Evening star., 1897-06-08
Representative Business Men Guests Of
the Washington Board Of Trade.
an INSTRUCTIVE ROUND OF VISITS
Wonder aad Admiration Expressed
at the Capital Sights,
A G r RATIFIED RTY

| Weather Chief Willis q. Moore seems to
| have a persistent spite against the Wash
| ington board of trade On the occasion Of
| the recent annual excursion to Marshall
| Hall Mr. Moore was honored with an in
vitation. but even this mark of distin-
| gu1shed consideration didn't prevent him
from unleashing his atmospheric animals
| ana making a meteorological menagerie
tear through the armament. Today the
board OF trade had underlined with big
red dash. Three score of the leading men
| OF Latin America, the men who represent
all that Is energetic and progressive In
the new civilization below the southern
| border Of the Union, were to arrive hero
| and see the sights of the national capital
| under the guidance and as the guests of
| the same kind Of men who live in Wash
ington. The gentlemen came, but the train
| that whirled them from Baltimore speeded
through binding sheets of water. that
| drenched the landscape like Chinaman
drenches neglige shirt. The same condi-
| tions surrounded the Decentralization of the
visitors at the Pennsylvania depot, and the
! loveliest city in the world, that should have
been sunny and superb, was as wet as the
apocryphal hen, and scarcely more invlt-
Ing. 1t was very mean in Weather Wise
Moore to treat such distinguished visitors
in such an outrageous way, but he prob
ably has a conscience, and its sting will be
sufficient.
1t " ould have needed more than a rain
storm, however, to have lnterfered with
the program for the day. The board OF
trade never does anything by halves, as
is well known, and its committee Whlch was
appointed to take charge of and entertain
the South and Central Americans, the
Mexicans and the representatives of the
Philadelphia Commercial Museum was at
the Pennsylvania depot long before the ex-
pected train came in. The committee was
headed by President S. w. Woodward. The
others were District Commissioners John
w. Ross and John 3. Wight, Mr.. Charles
]. Bell. Colonel Henry F. Blount: Major
Henry l.. Biscoe. Mr.. S. w. Curriden. Mr.
E. G. Schafer. Mr.. o. F. Crosby, Mr.. w.
C. Dodge, Mr. w. P. Van Wicke. Mr.. T..
Southard Parker, Mr.. Colin Studds, MIR. f.
j. Dieudonne Mr.. Reriah Wilkins. Nh. Frank
Hume, Mr.. James w. Somerville, DR.. A. T.
Pardon, Mr.. Frederic L. Moore, Mr.. w. s..
Thompson, MIR. Archibald Greenlees, MIR.
w. W. Burdett, Mr.. Job Barnard, Mr.. e. +.
Droop, Mr.. b. T. Janney and General Ellis
Spear. There were carriages in readiness
| to take the visitors to the new Congress
sonal Library and the Capitol, and several
of the foreign ministers representing South
American countries were present to take
charge of the visitors from their nation.
In the Party.
The train rolled In at 8 o'clock, and the
visitors left 1T With eager rapidity. They
| were a distinguished looking body of men,
and attracted much attention from the
crowds in the depot. The party composed
the following gentlemen:
Carlos Dix Klett, woods, hides, wool ex-
| changes, Buenos. Ayres; Coolidge s. Rob-
| erts, exporter OF hides, wool and Argen-
| tine products, Buenos Ayres; Fernando
| Mendes de Almeida, commission merchant,
newspaper, Rio de Janeiro; Arthur S. H.
| Hitchings, mines, machinery and engineer
| ing works, stock broker, Rio de Janeiro; J..
Cordeiro da Graea, engineer, Rio de ia
neiro; Ignacio Merry de Fonseca commits
| sion merchant, machinery of all kinds,
| Pernambuco: Joao' Moreira Costa, lamps,
Amercan hardware and china ware. etc.
Para; Arthur. Pereira, provisions. Para; w.
/ w. Dunbar, general nler'chant rubber ex-
! porter, Para; Guiflermo Gesswein. ma
! chinery, agricultural Implements Santiago;
| Carlos Rogers, engineer. railroad contrac-
tor, Santiago; Luis Gieseken, dry goods,
| lombia; Henry Price. hardware, dry
| goods, provisions, etc, Barranqulla, CO.
! lombia; Joaquin Pombo. general i'm
porter, Cartagena, Colombia; Rafael c..
| Castillo. general importer, Mexico city =;
J. N. Recuero, general importer
| American provisions, shoe machinery wire
hardware, Panama: Felix Ehrman, provis-
| ions, beer, hardware, Panama; Garardo
| Lewis, provisions, beer, hardware, Pana-
ma: Roberto Hernandez, dry goods San
| Jose. Costa Rica: Alexandra Canton fancy
goods San Jose. Costa Rica; Mauro Fer
| nandez. financier. lawyer. San Jose, Costa
IL,
| printing and stationery, Lima Peru: Pablo
La Raso. printing, etc, Lima, Peru AL
| ejandro Garland. mines, Lima, Peru Fed
| erico Mejia, banking. coffee. machinery,
| San Salvador, Salvador: p. de Murguiondo
| consul of Uruguay, Montevideo Uruguay;
| Antonio E. Delfino. dry goods coffee, bank
| ing, Caracas, Venezuela: Jesus de IcaZa
| agricultural implements, fertilizers Mexico
| city; Fernando Ferrari-Perez, Mexico city;
| officer of the government Everardo Hege-
| wisch. building supplies, Mexico City; Julio
Limamtour, banking, woolen manufacturer
Mexico City; j. PoniatoWski machinery
| for the manufacture of wool, commission
merchant. Mexico City: Ygnacio Aguirre
| ice machinery, electric plants Mexico City;
1gnacio Carranza, agricultural machinery,
Tlexcala; ENRIQUE Sanchez, farmer TlaX-
| Gala; Francisco Tendon, tobacco, Vera
Cruz; Antonio V. Hernandez, banking,
water works. Monterey; ]. K. Robertson,
| 40. merchant. secretary of 'Fundidora de
Metals y Faya," Monterey; Fred
erico Kunhardt. general merchant,
| baker. Guadalajara; Manuel Corcuera.
| works; Rafael de la Mora, Guadaia lara.
| mechanical engineer, machinery; Emilio
Rabasa, Chiapas. button manufacturer.
canned fish; Radulefo G. Canton, Merida.
coffee machinery. sugar and brick ma
chinery; E. Cantillo, Merida. hemn ma
chinery; G. H, Richter, Demerara, British
Guiana: Guiana: Paul zilling. Stuttgart. Germany,
~ MUSEUM in
Stuttgart; James H. Harper. Manchaster
and Liverpool. England iron and steel.
William Mckenzie, Colombia, CeyIon zen'
erad importer. tea planter and exporter.
The representatives of the Phiiadeinb;a
commercial Museum We're: w. P. Wilson
director; William Harper, chief of the hi.
Ieau Of information: Gustavo Nieder,ein
chief OF the scientific department: G. A
Green, assistant chief of the bureau Of in.
| formation; W., n. Schofr, foreign secretary
81 ,sthect the baFeap '9f vd1 in1formation; Geo. vi
| the museum; T. W. Harold. the press
agent: Mr.. Arthur E. Hunt of the Associat.
| ed Press; aIr. CO r. Rosenberg manager of
transportation, sand Mr.. J. II. Speakman.
manager Of the baggage. were also with
nPubItc Buildings.
The carriages were quickly taken. q
member Of the board of trade ENTERING
each. with two or three of the visitors
President woodward standing under the
| canopy on p stSeet and assigning the places
In the vefsicles.si
The drive to 1.-THE Congressional Library
was NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. was made at the
| basement door under the main nort;co
The visitors gathered in the corridor and
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