New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-04-20
MISSION DELEGATES HERE.
EX-PRESIDENT HARRISON AND OTHERS
ARRIVE.
FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES, ON THE TEU-
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES FOR RECEIV-
ING THE PRESIDENTS PARTY

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| ToNIC-ARRANGEMENT's FOR RECEIv-
ING THE PRESIDENTS PARTY
Delegates to the Ecumenical Conference on
Foreign Missions, which is to begin in this city
on Saturday afternoon and last till May |, are
! arriving in large numbers, and the indications
all point to a session OF extraordinary interest.
Ex-President Harrison. who is to preside at
! the Conference, reached the Fifth Avenue Hotel
| in company with Mrs. Harrison yesterday after
! noon. The Hospitality Committee which has
had its headquarters I'm the Presbyterian Build
ing, in Fifth ave, is overburdened with work
and yesterday moved to Carnegie Hail. where it
will look out for the comfort of the delegates
and missionari9 to the best of Its ability dur
ing the Conference.
While the main meetings of the Conference
will not begin till Monday in Carnegie Hail. per
haps the greatest popular interest is felt in the
meeting at that place tomorrow night, when
there will be a reception for the delegates. Ad-
dresses will be made by President Mckinley, ex-
President Harrison and Governor Roosevelt.
The delegates will be welcomed to the Con-
ference at Carnegie Hall tomorrow afternoon.
This will be the preliminary opening session,
and General Harrison will preside Following
this address there will be an address Of welcome
by the Rev. Dr. Judson Smith. chairman of the
General Committee. to which responses will be
made on behalf of the British, German and
Australian delegations and the missionaries by
the Rev Wardlaw Thompson, Drs. Mereresky
and Schneider. the Rev. DR.. Joseph King and
the Rev DR.. Jacob Chamberlain. These will
be followed by a report of the General Commit
tee by the secretary, the Rev. Dr. S. L. Baldwin
Tomorrow afternoon President Mckinley and
his party will be met at the Pennsylvania sta
ton in Jersey City by Morris X. Jesup, Cor
nelius n. Bliss and the Rev. DR.. Arthur J.
Brown, DR.. Brown being chairman of the Hos
pitaity Committee The Presidents party will
be escorted to the Hotel Manhattan, where the
President will meet some of the Conference
committee charmen This informal reception
will be attended by Rear-Admiral John w.
Philip, representing the Navy, and Major Gen
eral Wesley Merritt, representing the Army.
The White Star Line steamship Teutonic
which arrived yesterday morning from Liver
pool, had board number of prominent cler-
gynlen who have come here to attend the Con-
ference. The delegates who arrived the
Rev w. T. A Barber. Lees School. Cambridge
missionary to China; DR.. D. A. Barley, secre-
tary of the Irish Missionary Society; DR.. and
Mrs Borchgrevink, of the Morse Board of Mis-
sionaries; Miss Budden of the London Mission
airy Society; Bishop w. r. Ridley, of Caledonia,
b. c.; Joel Cadhury, Friends Foreign Missionary
Society, Birmingham, England; the Rev. Henry
| 7. Chapman, secretary of the United Methodist
Free Church Missionary Society," Leeds; the
Rev w. E. Cousins. London Missionary Society;
the Rev. w. Dale and Mrs. Dale Presbyterian
missionary: H. c. Duncan, president of the Stu
dents Volunteer Missionary Union, England;
| the Rev A Ewbank and Mrs, Ewbank, of the
! South American Missionary Society; the Rev. F.
! Galpin. of the United Methodist Free Church
i Missionary Society; T. Morgan Harvey, late
/ treasurer of the Wesleyan Missionary Society;
. G. A. King, representing the Religious Tract,
British Foreign and Bible and City Missionary
societies and president of the st. Andrew So
ciety: the Rev. T. Wakefield, United Methodist
! Free Church Society; the Rev. George Owen.
London Missionary Society; the Rev. Maurice
Phillips London Missionary Society the Rev.
t Eugene Stock, Church Missionary Society,
| Church of Scotland; the Rev. c. 7. Wilson,
/ Church Missionary Society Miss l. II. Barnes,
! Miss Emily Brstow and Miss Wade. all of the
/ Church of England Zenana Missionary Society.
| The Rev. DR.. Borchsrevink is a cousin of the
| Arctic explorer who. it is said has discovered
! the magnetic South Pole.
! Eugene Stock, while in this city. will be a
! guest of the Rev. DR.. William R. Huntington,
Fire Chaplain Johnson, one of DR.. Huntington s
/ assistants at Grace Church The delegates were
/ met by Alexander Hadden who is one of the
J Episcopal Committee on Hospitality.
EN-PRESIDENT HARRISON'S VISIT.
! Ex-President Benjamin Harrison, who is to pre-
side the deliberations Of the Ecumenical Mis-
sionary Conference. arrived in this city yesterday
| afternoon and went the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
! General Harrison when seen last night seemed to
| be in robust health and excellent spirits. Il am
! here to attend the Ecumenical Conference" he
! lid. and then added with a twinkle in his eye.
I is: where it meets and when, as / did one young
who called upon me to-day representing the
/ press.
! sec nev -naper men--unless it hapnens to be a
| when was in my bath.
| the ex-President. and, aside from the Ecumencal
and private AFFAIRS but there is absolutely nothing
Of political or public interest IN my visit aside