The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1890-09-12

Saturday morning, October 4, for Pitts
burg, where a joint international session
will be held. They will stop on their way
at Philadelphia, Altoona, Lebanon, Har-
risburg and Johnstown, visiting the vari-
Gus points Of interest in those cities, ana
attending numerous entertainments and
receptions given in their honor, and will
arrive in Pittshurg on October 8. Great
preparations for the entertainment of the
guests have been made by the people of
Pittsburg The societies will hold joint
sessions on Thursday and Friday morn
ings, October s and 8.
Although the programme for these meet
ings has not been decided upon definitely
as yet, it will include the following papers:
"On Recent Development of Marine En-
gineering," a. E. Senton, Hull; The Prob
able Future of Iron Manufacture, Sir
Lowthian Bell, and THE Protection of
Iron and Steel Ships Against Foundering, "
Sir N. Barnaby, K.C.B.
1t is also expected that IL highly inter-
csting paper ON the improvements in iron
and steel metallurgy Of Germany since
1876 will be read by Dr.. Wedding, the
German mctallurgical author. Several
other papers, all in the English language,
will also be presented by other German
scientists.
During parts of Thursday and Friday,
and OH Saturday and Sunday, the guests
will attend receptions given for their BEN
eft, and will visit the great mills and
factories in Pittsburg and Allegheny and
the various places Of interest in the
ncighborhood. On Sunday, October II,
the party will start for Chicago, where it
will arrive on October IA. Two days will
he spent in becoming acquainted with the
great institutions in the second city OF
the United States Here, also, dinners
and receptions in profusion will be given
to the guests, who will have every reason
to think well Of American hospitality.
Their journey, indeed, will be IL vcritable
trumphal march.
At Chicago. which the delegates will
leave on October lG, the party will divide
into two groups, one going north and the
other south. According to the programme
OF the general committee, the northern
excursion will visit the Mcnomincc,
Gosebic and Marquette iron ranges and
the Lake Superior copper districts. On
the return trip to New York, which will
be reached on October %, the party will
visit the Sault Ste. Marie Canal the Sud-
bury nickel and copper mines in Canada,
and Niagara Falls.
The southern excursion will go first from
Chicago to Birmingham. Shelby and An
nston, Ala.
uti
Lookout Mountain The next day Chatta-
nooga will be reached. The party will
also visit the Pocahontas coal mines,
Middleshorough, Roanoke, Cripple Greek
iron mines, the famous caves OF Lurav. in
Virginia, and the national capital A
may nc seen, the foreign guests will be
able to form an excellent idea oi the coun-
try's capacity for the production of iron
and steel 1t cannot be doubted that they
will lie surprised at that capacity. En-
gland may excel the United States in the
of basic steel, in the handling
Of guns and armor. and in IL few other
spccialtics; but in many other ways Amer
lean industry has surpassed her, and
American manufacturers will be able to
teach the foreigners many lessons i'll the
employment of luborsaving machines.
Before the return OF the visiting dele
gates to their foreign homes Abram 5.
Hewitt will hold a reception for them.
The general reception committee will give
a dinner in their honor. Covers will be
laid for 800 or 900 people. The date OF
the entertainment has not been fixed, but
it is probable that it will take place on
October % or %.
Among the most widely known dele
gates from Europe who will attend the
meetings are Sir James Kitson, baronct,
president Of the Iron and Steel Institute
of Great Britain; Sir Lowthian Bell, /,
man Of great learning in his profession
and the owner of large manufactures i'll
the famous Middlcsborough district OF
England; Lord Edward Cavendish, brother
of the Marquis of Harrington, and Il MEM
Der of Parliament; Edward p. Martin, a
wcll-known mctallurgst and manufactures
in South Wales; f. Windsor Richards,
formerly general manager for Bolckon,
Vaughan & Co., in MiddlcsbOrough, and
now general manager of the famous Low
moor Iron Company; &. j. Shclus. the
chemist and mctallurgist; William White
veil, president Of the Board Of Arbitration
and Cancellation, of Middlcshorough; Sir
james Balm, owner of one of the largest
in Glasgow; Hugh Bell, son
of Sir Lowthian Bell, an iron manutac-
turcr; Adolf Blcichert, of Germany, 4
designer and builder of rope tramways
H. 4. Brustlcin and Louis Hotter, of the
-, A Inn
Cooper. general manager of the largest
steel works in Middlcshorough; William
one Of the proprictors Of the
great steel works in Scotland bearing his
name; John H. Darby, well-known manu-
facturcr at Brymbo 4. j. Dorman, one Of
the leading manufacturers OF iron and
steel beams in England; VIC. Fossick, OF
the Fossick iron firm in London; Theodore
Fry, member of Parliament from Darling
ton, and recently one of the English COM
missioners at the Labor Conference i'll
Berlin; W. II. Greenwood, general man-
agcr Of the Birmingham Small Arms and
Metal Company; Emil Guilleaume, owner
of one Of the largest wire and wire rope
manufacturing plants on the Continent;
R. A. Hadheld, OF Sheffield; jeremiah
Head, for many years the associate OF Sill
William Siemens; Francis Koch, general
manager Of the Alexandrowsky Steel
Works of st. Petersburg; Sir W. 7. Lewis,
of Wales; John S. Nettlelord, meraber
Of the firm with which Joseph 5. Chamber
lain is connected; Gustavc Piedboeuf, OF
Aix-la- Chapcllc, the largest hoilermakcr
in the Rhensh provinces; Alexander Pour
eel, of England and Spain; Sir Ed Reed
of London; Edward Riley, the chemist
William Tozer and Henry Steel, jr., the
steel manufacturers of Sheffield; Sin
Thomas Storey, Of Lancaster; Jose y. dc
Barra, owner of iron mines and works
in the Bilboa district; Frederick Siemens
brother of Sir William Siemens, and DR.
Wnrnnr vnn Siemens. of Berlin. and Carl