Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-28

and Friday. and leave there at 7:20 Saturday
morning for Altoona. Will you kindly have
the best possible hotel accommodations en-
gagged for % persons, and notify me at your
earliest convenience of the programme ar
ranged for the entertainment of the party.
have the honor to be your obedient servant,
w. f. CURTIS.
Special Agent Department OF State.
Mr.. Ricketson-I would suggest that the
President be requested to appoint necessary
committees upon the various heads to be COW
cred in the proposed visit / am aware that
there is a Congressional appropriation to pay
would suggest that it would be graceful thing
to step in and make their visit to Pittsburg
without expense.
Mr. Dalzell-I concur with Congressman
Bayne's expression of opinion that Pittsburg
should make it genuine entertainment of the
visitors.
cigars railroad transportation. ETC.. in any case,
and we might as well make it a thorough thing.
Mr.. A. NJ. Byers-May inquire what will be-
come of the Congressional appropriation in
such an eventf
Mr.. Dalzell-It will go to swell the surplus.
rLaughter.l We won't get it.
Mr.. Ricketson made a formal motion that the
chairman designate committees and appoint
members of the General Committee of the
Chamber of Commerce to serve thereupon, and
Mr.. H. H. Byram seconded the motion which
was carried.
Mr.. Charles Meyran-I would suggest that
Committee.
Mr.. Robert Pitcairn-I am afraid we shall
strike snag in this matter. We have SO much
to show and only two days to devote to exhibit
tion. We may leave out some things which
should be included, and the arrangement is
delicate matter. After the places to be seen
must cooperate to ascertain whether the places
can be reached or not So far as visit to
gas field is concerned, Mr.. Curtis idea is
simply idiotic What these practical men will
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manufactures. The arrangement of the pro-
gramme is delicate matter and must be care
fully made.
Captain Dravo-I move Mr.. Pitcairn's. ap-
pointment upon the Committee on Programme
and also the appointment Of representative
of the b. & o.
PITCAIRN WAS MODEST.
Mr.. Pitcairn-That is not my idea.
Captain Dravo-No, but it's mine. Laugh
teri Mr.. Pitcairn is a railroad man and can
tell US how to map out the trip around and
through the city.
Mr.. George ii. Anderson-There are diff
culties to be overcome, but there need be no
trouble in the matter. The committee must
embrace this rare opportunity and everything
must be doue in the best manner, but the CON-
mittee can do all that is to be done. Weneedn't
trouble ourselves.
Mr.. BIndley-I think that the programme
will require rare discretion in its preparation.
The magnitude of our manufactures and the
impossibility of bringing forward their variety
leads me to suggest that display of class ex-
hibits be gathered together AT the Exposition
building, where they could be easily shown in
more compact form than anywhere in the two
cities.
Mr.. Pitcairn moved that a committee of
three be appointed to assist the Chairman
in the designation of committees under
Mr.. Rlcketson's motion. Mr.. A. NJ. Byers
suggested that Mr.. Kelly would do as we'll
bv gathering around him a few gentlemen
to advise him. and said that extreme haste
would be prejudicial, and that Mr.. Kelly
ought to have time enough to move delib-
erately. Mr.. Pitcairn withdrew his resolu-
ton.
Mr.. Ricketson-I cannot understand Mr..
Curtis haste in this matter. He may be AS
sured that we will make the best arrangement
of programme possible, and as quickly as
comports with due preparation. The commits
soners do not need to be told a month in ad-
vance what we are going to do. When we're
invited to an entertainment we do not ask the
host what he intends doing for our amuse-
ment
Mr.. Mile: suggested an adjournment,
and Mr. Watt said he thought that the
should be prepared in accord
ance with Mr.. Curtis desire.
Mr.. Pitcairn-We'r tell Mr. Curtis that the
VI L ltlSDuIR ait ~ Ndeb bIdb luty
couldn't be seen in a month, and that we are
at some trouble to compress the exhibit to the
caliber of two-days view.
MR.. KELLY ASKS FOR TIME.
Mr.. George A. Kelly-I may say that would
not undertake to appoint these important COM
mittees upon the spur of the moment 1 must
have time to complete this task.
Before he left the chamber Mr.. Kelly
completed the personnelo of the Committee on
Programme, the most important committee
in the list. The members are as follows:
Chairman, James B. Scott; Calvin Wells, H
H Byram, H. w. Oliver, d. G. Ripley Colonel
}. M Schoonmaker and NJ. K. Mo0rhead.
Mr.. Kelly announced the following chair
men of committees:
II. c. Frick, on Finance; Captain c. w.
Bachelor, on Entertainment and Arrange
ments: Robert Pitcairn, on transportation, and
John H. Ricketson, on Reception.
Secretary Follansbee, of the Chamber of
Commerce, has received notice from Mr..
Curtis to telegraph the local programme to
George w. Boyd, Pennsylvania Railroad
offices, Philadelphia, as soon as completed.
1t is hinted that the Pennsylvania contem-
plates issuing an elaborate handbook of the
Pan-American trip.