The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-06
THE QUEENS DOM|N|0NS.
Montana's Delegation to the Teachers
Convention at Toronto Leave
Tonight.
Most Of tho Towns in tho State
Will Be Repre-
sented.
Gold and SiIvcr Ornnmented With
Native Precious Stones.

Most of tho Helena delegates to the
National Educational association which
will be held at Toronto, July IA to II, will
leave on a special car over the Northern
Pacific tonight. There arc about twenty
in this party. A number OF others will take
the Union Pacific and Great Northern
routes. About fifty delegates from Mon
tana will attend the convention at Toronto,
the principal towns represented being
Helena, Butte, Bozeman, Great Falls, Liv-
ingston, Billings and Missoula. Prof. Il.
q. Young, principal of the Helena public
schools, will go in charge of the party leav-
ing tonight on train No. 2 at 1866. The
following are in the party: II. q. Young
| and daughter, Mrs. 3. Smith, Mr.. Donald
| son, Miss Voolfolk, Mrs. Terrence Riley
and son, O. w. Holmes and wife, Mrs. @.
Hedges, Miss Smith, Miss Ida Fullerton,
Tom b. Miller, Miss Minnie Allison.
Mr.. Fowles and wife, John Farms
worth, Miss Hannaford, Miss Belle
Calkins, of Butte, Miss Sue Anderson, of
Missoula. Rev. w. Rollins, pastor of the
Methodist Episcopal church. and wife, will
also leave in a few days via the Union Pa
cifc. The Northern Pacific party will
reach Chicago Thursday morning and
spend the day there leaving at night. Their
route will DO over the Chicago and North
western and Grand Trunk. They will
reach Toronto on Friday.
The committee appointed to represent
Helena at Toronto have with them the
magnificent souvenir of the Helena Board
of Trade which will be presented to the
association extending the city's invitation
to the teachers to hold their convention
here in 1892. The souvenir is made of ma
tive gold, silver and precious stones.
There are two solid plates of silver, four
and one-half inches by six inches and one
eighth of an inch in thickness. They are
suspended by two silver rings to a silver
bar, upon the end of which appear two
handsome gold nuggets, found right
| where the Merchants National bank
now stands. Upon the front face of
the first leaf of silver is an oval
medallion of gold, upon which is engraved
a view of the Prickly Pear valley. showing
Bear Tooth in the distance. Surrounding
this are six handsome %sapphires and five
garnets, most deliberately mounted. and
clustering around these are some prlckly
pears artistically made in colored gold. At
| the four corners of the plate are large sap
| phires in elegant settings of gold.
The second face of the leaf bears the
following inscription:
GREETING.
The Board of Trade and the citizens of
the city of Helena extend to the National
Educational association of the United States
O most cordial invitation to hold the asso-
citation convention of 1892 in the city of
Helena, "The Queen City of the Rocky
Mountains" III. M. PARcHEN, President.
VIM. MuTH. Vice President of Helena
Board of Trade.
The committees names appear on the
third face as follows;
Charles A. B~roadwater, Samuel T.. Hauser,
Barnard Brown, A. w. Lyman, d. W. Fisk,
Geo. E. Boos, r.. G. Young, Samuel Schwab,
Louis A. Walker, committee.
On the back of the second leaf ap-
pears tho following:
Montana gold and silver, Montana
%sarphires and garnets. contributed by the
Helena Board Of Trade. VIM. Muth, vice
PRESIDENT"
The souvenir is the work of G. B. Jacque-
min d Co., of this city, and was designed by
DR.. A. f. Foote.
The committee feel very much encouraged
over the liberal spirit displayed by the citi-
IONS of Helena who responded SO gener-
ously to the cause, and trust that their eff
forts will meet with success.
An entertainment committee will take
care of the delegates as they reach Toronto.
A complete system of registering places of
entertainment has been adopted, and WISH
tors will be assigned to their stopping
places and notices sent to them. SO that
they may go direct from the trains to their
hotels, or houses of entertainment. Those
not 80 applying will be assigned to houses
or hotels by agents of the committee, who
will meet all incoming trains some dis
lance out of the city for that purpose.
Visitors to the convention will be provided
with anple accommodation for their enter
talnnlent during their stay in the city. The
best class of homes in Toronto will be open
n t1n inv, ~ srN DN1 nVC ~T {tn rNn |
ton at very moderate rates. Good board
can be obtained at from So to $40 per
week, and proportionately by the day.
Fully 10000 persons can obtain comfortable
accommodation at this rate. and all within
easy reach of the business part of the CITY.
The addresses of welcome to the teachers
will be made at three p. m. Wednesday,,
July Is, at the Pavilion in the horticultural
gardens. The late Sir John A. Mcdonald
was to have made the principal address.
Among the speakers will be Sir Alexander
Campbell, acknowledgements of the prov
ince of Ontario; Hon. G. w. Ross, minister
of education for the province of Ontario;
Rev. DIR. Allison, superintendent of instruc-
ton for the province of Nova Scotia; Hon.
William Crockett, superintendent of in
struction for the province of New Bruins
wick; Hon. G. Ouimet, superintendent of
instruction for the province of Quebec; Il.
f. Clarke. Esq, M. s. F., mayor of the city
of Toronto: William Mulock, ESD, M. p, |
vice-chancellor Toronto University; Mr..
William Macintosh. president Ontario
Teachers association.
Three minute responses will be made by
the president, the first vice-president, the
secretary, the treasurer. aud the chairman
for the association: the commissions of
education for the United States; Hon, Ray
Greene Huling, president American lnsti-
tute of Inst uotlon for the northeast; Prof.
S. II. Jones, Indianapolis. Ind. for the
north central states; Ex-State supt. j. j.
Thayer. of Wisconsin, for the northwest:
Supt. Il. b. Gault, Tacoma. WASH. for the
Pacific coast; Prof. Il. Marcellus Marshall,
Chamita, N. NJ, for the southwest; Prof.
w. IL. Bartholomew, Louisville, KY. for the
south central states; State Supt. John Il.
Massey. OF Virginia, for the southeast; Hon.
solomon Palmer, East Lake, Ala, for the
Gulf states; Hon. Josiah IL. Shinn. presi-
dent of the Southern Educational associa-
tion for the south; Supt. A. Il. Lane, Chi
caRo, ILL.,, for the Worlds Columbian expo
aiiion.
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