The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-09-25

The British Iron and Steel Institute to
Meet in America and Become the t;u,st.
of Kindred NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. SEES
sions to be Held at Pittsbure--The South
ern Koutc--Three Days in yirginia-A-
List of Committees.
There is some misapprehension in the
pubic mind as to the nature of the visit
OF the foreign engineers to this country.
they come as the guests of the three
great engineering societies of the coun-
try, the Institute of Mining Engineers,
the Mechanical and Civil Engineers.
The British Iron and Steel Institute
hold their autumnal meeting in New
York city, on October 1st, End and 3rd,
and then join the Institute of Mining
Engineers at Pittsburg, Penn, where
two international sessions are to be
held on October 9th and 10th The whole
party then goes to Chicago, and there
divides, on two great excursions
party going to the ore deposits of Lake
Superior, and the other visiting tho
Southern States
The itinerary has been positively
fixed by correspondence between tho
home and foreign societies. The South
ern is as follows:
October Ii and II, birmingham, Ala.
October Is. Shelby and Admission, Ala.
October 20, Chattanooga. Tenn.
October II, Niddlesborough, Ky. and
Knoxville. Team.
6t1otsober -, the Cripple Creek region,
Va.
October %, \ pcahontas and Roanoke,
Va
October 81, Luray Gave, Va.
The Norfolk and Western railroad
will take the party ut Bristor,-Qn the
morning of October 80. A stop of\a1
hour will be made at Pulaski Furnace.
to give the visitors tho only chance of
seeing the various character of ores
mined and used in this part of the State.
they Will then be run up the Cripple
Creek ,oad TO the Gossan mines of Car
roll county, and be taken that night to
Blueticld. The next day they will be
shown the most interesting object of the
trip-thc great Pocahontas coal mines,
reaching Roanoke that same afternoon.
On Friday they will have daylight
ride through the Shenandoah Valley,
reaching Luray i'll time to visit tho
caves, and be put in Washington that
night.
1t will be seen that the trip has been
so arranged rs to let tho great Valley of
Nirginiaibe seen by daylight. The short
ness of time allowed will only admit of
this, and there can be no stopping over
ut any points except those named
Tho general committee for Virginia,
appointed by the central COMMITTEES Mt
New York, is: j. III. Bramwell of Elk
horn, w. Va; Fitzhugh Lee, Lexing-
ton; j. r. Johnson, Longdalo; L. c.
Pcchin, Roanollc; Jacob Yost. Iron Gate. .
Tho railroad committee; Charles G..
Eddy, chairman, Joseph IL. Sands, ID.
w. Flickwir, w. w. Coe and Frank
IIuger, OF Roanoke; John G.. Osborne.
Radford Va.
The local committee-Ed Edmund C. Pc
chin (chairman), c. c. Wentworth, $. IL.
llaupt, c. :. Churchill, II. Il. C. Sander
son, and w. l.. Hunter. of Roanoke: S.
NJ. Buck, Mayberry, w. Va; Jed Hotch-
kiss Staunton; j. f. Johnson and I'll.
Firmstone, Longdalc; I. C. Jones, Iron
Gate; Jos. ID. Weeks and VIM. Jollitfe.
buchanan; +. Il. Bachman, Salem; Jno.
w. Eckman, Pulaski; Austin Farrell,
lvanhoe; c. Il. Boyd, Wytheville: III. b
Colburn, Bedford City; Walter Graham,
Graham; Il. b. Richards, Buena Vista.
Va.
Every effort will be made to give the.
distinguished visitors the fullest insight
into the wonderful development now go
ing on in Southwestern Virginia that the
limited time given will allow.