Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1904-10-03
THEY MEET TO DEPLORE WAR.
THE THIRTEENTH INTER
NATIONAL PEACE
CONFERENCE.
For The Purpose of Evolving Some
Scheme For Permanent
And Universal
Peace.

ever DeIOr6 has IneTe De6n Delu IN
America gathering of greater inter
national import and significance than
is the thirteenth International Peace
Congress which began its sessions in
fremont Temple in this city today.
Delegates of the greatest distinction
from every European power, save
Russia. were present TO join with
noted Americans in evolving scheme
for permanent and universal peace.
Conspicuous among the number was
Pastor Charles Wagner, of Paris, the
preacher To great congregations on
the Boulevard Beaumarchais and the
author of The Simple Life. y
The British delegation included
among others Sir William Mather, of
Manchester: Sir John MacDonnell,
professor of comparative law in Uni
versity College, London Right Rev.
John Perceval, Bishop of Hereford I;
William Randall Cremer, the "Dick
Wilmington of parliament; Percy
Alden. the founder of Mansfield House
and leader in the social settlement
movement; Peter Curran, representing
the General Federation OF Trades
Unions, aud DR.. Thomas Barclay, who
stared the movement among boards of
trade and chambers of commerce in
France and England for an arbitration
treaty between those two countries.
From other pars of Europe were pres
ent M. Siegfried, of Havre; M. Gus
tave Hubbard, editor of La Justice
Internationale; DIR. Adolph Richter,
president of the German Peace So
ciety; John Lund, member of the
Norwegian parliament; Signor Il. L.
- H.. Is k~ls
Society; Liable Pichot, of Monaco,
and Prof Pierre Clerget, of Locle,
representing the Swiss Peace Society.
OF no less note than those already
named were the women in attendance.
These included among others the
Baroness Won Suttner, who was the
only woman admitted to the opening
of the Peace Congress at The Hague
Miss Sophia Sturge. of Birmingham,
daughter of the eminent Englisq
philanthropist, Joseph Surge. who,
in lS4l, first proposed an international
peace congress; DIR. Yamei Kin, a
scholarly Chinese woman, who will
speak for China, and Miss Margaret
Noble, who has gained wide fame for
her educational work among the
women of India. The programme for
the opening session consisted chiefly
of addresses of welcome. These were
delivered by Mayor Patrick A. Col
lins, on behalf of the City of Boston
Governor John L. Bates, for the State
of Massachusetts,, and Secretary of
State John Hay, speaking for the Fed
eraI Government. The deliberate
meetings of the congress will begin
tomorrow morning and will be held
every forenoon during the week. In
the evenings there will be public
meetings in fremont Temble, Park
street Church, the Old South Meeting
House and Faneuil Hall, devoted to
the various aspects of the peace and
arbitration cause.
The meeting tomorrow evening Will
be devoted to the work and influence
OF The Hague Tribunal. Hon. An
drew ID. White, chairman of the Uni
ted States delegation at The Hague
conference, will preside, and there
will be addresses by Sir John Mac
DonneH, M. Gustave Hubbard, Hon.
Oscar S. Strauss, and Hon. William
|. Buchanan, chairman of the Ameri-
can delegation at the late Pan -Ameri-
can Congress. Other meetings during
the week will be devoted to the dis
cnssion of the reduction of national
armaments, to education, to the mu-
tual relations of races and to the
special interests and duties of work
ing men, of business men and of
women. The commercial meeting, ,ad-
dressed by strong representatives of
important chambers of commerce and
boards of trade and other leading men
of affairs, will be of special signifi-
canoe. The meeting devoted to the
principles which should control edn-
cation for the creation of true inter
national sentiment will be addressed
by presidents of various universities
and colleges and other leading teachers.