The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-04-21
EDUCATORS
COME TODAY
The Vanguard Of Conference
Arrives on Special Train.
SURPASSES I ALL OTHERS
No Other Meeting Ever Held In Rich
n,ond viii Measure Up to This
for the Distinction Of Its
Delegates

Tho vanguard Of tho great Confer
ence for Education in the South" reaches
Richmond over the Riclimcni, Treder-
icksburg and Potomac road this evening.
being no less than the party of President
Robert c. Ogden, travelling on their spe-
cial train. Others will come by other
trains and other roads, and the city will
be fairly alive with distinguished visitors
from this time until Monday or Tuesday
Of next week.
The coming OF Mr.. Ogden and his party
will bs a distinctive event. On this train
with the phlanthropic gentleman will be
a large number OF prominent men from
New York and Boston, 80 many indeed.
that the company has come to be known
as the New York and Boston party"
1t is very probable that several gem
tlemcn will go from this city and board
tho train some twenty or thirty miles up
the road. coming to Richmond with the
visitors as their escort to the city.
SCATTERED OVER THE CITY.
Tho train will not go through to the
Union Depot. but will stop at Elba, and
the visitors will be driven to the homes
to which they have been assigned by the
president OF tho Richmond Education AS
sociation. Mrs. Ben B. Valentine. Presi-
dent Ogden and several others will be the
guests OF Governor Montague and will
be driven directly to the Executive Nam
sion. All who come on this train will dine
on board before they reach Richmond
and 1t Is not expected that the Rich-,
mond Supper" Is to be kept waiting Tor
them II they are later than p. M. The
train may get here between and 7, or 1t
may be later.
Inquiry at the hotels last night dis
closed the fact that they will be filed
the rest OF the week with delegates to
the conference. This proof OF the fact
that far more than 400 are coming. for
this number have been assigned by Mrs.
Valentine. s
POUR IN TOMORROW.
During the day Wednesday, every train
from whatsoever point will bring dele
gates to the conference, These include
men who are the leaders of thought,
of investigation and of business In every
section OF the country. making the most
DISTINGUISHED large gathering ever seen in
Richmond. on whose streets almost every
great gathering every great man of the
nation has been at homo from Washing
ton to Mckinley.
All the sessions OF the conference will
be held at the Academy OF Music. The
first opens tomorrow at 3.3O o'clock This
is business meeting and announcements
will be made The formal onening is to-
morrow evening at s o'clock. when the
Richmond public is cordially invited. The
Governor and Mr.. Ogden will be the prin-
cipal speakers. At $3.50 the members OF
the conference and guests Will be giver
n reception by the faculty or Richmond
College.
SCHOOLS TO CLOSE.
The Richmond schools will be closed
from midday Thursday through the re.
mander of the week. so as to allow the
principals and teachers to attend the ses.
sions of the conference. They will miss
but one session. that of Thursday morn.
ing.
The teachers OF Henrico county have
been given permission by the county
School Board to close their schools or
Friday. provided they will attend the
sessions Of the conference on that day
All those whose schools are near Rich.
mond will avil themselves OF ten oppor-
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