Omaha daily bee., 1898-06-19
MORE DOCTORS ARE COMING
National Convention Of Homeopaths to
Convene This Week.
EIGHT HUNDRED DELEGATES EXPECTED
Many Meetings of More Than ordi-
nary Importance on the ard
for the Next Six
Days.

The big medical convention OF the sea-
son Is the American institute OF Homeo-
patty, which will convene here next Thurs
day. The plans for a great session are COM
pleted and local committees are ready for
the coming OF the visitors. There will be
some 500 delegates, so says DR.. d.. A. Foote
OF the press committee.
The homeopathic will meet Thursday
at the First Congregational church, Nine
teenth and Davenport streets. On Friday
the regular program will be taken UP at
the Creighton Medical college. The services
will probably last five days. On Sunday
evening the annual memorial services OF
the association in memory Of deceased mem
bers will be held at the above church.
Plans for the Meetings.
The convention OF Homeopathists was
brought to Omaha from Buffalo last year
only after a very vigorous effort on the part
of local representatives. The fasteners
wanted the convention at Atlantic City,
where the attractions of "A summer resort
were the allufements. in addition to the
conference OF the doctors. The officers of
the institute are:
President, a. X. Wright, Buffalo. n. Y;
first vice president, William L. Green. NJ.
D.. Little Rock; second vice president.
: Charles Natchell, Chicago; general secere-
tary, Eugene II. Porter, New York: record
ing secretary. Frank Kraft, Cleveland, o.;
treasurer, e.. M. Kellogg, New York; as
sistant treasurer, T. Franklin Smith. New
York.
The plans for the meeting are extensive
and include several side trips for the enter
tainment of the guests. At the opening.
Thursday, June 20, the address Of welcome
will be delivered by o. S. Wood, M. D.,
chairman of the committee on local ar
.a.ro,,aptg Cn,,nrnnr Glac HnlCnun N
will deliver an address of welcome and the
president of the institute will respond. The
rest of the first day will be a business SEES
sion.
On Friday the convention will assemble
at Creighton Medical college, Fourteenth
and Davenport streets, and the sectional
meetings will begin at 1890 a. m. the
subject being, Clinical Medicine and Pa
thology."
Friday evening Mr.. and Mrs. George w.
Lininger will give a reception to the physi-
clans and an elaborate entertainment is pre-
pared.
At such times and opportunities as suit
the proceedings the schedule of entertain
ments include a trip to the smelter and
packing houses. a trolley ride over Omaha
and on Saturday evening at 5 o'clock the
entire party will be given a trolley ride to
Paramount park, Council Bluffs. When the
institute is concluded the delegates will take
a trip to Salt Lake City, going by way OF
Denver, Manitou, Colorado Springs and
Glenwood Springs. At Ogden the excursion
lists will change to the Union Pacific and
return to Omaha by a different route. A
train of Pullman %sleepers, frst-class in al
appointments, has been secured for this trip
Secures - Low Rate.
The committee on transportation feels tha'
1t has secured a low railroad rate for thu
Omaha institute. The concessions were
brought about by the management Of thu
Transmississippi Exposition. For delegates
attending the convention a rate of a fare ant
a third has been gotten for visitors from
distance. One fare plus 81 has been Sc
cured for the visitors within a radius O
$50 to 200 miles from Omaha. The loca
committee who will look after delegates viii
dress IT. gray cadet uniforms and will wea
"a. /. H." badges. They will be at all thu
incoming trains to direct the visitors.
According to letters received, there will
be a full attendance. Among the features
OF the institute will be an institute on 9Th
-Four Pathies-Anti, Allo, Iso and Homeo
patty"
Other subjects of interest to the genera
public will be the broad topic, Powers an
Limitations OF Boards of Health with Thei
Relation to the Profession and the People,
and Sanitary Problems The latter sub
ject will be made especially timely and in
teresting by the presence of some member
OF the institute from Florida and the south
ii. K.Stout of jacksonville will 5e presen
and he will discuss sanitary matters ~relatiri
principally to matters concerning the sol
diery-in the camp. in the hospital and o
the march.