The sun., 1902-10-26
CnAVERO COMES OUT ON TOP.
iTRES BEATEN WiRO MEM.
CAN AMLRiC ANIS7S.
Cheers for Morris X. Jrsnp At the Closing
Sessi0n-(OnKress to Meet st stutt.
gart Two Years Hence--Peter stu,,e.
SAINTS Leg In Curacao Cemetery.


The International Congress Of American
ists concluded it's thirteenth biennial session
at the Anne rican Museum OF Natmal His
tory yesterday afternoon, after u week e
eaynest attention to n multiplicity OF SUBJ
jeots. Morris X. Jesup. resident both of
the congress and the IN lscum, who since
the opening meeting OF the oonrioss last
Monday had left the duties Of the presiding
officer to the various vice-presidents Of
the several nations represented, was again
In the chair during the final meeting.
When the last paper had been read, DR..
Karl Won den S,einen of the University OF
Berlin. vice-president for Germany. took
the platform to express the tharks of the
congress to Mr.. Jesup. through whose Of
fees II was that the congress determined
for the first time In it's history to honor the
United States by holding its convention
here.
The success which the congress- has
met. said DR.. Won den Steinen, has been
due largely to your act. Mr. President.
At the outset Of tho meeting last Monday
morning you said that you we're a lover Of
science. Science being lady, trust that
you have seen that your affection u fully
reciprocated.'
Il wish now to propose said DR.. Won
den Steinen. turning 10 the congress. three
cheers for our president
The surprise Of the doctors remarks
was equa lied 10y the vim which this mixed
congress put into It's responsive cheers
The Jonlihcer van Panhuys, dele gate from
the Netherlands. presided At the morning
session of the congress. and also az that
session presented a condensatio ion of several
papers which he was to have read IN fuller
form at various sessions had there not been
40 much Of interest from many quarters
10 occupy the CONGRESSES time each day.
Under the topic Of "a well-known name
given by the Dutch when exploring the
Hudson River" Baron van Pan Iuys made
an Interesting statement regarding the
name of the Catskill region. Contrary to
the popular idea he said, he believed the
name to have been given in honor Of states
man and writer. famous III tie Netherlands
In the early part Of the seventeenth century.
whose name was kaat2. The delegates
applauded the Jonk heer's statement Of
the result of his researches.
Travelling a bit farther in the Dutch pos
sessions in this hemisphere in the seven-
teenth century, Baron van Panhuys told
of a tradition in Cur6S a, which no said he
never had met with ia records up this way,
which had it that Peter Stuyvesant. who
was Governor OF all the Dutch West Indian
possessions as well as Of New Amsterdam,
had lost "one of his legs in Cur. cDa. The
leg was buried there, according to tue Cura-
G an traC ition and there il burial ground
there which TO the present time is known
IH'. ,ein cTy
William p. Blake. in paper on The
Racial Unity of ths Historical and Pre-
hs.o. .cai ADorglhal People of Arizona
and New Mexico drew attention to the
extent of that territory as being greater
than that of New England and New York
combined. AID said.
Wherever III that territory you find
living water, there YOU may look with cun
ndence for pvid ic- OF ancient popula-
ioIs. The adOUe hous u have, OF course,
mau.y been wash I'll away by the rain. p,
but the posts Ola which they We're built
remain. AID stald like so many hitchil q
posts out from the ground displaying before
you tho diagrams Of the al cIer.t villages.
A Iona IL anxious 10 Tet.il within the
Terri ory som" Of the ancient remains ana a
collection has been begun wltht his end In
View at the .ircrsity at Tucson. l want
10 say to you chat here has been wholesale
dest ruction of the Old monuments in that
region, in the search for treasure that Is
constantly carried on there.
"Dyua l. used MumInics arr thrown
ont and cast away. Bellies are thrown into
barrels hastily and hustled away. in the
eager greed TO make soinething, and often
II Is found that when the shipments arrive
at their destinations the relics are broken
and spoiled from the very haste and care
lessness In their handling"
Mr.. Blake spoke OF the admiration of
both early and modern people OF those
parts for green stones which he called
green turquoise but which the experts
In the congress explained were not tur-
quoise. and Prof Putnam arose to remark
upon the widespread admiration for
green throughout tho earth. EVERYWHERE
green stones were held IN regard he said
Green seemed to be the one color that had
Affected the human race everywhere, not
only in America TO such an extent that
If n color was held sacred il was green.
Edward III. Thompson. continuing the
discussion, observed that the maine Of the
sacred tree of the people Of Yucatan. trans
lated. meant The Green Tree
A paper by Gonzales de la Rosa on "The
Peruvian Coast. =" led DR.. Max Uhle Of the
University of California, 10 LAY that that
language was now only spoken by a single
village, whose inhabitants are engaged in
making straw hats. DIR. Uhle was well
pleased with Mr. de la Rosa's con,riDu-
tlon.
Baron van Panhuys, in another paper, in
telling ~ -Cnrib Words in the Dutch Iangu-
age and In u" in Dutch Guiana" mem
iioned "hamnOck" IA a Carib word, used
ia SdrFlOlPdtl, ENpNNn anu DGtCn, Ut.
Won den Stelnen, however, took him TO
task for careles-ness and said that "ham-
mock" and other words mentioned by the
Baron were Indian. bu, that they were not
what In lingustics are called Carib For
in the Carib." said tho doctor, -one finds
comhir"d many linguistic brarches.'
The Baron accepted the correctio and
said that the Carib he had reference to
was found on the coast of Dutch Guiana.
The opening of the afternoon and final
session, with Mr. Jesup in the chair, re-
vealed the fact that the sacrifice of Alfredo
Chavero, chief Of the Mexican delegation
to the congress. had not been ia vain.
Senior Chavcro had sacriiiclally abscrted
himself from the congress sECe WcdNe.-
day, when he was the presiding officer, on
account Of the bo-,erous conduct of his
colleague, S,nOr LcopoIdo Batres, who
on that day a~pcrsed Srfpr ChaVcro for
certain stat"mrtS IN his address to tho
Congress. as has already been told in THE
Sun
On Friday Senior Bltres, whose ideas
~ tine courtesy due the congress did Lot
prevent his giNus out for pub .ication
before the congress had assembled his
paper which had been prepared for pre-
setaiiolI to the congress, had bacnsrow L y
over the s"Cu-iuiI OF S,'nor ChaVero. senior
Balre, said that SeiOr Chavero was hiding
IN euo,uo