Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-03
avenue and 18th street, until pm. on

IneSe departments are usually tioSSO "
visitors at pm, but on this day delegates
will be admitted until 4 pm. on exhibition
of their delegates certificates at any en-
trance.
Business dress) An inspection will be made
of the union passenger station and tunnels
now in course of construction by the Wash
ington Terminal Company for use of all
railroads entering the city of Washington.
BY courtesy of the Washington Railway
and Electric Company special trolley cars
will be waiting at pm. at 10Th ana u
streets Opposite Treasury Department. 1or
delegates.
Note-Delegates who desire to go on this
excursion are requested to register at the
post office of the congress on the tenth
moor of the New Willard Hotel not later
than noon on May 8. and receive tickets to
be presented on the trolley cars.
May 1920 pm. ladies are invited.
Business dress "A visit will be made 10
the Washington navy yard and gun foun-
dry, where large naval guns are con-
structed.
By the courtesy of the Capital Traction
Company special trolley cars will be walt
ing for foreign delegates at Pennsylvania
avenue and 14th street dover end OF New
Willard HoteD at 2:3O pm.
Note-Foreign delegates VINO desire 10 go
on this excursion are requested TO register
at the post office of the congress on the
tenth floor of the New Willard Hotel not
later than II noon on May 10 ana receive
tickets to be presented on the trolIey 49, 800
made to enable delegates to inspect the
patent office, pension office and Nationai
Museum.
The patent office is reached from the New
Willard Hotel by street electric cars.
The second inaugural ball or PRESIDENT
Lincoln was held here in 1865.
The annex known as the Union building,
where all models are now exhibited is
half square east of the patent office The
G street electric cars, starting from the
Treasury building, pass the door ms
building is regularly open TO VISITORS Oh
week days from am. to 4:3O pm. On
Thursday May II, between the hours OF
2 and pm, special guides will be on duty
to point out and explain to members OF
the congress such plans and models as are
likely to prove of special interest to them.
From the Union building 1t is but half
square to the pension office, where maui
gural balls have been held since 1883. ON
July l, 1904, there were 1874 employees on
the rolls whose salaries aggregated S2,OJI,-
265. 20 for the year. On the same Date
994 762 pensioners were enrolled, their pen
sions for the year being Sal ,979, 1872. To-
tai disbursement for pensions from July L,
1870, to July l, 1904, s31T9, III, 1916.
To reach the National Museum from the
pension office, take southbound car at 9Th
and F streets. Here the first steps in travel
and transportation are shown by EXHIBITS
of primitive snow shoes, sleds, canoes and
the like. A series of models illustrate the
development of methods of land transport
tation, from the human burden-bearer to
the most perfect modern railroad train.
The history of mechanical devices in
transportation is illustrated by the follow
ing:
Locomotive models.-Sir Isaac Newton,
1850; Murdoch, 1884; Trevethick, 1904; John
Stevens, 1926, the first locomotive in Amer
lea, run on an experimental track in 1928;
Peter Cooper's locomotive, tested on the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad in 1929; the
Rocket. built by Stephenson, in England, in
1929; the Best Friend, built in New York
"a o,I IT,, 10 to
and the Baldwin locomotive, the first to
haul a passenger train in Pennsylvania.
Original full-size locomotives-The Stour-
bridge Lion, built by Foster, Rastrick &
Co., at Stourbridge, England, in 1898, and
tested on the Delaware and Hudson rail-
road at Honesdale, Pa, in 1929. This is
the first full-siZe locomotive run on track
In the western continent, and is almost ex-
actly like the Agenoria, which was built
by Foster, Rastrick & Co. In 1890 and now
preserved in the Victoria and Albert mu-
scum. at South Kensington, London. The
John Bull, built by Stephenson & Bros, at
Newcastle on-Tyne, England, in 1891 and
used in regular service in the United States
for thirty years. 1t is still in serviceable
condition. The original tubular boiler of
the Stevens locomotive, built in Hoboken,
N. j., In 1924.
Mr.. Richard Rathbun. assistant secretary
in charge, and Mr.. w. De c. Ravenel, ad-
ministrative assistant. will be present be-
tween the hours of 3 and pm. to welcome
gates certificates.
May II, 5 p.m.-Mrs. Roosevelt will give
a tea in honor Of the delegates, at the
White House.
Cards of invitation will be sent to dele
gates in due course.
May 10, 4:15 pm. Lades are invited.
Business dress)-An excursion will be made
across the old wooden Long bridge, SPAN
ming the Potomac river (for many years
the only railroad bridge at Washington,
and which, having now been superseded by
new steel bridge, is about to be
moved, to the cavalry post at Fort Myer,
Va, where a drill and rough riding exhi-
bition will be given in honor of the dele
gates by the regular United States cavalry
there stationed.
After the drill a short walk will take the
delegates through the grounds and the
mansion house of Arlington. formerly the
residence of Gen. Robert E. Lee. command
erin-chief of the army of the southern con-
federacy in the civil war, 1S61-65, and the
grounds of which are now national ceme-
terry.
Through the courtesy of the Washington
Alexandria and Mount Vernon Railway
Company and the Washington, Arlington
and Falls Church Railway Company spe-
cial trolley cars will be waiting for for
eign delegates at Pennsylvania avenue and
18th street (near Post Office Department.
at pm, and for the return journey will
be waiting at the lower entrance to the
Arlington grounds.
Note-Foreign delegates who desire to go
on this excursion are requested to register
at the post Office of the congress on the
tenth floor of the New Willard Hotel, not
later than noon on May -, and receive
tickets to be exhibited on the trolley cars.
On this afternoon the Chevy Chase horse
show will be in gala session.
Delegates who wish to attend individually
should leave the New Willard Hotel by
pm and take cars for Chevy Chase, Md.
0orty-five minutes) at New York avenue
and 10th street.
The Foreign Delegates.
Following is a list containing the names
OF some of the foreign delegates to the con-
gress:
r. Turnbell, superintendent of the line,
London and Northwestern railway.
C. E. Grasemann. outdoor goods manager,
London and Northwestern railway.
G. Whale, chief mechanical engineer, Lon
don and Northwestern railway.
w. Dawson, chief permanent way engi-
neer, London and Northwestern railway.
J. ]. da Silva Freire, locomotive superin-
tendent, Brazilian Central railway.
w. H. Mcnamara England, government.
Sir Charles j. Owens, general manager,
London and Southwestern railway.
Evelyn Cecil, NJ. P, director, London and
Southwestern railway.
e. Holemans, treasurer permanent COM