The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-23
TO ENTERTAIN VISITORS
RECEPTION OF MONETARY cONvEN-
TION DELEGATES OUTLINED.
A Functfen Tuesday Evening-Pro-
by FairchfId and Others.

Despite the unusually bad weather yester-
day afternoon, there was a fairly repre-
| sentative gathering of the local reception
committee of the monetary conference at
| the Denison. About forty-five members of
the committee We're present and prelimi-
nary steps were taken to give the visiting
delegates hearty greeting and hospitable
| treatment during the stay in the city. ii.
| H. Hanna delivered a few remarks to the
committee, in which he stated that between
| three and four hundred delegates had an
nounced their intention of coming and that
| it was the honest desire of the monetary
executive committee that the city extend to
them the same courtesies that the delegates
to the last monetary conference received.
c. c. Foster, chairman of the reception
committee, followed Mr.. Hanna with an ex-
PLANTATION of the methods pursued by the To-
cal committee at the previous conference.
AT that time the committee was divided into
four divisions, each having charge of one of
the hotels. Mr.. Foster recommended that
this plan be again followed and the meet-
ing Endorsed the recommendation. The COM
nittee will accordingly meet again in the
Century Club rooms, at the Denison. at 8
o'clock on Monday, when the members in
each of the four divisions will be announced
Over two hundred postal cards have been
received from those appointed on the re-
ception committee announcing their willing
ness to serve
reception to the delegates to the none
tary conference is to be given by the Com
mercial Club and Board of Trade, jointly at
the assembly room of the Commercial Club.
Tuesday evening, at $3.50 o'clock. Yester-
day Messrs. Fortune and Kinney, presi-
re nf he
of Trade, respectively, met to appoint COM
mittees on arrangements. Messrs. Bement
Lyman, Evans Woollen and Jacob w.
Smith constitute the committee on arrange
ments, and Messrs. ]. e. McGettigan, John
P. Frenzel and Herman Lieber the commit
tee on finances. 1t will be necessary to raise
some funds for the reception. So far de-
tails of the reception have not been ar
ranged, but the committee met yesterday
afternoon and decided that it should be
held at the time and place designated.
AT HEADQUARTERS.
The headquarters of the executive COM
mittee presented the same busy scene yes
friday as has markd it for the last six
weeks The local arrangements for the
convention have practically been completed
and everything bids fair to work out with
much smoothness.
In the mail yesterday a letter was re-
ceived from James T. Hole, of the Brook
Ign Manufacturing Association, stating that
the delegation of that organization had
been increased from five to ten, making the
list as follows: c. N. Chadwick, j. Sherlock
Davis, Alex. r. Crichton, A. G. Shenstone,
Thomas G. Smith, 3. w. cambridge, Mar
tin II. Day, w. Oscar Shadbott, II. II. Hill
and W. r. Lynch A delegation from the
Cincinnati Commercial Club was also
nounced, to be composed of Julius Dexter,
James b. Mooney, w. w. Taylor and A. G.
Clark.
There will be a meeting of the executive
committee on Tuesday morning and the
members of the committee will be among
the first to arrive in the city. George Fos-
ter Peabody, of New York, was expected
to arrive last night. III. c. Payne, of Mil
waukee. j. j. Mitchell, of the Chicago
Board of Trade, and H. IT. Kohlsaat, of the
Chicago Times-Herald, all members of the
executive committee, yesterday notified
Chairman Hanna of their coming on Mon
day.
The programme of the conference has
been partially made out. Chairman Hanna
will call the meeting together at 3 o'clock
on Tuesday afternoon at the Grand Opera
House. Governor Mount will follow with
an address of welcome, and Governor Shaw,
of Iowa, will then assume the gavel as the
permanent chairman. He will make an adj
dress and will be followed by G. Stuart Pat
terSon, of Philadelphia, member of the
body. The report will probably be referred
to a committee, and in the evening the con-
ference will listen to an address by Charles
S. Fairchild of New York.