Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-09-16
EIGHT HUNDRED
ATTEND MEETING
Forty Five Nations Repre-
sented at international
Congress
GOVERNMENT AT
Visitors Received at the White House
BY President Wilson.-Go.
ing to Chicago.

Washington. Sept. 15.-Eight hun
dred delegates representing forty .fou,
nations beside the United States were
gathered in the auditorium of the Ma
tional Museum today when the third
International Congress of Refrlgcra-
ton was formally opened under the
official auspices of the United States
government.
Secretary of Agriculture Houston.
honorary president of the Congress,
launched THE big convention with an
address in which he welcomed the
delegates to Washington on behalf of
the government, and told of the in.
Vulnerable benefits which accrue to
mankind through the perfection Of
the science of refrigeration. which he
classed among the new arts.
The purposes of the convention aad
plans that will be followed at the
meetings in Chicago were outlined by
DR.. Frank w. Gunsaulus, president of
the Armour Institute of Technology of
Chicago, who is president of the third
international congress- He told Of the
rapid progress made in the science Of
refrigeration and predicted more
rapid strides for the future.
After the opening of the coi:grcss
the delegates We're received at the
White House by President Wilson who
delivered a brief informal address of
welcome on behalf of the nation, The
Congress Is being held in the United
States on the invitation extended by
President Taft, who was given special
authority by a joint resolution passed
! by Congress.
Following the reception by Presi-
dent Wilson, the delegates were taker
In Charge by raasa. :. com nit:.t.
representing the Chamber of Commerce
and Board of Trade and headed by
Edward O. Whitford. president of the
Washington Market Company. Tours
In every section of Washington was
made by the delegates in Sightseeing
and private autos.
The Congress of the United States
passed joint resolution. approved
June %, 1910, comforting authority
upon President Taft to Austria Hun
gary presented President Taft's in
vitation to the congress at Vienna and
It was accepted.
The Secretary of State then Off
cially invited forty-four nations to
send official government delegates to
the third congress in addition to the
delegates representing industrial as
sociations. technical societies. insti-
tutions OF learning. experts and 9TH
ers interested in the application of
refrigeration to various industries.
The President OF this country was
made the patron of the congress, and
his cabinet officer having charge of
refrigeration in this nation the Sec
rotary of Agriculture, was elected
honorary president of the Congress.
Accordingly the third congress will
be Of an official character.
Because of the official atmosphere
attached to the Congress it was
deemed proper to launch the $ third
congress in Washington, d. c., under
official auspices. but the business
meetings of the congress will be held
in Chicago, which was chosen be-
cause of its almost central location
in the nations, it's vast refrigerating
interests and easy accessibility by
water and railroad.
The delegates now in New York.
most Of whom are from foreign lands |
will board train tomorrow afternoon
at 2 o'clock and will arrive in the ma
ti0nal capital at o'clock at night !
Monday will be devoted to the official
opening of the Congress and at 10
o'clock on Tuesday morning the dele
gates will leave Washington on spec
ial trains de luxe for Chicago. arriv-
ing in the Windy City at o'clock
Wednesday morning
The congress will be in session in
Chicago from September II to Sep
tember "a.
The chief object of the internatlon-
al congress is to bring into closer
k0uch the scientific and practical men
81 the world engaged in the art of
Cooperation between
.hese men, will aid the numerous in
JuBtries that do or can receive bene- I
Il from refrigeration.
n is also the purpose of the con-
|rees to determine the best methods
I refrigerating perishable foods in
ran6it and when stored for conser-