The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1890-09-12
A GREAT GATHERING.
The Meeting OF the British Iron g.
Steel Institute and the VereIn
Deutsche acknowledgements
Of Germany to be Held
In New York.

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The Bodies, Composed of the Most Emf
nent and Scientific Engineers in the
World, Will also Visit the South
to Examine its Minerals.
ELABORATE PREPARATIONS MADE.
~. Y. Tribnnc.)
The coming international convention of
iron and steel manufacturers, which will
be held in this country i'll October, has
attraced more attention and has been
anticipated with greater interest by the
engineering world than any affair of the
kind in recent years. For months prepa-
rations of an elaborate kind have been
carried on. 1t has long been the desire
of the iron and steel manufacturers and
the engineers Of this country to issue a
call for an international meeting on this
side of the Atlantic. This desire, deeply
rooted as it was, received an impetus by
the meetings held in Philadelphia during
the centennial of 1876 and the courteous
treatment of the 300 American engineers
who visited various countries of the conti-
ncnt in 1889. Months ago the council Of
the American Institute of Mining Engi-
ncers, in connection with the Iron & Steel
Association, the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers, and the United
States Association OF Charcoal Iron
workers, extended an invitation TO the
Iron e. Steel Institute OF Great Britain to
hold its annual session in union with their
own on this side Of the sea. The invita-
ton was accepted with enthusiasm. Simi-
lar requests were sent to the Ecrein
Dcutsche observation-disclosures, in Germany,
and to like societies in other lands
Everywhere the response was prompt and
hearty. In consequence, the meeting, the
first OF its kind in this country, will be
attended by more than 500 foreign guests
including the greatest engineers Of
England, France, Germany, Switzerland
and Spain. II is difficult to ovcrestimatc
the Importance and probable results of
convention at which muny Of the most
brilliant members of the engineering pro-
fcssion will read papers and discuss sub
jecis Of practical interest to all mankind
The arduous work in preparation for the
meeting, over which Andrew Carnegie will
preside, has been done chiefly by Dr.
Rossiter W. Raymond, secretary Of the
American Institute Of Mining Engineers
c. kirchof, IT,. editor of The Iron Age"
and secretary of the American reception
commtte for the Iron l. Steel Institute Of
Great Britain, and james +. Lewis, chair
man of the reception committee, which
also includes Abram ). Hewitt, Chaunccy
NJ. Depcw, Seth Low, DR.. Thomas Egle-
ston, Dr. Henry Morton, Stevens Institute
Professor f. R. Hutton, John Bogart,
Oberlin Smith, Ben amin Athu, Warner
Miller, 7. c. Platt, v iliam Kent, George
W. Maynard, DR.. Hcrl rrt q. Terry. Walton
Ferguson, James Douglas, jr., !. p. Par1ee,
Jasper r. Rand, Joscph Z. Gay, Charlie: z.
Emery, William G. hamilton, VI. W Van
Voorhis, D. Willis James, Charles Mac
donald, J. c. Baylcs, Oliver W. Barnes,
William II. Wallace, addison G. Rand, F.
Gybon Salisbury, W H. Wiley, Horace
Soc, +. D. Hatf-l-, George H. Hull,
Thomas A. Edison, James Irwin, H. II.
Rogers, Charles NJ. Rolker, Louis Lee
Stantin, Levi Holbrook, Park Benjamin,
B. S. Church, Andrew Carnegie, James a.
Burden, William p Shinn, Lafayette,
Penn; DR.. R. W Raymond, DR.. T. Sterry
Hunt Edward Cooper, T. c. Clarke, B. G.
Clarke, Henry r. Towne, John Stanton,
W. A. Perry, John H. human, Smith NJ.
Weed, George H. Babcock, W. II. Adams,
Cyrus w. Field, Charles B. Brush, F. O..
Norton, William Brookfeld, George a.
Croker, William E. Worthen, General
Samuel Thomas, c. c. Martin, F. S. With
erbce, David Williams, F. 0. Fayerweather,
j. F. Holloway, Theodore Voorhees,, Walter
Eottn Trbp " E,for WiIi.rI ID WnrJ 7
H. Harris, John G. De La Verne, L. e..
Laureau, Professor James i. Denton, R..
p. Rothwell, +. L. Lehman, +. II. Prentiss,
George B. Wilkinson, John Thompson and
Philip Voorhees,.
The foreign guests will arrive in this
city between September 90 and September
%, and will make their headquarters at
the Park Avenue hotel 1t was first the
intention Of the committee to meet them
at Quarantine and convey them up the
harbor in q special boat As the delegates
arrive, however, at different times, that
plan has been abandoned. An elaborate
programme for the entertainment and
instruction of the engineers and members
of the various societies during their stay
in this country has been prepared, how
ever, Joy the members Of the committee.
No expense will be spared to make the
meetings memorable and remarkable. 1t
is hoped that the delegates will return to
their homes with better ideas and fuller
appreciation of the possibilities and capa-
bilitics Of the United States of America.
The convention will open with the
session of the American Institute of
Mining Engineers OH Monday afternoon,
September 20, in Chickerng Hail. where
all the meetings in this city will be held.
The session will be continued on Monday
evening, Tuesday morning and Tuesday
afternoon, and will he attended by the
delegates from Europe. The members Of
the British Iron Il Steel Institute will
begin their annual Meeting OH Wednesday
morning, October !. On Wednesday after
noon they will have All opportunity to see
the "lordly scenery, great and grand, Of
the Hudson in an excursion to West Point.
The sessions on Thursday morning and
afternoon will be devoted to the memory
of the great engineer, Alexander Lyman
Holley, for many years president of the
American Institute Of Mining Engineers.
An address commemorative of his virtues
anu uCnieNcnicHts Will nc uelI' creu III
Chickering Hall in the morning by james
Dredge, editor of Engineering" in Lon
don. In the afternoon the Holley Memo
rial, presented to the city by the society
over which he once presided, will be un-
yelled, with proper and imposing ceremo-
mics, in Washington Square.
On Thursday evening, October l, the
annual dinner of the British association
will be given in Delmonico's, while the
Liederhranz Society will entertain the
German delegates. During the course OF