The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-09-22
MANY FEATURES FOR
IRRIGATION CONGRESS
Electrical Parade Expected to
Be Greatest Spectacle Ever
Seen in West.
NOTED MEN TO SPEAK
Subjects of Vital Interest to
Country's Development
viii Be Discussed.

Thirteen states OF the union will b,
represented by men OF national fam,
a. speakers at the twentieth Nationa
Irrigation congress which meets here
September 80 to October 8, in addition
to dozen or moro United States gov
ernment officials and representatives
of foreign governments.
This array of talent goes to make NJ
q programme that will excel in interest
that of any previous session of the con.
gress, 1t is declared. In addition to
the business programme for the 1912
session. the Utah board of control, un.
der the direction of Chairman George
A. Snow, has arranged programme of
entertainment for delegates and Wis
itors that will make the convention one
of the most enjoyable ever held in the
west,
Programme Completed.
Details OF the programme have been
practically completed, the following
order, however, being subject to slight
change:
Preceding the opening of the con.
gress on the morning of September 80,
the queen OF irrigation and her atteD"
daats will be escorted into the city by
the governor and his staff, city Off
cials, military organizations and bust
ness men in line OF march ending. at
the noted Salt Lake tabernacle. The
congress will formally be opened by
the queen and there will follow mus
ical programme with the rendition of
the "Ode to Irrigation ss the prln-
cipal feature. This ode will be rendered
by the famous tabernacle choir of Salt
Lake. augmented to 500 voices and the
rendition will be under the personal
direction of the composer, Professor j.
j. Mcclellan, and accompanied by an
Edward P. kmball at the console.
The Mormon choir will also render
patriotic airs under the direction Of its
leader, Evan Stephens.
Addresses Of Welcome.
Addresses of welcome by Governor
William Spry and Mayor Samuel C.
Park, with response by Senator Francis
G. Newlands, president Of the congress,
and the report Of the executive com.
mittee will also be made at the opening
meeting.
The second session, on the afternoon
OF SSpISuuDeT OU, VIII DS lue OccdSlOu
for addresses by Senator Reed Smoot
of Utah, who viii talk on TLiberaiiz,
ing Our Land Laws; former Governor
A. L. Thomas of Utah, who issued the
call for the first congress twenty.one
years ago; Governor Joseph NJ Carey
of Wyoming, former Governor George
c. Pardee Of California, George E.
Bartsow Of Texas, DR.. Seymour b.
Young Of Utah and Fl. N. Hayes Of
Utah.
Grand Electrical Pageant.
On the evening Of the opening day
there will be the most elaborate enter
tainment feature Of the congress in the
form of grand parade and electrical
pageant. This will include a series of
floats representing the history and
progress of irrigation In the United
States and showing the products of the
various irrigation districts of the coun-
try, varied with artistic and musical
features galore. This pageant will un.
doubtedly be the most spectacular en-
tertainment of its kind ever presented
in the lntermountaip west. Following
the parade, reception Will be given
at the Salt Lake Commercial club.
The principal features of the third
meeting Of the congress will include the
following addresses: "Increasing the
Duty Of Water Prof. B. A. Etchev-
cry, California; "Problems of the
Actual l. .cigator,'' J: T. Hinkle. Orc
Currency SYSTEM J. B. Case. Kansas;
Irrigation Securities and the Prac-
teal Working OF an Irrigation Pro.
Ject,' George A. Snow, Utah; "The