Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-07
NOTHING is TOO GOOD
For the Delegates to the International
American Congress.
SHOWN ALL ABOUT BOSTON TOWN.
They Are Much Impressed by the Educa.
tional Institutions.
SOME TIME is DEVOTED TO SPEECHES.
One of the Delegates Delivers Little Advice to This
Country.

Boston is treating the visiting delegates
in most hospitable manner, and they are
being shown all the sights of the City OF
Culture. Their journey will be resumed
tonight, and their home will then be on the
cars for some time.
BOSTON, October 6.-Sunday in Boston
was damp, overcast day, with a suggestion
in the east wind of the approach of winter.
The delegates to the Intern ational Amer
lean Congress, after comfortable nights
rest and hearty bre akfast, were ready for
another day of sightseeing. Carriages
bearing the party left the hotel just in sea.
son to give the church-going folks of Boston
an opportunity to see their distinguished
visitors as they were driven through the city
and down to the docks.
The party was there met by the Mayor
and committee of the Board of Aldermen
and escorted aboard q steamboat, which
landed them at Deer Island, where are
located the correctional institutions of the
city. The first place visited was the House
Of Correction, where the cells were in
spected and the prisoners seen in contine-
ment.
A PRETTY CEREMONIAL.
In the chapel of the reform school pretty
ceremonial took place. The visitors were
seated and about 300 of the boys, all uni
formed in blue and wearing white gloves,
marched in with military precision and
greatly entertained the visitors with singing
and other exercises, while band filled in
the intervals with music. At the close of
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dining room.
When the coffee was reached, brief re-
marks were made by several Of the dele
gates and officials. Mayor Hart welcomed
the party, and DR.. Silva, of Venezuela and
Senior Calderon, of Columbia, responded.
Senior Velarde, of Bolivia, followed. He
said he was glad that his Government had
accepted the invitation of the United States
to take part in the Congress and was
pleased that he had been chosen to repre-
sent it.
In his judgment the Congress would be
the starting point of a great movement
which would take an important place in the
history of the American continent. His
people were we'll disposed toward the peo-
pie of the United States, and every advance
which had for its object the establishment
of closer relations would meet with prompt
ana nearly response.
ALITTLE ADVICE.
Senior Zelaya. the delegate from Hondu-
ras, said he would give the American peo-
pie one piece of advice, which was that as
the people of Central America had sent
their representatives. here to witness the
greatness of the United States, so should
the people of the United States inform
themselves about their Southern neighbors.
They would find people as good-hearted
as themselves; not SO far advanced indus
trially, but with a country so abounding in
natural wealth and resources as to justify
an examination, which would surely lead
to broadening of the relations between the
people of the North and South.
Mr.. Henderson and Mr.. Davis, of the
United States delegation responded, the
former in witty vein. The latter spoke of
the necessity for the cultivation Of closer
trade relations, and to this end dwelt on
the importance of the construction of rail-
road which should actually cross the
Isthmus and connect the two continents in
so strong an embrace that there would be no
opportunity for Intervention by European
countries. When the speeches were con-
cluded the party returned to Boston.
OUT TO THE UNIVERSITY.
In the afternoon a procession of landaus,
stretching half mile in length, carried the
excursionists out of Boston to and about
Cambridge and past all the buildings of
Harvard University. Such a wide settle
ment Of educational buildings not little
impressed the foreign minds in the party.
One of the foreigners, observing the tidy
and homelike appearance of the dwellings,
OF low as we'll as of high degree, expressed
the thought that, though wealth was
means of procuring pleasing results, only
the spirit OF refinement, having its growth
in such educational systems, would produce
such delightful, as well as comfortable,
environments as were seen on every hand
during the drive of this afternoon.
The drive was out through the clustered
villages that constitute Boston's suburb,
past Longfellow's home, with the Brookline
district as the objective point. The great
Elm under which Washington assumed
command of the American army on July 3,
1775, was an object of interest, not alone to
the foreigners. Its great limbs are growing
weak with age, its foliage is feeble. and
wherever there is break in limb or the
trunk the Bostonians have sealed the ends
and gaps to protect them from the weather.
HosP1TABLE TREATMENT.
At dusk the party alighted at the home of
Mr.. John L. Gardner, director of the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
Company. The house within was elegant,
yet cozy, brightly lighted and of hospitable
dimensions The design of the call was
that those of the party from abroad might
see typical American home of the class to
which Mr.. Gardner's residence belongs.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gardner received the party
which was soon distributed about the rooms,
enjoying, while inspecting The focal
point was in the breakfast room, whence,
through broad windows, were seen exquisite
vistas of noble elms, soft lawns and rare
shrubs. A table was set and at one end
presided Miss Richardson, the daughter of
an eminent Boston architect, fine type of
American womanhood, aud at the other
Miss Gardner, niece of the host. From
the hands of each of these ladies, the foreign
gentlemen, each OF whom was presented,
were served with tea and coffee.
Ex-Speaker of the House of Representa-
tives Robert G. Winthrop was present. The
return to the city through Brookline closed
the routine entertainment, and during the
evening members of the party upon invita-
ton, visited Boston clubs. Tonight the
party sleep in hotel beds, the last time un-
til October 13, at Niagara Falls. Their
homes will be upon the special train, which
they will board tomorrow night after at
tending the theater.