The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-15
NEWS OF THIS WEEK
PEACE CONGRESS IN NEW YORK.
 GREATEST EVENT.
Notable Men From All Parts Of fin. Country and Several European
 Representatives Are TO
 Attend. -

portant event of the week will be the first international arbitration and peace congress of America, which will hold its sessions in New York city on Mon- day. Tuesday and Wednesday,. The main sessions will be herd in Carnegie Hall. but there will be meetings at the Hotel Astor and Cooper Union. h. Delegates to the congress include representatives of the United States to The Hague conference, federal and state judges. United States senators and representatives. governors and mem bers of the state legislatures. mem bers of many large cities. representa- tives leading religious, patritics la.nf philantropic organizations; editors, business men and labor leaders. Be- sides these. Great Britain, France, Ger many. Holland and Belgium nave sent men prominently identified with the propaganda of international arbitra- tion to take part in the proceedings. Andrew Carnegie. presiden of the con srass. will preside.
 At the session Mondsy afternoon, ad- dresses will be delivered by Secretary of State E1ihu Root. Governor Hughes and Mayor Mcclellan. International views of the peace movement will be expressed at the Monday evening ses- sion when addresses will be delivered by Baron deConstant of France; Baron Descamps, of Belgium; Professor Huge Munsterburg, of Germany; Sir Robert Cranston and W. T. Stead of Great Britain and Secretary of Commerce and Labor Straus.
 woman's relations to the peace move ment, will be discussed at Tuesday mornings session when Mrs. Anna G. Spencer will preside. young peo- ple's meeting will be held Tuesday af ternoon when Baron DeConstant and others will speak.
 The commercial industrial and az ricultural aspects of the congress will be considered in the Hotel Astor Tues day afternoon at which there will be addresses by Secretary Straus, former Governor Bachelder of New Hampshire; James W. Van Cleave, of St. Louis and others.
 President Butler, of Columbia Uni versity will preside over the Univer- sity session in Carnegie Hall Tuesday evening when there will be addresses by President Eliot of Harvard; Presi dent Johns of the University of Missis- sippi: Miss Jane Adams and others. On Tuesday evening also there will be session in Cooper Union, when the re- lation of organized labor to the peace movement will be considered.
 On Wednesday afternoon, the legisla- tive and judicial aspects of the peace movement VIII pc COHSlucTeQ ana du- dresses will be delivered by Wm. J. Bryan; John Sharpe Williams; Con gressman Mccall, John w. Foster, and others. Public banquets at the Hotel Astor and the Waldorf Astoria will conclude the sessions on Wednesday evening. Earl Gray, governor general of Canada and many others are sched- uIed to speak. About one thousand five hundred delegates have accepted tn affand the various sions.
 The horse racing season of the New York tracks will be opened on Monday at Aqeduct track. The sl0.o00 Carter handicap will be the feature of the first day.
 About three thousand representatives of different sections of this country, are expected to attend the meeting of the national publicity bill organization at the Victoria Hotel, New York. on Tu s- day. W. J. Bryan, Samuel Comp Is and others are expected to speak.
 The Brooklyn Democratic Club W lt hold a Jefferson Day dinner In Brool - lyn Tuesday evening. W. J. Brya | will be the guest of honor.
 The annual Marathon road race. twenty-five miles. will be held near Boston on Friday
 The evacuation of Manchuria by the Russian and Japenese troops and the restoration of Manchuria to China April 15, as provided by the treaty Of Portsmouth, will be completed on that date and the terms of the military con- yention fulfilled.
 King Edward. who last week visited King Alfonso of Spain at Cartagena, will visit King Victor Emmanuel of Italy. April IS, at.Gaeta, near Naples. Pope Plus has decided to hold a con sistory April 15. when seven cardinals are to be created No American or Canadian prelates will be included in ] the last