The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-15
BISHOP NDE VISIT.
President OF the League in the City
Yesterday.

IcStcrOays
Bishop W. Xavier Ninde. of Detroit, and
president Of the Epworth League. was in
the city yesterday. a guest at the Denison.
Bishop Ninde left in the afternoon for
Bloomington, where he addressed a meeting
OF the district Epworth League convention
at that place In the evening. In his CONVEX
sation with DIR. Chas. c. Lasby and Rev. W
A. Quayle, Bishop Ninde expressed himself
as very much gratifed with the outlook in
indianapolis for a successful and prosperous
Bishop Ninde says the official
souvenir book is superb. He has hopes that
the convention will be the greatest thing
indianapolis has ever had. While the Chris
tian Endeavor convention was in Detroit
Bishop Ninde attended and had a pleasant
visit with DR.. Clark. president of the Chris
tian Endeavor Society. He says it is a great
religious force and that the good 1T has done
Detroit will be felt for some time to come.
DR.. Ninde will return to Indianapolis Mon
day and remain here at the Denison, where
the entire Epworth League cabinet will
have rooms. until the close of the conven-
ton.
G.. l.. Knox, one of the committee looking
after the welfare of the colored delegates.
has procured homes for five thousand dele
gates, all Of which he expects will be filled.
Assistant General Secretary Penn. of At
lanta, Ca. has written the committee that
he will bring a delegation of three thou
sand from that vicinity, ana Word has also
been received from one town in Mississippi
that will send seventy-fve delegates. Sixty
delegates are booked from Baltimore and
se~venty-five from Nashville. A letter has
been received by the committee that Booker
T. Washington is in Paris and will not be
able to attend the convention. Among other
prominent colored men who will be here are
DR.. B. j. Bowen. of Georgia, and Rev. DR..
Carter Mason, assistant secretary of the
Freedman's Aid Society, of Cincinnati. A
reception committee of fifty will take charge
of the delegates at the Union Station and
the Statehouse and will escort them to the
homes assigned to them. Some university
have been travelling through the East. and
are now In Cincinnati. will be here and ar
rangements have been made by the recep-
Simpson chapel on Friday Evening Of the
convention. where the delegates may meet
socially.
Word has been received from Chicago
saying that the Monon will run a social
special to the Epworth League convention.
leaving Chicago in three sections, next
Wednesday. from the Dearborn-street sta
49, 1AAo us Z VIII a d6O aL
$50 a. m, arriving i'm indianapolis at 100
O'Clock. The second section will leave at
1870. arriving I'm the convention city at $3.50
p. m, and the third section will leave at
n:io. arriving in indianapolis at 4:45 p. m.
The Monon people are making every prepa-
ration possible to carry out the plan of the
social feature. The Juanita Glee Club and
assisting talent will be on board to sing for
the entertainment of the passengers as well
as lead In teaching the convention songs
Among the speakers at the convention are
me folloMing: Bishops Fitzgerald. -Eoss.
Fowler, Hurst. McCabe. Mallelieu. Ninde
and Vincent. United States Senator Fair
banks. Governors Mount of Indiana. Shaw
of Iowa. and Atkinson of West Virginia,
Gen. John b.. Gordon, Col. A. w. Balm. Con-
Potter. Prof. Richard Moulton. Miss Kathe-
rine Lente Stevenson. DR.. John Potts of
Canada. DR.. Henry Wade Rogers, DIR. r. r.
Doherty, DR.. j. l.. Hurlbut. DIR. II. c. Jen-
nings. Rev. Hugh Price Hughes. president
OF the Wesleyan English Methodist Confer
ence, OF London, Will also be among the
number of the speakers.
A pamphlet has been issued by the Illinois
state Epworth League imparting general
about indianapolis and the con-
Vention, TO those who desire to attend. Sew
eral official routes have been authorized. II
states. and all delegates going via Chicago
Will have the privilege of going by the
pennsylvania lines and returning over the
Big -Four, without additional expense. This
Big -Four. from Peoris and St. Louis, and
used. The fare from Chicago Is s. for the
round trip. s6.15 from Peoria and $50 from
ST. Louis. Tickets will be good from July l.
10 July "a BY depositing the ticket with +
g. Donald. joint railroad agent. at the
payment OF 30 cents tickets nav he eT.
tended TO leave indianapolis TO and includ.
ing Aug. %.