New-York tribune., 1903-05-17

velopment OF Ohio" Mrs. James r Hopley BuesFnS
oH.f chronological History Ohio" General B. r. C0Wen
Cincinnati.
After the close of the exercises the speakers the
distinguished guests present and the members oA
the state Centennial Commission. the State HIS
torfcal Society and the visiting representatives oA
the press and the executive committee IN cnai
of affairs I'm Chillieothe will be entertained at
banquet given under the auspices OF the Press
Club of ChiIlicothe in the Etntracht Han
The last spea,xing meeting Of the celebration Will
onen Thursday morning at 10 O'Clock, with Geherai
Keifer presiding and ths following programmes
has been arranged:
.orba Ohio Presidents" Thomas Ewing, jr.. of New
THE Press of Ohio s. s. Knabenshue. OF Toledo
ohi0 0b,os Literary Men and Women Professor W. H.
venable OF Cincinnati o., i. ys.,o, G C. McCabe
Oh 1ntroduction and congratuatory remarks by di'n
Renediction the Rev c. II. Schaur. pastor OF CaI-
vary Lutheran Church
These addresses are TO be published In book form
by the Ohio State Historical Society and VIII form
the most complete, authoritative ana eAnaos,i
history of Ohio and the Northwest Territory tha1
has ever been written. 80
M. ,oo+oc,,Iar features Of the celebration will
ba crowded into Thursday afternoon and evening
At O'Clock in the afternoon the grand parade VIII
be reviewed by Governor Nash and the othel oi7
tingushed visitors, the reviewing stano peils
erected beneath a trfumpnal arcn dI tic NON
house esplanade The parade will be one OF ene
largest and most elaborate that have ever taken
place in Ohio. There will be many especltaIy 5 oe
signed floats floral dsRIay aSd o tb Dsrde
not fully realized at first, but as the oatE ~
it win easily be one Of the great features OF the
celebration ,,, 49,. .,- rrrn-
Der of receptions to distinguished visitors: me
local chapter Of the II fr from nhe the
chapters throughout the State VIII reCeats .tosi -
president and the Century Club win simaFy y,
honor Mrs. James B. Hopley the state president Oh
4 feature which viii attract great interest VIII VIII
be the exhibition Of historic relics %ntc4 s & aS kind
ever got together. The very cream or arcnseoIosi-
cal discoveries in the tn State NH whcn n na paye he
together with many manuscripts and otaer thihgs
It was pecuiiariy fitting that Chicothe should
have been chosen as the Place of f4F P tns
the States existence cluster about THIS city s
ertera government as Governor Of the North
west Territory; 1t was here that fhe agtaaOn i0 f
Chcothe menmThomas Worthingt9n M Nathaniel h ME
here on November %. 1902. that constitution for
the State was adopted. in compliance with the re-
It here. in the spring OF the sqcfeedhg sad
fhIs EdIa4d fde n X8ns ssseed her first Go1ernor
OF course May 20 and q will not represent ex-
State was born There have always been more or
less discussion and difference Of opinion as 70 what
stence of the State really began with the adoption
have t.i thought that It began with the first state
election on January Il 1873: stu Others @ haVs be,
Congress passed an act approving the constitntion
Rcn T the naa most gee ern Students Of history have al
ways claimed that the State really came into ex-
Vent into session and the first state officers
surned their duties This was March !. 1Sc3- This
view CT the question was adopted by the state
Centennial Commission. but 1t happened that March
/ 1903 fell on Sunday, that 1t was impossible to
hold the celebration at that time