Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1904-09-08
FOR MARYLAD DAY At FAIR
Program of Exercises AT St. Louis
Completed = General L.
v. Baughman
There.

The Maryland State Commission TO
the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
has completed the program for the
Maryland Day celebration at St Louis
next Monday, and has issued 2, 500 in
vitations to the reception TO be tendeE-
ed Governor and Mrs. Warfield in the
Maryland Building on Tuesday night.
September l3.
The commission expects to have the
largest state celebration that has yet
been held, and the members are being
assisted in making arrangements by
the Society of Marylanders in Mis-
souri,. General l.. Victor Baughman.
chairman of the commission. atrriyed
in st. Louis yesterday afternoon and
will complete the arrangements of de
tails for the event next Monday. The
program is now in the hands of the
printer, and will be ready in a few
days. The exercises will be held in
Festival Hall, the largest structure on
the fair grounds, which seats 5000
people. The program has been an
nounced as follows:
Opening address. General l.. Victor
Baughman, chairman of the Maryland
Commission; singing, Maryland, My
Maryland" address. by Governor
Warfield; recitation. "The Star
Spangled Banner; by Miss Ford, of
Baltimore; music, THE r-Spangled
Banner address, by President Fran
els, of the Exposition; music, Hail
to The Chief address, by Governor
Dockery, of Missouri; music, "Colum-
bia address, by General James l..
Brent, of Maryland, president of the
Sons of the American Revolution; ins
~.
The exercises will begin at 2
O'Clock. The music will be furnished
by two ST. Louis bands. According
to Mr.. Frank N. Hoen, chairman
of the commission, the Maryland cele-
bration is likely to outdo any state
event that has been held in st. Louis
since the fair opened. In speaking of
the arrangements, he said
1.-The commission is being assisted
in arranging for the celebration by
the Society of Marylanders of st.
Louis, which is made up of natives of
this state who have settled out there.
1t has over 900 members, and includes
many of the prominent merchants of
st. Louis. One of the members, Mr..
e. q. Simmons, is the head of the lar
gest hardware concern in the country.
He is a native of Frederick county.
Another is Mr.. Murray Carlton, who
is the president of the Street Railway
Company of st. Louis. Both have
been active in arranging for next Mon
days celebration.
Gin addition to the Missouri So
ciety, the Marylanders in Ohio and
Iowa have societies, and these will
send large delegations to the fair for
the celebration. Then there will be
the people who will go out on the
three special trains--the Governors,
the Commission's and the one arranged
by Mr.. j. George Geiring, president
of the Old Town Merchants and Man
nfacturers' Association.
FESTIVE Hall, where the exercises
will be held, is the largest building
on the grounds, and will seat 5000
people. Other states that have cele-
brated held their exercises in their
buildings, but we were so confident OF
big attendance that we got the big
hall We haven't the slightest doubt
that it will be filled, and every mem
Der of the commission feels sure that
Maryland Day at the Fair will outdo
any state celebration that has yet been
held.
The commissioners will leave Cam
den Station, Baltimore, tomorrow
morning at 3 O'Clock on special train
on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
There will be about 20 in the party,
and quarters have been engaged in st.
Louis at the Inside Inn, on the fair
grounds.