Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-05-19
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business will have been completed and the members of the association will be free to participate in the big automobile ride arranged for them by the chamber of commerce.
 Need Many Automobiles.
 Because of the very large number of Elks in attendance upon the meet ing, many automobiles will be needed for the parade. A call was issued yes terday by the chamber of commerce at the ladies entrance to the Hotel Pines at o'clock, and to remain there until the ride is officially started.
 Visiting cars will take positions on the south side of Fifth avenue, op- posite the hotel, and it is planned to have local cars lead, with visiting cars following, over each of the three formal routes some time ago framed by Secretary E. E. Bloom, and known as the. "red," "white" and "blue" routes. The ride will extend over about 26 miles in all, and will occupy about one hour and 20 minutes, tra- versing the paved streets of the city and that portion of the dollarway road leading to Dexter.
 Clarendon Comes First.
 . Headed by Mayor Parker c. Evan, the Clarendon delegation was the first of the out of town Elks to reach Pine Bluff. They arrived early yesterday morning, and had obtained fine rest of several hours at the Hotel Pines, before the necessity of taking active part in the exercises and ceremonies which formed the opening day of the annual session of the Arkansas Elks' association.
 Other large parties which arrived yesterday forenoon, were the dele gations from Little Rock and Argenta, these coming principally by automo- bile, and the cars remaining here to add to the liveliness of the already animated scenes in the business sec tion of the city. The First Regiment band of Little Rock accompanied the capitalians, and through the earlier part of the day furnished lots of music for the Elks.
 On the early afternoon Cotton Belt, there arrived the large and enthusi- astic delegation from Camden, also with a band, and with half a dozen large banners bearing statements showin- where the Camden crowd stands on the presidency question.
 Hot Springs, Philadelphia and Stutt-. gart, were other cities which sent large delegations that arrived yester- day. The trains last night brought in more delegates and delegations, and it is confidently expected that when the business session opens this morn ing, record breaking attendance will be registered. Late last night, it was stated there were more than $50 visit ing Elks registered, while many more were in the city who had not gone through this formality at the club rooms of the local lodge.
 Weather Favorable.
 When the day opened, it looked mighty bad. Not only was it cloudy and gloomy, with every indication that the weather forecast of rain would be thoroughly borne out, but it actually did rain, and the light fall continued quite while. It was not rain hard enough to stop the fun, however, and pretty soon, the clouds rolled by bit, and the sun came out, gladdening the hearts of visitors and home folk alike, because nobody wanted it to rain while the Elks are here.
 It was still cool, quite an agreeable change from the heat of last week, but not cool enough to make it un- comfortable for the Elks to wear the very light colored and light weight clothing which somehow seems SO especially appropriate to the order; ~ Every arriving train was met by big bunch of Elks, with music, and the arrivals were marched in state to the Elks' clubrooms. As q result, there was almost continuous procession, between the union station and the Elks' quarters. Lots of home folks were on the streets throughout the day, making it appear almost like a