Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-10
WORLDS FAIR CHECKER CONGRESS.

Immediately preceding the tournament,
on or about August 8, as stated, World s
Checker Congress will be held under the
| auspices of the Worlds Fair Auxiliary, OF
| the Worlds Columbian Exposition, and
under the immediate supervision of the fol-
| lowing named members of the Chicago Chess
and Checker Club, appoin ted by the w Orld
| Congress Auxiliary:
Harvey L. Hopkins Chairman.
j. ID. Adair I'D T. DeDyir.. C. NJ. Morton
d. S. Baldwin....L. Uedeman........T. A. Peters.
The nature and scope of this Worlds
Checker Congress will be as broad and inter-
esting as the game is deep and fascinating,
and the papers that will be read by able ex-
ponents of the game. from all parts of the
world, upon all topics connected Herewith,
will be printed in the book to be prepared
by the Worlds Congress Auxiliary, giving
the proceedings of all congresses held in the
art gallery of the great Exposition under its
jurisdiction.
The purposes of the Worlds Fair Congress
Auxiliary will be understood from the fol
lowing article, copied from the April, 1892
number of the Revi.W Of ReuieVs:
1t is time to urge upon the attention OF
the intelligent men and women of the
country the remarkable series OF interna-
tional congresses that will assemble in Chi
cago next summer under the auspices of the
Worlds Fair Auxiliary Nothing OF like
scope and character-at least nothing on
half so am bilious Il scale-has ever before
been attempted. There will be an interna-
tlonal literary congress, for example, over
which it is fntimated that King Oscar OF
Sweden, who Is proud to be considered
member of the republic of letters, may pre-
side in person, and which Will bring to-
gether great number OF noteworthy men
and women. Most astonishing of all, there
is to be a religious congress, in which not
only all branches OF the Christian Church
are to come together-Catnolics from every
where, Protestants from all denominations,
Holy Orthodox Greeks from Constantine
pie and Alexandria and Moscow,
Copts and Armenians and members OF
1N,,f lea 1nf
ish rabbis, representatives of Buddhism
from India and Japan, Confucian teachers
from China and Mohammedan doctors from
Cairo. The congress is to seek for the things
that are common in the faith and philosophy
of all the great cults of the civilized world.
and to promote harmony and good under
standing. The fact that representative re-
ligious leaders of may different creeds have
actually consented to support such
congress is the best evidence that could
be asked of practical growth In the
world OF that real religious life which makes
men charitable and broad in their sympa-
thies. Besides general religious congresses
there will be special ones of the different
denominations or creeds OF educational,
scientific and sociological congresses there
will be also brilliant series. Tne prepara-
tions are progressing so iavorably that there
can be no doubt whatever concerning the
distinguished character of all the great con-
ventions outlined in the programmes OF the
Auxiliary.
An exposition designed to illustrate and
sum up the worlds progress in modern
times-i. e., since the discovery of the West
ern Hemisphere by Columbus-would not be
complete without some such additional 1eat-
ures as the congresses which are to recapit-
ulate the progress of thought, scientific
knowledge and human culture. To leaders
in every department of learning and effort
will be committed to task OF preparing brief
but comprehensive reviews or the worlds
advancement in their respective fields and
the whole collection of these papers will be
printed as a sort OF a cyclopadia OF modern
advancement, to remain as the most i'm
portant permanent result of the Columbian
quadro-centennial anniversary. Mr.. Z. Z.
Donney, President OF the Worlds Fair
Auxiliary, has conceived audaciously, but
his conceptions are going to be wrought out
in actual fulflllment next year.
The Worlds Checker Congress Committee
will present to the checker players OF the
world programme for the holding OF this
congress as soon as practicable after the
OF the final programme for the
tournament. Ali checker players of the
world who will play or who expect to play
in this great checker tournament Will please |
by letter, to be received on or before Sep |
tenber l. 1892. These notifications will not |
be considered as entries, but as indicating |
the feelings and purposes OF checker play |
ers respecting the congress and tourna- |
ment. This committee will assume that |
players who do not so notify it of their in |
tentions to play will not play; and should |
there be general lack OF interest in this re |
be held, and notice of the abandonment Will |
be given out for publication on september !,
1892, in checker periodicals and publica-
tions.
All checker players who do not expect to
play in the tournament. but who expect to
attend the congress and tournament will
please in like manner notify this committee.
NO admission charge will be made to at
tend the checker congress. To the tourna-
nent single admission will 25 cents; season
tickets will be $5 each. Referees and time.
keepers will be admitted free.
Some checker players have very kindly
offered to make donations of money to this
in furtherance of this great en-
erprise; such donations will be thankfully |
'eceived. Others who desire to make don;l-
ions will please notify this committee of
he amounts on or before September /, 1892,
10 that these donations may be considered
n formulating the final programme by in
'reasing the amounts OF prizes, cost of
Medals, etc.
Address all communications to T. A.
PETERS, Secretary Suite 8, No. 150 Washing
on street, Chicago, ILL.,, U. S. A.
Respectfully submitted,
CHARLES NJ. MORTON,
Il. A. PETERS,
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