Evening journal., 1893-05-02
WORLDS CONGRESSES.
Gatherings That WIN shape the Course
of Civilization for Years.


CHICAGO, May 2.
While the inaugural ceremonies were
in progress at jackson Park yesterday
the Memorial Art Palace, located on the
Lake Front Park within a couple of
minutes walk from the business center
of the city, and which has been erected
at a cost OF 100000, two thirds contrib
uted by the Art Institute Of Chicago
and the balance by the directory of the
exposition, was receiving its finishing
touches, and in the afternoon it was
thrown open for the inspection Of visitors
from at home and abroad.
Under the roof of this magnificent pile
there will be held this summer the
greatest series of worlds congresses
that has ever been planned such bring
ing together of people of every cline as
few years ago would have seemed
chimerical and bordering on the impos-
sibe The leading idea of this feature
of the Columbian Exposition is to as
semble the leaders of human progrsss
from the civilized globe, not only for
purposes Of mutual acquaintance and
the establishment of fraternal relations,
but to review the achievements that
have already been made in the various
departments of enlightened life, to
formulate declarations on the living
questions of the day that demand the
urgent attention of all those in the
social ana the moral amelioration OF
mankind, and to promulgate suggestions
concerning the practical means by which
further progress may be made, and the
prosperity and peace of the world and
humanity advanced.
Altogether there will be q total of
one hundred aud fifty separate and dis
tinct conferences and the magnitude of
the undertaking may be gathered from
the fact that anywhere from one thou
sand TO three thousand individuals are
expected TO participate in each and
every conference Already the books of
the auxiliary record acceptances from
over one hundred thousand dis
tinguished people of the United States,
and of one-fifth that number from Eng
land and the continent. Archbishops
aud bishops, scientists, statesmen,
! philosophers, men and women whose
names will live in history for their
achievements in the fields of commerce
and finance, medicine, art, music Rno
| literature, education science ano
philosophy; educators Of the deaf, tn,
dumb and the blind, civil ant
mechanical engineers jurists anc
lawyers, astronomers, and geolo
gists, electricians, aud meteorol
Ogists, leaders in the world o
labor organizations, devotees of socia
and economic science, ministers and lay.
men of all faiths from the evangelical to
the Mohammedan, advocates of SUNDAY
rest, health officers and agriculturalists
and so on through an almost endless
list. will gather from the four quarterl
of the universe. each in their respective
section, and consider the questions that
particularly relate to the particular
sphere in which they live aud move anC
have their being It would seem i'm
possible that this program could be sue.
cessfully carried out under one roof, but
the structure which was opened YESTERDAY
has not only two auditoriums, each will
a seating capacity Of two thousand, bu
also thirty three halls, and six largl
committee rooms. 1t will therefore b.
practicable for forty one conferences
with an attendance upon each ranging
from three thousand to Eve hundred L
! he in session ot l. he same time