The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-04-21

what l. expected from DeloW the Ie-
hachap ri from tais period onward. Half
morning and the rest al rived on the local
and overland trains.
Many OF these visitors are prominent In
their own localities and all are of superior
intelligence. The manager of the exhibit
stated that the people are of The class
which an exposition is most DESTROYS of in
teresting.
A conference of geographers will meet
in Festival Hall on Friday, May 4. under
the auspices of the Geogra phical Society
of the Pacific. Papers will be contributed
by Captain Healy and Captain Hooper of
the United States Revenue Marine Serv-
ice. General Darling, secretary of the
United Historical Society of New York;
Professor George Davidson, Lieutenant
Stoney, U. S. N; E. j. M0iera and Benja-
min C. Wright.
Danish day will be celebrated on Mon
day, April 80. The local colony of Danes
has the matter In charge. A street. pro-
cession will form on Baker street. between
Fell and Oak, a. p NJ, and will march
through the panhandle TO the east entrance
of he grounds. At Festival Hall there
will be Danish songs and speeches in Eng
lish by A. B. Freese, president Of the day,
and II. j. I. Jacobson, and in Danish by
Consul j. Simpson. William Sonderup,
Axel Teisen and II. Albertson.
a n
fire portrait will be shown. The subject
will be lady. and the management vouches
that she is the most beautiful lady in San
Francisco. No name will be given and
the SPECTATORS will be asked to guess her
identity.
A lengthy session of the executive COM
mittee Of the Mdwinter Fair congresses
was held yesterday. there being present
James d. Phelan, Professor Bernard
Moses, William Greer Harrison, Sheldon
G. Kellogg, William b. Harrington and L.
G. JudknS
A letter was read from Professor w. d.
Rising of the University of California
and chairman OF the committee ON the
chemical congress, stating that a number
Of prominent chemists of the East have
acce pied the invitation to be present at the
sessions in June. One of the speakers
will be Professor Remsen Of Johns Hop
kins University. Baltimore.
report from Edgar Stillman Kelley.
chairman of the musical congress, was so
encouraging as to warrant exceedingly in
terestlng sessions devoted TO music. Sew
eral prominent Eastern musicians are eX-
pected, among them Louis Z. Elson Of the
Boston Conservatory OF Music.
Professor Moses, chairman of the con-
gress of economics and politics. submitted
the full detailed programme for the second
series of this congress. beginning on the
as follows:
Thursday evening. April &c. o'clock
"The Municipal Government of Oakland"
a. b. Nye; The American Almshouse as
II Is and as 1t Might Be-" Mrs. P. L.
Weaver: "The Unemployed # the Pacific
Coast" J. r. McFee; general discussion.
Friday afternoon, April q, 2 80 O'clock
University Settlements" E. E.. Haynes;
sThe Work OF the College Settlements
Association" Miss Z. w. Mclean; Boys
Clubs" T. G. Burgess; general discussion.
Friday evening, April q = '"The In
fiuence of the Theory OF Evolution on the
Doctrine of Social Progress" Professor LIE
Conte.
Saturday evening, April 2S-"The Mar
ket for California Breadstuffs," Horace
Davis; 1.-THE Veto Power" n. p. Chip
man.
Reports connected with the congresses
that are now being held and that are to
follow Immediately were 10 the effect that
the general sessions at Golden Gate Hall
are proving exceedingly interesting and
instructive.
Much interest was shown In the literary
congress which begins this evening. AS
far as possible all papers and discussions
before the literary congress Will have as
their centraliZlng thought The Present
Conditions and Tendencies of Literature"
There Will be four principal subdivisions.
one or more sessions being given to each
subdivision.
california literature" will first be con-
sidered, followed by american litera-
turr.' English literature" and lastly.
"Comparaiiye literature and literary
ethics" The influence of literature on
national character will probably be taken
up for consideration at one of the general
discussions. Although no definite advices
have been received from Eastern authors.
there are several en- route to the Pacific
Coast, and 1t is hoped they Will be present
before the congress adJourns.
The temperance congress will be
gathering of wonderful interest. Presl-
dent David Starr Jord an of Stanford Uni
versity will open the congress Monday, the
2lst of May, on 1.-The Relation of Artificial
Stimulants to Human Evolution" and be
followed for eight days by several eminent
speakers. The printed reports of their
addresses will add much to the valuable
literature OF California.
The programme for next week is as fol-
lows:
Monday, April %, 2:3o P. M.-"The Charac-
terstic and Tendency OF American Literature"
sily; "Reminiscences of Longfellow." d. Gil
bert Dexter; Journalism in the United
States" the chairman.
Monday, P. M.-"what Is Poetry, General
L. II. Foote: "The English Ballad" Professor
G.. Nj. Richardson University of California;
Pre- Historic Malayan Literature" housewife
Wildman. late United States Commissioner 10
BOrneo.
Tuesday. April "a, 2:3o P. M-"Literature
and Science" Professor w. II. Hudson Stan
ford University; The Science of Literature"
Professor A. +. Lange, University of Califor-
MIA; "Child Literature" Lieutenant r. ii.
Fletcher, U. S. A.
Tuesday. p. M.-"The Permanence of
Poetry" Professor Melville B. Anderson, Stan
ford University; 1.-THE Saving fower OF
Poetry" Charles Edwin Markham; "The Rela-
tlon OF Poetry TO Life" with special reference
TO religion, John Vance Cheney.
Wednesday, April %, P. M.-''The Relation
of the Novel 10 Other Forms of Art" Professor
c. B. Bradley, University of California; "The
True Shakespeare" Joseph ID. Redding. and
probably papers by Joaquin Miller aud Profess
s or Joseph lie Cone.
Send Part Nine of "Picturesque Cali
forDia" to your Eastern friends. 1t will
show them exactly what the beautiful