Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-07-21
.F|L|P|NOS GET A
ROYAL RECEPTION
Visiting Commissioners Are Now
in ST. Louis.
TO REMAIN ONE MONTH
Visiting Philippine Commissioners
Have been Touring the United
States as the Guests of
Uncle Sam.

st. Louis, July 16.-The members OF
the honorary board of Filipino ON
missioners to the Worlds fair visited
the fair informally Friday, but Satur-
day they will be received by President
Francis with abundant ceremony.
All of the Philippine soldiers at the
Worlds fair, to the number of 700, the
Scouts band and thu Constabulary
band, all of the most prominent expo
sition dignitaries, and state, city and
national dignitaries, will unite in the
ovation to the visiting Filipino COM
mission.
This commission has AZ members, all
of whom are men of wealth and prom
iuence in their native islands.
They are the guests of the United
States government, and $4,000 has
been appropriated from the national
treasury to meet their expenses of the
visit.
NoLiIiliooIoh lulluCu III odu II dI-
cisco on May Is, and has devoted the
time since then in making an educa-
tional tour of the largest cities of the
United States.
The last city which they visited be-
fore coming to st. Louis was Chicago,
They intend to remain here one
month, after which they will return te
their homes.
Like a body of %conquering heroes the
members of the commission were wei.
coined to St. Louis when their train
pulled into the Union station shed a
few minutes before seven O'Clock
Thursday night.
Couldn't Believe Their Eyes.
1t was some time before they could
be made to realize that all that dem.
onstration was really in their honor
but as reception committee after re.
ception committee was presented tt
them, they finally came to believe thai
it might be true, after all, and wher
they reached Market street, in front
of the station, and found some 300 OF
their countrymen bearing the uniform
and the equipment If the Philippine
c~onstabulary, and headed by the con,
s%tabulary band, their last doubts thai
they were the objects of all that pomI
and display were swept away.
The ~constabulary band played the
"Star Spangled Banner" and as its
melodious strains sprang out upon The
air, every member of the big gathering
DOTTED his hat and cheered.
They cheered the commission, they
cheered the band, they cheered the con.
stabulary, they cheered the Worlds
fair, they cheered Uncle Sam, they
cheered the Philippines, and then they
cheered some more.
The procession was then formed
with a detachment of 20 municipal po,
lice at it's head; next came the con.
stabulary band, followed by the con.
stabulary and the carriages in which
the members of the commission and the
reception party were seated.
Arriving at the Hamilton hotel
which will be the headquarters of the
commission during the next month
the guests removed the stains of trave'
and dined, Immediately after which tbs
most of them retired.
A garden party which had been ar.
ranged to take place upon the roof OF
the Hamilton hotel was abandoned OF
account of the rain, which descended
soon after the hotel was reached.
All members of the honorary com
mission are now in st. Louis except
Chief Justice Arellano, who came to
America with the party and then went
to Europe.
Four wives of members of the com.
mission are travelling with the party.
There ARE Mrs. A. W. Ferguson, Mrs.
Pardo de Tavera, Mrs. Victorino Mapa
and Mrs. Thomas Hardeman.