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Show ICIIT WILL SHIi Willi JEGOMTNK Commercial Club to Make Occasion of Irrigation Congress Con-gress Memorable. SPECIALISTS ENGAGED Streets, Halls and Business Houses Will Be Beautified When Delegates Arrive. An oJnbornto scheme of decoration for the National Irricatioii congress, September 30 to October 4, 1912, is to bo Jirranccd by I he Commercial club 's decoration committee. Yesterday afternoon this committco held a meeting nt the club nnd divided the work into four sections, n order that a splendid scheme may be evolved which will put the city in elaborate jrala atf.iro for the bin event- Dressing of private and business houses ha6 been given over to the charce of O. J. Salisbury, who "will de-viso de-viso the finest programme that his ecnius enn invent in this line. Decoration of the convention hall is to be planned bv Dr. 0. E. Cnrter, and it is expected that his capable mind will produce a schymo that, will be at once beautiful and highly appropriate to tho occasion. Special historical and allegorical embellishments em-bellishments will bo looked after by JI. L. A. CulmcT, whose artistic taste and broad knowledge, of westorn history his-tory will suggest a wide scope in his department. Decorative arches and the general scheme of street array of a wholly public, pub-lic, character will be under the direction direc-tion of PredeTick Steigmeyor, who is iriven free rein to originate a plan of the highest credit, to tho city. These department heads are to report re-port to tho decoration committee of the commercial club, Oscar Jj. Cox, chairman, chair-man, which will render to the congress board of control an estimate of tho co6t of tho entire scheme. It is intended to djess the city in cavest color for the congress and to execute a plan of electric lighting that shall render the main thoroughfares of tho town as dazzling streams of Light. At the timo of tho Pioneer jubilee, in the woek of Jul' 24, 1897, tho city was probably better decorated than at any other timo in its history, but for the irrigation congress even that occasion is to bo surpassed in its decorative brilliancy bril-liancy and gala attractiveness. |