The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1889-08-23
TIE GREAT CONGRESS-
THAT WILL. MEET AT WASH
INGTON IN OCTOBER.
Preparations Being Perfected to
Give the Central and South
Americans a Big Time While
They are In This Country.

They are In This Country.
WASHINGTON, August 22.-Thc Inter
national American Congress will meet at
Washington at noon upon the 2nd day
of October next, and will be attended by
from fifty to sixty delegates including
some of the most distinguished men of
Central and South America. 1t is not eX-
pected that Congress will do more than
perfect its organization at the first sit
ting, and it is probable that a reception
will I've rendered the delegates by the
residents that evening. Upon the follow
ing morning the party will start upon
an excursion rendered the foreign dele
gates by the government of the United
States. This seems a most opportunc
| time as the grand conclave ofthc Knights
Templar is to be held at Washington
during the following week and all the
hotel Accommodations were engaged
months ago.
Arrangements arc being made with the
Pennsylvania railway company to take
charge of the excursion. which will DC
under the direction of Mr. Geo. w.
Boyd, assistant general passenger agent,
| and Vim. +. Curtis, representative of the
State department. A special train of
Pullman cars of the most improved pat
tern similar to those used upon the New
York and Chicago limited, with dining
cars, bath rooms, barber shops and
other novel cOnvenicnccS, will be pro-
vided, and such a trainaS this willbecan
not he seen anywhere else i'll the world.
The party will leave Washington at
ten O'Clock on the morning of Thursday,
October 3, and take the Fall River boat
at New York that evening. The next
ten days will be spent visiting the com
mer?ial and manufacturing centres Of
New England and northern New York. On
Monday the Journey will be resumed ard
continued 20 Chicago with stops at Buf-
talo, Cleveland Detroit and other cities.
1t is proposed to visit Harvard Univcr-
sity, Yale College, Michigan University
and several benevolent and rctormatory
institutions en- route. Sunday, October
90 and two following days will be spent
at Chicago, after which the larger cities
of the Northwest will be visited. From
Minneapolis the special train will run
down via Sioux City and Omaha to
Fort Lcavcnworth and return to ST.
Louis via Kansas City. The capitals of
Illinois and Indiana, and the natural gas
region will be visited on the route to Gin
cinnati, where, on November 9TH, the
delegates from Central and South Amer
lea will have an opportunity to see how
elections are conducted in the United
States.
From Cincinnati the party will be
taken to the Mammoth Cave in Ken
lucky, and then either go through the
Southern States or journey eastward,
stopping at Pittsburg and other cities.
From Harrisburg the train will run tp
Menlo Park where the party will inspect
the laboratories of Mr.. Edison and re-
turn to Philadelphia. Here three days
will be spent, and Wilmington and the
ship-yards at Chester will be visited on
the way to Washington, where the party
viii arrive on November 1+th.
The original plan was to take the party
through the Southern states from Cincin-
natl to New Orleans via Nashville, Mem
phis and NickSburg. and to return to
Washington by way of Birmingham, At
lanta, Charleston and Richmond, and it
may yet 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
at their best. This, it is agreed, will he
to the advantage of both the foreign
guests and the places to be visited. If
the trip should be made upon the return
from the West as originally planned the
party would he Eatigucd and satiated
with sightseeing, whereas, if it is post
pOncd for couple ofmonthS they will be
fresh and i'll better condition to enjoy it.
The acting secretary of the navy has
ordered the Brooklyn, now at New York,
to be towed to Norfolk. At that place
she will be thoroughly repaired and sup
piled with new boilers shafts, propeller
and surface condenser in place of the
antiquatcd machinery now aboard. The
repairs will occupy at least six months
and will add considerably to the work
at the Norfolk navy yard.
The Secretary of the Treasury to-day
accepted the following bonds S9O,S5O
four per cents at ,2S; $621 900 four and
4 half per cents. at LOGS.