Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-08-05
THE SOCIAL EVENT.
Grand Reception by Worlds
Fair Lady Managers
To Its President, Mrs. Potter Palmer.
and Mrs. Fred Grant.
Memorial Services b Deceased nsmbers-
Reception By English Commissioners.

CHIcAGo, Aug. 4.-One of the great So
cial events of the Fair WAS the reception
gwen by the board of lady managers to
their president. Mrs. Potter Palmer, ami TO
Col. and Mrs. Fred Grant. 1T took place
in the assembly room at the Woman 8
building. Those who received were MIR.
and Mrs. Potter Palmer, Col. and Mrs,
Fred ID. Grant, FIRST Vice-President Mrs.
Ralph Trsutmsnn of New York, Second
Vice President Mrs. Edwin c. Burleigh of
Maine, and the committee on ceremonies.
II was an event long to be remembered.
There WAS very large attendance Of for
eign and national commissioners and Off.
cials from every part Of the Union and for
eign countries. The ceremonies lasted
more than two hours.
Director General Davis has announced a
decided change in the evening management
of the buildings at the Fair. Heretofore
all the buildings have been kept open, but
many exhibitors have covered their displays
in the evening explaining that the strain up
on themselves and their employees would be
too great otherwise. The council of sl-
ministration has determined not 10 open all
the buildings each evening. and it is under
stood that the exhibitors, relieved for six
nights, will cooperate in making As full a
display AS poseible for the one evening each
week.
Brief but impressive memorial services
on the death Of Executive Commissioner
Donald McNaughton of New York were
held in the large reception room on the
second floor of the New York building. The
room was profusely decorated with palms
and cut flowers, the side pillars
being trimmed with an oval wreath
of two frondsof palms inclosing
a bunch of phlox. Tables at either side
of the south end of the room were loaded
with foral pillows, wreaths and other en-
blems sent in by state delegations and per
sonal friends. Five hundred chairs were
placed in the reception room, and all were
occupied by those v no came to pay tribute
to the beloved commissioners memory.
Services in memory of those who have
passed away since the board of Lady Man
ayers was organized were held in the Wo
mans building, Mrs. Edgerton, of Arkan-
Quoted bv Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker.
Mrs. Hooker first read from Revelations,
selecting chapter xxi. and afterward de-
livered prayer so touching that at its
close there were but few dry eyes in the
the room Following the prayer was a so
10 by Mrs. Marble. Then Mrs. Hooker
read the poem The Other Land" written
by her sister, Harriet Beecher STOW.
In memory of Mrs. Lucas of Pennsyl-
vanis. Mrs. McCandless spoke, and was
followed by Mrs. Mitchell, who read res
oiuton of respect submitted by the com
mittee. Mrs. Rue of California spoke low
ing words of Mrs. Fair. Miss Cunning
ham paid the tribute to Mrs. Darby of
South Carolina. Miss Davies of Nevada
spoke in remembrance of Mrs. Stevenson,
and of Mrs. Patrick of Colorado. Mrs.
Coleman spoke. Mrs Stone eulogized the
life of Mrs. Lewis, Illinois deceased mem
ber Mrs. Beeson of Oklahoma spoke of
Mrs. Miles, and Mrs. Ida Turner of Texas
Of Mrs. Baxter.
No more touching tribute was paid than
that of Mrs Nerienal, of New York, who
EXPRESSED her love and respect for Mrs.
VIM. C. Whitney. The tribute to Mrs.
Within. should have been delivered by
Mrs Ralph Trautmann, but she was called
to attend the memorial services in honor of
MIR McNaughton. The service concluded
v it'll a prayer by Mrs. FELTON, of Georgia,
and solo. Calvary" sung by Mrs. Mar
BILE.
A very pleasant event was the reception
and entertainment given by the royal com
mission for Great Britain at the Victoria
house in the Fair grounds, the guests of
honor being the board of lady managers.
There was quite an absence of all for
mality at the affair save for the formal
presence of the guests Of her majesty's
service. who stood as watchful sentinels TO
show the peace and dignity of the great
nation across the water. This absence Of
formality was IN every way appreciated by
the ladies', and he lped TO make the occasion
even more agreeable to the invited ones
than would otherwise have been the case.
Sir Henry Trueman Wood did the honors
with the assistance of three ladies and two
gentlemen, who made his welcome all the
more cordial, namely
Mesdames--
J. A. Crawford, Mecullum.
Margaret Winder. Ansley keneally.
Professors
Elgar. lie Neve Fotser.
The board of lady managers voted for
Chicago as the site of the proposed perma-
nent Woman's building.