Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-24

George W. Wilkinson, John w: WIZ
Jams, w. w. Williams, James Williams,
Peter Williams. William Williams, H. Y; ui Wlil-
iamson Alfred Wilson, B. g. Wood, H WOOL
cock, James worton, T. Wrightson, Jose A
DeYharra.
THE GERMAN VISITORS.
While the German visitors will not be so
numerous as those from Great Britain, they
will constitute thorough representatlo OF
ell the prominent iron and steel works In
Germany. The general committee winch
has been organized to prepare Tor this event
numbers over 100 of the leading Americans
engaged in the steel and iron industries
The officers of the committee are Andrew
Carnegie, Chairman; B. +. Jones, OF Pitts
burg, Vice Chairman; George A. Crocker,
of this city, Treasurer, and Q. klrckhon,
Jr, of this city, Secretary.
The Reception Committee, which is also
practically the Executive Committee con-
sists of the foregoing as officers, and the
following: Abram S. Hewitt, OF this city;
James c. Bayles, of this city; A. L. Hunt
of Pittsburg; T. Sherry Hunt, M. D., OF
Montreal; Prot. Henry Horton, OF Stevens
Institute, Hobokeu; W. H. Shenn, of Pitts
burg, President of the American Society of
Civil Engineers; John Bogart, State En-
giHeer and Secretary of the American So
ciety OF Civil Engineers: Charles MacDon-
aid, President OF the Union Bridge Com
pany; James NJ. Swank, of Philadel-
phia, Secretary of the American
Iron and Steel Associationj Robert b.
Coleman, of Lebanon, Pa; John Birk-
inbine, of Philadelphia; Eckley B.
Coke, of Drifton, Pa; John Fritz, of Beth
lehem, Pa; o. w. Potter, Henry S. Pick
ands, Charles Hunrod and r. W. Hunt, of
Chicago; W. II. Chesholm and Samuel
Mather, of Cleveland; R. A. Parker, of
Marquette, Mich; Ferdinand Schlessinger,
OF Milwaukee; +. H. DeBardeleben and
Judge II. G. Bond, of Birmingham, Ala;
A. NJ. Shook, of Nashville, Tenn; H. s.
Chamberlain, of Chattanooga, Tenn; Wal
ter Crafts, OF Admission, Ala; General Fitz-
hugh Lee, of Virginia; james A. Burden,
of Troy, n. Y; Frank s. Witherbee, of
Port Henry, N. Y; Joseph ID. Weeks, Of
Pittsburg, and David Williams, OF this city.
IN THE EARLY FALL.
The visitors will sail for this city in the
middle OF September, the British guests by
the Seryia, of the Cunard line, and the
Continentals by the Elder and the Lain, Of
the North German Lloyd line, and the Nor
MAMMA and the Columbia, OF the Hamburg
American packet line. They are expected TO
arrive In time TO attend the annual meeting
OF the American Institute Of Mining En-
eineers, which holds Its sessions In this city
on the 10Th aud 3oth Of September. On the
lst, ID and Sd oi October the British insti-
tute will hold sessions In this city (probably
In Chickering HalD for tho reading and
discussion Of papers.
The details OF the entertainment OF the
visitors while In this city have not yet been
worked out, but the Reception Committee
will bold a meeting nj the Engineers Club,
No. 10 West Twenty-nintb street, to.mor-
row, for the purpose Of selecting local en-
tertainment committee.
On Saturday morning. October 4, the
party will start for Philadelphia, where Sat
urday, Sunday and Monday will be spent
An entertainment committee Ia now being
organized In that city. On Tuesday, the
10 Lebanon, at the invitation Of Robert II,
Coleman, whose guests they will be while
there. They will there inspect the Cornwall
mines, the greatest In the country. Wednes-
day, the 9Th. will be devoted TO the mines
aud industries Of Johnstown and Altoona,
THE VISIT TO PITTsBURG.
From the 9th (Thursday)to the 18th (sun-
day) the visitors will be in Pittsburg, where
societies will be held-the remainder OF the
time In that city being given to visiting the
steel works, natural gas wells, coke fields
and other objects of interest there to be
seen. On the 18th and 14th, Monday and
Tuesday. respectively, the visitors will be
in Chicago, where they will inspect the
Pullman Works and those of the Illinois
Steel Company. They will receive special
attention from the Chicago Worlds Fair
Committee.
At Chicago the party will divide, one
section to take q Northern and the other
a Southern trip. The former will leave
Chicago on the night of the 14th (Tuesday)
for Iron Mountain, and will there, on the
18th, inspect the mining plants and
of the Chaplin Company. which
expects to mine this year 100000 tons
Of iron ore. Thence, the night of the
18th, the party will visit the Gogebic
range, spending the 10th there, and, turn
ing back, will reach Houghton, Mich, Oh
the morning Of the 18th. During the 18th
and 18th Saturday and Sunday the copper
mines of Lake Superior will be visited, in
cluding the Calumet and Hecla and the
Tamsrack mines, with their stamp mills and
refining works at Torch Lake. On Monday
and Tuesday, the 20th and 21st. the iron
mines ana snlpplng DOCKS al MalquetSeI
Mich, will be inspected.
ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.
On Wednesday, the 22d, the visitors will |
see the Sault Ste. Marie canal, in Michigan,
which passes more tonnage in q year than |
the Suez canal does The same day the |
party will return southwark by way of St. |
Tgnace, Saginaw, and Detroit, Mich, to
Niagara Falls. which they will reach on
Friday, the oath.
In the meanwhile the party taking the |
Southern trip will have spent the time as
follows: October 16 and IL, at Birmingham,
Colers, Shelby and Admission, in Ala; the |
18th, 18th and Goth, at Chattanooga and |
Lookout Mountain; the 21st, at Knoxville, |
Tenn, and Middlesboro, KY; the 22nd, at |
Pocahontas on the line between West |
Virginia and Virginia, the most famous |
,osl and coke district in the South; the 23d, |
1t Roanoke, Va; the oath, at Luray Cove; |
.he 18th and 26th, at Washington, where |
hey will be received by the President.
On the 9th. the two parties will reunite |
n this city and the official reception of them |
will be over. Many of the visitors will re-
main longer in the country.