The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-26
TIRELESS ENDEAVORERS.
Are Still Hard ut Work Arranging for
the Big State COnveutiOn...RalIy
Next Thursday Night.

Yesterday the Christian Endeavor
convention executives and committees
continued the activity that has been
so apparent dl>lg the recent past.
Their concern tf1t the big gathering
shall be q success and it's anticipated
magnitude are alike foreshadowed by
the amount of preliminary work.
Last night the reception committee
met in the lecture room of the First
Presbyterian church, the committee on
decorations in the Young Mems Chris
tian association building and the CEN
tral city members of the entertainment
cont vlittee in the Second Presbyterian
church. In addition there were-as will
be the case until the eve of the con-
vention-numerOus conferences during
the day between some of the cOmmt-
tee of '96, the body of nineteen chair
men and executives on whom rests the
main responsibilities.
Miss Della +. Evans and T.. s. VIII
liams presided over the reception COM
| mittee's deliberations in the First
Presbyterian church lecture room. This
committee is one of the largest and
most important of any. 1t Is COM
posed of ten members from each of
the city's twenty-three Endeavor So
cieties and is officered by four captains
| city and one lieutenant from each So
ciety. On this body rests the ardous
and responsible task of meeting every
| incoming batch of tive four or five
| thousand delegates and escorting them
| to the particular churches which have
already been designated as the head
quarters for delegates from certain
counties.
After being piloted to church head
quarters the delegates will be shown
by subcommittee from the entertain
| ment committee to their hotels or home
quarters which have already been en-
gagged. Members of the reception com.
mittee will be distinguished by white
| caps of especial design which will be
distributed Thursday
The schedule Of societies assigned to
| meet trains arriving at different hours
was announced as follows:
s a. m. to 12 M, In charge of Captain
klotZ-First Presbyterian, Penn Avenue
Baptist, North Main Avenue Baptist Sum-
| ner Avenue Presbyterian, Providence
Christian, Dunmore Presbyterian, United
| Evangelical.
12 m. to p. m.. in charge of Captain
keene-Green Ridge Presbyterian, Adams
Avenue Chapel, Providence Presbyterian.
African Methodist Episcopal, Second
Presbyterian. Sherman Avenue Mission,
odist
4 p. m. to 8 p. m.. in charge of Captain
| Smith-Washburn Street Presbyterian
Grace Lutheran, Plymouth CONGREGATION.
| al. Grace Reformed, Puritan Congrega-
| tionai, Calvary Reformed, Welsh Congre-
| gational, Providence.
| 3 p. m. to Y a. M. in charge of Captain
Whitbeck-FlrSt Presbyterian, Green
| Ridge Presbyterian. Dunmore Presbyteri-
| an, Penn Avenue Baptist. Plymouth Con-
| gresational, Providence Baptist.
The final and big rally prior to the
convention and when nearly every
| member Of all the numerous commit
| tees will gather for the last general
| instructions, will be held Thursday
| evening in the Penn Avenue Baptist
church beginning at 7.45 o'clock. An
hour will be devoted to service of
prayer address and song; the new Of
| iicers of the city union will be intro
duced and then will follow what is an
| nounced as practical meeting" The
reception and entertainment committee
will perform with dummy delegates the
| duties that VIII be required during the
| convention.
During the evening the mammoth
| United choir will sing in concert and
| each of it's three divisions will render
| individual selections. The choir will
meet in the church Monday evening at
| s o'clock for rehearsal.
The decoration committee at it's meet
| ing last night in the Young Mems
| Christian Association building complet-
ed its final contracting and arrange
| ments for the decorating of Elm Park
| church. the Frothingham, Academy of
Music and the Young Mems Christian
| Association building which will be the
| headquarters of the committee of '96.
| The trimming of the interiors of those
| four structures will be on a scale never
before attempted. as far as bunting is
concerned in relation to the three lat
| ter and plants and bunting in the case
| of Elm Park church.
A meeting of the property owners
| interested in the paving of Mulberry