Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-04-04
PINE bLUFFIANS n
 ATTEND THE COMING WATERWAYS MEET
Big Delegation to Go to St
 Louis on the Ralph Hicks
WANT BARGES SENT \ TO INLAND RIVER
of Water Transportation \ and General Trade in the Nai- M ley Subjects to be Dis. 13 cuSSed

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 @ Fully 20 Pine Bluff business me1 Eill go as delegates to the conven 1ion of the Mississippi Valley Wat &rways convention, and the Missis gippi Valley association, the forme, meeting in St. Louis. April l9, tn, Bitter April 20 and 2l'.
 M The former is an association t, [hcrease inland waterways facilities While the later is an association lpncerning itself with commerce, but &osely allied with the former asso Ration. There will be representative 1siness men from all of the Missis. ppi valley states, and the delega. Dn from Pine Bluff will do mucl advance by several months the rious projects which Pine Bluff is terested in, Secretary of the Cham n of Commerce E. B. Bloom, whc one of the delegates, said yester- S&The delegates will make the trin St. Louis on the steamer Ralph cks, owned by Capt Jeff Hicks Do will captain the craft as well as Mend the convention. Captain lcks is director of the Sixth district 3 the waterways association. which eludes the Mississippi river from Louis to New Orleans.
 5The steamer Ralph Hicks is ela- rately furnished, and the party al have every comfort and con- nience while making the trip They Al go to Memphis by train, leaving re April 16, and taking boat that he evening at Memphis for the triF St. Louis. While there they will F. Xsep on the boat. Officials of the D associations will be entertained eh a dinner on the boat during the vention.
 Barges Inlar.!
 pne feature to be taken up at the vention which is of interest tc e Bluff is the matter of barge the inland waterways. A plan is foot here to secure one of the el barges built during the war to from Pine Bluff to Rosedala. s, bringing freight from that ee, and making Pine Bluff Fributing point for all of Arkan-
 A recent instance of the use these barges was the shipment R great number of automobiles m Cincinnati to Memphis where
 were distributed in Arkansas.
 fl we could get one of these ees here" MT. Bloom said yester-
 Eve could supply the power
 I Id be organized here to finance installation of mechanical un- ing devices and floating docks. T he delegates already announced
 E. B. Bloom, A. w Nunn, J. w. kins, E. M. Harrison, E. A. How Charles White, T. Haynes Greg
 J. Walker Jones, Leo Andrews ry Marx, F. M. Roane and Adolph enthal, of Camden. Col R. P.l |ell, United States engineer in ge of rivers in Arkansas will be lest of the delegates on the trip ners and pennants advertising Pine Bluff delegation will be m from the boat.
 Money For Rivers. he of the things which the |issippi Valley Waterways asso- on is taking up through it's dent, J. E. Smith of St. Louis, De support of the Newton bill, Pduced in congress for the pur-
 of enlarging the congressional epriation for work on rivers and prs. MT. Smith was formerly ldent of the Simmons Hardware pany. Governor-elect, John M Ter of Louisiana is honorary Pdent of the association. The ram for the convention includes esses by Secretary of War New ID. Baker; General Lansing H. n, chief of engineers, U. s. ar
 and General Frank T. Hines,
 of transportation. These are three highest officials directing destinies of the inland water
 of the United States. Other let members are also expected to Mississippi Valley association hold two day conference direct blowing the Mississippi Valley
 rways association convention, the convention will be divided
 series of conferences. Amone subjects for discussion will be
 al taxation, transportation, re- atlon and reforestation, co-or- Eed legislation and agriculture.