Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-16
CAPITAL. C1YS BID
Movement to Secure National Confer
enoe Here in 1900.
THE CHARITIES And CORRECTIONS
Advantages Of Washington as a
Convention City.
d E L z q A TIES TO CINCINNATI
D ELEGATES TO CINCINNATI

| me movement to have the next national
| conference OF charities and corrections held
| III this city IN 1900, it is understood is
| meeting with considerable success The
| national conference this year is to be held
at Cincinnati, Chic from May II to % at
which place a date for and the location of
| the heXt conference will be decided uDon.
Inc board of trade committee on char
lHes ana corrections, of which Mr. B. T
'ahaey Is the chairman, and in which or
ganlzation the movement originated TO have
| the conference held in this city is still
pushing the project. Mr. Janney was au-
| thoriZed to increase his committee to 100
| members and to take necessary measures to
secure the meeting of the national confer
| ence In this city next year This commit
| zee mas been appointed. the list having been
published in The Star several DAYS ago
Inc work at the Washington end OF the line
mas about been completed.
a delegation representing the board of
rade, the District Commissioners, the In
duStrlaI Home School, the Associated Char
mes ana other institutions will leave the
CITY on a midnight train this evening for
CINCINNATI. This delegation will use every eff
Tort TO secure the desired convention for this
city, and will carry away large amount of
literature, which will be distributed with a
lavish hand The delegation will consist of
Mr.. b. I. Janney chairman of the commit
tee on charities and corrections of the board
of trade: Herbert w Lewis SUPERINTENDENT
, OF charities; George S. Wilson. superintend-
END OF the Associated Charities; Mrs Kate
- Barlow, superintendent of the Industrial
Home School; Warden Harris of the Dis
trict Jail. John w Douglass of the board of
children's guardians, and William F. Dow
ney, chairman of the Association of Good
SamaritanS.
Arguments in Washington's Behalf
A neat little pamphlet with half-tone
view of the Capitol and inscribed: Nation
al Conference of Charities and Corrections,
Washington, D. c., 1907 will furnish the
main ammunition for the campaign. The
panphlet presents the advantages of this
city in the following manner:
"A special invitation is extended TO the
national conference of charities and cor
rections to assemble next year In the city
of Washington.
"Originating in the wv hington board of
trade. this invitation has been Endorsed and
is urged by the Commissioners of the Dis
trict of Columbia, and an extensive local
committee of arrangements already fully or
ganiZed for the discharge of all duties
which may be required of it. This COM
mfttee represents the press, the educa tional
charitable and reformatory Institutions. the
clergy, several departments of the United
States government and the people of the
District. The money necessary for the en-
tentainment of the conference is pledged
and should this invitation be accepted all
who attend will receive such welcome as
can be given only by the federal city.
There are many reasons why the con-
ference should assemble in Washington in
1900, some of the chief among which are
the following:
The Nations City.
The District of Columbia especially needs
the uplifting and inspiring influence of the
conference. Washington is the nations
city. the nations Congress is its governing
body and the condition of its charitable
and correctional institutions, therefore,
reflects credit discredit not more on the
citizens OF the District than on the nation
at large. This Is a particular reason why
the national conference of charities and
rectiOns should from time to time give the
influence of its presence toward the attain
ing of the highest standards in these insti-
tutions. Congress will be in session at the
time of the meeting, and a rare opportunity
will therefore be offered for impressing
upon the minds of the national legislators
some of the lessons which have to teach.
The location is favorable to large attend
ancc. especially from the south, section
over which the influence of the conference
should be more widely, felt. Representatives
of the press throughout the country are To-
Gated in Washington and will give wide
circulation to the proceedings Of the con-
ference.
THE universities and educational insti
tutions. hospitals. asyIums and refGrmato-
res are worthy of inspection and study.
Vernon. Arlington, National Soldiers
Home. the battefelds of Bull Run. Gettys-
burg and Manassas. Newport News. Hamp-
ton Roads Old Point Comfort and Virginia
Beach.
Object Lesson.
1.-The city itself is object lesson in gov
eminent. construction and ornamentation,
which should be seen and appreciated by
every American citizen. Its grand avenues,
beautiful parks, statues, treasures of art,
its mementos of Washington, Lincoln,
Grant and others are well calculated to in
spire and pelpetCate love of country and
devotion 10 high ideals. But greater than
these and of such value as educators that
they deserve the sacrifice of a journey to
their site on their sole account. the
Capitol ard the Library of Congress. Per-
hapS nowhere else in the world, certainly
not III any modern city, can be found so
much TO please instruct and elevate.
The occasion Will be peculiarly appro-
pirate and advantageous. for the year 1900
marks the close Of the first century since
the city OF " aShsngt1n VAS CHOSEN as the
home of the federal government 1t MAI IS
an important epoch IN American history,
and the citizens OF the District now have
wel-matured pans for Il centennial cele-
bratioa which, for soild magnihcence and
value as representing the achIevements of
American industry, ami the tr4umphS OF
will SuDprlpF to aQV cele-