The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-08-16
CUBAN TEACHERS VISIT
Arrangements for Entertainment in
Washington Completed.
Party Expected to Arrive Tomorrow
Evening-wiII BE Met by Commit
tees and enthusiastically to Re
Devoted to SishtseeinE-A Trip 30
Cabin John bridge and Glen Echo.

Arrangements for the entertainment OF
the Cuban school teachers who will come
to Washington tomorrow have been prac-
tically completed. The committee APP
pointed by Commissioner mcfarland has
provided for the comfort and pleasure of
the visitors during their brief sojourn in
the Capital City. They will probably leave
Washington for New York, en- route to
Cuba. Sunday noon.
The school teachers. who number about
1900, were invited to America by the
faculty of Harvard University and the citi-
zens of Boston to inspect and study the
public school system in vogue in this coun-
try For several weeks there has been
in session at Harvard a school where the
Cubans have been-instructed in the most
modern methods of teaching. 4 visit to
various large cities of the East will be
the concluding feature of their visit to
the United States.
The entertainment committee, through
its chairman John Joy Edison, announces
that the expenses attendant upon the en-
tertainment of the visitors will approxi-
mate $780, The expense of the trip to
this country has for the greater part,
been borne by funds raised through sub
scription among the citizens Of Boston.
Those cities which are visited by the par
ty however bear the expense of entertain
ment. In some of the places visited the
expense has been great-many times as
much as will be spent here. 1t is pro-
posed to raise the necessary 800 by sub
scription. A portion of that amount has
already been secured.
Three trains on the Pennsylvania Rail-
road will bring the visitors TO Washington
Friday evening. The first will arrive at
6:i5 and the others shortly after. Guides,
ladies and gentlemen, will meet the trains
and will conduct the teachers to the hotels
selected for their accommodation during
the visit here. The guides. who have been
selected from students of the High and
Normal schools, will wear badges with
the design of crossed American and Cuban
flags. No official programme has been
arranged for Friday evening
Saturday morning the sightseeing Will
begin. An early start will be made. At
$50. under the leadership OF the guides.
the party will visit the Congressional Lii
brary. After this building has been in
spected the Capitol viii be moved upon. A
photograph of the party will be taken on
the steps leading to the Senate wing.
Lunch will then be partaken of
At $3.50 the party Will proceed TO the
White House, where they will be formally
received by President Mckinley. Cars will
then be in waiting on the Metropolitan
road. and trolley ride be taken to CABIN
John. On the return stop will be made
at Glen Echo. Here there will be ten
dered a reception. and the welcome OF
Washington will be extended by Commits
sioner Macfarland. Later band on the
lawn will play a number Of Cuban and
American airs, and the stay at Glen Echo
will be concluded with a vaudeville per-
Torrance. Return will then be made to the
city. and dinner viii. be had. No enter
tainment has been arranged for Saturday
evening
will be opened especially for the Cubans
and number of other points OF interest
will be visited. The party will leave Wash
;ngton for New York at 1880
IL will take four transports TO carry the
teachers back to Cuba. The War Depart
ment which has the task OF seeing that
they get home in safety, has completed ar
rangements for the voyage. The vessels
called into service will be the Mcpherson,
Rawlins, Crook, and Sedgwick. Each of
them will carry teachers in accordance
with the points where they will disembark-
All of them, however. Will go direct on
the 25d from Philadelphia TO Havana.
There they will be rendered reception
by Governor General Wood. which will be
attended by the the chief dignitaries of the
city. 1t is expected that the reception
will be an imposing affair, for General
Wood is anxious to express the kindness
which the military government OF Cuba
feels toward the school teachers of The
island
The visit to Havana will be a novelty
in itself to many of the teachers who have
never been in the capital of the island.
1t will, 1t is expected. give them an OPP
portunity Of meeting, personally. the rep
resentatives of the American Government
there and it is hoped that it will cement
the favorable impression which the teach
ers have formed during their stay in the
United States. The American Government,
which is defraying the cost Of the ocean
voyage will land each of the teachers at
the nearest port to their homes.
The transport Sedgwick viii carry 42S
women teachers from the vic'lity OF Ha-
vana MatanZas, Cardenas, or Sagua. The /
Rswlins will convey 295 men teachers, who /
will land at Havana and Matanzas. The
Mcpherson will take a load of 10 men and
SO women from Manzanillo. Santiago. /
Guantanamo, Baracoa, and Gibara. The /
Crook will have 156 men and 10 women for I
Cardenes, 5agus, Cabarien. and Nuevitas, 4
and 81 men and rs women for Tunas, Ca .
silda and Cienfuegos. Altogether there
are Ssl women and COZ men in the party i
OF teachers.
THE journey has been one Of the finest |
things that could possibly have come TO
the school teachers" said an official of
the War Department yesterday. I'd Is do (
ing wonders in showing them what America I
and the American people are like. 1t is
certain to have an inestimable influence
in molding the friendly sentiment between
the Cubans and the Americans
CUBAN TEACHERS AT CHURCH.