Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-05-02
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Gatherings Nat Will shaps The Course Of
Civilization tor Years.

CHicAso, May l.-whiIe the inaugural
ceremonies we're in progress at jackson
Park this morning the Memorial Art
Palace, located on the Lake Front Park
within couple of minutes walk from the
business center of the city. anu which has
been erected at cost of six hunlred
thousand dollars, two-thirls contributed
by the Art Institute of Chicago and the
balance by the directory of the exposition.
was receiving its finishing touches, and
this afternoon it was thrown open for the
inspection of visitors from at home and
abroad. Under the roof of this magnifi-
cent 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 rs a
few years ago would have seemed chimeri-
cal and bordering on the impossible. The
leading idea of this feature of the Colum-
hian Exposition, which is under the direc-
ton and control of suh-aaministration
designated As the Worlds Congress Auxil-
iary, is to assemble the leaders of human
progress 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 depart
ments of enlightened life, to resume in
each congress the progress of the world in
the department concerned, TO formulate
declarations on the living questions of the
day that demand the urgent attention of
all those interested in the social and the
moral ameliora,ion of mankind, and to
promulgate suggestions concerning the
practical means by which further progress
mo ha aoI nor;tx
of the world and humanity advanced.
Commencing on the 18th of the present
month and continuing until the last day of
October, and possibly later, Chicago will
be the scene of nineteen of these gatherings.
Many of the congresses, however, on the
principle of wheel within wheel, will be
subdivided. Under the head of agriculture,
for instance, there will be no less than nine
distinct assembiages, in the department of
religion twenty-four, in that of temperance
ten.. Altogether there will be a total of one
hundred and fifty separate and distinct con-
ferences, and the magnitude of the under
taking 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 aeceptances from
over one hundred thousand distinguished
people of the United States, and of one fifth
that number from England and the CONT
nent. Archbishops and 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 ard literature,
science and philosophy; repre-
sentative workers in behalf of the progress
of women. the leading lights of the daily,
weekly and monthly religious and secular
press, workers in the temperance cause,
all the total abstinence socie-
ties in existence, bankers and financiers,
board of trade operators merchants, insur-
Rnce specialists, representatives of colleges
and college fraternities, educators of the
deaf, the dumb and the blind, civil and me-
chanical engineers, jurists and lawyers,
astronomers and geologists, electricians al d
leaders in the world o
labor organizations, devotees of socii
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 quarters of the |
each in their respective section, |
aud consider the questions that particularly
relate to the particular sphere in which
they live and move and have their being
1t wouli seem impossible that this pro-
gramme could be successfully carried out
under one roof, but the structure which
was open today has not only two audito-
RUNS, each with seating capacity of two
thousand. but also thirty three halls and
six large committee rooms. 1t will be there
fore be practicable for forty-one confer
pnces with an attendance upon each rang
ing from three thousand to five hundred to
be in session at the same time.