The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-29
ADVANCE GUARD ARRIVES
DELEGATES TO ASSOCIATION OF
MILITARY SURGEONS REACH
ST. PAUL
EMINENT MEN AMONG THEM
Surgeon Generals Sternberg and
Wyman Among Them, Gen.
Sem, Grant and Others
Will Attend.

The advance guard of those who will
attend the tenth annual meeting of the
Association of Military Surgeons of the
United States will arrive in the city to-
day. and tomorrow the han will be roll
ing. The association now has 514 mem
bers and it is expected that about 10
or 200 delegates will be in attendance.
These will include men whose names are
ilIastrious and who have records for serv-
ice that have been well earned.
The most prominent figure among the
surgeons will be surgeon general Of the
United States army, George NJ. Stern
berg, who is known throughout the cOun-
try. Then there will be Supervising
Surgeon General Walter Wyman. of the
marine hospital corps. Washington, and
Gen. Nicholas Sem, the famous surgeon
of Chicago, who was the founder Of the
association. Maj. Van r. Hoff, from
Washington, will be present, and so, too
will Col j. D. Griffith Of Kansas City,
one of the most prominent members OF
the association since it's organization.
Assistant Surgeon General Werren-
baker Of the marine hospital corps viii
be one of the first to be seen in 81. Paul.
He is now stationed at New Orleans. At
the last meeting in New YORK he read a
paper that attracted widespread interest
over the whole country. The SUBJECT
was THE BUbOnic Plague Surgeon
Generals Grant, Of Colorado. and Blood,
of Massachusetts, are expected to arrive
in the city today The association has
any number Of widely known men on It's
! lists ard. in view of the small member
ship. as compared with other organlIa-
lions. it feels proud Of this fact
It is expected that all of the members
Of the executive committee viii be IN the
city by this evening, when d meeLlns
will be held at the Ryan for the purpose
1fr7 a OF an
the work in hand for the week Follow
ing are the names Of those on the com
mittee as far as known by local members
of the association: Col. Charles ADAMS:
of Chicago, secretary; Lieut. stanton Oh
Chicago assistant secretary; Lieut.. Fet-
bert A. Arnold of Pennsylvania. treaSur-
err: Mai A. H. Briggs, of Buffalo, CHAIR
man of the committee on transportation
BEGIN WORK THURSDAY.
The programme Of the convention be
gins Thursday with q meeting o. Ile
members Of the association at the mousse
of representatives in the capitol Dulld-
ing. in the evening, between , ana II,
reception will be held at the ADerQeeh.
given at the Aberdeen. and Saturday att
ernoon carriage ride TO Fort Snelllhs
will be in order 80 t,,
The business session at the capitol VIII
he called to order at 10 O'Clock by BIB.
Gen John F. Fulton, retired. II e inVo-a-
ton will then be given by AFcnplshoP
ireland. Three addresses of welcome WIZ
he delivered by Gov. Van SAINT, Mayor
Robert A. Smith and Judge e. A. jag
gard. respectively. President =; j. Stone
will then deliver his address: The second
business session viii be held Friday morn
ing and the third in the afternoon or
the same day The last session Will be
held Saturday forenoon
The surgeons attending the convention
will come from the army, the navy the
marine hospital corps and the volunteer
surgeons. The surgeons who have ar
rived in the city thus far are reticent as
to what will come up at the business
session of the convention. II Is known,
however. that at least one important
question will be considered, and that is
nropositfon to admit surgeons Of the Con-
federacy. This has often been discussed
before. but nothing has ever been done
relative to 1t. go
An interesting fact in connection with
the Association of Military Surgeons not
generally known is that when the Span
ish-American war began the annual
meeting was being held at Kansas city.
The trouble broke so unexpectedly that
the meeting was called off before the
business of the year had been completed,
and the surgeons, or many of them re-
sponded to the call of their country.