolley standards will carry out the semblance of a canopy of blue fire.
 Headouarters are alreody being made ready for the delegations from far and near which will shortly ~ moving shoreward. Grand Exalted Ruler Herman and busy Grand Lodge officers with 2 mass of detail requiring their attention before the Grand Lodge Is called to order on Inc morning of July 10th, are expect ed to take possession of the Hotel Strand, which is to be Grand Lodge headauarters, during the week ol tue 3rd A suite of twenty rooms will De utilized for business purposes.
 The Strand, a ten-story hostelfy'
 5 of the largest and finest of the health front caravanaries, IS a hoh- rcaused hotel. So also are many or the other houses where Elks will De cuartered. Col. John P. SuillVan' oi New Orleans, one oi the seVefai ac- five candidates, for Grand ENai'eo p,,or ann ,onced during a visit here Last week that service of liquors W'ii be entirely tabooed in connection with his candidacy Officers oi the Reunion Committee of arrangements have announced that the program ol entertainment VII be elaborate
 The fight for the Grand EXal'eo Rulership will be one Of the closest contests of it's kind in recent years according to present lndlc'iohs' Arthur M9reland. of New York, Will command the backing of New forh Lodge No. 1, with all of its powef1ui s,f,uence Charles R. Rasbury, or Dallas, will come to the shore With large body of delegates from the
 ost and southwest earnestly sup porting his cause. Col Sullivan Q, New Orleans, with the south enlls'eo ,nder his banner. feels even greater confidence since Cincinnati, the nome lodge of Grand Exalted Ruled Herr mann, declared for him, and cnes.el D Ray of Philadelphia, endorsed his cause. Past Grand Exalted huiel sammis and his followers gre said to be, with the man from Dallas.