The Washington times., 1895-01-13
THEIR MECCA Is THE HUB
Christian Endeavor Convention in
Boston This Year.
10000 DELEGATES EXPECTED
Will Be the Largest Religious Gathering
the World Has Ever Known-Elaborate
Arrangements for the Reception and Eu-
tertainment Of Visitors -Copley Square
Hotel to Accommodate Washingtoniaas.

Boston will be the Mecca for Christian En-
deavorers this year. All roads lead to the
Hub In Endeavor affairs until July, when the
Fourteenth International Conven tion will be
held there, from the 10th to the 18th of that
month. Members of the committee OF ar
rangements yariously estimate that the at
tendance will be between $4,000 and 60 900
delegates. II their antieipations are realized
the convention will be the largest religious
gathering the world has ever known
In July 1892. about 1000 Endeavorers
crossed the Cana dian border and assembled
in convention at No ntreal. 1t was the first
time the annual International gathering had
been held outside the boundaries OF the
United States. and the officers of the United
Society as we'll as the Montre al committee
any members OF Montreal societies were sur
prised at the large number of delegates.
Last year, in the midst OF the big railroad
strike, 10000 delegates registered at Cleve-
land. Ohio, in attendance on the thirteenth
international convention. The committee of
a. however, had made ample preparations
for the reception and entertainment OF a big
C rowd and they were fully able to provide
10 10000 or even 10000 more visitors than
were present.
This year. however. it is said the prelimi-
nary arrangements are on an even still more
elaborate scale.
As far as possible the plan prevailing at
Cleveland which proved to be great success,
WILDE tried, namely, each State will be given
headauarter in some church. and the society
in that church will see TO it that the delegates
hat ot 10 h ppy nd fort
able.
The magnitude of the task and its eyer-in-
creasing responsibilities make il plain that
the work OF receiving and entertaining such
a convention cannot well be limited TO the
narrow confines of even great city. 1t is
becoming more and more evident that the
time is coming, il not already arrived. when
no city in the country ought 70 undertake.,
unaided and alone. such gigantic task.
As TO the entertainment OF delegates the
Christian Endeavor plan will prevail, each
delegate paying his own expenses. Some
will be quartered in hotels. some in apart
ment houses, hundreds in the New England
Conservatory OF Music, which has been OF
fered for the dse 81 the committee, while the
vast majority will 10 to private houses.
Elrea,iy Christian Endeavor State organi-
cations have written on for hotel accommo-
dations i'll Boston and have appointed State
excursion managers to arrange with the rail-
trains, some States having already arranged
for over 900 delegates
sir. Percy s. Foster and Mr.. Norman T..
Elliott. of Washington have signed con-
tract with the Copley Square Hotel to accom-
modate $50 guests from this city This will
make ethe local delegation 10 the convention
of 1895, with one exception. the largest
crowd that has re- eireseated the Capital at
any previous meeting, The exception is the
New York convention CT 1892, which was at
tended by more than 100 Washingtonians.
Definite arrangements for the transportation
of thess delegates have not yet been made,
but it is probable that the District union
special train will leave here on the evening
OF Tuesday, July S, reaching Boston the next
afternoon and giving the delegates an oppor-
tunity to see some of the sights OF the Yankee
metropolis before beginning the work of the
convention.
AS usual. Pennsylvania will send big
representation. MIR. W. A. Gillespie, the
energetic president of the Philadelphia Chris
tian EndeaYur Union, is now in Boston ar
ranging for the accommodation OF 1000
delegates. Among the other States sending
big delegations will be New York. Ohio, I'LL
nois, Maryland Missouri, Massachusetts, In
diana, and Michigan.
The local arrangements for the great con-
vention are in charge of a committee of thir-
teen members of which the chairman is
Samuel B. CaTan. of the large carpet house
of Torrey, Bright & Gapan: George w. Cole
man Is vice ehairman L. II. Magwood, secre-
tary; William Shaw. chairman of finance
committee and treasurer: F. f. Davidson,
auditor; A. J. Crockett, chairman hall COM
mittee: L. ". Walsh jr., accommodation; W.
+. bartholomew. press; Charles II. kilbourn,
prin ing; E. A. Gilman, reception; Charles Z.
Allen, excursion; George X. Somerby, music.
and II. G.. Dixon, decoration.
Endeayorers ON arriving at the railroad
stations and wharyes wilfbe met by members
of the reception committee and conducted
to their respective headquarters.
Boston is, with the exception OF Washing
ton, the most interesting city in America by
reason of its revolutionary and historical
associations, and the excursion features OF
the convention will be we'll taken care Of by
Charles E. Allen, the president OF the Massa-
chusetts Christian Endeavor Union.
Mechanics Hail. accommodating 5000 peo-
pie, and two or three tents, seating 10, 600
people each, will be used for the regular ses-
sions OF the convention with various large
churches for overflow meetings.
choir of 200 voices will dispense sweet
music to the thousands assembled and lead
in the singing.
White and crimson are the official coors OF
the conventions and the city will no doubt be
profusely decorated in honor of the occasion.
song entitled Boston '95' has already
been sung at Christian Endeavor gatherings
in anticipation of the convention, and copies
have been sent all over the country. 1t is
sung to the air of Marching Through
Georgia" and reads:
"Come, all ye Endeavorers, we'n sing another
song;
Sing it with a spirit that will help the cause
along;
Sing with exultation of the fifty thousand
strong,
Who will come marching to Boston
CHORUS.
| Hurrah Hurrahi for Boston '95;"
Hurrah! Hurrahi Endeavor hearts revive;
| White and crimson banners aoating free in 90,
| When you come marching to Boston.
| See them come from every land beneath the
rolling sun;
Como with songs of courage for the battles to be
won;
Come with faith that fails not till the fighting
days be done,
| Coming with praises to Boston.
Bunker Hill invites you to its soil by heroes
trod;
Lexington and Concord send their voices all
abroad;
| Faneuil Hall sends greetings in the name of
| freedoms God
| To the hosts who march on Boston
you come,
Paul Revere will hang aloft his lanterns one by
one,
And over all will shine for you the stately glded
When you come marching to Boston.
Come all loyal friends of right and capture on,
| fair land,
| Once again q standard raise on fair New Eng
| lands strand,
Once again on Plymouth Rock shall kneel pill
| grim band,
When you come marching to Boston