Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-06
UNITED BOYS BRIGADE
National Convention to Be
Held in This City.
PROGRAM OUTLIN ED
ORGANIZATIONS TO COME FROM
SEVERAL STATES.
Business Session of the Council to Be
Convened October $1,000
Delegates Expected.

A general outline of the program of the ma
tiopaI convention of the United Boys Brl-
gale of America to be held in this city Oc-
tober Z and o. has been completed The gen.
eral committee in charge of arrangements
is working diligently on the many details
connected with the convention, which is
expected to be the largest held in this
country since the organization of the br1-
gades The $4,000 boys comprising the
United Brigades of America will be repre-
sented in the convention by about 2'ooo
delegates In addition to the transaction Oh
business affairs, the convention Will De
marked by excursions, athletic sports, COM
petitive drills and parade of 1,oOO UNIFORM
ed bows over the main thoroughfares of the
capital city.
The national convention of last year was
held in Baltimore, and, although largely
attended. it is expected the Washington
gathering will far surpass II. Inc uelesa.es
to the convention are expected 10 arrive
in the city Thursday, October q. during
the afternoon and evening they will be as
signed to the various places OF entertain
ment provided for them. Most of the visi-
tors will be entertained in the homes OF
the BOYS of the Washington division.
ORGANIZATIONS from other cities, coming
as a body will be entertained at halls and
at the hotels. General II. p. Bope of Pits
burg. commander-in-chlef OF the united
brigades will be accompanied by Company
G of the Sd Pennsylvania regiment of boys,
known as 1.-The Generals Own the mem
bers of which will be entertained at the
Ebbitt House
The Commander-in-Ch Chief.
General Bope. the chief, is
vice president of the Carnegie Steel Com
pany in Pittsburg, and is man of large
business interests. He has been engaged
in boys brigade work for about nine years,
beginning as the organizer and commander
of company in his own church Later he
rose to the command of the Sd Pennsylvania
regiment and then came to the command
of the united brigadeS, the office he now
holds Company G, which will accompany
General Bope, consists of 100 enlisted boys
and officers.
Friday, October Z, the boys will leave
early in the morning on a specially char
tered steamer for ride down the Poto-
mac river. They will stop at Mount Ver-
non and afterward go to Marshall Hall,
where the annual athletic games will take
place. There will be the usual running and
jumping events. basket ball and foot ball
games, etc. The ladies' auxiliary of the
brigades will serve luncheon at Marshall
Hall and the return trip to the city will be
made in time to allow the boys to prepare
for the evening session, to be held in Con-
vention Hall. This session will be the prin-
cipal military function of the convention.
1t will consist, in part, of a competitive
infantry drill for the General Bope cup.
Probably six of the best drilled companies
in the organization will compete for the
national trophy. There will also be COM
petitive drills for the various hospital and
signal corps organizations of the brigade.
The forenoon of Saturday October 8, will
be given over to a business session of the
national council. at which the reports of
officers for the past year will be presented.
Officers for the ensuing year will be elect
cd nd 10 a a
considered. Saturday afternoon the an
nual parade will take place. The visiting
delegations and Washington companies will
participate. A number of brass bands will
accompany the delegations from out of
the city and these will be in line.
Awards of Prizes.
Saturday evening there will be a session
which will be of popular interest, open to
the general public. Awards of prizes for
the contests of Friday will be made. There
will be a competitive Bible drill and short
address by entertaining speakers. The
Bible drill will show the results of the
systematic study of the Scriptures pre-
scribed in the boys brigade manual and is
expected to be of unusual interest.
The visiting delegations Sunday morning,
October 8, will attend ADrvices at the va
rious churches by whose people they are
being entertained or wherever their de-
nominational preferences may take them.
Sunday afternoon the climax of the con-
vention is expected in a mass-meeting to
be addressed by General Bope. This will
be the commander-in-chiefs annual ad-
dress to the public. There will be brief
evangelistic appeals to the boys by repre-
sentatives of the organizations of other
cities
The music for the convention will be un.
der the direction of Mr.. Percy s. Foster,
who will conduct a large chorus. The va
rious bands accompanying the out-of-town
1n1n lon, will aJr
excursions, the parade and open-air con-
certs.
Members of Convention Committee.
The central convention committee in
charge of the plans for the national gath
ering consists of Rev. William Hart Dex-
ter. major general commanding the Dis
trict and Virginia division, as chairman;
Col. A. D. Smith, vice chairman and con-
vention quartermaster; Col James M.
Pickens, secretary and adjutant; James E.
West, chairman of the finance committee;
Rev Charles H. Butler, chairman of the
hospitality committee, and Mr. John Joy
Edison, treasurer. The finance and hospi-
tality committees have representatives at
work in the various churches represented
by boys in the brigade working out the
problem OF proper entertainment of the
boys. The various merchants, business
and citizens of the District are con-
tributing to the work of the general COM
mittee Headquarters have been opened
in room zoos of the Washington Loan and
Trust building and members of the com
mittee are serving alternately at the Of
flee.
The national assembly of the British
Boys Brigade will be held about the same
time as the American gathering in this
city and fraternal greetings will be ex-
changed. The British organizations have
membership similar in proportion to that
in the United States, making a grand total
In the boys prigades of the world Of More
than 100000.
The object of the United Boys Brigades
OF America Is 1.-The advancement of Christ
Kingdom among boys and the promotion of
habits of obedience, reverence discipline
self-respect and all that tends toward true
Christian manliness."
National and District Officers
The national and District officers are as
follows:
National oficers-Lieutenant General IT
+. Bope, commander-in-chief; John
Clark adjutant general Colonel George +,
howe, assistant adjutant general; James
II. Reed, judge advocate general: Right
Rev. Cortlandt Whitehead, DID, CHAPLAIN
in-chief; DR.. j. Hartley Anderson, surgeon
general.
Officers of District of Columbia and vir-
gfnia division-Rev. VIM. Hart Dexter ph
D., Takoma Park, major general comma MI
ing; Colonel James M. Pickens 1909 Wal
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