Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1902-04-24
THE OLYMPIAN CANES
An Authoritative Outline Of the
Plans for Their Celebration.
PRESIDENT FURDER'S STATEMENT.

A Stadium Capable Of Seating 10000 PEG.
pie to BE Constructed-T Six Lines
on Which Efforts Are BE-
Ing Made,
Chicago, April 1o.-Genuine sur.
prise and enthusiasm at the magni.
tude of the plans greeted the pre-.
sentation last night Of the first au.
tlioritative outline of the prepare
lions for the coming International
Olympian games in this city. Be-
fore 200 distinguished guests at a
banquet Of the Press club the an.
nouncements were made in series OF
addresses by Olympian games Off
cials and other notables in whose
honor the banquet was held. After
a greeting to the banqueters by
President Homer j. Carr, Of the Press
club, and felicitOus remarks by Judge
Payne, President Furber, who was
received with cheers, said: "The
games Of 1904 will undoubtedly con-
|-sume large portion of September
and October and the efforts will be
principally directed along, six general
lines.
81. Worlds champion contests will
be organized in standard sports, in
Guiding field and track athletics,
equestrianism, yachting, rowing, bill
lizards, turning and all other games
international in character.
20. Exhibitions will be given Of the
sports peculiar to various countries
of the world. Under this head prop
erly will fall baseball, Japanese
wrestling, French savate, or boxing
with the feet, German schlaeger con-
tests, boomerang throwing, the nayi-
cation Of different types of water
crafts, etc.
"3. The purely athletic exhibitions
will be varied by historical displays,
spectacular in nature. Evening rep
reservations will be given Of the
games Of ancient Greece and Rome
and of the Journeys of medieval
Europe, with appropriate costumes,
pageantry and settings, the brilliancy
of those scenes to be greatly height
ened by means of the Examinations
and pyrotechnical effects which mod
ern science has placed at our COM
mand.
81 As the highest development OF
physical activity, the military exer-
cises will be rendered particularly
prominent. Prizes will be given in
all branches; the competitions for
the awards being Of nature to test
the proficiency Of the participants,
not only in parade ground drill, but
more especially in those qualities
which tend to render them effective
combatants. All departments of the
service will be represented; and 1t is
hoped that the games may so stimu-
late interest in military affairs as to
be no mean factor in the reorganiza-
ton of the national guard along the
lines recommended by President
Roosevelt to the federal congress.
IS. The organization of compre-
hensive exhibition of sporting APP
paratus and equipment, including
not only weapons, the implements
in different games and
other inanimate objects, but also
horses, hunting dogs, carrier pigeons
and fish and field and forest game.
sc. There will be a department
called the Olympic congress, in which
il is intended that all other features
of the games shall eliminate. In
an auditorium provided for the pur-
pose organizations devoted to sports
athletics and military mat
tiers will be invited to hold their gen
eral conventions, the scope of the
congress being to extend beyond the
purely technical phase of athletics.
1t is intended to invite the presence
of physicians, Psychologists, psychol-
ogists, representatives of the pulpit,
military experts and other scientists,
in order to induce and formulate,
for purposes of publication, such
conclusions as may be gathered from
the scientific study of the contests
and the participants therein.
"A stadium capable Of seating at
least $4,000 people will be especially
on the borders of Lake
Michigan and ample provision will
be made for the diversion of the
public while games are not in prog
ress. Music of the best quality, cafes
and garden restaurants will be pro-
vided, the grounds at night being
effectively illuminated"