Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-07-14

great crowd. The hotels are full, with
one or two exceptions, and thousands are
Quartered in private houses.
The city has been gaily decorated in
honor Of the visitors. The decorations
are not confined to the business portion
alone, but extend to the residence por-
tons. Hundreds of buildings are gay
with bunting and thousands Of flags are
huttering in the breeze from the house
tops. The merchants and the citizens
generally have responded to the request
of the decoration committee to beaudfy
their places, and some Of the decorations
are very elaborate.
The convention proper Will open to-
night at the Exposition building So far
the only meetings have been those of the
national council, the governing board of
the association, and two of the sections
on education of the deaf and on second
airy schools. The general sessions Will
open at o'clock and will be held morn
ing and evening until Friday morning,
when the convention will adjourn. The
programme for this evening includes ad
dresses by Gov. ScOheld, Supt. Emery,
Mayor Rauschenberger and Supt. Siefert,
with responses by several distinguished
educators.
The Utah delegation is here and a live
~ contingent / is. The teachers from
the land of Brigham Young are very
much in earnest in wanting the associa-
ton to meet in Salt Lake City next year
Iuu, uedu6U Ut NupI. D.
they are doing all III their power to con-
vince people that the region of the Great
Salt lake is about the ideal place for
teacher to visit in vacation time.
Whether school keeps" or not is of
very slight Importance to the bicycle-lov-
ing ma ans and masters who have ar
rived in the city. According to the local
committee, hundreds of wheels have al
ready arrived, and the members of the
comlaittee are being deluged with ques
lions as 70 the possibility of renting
wheels. The committee have made am
pie arrangements TO satisfy ali kinds of
cyclists by being in readiness to engi-
neer twenty runs each day, eight long
runs to neighbOring towns and twelve
city runs. The first series of these runs
started this afternoon With a fair attend
ance. They were antedated. however, by
der sex this morning, who had no sooner
arrived IN the city than, inQuiring the
route to Whitefish Bay and disdainng
all offers of guides they started merrily
out for the bay with flying ribbons and
badges.
The Second Day.
Milwaukee, Wis, July Z. 1897
The second session of the general body
of the National Educational association
opened at 9:15 o'clock this morning and
was attended by crowd not much
smaller than that which attended the
opening meeting last night. Notwith-
standing the early hour set for the open
ing, and the late hour at which last
evenings meeting closed the people came
promptly this morning. Before o'clock
the thousand seats reserved for the act
i've members were filled and the asso-
ciate members and spectators had flied
most of the seats in the rear. Even the
galleries were comfortably filed. Few
conventions have ever been held here
which have had such magnificent audi
ences and in which so much interest has
been manifested. In spite of the heat
outside the big Exposition building was
as cool as q shady brookside Every
body looked comfortable and happy and
the proceedings opened under the most