The Minneapolis journal., 1902-06-26
MECCA FOR MA ANS.
Many School Teachers Engaging
Quarters for N. E.A. Week.
PARTY OF 20 FROM NEW ORLEANS
Seven Former N. E. A. Presidents
Are on the Programme of
This Meeting.

The Commercial Club committee has on
Its register for the National Educational
association accommodations for 5000
teachers besides those who will be taken
care of in the hotels, but its list Is still
OPEN for additions in order that there
may be no danger of q shortage when the
visitors begin to arrive.
The special train service for the con-
vention Is being largely arranged at the
eastern, southern and western terminal
points and information in regard to the
running of specials has not yet reached
the Minneapolis Offices, beyond the fact
that there will be specials from Chicago
and Milwaukee. One travelling passenger
agent visited Minneapolis recently and
completed arrangements for party OF
200 teachers from southern Illinois. He
took lists of lodging rooms and selected
and reserved desirable places for all of
his party on the east side, convenient to
I the principal meetings. ~. =
Letters of inquiry come in large num-
bers, one from New Orleans to-day re-
questing rooms for a party of twenty.
numerous than for any other convention
ever held in the city. All of the indica-
tions point to very large attendance.
Minneapolis and vicinity has a large
corps of public school teachers but there
will be none too many to do all of the
many little services that make all the diff
ference between success and failure in
such meeting. Among the details that
will require the services Of a large num-
ber will be the ushering at all of the
eighteen meetings in different quarters.
The usher corps will be organized by
A. N. Farmer, chairman of the committee
of halls. For the sections that meet; but
twice the same persons will serve for
both meetings, but at the other meet
ings relays will be arranged.
Former Presidents Coming.
/ The convention will be the forty first
meeting, although the association was or
ganized in Philadelphia in 1857. 1t was
then named the National Teachers Asso-
citation, the, present name dating only
| from 1871. Four annual meetings have
| been missed-those of 1861, 1862, 1868 and
| 1878. A president has been elected at
each convention and of this number TWEEN
ty are still living, Josiah L. Pickard, OF
Maine, being the Nestor of them all
| On the programs for the Minneapolis con-
vention appear the names of seven Of the
ex-presidents, William II. Harris, who
presided at the first Minneapolis NE. A
convention in 1876, James H. Garfield
who presided at the St.. Paul convention
| in 1890; A. C. Lane, Of Chicago J. M
Greenwood, of Kansas City; DR.. Nicholas
Murray Butler, of New York.; N. c.
! Dougherty, of Peoria, Ill.; and w. F,
Phelps, of Duluth. Several other ,ex-
presidents are quite certain to be pres
ent, as the association retains them act
| lively in the work. The first named vice
president is the last president, j, M
| Green, of New Jersey; the entire board
| Of trustees are ex-presidents of the asso.
citation and they make a majority in the
executive committee. Every president al
! the expiration of his term of Office be-
| comes a life director and it is in these
smaller bodies that the details of the
| affairs of the association are worked out
by the men selected by the active mem
bership. . $780, Il.