Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-27
CHINESE COMMISSION
Given a Luncheon by Secretary
of State.
THE EVENT OF THE DAY
Small Parties Visited the Different
Departments.
ENGRAVING AND PRINTING
Examined With Great Interest by the
Visitors and All the Pro-
cesses Looked Into.
PRINTING

| has been in Washington they have neither
| been given chance to do much resting nor
| to take many meals at home. The enter
| tainment offered them today was lunch
| con by the Secretary of State at the
| New Willard. 1t was the event OF the
| day, but did not prevent various subcom-
| mittees from the commission going the
rounds of the departments and accumulat-
| ing q mass of information before the" Of
| fetal entertainment began.
| The luncheon was very similar to that
| given to Prince Louis of Battenburg by
Gen. Chaffee on behalf of the American
| army. 1t was laid in the same place, the
| red room of the hotel, and there were the
same number of guests, ninety-seven. The
table was an oval, the interior well filled
/ a few inches above the cloth with a mass
| of potted plants and Towering shrubs. The
corners of the room were banked with
green, and lighter floral decorations ran
| the length of the table.
The imperial commissioners occupied
places with Secretary Root. the ooaro an1
the members of their suite were scattered
between army and navy officers and MEM
bers of the foreign relations committees OF
the House and Senate and all the members
of the cabinet who found it possible to be
present.
The Luncheon Guests.
The following members of the commission
were present:
His excellency Tai Hung Chi, imperial
high commissioner; his excellency Tuan
Fang, imperial high commissioner; Mr.. Woo
Kuang Kfen first secretary; Mr.. Sao-ke AL
fred SEE. English secretary Mr.. Wan Bing
Chung English secretary; Mr. Llu 70
Tseng. second secretary; Mr.. Wang Fung
10, second secretary; Mr.. kWan MING
Chln second secretary; Mr.. Tong rang
Shu. second secretary; Mr.. Tsung Hsia
Ling second secretary; Mr.. Muk huns
Chun, second secretary; Mr.. Lu CHUNG I u
third secretary; Mr.. Fung Cheeng kuang'
third secretary; Mr.. Yao Kwang Shuns,
third secretary; Mr. Sho Ching All, third
secretary; Mr.. Yuk Chun Chang, attache'
Mr. Y. C. Tong, attache; Mr.. Yo Chao Gnu
attache: Mr.. Tin Ting, attache' anu Mi.
Chow Hung Yeh attache.
Those invited to meet the commission
were The Secretary of the Treasury the
Secretary of War. the Attorney General,
the Postmaster General, the Secretary OF
the Navy, the Secretary of the Interior, the
Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary OF
Commerce and Labor, Robert Bacon Alvey
A. Adee, Herbert II. D. Pierce, ChaIies
DENLY, Dulaney Hunter, Lieut.. Gen. Adna
r. Chaffee. Brig. Gen. Theodore j. Wmt,
Brig Gen. Thomas H. Barry, Brig. Gen
william Crozier, Rear Admiral w. S.
S. NJ. Surgeon A. C. B. Russell. Y. s. n;
Lieut. Commander H. A. McCully, Z. s. N;
Senators Shelby M. Cullom, William Z.
Frye Henry Cabot Lodge Clarence d.
clark, Joseph Is. Johh - okTOolici'
John Kean. Albert ]. Beveridge. John 1.
Morgan, Augustus o. Bacon, fernando d.
Money. William A. Clark, James B. Nc
Creary and Representatives Robert r. Hit,
Robert Adams, Robert G. Cousins, Charles
B. Lands. James Breck Perkins, David j.
Foster. Theobold Often Adm B. Capron,
Nicholas Longworth, ]. Sloat Fassett, Ed
win DENLY. William B. Mckinley. William
NJ Howard Henry d. Flood, Charles A.
Towne, William B. Lamar, William 8. Nc
Nary and John N. Garner, the Chinese min
ister Mr.. Chow TsZchi, Mr.. Yung Kwai,
Gen. John w. Foster, Prof. ]. W. jerks,
John Foord, Jas. B. Reynolds. Edward H.
Wales. H. w. Van Loon, Levi Cook, j. w.
Mitchell. E. F. Hackett and Orvile H.
Stewart.
Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
Before the party assembled at the hotel
several of the members of the commission
made a hasty round of the departments. A
party particularly interested in paper cur
rency and printing visited the bureau of
engraving and printing, and were shown
all the intricacies of the work. from the
printing of a 81 bill to the execution of the
500 O0o bonds. They were shown the plates
and dies and all the fine engraving that Is
turned out In the bureau, both by hand and
machinery, and were given q chance to fol-
low the various processes through which
note goes from the time the plate leaves
the engraver's hands till the paper is ship
ped to the treasury. Several of the MEM
bers We're particularly interested In ink and
pa permakng, and in the stringent safe
guards that the government uses in keep
ing track even of the spoiled sheets of pro-
tective paper on which the notes are print
ed. Some of them who were familiar with
the Bank of Englands famous water mark
expressed the opinion that the silk fiber pa
per and the intricate engraving used by
this government ought to prove even bet
ter protection against counterfeiting.
Several of the commission visited the Dis
tript building In the course or the morning,
and there was small party at the National
Museum and the Smithsonian. 1t will be
arranged to take the commission through
the Congressional Library before they go.
and they may also visit the navy yard,
though according to some of the naval OFF,
GERS who were on the Annapolis trip with
| them they have not much to learn about the
manufa cture of modern naval ordnance, as
| their three naval factories will turn out
about as good guns of all sorts as can be
| found anywhere
At the District Building.
| The subcommittee this morning called at
| the District building and at police head
| quarters In quest of information. The
| party bore letter of introduction to Com
missioner Macfariand from the Chinese
| minister and was under the leadership OF
I Y. c. Chang and T. X. Fung secretaries to
| the commission. Others in the party were
| Kwan Keng-lin, Fong Tslang Kwang, 7. Y
| LUX, all secretaries to the commission, and
| DIR. NJ. Y. Tong physician to the commits
| sion. Their cards. which were presented
| to the Commissioner. bear the secretaries
| names in English one side and in Chi
| nese on the other.
The inquiry concerned principally the
| methods of sanitation in the capital city of
| the country the conduct of the fire and po-
| lice departments, the part played In the city
| scheme by the engineer department. the ex-
ecutiye office OF the District Commission
| ers etc, and TO this end Health Of
| fcer w. c. Woodward Chief Engineer
] Dr. William Tindall secretary to the
| board OF Commissioners. were called into
| the board room, where the guests We're en-
| tertained. Afterward the committee of Sec
retaries We're conducted to police headquar-
| ters, where they were met by Maj Richard