Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-08-23
A BIG TINE COMING.
THE INTERNATIONAL AMERICAN CON-
GRESS TO MEET IN OCTOBER.
An Extensive Programme Mapped Out.
which Includes Visits to Various Com
merciaI and Manufacturing Centres.
fRr telegraph to ne pIspa.cs.l

| international American Congress will
meet at Washington at noon upon the
/ ID of October next, and will be attended
by from fifty 10 sixty delegates, IN.
clnling some OF the most distinguished
men of Central and South America Ii
is not expected that the congress will do
more than perfect its organization at the
first sitting, and it is probable that re-
ception will be rendered the delegates by
the President that evening Upon the
| following morning the party will start
upon an excursion rendered the foreign
delegates by the Government OF tho
| United States. This seems most OPP
perfume time, as the Grand Conclaye OF
Rights Templars is to be held at Wash
/ ington during the following week, and
! all the hotel accommodations were en-
gagged months ago. Arrangements have
been made with the Pennsylvania
Railway Company TO take charge
OF tho excursion. which will be
under the direction OF George
w. Boyd, assistant general passen-
ger agent, and William 4. Curtis, repre-
sentative of the State Department A
special train of Pullman cars of the
most improved pattern, similar to those
used upon the New York and Chicago
limited, with dining cars, bathrooms
barber-shop, and other novel con-
veniences Will be proyided-such tram
rs cannot be seen anywhere else IN the
world.
The party will leave Washington at
10 o'clock Thursday morning, October
3d. and take the Fall -kiyer boat at
| New York that evening. The next ten
DAYS will be spent visiting the CONNER
cial and manufacturing centres of New
England and Northern New York, with
day at West Point Military Academy.
The party will reach Niagara Falls
TO remain over Sunday, October
18th. On Monday the journey will be
resumed and continued to Chicago. with
stops at Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, and
other cities. 1t is proposed to visit Har--
ward. Yale. Michigan University, and
several benevolent and reiormatory IN
st;tutions en- route. The next Sunday,
October Goth. and two following days
will be spent at Chicago, after which the
large cities of the Northwest will be VS.
tied. From Minneapolis the special
train will run down ria Sioux City and
| Omaha 10 Fort Leayenw0rth, and re-
turn to st. Louis UiG Kansas City.
The capitals of Illinois and Indiana
and the natural-gas region VIII
be visited cH route TO CINCINNATI,
where, on November 9th, the delegates
from Central aud South America will
have the opportunity to see how an cleo
ton isconducted in the great North Amer
lean republic. From Cincinnati the party
will be taken to the Mammoth Cave. and
then either go through the southern
States or Journey eastward, stopping at
Pittsburgh and other cities en- route.
From Harrisburg the train will run to
Menlo Park, where the party will inspect
the laboratories OF Edison and return to
Philadelphia. Here three days Will be
spent. Wilmington and the shipyards
at Chester will DO visited on their way
10 Washington, whore the party will ny
rive on the l4th Of November.
The original plan WAS to take the party
through the southern States from Gin
cinnati and Louisville to New Orleans
by way OF Nashville, Memphis, and
Vicksburg and to return to Washington
by way Of Birmingham, Atlanta,
Charleston, and Richmond, and it may
vet be decided to do so, but in order
that more time may be devoted to the
South it has been suggested by leading
southern men that the excursion
through that section be deferred
until later in the season, when
the winter hotels will be open and
the famous resorts can be seen mt their
best This. 1t is argued, will be 10 the
advantage of both the foreign guests
and the places to be visited. ii the trip
should be made upon the return from
the West, as originally planned, the
party would be iatigued and satiated
with sightseeing. whereas If 1t is post
poned for q couple of months they viii
be fresh and i'll better condition to
enjoy it. Whatever the final deer
siou may be, the journey through
tho South will include visits 10 Knox
vile. Nashville, Memphis, Chattanoo-
On. Vicksburg. New Orleans, Mobile,
Montgomery, birmingham, Atlanta. Ma
con, Augusta, st. Augustine, Jackson
vile, Savannah, Charleston, Columbia,
Wilmington, Richmond. and Norfolk.
with other places ca route. 1t is expect
ed that the citizens OF the various
places visited throughout the United
States will receive the foreign delegates
as their guests and show them As much
attention rs possible during the limited
time allowed for the excursion, and the
Department OF State is in correspondence
with the municipal officials and officers
of the commercial organizations for the
purpose.