The Tupelo journal., 1904-07-22
GET A
ROYAL RECEPTION
Visiting Commissioners Are Now
in St. Louis.
TO REMAIN ONE MONTH
Visiting Philippine Commissioners
Have Been Touring the United
States ms the Guests of
Uncle Sam.

st. Louis, July 16.-The members OF
the honorary board of Filipino COM
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 the ~Constabulary
band, all of the most prominent expo
sition d~ignitaries, 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
inence 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.
The commission landed in San Fran
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 to
their homes.
Like a body of %conquering heroes the
members of the commission were well
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
o%nstration was really in their honor,
but as reception committee after re-
ception committee was presented to
them, they finally came to believe that
it might be true, after all, and when
they reached Market street, in front
of the station, and found some 800 of
t1Cll todhlI lIICI bCiA%ho LIN ~ -
and the equipment Of the Philippine
constabulary, and headed by the con-
stabulary band, their last doubts that
they were the objects of all that pomp
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 its 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 travel
and dined, Immediately after which the
most of them retired.
A garden party which had been ar
ranged to take place upon the roof of
the Hamilton hotel was abandoned on
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.