Pine Bluff Daily Graphic

ALL THE WORLD

HEADED FOR FRISCO

Exposition City Will be Center for More Than 1,000
Congresses.

DURING BIG "EXPO."

First Work Starts on Million Dollar
Auditorium to House the Great
Meetings.

San Francisco, August 23.-Reports received at the headquarters of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, from all parts of the world, indicate that the year 1915 will see more great congresses and conventions assembled in San Francisco than have ever gathered together in any one city during a single year.

Throughout the United States, in South America, and in Europe, the greatest interest is being evinced by members and officials of conventions, learned societies and congresses of all kinds. This is true of educational and scientific bodies, as well as of fraternal, church, civic, labor, social service, commercial, agricultural, athletic and other organizations. More than one hundred great congresses and conventions have already voted to meet in San Francisco. In addition many societies devoted to technical topics and those including scientific research will hold their meetings in the city. A number of these are of international scope and importance. The number of great congresses choosing the exposition city is increasing daily.

In realization of the tremendous interest centralizing in San Francisco as a convention city in 1915, the exposition management has appropriated $1,000,000 for an auditorium at the civic center of the city. The city of San Francisco has donated the site. Construction on the building has begun.

The transcontinental railway companies as well as the transoceanic syndicates are making extended preparations to accommodate the passenger traffic. Tourist agents report that thousands of visitors from all parts of the world will see America for the first time.

The year 1915 will witness the greatest gathering of technical experts ever known. Among the organizations of a technical nature which will meet in San Francisco will be the International Engineering Congress in which the five national engineering bodies of the United States, joined by the national engineering associations of other nations, will assemble in international conclave. In order to facilitate the preparations for the congress, offices have been opened in San Francisco. The International Engineering Congress will be the largest international congress of the kind ever held.

Though not as large in numbers, the International Electro-Technical Commission, a body of about 150 leading electrical engineers of the world, constituting a central committee, with appointed delegates from the electro-technical societies of most nations, will arouse interest in engineering circles throughout the world. The deliberations and findings of this body will be of lasting value to the electrical world.

An international gathering of delegates from the Dental Societies of the world will meet in the city during the week beginning August 30, 1915. This international congress will be extensively participated in by delegates from most of the nations of North and South America and Europe. The preliminary arrangements are in charge of the Panama-Pacific Dental Congress, an incorporated body of dentists of the Pacific Coast.

Of vital interest will be a convention in San Francisco of the World's Insurance Congress, the first congress of the kind ever held, to consider all forms of insurance. Assurances received from members of insurance societies throughout the world indicate a large and thoroughly cosmopolitan representation.

A meeting that will touch upon many phases of interest will be that of the American Breeders Association, comprising a membership of five thousand persons. The gathering will be held in three sections to discuss improvements in plant breeding, animal breeding and eugenics or the improvement of the human race.

The convention of the American Historical Association comprising the leading historians of America; the International Council of Nurses, and a large number of sociological conventions will be included in the exposition gatherings.

It is probable also that the American Peace Congress will decide to meet in San Francisco. Chancellor David Starr Jordan of Stanford University represented the exposition at the recent convention at St. Louis and extended an invitation to the congresses on behalf of California and the exposition management. In connection with the American Peace Congress there will be meetings of various organizations concerned with the peace movement.

The National Education Association at its recent meeting in Salt Lake decided to meet in Oakland in 1915. In this connection plans are being made to arrange for the International Congress of Education to be held under the auspices of the exposition. In connection with the meeting of the International Education Association there are a number of affiliated associations which usually hold their meetings at the same time.

At the recent meeting of the National Confectioners Association in Cleveland the delegates to the convention unanimously decided to meet in San Francisco during the exposition. All the delegates wore California poppies and exposition badges and the meeting revealed great enthusiasm for the coming Panama Canal celebration.

Under the immediate auspices of the California Genealogical Society the great International Congress on Genealogy at San Francisco in 1915 will attract universal attention. Genealogical societies of many lands have signified their intention to participate in the congress; among the most recent acceptances of the invitation to participate in one from the Seigneurial Court and College of Arms of Canada. The official acceptance was transmitted from Montreal through commissions representing the Court of College of the offices of the Seigneurial Court; they will bring to San Francisco 24 banners to illustrate the confederated orders of the Court and the shields illustrating the manner of heraldic blazonry adopted under the seal. The banners will be displayed during the session of the genealogical congress.

The Congress of International Associations, with headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, at a recent meeting voted unanimously to hold the third session in San Francisco in 1915. The congress is a union of 132 international organizations and is considered one of the most important organizations along the lines of international work. Thirty-two governments are represented in the congress, which is greatly interested in the part which international expositions play in the development of closer relationship between the nations.

Many college fraternities have scheduled meetings in San Francisco in 1915. International saengerfests, meets of the crack infantry and cavalry of the world, automobile races, yacht races, harness races with purses of $225,000, great athletic meets are among the features of the exposition year.