Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-09-24
OPENING OF
 BIG CONVENTION Consulting Engineer For Lakes to- the Gulf Deep Waterway Association Comments On Arkansas. RGE ATTENDANCE
LARGE ATTENDANCE
Vice Pres. F.. $. Conway Will Preside in Absence 0f President
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OPENING SESSION

OPENING SESSION < The program for the opening # * session ths morning is as . " follows: * 10 o'clock a. n., convention " called to order and a br. r.ef address s by Col. F. s. Conway, Chicago, first vice president of Lakes-tc- * tha-Gulf Deep Waterways Asso- > citation. * Invocation by Rt Rev. J. R. Winchester. Bishop Diocese of < Arkansas Episcopal Church. !" Address of welcome on behalf Of l. tile Rock by Hon. Charles " E. Taylor, mayor * Address of welcome on behalf * Of the state of Arkansas by Hon " George w. DonagfNy, governor. " Address by W. K. Nsvanaush. president of the Lakas-.o-.ne- Gulf Deep Waterways Association. > > Report of the treasurer, Edwin |" * s. ,Ianroe. B l,sport of the secretary. Them " * as II. Lovelace. |" Appointment of committees on @ " credentials, "esolutlons, nou..- * * nations and auditing. :" Adjournment. |" * * * * * * * * r . ~
 Lit z Rock, Sept. 23.-Lyman F. Cooley, consulting engineer fer the Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep Waterway Association, of Chicago, arrived in Little Rock Monday morn ng for the convention which will open Tuesday. Mr. Cooley is the engineer who de- signated the scheme for the water way improvement as advocated by the association.
 Hts op ion and his ideas on the subject of of water conservation form the basis of the program which the association presents for the consider alton of the national Congress. His appearance on the platfcrm before tie . convent on Tuesday afternoon is looked forward to by he, delegates az a most interesting feature of the whole gathering. ...-' z 't.'T think great deal of your state he. declared, when seen this .mcrnil.g s at his room in the Hotel Marion more SO than a great many of youl people
 ''The. subject for considerat' on b! the deep waterway association is on1 }Nthat concerns, deeply the future de velopnent of Arkansas. l am famir jar with the State, having made , l stud' of the rivers and also having been connected with surveys n diff ferent sections now subject to, th
 devastating overf '.ows of the M sslss ippi River.
 Our plan fer conservation mean of coarse flood prevention. Tbi
 br ngs in the discussion of the wnol
 levea system, as now operated. Tn
 floods of last spring brought th
 necessity of river control fercibly be
 fore the people of this section. Wate conservation necessarily includes
 program for collateral conserva.io
 and ,eclamation. Wh le we belev
 that there should be a deep water
 way ietween the Lakes and the Gul
 this also will necessarily mean tn
 control of the r.vsrs and the conse I quent protection to the great area
 of land now overflcwed annually wit
 the consequent loss commercially
 the State Arkansas is yitally in
 terested in the deep waterway pro
 ject."
 1 MT. Cooley has spent his lite. i'm
 in studying hydraulics and waterwa
 problems. His addresses are pull
 lishei by the association. He ha l worked out in deta'l the proposed in
 provement in the Mississippi and tril utar:e, to form the connected chain {
 deep channels and controlled river
 He will talk on the general subjet of the opportunities offered in th